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Per the Special Anti-Terrorism Measures Act,

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we now place all terminAIs in the designated area
under Public Security's electronic control.

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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,
a contract has just been signed

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- Despite increasingly fierce protests,
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 channeIs 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 terminAIs of
4,022 people in the area.

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1 ,1 02 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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l 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.
l 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"

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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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l 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 feIt 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 camoflage!

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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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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 1 7-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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lshikawa, 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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00:17:39,683 --> 00:17:43,061
Why are we using an outdated Logistics model?

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Ape-Face couldn't get the budget the Major wanted,
so he gave us these bots.

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Neurochip-type AIs are hard to hack or infect, anyway.

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So basically, it was us or the junkyard?

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00:17:54,531 --> 00:18:00,870
What? Not good enough
for the ex-cop still wearing a necktie?

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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.

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00:18:15,260 --> 00:18:20,139
Mr. Batou suggested modifying us
so people could ride us!

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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 yourseIf caught?

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00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:56,342
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.

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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.

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You mean you successfully made
memory-manipulation tech?

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Your memories might even be...

228
00:20:17,591 --> 00:20:20,509
I’m diving right here, right now!

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00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:22,511
Saw that coming.

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We don't know what this virus is.
What if you're infected?

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I'll blow it away, and her cyberbrain with it.

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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.

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00:20:54,086 --> 00:20:55,962
Hey, something's weird.

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You're being hacked!
They're doing it through her cyberbrain!

241
00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:06,639
What's going on?
This isn't just backfire!

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Emma... Danger... Emma...

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You...

244
00:21:25,826 --> 00:21:27,326
Major!

245
00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:35,042
I'm sorry, Emma... I'm sorry.

246
00:21:35,168 --> 00:21:38,546
It’s okay. I wanted this.

247
00:21:39,006 --> 00:21:41,173
Don't cry, Brinda.

248
00:21:43,093 --> 00:21:46,095
There are two Ghosts in there?

249
00:21:56,023 --> 00:21:58,858
I heard about Section 9's meddling.

250
00:21:59,443 --> 00:22:02,862
You couldn't have shot her
before she started blabbing about asylum?

251
00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:06,532
That shooting is currently under investigation,
Deputy Director Amagata.

252
00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:12,163
I can imagine the profound effects
this incident will have

253
00:22:12,205 --> 00:22:16,834
on the Next-Generation Weapons
Review Committee you serve on.

254
00:22:16,877 --> 00:22:19,628
The year-end industry fair has been cancelled.

255
00:22:19,671 --> 00:22:21,297
And thanks to pressure from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

256
00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:24,800
we won't be unveiling
our prototype weapons, either.

257
00:22:24,843 --> 00:22:27,511
It’s shaking the foundations of the company.

258
00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:33,059
I hear you're pressing for large-scale water sales
even after Dr. Thied's death.

259
00:22:33,101 --> 00:22:35,728
I have a duty to fulfill my contract.

260
00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:40,483
And effective use of resources is key
for an international company.

261
00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:44,153
There are some out there
who can't even secure drinking water.

262
00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:48,074
If you just want to criticize my economics,
I'm going back to work.

263
00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:58,918
You're not cut out for government work.

264
00:22:59,002 --> 00:23:02,755
Start an NPO and go live
in some refugee camp.

265
00:23:07,511 --> 00:23:09,428
He's annoying.

266
00:23:09,471 --> 00:23:13,766
He's a classic ex-politician,
and he owes me one from my intelligence days.

267
00:23:13,850 --> 00:23:16,435
Which means he's a reliable source.

268
00:23:18,021 --> 00:23:21,440
NPOs, camps... and Foreign Affairs?

269
00:23:21,983 --> 00:23:24,276
The council on weapons development!

270
00:23:24,986 --> 00:23:28,572
Was that the objective behind
the cyberterrorism against Harimadara?

271
00:23:28,615 --> 00:23:30,282
Lately there's a debate about
whether next-gen weapons

272
00:23:30,367 --> 00:23:34,453
should be produced domestically
or developed abroad.

273
00:23:34,496 --> 00:23:39,708
The overseas faction would be thrilled
if a domestic manufacturer got attacked.

274
00:23:39,751 --> 00:23:43,963
Here we go: an NPO that
"treats cyberization disorders".

275
00:23:44,005 --> 00:23:46,549
They disseminated cyberization and learning devices

276
00:23:46,591 --> 00:23:49,718
in refugee camps in Kuzan during the war.

277
00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:51,387
And domestically?

278
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:55,808
Got a hit on that girl
in the same NPO's treatment records.

279
00:23:55,851 --> 00:23:58,102
Cyberization rejection syndrome.

280
00:23:58,145 --> 00:23:59,812
Apparently she ran away

281
00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:02,314
from a war orphan facility
because she rejected being cyberized.

282
00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:05,818
Not wanting a cyberbrain means you're sick?

283
00:24:05,902 --> 00:24:09,280
The white paper on cyberization
the MHLW released after the war

284
00:24:09,322 --> 00:24:11,490
classifies it with anorexia.

285
00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:13,701
That's news to me.

286
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:17,830
The cyberization business is insanely big money.

287
00:24:17,914 --> 00:24:23,085
Pretty predictable that people
who don't want it get treated as sick.

288
00:24:23,128 --> 00:24:26,255
Could she be a genuine multiple personality?

289
00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:31,177
The prevailing theory is that
personalities split but Ghosts don't.

290
00:24:31,261 --> 00:24:33,262
The issue is, what did that NPO

291
00:24:33,305 --> 00:24:37,683
have to do with a business deal motivated
by military development?

292
00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:41,687
Go at the military-industrial complex from
both ends: soldiers and companies.

293
00:24:53,074 --> 00:24:56,035
It’s me. The others got caught.

294
00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:03,250
Don't worry, you'lI see them in the afterlife.

295
00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,423
Hello!

296
00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:11,717
Y-You a cop?

297
00:25:16,097 --> 00:25:20,059
I-I prepared a confession.
Let me call my lawyer--

298
00:25:21,353 --> 00:25:24,396
You're not getting that chance.

299
00:25:24,439 --> 00:25:29,401
You killed our bait,
so you're gonna tell us everything.

300
00:25:35,909 --> 00:25:38,369
Started to miss your old home?

301
00:25:40,580 --> 00:25:44,250
I’m only here to bring in your witness,
Lt. Col. Kurutsu.

302
00:25:44,292 --> 00:25:48,587
Tsumugi is standing by.
Dive if you want to.

303
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:51,048
Assuming she has a Ghost, that is.

304
00:25:51,091 --> 00:25:52,925
What do you mean?

305
00:25:53,009 --> 00:25:54,718
I’m stepping out.

306
00:25:54,761 --> 00:25:59,014
As a member of the committee,
I need to be at Harimadara's product inspection.

307
00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:02,351
Still obsessed with getting promoted?

308
00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:05,020
It's something you ran away without doing.

309
00:26:30,922 --> 00:26:32,756
Nice to see you, Kusanagi.

310
00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,718
I didn't think we'd have
another chance to work with you.

311
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,303
Are these your men?

312
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,264
Yes. Batou and Togusa.

313
00:26:40,307 --> 00:26:44,810
This is Tsumugi Dokuro.
They're both cyber warfare tactical officers.

314
00:26:44,894 --> 00:26:48,814
"Both"?
Are they sharing a body?

315
00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:52,151
She says they're two identical twins
in one conjoined body.

316
00:26:52,235 --> 00:26:55,154
I dunno how they move.

317
00:26:55,196 --> 00:26:56,530
The world's full of surprises.

318
00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:02,453
Let's get started.

319
00:27:11,254 --> 00:27:13,631
So, only the body came back.

320
00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:15,174
What do you mean?

321
00:27:15,258 --> 00:27:18,802
She's a technical officer in
Lt. Col. Kurutsu's command.

322
00:27:18,845 --> 00:27:24,016
She was investigating a hacker
with a special neurochip-type cyberbrain.

323
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:25,809
He's known as "Scarecrow",

324
00:27:25,852 --> 00:27:29,188
and he's a suspect in the terrorist
attack on Harimadara.

325
00:27:29,230 --> 00:27:32,316
Another Oz character?

326
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:33,108
Huh?

327
00:27:33,610 --> 00:27:39,031
Our conclusion is that he's a special spy
based on postwar tech.

328
00:27:39,115 --> 00:27:41,784
Emma was the one who reasoned it out.

329
00:27:41,826 --> 00:27:45,371
She hypothesized a hacker
with the same disorder she had.

330
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,790
Someone who had to incrementally
replace his brain with neurochips

331
00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:49,875
and prosthetize his body to survive.

332
00:27:50,418 --> 00:27:52,586
She had that disorder?

333
00:27:53,213 --> 00:27:57,508
Personality attenuates, and selfhood can't be
retained without auxiliary cyberbrains.

334
00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:03,180
Emma transformed her impairment
into her signature trait, as did Scarecrow.

335
00:28:03,223 --> 00:28:06,558
Emma regularly used advanced cyberization
to structure her selfhood,

336
00:28:06,601 --> 00:28:08,560
but Scarecrow is different.

337
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:11,855
To compensate for his attenuated personality,
he dubs the Ghosts of others,

338
00:28:11,898 --> 00:28:14,650
steals their bodies,
and assumes their identities.

339
00:28:14,693 --> 00:28:18,404
Like the scarecrow who can't think
inserting a false brain into his head.

340
00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:20,155
Seriously?

341
00:28:20,198 --> 00:28:22,366
In other words, this is...

342
00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:27,162
The body is Emma's,
but it's being operated by a man's brain

343
00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:31,333
which is only one-third the normal size
and cyberized with neurochips.

344
00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:35,838
So what I dived into was
the girl's dubbed Ghost.

345
00:28:36,256 --> 00:28:38,424
What happened to her brain?

346
00:28:38,508 --> 00:28:40,509
Ghost Dubbing would've degraded it.

347
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:44,096
It's either in the trash or sliced up
in his research lab.

348
00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:45,347
That's awful...

349
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:50,060
Poor Emma. I’m sorry.

350
00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:53,021
It's okay, Junior. Don't be afraid.

351
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:56,900
I know the lions will come.
The people with courage...

352
00:28:56,943 --> 00:29:00,404
Who are you?
Tell me who you work for.

353
00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:04,283
I am a scarecrow.
My brain is fading away.

354
00:29:04,325 --> 00:29:07,369
I am tin.
My heart is fading away.

355
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:12,291
Is that Emma talking, or her dubbed Ghost?

356
00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:15,127
Tin Girl, give me the scarecrow man's name.

357
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:23,093
His name is Brinda Jr.
Please, don't blame him.

358
00:29:25,388 --> 00:29:30,225
Got a hit at a postwar nursing home!
And the same NPO is involved with it.

359
00:29:30,268 --> 00:29:32,311
Brinda Jr., age 32.

360
00:29:32,395 --> 00:29:35,647
After he was cyberized,
he became an accountant at an employment agency.

361
00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:37,149
His personality's thin,

362
00:29:37,192 --> 00:29:40,486
but he memorized a 200-digit number
in two seconds for an IQ test.

363
00:29:41,070 --> 00:29:43,906
That's textbook for someone with
special cognitive abilities.

364
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:46,992
Find out which organization
set him up as a hacker.

365
00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:48,494
Roger.

366
00:29:48,536 --> 00:29:51,997
I'm diving into that man's Ghost.

367
00:29:52,081 --> 00:29:55,459
There are only a handful of
proven double Ghosts in existence.

368
00:29:55,502 --> 00:29:57,920
We don't know the dangers.

369
00:29:57,962 --> 00:30:01,173
l want to know which Ghost has motive.

370
00:30:01,257 --> 00:30:04,259
You're doubting Emma?
She's the victim here.

371
00:30:04,302 --> 00:30:06,011
Then I'll confirm that.

372
00:30:06,054 --> 00:30:09,431
Batou, be my backup
in case they back-hack me.

373
00:30:09,766 --> 00:30:12,351
Two against two, eh?

374
00:30:17,023 --> 00:30:19,983
Togusa. Get all the records copied.

375
00:30:20,026 --> 00:30:24,613
Roger. Oh, here...
Sorry, it's a call from my dad.

376
00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:29,034
Hey Dad, it's been a while. Yeah.

377
00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:31,870
Batou! Restrain Togusa!

378
00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:34,957
Got it. I’ll become the Lion.

379
00:30:40,213 --> 00:30:42,047
A Mateba, still?

380
00:30:43,550 --> 00:30:45,050
Don't move!

381
00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:58,397
Major!

382
00:30:58,481 --> 00:30:59,982
Let's go.

383
00:31:02,443 --> 00:31:07,364
This is crazy! I found a Starter log
on his comm-it's the virus!

384
00:31:08,116 --> 00:31:11,994
He must have kept the virus inactive
within his neurochips.

385
00:31:12,036 --> 00:31:14,079
His infiltration was unexpectedly quick.

386
00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:17,791
So, it combines victims' memories of past hostility
with objects in front of them

387
00:31:17,917 --> 00:31:21,420
to plant instantaneous false memories?

388
00:31:51,075 --> 00:31:52,951
I can get deadly, right?

389
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:55,120
That was your last breath if you don't.

390
00:31:57,248 --> 00:31:59,291
Don't underestimate me!

391
00:32:03,046 --> 00:32:06,965
The scarecrow is the virus's host
and Togusa's brain is the package, right?

392
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:10,385
Yep. But the infection route's disturbingly selective.

393
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:12,804
Only people around you are being infected.

394
00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:17,935
Does that mean the onset can be regulated?

395
00:32:17,977 --> 00:32:21,480
That'd be impossible without
a third party to switch it on.

396
00:32:21,522 --> 00:32:25,233
Which I guess means it's a virus
whose damage can be controlled.

397
00:32:25,818 --> 00:32:29,780
Then it's military.
Reanalyze yesterday's infection data.

398
00:32:29,822 --> 00:32:33,283
We don't want to chase the virus;
we want to chase the enemy in possession of it.

399
00:32:33,701 --> 00:32:37,120
I wish to go on living even after my death.

400
00:32:37,163 --> 00:32:38,455
Hidden data?

401
00:32:38,498 --> 00:32:45,462
For these 620 reasons,
we oppose cyberization without free choice.

402
00:32:45,505 --> 00:32:48,924
Reason: We submit that software
within the cyberbrain

403
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:54,137
is vulnerable to third-party tampering.

404
00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:59,142
Reason: Electronic alteration of
memory causes abnormalities

405
00:32:59,185 --> 00:33:03,522
in the totality of our independent
will referred to as the "Ghost".

406
00:33:04,524 --> 00:33:09,528
Do you actually think a world
without infection and infiltration is possible?!

407
00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:13,448
Tsumugi! You alive?

408
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,327
I’m running a sim of the scarecrow's brain.
Help me.

409
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:21,206
You have Emma Tsuda's Ghost infiltration key,
don't you? Make me a backdoor.

410
00:33:21,249 --> 00:33:24,876
I see, you're going to use
Scarecrow's cyberbrain structure

411
00:33:24,919 --> 00:33:26,878
to approximate a vaccine?

412
00:33:39,684 --> 00:33:45,981
Reason: There are currently seventeen
possible ways to alter our memories.

413
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:46,982
Shit!

414
00:33:47,692 --> 00:33:51,862
Major! Why won't you use my Ghost
infiltration key to stop this?!

415
00:33:51,988 --> 00:33:55,073
It’s no use.
Brinda won't let her.

416
00:33:55,783 --> 00:34:00,746
I will become anyone.
I've inputted and erased many Ghosts.

417
00:34:00,830 --> 00:34:04,583
I disappeared, too... Who am I?

418
00:34:04,625 --> 00:34:10,380
Was Unit 501 a target, too?
Aren't you a victim after all?!

419
00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:12,299
There was no other way.

420
00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:14,718
What are you after?

421
00:34:29,358 --> 00:34:31,234
Don't disappear, Emma.

422
00:34:35,198 --> 00:34:38,992
Let's go on living after our deaths, together.

423
00:34:42,246 --> 00:34:43,371
They're here.

424
00:34:50,505 --> 00:34:52,297
An attack barrier!

425
00:34:54,133 --> 00:34:54,883
Major!

426
00:34:56,177 --> 00:34:56,843
Colonel!

427
00:34:57,553 --> 00:35:02,432
They fought each other with attack barriers.
One of them got forwarded.

428
00:35:02,475 --> 00:35:05,060
I can't believe it was stronger than ours...

429
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:07,729
You were infiltrated for a moment.

430
00:35:07,772 --> 00:35:11,149
Delete all relevant operational headquarters
from the cyberbrain Net.

431
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:13,568
Go after Brinda.
There's nothing left to do here.

432
00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:19,491
Damn stray dog...

433
00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:30,168
Looks like we pulled it off.

434
00:35:30,211 --> 00:35:32,796
The host and Starter are still active.

435
00:35:48,646 --> 00:35:51,273
We can see the ocean, Emma.

436
00:35:52,942 --> 00:35:55,861
This creeps even me out, Major.

437
00:35:55,903 --> 00:35:57,195
Report.

438
00:35:57,238 --> 00:36:01,283
Col. Hozumi from Army intelligence
was the one to recruit Brinda Jr.

439
00:36:01,742 --> 00:36:05,287
"Scarecrow" is an op cooked up
by their old Investigations Section

440
00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:08,832
during a period when they were
working on Ghost Dub devices.

441
00:36:08,875 --> 00:36:14,379
Hozumi got on the Next-Gen Weapons
Review Committee through Foreign Affairs.

442
00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:19,467
But she wasn't there long,
and Kurutsu of Unit 501 took her seat

443
00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:23,054
at vice-Minister Kitahara's recommendation.

444
00:36:23,097 --> 00:36:27,893
Unit 501 got a hold on Hozumi
through military musical chairs, eh?

445
00:36:27,977 --> 00:36:31,563
Reason: We can prove that false memories

446
00:36:31,606 --> 00:36:37,527
- compel us to commit murder, suicide,
and other criminal acts.

447
00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:39,905
- Which one built the pod?
- compel us to commit murder, suicide,
and other criminal acts.

448
00:36:39,947 --> 00:36:46,244
Unknown. But Army intelligence decided to
rally by interfering with the Review Committee.

449
00:36:46,287 --> 00:36:49,915
I'd guess that somewhere in there,
the two hackers became aware of each other.

450
00:36:49,999 --> 00:36:53,001
The attack on Harimadara is the connection?

451
00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,921
There's no evidence they did it.

452
00:36:56,005 --> 00:36:59,591
But Hozumi is in the overseas
weapons development faction,

453
00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:02,093
and Harimadara's a domestic faction stronghold.

454
00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:04,221
Who shot our bait?

455
00:37:04,263 --> 00:37:10,727
A Kuzan water cartel hit man.
Hozumi's playing with serious fire.

456
00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:13,021
She used the pretext of wartime industry

457
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:16,775
to interfere in Kuzan's affairs while
she was stationed there during the war.

458
00:37:16,859 --> 00:37:21,112
If she can't subdue the domestic faction
and give the cartel the profits she promised,

459
00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:23,698
it'll retaliate against her.

460
00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:25,450
Starter analysis results?

461
00:37:25,534 --> 00:37:28,036
Couldn't pin down the trigger,
but I got my answer

462
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:31,122
from the fact that we couldn't find
the infection route into the building

463
00:37:31,165 --> 00:37:35,794
even though Section 9 had domination over it.

464
00:37:35,878 --> 00:37:38,380
It was a C4ISR network.

465
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,799
A military communications system.

466
00:37:40,883 --> 00:37:42,759
Things are starting to come clear.

467
00:37:42,802 --> 00:37:44,803
Col. Hozumi's the one who activated Starter

468
00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:49,641
and patched the virus through
to infect the VIP room's security.

469
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:51,977
She was after the woman the guard shot.

470
00:37:52,019 --> 00:37:55,563
Senior vice-Minister Kitahara,
who's with the domestic faction.

471
00:37:55,606 --> 00:37:58,650
That massacre was a smokescreen
for one murder?!

472
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:00,777
Guess she's a born war-lover.

473
00:38:00,820 --> 00:38:03,321
Why snipe Tin Girl?

474
00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:04,322
That was a bluff.

475
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:09,327
She must've wanted to get rid of us
and get Tin Girl safely to the 501.

476
00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:12,580
So her little visit to Section 9
was a smokescreen, too?

477
00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:17,002
She backed down so easily
because she was after Unit 501 from the start.

478
00:38:17,044 --> 00:38:21,923
So she could set up anti-cyberbrainist
Emma Tsuda as the massacre's ringleader.

479
00:38:21,966 --> 00:38:28,263
Harimadara, the vice-Minister, the 501...
She had a threefold plan to take them all out!

480
00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:30,432
What about the Ghost of the girl
who got dubbed?

481
00:38:30,474 --> 00:38:35,520
If she does have her own will,
why'd she knowingly let Hozumi use her?

482
00:38:35,563 --> 00:38:40,525
Just from the circumstances,
the scarecrow is the one you've been after.

483
00:38:40,568 --> 00:38:44,988
He didn't necessarily write the virus.
Hozumi said there was a broker.

484
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:48,992
If she told the truth,
someone out there made and sold it.

485
00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:50,618
That's who I’m after.

486
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:56,875
This is all speculation.
Right now, there's only one way for us to get proof.

487
00:38:56,959 --> 00:39:00,211
l assume you have Togusa's location.
We'll meet en route.

488
00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:04,049
We're going to capture both Ghosts-
the scarecrow's, and the girl's.

489
00:39:05,176 --> 00:39:06,843
Togusa's the problem.

490
00:39:06,969 --> 00:39:11,181
Blowing a married teammate's
brains out ain't my job.

491
00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:14,476
We know for sure this infection
plants false memories, right?

492
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:17,312
You saw him talking to his dead father.

493
00:39:17,897 --> 00:39:19,898
There should be a shared form.

494
00:39:19,940 --> 00:39:24,402
I'll get infected, so you ID it
and version up your makeshift vaccine.

495
00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:26,404
You want to mirror your own brain?

496
00:39:26,447 --> 00:39:29,324
Worst case scenario, blow my brains out.

497
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,576
So that's my job?

498
00:39:31,619 --> 00:39:35,080
If you don't like it, make me the leader.

499
00:39:35,164 --> 00:39:36,748
A checkpoint?

500
00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:40,919
You're on the wanted list
as a suspected terrorist!

501
00:39:41,003 --> 00:39:44,589
Shit, it's Section 9!
The ape used to be in Army intelligence.

502
00:39:44,673 --> 00:39:47,258
He cut a deal with Hozumi,
and he's framing us!

503
00:39:47,718 --> 00:39:52,222
She may just want us to think so.
I'll send Section 9 our intel.

504
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,183
After all this, you're still relying on him?!

505
00:39:55,226 --> 00:39:58,019
- No.
- Why, then?!

506
00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:01,272
My Ghost is whispering that I should do it.

507
00:40:17,623 --> 00:40:19,999
Wait! Where are you going?!

508
00:40:21,627 --> 00:40:23,128
Stop!

509
00:40:24,505 --> 00:40:27,424
We promised we'd go far away.

510
00:40:33,848 --> 00:40:35,306
Goodbye.

511
00:40:56,620 --> 00:40:58,788
I released the package!

512
00:41:00,416 --> 00:41:02,333
I’m going on ahead.

513
00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:06,129
I told you to shoot if things went south!
Take a damn gun with you...

514
00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:10,341
Major...

515
00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:15,430
She's in pieces!

516
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,807
If she's a neurochip version,
she's still alive.

517
00:41:21,103 --> 00:41:23,313
We'll go on living.

518
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,575
It’s a Ghost Dub, not a transfer?!

519
00:41:45,669 --> 00:41:47,879
That's a Harimadara prototype!

520
00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:51,966
Major!

521
00:41:52,009 --> 00:41:54,886
Two Ghosts have been
dubbed into that thing.

522
00:41:54,970 --> 00:41:57,680
We're going to stop it! Logicomas,
give me everything you've got!

523
00:41:57,723 --> 00:41:59,516
Yes, sir!

524
00:42:02,311 --> 00:42:06,022
Where the hell would they abandon
their own lives to go?

525
00:42:07,316 --> 00:42:08,107
The ocean.

526
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:09,317
Huh?

527
00:42:09,860 --> 00:42:12,862
They're not going anywhere!
This ends here!

528
00:42:58,867 --> 00:43:02,120
Next-gen weapon or not,
its brains are rookies.

529
00:43:02,204 --> 00:43:04,622
Aim for the eyes and legs,
and it's a piece of cake.

530
00:43:18,137 --> 00:43:19,262
For real?!

531
00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:10,063
Got you now!

532
00:44:21,950 --> 00:44:22,992
What's that?

533
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:26,329
It's Army intelligence!
The bastards requested an artillery strike!

534
00:44:33,337 --> 00:44:36,214
You've cut off your sensory system?!

535
00:44:36,298 --> 00:44:37,006
Crap!

536
00:44:46,433 --> 00:44:48,893
You discarded intensity regions...

537
00:44:48,936 --> 00:44:53,898
Recognition systems, memory fields,
the Net that maintains your architecture...

538
00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:17,255
You even jettisoned your own Ghost!

539
00:45:17,297 --> 00:45:20,758
You want a life you've stripped
all meaning from?!

540
00:46:35,709 --> 00:46:37,168
Goodbye.

541
00:47:05,697 --> 00:47:07,198
It's over.

542
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:10,993
Return to base.
We're going to Kuzan, by way of Benares.

543
00:47:13,455 --> 00:47:16,707
The world's cyber economy has only just begun.

544
00:47:16,792 --> 00:47:19,502
I'll pay whatever it takes to reconcile with the cartel--

545
00:47:32,057 --> 00:47:33,975
On your knees, hands in the air!

546
00:47:35,477 --> 00:47:38,980
Oh, the wanted poster.
Told you so.

547
00:47:46,572 --> 00:47:48,823
You're just like that Section 9 chief.

548
00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:53,578
Never happy unless you're digging up
what's dead and buried.

549
00:47:53,620 --> 00:47:56,414
It's something you ran away without doing.

550
00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:01,419
Nothing's going to change, Kusanagi.

551
00:48:02,504 --> 00:48:05,673
We're an independent offensive unit.

552
00:48:05,716 --> 00:48:07,341
We stand independent of the system,

553
00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:12,096
and we have truly discrete personalities
that don't get packaged.

554
00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:15,391
When we're officially approved
as top priority, we'll root out

555
00:48:15,434 --> 00:48:19,604
all the sorry bastards who conspire
because they're afraid of a scandal.

556
00:48:22,274 --> 00:48:24,775
And you count me as one of them?

557
00:48:26,361 --> 00:48:33,034
I never changed your channel.
Contact me whenever you want to come home.

558
00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:49,800
You're free to go. We voided
the wanted notice Col. Hozumi put out.

559
00:48:50,427 --> 00:48:54,555
vice-Minister of Defense Kitahara
wants to thank you.

560
00:48:54,598 --> 00:48:56,974
Is that some sort of joke?

561
00:48:57,017 --> 00:48:58,601
A political one.

562
00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:02,647
Section 9 just went through
Col. Hozumi's possessions

563
00:49:02,731 --> 00:49:07,234
and confiscated a Ghost Dub device
and an outline of the Scarecrow op.

564
00:49:07,277 --> 00:49:09,403
They couldn't arrest her, though.

565
00:49:09,446 --> 00:49:11,781
No-but then she confessed.

566
00:49:16,161 --> 00:49:21,123
Her chopper was shot down
with Kuzan weapons.

567
00:49:21,166 --> 00:49:23,501
She's afraid enough of the cartel's revenge

568
00:49:23,543 --> 00:49:26,837
to request protective custody
and a plea bargain.

569
00:49:26,922 --> 00:49:28,673
So she'll get let off scot-free.

570
00:49:28,757 --> 00:49:30,341
I’ll make sure she doesn't.

571
00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:35,304
The NPO she worked with is a front
for dirty cyberbrain business.

572
00:49:35,347 --> 00:49:41,018
Not only that, we've detected Starter
in her cyberbrain, just like your intel said.

573
00:49:41,103 --> 00:49:44,689
She got a lot of people injured or killed,
and I'll make her pay for that-

574
00:49:44,731 --> 00:49:48,442
even if I can't take her to court yet.

575
00:49:48,485 --> 00:49:50,695
Where did she get the virus?

576
00:49:50,779 --> 00:49:56,283
Through a broker, she says.
She claims to know nothing about its author.

577
00:49:56,326 --> 00:49:57,034
I see.

578
00:49:58,370 --> 00:50:01,706
Was it really the cartel
who tried to kill Hozumi?

579
00:50:01,790 --> 00:50:05,835
Even if it was someone who wanted to
prevent us from investigating her,

580
00:50:05,877 --> 00:50:08,212
I’m sure any trace of them is long gone.

581
00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:22,393
Major.

582
00:50:22,769 --> 00:50:27,815
All of you came?
I didn't know I had such admirable subordinates.

583
00:50:28,191 --> 00:50:31,694
You could've been attacked
while in custody.

584
00:50:31,737 --> 00:50:34,530
We've been keeping an eye on
all the suspicious characters who came by.

585
00:50:35,949 --> 00:50:38,993
One more thing.
I told the Minister of Home Affairs

586
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:43,039
that your team contributed to deterring the virus.

587
00:50:43,081 --> 00:50:48,419
Use your vaunted cyberbrain to read
Public Security Commission report N2077.

588
00:50:48,462 --> 00:50:52,006
As of tomorrow, you get special authority.

589
00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:54,550
Without official oversight.

590
00:50:54,593 --> 00:50:57,094
This case isn't over.

591
00:50:57,137 --> 00:51:01,682
Investigate the high-level hacking virus
and any organizations involved,

592
00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:04,518
and plan to attend plenty of funerals
along the way.

593
00:51:04,561 --> 00:51:06,270
I shot Thied.

594
00:51:07,064 --> 00:51:09,940
You must have had a hunch that
an intelligence bigwig was behind this,

595
00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:13,277
meaning you would've wanted
an intel advantage at any cost.

596
00:51:13,361 --> 00:51:16,238
So why didn't you stop me?!

597
00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:19,909
Because I don't have
your Ghost infiltration key.

598
00:51:22,537 --> 00:51:26,457
No organization will ever have it.

599
00:51:26,541 --> 00:51:30,419
I promised your late commander that.

600
00:51:54,653 --> 00:51:57,780
Bottom line, all we figured out
was that someone out there

601
00:51:57,823 --> 00:52:04,995
used a couple of anti-cyberbrainist hackers
and a miserable water company chick.

602
00:52:05,038 --> 00:52:08,165
We may be looking for a crime
worth sacrificing lives over,

603
00:52:08,208 --> 00:52:10,584
but all we have are money-mad war profiteers

604
00:52:10,627 --> 00:52:13,671
and a man and girl obsessed
with casting things away.

605
00:52:13,755 --> 00:52:15,339
For now, that is.

606
00:52:16,883 --> 00:52:24,682
Which one had agency, the man or the girl?
Did they even have real will?

607
00:52:26,143 --> 00:52:30,020
When they blocked my infiltration, at least.

608
00:52:30,105 --> 00:52:36,694
But they fled with nowhere to go,
then had to transfer into that weapon.

609
00:52:36,736 --> 00:52:41,532
That think-tank's cyberbrain had
a massive output system.

610
00:52:41,616 --> 00:52:43,117
Hmm?

611
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,287
What if the reason they cast away
what made them themselves

612
00:52:46,329 --> 00:52:50,332
was to output the last thing left into the Net?

613
00:52:50,709 --> 00:52:53,210
You think that's where they were going?

614
00:52:53,253 --> 00:52:58,174
Pouring the last shreds of their Ghosts
into the Net... Is that even possible?

615
00:52:59,301 --> 00:53:02,803
It’s been researched,
but it's impossible to prove.

616
00:53:05,348 --> 00:53:10,019
But in the moment their Ghosts were lost,
I got the feeling they'd fused.

617
00:53:10,061 --> 00:53:12,730
That two lives had become one...

618
00:53:12,772 --> 00:53:18,068
That isn't like you. Ghosts are
the most independent things in this world.

619
00:53:18,111 --> 00:53:22,156
Even the ones being controlled are fundamentally,
eternally standalone.

620
00:53:22,407 --> 00:53:24,366
Like our squad, yeah?

621
00:53:27,954 --> 00:53:29,747
Yeah.

622
00:53:29,831 --> 00:53:34,585
Well? The floaters are all ready.
I got a set of two.

623
00:53:34,669 --> 00:53:37,588
Even someone with
a titanium skull wouldn't drown.

624
00:53:37,631 --> 00:53:40,591
You seriously want to swim
in the ocean in midwinter?

625
00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:43,761
Gotta shake off those memories
of almost drowning.

626
00:53:43,803 --> 00:53:46,764
Plus it ain't too often
l get to see you in a swimsuit.

627
00:53:46,848 --> 00:53:48,182
That's your real goal?

628
00:53:48,225 --> 00:53:50,059
- Huh?
- Unbelievable.

629
00:53:50,101 --> 00:53:53,437
No, no! I’m doing this all for you!

630
00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:57,608
I’ll take a rain check.

631
00:53:57,692 --> 00:54:00,277
I’m telling you, you got it all wrong!