3 - Border 3: Ghost Tears

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[01:58] ---
    Major. Hey, Major!
[02:03] ---
    What was that? Virtual reality?
[02:05] ---
    I'm on vacation. Don't be so casual
    about entering my cyber lobby.
[02:09] ---
    My condolences. There's been a
    terrorist bombing in Nishinouchi.
[02:13] ---
    The vics were an executive at
    a foreign-owned water company,
[02:15] ---
    a Trade Ministry official,
    and a domestic weapons manufacturer.
[02:20] ---
    The top-priority entry in
    the terrorism prediction list
[02:22] ---
    you gave Public Security was right on target.
[02:25] ---
    I assume they were in a secret
    meeting to agree on water prices.
[02:28] ---
    Everything's in smithereens,
    including some Foreign Affairs guards.
[02:32] ---
    There was also an explosion at
    the Yamanote Dam, by the way.
[02:35] ---
    The dam?
[02:39] ---
    Dunno if it's related.
[02:41] ---
    But it essentially belongs to
    a foreign-owned water company,
[02:43] ---
    and there's a retired Trade official on staff.
[02:50] ---
    The bureaucrats' turf wars
    are intense in that industry.
[02:55] ---
    So, who asked for us?
[02:58] ---
    Section 9, as usual.
[03:00] ---
    They failed to put your list to good use,
    but they did track the perps.
[03:04] ---
    They say they can't secure 'em,
    though. Too outgunned.
[03:12] ---
    Call everyone in. I'm coming too.
[03:16] ---
    Work calls?
[03:20] ---
    I'm sorry.
[03:22] ---
    Five hours, seven minutes.
    That's a record-length vacation for you.
[03:27] ---
    Are you consulting for the police today?
    Or the Cyberbrain Development Bureau?
[03:32] ---
    I'll make it up to you.
[03:35] ---
    Don't forget what we talked about.
[03:38] ---
    Are you serious?
[03:39] ---
    Of course.
[03:40] ---
    You should get going. All your
    customers are impatient types, right?
[03:47] ---
    Yes.
[03:48] ---
    Wow, you've been with that guy for
    three months! That's a new record.
[03:57] ---
    Don't be so casual about using
    that Ghost infiltration key.
[05:08] ---
    Your precinct ID'd him as
    Detective Naoharu Mizuki.
[05:13] ---
    Is that right?
[05:14] ---
    Yeah. He's my senior.
[05:25] ---
    Is this all he had on him?
[05:27] ---
    His holster was empty.
[05:29] ---
    His piece must've been washed away or stolen.
[05:32] ---
    It's hard to believe the gun under
    his jacket would get washed away.
[05:36] ---
    And it'd be odd for someone to
    steal his gun but leave his wallet.
[05:45] ---
    A prosthetics specialist...
[05:48] ---
    He sure doesn't look cyborgized.
[05:51] ---
    Lieutenant, your guys rounded up all the
    unclaimed property in the area, right?
[05:54] ---
    Let's look for something else
    that ties back to him.
[05:56] ---
    You want me to be your errand boy?
[05:59] ---
    If the dam incident was really an accident, yes.
[06:01] ---
    Lieutenant! I found something odd.
[06:08] ---
    What are these?
[06:10] ---
    They look like prosthetics, but...
[06:21] ---
    Mermaid's Legs...
[06:30] ---
    Report.
[06:33] ---
    Lots of injured cops.
    Six perps still going strong.
[06:37] ---
    They're on their way to Ward 4.
[06:39] ---
    They see right through the police strategy.
[06:41] ---
    They secured an escape route ahead of time.
[06:44] ---
    This group is highly trained.
[06:47] ---
    They have a commander
    somewhere out there. Ishikawa!
[06:52] ---
    I picked up their line!
[06:58] ---
    The seventh one. This is their leader.
[07:33] ---
    This is a cutting-edge ghost lock.
    Don't waste time resisting.
[07:38] ---
    I'll make him order his friends to surrender.
[07:40] ---
    Ishikawa, run a forced recognition program.
[07:43] ---
    Roger.
[07:45] ---
    Abort the operation. Throw down
    your guns and surrender.
[07:49] ---
    Repeat: Abort the operation and surrender.
[07:57] ---
    Huh?
[08:01] ---
    Aw, no shootout?
[08:05] ---
    I captured one!
[08:09] ---
    Hey, you're pretty useful!
[08:13] ---
    We got the last one.
[08:15] ---
    Good. Hand them all over to Public Security.
[08:20] ---
    A virus alert?
[08:25] ---
    It's the man you captured!
[08:41] ---
    This pain...
[08:49] ---
    The ghost lock released?
[08:52] ---
    Major?
[08:53] ---
    Shit. Saito!
[08:59] ---
    Don't kill him!
[09:29] ---
    No more of that!
[09:34] ---
    Damn, it feels gross having someone
    infiltrate my Ghost--even the Major.
[09:39] ---
    Truer words...
[09:41] ---
    Your fault for aiming for the head.
[09:43] ---
    Don't hand them over yet. We'll take
    them to a lockup with cyber facilities.
[09:48] ---
    You telling me to play interrogation partner?
[09:50] ---
    I'm not interested in fake memories.
[09:53] ---
    Memories?
[09:54] ---
    I'm interested in their contaminated Ghosts.
[10:06] ---
    Sorry I had to call you down here.
[10:10] ---
    It's my civic duty.
[10:12] ---
    I understand you're in charge
    of the dam. Let's see...
[10:17] ---
    Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[10:20] ---
    Please, call me Thied.
[10:23] ---
    You've got quite the tough-looking secretary.
[10:26] ---
    He's very reliable.
[10:28] ---
    The conflicts continue in the
    Republic of Kuzan, where you're from.
[10:33] ---
    I hear the Qhardi ethnic minority in particular
    is still waging a war of independence.
[10:39] ---
    It's a heartbreaking war.
[10:41] ---
    You're Qhardi, correct?
[10:44] ---
    Yes. Like the majority of my comrades,
    I wish for a peaceful solution.
[10:51] ---
    So, the explosion at the dam...
[10:53] ---
    I'm told it was a valve malfunction.
[10:56] ---
    Your company sells water, right?
    For what type of use?
[11:01] ---
    It's for precision machinery businesses.
    That industry relies on 100% pure water.
[11:07] ---
    Precision machinery...
    Prosthetic manufacturing, for example?
[11:11] ---
    Yes.
[11:14] ---
    Chief...
[11:17] ---
    You idiot!
[11:19] ---
    The Trade Ministry got them
    invited to set up a plant here!
[11:22] ---
    You want to make an enemy
    of the local precinct, too?
[11:25] ---
    But...
[11:30] ---
    Stop, that's evidence!
[11:34] ---
    I'm very grateful to you for finding
    the goods stolen from our warehouse.
[11:40] ---
    Please, take them with you.
[11:42] ---
    Chief!
[11:43] ---
    Back off!
[11:46] ---
    A detective died, sir.
[11:47] ---
    You think I don't know that?
[11:49] ---
    You go to Nishinouchi and get me information.
[11:53] ---
    Nishinouchi? What's there?
[11:54] ---
    A bombing, apparently by Qhardi terrorists.
[11:59] ---
    Now listen: You consult your superiors
    before any moves on this case.
[12:02] ---
    Terrorism?
[12:04] ---
    If the explosion was intentional,
    and he wasn't a victim...
[12:09] ---
    What?
[12:10] ---
    Yes, sir! I'm on it!
[12:15] ---
    Don't make any trouble!
[12:21] ---
    They're a Qhardi weapons smuggling gang.
    I met them on an undercover op.
[12:26] ---
    Their goal is to send weapons
    to their comrades back home.
[12:30] ---
    They've got no reason to attack this country.
[12:32] ---
    Their statements were crystal clear:
[12:34] ---
    They're against the pricing agreement,
    so they bombed the meeting site.
[12:38] ---
    Are you telling me those are planted memories?
[12:41] ---
    I'm betting they're all infected.
[12:44] ---
    And that the virus interfered
    with my ghost lock.
[12:53] ---
    Well done. You subdued them brilliantly.
[12:56] ---
    We could do it even more easily if you
    adjusted your comm standards to ours.
[13:01] ---
    I read your report.
[13:03] ---
    A false memory virus that can infiltrate,
    hack, and brainwash simultaneously?
[13:08] ---
    It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
[13:11] ---
    Other than the symptoms at
    its onset, it leaves no trace.
[13:14] ---
    Electronic manipulation of
    memory is incredibly difficult.
[13:18] ---
    No one in the world has
    been confirmed successful.
[13:20] ---
    And yet past incidents tell us a
    maker and a broker clearly exist.
[13:25] ---
    Yes. Somewhere out there is
    the super-wizard-class programmer
[13:30] ---
    known as "Fire-Starter" who
    created this high-level cyber-virus.
[13:33] ---
    But until now, no organization in
    the world had uncovered his identity.
[13:37] ---
    Did you?
[13:38] ---
    A clue, anyway.
[13:46] ---
    What's this?
[13:47] ---
    All the terrorists had the same tattoo.
[13:50] ---
    It's a symbol used by Scylla, the hero
    who once led the Qhardi Separatist Army.
[13:56] ---
    I've heard of him. Word is he's
    a master of cyber warfare.
[13:59] ---
    Is he Fire-Starter?
[14:01] ---
    No way. He died during the war.
[14:04] ---
    You're going to find out whether that's true.
[14:06] ---
    I'll authorize limited access
    to Section 9's database.
[14:10] ---
    Read the details there.
[14:11] ---
    That's all?
[14:12] ---
    You're complaining?
[14:14] ---
    I gave you all the Logicomas I have,
    plus our weapons and permission to use them.
[14:19] ---
    Any lists I make are meaningless
    if the organization can't act.
[14:24] ---
    And?
[14:25] ---
    I want special authority
    and an approved budget.
[14:27] ---
    And make your flimsy comm lines backward
    compatible with ours while you're at it.
[14:33] ---
    Enough! Your team isn't regulation size,
    and I'm graciously turning a blind eye!
[14:39] ---
    This unit is standardized to the perfect specs.
[14:42] ---
    We don't need more people.
[14:43] ---
    Then the whole unit will go down
    the second you get hacked.
[14:46] ---
    Just like those terrorists did.
[14:49] ---
    Your "perfect specs" don't merit my trust.
[14:52] ---
    If you want authority and a budget,
    get at least one more member
[14:56] ---
    and accept cooperation from
    someone with different specs.
[15:01] ---
    If they won't give us money, we're stuck
    in this garbage dump for a while.
[15:07] ---
    I'm just glad we've got a lab to use.
[15:11] ---
    Yeah, high prosthetic performance
    takes superior maintenance...
[15:18] ---
    We'll have to pay for upgrades
    out of pocket. Costs a lot, though.
[15:24] ---
    Training ground instructors
    make pretty good money.
[15:29] ---
    Top-quality maintenance facilities,
    authority--we'll get it all.
[15:33] ---
    Stop wasting time bitching and solve our case!
[15:36] ---
    His nationality's unknown.
[15:37] ---
    He uses multiple bodies to conceal his identity,
[15:41] ---
    earning the name Skulla, aka Scylla.
[15:44] ---
    That's the name of a monster
    from Greek mythology.
[15:47] ---
    A pro at warfare who led a
    separatist army, and whiz hacker...
[15:51] ---
    Huh, his specialty is tunnel ops.
[15:54] ---
    "Tunnel ops"?
[15:55] ---
    That's when you bomb someplace's lifelines
[15:57] ---
    and then infiltrate them
    electronically during their restoration.
[16:01] ---
    Ultimately you wage a destructive
    cyber-attack from inside their defenses.
[16:05] ---
    The forces who tried to prevent
    independence took a major hit instead.
[16:10] ---
    But Kuzan joined forces with advanced nations
[16:13] ---
    to manipulate the Qhardis in
    order to contain its neighbors.
[16:16] ---
    It was a throwaway war of independence,
    and this country was especially involved.
[16:20] ---
    No one recognized the Qhardis'
    independence after the war,
[16:23] ---
    and the guerillas were
    disbanded and slaughtered.
[16:26] ---
    But their dead leader was actually alive,
[16:28] ---
    and he developed a special virus ahead
    of all the world's research institutions,
[16:32] ---
    then changed his name to
    Fire-Starter and began his revenge...
[16:36] ---
    I follow the logic, but is it really possible?
[16:38] ---
    In a conflict zone, you can do all
    the human experimentation you want.
[16:42] ---
    It's no wonder, really.
[16:44] ---
    Scylla is dead.
[16:47] ---
    A successor of his, then?
[16:48] ---
    Either way, the broker isn't peddling
    it without knowing what it does.
[16:53] ---
    So he wanted to use those guerillas to
    repeat his old tunnel operation here?
[16:58] ---
    It bothers me that no one
    was carrying a detonator.
[17:03] ---
    Borma, check out the crime scene.
[17:05] ---
    Roger.
[17:06] ---
    Paz, you and Saito pay the gang a visit.
    I want to know who trained them.
[17:11] ---
    Batou and Ishikawa, you look into
    the possibility of a tunnel op.
[17:14] ---
    Do you plan to dive into
    the guerillas' cyberbrains
[17:17] ---
    looking for the virus?
[17:20] ---
    I'll get a tune-up on my body first.
[17:27] ---
    A tune-up?
[17:28] ---
    It's her boyfriend.
    He's an ex-military prosthetics tech.
[17:31] ---
    No, isn't he a Navy sailor?
[17:33] ---
    That was the last one.
[17:35] ---
    They fought on a date, and she kicked his ass
    hard enough to put him in the hospital.
[17:40] ---
    What about that rich one
    from the Cyberbrain Bureau?
[17:42] ---
    He didn't last two weeks.
[17:44] ---
    So this is the sixth in six months?
    She's got a sickness.
[17:47] ---
    No, it's instinct. I never sleep
    with the same woman twice either.
[17:51] ---
    Because you always end up a
    hostage or a target for revenge?
[17:53] ---
    No, because it's my policy.
[17:56] ---
    At least do background checks on them!
    What if one of them's a trap?
[17:59] ---
    It's better than hearing, "I want a family."
[18:02] ---
    Yeah, after all, you could die at any time.
[18:04] ---
    This is no job for a family man.
[18:13] ---
    So the late detective's gun wasn't found?
[18:16] ---
    If Detective Mizuki had fired his weapon,
[18:19] ---
    it would prove this was a crime,
    and not an accident.
[18:22] ---
    You think someone wanted
    it to look like an accident?
[18:24] ---
    The cause of death was drowning,
    but he lost a lot of blood antemortem,
[18:28] ---
    and some of his bones are missing.
[18:32] ---
    So the body's too damaged to tell,
    but he may have been shot.
[18:37] ---
    Detective Mizuki was
    investigating weapons smuggling.
[18:41] ---
    His most recent meeting was
    with a Qhardi organization.
[18:44] ---
    I suspect he was killed because he found proof.
[18:48] ---
    You feel the dam explosion was intentional,
    set up to bury evidence?
[18:53] ---
    You've got a great imagination.
[18:56] ---
    You're turning me down, sir?
[18:58] ---
    No, I like it. I'll allow you to investigate.
[19:01] ---
    Try to find a connection between the incidents.
[19:05] ---
    All alone?
[19:06] ---
    You're complaining?
[19:08] ---
    I appreciate it, sir!
[19:14] ---
    Humans can never perfectly
    reproduce movements.
[19:17] ---
    A slight slope, our distance from our target,
    a few milligrams' weight difference...
[19:22] ---
    The brain calculates all these things
    to create yet-unknown movements.
[19:27] ---
    You have the most original brain I know of,
[19:29] ---
    and you understand the beauty
    of uniform standards.
[19:34] ---
    You're exaggerating.
[19:36] ---
    There's nothing wrong with you.
[19:38] ---
    It still hurts?
[19:43] ---
    Try moving your right leg.
[19:47] ---
    Lovely.
[19:50] ---
    What's "lovely"?
[19:51] ---
    Your leg.
[19:56] ---
    The pain is gone now.
[19:59] ---
    Send me a bill.
[20:00] ---
    I'll give you a discount. In return,
    don't forget our promise.
[20:04] ---
    You're a strange man.
[20:05] ---
    Not as strange as you.
[20:21] ---
    Hey, you. You're blocking my scan.
[20:24] ---
    Oh, sorry.
[20:26] ---
    What good are your natural
    eyes in the cyber age?
[20:29] ---
    It's not normally this hard to find the epicenter.
[20:32] ---
    You know a lot about the combustion process?
[20:35] ---
    I learned the basics overseas during the war.
[20:38] ---
    I see.
[20:40] ---
    Are you a full cyborg?
[20:42] ---
    Yeah, pretty close.
[20:44] ---
    I'm no expert, but unless you
    get a specialized skeleton,
[20:48] ---
    aren't the basics the same as a human body's?
[20:51] ---
    But his hands stayed open after he burned...
[20:53] ---
    What?
[20:55] ---
    When a natural human burns to death,
[20:57] ---
    his muscles contract, so he forms
    fists and he bends forward.
[21:00] ---
    The fetal position, or,
    you know, the boxer's pose.
[21:03] ---
    Heat rigor? Well, what about it?
[21:06] ---
    This guard's corpse is standing
    up straight, hands open.
[21:13] ---
    Must be some property of
    his prosthetics, or of the bomb.
[21:16] ---
    Prosthetics?
[21:24] ---
    Hello?
[21:27] ---
    Oh, a checkup?
[21:29] ---
    Two weeks?
[21:31] ---
    Got it. No, I'm working right now, sorry.
[21:35] ---
    "Checkup"?
[21:38] ---
    Sorry to bother you.
[21:48] ---
    C-4 and dynamite, glycerin,
    and chemical fertilizer...
[21:52] ---
    It's a hideout straight out of a book.
[21:55] ---
    Definitely a bomb maniac vibe...
    but I've got no clue what they actually used.
[22:02] ---
    Orders coming down their line!
[22:05] ---
    Someone calling himself Scylla just
    ordered some "Second Army" into action.
[22:08] ---
    Damn bastards! Public Security's
    moves are being leaked!
[22:17] ---
    The Waterworks Bureau's server blew,
    and took out the whole floor.
[22:20] ---
    What did they use?
[22:21] ---
    The accelerant at the Nishinouchi crime scene
[22:23] ---
    is spread all the way to
    the ceiling, even the ducts.
[22:26] ---
    We're talking omnidirectional blast.
    The air itself blew up.
[22:31] ---
    A fuel-air explosive?
[22:32] ---
    Then this is a dummy hideout. They've got
    a more advanced bomb lab somewhere.
[22:42] ---
    Damn guerilla hero is issuing a challenge.
[22:52] ---
    The Waterworks Bureau is starting repairs.
    Odds are the hacker's already in!
[22:57] ---
    Figure out their next target.
[22:59] ---
    Don't let them dig any more tunnels.
[23:21] ---
    I appreciate your cooperation.
[23:23] ---
    I'm used to police questioning.
[23:26] ---
    There've been a lot of
    prosthetics thefts recently.
[23:28] ---
    "Mermaid's Legs," eh?
[23:32] ---
    Not a very artistic name,
    but it's easy to understand.
[23:35] ---
    My female customers quite like it.
[23:37] ---
    Do you recognize these legs?
[23:42] ---
    They appear to be the mass-production model.
[23:44] ---
    Look at the tag.
[23:48] ---
    "Ariel."
[23:49] ---
    I've asked around, and there's
    no such model on the market.
[23:53] ---
    I don't carry it, either. It must be
    a licensed designer's brand name.
[23:57] ---
    Designers use the
    mass-production model as a base
[23:59] ---
    and then innovate to meet customer demands.
[24:02] ---
    Any ideas?
[24:04] ---
    I'll give you my list. One moment, please.
[24:08] ---
    Thank you.
[24:19] ---
    Cops love lists. He'll be conveniently
    absorbed in it for a while.
[24:22] ---
    Public Security took our dummy safe house.
[24:25] ---
    Are the comm lines here safe, Colonel Hozumi?
[24:29] ---
    Don't worry. It's one of
    Intelligence's independent lines.
[24:32] ---
    Why haven't you killed that detective?
[24:34] ---
    He's an odd duck, but he doesn't
    have any powerful backers.
[24:38] ---
    The real issue is that Ariel's been leaked.
[24:40] ---
    We retrieved the sample before it was
    analyzed, and the factory is taken care of.
[24:44] ---
    I didn't expect you to panic and blow it up.
[24:47] ---
    We're lucky Ariel was mounted in time.
    You almost seriously hindered our plan.
[24:53] ---
    Ariel is a way to smuggle explosives to
    the Qhardis! It's not for suicide bombers!
[24:59] ---
    Circumstances have changed.
[25:01] ---
    If previous overseas weapons
    development becomes domestic,
[25:04] ---
    distribution channels will vanish.
[25:07] ---
    The Qhardi soldiers are just sacrificial pawns?
[25:09] ---
    We're upgrading. Fire-Starter can
    create all the soldiers we want.
[25:14] ---
    Get the unit that was arrested released.
[25:17] ---
    I won't give you the data until then.
[25:20] ---
    They aren't even your compatriots.
[25:23] ---
    Scylla would never abandon them.
[25:27] ---
    Very well. There are three more usable Ariels.
[25:31] ---
    One of them is in your court.
[25:34] ---
    It really has to be her?
[25:37] ---
    Have you developed feelings for her?
    Activate the woman's Ariel.
[25:41] ---
    Release our allies first. Understand?
[26:09] ---
    Ride with me.
[26:17] ---
    You haven't told anyone that
    you and I killed Scylla, I trust?
[26:21] ---
    No.
[26:22] ---
    That op is a stain on both our records.
[26:24] ---
    It would be highly inconvenient
    for it to come up again now.
[26:27] ---
    I see you dived happily into the power
    games as soon as you made LTC.
[26:32] ---
    They used the military-industrial
    complex to profit from death.
[26:36] ---
    I'll wipe them out, make domestic
    weapons engineering big,
[26:39] ---
    and shut down their trade
    routes to foreign cartels.
[26:42] ---
    Lt. Col. Mamuro wanted that.
[26:45] ---
    I won't play your game.
[26:47] ---
    Scylla is a game you can't quit.
    She has to stay dead.
[26:53] ---
    You used this before.
[26:56] ---
    Bury it and whoever's using
    Scylla's name--permanently this time.
[27:00] ---
    Or else the brass will bury you,
    and that op with you.
[27:11] ---
    Becoming independent of the
    system doesn't make you free.
[27:15] ---
    You're like last century's programmers, who
    expected too much from the birth of the Net.
[27:20] ---
    Even Section 9 is only letting you
    have your own way to test you.
[27:24] ---
    When they need to, they'll restrain
    you with a Ghost infiltration key
[27:26] ---
    and dispose of you.
[27:28] ---
    I have no intention of letting
    anyone infiltrate my Ghost again.
[27:31] ---
    No matter who they are.
[27:40] ---
    That woman is Motoko Kusanagi?
[27:43] ---
    Yes, your senior. Can you win?
[27:49] ---
    If you wish.
[28:17] ---
    You really came?
[28:20] ---
    I did promise.
[28:22] ---
    I haven't prepared anything.
[28:24] ---
    I figured.
[28:31] ---
    But first, we'll take care of this.
[28:46] ---
    I checked out the Qhardi gang, but there's
    no trace of their tactical commander.
[28:50] ---
    Ah, but I've got the rental server they used.
[28:54] ---
    Multiple invaders into a public facility...
[28:57] ---
    Bastards have made good
    progress on their tunnels.
[28:59] ---
    Do you know where they're going yet?
[29:01] ---
    It's someplace to do with
    water and precision machinery.
[29:04] ---
    78 places in the city fit that description.
[29:07] ---
    Check them all.
[29:09] ---
    Damn... I'd make easier money
    being an Intelligence subcontractor.
[29:14] ---
    So, still in your "tune-up"?
[29:16] ---
    Yes. I'm dropping this connection for a while.
[29:20] ---
    I can hear noise. Your coworkers are
    in and out of your lobby nonstop, huh?
[29:25] ---
    I ran them all off.
[29:27] ---
    You think I'll ever get to be in your lobby?
[29:31] ---
    If you work with me.
[29:33] ---
    If I said I needed one
    more person, would you come?
[29:38] ---
    Tuning you up whenever I want
    is an attractive proposition,
[29:42] ---
    but I don't get involved with
    the military or the police.
[29:45] ---
    Oh.
[29:49] ---
    I did some first aid on
    your sensory components.
[29:52] ---
    Let's do the detail work in the lab.
[29:54] ---
    The pain is gone. I'll do the rest myself.
[30:02] ---
    Then let's get started.
[30:10] ---
    I remember when I first met you, you know.
[30:14] ---
    All the other engineers said you were
    the queen of customer complaints.
[30:19] ---
    Is that why they handed me
    off to a freelancer like you?
[30:22] ---
    Nope. The truth is, I asked them to.
[30:25] ---
    What?
[30:27] ---
    You couldn't decide whether you should
    treat your body as a thing or a person.
[30:34] ---
    That made me interested in you.
[30:43] ---
    At the facility I was in before,
[30:44] ---
    they thought I was an oddball for wanting
    to sleep in a bed and take showers.
[30:48] ---
    When I was prosthetized on
    the battlefield, they told me,
[30:52] ---
    "A cyborg doesn't need everyday life;
    he needs equipment."
[30:56] ---
    That's why I switched to
    prosthetics engineering.
[30:59] ---
    I wanted to be a tech who'd
    treat cyborgs like humans.
[31:04] ---
    As a kid, they gave me everyday-living
    training outside the facility.
[31:09] ---
    So I'd learn how to be more human.
[31:12] ---
    I don't really remember it.
    Everything was so bright...
[31:18] ---
    I remember I came back ahead of schedule.
[31:22] ---
    But... That day I decided
    to make my body orthodox.
[31:27] ---
    I wanted to look human.
[31:29] ---
    Your prosthetic body isn't a thing.
    It's your real body.
[31:33] ---
    It mustn't be treated as a thing...
    not by anyone.
[31:38] ---
    Not by me.
[31:41] ---
    I do wish that were true.
[31:43] ---
    I'll show you proof.
[31:45] ---
    Proof?
[31:49] ---
    It's a surprise.
[31:54] ---
    We're missing the key piece: the bomb.
[31:56] ---
    How did they get it into a
    heavily guarded meeting place?
[32:00] ---
    What about the perps?
[32:01] ---
    They say they're the ones who blew it up.
[32:04] ---
    Despite the fact that they
    have no memory of the bomb.
[32:07] ---
    They're fall guys. They probably
    have nothing to do with the bomb.
[32:11] ---
    We'll monitor all 78 locations until
    we can narrow down their target.
[32:15] ---
    Are you serious?!
[32:17] ---
    Contact me if something happens.
[32:22] ---
    You're wearing heels.
[32:24] ---
    Should we assume the ex-military
    prosthetics tech is joining the team?
[32:31] ---
    Maybe that's actually for real.
[32:45] ---
    This is what you wanted to show me?
[32:47] ---
    They're regular customers of mine.
[32:49] ---
    Their average age is 70.
[32:53] ---
    They're all full-body cyborgs...
[32:55] ---
    The affluent elderly are at the core
    of cyborg development these days.
[32:58] ---
    Not soldiers.
[33:00] ---
    They want prosthetic bodies to give them
    second lives, and fulfilling lifestyles.
[33:05] ---
    More and more foods for cyborgs are
    being developed to meet their needs, too.
[33:17] ---
    Try it.
[33:31] ---
    It's good.
[33:33] ---
    Is it your first time allocating
    memory to your sense of taste?
[33:37] ---
    The new bride is pregnant, by the way.
[33:41] ---
    Exciting, isn't it? A new world
    of humans that don't distinguish
[33:45] ---
    between prosthetic and flesh.
[33:48] ---
    You really are strange.
[33:58] ---
    Some people reject the future.
    And some are left behind by it, too.
[34:09] ---
    I want to bring the cyborg
    future to the third world.
[34:14] ---
    Will you come with me?
[34:17] ---
    You should use your power freely, not work
    under a bunch of master manipulators.
[34:26] ---
    The war is over, you know.
[34:29] ---
    No, it's still going.
[34:30] ---
    The nations it grew inconvenient
    for pulled out, that's all.
[34:37] ---
    I have things to do in this country.
[34:41] ---
    I see.
[34:43] ---
    Do you have free time later?
[34:45] ---
    If we share a lobby, we can
    meet whenever we want.
[34:48] ---
    I might touch your Ghost.
[34:51] ---
    I'll let down my barrier.
[34:53] ---
    --Are you sure?
    --If you infiltrate me, I may fry your brain.
[34:56] ---
    It might be worth it.
[35:21] ---
    This is your body.
[35:25] ---
    These are your hands.
[35:53] ---
    Motoko, run!
[36:29] ---
    Akira!
[36:32] ---
    Are you all right?
[36:34] ---
    Yeah...
[36:44] ---
    I'm sorry. This is my fault.
[37:26] ---
    My condolences.
[37:28] ---
    Paz is with Section 9 inspecting the scene.
[37:31] ---
    Your attacker was a pro, even if he did mess up.
[37:34] ---
    It's unclear whether this
    was tied to the bombing,
[37:36] ---
    but we'd normally give you
    police protection at this point.
[37:39] ---
    I don't need it. How is he?
[37:41] ---
    We'll send him home as soon
    as we're done questioning him.
[37:44] ---
    I'll assign someone to him, so don't worry.
[37:46] ---
    I see.
[37:47] ---
    The military authorities won't
    give me any information on Scylla.
[37:50] ---
    What's your connection to him?
[37:55] ---
    Call me whenever you need help.
[38:01] ---
    Scylla's revenge, eh?
[38:03] ---
    Good thing your boyfriend's a civilian.
    We don't have to suspect a leak.
[38:09] ---
    They got us.
[38:11] ---
    Number Three: a materials
    control center on the coast.
[38:15] ---
    I picked up a go order in Scylla's name
    30 seconds before the explosion.
[38:19] ---
    Then the whole line disappeared.
    At this rate, there's no point in surveillance.
[38:22] ---
    Find a weapons engineer on their
    customer list who's connected to this.
[38:26] ---
    Weapons engineer?
[38:28] ---
    Get info from the first victims, too. Hurry up.
[38:30] ---
    Find something. The virus,
    the bombs, the tactical commander,
[38:33] ---
    where the messages from "Scylla"
    come from--I don't care what.
[38:38] ---
    How about you finally tell us
    why you're so sure Scylla's dead?
[38:43] ---
    Excuse me.
[38:46] ---
    You!
[38:47] ---
    I was told I could find Major Kusanagi here.
[38:50] ---
    What is it?
[38:58] ---
    State your business.
[38:59] ---
    The list I got from him was a fake.
[39:03] ---
    And a detective working
    a weapons trafficking case
[39:05] ---
    was killed right after getting info from him.
[39:08] ---
    Techs get blamed for
    prosthetics-related incidents all the time.
[39:15] ---
    And the manager of the dam
    that exploded the other day...
[39:20] ---
    Hose outfitted her bodyguard, too.
[39:22] ---
    So what?!
[39:24] ---
    How did you feel, watching your
    lover get attacked in front of you?
[39:29] ---
    You're angry at the perp, and you feel guilty.
[39:33] ---
    You think it was your fault he got attacked.
[39:38] ---
    He was the same way. Anger and guilt.
[39:43] ---
    He's hiding something.
[39:45] ---
    The dam, the dead detective,
    the prosthetics, and even you, Major...
[39:50] ---
    Everything links back to Akira Hose.
[39:56] ---
    You're just a cheap detective
    snooping around with flesh eyes!
[39:58] ---
    Never show your face here again!
[40:04] ---
    Ouch.
[40:28] ---
    You're an idiot, Colonel!
[40:32] ---
    An attack barrier!
[40:33] ---
    Keep calm.
[40:35] ---
    If the domestic faction takes
    away your arms industry rights,
[40:38] ---
    you'll be killed by the cartels.
[40:40] ---
    Yet you're in a rush to kill
    me off and steal my data?
[40:44] ---
    So, you act like a heavyweight,
    but you couldn't get my people released?
[40:48] ---
    Where is the data?
[40:50] ---
    Our deal is over. I'm thankful for the info on her
[40:53] ---
    and for Scylla's revival,
    but I'm leaving this country.
[40:58] ---
    You do the same.
[40:59] ---
    No need.
[41:07] ---
    We've successfully packaged
    the virus with cyberbrains.
[41:13] ---
    We'll use your cyberbrain for the final upgrade.
[41:17] ---
    Become Scylla, just like you wanted to.
[41:29] ---
    "His hands stayed open after he burned," eh?
[41:53] ---
    It's just like the call said.
[41:54] ---
    Two Public Security officers killed,
    and Akira Hose's whereabouts unknown.
[41:58] ---
    The Major wasn't the target?
[42:00] ---
    Hey, look at this list.
[42:01] ---
    It's only a guess, but I think the FAEs
    were the prosthetic limbs themselves.
[42:07] ---
    There was another full-cyborg guard
    in that part of the building.
[42:11] ---
    The limbs' admin records have
    the same signature on them...
[42:17] ---
    What are you doing?
[42:21] ---
    Who is this man?!
[42:27] ---
    My attack barrier expands every second.
[42:30] ---
    If you don't want your brain fried, tell me!
[42:32] ---
    He'll die!
[42:34] ---
    He gave us power... He's the new Scylla!
[42:39] ---
    It was like magic. A battle-learning
    program left to us by the dead Scylla...
[42:45] ---
    He gave it to my cyberbrain,
    along with the virus.
[42:49] ---
    I'd never been trained, but now
    I can fight even your people!
[42:53] ---
    Give me a name.
[42:55] ---
    Akira Hose! He's Japanese, like you!
[43:08] ---
    Hose escaped. Any idea where?
[43:10] ---
    Why ask me?
[43:12] ---
    What are your eyes looking at right now?
[43:17] ---
    Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[43:19] ---
    She's boss of a Kuzan water company,
    and most likely the weapons ring's sponsor.
[43:26] ---
    So this is the tunnel exit!
[43:28] ---
    A domestic weapons company--
    Harimadara Heavy Industries!
[43:32] ---
    The execs are touring Factory One with
    the Senior Vice-Minister of Defense!
[43:36] ---
    Recommend a barrier,
    and give the data to Section 9.
[43:39] ---
    Paz, Borma, Saito, get over there.
[43:44] ---
    Call the bomb squad and a prosthetics tech.
[43:47] ---
    A destructive cyber-attack is more than likely.
[43:55] ---
    What's the meaning of this, Chief Aramaki?
[43:57] ---
    Evacuate immediately.
[43:59] ---
    You and this facility are targets.
[44:02] ---
    Wh-What's going on?!
[44:08] ---
    It's a bomb! Run!
[44:16] ---
    --Damn.
    --Shit!
[44:18] ---
    Paz, Borma! This way!
[44:23] ---
    Help me! Help me!
[44:34] ---
    Crap, the fire's closing up my throat.
[44:36] ---
    Mine too. That was close.
[44:39] ---
    Vice-Minister, are you all right?
[44:42] ---
    I'm fine.
[44:49] ---
    --Logicoma.
    --Yes, sir!
[44:53] ---
    That's one of our products...!
[44:59] ---
    Away from the windows!
[45:05] ---
    That's all the info on Colonel Hozumi.
[45:08] ---
    That's fine. We get a card,
    and you get a grace period.
[45:12] ---
    Please tell me what she has to do with Scylla!
[45:16] ---
    Find out from her.
    Your contaminated brain is intriguing,
[45:21] ---
    but I'm cutting our connection
    before the infection spreads.
[45:28] ---
    Goodbye.
[45:39] ---
    Contaminated, eh?
[45:41] ---
    I'm being bankrupted by a special
    tax on foreign companies?!
[45:45] ---
    How can this be allowed?!
[45:47] ---
    It's the kind of thing the
    domestic faction would do.
[45:51] ---
    What do you plan to do? Kill the colonel?
[45:56] ---
    She's all washed up. And so are you and I.
[46:06] ---
    Escape, and obey the domestic faction.
[46:08] ---
    Your company will be crushed under
    the pretext of this nation's taxes.
[46:13] ---
    You'll be killed by the cartels
    if you don't do something.
[46:18] ---
    You okay, Major?
[46:20] ---
    No problems. You go with that
    detective and subdue the guards.
[46:25] ---
    I'll take care of Scylla.
[46:34] ---
    Jeez, so stubborn. That's a scary lady.
[46:42] ---
    What? A Mateba, in this day and age?
[46:44] ---
    What's wrong with that?!
    It's the gun I trust the most.
[46:58] ---
    Blood traces. Someone was shot.
[47:08] ---
    A bullet...
[47:28] ---
    Ariel. So these are the prosthetic bombs.
[47:49] ---
    That wasn't you just now.
    Who the hell infiltrated my vision?!
[47:54] ---
    Don't move!
[47:58] ---
    In that quagmire of a war, Scylla was
    the only soldier I could empathize with.
[48:04] ---
    I've always wanted to
    ask you why he was killed.
[48:08] ---
    You didn't kill Scylla. I finally realized that.
[48:15] ---
    Go home. Or your Ariel will activate.
[48:20] ---
    Even I can't stop it.
[48:47] ---
    What's going on here? That bastard
    infiltrated my vision exactly the way you do!
[48:52] ---
    Answer me, Major!
[49:12] ---
    What's taking the Army so long?!
    We'll all die like this!
[49:16] ---
    It's been seized.
[49:17] ---
    It won't stop until we shut down
    whatever it's packaged with.
[49:21] ---
    Transplanted memories.
[49:22] ---
    What?
[49:23] ---
    The packaged cyberbrains are the virus's hosts.
[49:27] ---
    They converted the tactical program
    I set loose in Qhardistan to memory.
[49:31] ---
    My copy.
[49:37] ---
    What the hell are you saying?!
[49:47] ---
    Motoko.
[50:17] ---
    I came after you, but in
    the end, you captured me.
[50:22] ---
    It was my cyberbrain that was packaged.
[50:25] ---
    If you pull the trigger,
    you and your comrades will be saved.
[50:32] ---
    What you fell in love with was this world.
[50:39] ---
    Just keep on going,
    until the day you're betrayed.
[50:46] ---
    Scylla...
[50:49] ---
    I'm glad I met you.
[51:19] ---
    What?
[51:20] ---
    It stopped...
[51:31] ---
    It's ironic.
[51:32] ---
    They manage to survive a world war,
    then get stuck in an endless one,
[51:37] ---
    and finally end their own lives.
[51:39] ---
    Apparently there's no other way they can stop.
[51:43] ---
    Weren't you the same?
[51:46] ---
    Scylla was you.
[51:48] ---
    You helped the separatist army,
    then faked your death.
[51:52] ---
    Later, the guerillas you led were all killed.
[51:56] ---
    I can see why you wouldn't
    want to remember that op.
[52:00] ---
    Since then, I've stopped
    switching bodies so often.
[52:04] ---
    It gives me an identity crisis.
    I lose track of who I am...
[52:09] ---
    ...and then I want someone
    to tell me I'm not a robot.
[52:16] ---
    Is that why you insist on making original
    tweaks to your mass-production bases?
[52:21] ---
    It's amazing you even managed to control
    so many bodies in such a short time.
[52:25] ---
    I'm going to sleep a little. You can go.
[52:28] ---
    Call it cyborg solidarity.
[52:30] ---
    I'll keep watch and make sure they
    don't fit you with any sketchy parts.
[52:34] ---
    All right, suit yourself.
[52:37] ---
    You could at least say "thanks"!
[52:43] ---
    The bullet at the scene was fired
    from the lieutenant's gun.
[52:47] ---
    I also found Mizuki's weapon
    at the lieutenant's home.
[52:50] ---
    There was a huge deposit into his account, too.
[52:56] ---
    Good work. You can go.
[53:11] ---
    Arresting a fellow cop will
    make you some enemies.
[53:16] ---
    You'll be shot from behind
    by the guys at his local.
[53:20] ---
    I'll be sure to watch my back.
    Did you come just to say that?
[53:25] ---
    Will you join my team?
[53:29] ---
    It's an independent offensive
    unit with top priority.
[53:33] ---
    Oh, excuse me.
[53:36] ---
    Hello?
[53:38] ---
    What?! I thought it'd be another two weeks!
[53:40] ---
    No, sorry, got it. I'll be right there.
[53:44] ---
    This is big! Her water broke!
[53:48] ---
    Huh?
[53:49] ---
    We're gonna have a baby!
[53:51] ---
    Just wait, I'll be right there!
[53:53] ---
    We'll talk another time.
[53:55] ---
    I'm coming now!
[54:00] ---
    Natural, married, and a father?