7 - Ghost Tears, 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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    Ghost Tears, Part 1
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    Major. Hey, Major!
[03:41] ---
    What was that? Virtual reality?
[03:43] ---
    I'm on vacation. Don't be so casual
    about entering my cyber lobby.
[03:47] ---
    My condolences. There's been a
    terrorist bombing in Nishinouchi.
[03:51] ---
    The vics were an executive at
    a foreign-owned water company,
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    a Trade Ministry official, and a
    domestic weapons manufacturer.
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    The top-priority entry in
    the terrorism prediction list
[04:00] ---
    you gave Public Security was right on target.
[04:03] ---
    I assume they were in a secret
    meeting to agree on water prices.
[04:06] ---
    Everything's in smithereens,
    including some Foreign Affairs guards.
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    There was also an explosion at
    the Yamanote Dam, by the way.
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    The dam?
[04:17] ---
    Dunno if it's related.
[04:19] ---
    But it essentially belongs to
    a foreign-owned water company,
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    and there's a retired Trade official on staff.
[04:28] ---
    The bureaucrats' turf wars
    are intense in that industry.
[04:33] ---
    So, who asked for us?
[04:36] ---
    Section 9, as usual.
[04:38] ---
    They failed to put your list to good use,
    but they did track the perps.
[04:42] ---
    They say they can't secure 'em,
    though. Too outgunned.
[04:51] ---
    Call everyone in. I'm coming too.
[04:54] ---
    Work calls?
[04:58] ---
    I'm sorry.
[05:00] ---
    Five hours, seven minutes.
    That's a record-length vacation for you.
[05:05] ---
    Are you consulting for the police today?
    Or the Cyberbrain Development Bureau?
[05:10] ---
    I'll make it up to you.
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    Don't forget what we talked about.
[05:16] ---
    Are you serious?
[05:17] ---
    Of course.
[05:18] ---
    You should get going. All your
    customers are impatient types, right?
[05:25] ---
    Yes.
[05:26] ---
    Wow, you've been with that guy for
    three months! That's a new record.
[05:35] ---
    Don't be so casual about using
    that Ghost infiltration key.
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    Your precinct ID'd him as
    Detective Naoharu Mizuki.
[05:50] ---
    Is that right?
[05:52] ---
    Yeah. He's my senior.
[06:02] ---
    Is this all he had on him?
[06:04] ---
    His holster was empty.
[06:07] ---
    His piece must've been washed away or stolen.
[06:10] ---
    It's hard to believe the gun under
    his jacket would get washed away.
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    And it'd be odd for someone to
    steal his gun but leave his wallet.
[06:22] ---
    A prosthetics specialist...
[06:25] ---
    He sure doesn't look cyborgized.
[06:28] ---
    Lieutenant, your guys rounded up all
    the unclaimed property in the area, right?
[06:31] ---
    Let's look for something
    else that ties back to him.
[06:34] ---
    You want me to be your errand boy?
[06:36] ---
    If the dam incident was really an accident, yes.
[06:38] ---
    Lieutenant! I found something odd.
[06:46] ---
    What are these?
[06:47] ---
    They look like prosthetics, but...
[06:57] ---
    Mermaid's Legs...
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    Report.
[07:10] ---
    Lots of injured cops.
    Six perps still going strong.
[07:14] ---
    They're on their way to Ward 4.
[07:16] ---
    They see right through the police strategy.
[07:19] ---
    They secured an escape route ahead of time.
[07:22] ---
    This group is highly trained.
[07:24] ---
    They have a commander
    somewhere out there. Ishikawa!
[07:30] ---
    I picked up their line!
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    The seventh one. This is their leader.
[08:10] ---
    This is a cutting-edge ghost lock.
    Don't waste time resisting.
[08:15] ---
    I'll make him order his friends to surrender.
[08:17] ---
    Ishikawa, run a forced recognition program.
[08:20] ---
    Roger.
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    Abort the operation.
    Throw down your guns and surrender.
[08:26] ---
    Repeat: Abort the operation and surrender.
[08:34] ---
    Huh?
[08:38] ---
    Aw, no shootout?
[08:42] ---
    I captured one!
[08:46] ---
    Hey, you're pretty useful!
[08:50] ---
    We got the last one.
[08:52] ---
    Good. Hand them all over to Public Security.
[08:57] ---
    A virus alert?
[09:02] ---
    It's the man you captured!
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    This pain...
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    The ghost lock released?
[09:29] ---
    Major?
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    Shit. Saito!
[09:36] ---
    Don't kill him!
[10:06] ---
    No more of that!
[10:11] ---
    Damn, it feels gross having someone
    infiltrate my Ghost--even the Major.
[10:16] ---
    Truer words.
[10:18] ---
    Your fault for aiming for the head.
[10:20] ---
    Don't hand them over yet. We'll take
    them to a lockup with cyber facilities.
[10:25] ---
    You telling me to play interrogation partner?
[10:27] ---
    I'm not interested in fake memories.
[10:30] ---
    Memories?
[10:31] ---
    I'm interested in their contaminated Ghosts.
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    Sorry I had to call you down here.
[10:45] ---
    It's my civic duty.
[10:47] ---
    I understand you're in charge
    of the dam. Let's see...
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    Dr. Zhinzhee Bekka Arr Thied.
[10:54] ---
    Please, call me Thied.
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    You've got quite the tough-looking secretary.
[10:59] ---
    He's very reliable.
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    The conflicts continue in the
    Republic of Kuzan, where you're from.
[11:06] ---
    I hear the Qhardi ethnic minority in particular
    is still waging a war of independence.
[11:13] ---
    It's a heartbreaking war.
[11:15] ---
    You're Qhardi, correct?
[11:17] ---
    Yes. Like the majority of my comrades,
    I wish for a peaceful solution.
[11:25] ---
    So, the explosion at the dam...
[11:27] ---
    I'm told it was a valve malfunction.
[11:29] ---
    Your company sells water, right?
    For what type of use?
[11:35] ---
    It's for precision machinery businesses.
    That industry relies on 100% pure water.
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    Precision machinery...
    Prosthetic manufacturing, for example?
[11:44] ---
    Yes.
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    Chief...
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    You idiot!
[11:52] ---
    The Trade Ministry got them
    invited to set up a plant here!
[11:55] ---
    You want to make an enemy
    of the local precinct, too?
[11:58] ---
    But...
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    Stop, that's evidence!
[12:07] ---
    I'm very grateful to you for finding
    the goods stolen from our warehouse.
[12:13] ---
    Please, take them with you.
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    Chief!
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    Back off!
[12:19] ---
    A detective died, sir.
[12:21] ---
    You think I don't know that?
[12:23] ---
    You go to Nishinouchi and get me information.
[12:26] ---
    Nishinouchi? What's there?
[12:28] ---
    A bombing, apparently by Qhardi terrorists.
[12:32] ---
    Now listen: You consult your superiors
    before any moves on this case.
[12:35] ---
    Terrorism?
[12:38] ---
    If the explosion was intentional,
    and he wasn't a victim...
[12:47] ---
    They're a Qhardi weapons smuggling gang.
    I met them on an undercover op.
[12:51] ---
    Their goal is to send weapons
    to their comrades back home.
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    They've got no reason to attack this country.
[12:57] ---
    Their statements were crystal clear:
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    They're against the pricing agreement,
    so they bombed the meeting site.
[13:03] ---
    Are you telling me those are planted memories?
[13:06] ---
    I'm betting they're all infected.
[13:09] ---
    And that the virus interfered
    with my ghost lock.
[13:18] ---
    Well done. You subdued them brilliantly.
[13:21] ---
    We could do it even more easily if you
    adjusted your comm standards to ours.
[13:26] ---
    I read your report.
[13:28] ---
    A false memory virus that can infiltrate,
    hack, and brainwash simultaneously?
[13:33] ---
    It's a self-destructing Stuxnet-type.
[13:36] ---
    Other than the symptoms at
    its onset, it leaves no trace.
[13:39] ---
    Electronic manipulation of
    memory is incredibly difficult.
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    No one in the world has
    been confirmed successful.
[13:46] ---
    And yet past incidents tell us a
    maker and a broker clearly exist.
[13:50] ---
    Yes. Somewhere out there is
    the super-wizard-class programmer
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    known as "Fire-Starter" who
    created this high-level cyber-virus.
[13:58] ---
    But until now, no organization in
    the world had uncovered his identity.
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    Did you?
[14:03] ---
    A clue, anyway.
[14:09] ---
    What's this?
[14:10] ---
    All the terrorists had the same tattoo.
[14:13] ---
    It's a symbol used by Scylla, the hero
    who once led the Qhardi Separatist Army.
[14:18] ---
    I've heard of him. Word is he's
    a master of cyber warfare.
[14:22] ---
    Is he Fire-Starter?
[14:24] ---
    No way. He died during the war.
[14:27] ---
    You're going to find out whether that's true.
[14:29] ---
    I'll authorize limited access
    to Section 9's database.
[14:32] ---
    Read the details there.
[14:36] ---
    His nationality's unknown.
[14:37] ---
    He uses multiple bodies to conceal his identity,
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    earning him the name Scylla.
[14:43] ---
    A pro at warfare who led a
    separatist army, and whiz hacker...
[14:47] ---
    Huh, his specialty is tunnel ops.
[14:50] ---
    "Tunnel ops"?
[14:51] ---
    That's when you bomb someplace's lifelines
[14:53] ---
    and then infiltrate them
    electronically during their restoration.
[14:57] ---
    Ultimately you wage a destructive
    cyber-attack from inside their defenses.
[15:01] ---
    The forces who tried to prevent
    independence took a major hit instead.
[15:06] ---
    But Kuzan joined forces with advanced nations
[15:10] ---
    to manipulate the Qhardis in
    order to contain its neighbors.
[15:13] ---
    No one recognized the Qhardis'
    independence after the war,
[15:15] ---
    and the guerillas were
    disbanded and slaughtered.
[15:18] ---
    But their dead leader was actually alive,
[15:20] ---
    and he developed a special virus ahead
    of all the world's research institutions,
[15:24] ---
    then changed his name to
    Fire-Starter and began his revenge...
[15:28] ---
    I follow the logic, but is it really possible?
[15:30] ---
    In a conflict zone, you can do all
    the human experimentation you want.
[15:34] ---
    It's no wonder, really.
[15:36] ---
    Scylla is dead.
[15:39] ---
    A successor of his, then?
[15:41] ---
    Either way, the broker isn't peddling it
    without knowing what it does.
[15:45] ---
    So he wanted to use those guerillas to
    repeat his old tunnel operation here?
[15:50] ---
    It bothers me that no one
    was carrying a detonator.
[15:55] ---
    Borma, check out the crime scene.
[15:57] ---
    Roger.
[15:58] ---
    Paz, you and Saito pay the gang a visit.
    I want to know who trained them.
[16:03] ---
    Batou and Ishikawa, you look into
    the possibility of a tunnel op.
[16:06] ---
    Do you plan to dive into
    the guerillas' cyberbrains
[16:09] ---
    looking for the virus?
[16:13] ---
    I'll get a tune-up on my body first.
[16:18] ---
    So the late detective's gun wasn't found?
[16:22] ---
    If Detective Mizuki had fired his weapon,
[16:25] ---
    it would prove this was a crime,
    and not an accident.
[16:28] ---
    You think someone wanted
    it to look like an accident?
[16:30] ---
    The cause of death was drowning,
    but he lost a lot of blood antemortem,
[16:34] ---
    and some of his bones are missing.
[16:37] ---
    So the body's too damaged to tell,
    but he may have been shot.
[16:43] ---
    Detective Mizuki was
    investigating weapons smuggling.
[16:47] ---
    His most recent meeting was
    with a Qhardi organization.
[16:50] ---
    I suspect he was killed because he found proof.
[16:53] ---
    You feel the dam explosion was intentional,
    set up to bury evidence?
[16:59] ---
    You've got a great imagination.
[17:02] ---
    You're turning me down, sir?
[17:04] ---
    No, I like it. I'll allow you to investigate.
[17:07] ---
    Try to find a connection between the incidents.
[17:10] ---
    All alone?
[17:12] ---
    You're complaining?
[17:14] ---
    I appreciate it, sir!
[17:16] ---
    A tune-up?
[17:18] ---
    It's her boyfriend. He's an
    ex-military prosthetics tech.
[17:21] ---
    No, isn't he a Navy sailor?
[17:23] ---
    That was the last one.
[17:25] ---
    They fought on a date,
[17:26] ---
    and she kicked his ass hard enough
    to put him in the hospital.
[17:28] ---
    What about that rich one
    from the Cyberbrain Bureau?
[17:30] ---
    He didn't last two weeks.
[17:33] ---
    So this is the sixth in six months?
    She's got a sickness.
[17:36] ---
    No, it's instinct. I never sleep
    with the same woman twice either.
[17:40] ---
    Because you always end up a
    hostage or a target for revenge?
[17:42] ---
    No, because it's my policy.
[17:44] ---
    At least do background checks on them!
    What if one of them's a trap?
[17:48] ---
    It's better than hearing "I want a family."
[17:51] ---
    Yeah, after all, you could die at any time.
[17:53] ---
    This is no job for a family man.
[17:57] ---
    Humans can never perfectly
    reproduce movements.
[18:00] ---
    A slight slope, our distance from our target,
    a few milligrams' weight difference...
[18:05] ---
    The brain calculates all these things
    to create yet-unknown movements.
[18:10] ---
    You have the most original brain I know of,
[18:12] ---
    and you understand the
    beauty of uniform standards.
[18:17] ---
    You're exaggerating.
[18:19] ---
    There's nothing wrong with you.
[18:22] ---
    It still hurts?
[18:26] ---
    Try moving your right leg.
[18:30] ---
    Lovely.
[18:33] ---
    What's "lovely"?
[18:34] ---
    Your leg.
[18:39] ---
    The pain is gone now.
[18:42] ---
    Send me a bill.
[18:44] ---
    I'll give you a discount. In return,
    don't forget our promise.
[18:47] ---
    You're a strange man.
[18:49] ---
    Not as strange as you.
[19:05] ---
    Hey, you. You're blocking my scan.
[19:07] ---
    Oh, sorry.
[19:09] ---
    What good are your natural
    eyes in the cyber age?
[19:13] ---
    Are you a full cyborg?
[19:14] ---
    Yeah, pretty close.
[19:17] ---
    I'm no expert, but unless you
    get a specialized skeleton,
[19:21] ---
    aren't the basics the same as a human body's?
[19:23] ---
    But his hands stayed open after he burned...
[19:26] ---
    What?
[19:27] ---
    When a natural human burns to death,
[19:29] ---
    his muscles contract, so he forms
    fists and he bends forward.
[19:33] ---
    The fetal position, or,
    you know, the boxer's pose.
[19:36] ---
    Heat rigor? Well, what about it?
[19:39] ---
    This guard's corpse is standing
    up straight, hands open.
[19:45] ---
    Must be some property of
    his prosthetics, or of the bomb.
[19:48] ---
    Prosthetics?
[19:56] ---
    Hello?
[19:59] ---
    Oh, a checkup?
[20:01] ---
    Two weeks?
[20:03] ---
    Got it. No, I'm working right now, sorry.
[20:07] ---
    "Checkup"?
[20:13] ---
    C-4 and dynamite,
    glycerin and chemical fertilizer...
[20:17] ---
    It's a hideout straight out of a book.
[20:20] ---
    Definitely a bomb maniac vibe... but I've
    got no clue what they actually used.
[20:35] ---
    I appreciate your cooperation.
[20:37] ---
    I'm used to police questioning.
[20:39] ---
    There've been a lot of prosthetics thefts recently.
[20:42] ---
    "Mermaid's Legs," eh?
[20:45] ---
    Not a very artistic name,
    but it's easy to understand.
[20:49] ---
    My female customers quite like it.
[20:51] ---
    Do you recognize these legs?
[20:56] ---
    They appear to be the mass-production model.
[20:57] ---
    Look at the tag.
[21:01] ---
    "Ariel."
[21:03] ---
    I've asked around, and there's
    no such model on the market.
[21:06] ---
    I don't carry it, either. It must be
    a licensed designer's brand name.
[21:10] ---
    Any ideas?
[21:12] ---
    I'll give you my list. One moment, please.
[21:17] ---
    Thank you.
[21:27] ---
    Cops love lists. He'll be conveniently
    absorbed in it for a while.
[21:31] ---
    Public Security took our dummy safe house.
[21:34] ---
    Are the comm lines here safe, Colonel Hozumi?
[21:40] ---
    Orders coming down their line!
[21:43] ---
    Someone calling himself Scylla just
    ordered some "Second Army" into action.
[21:46] ---
    Damn bastards! Public Security's
    moves are being leaked!
[21:55] ---
    The Waterworks Bureau's server blew,
    and took out the whole floor.
[21:58] ---
    What did they use?
[22:00] ---
    The accelerant at the Nishinouchi crime scene
[22:01] ---
    is spread all the way to
    the ceiling, even the ducts.
[22:05] ---
    We're talking omnidirectional blast.
    The air itself blew up.
[22:09] ---
    A fuel-air explosive?
[22:10] ---
    Then this is a dummy hideout. They've got
    a more advanced bomb lab somewhere.
[22:21] ---
    Damn guerilla hero is issuing a challenge.
[23:56] ---
    The Major's boyfriend is sketchy!
[23:58] ---
    She insists that Scylla is dead. And all
    the clues lead back to Akira Hose...
[24:03] ---
    What?! Oh, no!
[24:05] ---