4 - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone
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Per the Special Anti-Terrorism Measures Act,
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we now place all terminals in the designated
area under Public Security's electronic control.
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Anticipating that cyberterrorism against
Harimadara Heavy Industries will lead
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--to a shutdown of operations, Home Affairs has...
--HQ to Squad 357.
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Transfer command to Section 9.
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This is Priority One.
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Murderers!
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Murderers!!
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Give back our water!
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--Give back our water!!
--Despite increasingly fierce protests,
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a contract has just been signed
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between a Kuzan water company
and the Japanese giant Harimadara.
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"Give water to the war orphans!!"
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"Give water to the war orphans!"
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It's starting.
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All channels within the revised limits are clear.
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All Home Affairs and MLIT lines
now under our control.
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Ready for domination.
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Begin.
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All lifelines, surveillance, etc. for
the building and roads now dominated.
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Profiling cyberbrains and terminals
of 4,022 people in the area.
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1,102 require follow-up.
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Aramaki! I'm not giving you my crime scene!
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This is Section 6. Who said you
could infiltrate our comm lines?!
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We need to prevent casualties,
not play departmental musical chairs!
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Or will you take the fall when we can't
even pin down their means of attack?!
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Chief Aramaki, explain yourself.
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Vice-Minister Kitahara.
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I thought you were attending
the celebratory banquet?
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What you warned me of is happening, then?
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We got an anonymous tip that a Qhardi
group mobilized three hours ago.
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Anonymous?
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Can you trust it?
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Yes. The Yotsubashi Building
area is definitely the target.
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The old ape's sure fired up,
considering we're flying blind here.
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Batou, this is the outfit
we've been after ever since
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the cyber-contamination
at Harimadara four months ago.
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"We"? You mean you.
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Did you make this, Major?
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It ain't a toy, rookie.
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It's a military-grade virtual comm link.
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It's almost impossible for hackers to listen in.
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Section 9 forced the domination through.
We'll have orders soon.
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Nab one of the terrorists.
I want bait to draw out our prey.
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Is it that super-wizard-class
hacker, Fire-Starter?
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Isn't that just what you want?
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We don't even know if there's
really someone pulling the strings.
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What I want is to formally
establish my spec ops team.
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If you're scared of unknown enemies, drop out.
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Piss off.
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"Corporate Killers"
Driving during a cyber-meeting?
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"Corporate Killers"
You're gonna crash.
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You're the only one that green.
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Our status as an independent
offensive unit is riding on this.
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Public Security handles the incident,
and we handle what caused it.
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Go.
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The enemy just gave the go-ahead.
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Capture them!
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You deserve this...
Greedy rich-country bastards!
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Today, we've followed
the principle of free trade
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to maintain fair prices that will
spur postwar economic recovery.
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This was his only weapon. Something's fishy.
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The riot squad opened fire?!
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The west team's slaughtering protesters.
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Some are even shooting other cops!
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It's the biggest simultaneous Ghost Hack ever.
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It's crazy, but it's the only explanation.
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There's no tech that'd
control 100 people at once.
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The perps on my watch are all dead, too.
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Check the riot squad's lines and
find out what caused the attack.
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There's a log that might be Starter's, but...
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Then this isn't hacking. It's a virus.
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I don't see one in the sequence.
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It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
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Someone must be sending packaged
actions meant to control groups.
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You, eh?
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I made a deal with the devil for the
sake of rebuilding and independence!
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Just like you wanted!
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And it invited a second
slaughter by water and e-money
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to follow the first slaughter with guns!
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--You said cyberbrain tech
and the prosthetics industry
--I want a media blackout now.
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--would build us a future,
--This is Priority One!
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but hope wasn't what they
brought to Qhardistan!
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They merely sowed the seeds of betrayal
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that would grow to bleed
away my people's pride!
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Have a taste of what that felt like!
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Then you'll have no choice
but to grant me asylum!
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Because this is a civilized, pacifist nation!
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Oh, is it?
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Optical camouflage!
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You can't stop Fire-Starter.
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Someone hacked my line?!
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Major?!
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Saito!
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Shit.
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Hello!
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Give me a weapon!
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Okay!
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Major, I'll be right there!
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Don't be stupid. Go after
the one who hacked me!
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On your knees!
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I'll shoot you dead if you resist.
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That was outta nowhere!
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This was your job, moron!
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Sorry! That was an accident.
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Equip some handrails!
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Do it, Saito.
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I let him get away, sorry!
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"Section 9 Office"
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Idiots!
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You finally take the job, and then you
execute someone on the national Net?
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Who, me? You have no proof.
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Are you claiming you had no choice?
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You're a super-wizard-class
hacker in an ace unit.
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Was the Army overestimating you
when it rated you five stars?
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Tell me about the virus
and that heavy cyborg girl.
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No cyber-virus was detected.
The girl's name is Emma Tsuda.
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Apparently she's famous on
the Net as a game app maker.
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Nine hours after her arrest,
that's all you've got?
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I guess a former Special A Rank
inspector for the Army like you
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gets to have lots of talented subordinates.
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My people's dedicated effort
got multiple perps captured alive.
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Wow, great work arresting
some mindless packaged drones.
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We could've stopped it if
we'd had special authority.
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Then stop playing gangsters and join Section 9.
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Unless you work directly for Home Affairs,
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you do get official oversight
and you don't get secrecy.
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Can you guarantee I'd be able to stay myself?
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Cutting-edge equipment can protect
cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.
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And my Ghost? My beliefs?
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Depends on how skilled you are.
I'll even consider a budget.
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Create an international
counterterrorist agency for us
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with the same budget as the Rangers.
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I'm gonna go eat.
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Aramaki, it's been a while.
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Colonel Hozumi. What brings
Army intelligence here?
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I'll take the girl now.
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Care to explain?
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They're from a squad I trust.
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Ex-major Motoko Kusanagi, of the 501.
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Hated your master so much
you became a stray, eh?
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Your intel's dated. They recreated my rank.
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The cyber-virus used is
crucial for us to investigate.
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Explain why it's crucial, please.
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It's a triple package of brainwashing,
Ghost infiltration, and false memory creation.
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False memory? Last I checked,
the government doesn't admit that's possible,
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despite all the reports.
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Virus units entered this
country via a certain broker.
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Trust me: You won't even
manage to indict that girl.
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Unfortunately, she's been
transferred to Unit 501.
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When?
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The moment I agreed to
their request for cooperation.
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I've never thought you were clever, but this?
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You'll regret any foolish stubbornness.
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Terror by false memories...
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Your claims are finally proven, Major.
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So is the existence of a virus
that enables Ghost-hacking.
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Here's your next job:
Escort the girl to Unit 501.
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What? There was really a request?
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Signed by the Defense Minister.
Now give me one of your men in exchange.
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Did your scary ex-colleague
make you want a guard?
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I want information sharing.
Go renew old workplace friendships.
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Can I ask one thing?
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What is it?
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Assuming I did shoot her...
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...why didn't you use my
Ghost infiltration key to stop me?
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I can't answer hypothetical questions.
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I see.
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This is Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied,
the one the Major killed.
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She's Qhardi, but she graduated from
Kuzan Royal University as valedictorian.
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A big player in Kuzan water importation
since the provisional government days.
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But she supported terrorism when she realized
the world would forsake her people, eh?
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She's smart and she's got motive,
but she's not a hacker.
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Someone else packaged this.
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What about the girl we captured?
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Her name's Emma Tsuda.
A 17-year-old war orphan.
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She makes hit cyberbrain games, which she
copyrights under the name "Tin Man."
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"Tin Man"... As in The Wizard of Oz?
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What's that?
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--In spite of everything, I still believe
--Supposing she's a teenage
super-hacker, how does she fit in?
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--that people are really good at heart.
--Don't tell me she's the one you're after?
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--I wish to go on living even after my death.
--I'll know when I dive into her Ghost.
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Ishikawa, stay on the virus and the girl.
Saito, you go to Section 9.
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Paz and Borma, you release the bait.
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Batou, Togusa, and I will escort the girl.
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We're starting the second round.
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Suggestion for you,
Miss "Hothead Who Charges In Blind."
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How about I become team leader
and lead us in a sensible retreat?
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Brave thing to say in my cyberbrain space.
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Step outside and let's fight!
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Whoa, knock it off, you guys!
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He's finally on the move.
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Thought I'd die of boredom!
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It might be cool if we could ride in you.
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The Major requested a personnel transport
shaft from the Maintenance Department!
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Will we pilot you from inside?
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Isn't that our mobile arsenal?
Where would the weapons go?
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We can just resupply each other.
If we armed this guy, he could be our backup.
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Backup, eh?
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Why are we using an outdated Logistics model?
[17:56] ---
Ape-Face couldn't get the budget the
Major wanted, so he gave us these bots.
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Neurochip-type Als are hard
to hack or infect, anyway.
[18:05] ---
So basically, it was us or the junkyard?
[18:08] ---
What? Not good enough for the
ex-cop still wearing a necktie?
[18:14] ---
My late father said looking
classy shows faith in yourself.
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Watching you, ex-Ranger, I see what he meant.
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Bold words, kid.
[18:29] ---
Mr. Batou suggested modifying us
so people could ride us!
[18:33] ---
I think it's a really great idea!
What do you think, Major?
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Don't talk nonsense. I hate machines
who pretend to have personalities.
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She's here.
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Did you hack my line to
deliberately get yourself caught?
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What is "Fire-Starter"?
Is it really the name of a hacker?
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Intelligence wants you. Military courts
don't do plea bargains, you know.
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I smell seawater.
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We aren't even allowed near the sea.
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Programmers are like weapons:
We're forbidden by law from moving freely.
[19:32] ---
So you are the group's hacker.
What are you after?
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Long ago, glassblowers had no freedom,
because glasswork funded the state.
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If they left the country, they were blinded first.
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You're a refugee?
That's why you started a massacre?
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Do you think cyberbrains make people happy?
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Are your memories trustworthy?
Or were they planted by someone?
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When micromachine-based cyberization
came to pass, experts worldwide warned us:
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"False memories will be used to commit crimes."
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Every organization wants
that technology. My technology.
[20:21] ---
You mean you successfully
made memory-manipulation tech?
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Your memories might even be...
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I'm diving right here, right now!
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Saw that coming.
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We don't know what this virus is.
What if you get infected?
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I'll blow it away, and her cyberbrain with it.
[20:43] ---
A hacker who commits mass murder
just to escape deserves assassination.
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During your dive?!
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Your cyber warfare style is twisted.
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I prefer the term "super-wizard-class."
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"Wizard"... Magician.
Magician who can't go home...
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I'm diving straight in through her line.
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Uh-huh, ignore protocol.
[21:07] ---
Hey, something's weird.
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You're being hacked!
They're doing it through her cyberbrain!
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What's going on? This isn't just backfire!
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Emma... Danger... Emma...
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You...
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Major!
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I'm sorry, Emma... I'm sorry.
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It's okay. I wanted this.
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Don't cry, Brinda.
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There are two Ghosts in there?
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I heard about Section 9's meddling.
[22:12] ---
You couldn't have shot her before
she started blabbing about asylum?
[22:16] ---
That shooting is currently under
investigation, Deputy Director Amagata.
[22:20] ---
I can imagine the profound
effects this incident will have
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on the Next-Generation Weapons
Review Committee you serve on.
[22:30] ---
The year-end industry fair has been cancelled.
[22:33] ---
And thanks to pressure from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
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we won't be unveiling our
prototype weapons, either.
[22:38] ---
It's shaking the foundations of the company.
[22:41] ---
I hear you're pressing for large-scale
water sales even after Dr. Thied's death.
[22:46] ---
I have a duty to fulfill my contract.
[22:49] ---
And effective use of resources is
key for an international company.
[22:54] ---
There are some out there who
can't even secure drinking water.
[22:57] ---
If you just want to criticize my economics,
I'm going back to work.
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You're not cut out for government work.
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Start an NPO and go live
in some refugee camp.
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He's annoying.
[23:22] ---
He's a classic ex-politician, and he owes
me one from my intelligence days.
[23:27] ---
Which means he's a reliable source.
[23:31] ---
NPOs, camps... and Foreign Affairs?
[23:35] ---
The council on weapons development!
[23:38] ---
Was that the objective behind the
cyberterrorism against Harimadara?
[23:42] ---
Lately there's a debate about
whether next-gen weapons
[23:43] ---
should be produced domestically
or developed abroad.
[23:48] ---
The overseas faction'd be thrilled if
a domestic manufacturer got attacked.
[23:53] ---
Here we go: an NPO that
"treats cyberization disorders."
[23:57] ---
They disseminated cyberization
and learning devices
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in refugee camps in Kuzan during the war.
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And domestically?
[24:04] ---
Got a hit on that girl in the
same NPO's treatment records.
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Cyberization rejection syndrome.
[24:11] ---
Apparently she ran away
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from a war orphan facility because
she rejected being cyberized.
[24:16] ---
Not wanting a cyberbrain means you're sick?
[24:19] ---
The white paper on cyberization
the MHLW released after the war
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classifies it with anorexia.
[24:25] ---
That's news to me.
[24:27] ---
The cyberization business
is insanely big money.
[24:31] ---
Pretty predictable that people who
don't want it get treated as sick.
[24:36] ---
Could she be a genuine multiple personality?
[24:39] ---
The prevailing theory is that
personalities split but Ghosts don't.
[24:44] ---
The issue is, what did that NPO
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have to do with a business deal
motivated by military development?
[24:51] ---
Go at the military-industrial complex
from both ends: soldiers and companies.
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It's me. The others got caught.
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Don't worry, you'll see them in the afterlife.
[25:22] ---
Hello!
[25:23] ---
Y-You a cop?
[25:29] ---
I-I prepared a confession.
Let me call my lawyer--
[25:34] ---
You're not getting that chance.
[25:37] ---
You killed our bait, so you're
gonna tell us everything.
[25:49] ---
Started to miss your old home?
[25:54] ---
I'm only here to bring in
your witness, Lt. Col. Kurutsu.
[25:57] ---
Tsumugi is standing by. Dive if you want to.
[26:02] ---
Assuming she has a Ghost, that is.
[26:04] ---
What do you mean?
[26:06] ---
I'm stepping out.
[26:08] ---
As a member of the committee, I need to
be at Harimadara's product inspection.
[26:12] ---
Still obsessed with getting promoted?
[26:15] ---
It's something you ran away without doing.
[26:44] ---
Nice to see you, Kusanagi.
[26:46] ---
I didn't think we'd have another
chance to work with you.
[26:49] ---
Are these your men?
[26:51] ---
Yes. Batou and Togusa.
[26:53] ---
This is Tsumugi Dokuro.
They're both cyber warfare tactical officers.
[26:58] ---
"Both"? Are they sharing a body?
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She says they're two identical
twins in one conjoined body.
[27:05] ---
I dunno how they move.
[27:08] ---
The world's full of surprises.
[27:13] ---
Let's get started.
[27:24] ---
So, only the body came back.
[27:27] ---
What do you mean?
[27:28] ---
She's a technical officer in
Lt. Col. Kurutsu's command.
[27:32] ---
She was investigating a hacker with
a special neurochip-type cyberbrain.
[27:37] ---
He's known as "Scarecrow,"
[27:39] ---
and he's a suspect in the
terrorist attack on Harimadara.
[27:42] ---
Another Oz character?
[27:45] ---
Huh?
[27:47] ---
Our conclusion is that he's a
special spy based on postwar tech.
[27:52] ---
Emma was the one who reasoned it out.
[27:55] ---
She hypothesized a hacker
with the same disorder she had.
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Someone who had to incrementally
replace his brain with neurochips
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and prosthetize his body to survive.
[28:03] ---
She had that disorder?
[28:06] ---
Personality attenuates, and selfhood can't
be retained without auxiliary cyberbrains.
[28:11] ---
Emma transformed her impairment into
her signature trait, as did Scarecrow.
[28:16] ---
Emma regularly used advanced
cyberization to structure her selfhood,
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but Scarecrow is different.
[28:22] ---
To compensate for his attenuated personality,
he dubs the Ghosts of others,
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steals their bodies,
and assumes their identities.
[28:28] ---
Like the scarecrow who can't think
inserting a false brain into his head.
[28:32] ---
Seriously?
[28:33] ---
In other words, this is...
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The body is Emma's, but it's
being operated by a man's brain
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which is only one-third the normal size
and cyberized with neurochips.
[28:44] ---
So what I dived into was
the girl's dubbed Ghost.
[28:49] ---
What happened to her brain?
[28:52] ---
Ghost Dubbing would've degraded it.
[28:54] ---
It's either in the trash or
sliced up in his research lab.
[28:57] ---
That's awful...
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Poor Emma. I'm sorry.
[29:03] ---
It's okay, Junior. Don't be afraid.
[29:06] ---
I know the lions will come.
The people with courage...
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Who are you? Tell me who you work for.
[29:13] ---
I am a scarecrow. My brain is fading away.
[29:17] ---
I am tin. My heart is fading away.
[29:20] ---
Is that Emma talking, or her dubbed Ghost?
[29:25] ---
Tin Girl, give me the scarecrow man's name.
[29:31] ---
His name is Brinda Jr. Please, don't blame him.
[29:38] ---
Got a hit at a postwar nursing home!
And the same NPO is involved with it.
[29:43] ---
Brinda Jr., age 32.
[29:45] ---
After he was cyberized, he became an
accountant at an employment agency.
[29:49] ---
His personality's thin,
[29:50] ---
but he memorized a 200-digit number
in two seconds for an IQ test.
[29:54] ---
That's textbook for someone
with special cognitive abilities.
[29:57] ---
Find out which organization
set him up as a hacker.
[30:00] ---
Roger.
[30:02] ---
I'm diving into that man's Ghost.
[30:05] ---
There are only a handful of proven
double Ghosts in existence.
[30:09] ---
We don't know the dangers.
[30:11] ---
I want to know which Ghost has motive.
[30:14] ---
You're doubting Emma? She's the victim here.
[30:17] ---
Then I'll confirm that.
[30:19] ---
Batou, be my backup in case they back-hack me.
[30:23] ---
Two against two, eh?
[30:30] ---
Togusa. Get all the records copied.
[30:33] ---
Roger. Oh, here...
Sorry, it's a call from my dad.
[30:39] ---
Hey Dad, it's been a while. Yeah.
[30:42] ---
Batou! Restrain Togusa!
[30:45] ---
Got it. I'll become the Lion.
[30:53] ---
A Mateba, still?
[30:57] ---
Don't move!
[31:10] ---
Major!
[31:12] ---
Let's go.
[31:15] ---
This is crazy! I found a Starter
log on his comm--it's the virus!
[31:21] ---
He must have kept the virus
inactive within his neurochips.
[31:25] ---
His infiltration was unexpectedly quick.
[31:27] ---
So, it combines victims' memories of past
hostility with objects in front of them
[31:31] ---
to plant instantaneous false memories?
[32:04] ---
I can get deadly, right?
[32:06] ---
That was your last breath if you don't.
[32:10] ---
Don't underestimate me!
[32:16] ---
The scarecrow is the virus's host and
Togusa's brain is the package, right?
[32:20] ---
Yep. But the infection route's
disturbingly selective.
[32:23] ---
Only people around you are being infected.
[32:28] ---
Does that mean the onset can be regulated?
[32:31] ---
That'd be impossible without
a third party to switch it on.
[32:35] ---
Which I guess means it's a virus
whose damage can be controlled.
[32:39] ---
Then it's military.
Reanalyze yesterday's infection data.
[32:43] ---
We don't want to chase the virus; we want
to chase the enemy in possession of it.
[32:47] ---
I wish to go on living even after my death.
[32:50] ---
Hidden data?
[32:52] ---
For these 620 reasons, we oppose
cyberization without free choice.
[32:59] ---
Reason: We submit that
software within the cyberbrain
[33:02] ---
is vulnerable to third-party tampering.
[33:07] ---
Reason: Electronic alteration
of memory causes abnormalities
[33:12] ---
in the totality of our independent
will referred to as the "Ghost."
[33:18] ---
Do you actually think a world without
infection and infiltration is possible?!
[33:25] ---
Tsumugi! You alive?
[33:27] ---
I'm running a sim of the
scarecrow's brain. Help me.
[33:30] ---
You have Emma Tsuda's Ghost infiltration key,
don't you? Make me a backdoor.
[33:34] ---
I see, you're going to use
Scarecrow's cyberbrain structure
[33:38] ---
to approximate a vaccine?
[33:53] ---
Reason: There are currently seventeen
possible ways to alter our memories.
[33:59] ---
Shit!
[34:01] ---
Major! Why won't you use my
Ghost infiltration key to stop this?!
[34:05] ---
It's no use. Brinda won't let her.
[34:09] ---
I will become anyone. I've inputted
and erased many Ghosts.
[34:14] ---
I disappeared, too... Who am I?
[34:18] ---
Was Unit 501 a target, too?
Aren't you a victim after all?!
[34:23] ---
There was no other way.
[34:26] ---
What are you after?
[34:42] ---
Don't disappear, Emma.
[34:48] ---
Let's go on living after our deaths, together.
[34:55] ---
They're here.
[35:04] ---
An attack barrier!
[35:07] ---
Major!
[35:09] ---
Colonel!
[35:11] ---
They fought each other with attack barriers.
One of them got forwarded.
[35:15] ---
I can't believe it was stronger than ours...
[35:18] ---
You were infiltrated for a moment.
[35:21] ---
Delete all relevant operational
headquarters from the cyberbrain Net.
[35:24] ---
Go after Brinda. There's nothing left to do here.
[35:31] ---
Damn stray dog...
[35:41] ---
Looks like we pulled it off.
[35:43] ---
The host and Starter are still active.
[36:02] ---
We can see the ocean, Emma.
[36:06] ---
This creeps even me out, Major.
[36:09] ---
Report.
[36:10] ---
Col. Hozumi from Army intelligence
was the one to recruit Brinda Jr.
[36:15] ---
"Scarecrow" is an op cooked up
by their old Investigations Section
[36:18] ---
during a period when they were
working on Ghost Dub devices.
[36:22] ---
Hozumi got on the Next-Gen Weapons
Review Committee through Foreign Affairs.
[36:27] ---
But she wasn't there long,
and Kurutsu of Unit 501 took her seat
[36:33] ---
at Vice-Minister Kitahara's recommendation.
[36:36] ---
Unit 501 got a hold on Hozumi
through military musical chairs, eh?
[36:41] ---
Reason: We can prove
that false memories
[36:45] ---
compel us to commit murder, suicide,
[36:49] ---
--and other criminal acts.
--Which one built the pod?
[36:53] ---
Unknown. But Army intelligence decided to
rally by interfering with the Review Committee.
[36:59] ---
I'd guess that somewhere in there,
the two hackers became aware of each other.
[37:03] ---
The attack on Harimadara is the connection?
[37:06] ---
There's no evidence they did it.
[37:09] ---
But Hozumi is in the overseas
weapons development faction,
[37:13] ---
and Harimadara's a domestic faction stronghold.
[37:15] ---
Who shot our bait?
[37:17] ---
A Kuzan water cartel hit man.
Hozumi's playing with serious fire.
[37:24] ---
She used the pretext of wartime industry
[37:26] ---
to interfere in Kuzan's affairs while
she was stationed there during the war.
[37:30] ---
If she can't subdue the domestic faction
and give the cartel the profits she promised,
[37:34] ---
it'll retaliate against her.
[37:37] ---
Starter analysis results?
[37:39] ---
Couldn’t pin down the trigger,
but I got my answer
[37:41] ---
from the fact that we couldn't find
the infection route into the building
[37:44] ---
even though Section 9 had domination over it.
[37:49] ---
It was a C4ISR network.
[37:51] ---
A military communications system.
[37:54] ---
Things are starting to come clear.
[37:56] ---
Col. Hozumi's the one
who activated Starter
[37:58] ---
and patched the virus through
to infect the VIP room's security.
[38:03] ---
She was after the woman the guard shot.
[38:05] ---
Senior Vice-Minister Kitahara,
who's with the domestic faction.
[38:09] ---
That massacre was a
smokescreen for one murder?!
[38:12] ---
Guess she's a born war-lover.
[38:14] ---
Why snipe Tin Girl?
[38:16] ---
That was a bluff.
[38:17] ---
She must've wanted to get rid of us
and get Tin Girl safely to the 501.
[38:22] ---
So her little visit to Section 9
was a smokescreen, too?
[38:26] ---
She backed down so easily because
she was after Unit 501 from the start.
[38:30] ---
So she could set up anti-cyberbrainist
Emma Tsuda as the massacre's ringleader.
[38:35] ---
Harimadara, the Vice-Minister, the 501...
She had a threefold plan to take them all out!
[38:41] ---
What about the Ghost of
the girl who got dubbed?
[38:43] ---
If she does have her own will,
why'd she knowingly let Hozumi use her?
[38:49] ---
Just from the circumstances, the scarecrow
is the one you've been after.
[38:54] ---
He didn't necessarily write the virus.
Hozumi said there was a broker.
[38:59] ---
If she told the truth,
someone out there made and sold it.
[39:02] ---
That's who I'm after.
[39:04] ---
This is all speculation. Right now,
there's only one way for us to get proof.
[39:10] ---
I assume you have Togusa's location.
We'll meet en route.
[39:13] ---
We're going to capture both Ghosts--
the scarecrow's, and the girl's.
[39:18] ---
Togusa's the problem.
[39:20] ---
Blowing a married teammate's
brains out ain't my job.
[39:24] ---
We know for sure this infection
plants false memories, right?
[39:28] ---
You saw him talking to his dead father.
[39:31] ---
There should be a shared form.
[39:33] ---
I'll get infected, so you ID it and
version up your makeshift vaccine.
[39:38] ---
You want to mirror your own brain?
[39:39] ---
Worst case scenario, blow my brains out.
[39:43] ---
So that's my job?
[39:45] ---
If you don't like it, make me the leader.
[39:48] ---
A checkpoint?
[39:51] ---
You're on the wanted list
as a suspected terrorist!
[39:54] ---
Shit, it's Section 9! The ape
used to be in Army intelligence.
[39:58] ---
He cut a deal with Hozumi, and he's framing us!
[40:01] ---
She may just want us to think so.
I'll send Section 9 our intel.
[40:06] ---
After all this, you're still relying on him?!
[40:08] ---
--No.
--Why, then?!
[40:11] ---
My Ghost is whispering that I should do it.
[40:30] ---
Wait! Where are you going?!
[40:35] ---
Stop!
[40:38] ---
We promised we'd go far away.
[40:47] ---
Goodbye.
[41:10] ---
I released the package!
[41:13] ---
I'm going on ahead.
[41:15] ---
I told you to shoot if things went south!
Take a damn gun with you...
[41:22] ---
Major...
[41:27] ---
She's in pieces!
[41:28] ---
If she's a neurochip version, she's still alive.
[41:34] ---
We'll go on living.
[41:46] ---
It's a Ghost Dub, not a transfer?!
[41:59] ---
That's a Harimadara prototype!
[42:04] ---
Major!
[42:05] ---
Two Ghosts have been dubbed into that thing.
[42:08] ---
We're going to stop it! Logicomas,
give me everything you've got!
[42:11] ---
Yes, sir!
[42:15] ---
Where the hell would they
abandon their own lives to go?
[42:20] ---
The ocean.
[42:22] ---
Huh?
[42:23] ---
They're not going anywhere! This ends here!
[43:12] ---
Next-gen weapon or not, its brains are rookies.
[43:15] ---
Aim for the eyes and legs,
and it's a piece of cake.
[43:31] ---
For real?!
[44:22] ---
Got you now!
[44:35] ---
What's that?
[44:36] ---
It's Army intelligence! The bastards
requested an artillery strike!
[44:46] ---
You've cut off your sensory system?!
[44:49] ---
Crap!
[44:59] ---
You discarded intensity regions...
[45:02] ---
Recognition systems, memory fields,
the Net that maintains your architecture...
[45:28] ---
You even jettisoned your own Ghost!
[45:30] ---
You want a life you've
stripped all meaning from?!
[46:49] ---
Goodbye.
[47:19] ---
It's over.
[47:20] ---
Return to base. We're going
to Kuzan, by way of Benares.
[47:26] ---
The world's cyber economy has only just begun.
[47:30] ---
I'll pay whatever it takes
to reconcile with the cartel--
[47:45] ---
On your knees, hands in the air!
[47:48] ---
Oh, the wanted poster. Told you so.
[48:00] ---
You're just like that Section 9 chief.
[48:02] ---
Never happy unless you're
digging up what's dead and buried.
[48:07] ---
It's something you ran away without doing.
[48:12] ---
Nothing's going to change, Kusanagi.
[48:16] ---
We're an independent offensive unit.
[48:19] ---
We stand independent of the system,
[48:20] ---
and we have truly discrete
personalities that don't get packaged.
[48:25] ---
When we're officially approved
as top priority, we'll root out
[48:28] ---
all the sorry bastards who conspire
because they're afraid of a scandal.
[48:35] ---
And you count me as one of them?
[48:39] ---
I never changed your channel. Contact me
whenever you want to come home.
[48:59] ---
You're free to go. We voided the
wanted notice Col. Hozumi put out.
[49:03] ---
Vice-Minister of Defense Kitahara
wants to thank you.
[49:08] ---
Is that some sort of joke?
[49:10] ---
A political one.
[49:12] ---
Section 9 just went through
Col. Hozumi's possessions
[49:16] ---
and confiscated a Ghost Dub device
and an outline of the Scarecrow op.
[49:20] ---
They couldn't arrest her, though.
[49:22] ---
No--but then she confessed.
[49:29] ---
Her chopper was shot down
with Kuzan weapons.
[49:34] ---
She's afraid enough of the cartel's revenge
[49:37] ---
to request protective
custody and a plea bargain.
[49:40] ---
So she'll get off scot-free.
[49:42] ---
I'll make sure she doesn't.
[49:43] ---
The NPO she worked with is a front
for dirty cyberbrain business.
[49:48] ---
Not only that, we've detected Starter
in her cyberbrain, just like your intel said.
[49:54] ---
She got a lot of people injured or killed,
and I'll make her pay for that--
[49:58] ---
even if I can't take her to court yet.
[50:02] ---
Where did she get the virus?
[50:04] ---
Through a broker, she says. She claims
to know nothing about its author.
[50:09] ---
I see.
[50:11] ---
Was it really the cartel
who tried to kill Hozumi?
[50:15] ---
Even if it was someone who wanted
to prevent us from investigating her,
[50:19] ---
I'm sure any trace of them is long gone.
[50:34] ---
Major.
[50:36] ---
All of you came? I didn't know
I had such admirable subordinates.
[50:41] ---
You could've been attacked while in custody.
[50:45] ---
We've been keeping an eye on all
the suspicious characters who came by.
[50:49] ---
One more thing. I told the
Minister of Home Affairs
[50:52] ---
that your team contributed
to deterring the virus.
[50:56] ---
Use your vaunted cyberbrain to read
Public Security Commission report N2077.
[51:01] ---
As of tomorrow, you get special authority.
[51:05] ---
Without official oversight.
[51:08] ---
This case isn't over.
[51:10] ---
Investigate the high-level hacking
virus and any organizations involved,
[51:15] ---
and plan to attend plenty
of funerals along the way.
[51:18] ---
I shot Thied.
[51:20] ---
You must have had a hunch that an
intelligence bigwig was behind this,
[51:23] ---
meaning you would've wanted
an intel advantage at any cost.
[51:26] ---
So why didn't you stop me?!
[51:29] ---
Because I don't have
your Ghost infiltration key.
[51:36] ---
No organization will ever have it.
[51:40] ---
I promised your late commander that.
[52:08] ---
Bottom line, all we figured out
was that someone out there
[52:11] ---
used a couple of anti-cyberbrainist hackers
and a miserable water company chick.
[52:18] ---
We may be looking for a crime
worth sacrificing lives over,
[52:21] ---
but all we have are money-mad war profiteers
[52:24] ---
and a man and girl obsessed
with casting things away.
[52:27] ---
For now, that is.
[52:30] ---
Which one had agency, the man or the girl?
Did they even have real will?
[52:39] ---
When they blocked my infiltration, at least.
[52:43] ---
But they fled with nowhere to go,
then had to transfer into that weapon.
[52:50] ---
That think-tank's cyberbrain
had a massive output system.
[52:55] ---
Hmm?
[52:56] ---
What if the reason they cast away
what made them themselves
[52:59] ---
was to output the last thing left into the Net?
[53:04] ---
You think that's where they were going?
[53:06] ---
Pouring the last shreds of their Ghosts
into the Net... Is that even possible?
[53:12] ---
It's been researched,
but it's impossible to prove.
[53:18] ---
But in the moment their Ghosts were lost,
I got the feeling they'd fused.
[53:23] ---
That two lives had become one...
[53:26] ---
That isn't like you. Ghosts are the
most independent things in this world.
[53:31] ---
Even the ones being controlled are
fundamentally, eternally standalone.
[53:36] ---
Like our squad, yeah?
[53:41] ---
Yeah.
[53:43] ---
Well? The floaters are all ready.
I got a set of two.
[53:48] ---
Even someone with a
titanium skull wouldn't drown.
[53:51] ---
You seriously want to swim
in the ocean in midwinter?
[53:54] ---
Gotta shake off those
memories of almost drowning.
[53:57] ---
Plus it ain't too often I get
to see you in a swimsuit.
[54:00] ---
That's your real goal?
[54:01] ---
--Huh?
--Unbelievable.
[54:03] ---
No, no! I'm doing this all for you!
[54:09] ---
I'll take a rain check.
[54:11] ---
I'm telling you, you got it all wrong!
[54:45] ---
Wavering sorrow and hatred
[54:51] ---
It all dims over time
[54:57] ---
Creaky (spirits)
[55:02] ---
We're taken, we're taken away
[55:08] ---
Away
[55:11] ---
Broken-off memory freezes in the sky
[55:18] ---
This heart rent asunder
[55:23] ---
Splitting in two (splitting)
[55:28] ---
We're making, we're making our way
[55:35] ---
Nowhere
[55:36] ---
We split in two (slipping)
[55:41] ---
We're slipping, we're slipping away
[55:48] ---
No way home...
[55:58] ---
(Ghosts...)
[56:16] ---
Broken (spirits)
[56:21] ---
We're breaking, we're breaking away
[56:28] ---
Away
[56:30] ---
Vanishing (slipping)
[56:34] ---
We're going, we're going insane
[56:41] ---
No way...
[56:44] ---
Severed souls sleep
[56:50] ---
Unable to dream
[56:56] ---
Wandering (spirits)
[57:01] ---
We're calling, we're calling your name
[57:07] ---
Your name
[57:09] ---
We split in two (slipping)
[57:14] ---
We're sleeping while slipping away
[57:21] ---
No way home...
[57:31] ---
(Ghosts... left to roam...)
[57:44] ---
(Lost... no way home...)
[57:57] ---
(Ghosts... left to roam...)
[58:07] ---
(Lost... ghosts... no way home)
[58:23] ---
(Ghosts...)
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