9 - PYROPHORIC CULT, 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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    We've successfully packaged
    the virus with cyberbrains.
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    Fire-Starter can create
    all the soldiers we want.
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    The world's cyber economy has only just begun.
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    I'll pay whatever it takes
    to reconcile with the cartel--
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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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    True magic is the science of sciences.
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    PYROPHORIC CULT, Part 1
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    Could you move your car, sir?
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    I'm with Public Security.
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    How'd it go?
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    Bingo.
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    The bottom of the braincase has been warped
    by high pressure from directly below.
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    It's charred. I can't analyze it like this.
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    We'll have to infiltrate the lab.
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    Flight 381 crashed because this guy
    blew himself up with an Ariel.
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    Guess this was his target?
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    Foreign Cyberbrain Engineers Assumed Dead
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    Beats me.
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    The issue is, why'd he do it?
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    Who is he?
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    Tei Murasaka, male, age 32.
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    A stockbroker with dual Japanese
    and American citizenship?
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    No criminal record. His address is...
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    Damn, someone beat us?
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    I love my job!
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    You've got to be kidding me.
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    What?!
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    Stop right there!
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    Shit!
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    Hello!
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    Behave yourself.
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    This guy...
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    You mind telling me why an American
    agent beat us to the suspect's condo?
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    Because you moved too fast.
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    You'd already charged in by the time
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    the report made it through
    Foreign Affairs to me.
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    Blame the bureaucracy for that.
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    Your team failed to call me directly.
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    Why didn't you tell me you'd connected
    the attack on Flight 381 with Fire-Starter?
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    The intel came through my personal Net.
    I can't reveal my source.
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    I see. Then let's make a deal.
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    The man you were after, Tei Murasaka,
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    isn't a stockbroker--he's an
    American intelligence agent.
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    Who told you that?
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    His colleague.
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    Murasaka is indeed an agent of ours.
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    Nice to meet you, Major Kusanagi.
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    I'm Jeril, with American Army intelligence.
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    This is our recommended prosthetic body
    for diplomatic activities. Is there a problem?
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    No.
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    Well? Have you been pursuing
    Fire-Starter's broker, too?
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    Yes. We refer to him as "Pyromaniac,"
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    because his virus sales unleash
    Fire-Starter damage wherever he goes.
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    I'd love to have your help capturing him.
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    If you're looking to catch a firebug,
    aren't you asking the wrong department?
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    You're the only firefighter with a
    record of success against Fire-Starter.
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    I believe that makes you the
    right observer of our capture op.
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    Describe this op.
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    Pyromaniac is in Japan right now
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    to carry out a hit on
    Colonel Hozumi for the cartel.
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    Our antivirus specialist Murasaka was
    on his trail, but we abruptly lost contact.
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    And by the time you found him,
    he'd already been infected
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    and made the terrorist attack on Flight 381.
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    Foreign Affairs passed along
    a request for a joint operation.
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    You join in.
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    My team, under American Army command?
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    The deal's already been done.
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    Fine.
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    In exchange, I get to personally
    interrogate Hozumi and analyze the virus.
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    So you're telling us to join the fire brigade?
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    You're not the relief pitcher type.
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    All we have to do is use the authority
    they gave us to beat them to him.
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    We'll transfer Hozumi from the
    Army Medical Center to the courthouse.
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    The theory is that Pyromaniac
    will target her en route.
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    The Army's setting up an encirclement.
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    We'll predict the enemy's movements
    and put out the sparks before they grow.
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    We're fire doors now?!
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    And under Yankee supervision, too.
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    But once a game starts,
    it belongs to the players.
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    We'll be the ones to get Fire-Starter.
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    You plan to snatch their whole case?!
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    Problem?
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    Nah, I was getting sick of this dump anyway.
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    Borma, you keep following up
    on the Flight 381 bombing.
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    Paz, go through Murasaka's
    background with a fine-tooth comb.
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    Ishikawa, look for data on Pyromaniac,
    and find out how he got Fire-Starter.
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    Batou, Togusa, and Saito, eliminate
    every possible way to hit Hozumi.
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    What'll you do?
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    I'll get the bait we need to trap him.
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    How does it feel to be nothing
    but a head, Colonel Hozumi?
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    The false signals aren't too bad. I wouldn't
    call the experience pleasant, though.
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    What brings you here?
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    Your past ties to the cartel make you useful.
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    That's it? Just kill me.
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    Pyromaniac wants to get rid of
    the information in your brain.
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    You'll be our bait to lure him out.
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    I'm a witness!
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    And as long as you stay within my
    sight and my reach, I'll protect you.
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    The negotiations are complete.
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    Understood.
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    All as planned.
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    Only by struggle and toil
    can we fulfill our duty,
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    and only information can bring true joy.
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    I made the barriers around
    the facility nice and thick.
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    We're sure to pick up on any
    infiltration by an outside Net.
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    Togusa here. I'm done checking
    out the transport route.
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    No problems yet.
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    I'm almost done marking
    the main sniper perches.
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    Now it all depends on
    how good their snipers are.
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    Mr. Saito!
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    Where should we go next?
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    Wherever the wind blows, kid.
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    Oh, wow! Okay, I'll turn to windward!
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    Listen, what if he gets inside
    disguised as a Public Security guy
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    or a prosthetics tech?
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    Hospital or not, this is an Army facility.
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    You worry too much, rookie.
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    Would we bother setting up a cordon
    like this if the perp were that dumb?
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    Don't make me laugh.
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    The Prime Minister approved
    your request to use Hozumi as bait.
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    But do not let her die.
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    She's got a lot of state secrets
    in her un-cyberized regions.
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    I'm aware.
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    We've prepped the hospital area.
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    I've done all an "observer" can.
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    Major, I found out who Murasaka was tailing.
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    An upstanding citizen volunteered the info.
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    He was apparently after a cyber-drug
    dealer by the name of Galvez Garcia.
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    Is he Pyromaniac?
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    Dunno.
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    But Murasaka dropped off the map
    right after attempting contact with him.
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    That's all I got here. I'll keep digging.
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    Good.
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    This guy, eh?
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    Mr. Saito!
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    I made sure all the snipers are in position!
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    Department of Cyberbrain Neurology
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    I'm seeing delays in your storage cells.
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    Why don't I prescribe
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    some medicinal micromachines to slow
    the cyberbrain sclerosis's progression?
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    We'll begin the transfer in twenty minutes.
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    Your security arrangements are watertight.
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    We could perfect them even
    more if we were in command.
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    I can't allow that.
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    Now it's a matter of whether
    our prey walks into our trap.
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    American spies and super-class-A hackers--
    what reliable escorts.
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    We're not doing this for you. This is for us.
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    I'm cutting you off from all Nets for a while.
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    I'll get a good night's sleep.
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    What is this?
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    Cyberbrain contamination!
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    What?
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    It's him.
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    He's infiltrated...
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    Batou!
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    He hasn't tripped any warnings here!
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    Who is this guy?
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    Hey.
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    What's wrong? Are you okay?
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    Hey!
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    Shit! This again?!
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    A hacking?!
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    The Army's encrypted channel is being hacked!
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    Cut the connection,
    or everyone's brains will be fried!
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    I can't! It's locked--
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    Is Hozumi all right?
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    You can't pierce a titanium
    braincase with a 9 mm.
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    What do you intend to do?
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    Connect you to the Net,
    using myself as a bypass.
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    Major!
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    I told you: She's my bait.
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    We'll lure Pyromaniac in and capture him.
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    Failure is unacceptable. Make it work.
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    Ishikawa! Access my cyberbrain now.
    We have a job to do.
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    A rough one, too, if you're talking like that.
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    Use Hozumi as a decoy?!
    Ape-Face is gonna throttle you.
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    I got permission.
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    Pyromaniac should come to fry Hozumi's brain
    the second we connect her to the Net.
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    When he tries to access her,
    keep her guarded and tie down his lines.
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    While he's distracted, I'll run a trace
    and pinpoint his location.
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    You make it sound so easy.
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    Major!
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    You called and we came!
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    Yay!
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    We're starting now.
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    Okay!
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    Wow, amazing processing speed!
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    Attack barrier being hacked.
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    Gotta restore it!
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    You are the greatest sinner here.
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    You are the true servant of the Devil.
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    Quotes from Bryusov's The Fiery Angel?
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    I tied down his lines.
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    Let all be cast into the flames.
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    You're not getting away!
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    Major?!
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    Did he whiteout?
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    Does that mean he's dead?
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    Concentrate on your work! Time to initialize!
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    He packs too many punches!
    What's going on here?!
[19:08] ---
    He must be using the soldiers'
    cyberbrains to clone the virus.
[19:17] ---
    What the heck?
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    Logicomas, one of you
    synchronize with my Net.
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    We'll clone his virus and counterattack.
[19:28] ---
    Huh?! But that will halve
    our processing power...
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    Just do it!
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    Right!
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    Oh, dear.
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    Pardon me!
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    Major, his transfer speed...
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    Yes. Pyromaniac is hacking us
    from somewhere in this building.
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    I don't want to burden my lines.
    Chief, call Batou and Togusa over here.
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    Have them search the building
    until I pinpoint his location.
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    All right.
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    Where are you, Pyromaniac?
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    Major! The barrier can't take any more!
[20:32] ---
    We're almost there. Hold out.
[20:43] ---
    I found him!
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    Major?!
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    Police! Don't move!
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    Yes, the deal's come off as planned.
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    This is the key to the Third World.
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    Drive.
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    They say he was driven by layer upon
    overwritten layer of false memories.
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    We didn't find any evidence
    tying him to the virus's creator,
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    nor did we find Fire-Starter's original code.
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    He erased the source along with himself--
    or rather, someone else did?
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    Unconfirmed. We'll have to wait
    for the specialists' analysis.
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    When I accessed that man directly,
    I didn't sense a Ghost.
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    Fire-Starter will spark the
    evolution of all men's Ghosts.
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    Therefore, it must be protected.
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    It must use cyberbrains to version up,
    then be returned to the Net.
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    I will go on living even after my death.
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    The original Fire-Starter...
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    I will track it down.
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    Galvez's body is discovered on Flight 381.
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    Who's Pyromaniac, then?!
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    Lt. Col. Kurutsu behaves suspiciously.
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    What's the truth behind this mystery?!
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