E8 - Episode Eight

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[00:01] Denta
    Babel's top battle, the fifth Stage,
    will be held tomorrow!
[00:06] Denta
    The fifth Stage is a battle between
    Climbers who beat the fourth Stage
[00:10] Denta
    and a selected group of top Climbers!
[00:13] Denta
    The group facing the super-tough fifth Stage
    this time is the up-and-coming KNoCC!
[00:19] Denta
    The top Climbers they're battling are...
[00:21] Denta
    STAND-ALONE!
[00:24] Denta
    Don't miss i—
[00:29] Man
    Banish all robots!
[00:31] Man & woman
    Banish them!
[00:34] Announcer A
    Following the "blast furnace incident"
[00:37] Announcer A
    in which a human was
    allegedly pushed to his death,
[00:39] Announcer A
    the voices of the robot exclusionist faction
    have become increasingly loud.
SIGN    Technoroid
[02:20] Esola
    Hey. I'm fixing it.
[02:23] Esola
    It's been broken since back then.
[02:26] Esola
    I really should hurry and deliver it
    to the address Father gave me,
[02:33] Esola
    but I kinda don't want to give it up.
[02:35] Eliza
    Put a cork in it!
[02:38] Eliza
    Break it up, the four of you.
[02:41] Eliza
    You face the fifth Stage tomorrow.
[02:43] Eliza
    Now is not the time to be bickering.
[02:46] Eliza
    You must realize you'll
    be facing STAND-ALONE.
[02:49] Esola
    Wh-What's going on?
[02:52] Eliza
    Why can't you understand?
[02:54] Eliza
    It doesn't matter how much you ask.
[02:57] Eliza
    In this house,
[02:58] Eliza
    there is only one television!
[03:01] Chrom
    I'm supposed to be watching All the Doggies
    and Kitties of the World right now!
[03:06] Neon
    No, I need to watch a live art performance!
[03:08] Kei
    No, I need to watch
    Heroes Unite for Victory!
[03:11] Esola
    So this is all about...
[03:14] Eliza
    The typical battle over the remote control.
[03:16] Eliza
    And with the fifth Stage
    happening tomorrow...
[03:19] Kei
    Give it here!
[03:20] Neon
    Here!
SIGN    Me too, me too!
[03:23] Esola
    What did you want to watch, Cobalt?
SIGN    I wanna see this!
SIGN    It'll Surprise You!! 100 Terrifying
     Real Horror Videos!
SIGN    It'll Surprise You!!
SIGN    100 Terrifying Real Horror Videos
[03:31] Chrom
    "It'll surprise you"?
[03:33] Neon
    What does "surprise" mean?
[03:35] Kei
    Is that like when humans go, "Wha—!"?
SIGN    Yeah! Doesn't that sound neat, Esola?
[03:40] Esola
    No way! Absolutely no way!
[03:43] Kei
    Esola's acting like Neon.
[03:47] Neon
    You don't like being surprised?
[03:49] Esola
    That's not really it.
    Sometimes it's fun to be surprised.
[03:55] Chrom
    Why don't we test that theory, then?
[03:58] Esola
    Huh?
[03:59] Kei
    This might be one
    of those fun times, you know.
[04:02] Esola
    Huh? Hey, wait—
[04:05] Announcer B
    We're here with a breaking news report.
[04:09] Announcer B
    To address the blast furnace
    incident that increased tensions
[04:12] Announcer B
    between robot exclusionist
    and inclusionist factions,
[04:14] Announcer B
    the World Government organization
    has released a statement.
[04:19] Esola
    Blast furnace incident?
SIGN    That's the incident we saw, right?
SIGN    What is the truth behind
    the blast furnace incident?
[04:24] Announcer B
    It was revealed that when
    the incident occurred,
[04:26] Announcer B
    robots at the factory were being mistreated,
[04:29] Announcer B
    leading to today's concerns that the victim
    may have been pushed to his death.
[04:34] Commentator
    The deceased manager was
    verbally and physically violent
SIGN    Factory manager who died
     in the blast furnace incident
[04:39] Commentator
    toward the obsolete Ritz No. 9 model robots.
[04:41] Commentator
    The robots may have rebelled in
    response to that constant abuse.
[04:46] Commentator
    It's not beyond the realm of possibility.
[04:49] Announcer B
    In response to this,
[04:50] Announcer B
    the World Government, which advocates
    for the spread of robots in society,
[04:54] Announcer B
    released another statement clarifying
    that robots and Androids have no hearts
[04:59] Announcer B
    and thus are incapable of
    seeking revenge against humans.
[05:04] Esola
    They have no hearts...
[05:06] Neon
    Esola?
[05:08] Kei
    Is it true that that robot pushed
     a human to his death?
[05:12] Chrom
    We do not know.
[05:13] Chrom
    However, we are all equipped
    with interlock mechanisms.
[05:17] Chrom
    We should not be capable of harming humans.
[05:21] Neon
    But there're some humans who think
    the robot really did push him.
SIGN    Can we really leave things like this?
SIGN    We were there when it happened,
SIGN    and we're robots, just like them.
SIGN    Shouldn't we find out what happened?
[05:43] Chrom
    Actually, I have been thinking that myself.
[05:46] Neon
    If we ignore the incident...
[05:49] Kei
    Then a lot more robots and
    Androids might be destroyed.
SIGN    But if we can prove that the robot didn't shove that human or anything,
SIGN    we might be able to prevent anyone else from getting hurt.
[06:04] Esola
    But how would we prove that?
[06:07] Neon
    Can we investigate or something?
SIGN    It faced daily abuse and
    violence from the manager.
SIGN    Topics It wasn't an accident?! The truth of the blast furnace incident.
    Robots without hearts... revolted against unfair treatment?
SIGN    The Ritz No. 9 model robot assumed
    to have pushed the factory manager.
[06:12] Takara
    What are you doing with that?
[06:14] Bora
    I am reevaluating the data
    from the blast furnace incident.
[06:17] Takara
    Are you that upset about KNoCC
    being put under special surveillance?
[06:21] Bora
    Androids do not question or complain
    about orders from humans.
[06:27] Takara
    Fine. I'll add it to my files, so go ahead.
[06:32] Takara
    Huh?
[06:34] Takara
    That's a whole lot of disk space
    just for the police academy test.
[06:38] Takara
    I've never seen anything like it.
[06:40] Bora
    I have a spare drive installed.
[06:44] Bora
    I will utilize it if my amount
    of data increases.
[06:50] Bora
    The amounts are so different...
[06:53] Esola
    Should we really be here when you're
    going on the fifth Stage tomorrow?
[06:58] Chrom
    I understand your concern.
[07:00] Kei
    But if we don't investigate now,
    I'll feel all uneasy right here.
[07:06] Neon
    There's nobody here?
[07:07] Esola
    I guess it's been sealed off
    since the police investigation.
[07:12] Chrom
    I wonder if there's
    another entrance somewhere.
[07:17] Esola
    Wha—?!
[07:19] Kei
    What's wrong?
SIGN    Did that "Wha—!" just now mean you're surprised?
[07:23] Esola
    I-I just saw something inside...
[07:25] Esola
    There was a p-person...
[07:27] Esola
    Wha—!
[07:33] Ritz #9 D
    Good evening. May I help you?
[07:40] Ritz #9 D
    This way, please.
[07:44] Esola
    The factory kept operating
    after the incident?
[07:48] Esola
    Didn't the police come to salvage you all?
[07:51] Ritz #9 D
    That night, the three units that
    met with Mister were salvaged,
[07:56] Ritz #9 D
    but the rest of us were
    recharging in the warehouse.
[07:59] Chrom
    I see. So those of you who
     remained kept things running.
SIGN    Why were the lights off, though?
[08:05] Ritz #9 D
    We are equipped with night vision sensors.
[08:09] Ritz #9 D
    When there are no humans here,
    we keep the lights off to save energy.
[08:15] Ritz #9 D
    That is what Mister told us to do.
[08:17] Neon
    Who's "Mister"?
[08:18] Kei
    Must be that guy from before.
[08:22] Ritz #9 D
    This is the blast furnace.
[08:29] Esola
    An Android?
[08:31] Ritz #9 D
    This is a robot disposal facility.
[08:35] Ritz #9 D
    The robots disposed of in this blast furnace
[08:38] Ritz #9 D
    are turned back into
    their component materials.
[08:41] Esola
    Oh, wow.
SIGN    That guy just now looked brand new!
[08:45] Ritz #9 D
    One-third of the robots
    collected here are unused.
[08:51] Chrom
    This is where the factory manager
    you call "Mister" fell in, isn't it?
[08:56] Ritz #9 D
    Yes, it is.
[08:59] Chrom
    Weren't you in storage when it happened?
[09:01] Ritz #9 D
    All of us at the factory
    always synchronize our data.
[09:06] Chrom
    Does that mean you also synchronized
    the data of the Ritz No. 9 unit
[09:11] Chrom
    that was standing next to the manager?
[09:13] Ritz #9 D
    Yes. I will retrieve the corresponding data.
[09:18] Kei
    They did say there was no security camera
    footage from the time of the incident, right?
[09:23] Neon
    That's why they didn't know
    exactly what had happened.
SIGN    If we can find out what really happened, we can prove it was an accident!
[09:31] Ritz #9 D
    Error. Error.
[09:33] Ritz #9 D
    Requested data has crashed.
    Playback impossible.
SIGN    Huh? Why?!
[09:38] Ritz #9 D
    Cause unknown.
[09:40] Chrom
    The police questioned us repeatedly
[09:42] Chrom
    because they couldn't access
    the synchronized data, either.
[09:46] Kei
    Now there's no way we can
    prove it was an accident.
[09:49] Neon
    So what now?
[09:51] Ritz #9 D
    We are all junkpiles.
[09:54] Esola
    Junkpiles?
[09:56] Ritz #9 D
    We Ritz No. 9 unit robots
    have all been recalled.
[10:01] Esola
    Wait. You've been recalled?
[10:03] Esola
    What do you mean "junkpiles"?
[10:05] Ritz #9 D
    Mister used to call us "junkpiles"
[10:08] Ritz #9 D
    and hit us.
[10:10] Esola
    Huh?!
[10:11] Ritz #9 D
    Mister hit us.
[10:14] Ritz #9 D
    Over and over
[10:17] Ritz #9 D
    and over and over
[10:20] Ritz #9 D
    and over...
SIGN    Technoroid
[10:23] Ritz #9 D
    Mister hit us.
[10:25] Ritz #9 D
    Over and over
[10:28] Ritz #9 D
    and over and over
[10:30] Ritz #9 D
    and over.
[10:32] Esola
    That's awful.
[10:33] Ritz #9 D
    Error. Error. Cannot execute program.
[10:37] Neon
    Another error?
[10:39] Chrom
    Maybe there's some kind
    of mechanical problem.
[10:42] Esola
    I'll take a look.
[10:51] Esola
    He sure has a lot of free memory.
[10:57] Esola
    That's strange. I wonder what this data is.
[11:04] Previous owner
    You already broke down again?
[11:07] Previous owner
    I spent a lot of money on you!
    At least do the work I paid for!
[11:13] Esola
    Was that the manager who
     fell in the blast furnace?
[11:17] Esola
    If it is...
[11:18] Neon
    No.
[11:19] Esola
    Huh?
[11:20] Neon
    That isn't the person who fell in.
SIGN    Yeah. That wasn't him.
[11:25] Chrom
    His voice and body type do not
    match the data in my memory.
[11:29] Kei
    Try opening another file.
[11:31] Esola
    O-Okay.
[11:36] Mister
    Hmm? Looks like you booted up.
[11:39] Mister
    This is a robot disposal facility.
[11:42] Mister
    You're here to be dismantled...
    Well, that was the plan,
[11:46] Mister
    but it looks like you still work, so
    I tweaked a few things and rebooted you.
[11:51] Ritz #9 D
    How do you do? I am a Ritz No. 9.
[11:54] Ritz #9 D
    I am an assist robot, designed
    to support humans' daily lives.
[11:58] Mister
    Ooh! Then I'll count on your assistance.
[12:02] Ritz #9 D
    Please tell me your name.
[12:05] Mister
    Ya sure aren't good at conversation.
    Are you just a pile of junk?
[12:09] Mister
    Or maybe I messed up the default settings.
[12:12] Ritz #9 D
    Messed-up? Mes-tuh...
[12:15] Ritz #9 D
    I will register your owner name as Mister.
[12:18] Mister
    No, no, I'm just a manager here.
[12:22] Ritz #9 D
    Mister, your orders?
[12:23] Ritz #9s
    Please give us your work orders.
[12:31] Esola
    Is this man...
SIGN    That's the guy!
[12:34] Neon
    They all called him Mister.
[12:36] Chrom
    Let's investigate a little further.
[12:39] Mister
    Huh? You lost a finger again?!
[12:43] Mister
    And I just fixed the last one!
[12:45] Mister
    You guys sure are piles of junk.
[12:49] Mister
    You reduced this month's energy use
    by 3000 points. Good job, junkpile!
[12:55] Mister
    You're busted again?
[12:57] Mister
    I'll fix you right up,
    so don't worry, junkpile.
[13:06] (Flashback) Ritz #9 D
    Mister.
[13:07] (Flashback) Mister
    Oh, heya, junkpiles!
    Come hang out while I drink.
[13:15] (Flashback) Mister
    Sure is pretty.
[13:17] (Flashback) Mister
    The moonlight is one thing
    that never changes.
[13:21] (Flashback) Mister
    You junkpiles were built for humans
    who can't go out in the sun,
[13:27] (Flashback) Mister
    and then you were knocked around and
    thrown out without even getting fixed.
[13:33] (Flashback) Mister
    Pretty much the same as humans.
[13:35] (Flashback) Mister
    One person gets picked to
    push other people around.
[13:39] (Flashback) Mister
    Well, a loner like me who hates talking
    to people is the real junkpile here.
[13:51] (Flashback) Mister
    Anyway, I'll fix you guys up
    as many times as it takes
[13:55] (Flashback) Mister
    until you're ready to call it quits. Okay?
[14:00] (Flashback) Mister
    Deal, junkpile?
[14:12] Esola
    So that's why.
[14:14] Esola
    He took very good care of you all.
[14:19] Neon
    Hey, were there any bugs
    that could cause an error?
[14:23] Chrom
    I didn't see anything like that
    in the data we examined.
[14:28] Ritz #9 D
    There is a bug.
[14:30] Ritz #9 D
    There is a program response in our
    memory data that cannot be verbalized.
[14:35] Ritz #9 D
    That is the bug.
[14:37] Ritz #9 D
    When we attempt to verbalize it,
    an error occurs.
[14:40] Kei
    So when you try to talk about
    the bug, you get an error?
[14:45] Ritz #9 D
    Yes. It appeared when
    we spent time with Mister.
[14:49] Ritz #9 D
    Mister treated us differently
    from o-o-our l-l-last o-owner...
[14:58] Esola
    I wonder...
SIGN    Do you mean you feel "lonely"?
[15:02] Ritz #9 D
    D-Details unknown.
[15:04] Kei
    You felt "fun," then?
[15:06] Chrom
    Or are you "sad"?
[15:08] Neon
    Or you "liked" him?
[15:10] Ritz #9 D
    Details unknown.
[15:17] Esola
    Maybe you were "surprised."
[15:20] Ritz #9 D
    Surprised?
[15:22] Esola
    After your previous owner beat you so badly,
[15:25] Esola
    maybe you were surprised by
    Mister's unexpected behavior.
[15:31] Ritz #9 D
    Details unknown.
[15:33] Ritz #9 D
    However, every time Mister called us
    junkpiles and hit us, we thought,
[15:38] Ritz #9 D
    w-w-w-we've never m-met
    a h-human like th-this.
[15:48] Esola
    Don't worry. I don't think the thing
    inside you is an error or a bug.
SIGN    Then what is it?
[15:57] Esola
    Something none of you are supposed to have,
[16:01] Esola
    but something I still believe you do.
[16:10] Esola
    Anyway, now we know these robots
    had no motive to push Mister off.
[16:17] Esola
    I copied the relevant data, so we
    should show it to a lot of people.
[16:22] Chrom
    But how?
[16:23] Esola
    Um, well...
[16:26] Neon
    On social media?
[16:27] Kei
    Who'd believe it there, though?
SIGN    Show it to a lot of people...
SIGN    Hmm.
SIGN    Oh!
SIGN    I got it! The fifth Stage!
[16:38] Esola
    You mean tomorrow?
SIGN    Yeah! The fifth Stage is the biggest show in Babel!
SIGN    A whole lot of people will see it then!
[16:47] Kei
    You mean play this guy's memory data there?
[16:51] Chrom
    However, Babel is a performance space.
[16:54] Chrom
    Can we play data files there?
[16:56] Ritz #9 D
    Entertainment Tower Babel.
[17:00] Esola
    Do you know it, too?
[17:01] Ritz #9 D
    Yes. Mister showed us videos of it.
[17:05] Ritz #9 D
    When he did, we learned something from him.
SIGN    Learned something?
[17:23] Esola
    The Ritz No. 9 robots are making...
[17:26] Neon
    A rhythm!
[17:34] Esola
    This is...
SIGN    It's music!
[19:03] Esola
    Awesome! That was awesome, guys!
SIGN    That was so much fun!
[19:08] Chrom
    I've never felt like this before!
[19:11] Esola
    This was a "surprise," too!
[19:13] Ritz #9 D
    I wish Mister c-could
    have s-seen i-it himself.
[19:22] Esola
    Mr. Bora?
[19:24] Bora
    What are you all doing here?
[19:27] Kei
    We could ask the same of you!
[19:29] Bora
    I have come to salvage evidence to
    reinvestigate the blast furnace incident.
[19:34] Cop A
    Damn, there were this many left?
[19:37] Cop B
    More than we thought.
[19:39] Ritz #9 D
    We were told by Mister to
    keep the factory running.
[19:44] Ritz #9 D
    If you have new instructions,
    please issue an operation request.
[19:48] Esola
    What are you doing?
[19:53] Kei
    Hey! How dare you!
SIGN    Stop! Please stop!
SIGN    Don't shoot!
[20:06] Esola
    Please stop it!
[20:07] Esola
    These robots haven't done anything wrong!
SIGN    He's right! Quit bullying them!
[20:13] Bora
    This order comes from the top.
    I cannot stop it on-site.
[20:18] Esola
    Oh, no!
[20:24] Esola
    Guys...
[20:28] Bora
    Stand down immediately.
[20:30] Bora
    Right now, you are all under
    special police surveillance.
[20:34] Bora
    You will be arrested for obstructing
    official police business.
[20:39] Bora
    An order to fire?
[20:40] Body voice
    Remote control mode.
[20:42] Body voice
    Your Body is now being controlled remotely.
[20:45] Esola
    Mr. Bora?
[20:47] Bora
    Why is this? They are under
    special police surveillance.
[20:50] Bora
    This situation does not
    warrant an order to fire.
[20:54] Bora
    So why am I...
[20:58] Esola
    Stop it!
SIGN    Huh?
[21:16] Esola
    Cobalt?
[21:17] Chrom
    Cobalt?!
[21:18] Kei
    Hey!
[21:19] Neon
    No way!
[21:20] Cop A
    Detective Bora, we'll leave
    the investigation subjects to you.
[21:25] Cop A
    Detective Bora?
[21:27] Cop B
    What a time to get an error.
[21:29] Cop B
    We've got no choice. We need
     to take them in, too.
[21:32] Cop A
    The kid is human, so don't screw up.
[21:34] Cop B
    Understood.
[21:35] Neon
    Esola, stand back!
[21:42] Cop B
    What's that?
[21:47] Cop A
    Where's the smoke coming from?!
[21:49] Cop B
    I can't see a thing!
[21:49] Neon
    Esola, can you breathe?
[21:52] Esola
    Yeah. Guys!
[21:56] Esola
    It's you?
[21:57] Nobel
    Shh.
[21:59] Nobel
    Now, while we can.
[22:01] Cop B
    Damn it! Where did they go?
[22:04] Cop A
    Detective Bora, call
    headquarters for backup! Hurry!
[22:10] Nobel
    You're with me.