5 - Ghost Whispers, Part 1

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    A near future not quite so informatized
    that nations and races have disappeared,
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    though corporate Nets have covered the planet
    and electrons and light stream everywhere...
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    Arms, fingers, legs, nails
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    Ears, nose, mouth, hair
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    What are you?
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    You'll wake up back where you started
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    Now you're still in your usual dream
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    A touch, and this world vanishes
    and takes you with it
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    Something reveals itself
    after everything else disappears
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    Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
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    In this new world,
    something keeps you yourself
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    It's what's yours, what you're
    doing to yourself, for yourself
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    Supreme Court
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    Kazuya Soga, get out here!
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    Griffin Unit, ten minutes to airstrike.
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    Eagle clear.
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    Fox negative.
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    Griffin Unit, ten minutes to airstrike.
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    Tossing hand grenade.
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    Wait! They've got hostages.
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    We hereby issue the final verdict
    on defendant Kazuya Soga.
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    It is evident that the defendant
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    committed crimes against humanity
    during the fighting in Qhardistan.
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    Therefore, this war crimes
    court hereby sentences him...
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    Colonel Soga, how dare you?!
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    Who the hell are you?!
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    The Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense.
    I want to talk to that man!
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    Vice-Minister Kasuga.
    I'm flattered by your concern.
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    But I create my own circumstances.
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    Excuse me?
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    Those who obstruct my Net
    will disappear from this city.
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    I only desire one thing...
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    To make our truths known!
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    Ghost Whispers, Part 1
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    Strange... Why am I awake when
    everyone else is sleep-learning?
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    Lend me that clever little brain of yours.
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    Who are you?
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    Who is that updating my synchronization?
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    You and me...?
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    Huh?
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    We're doing this to clear our
    names and Colonel Soga's!
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    Get the module into the vehicle!
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    Last night, all of Public Security's
    systems went down for just 1.8 seconds.
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    Mistake? Error? Hacking?
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    We're investigating.
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    But there's a possibility that this one
    Logicoma synched with something.
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    "Something"?
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    I want you to find out what--and how
    it's related to the system going down.
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    What freak would bother accessing
    an AI with an outdated neurochip,
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    not to mention a conveyer
    that can only walk and talk?
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    In any case, we're leaving the
    others off and isolating this one.
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    I'd like you to investigate it, too.
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    In other words, you're worried
    it was an inside job.
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    All right, I'll use a civilian facility.
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    I would have liked to go to an
    independent squad with this...
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    Still looking for the perfect personnel?
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    It is my team. I intend to take care.
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    Your parallel commands are randomized?
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    Is there a point to that?
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    It's best for our learning.
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    It's outside my system standards.
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    Can you explain the data
    you received verbally?
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    Um, I feel like it was
    something really important...
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    There's no record of the infiltrator.
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    Not only were you fully integrated,
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    you got yourself bitten by false memories too.
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    I got bitten?!
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    Precious experience points!
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    Bingo.
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    Wow, that was inside me?! I'm amazing!
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    Yeah, yeah. They really are good.
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    I'm saying that for a soldier,
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    killing your own countrymen
    is as low as you can sink!
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    A traffic control error?
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    What, what, what?!
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    Logicoma!
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    Sheesh!
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    Why is everyone suddenly crazy?!
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    An assault?
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    It's raining military-grade bullets.
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    They took advantage of a traffic control error.
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    Assuming you aren't
    setting me up, send backup.
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    The attackers are battle cyborgs.
    One of them is Batou, the sleepless eye.
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    What?!
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    I found a strange code in the data
    planted in the Logicoma's AI.
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    So that's their objective.
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    Put the Logicoma in self-defense mode.
    I'll have backup there in fifteen minutes.
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    Fifteen?!
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    The traffic network is being taken over.
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    Report.
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    Domination expanding throughout the city.
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    Well, hurry up and stop it!
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    We don't have enough processing speed.
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    Flight NAN255, go around.
    That runway is closed due to a crash.
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    80% of the street system
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    Climb and maintain 3,000 feet.
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    has been taken over by an outside operator.
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    This is crazy--what enormous
    system is our hacker using?!
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    Major, fifteen minutes will be a problem.
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    You're joking!
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    This isn't an error. It's a crime.
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    Large-scale domination?!
    Who has a system like that?!
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    Guess I'll set up an ambush.
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    You bitch!
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    Where'd they get that crap?
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    The range of domination is
    still expanding, you know.
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    The only solution is to get the module.
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    Who are you? You've been spying
    on me since I left Public Security.
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    To ask for your help.
    I'm the one who infiltrated him.
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    I want you to trust me
    and hand over the conveyer.
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    And Public Security's system going down?
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    That wasn't me.
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    That was the first move of the group
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    using a special military module to
    carry out a large-scale cyber operation.
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    "Operation"?
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    The enemy stole the module's
    de-parallelizing code from me.
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    All I could do was replicate the code
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    and copy it to an isolation-capable AI
    they couldn't interfere with.
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    Logicoma!
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    Where'd this "military module" come from?
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    It's a Mass Field-Hacking Unit jointly
    developed with seven leading companies
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    in the old Silicon Valley.
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    Military joint production?
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    Face front!
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    Aaand... stop!
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    Hey!
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    Huh?
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    Huh?
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    Huh...?
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    Shield!
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    Huh?! I'm not broken.
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    Are you an American agent?
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    I'm Special Forces.
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    My code name is "VV." I'm supporting
    you in hope of your cooperation.
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    Great, now we've got two enemies.
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    So that agent came to take back the module.
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    But don't let her throw you.
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    All we have to do is destroy the Public
    Security machine, and it's checkmate.
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    How's the domination coming?
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    We're close to target values.
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    We won't let 'em get away with anything else.
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    Get me a line and connect to the colonel.
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    Aramaki, I assume you've heard of Soga?
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    Kazuya Soga, the war criminal in
    the Qhardistan massacre, correct?
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    He's the man behind this traffic chaos.
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    He's still connected to the Net even
    after we tossed him in an isolation cell.
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    Well, have a seat.
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    They made him a scapegoat
    when he refused to testify in court.
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    I did what I could to commute his sentence...
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    But I never thought he'd mobilize his unit!
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    What's he after?
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    He's demanding access to a
    military database called "Pandora."
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    State secrets?
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    Does he mean to bring the details of an
    Army operation before the war crimes court?
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    That's not all.
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    He wants to air Army's and Public
    Security's dirty laundry to the world
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    in exchange for this city's twenty
    million cars and the people in them.
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    He wants Japan itself to be
    judged just like he was judged?
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    Colonel Kazuya Soga?
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    He commanded an op in Qhardistan
    that won him high praise.
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    Then he was accused of conducting
    a massacre during the op
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    and convicted as a war criminal.
    He's currently in custody.
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    A hero during the war,
    and a criminal afterward.
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    And Soga's sympathizers are using
    the module to seek his release?
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    Major--
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    She's an informant. I brought
    her in on a provisional basis.
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    What exactly is this "module"?
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    It creates processing power on the
    level of a giant nationwide system.
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    They must have used it to parallelize
    something low-capacity in huge quantities.
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    Your opinion?
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    I agree with Major Kusanagi.
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    And is your objective to retrieve the module?
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    Or destroy it.
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    The most effective method is to use
    the code I evacuated into your AI
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    from somewhere free of enemy interference.
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    Why was it stolen in the first place?
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    The module was a model brought here for
    top-secret standards sharing with Japan.
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    I take it your colleagues are making a
    top-secret investigation of the theft?
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    I'll leave that to your imagination.
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    Along with how you pinpointed
    the enemy's smuggling point?
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    Both issues are the purview of the
    Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense,
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    but he didn't mention them
    when I spoke to him just now.
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    Evidently something's being hushed up.
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    Another reason I want you to tell the Ministry
    of Home Affairs to give my squad top priority.
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    Since when do you have a squad?!
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    I'm about to form one. Based on skill,
    with no ranks, and given top priority.
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    Whoops, survived again.
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    Playing Russian roulette in a virtual reality?
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    Do you reproduce the sensation of the
    bullet penetrating your cranium, too?
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    You've got a sickness.
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    Kusanagi from the 501!
    When did you sneak in here?!
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    I'm independent. The op in Qhardistan,
    the American Army module, and Soga...
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    Tell me what you know, or take
    a real-life bullet. Your choice.
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    Hold on! Why come to me?
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    You served under Soga in Qhardistan.
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    There's a record of Ishikawa
    calling you on your private line.
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    Hey, I turned down the job with the 78th!
    The pay wasn't good enough.
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    The Marines' ace sniper turned into
    a compulsive gambler after the war?
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    Is that why your unit's leave-time
    budget's been cooked to high hell?
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    How did you know--
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    If your postwar days are
    about turning your life into cash,
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    I'll play your game.
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    Join my spec ops team in the next five seconds,
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    or the money you embezzled gets
    transferred to Maritime Command.
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    Bitch.
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    I'll pay you a salary.
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    So you're the MP?
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    What'd she threaten you with to bring you in?
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    Oh, I volunteered.
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    I've been waiting for the Major
    to start up her team.
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    You're a messed-up guy.
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    How can you control this
    with the domination going on?
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    This antique has some special specifications.
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    It's in a whole different class
    from your friend's old clunker there!
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    Since we can't cut Soga's Net,
    we'll have to physically seize the module.
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    This facility is the most likely
    candidate for our enemy's base.
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    I see; you'll only give us our target's location.
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    You don't want to get your own hands dirty.
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    I'm a neat freak.
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    An old communications
    equipment company, eh?
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    Not much for a sniper to do if
    they're holed up in a server room.
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    Don't worry, I'll smoke out
    plenty of targets for you.
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    Bingo? Seriously?
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    Just one squad, and they get their
    own ground support chopper...
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    Good grief.
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    We're going, Logicoma.
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    Huh? But I'm not done with the sensors...
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    What?! Really?!
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    Safe...
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    You're slow!
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    Paz, status?
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    Not sure whether it went well or not, but I'm in.
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    So are we. Report if you find the module.
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    Let's do this.
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    No use!
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    A barrier maze?
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    This processing speed...
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    You people can't stop my Net.
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    In about an hour, Pandora's lid will open.
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    It's impossible to stop me before then.
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    Creeping black clouds
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    Your eyes are beautiful
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    You're going to join those ranks, then
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    Those ranks don't suit you
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    Come on
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    It's okay, come
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    Hide here
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    It's okay, look
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    It's a battlefield outside
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    I love you, love you
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    Shh
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    I love you, I love you, I love you...
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    Love you...
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    Love you
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    Their plan was to use the military
    module to access Pandora.
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    What?!
[23:59] ---
    Can the Major and her newly
    formed squad stop Colonel Soga?
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    Hey, a traitor!
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