All language subtitles for Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence (2004) 720p BRRiP x264 AAC [Team Nanban]

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"Since our gods and our aspirations
are no longer anything but scientific

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Eye in the Sky 202 to Control.
Now on station above scene.

Opening data link.

Sit-rep?

52 minutes ago

...and fled the area.

Suspect is now holed up in the second
crime scene

where it's killed
two officers.

All entrances have been blocked.
In two minutes

That's a Section 9 cyborg.

When those guys cross your path

Sounds like the Cyber Police
are itching to step in.

They're requesting
a data link.

First Public Security

Politely ask them
to take a hike.

Please help us...

The moon fails to shine down on either day or night

and the night bird calls out in sadness.

When I turn to look

the flowers had all fallen away.

It was as if all comfort...

...had vanished from the world.

As the gods leave...

...to gather in the new world

day breaks

The blossoms beseech the gods.

"Even though in this world..."

"...we may know grief and suffering

"our dreams shall never die

...and they fall from the branch in anger.

There have already been eight homicides
committed by gynoids this week.

In each case

and their cyberbrains
were reformatted.

The units were all made by
the Locus Solus company

...the type 2052
"Hadaly."

They're preliminary betas
of a mass-production model.

Apparently

but all of the units have
now been recalled.

According to the latest report they
submitted to the authorities

no bugs had been detected in either
their hardware or software.

You were paying attention

A new line of gynoids went berserk for
reasons unknown and killed their owners.

The manufacturer recalled them
in a panic.

Next will come the usual lawsuits from the
next of kin

...centering around producer responsibility

I'd say I understand the gist of it

You understand

More often than not

At this time

The first is that no suits have
been filed by the next of kin.

All the cases have been settled in-house
at the manufacturer

And the second is that among
the victims is a politician

as well as a retired
Public Security official.

It's possible that this might be
an act of terrorism

so determining if we ought to take lead
on the case also falls under our purview.

Ishikawa and Azuma

You two

No questions.
Get going.

Just so we're straight on this

I'll be the first to admit that I
might not measure up to the Major.

That's not it.

I hear she's still
listed as missing.

The only things she really owned
were her brain and her Ghost.

Of course

Her prosthetic body and cyberbrain were
just government-issued equipment

and the memories inside that cyberbrain
were government property

top-secret intel
and all.

What the top brass want to get back
is those memories.

They couldn't care less
if she's alive or dead.

So

Well

Let's start with the basics and pay
the local cops' crime lab a visit.

"Police"

You

We're here about that doll the
Big Man here smashed up the other day.

That thing killed two
of our guys.

You don't expect to walk out
of here with it

Part of our investigation is
to make that determination.

Forensics is on the 19th floor

Do I need to
show you the way?

No thanks. We didn't
come here for a tour.

"Not even crows will peck at a
persimmon that is still green."

But you can be sure they'll be circling
overhead when they're ripe.

Back when you were a cop

...for somebody who swooped in out of
the blue and swiped a case from you?

That's what pissed me off. It's like
I was looking at the old me.

"Don't find fault with the mirror when
it's your own face that's distorted."

"The mirror is not a tool for realizing
the truth

Hell

If I told you once

Keep pestering me

I'm Togusa

The one who filled this poor girl
with double-aught buck

If you'd have used
.50-caliber hollowpoints

it would've been a simple
matter to restore it.

It killed three people.
And two of those were cops.

Before she was shot

What do you mean
by "suicide

Haraway.

Miss

The gynoids give themselves authorization
to attack humans...

...by deliberately
malfunctioning.

But as a logical consequence
of those malfunctions

they're also freeing themselves
from Ethics Code article three.

"Protect your own existence so long as such
protection does not harm a human being."

I think it would be more accurate to
call it "self-termination

Yes

Is this "suicide" phenomenon
limited to a particular model?

I wish I could say it is

These past few years

It's especially bad
in the "pet" models.

Any idea as to
the cause?

Who knows? Cyberbrain corruption
caused by a virus or microorganism?

Human error during the
manufacturing process?

Degraded functionality due to
age-related deterioration?

Take your pick.
Personally

What?

If you ask me

You know

When the new models come out

some of the discarded ones
end up on the streets

...where they gradually deteriorate
from lack of maintenance.

The robots just want us to stop
treating them as disposable.

Oh

Humans and robots
are different.

But that sort of faith is nothing more than
the recognition that humans aren't robots

which is on the same level as
saying that white is not black.

Unlike things like industrial robots

...weren't designed with utilitarianism
and pragmatism in mind.

Why did we feel the need to
create them in man's image?

In an idealized image

Why does humanity go to such lengths
to create these reflections of itself?

Do you have children?

Yes

Children have always deviated
from the human norm.

That is

...and acts in accordance
to its own free will.

What

Internally

The dolls that little girls use
when they play "mommy"...

...aren't merely a surrogate for a child
or something to practice on.

Perhaps these girls aren't practicing
raising children.

Rather

What in the world are
you talking about?

In other words

...the act of creating
an artificial human.

That's the way
I see it.

Children aren't...
They aren't dolls!

Descartes didn't differentiate between man
and machine

There was a doll that looked just like his
daughter Francine

He named it after her
and lavished it with love.

I almost forgot
about that...

Look

I'd like to hear your initial opinions
on that robot.

Locus Solus'
type 2052 "Hadaly."

True.

It's a fine piece
of work.

I'm told it's a beta-model mass-production
unit

Unusual specs?

It's equipped with organs that aren't
exactly necessary on a maid-type model.

Meaning what

It's a sexbot.

It's not a hobby you can brag about
to the public

Now I get it. It's no wonder that the
next of kin dropped the lawsuits.

As their cyberbrains shut down

It's a standard practice to safeguard
the control software's technical data.

However...

"However" what?

There was a file left in the audio buffer.
Shall I play it?

Please help us...

Please help...

Thanks for
all your help.

Hey!

Um

I've never given birth to any children

I'm not registered
at the egg bank

Thank you for your time

Just "Haraway."
No Miss or Missus needed.

That lady wasn't your
typical engineer

She's the type who fills out the
"personal comments" column in forms.

I used to do that
a lot

That's why you took so long
to climb the ranks.

Anyway

I guess we won't be talking
with that lady again

She the type you like
to hang out with?

Yeah

We follow
the playbook.

Talk to the
shipping inspector

09 calling 907. 602 in progress
at a boathouse in sector 201.

Victim is a shipping inspector
at Locus Solus.

Scene secured two minutes
prior to arrival of local police.

907

Goodness gracious

On every spring day

What's up

Yeah

...after getting reacquainted with the
tuna sandwich he had for dinner.

Geez

The crime scene as of
22 minutes ago.

You made a rookie
carry that back?

Hey

Okay

Match run on the
vic's cyberbrain.

Jacques Vaucanson

Submitted vacation request five days ago

Three days ago

...with a planned stay
of five days.

Murder weapons were kitchen implements
that came with the boat.

Search run on vehicles in the area.
Record of parked criminal vehicle located.

Check for yakuza affiliation
in progress.

Seven cards of various types found in
overcoat believed to belong to victim.

Check for usage
in progress.

Oopsie daisy. Got ourselves a
.38-caliber Smith & Wesson here.

Model 2602.

Looks like he didn't
have time to use it.

That might not have
done him any good.

An illegally amped-up cyborg.
Or a pro pretending to be a psycho.

969 calling 906.
Crime scene ETA

- Hey

Let's let Forensics
take it from here.

907 to 09. Relinquishing
crime scene to 969.

09

Today's my
daughter's birthday.

A family man

I'll drop you off.

I'm in the opposite direction.
Ishikawa?

I'm the
other way

They say a daughter's birthday
takes priority over everything else.

Looks like you guys are
having a grand old time.

Coming out in person

Our stiff was missing some parts

We'll get outta your hair

Why aren't you letting the
local cops handle this?

The Old Man's got his knickers
in a twist over it for some reason.

Found them! They're sitting
in jars in the refrigerator!

Heart. Liver. Kidneys.
The pancreas

This is one
tidy SOB...

Inumaru Foods'
wet dog food

If you bought dry food

I can't feed her
that garbage.

So

Better him than some rookie
fresh out of the academy.

He's competent enough for a former
detective. I've got no complaints.

'Cause the only person
you ever partnered with...

...who you thought made the grade
was the Major.

- Look...
- Ishikawa.

I liked you better when
you were the silent type.

Later.

Batou.

Yeah

Take my advice.
Switch to the dry.

Just from a nutritional balance
perspective

Cause of death was crushing of the
cervical vertebrae by blunt force trauma.

We determined that the kitchen tools
weren't the murder weapon

but were instead used to
mutilate the corpse.

So you're saying that they killed the guy

Yeah

We confirmed that the organs stored in
the refrigerator belonged to the victim.

They showed early signs of gastritis
and cirrhosis of the liver.

Looks like he had
a drinking problem.

Why'd he gut the guy
so meticulously?

Maybe to make us think he was
mentally unstable or a sicko?

Or to reinforce a message
of punishment or revenge.

Which would nix the "pro hit
disguised as a thrill kill" theory.

What's the story with
the mangled doorknob?

Analysis identified the prosthetic limb
as a Chinese-made NR26.

A Crab Claw

Isn't that military?

They're available on the black market.
A lot of 'em are defective

It was also a match to the lacerations
on the corpse's head.

What about the owner of that car

Looks like there were a lot of illegal mods

Just report
your findings.

According to my follow-up investigation on
the records of the neighboring parking lot

the car belongs to the Koujinkai

It's been bulletproofed

It's been spotted at the scenes of multiple
violent crimes in the past.

Tricked-out wheels for
a tricked-out cyborg.

Yeah

Are we looking at some kind
of yakuza payback here?

The problem is motive.
What do we have on the Koujinkai?

They're a Japanese mob group
that goes way back.

Drugs

They've got a finger
in just about every pie.

A Hadaly ripped their boss Inoue's
head off three days ago.

His deputy

Come on

Yeah

There's just one problem with that.
If our vic was expecting retaliation

why would he choose a place to lie low
that was inside Koujinkai territory?

His cyberbrain data's been wiped

In any case

And the possibility of it being a terrorist
act disguised as a robot runaway?

At this time

That's looking
awfully unlikely.

Batou and Togusa will work full-time
on these Hadaly runaways

including this incident.

The rest of you

Dismissed.

Togusa.

Come see me
before you leave.

What do you think?

I guess we'll have to check into a link
between the Koujinkai and Locus Solus to...

I was talking about
Batou.

Partners are supposed to monitor
each other's mental state.

Even so

"To understand Caesar

You have a family

Sure

A man once said that we are never so
happy or so unhappy as we suppose.

That what is important is to never grow
tired of your life and aspirations.

What are you
getting at

When I look
at him lately

I'm reminded of the Major
just before she disappeared.

"Let a man walk alone

"let him have few wishes

Chief. Why did you
choose me for this?

Because it was the Major who
scouted you from the police force.

So

Apparently

That goes
without saying.

The world can't live up to standards
set by the giants of history.

You planning to start a war
or something?

One need not be a yakuza when
one goes to a yakuza office

but you do need to
pack some heat.

Look

Yeah

We're just going there
to talk

Do you hate yakuza?

Can't stand the bastards.

Same here.

We're going there to talk.
Just talk. Right?

Hey

Yeah

But you also said that
you needed weapons.

I have a family

I can go by myself
if you want.

I'm going with you.
That's what partners do.

So I want you to give me
your word.

We're just gonna talk. I'll avoid
shooting as much as possible.

- Happy now?
- Fine.

Then saddle up

Who the hell
are you two?

We need to talk with your
buddy Wakabayashi. Go get him.

You said you were gonna
avoid shooting.

I did avoid shooting.
As much as possible.

Get moving

A hologram?

The son of a bitch
hacked our eyes?!

Blame those cheap-ass
cyberbrains of yours.

What's the holdup?

It's a dark

One at a time.
I'll go first.

I'll go first. You're so big that
I won't be able to cover you.

I set off your little presents
above our heads.

Even assuming they'd gone off in
their maximum effective radius

it'd take more than two of 'em to take out
a cyborg wearing body armor.

Are you trying
to insult me?

I don't just want to know about the hit
on the shipping inspector.

You're gonna tell me what your
connection is to Locus Solus

Was wondering when
you'd show up...

Come get some

Come on

He said he knew where the inspector
was

Look

I don't know shit about what the old
boss was up to with that company!

You still breathing

My wife and daughter's faces
flashed before my eyes...

That wasn't your wife and daughter
you were looking at.

That was the angel of death
coming for you.

I ordered you to conduct
an investigation.

I don't recall telling you to cut corners
and take the law into your own hands

...and I certainly don't recall telling you
to launch an assault on a yakuza office!

This isn't the jungle

Still mad

I'm not mad.
It's just

I don't want to sound ungrateful
to somebody who saved my life

...but it's pretty obvious that I'll need a few
extra lives if I'm gonna team up with you.

It's just you and me working
this case full-time.

Half-assed measures aren't
gonna get us anywhere.

If there's something shady going on
between them and Locus Solus

they'll definitely
take the bait.

That's why you did something
so over the top?

If the Old Man was really angry with us

Pull over up there.

See ya.

You've stepped inside
the kill zone.

Don't go screwing around with
the settings on that right arm.

Updated drivers have been
known to conflict with...

...fire control software and
cause degraded functionality.

If it happens

Hey

Don't bother.

The organic components in that arm
have been matched to your DNA.

In other words

Ow! Wait a minute

Hey

Sorry

The thought of her sitting there
howling for her missing master

starving and covered in her
own shit broke my heart.

I may look gruff

Yeah

My daughter was ecstatic

How long did you have us
under surveillance?

It's no big deal

Damn straight it is.
Using me as a smoke screen...

It's not my fault you were
too green to spot the tail.

If you're gonna hate anyone

Is she a clone?
Originals cost a fortune

Apparently

It's not like you to let somebody hack
into your cyberbrain like that.

When your daily routine falls into a pattern

I told you to switch
to dry food

It's her favorite. That's the only store
around here where I can get it.

Somebody pulled your strings
to make you go berserk.

You ended up putting five rounds
into your own arm

and came this close to
blowing away the store owner.

You might be off your game

Other than the Major

Why didn't they make me blow
my brains out right off the bat?

Because their goal wasn't to eliminate you

You busted into a mob office and sent a
dozen people to the afterlife or the hospital.

And then before the day was out

Anybody would think that you're nuts or
have one serious cyberbrain malfunction.

Hey

This attack proves that this case isn't
a simple accident. If we back off now...

"Then what's the point of there being
a Section 9 in the first place?"

If she were here

Message from the Old Man.
"Continue the investigation."

"But until you have material
evidence

"...no official support
from this point forward."

Guess we'll have to go check out
Locus Solus in person.

"Speed is key when preserving secrecy.
Fly to the Northern Frontier ASAP

Up north?

You two aren't
up to it?

No

The issue here is a guy in this line
of work

having a dog in
the first place!

Of all the dogs in the world

Come up with something
your own damn selves!

In its heyday

built to be the greatest
information-intensive city in the Far East.

All that's left to show it was ever here
is this forest of giant grave markers.

Its iffy sovereignty status has
made it the perfect hangout...

...for multinationals and the criminal
organizations that feed on their scraps.

A no-man's-land outside the reach of both
UN Net Police and ASEAN Cybercops.

Reminds me of that quote about how an
artifact that a single individual builds...

...is as much an expression of the builder's
genetic phenotype as the builder itself.

That guy was talking about
beaver dams and spider webs.

I'll take coralline algae and the
coral reefs they create

These are nowhere near
as pretty

If life's true nature is information
that's passed down via genes

then society and civilization are also nothing
more than gigantic memory systems

which makes cities huge
external memory devices.

"How precious also are thy thoughts unto
me

"If I should count them

Psalm 139 from the
Old Testament

The way it calls up quotes
like that at the drop of a hat

maybe your external memory's phenotype
has a bit of your philosophical bent.

Yeah

Sorry to interrupt

I'll do a slow flyby for you guys

All right

"Angel Forms

"Nine dayes they fell;
confounded Chaos roard."

Quoting Milton this time?
I got news for you

The night bird calls out in sadness.

When I turn to look

the flowers had all fallen away.

It was as if all comfort...

...had vanished from the world.

As the gods leave...

...to gather in the new world

day breaks

The blossoms beseech the gods.

"Even though in this world..."

"...we may know grief and suffering

"our dreams shall never die"...

B-Batou!

Oh

I haven't forgotten
the debt I owe you!

"I never recall you to my memory
because I have never forgotten you

C'mon

But I also have too much dignity to be
buttered up by you calling me "sir."

Forgive me! I beg you!
I'll be in your debt for life!

You know a guy by
the name of Kim?

Never heard
of him.

I mean

Maybe

Hey

"There are two kinds of loyalty. One
maintains secrets

"The two cannot coexist."
Which kind do you have?

The same guy also said that without lies

I'll ask you one more time. You know
this guy named Kim

I don't know the guy!
Uh

"When we face death

"As soon as one string is cut

"Even though
in this world..."

"...we may know grief
and suffering

"our dreams
shall never die"...

...and they fall from the branch
in anger.

Man From Machine

Well?

He started out as a long-range scout
for the military.

"Having failed in leading

"...he is fit only to die
by the side of the road."

His career was shot to hell for things
like running black market arms deals...

...while he was bouncing between
Special Forces and cyberwarfare units.

In the end

One of those "colorful history"
types

"If an ass goes a-traveling

He's just a dumb son of a bitch who
bit off more than he could chew.

You coming?

Batou. In the study
on the upper floor.

I guess we got here
too late.

He must've tried to hack into somewhere
and gotten fried by an attack barrier.

He probably wouldn't have been any
use to us even if he was still alive.

"In accordance with the deceased's wishes

"...any offers of live flowers

Hey!

"In bed he did not lie
like a corpse."

Even the great Confucius says
you shouldn't play possum.

I haven't got time to play
your stupid games.

It's been a long time

I'm here
on business.

Locus Solus

but once they switched focus to developing
and producing high-end gynoids

their business started
to expand rapidly.

It's rumored that they're cozy
with politicians

high-ranking bureaucrats

They got paranoid about visits from
the authorities

...their production line inside a multinational
factory ship anchored off the coast.

The dolls they make there
are fine pieces of work.

Good enough to commit murder
and then kill themselves?

If that's true

I don't understand people
who try to mimic humans...

...by breathing souls
into dolls.

The definition of a truly beautiful doll is
a flesh and blood body devoid of a soul.

A corpse standing on tiptoes

And that's why you decided to turn
yourself into a cyberized invalid?

In terms of appearance
and grace of movement

no

The flaws in man's knowledge
leads to flaws in man's reality.

That sort of perfection can only
be achieved by something...

...that possesses no consciousness

In other words

Look

Actually

Animals

Shelly's skylarks are filled with the joy
of the deep subconscious

something that creatures like us

For the descendants of those who ate
of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge

that's a far more difficult proposition
than becoming as gods.

So you put yourself into the body of
a doll and played dead. Is that why?

As Confucius said

"Few people know death..."

"...we only endure it

"usually from determination

"and most men only die because
they know not how to prevent dying."

But to a living doll

That was the reason Kim decided
to get a full prosthetic body.

Well?

His career was shot to hell for things
like running black market arms deals...

...while he was bouncing between
Special Forces and cyberwarfare units.

In the end

One of those "colorful history"
types

"If an ass goes a-traveling

What's the matter?
Let's go.

Batou!

"On this day of this month

"...of the happy occasion
of his death."

Hey!

This is seriously disturbing

It's the uncertainty that maybe something
that appears to be alive actually isn't.

And the uncertainty that
on the other hand

maybe something that doesn't appear
to be alive actually is.

If you want to know what
makes dolls so unnerving

it's because they are
modelled after humans.

In other words

The fear that humans might be reduced
to simple mechanisms and materials.

The fear

...is fundamentally devoid
of meaning and purpose.

Stop this crap

Even science

has played a major role
in fomenting this fear.

The belief that nature is quantifiable
leads to the conclusion...

...that humanity can also be reduced
to simple mechanical parts.

"The human body is a machine
which winds its own springs."

"It is the living image
of perpetual movement."

The 18th Century
"man as machine" theory...

...has been resurrected by cyberbrains
and prosthetic body technology.

Ever since it became possible to externalize
memory through the use of computers

man has been aggressively
mechanizing himself...

...in order to expand the upper limits
of his abilities as a living creature.

It's a manifestation of the desire to
overcome Darwinian survival of the fittest

and to break free of the evolutionary
rat race through sheer strength of will

as well as the desire to outdo the natural
world that gave birth to humanity itself.

The fantasy of a lifeform equipped
with perfect hardware...

...is what gave rise
to this nightmare.

"God forever geometrizes."

Let's go!

Batou!

How do you feel?

I... What the hell?

You were in a virtual experience maze.
Your cyberbrain got hacked.

Just like good things
come in threes

bad things also turn up
in sets of three.

You don't want to see

And if you say something

But in our world

If we miss that first hint

I thought I told you that we didn't
have time for your games.

When did you
figure it out?!

Nobody's easier to trick than somebody
who thinks he's tricking you.

You might have been
a cyberwarfare specialist

...but I'm an old
infowar pro myself.

And besides

Call up the hall data from that huge
external memory device of yours.

According to Jacob Grimm

...by inscribing the word "aemaeth

But if you erase the first two letters

meaning "death

This was an oracle telling me that there
was no truth to be found here in this villa.

You're trying to tell me that someone
breached the barriers I set up?

Impossible! No one could
pull that off!

Weren't you listening?
I said I have a guardian angel.

Game's over

That's an ordinary doll.

You need to learn when to quit

Batou

...of the reality that was manufactured
by my virtual signals?

My Ghost is whispering
to me.

Humanity is just another thread
from which the dream of life is woven.

That is

are rips and distortions that arise
in the uniform

You and I are both
worthless human beings

but we're not in
the same shoes.

Folks who doesn't believe
in the Ghost...

...will never know madness

What little flesh you have left
will never decay.

I bet it'll keep on functioning physically
until you finally get what's coming to you.

We're really back in the
real world

There's nothing to distinguish between
a memory and your recollection of it.

In both cases

Not being able to save the subjective
passage of time makes things tricky.

When you have a cyberbrain and allow
your memories to be shared externally

this is one price you're
gonna pay sooner or later.

Do you have really have a wife and kid
waiting for you at home?

Or are you still
a bachelor

sitting alone in some dingy apartment
somewhere

Don't you want
to go find out?

If you he was gonna try that

I had to find out what
his objective was.

He set his trap

then infect us with that virtual
experience to get rid of us.

Probably something
like that.

Maybe he planted a tap in my cyberbrain
when he had me dancing to his tune...

...and made me blow off
my right arm.

Just like Ishikawa said

...wouldn't stop
at just that.

Locus Solus is probably
thinking the same thing.

So you anticipated this would happen
from the very beginning?

The plan was to make him think I'd fallen
into his trap to get close to him

but Kim is one talented
son of a bitch.

If I hadn't gotten that sign

That "guardian angel"
you mentioned

She's gone away. Out beyond
the rips in the uniform matrix.

Somewhere out in the vast net

If you're looking to prove
your own existence

there's as many ways
as there are Ghosts.

You yourself have
a daughter

Back when we were in the jungle

I've come out of this with
a valuable lesson

What's that?

That I don't have what it takes
to be your partner.

You wimping out
on me?

It's not because
of what you said

but I do want to make it back
to my daughter in one piece.

Be that as it may

You're not done yet?

The files we pulled from his cyberbrain
prove Locus Solus' criminal...

All we can prove is obstruction
and violating the Cyberbrain Ethics Act.

And besides

To prove criminal liability in the killing
rampage those gynoids went on

we need hard evidence

Maybe

No

His cyberbrain is Ghost-packed

We have to finish this before they
say to hell with appearances...

...and tie up all their
loose ends.

Long ago

"When right and wrong are in doubt

When talk has failed

Hey! This is worlds apart from
busting into some yakuza office!

I'm not counting on your
Mateba to watch my back.

"Birds hide by flying high into the heavens

- Contact made with escort.
- Roger.

I'm amazed you have the guts
to dive with a body like that.

This area's so deep that if you went down

I used to know a cyborg who
went scuba diving for fun.

Yeah?

I don't know what the hell
she was thinking.

I'm playing along because
Lin vouched for you

but they say that nobody's ever gone
to that ship and lived to tell about it.

I don't know what
you are thinking.

That makes two of us.
Take us in.

Hold on tight.

Contact with sensor picket line
in 12 seconds.

I'm gonna send out a virtual signal
for 2 seconds on their channel.

Acknowledged.

I'll be

Commencing synchronization.

All right

Upload complete. Are you
piggybacking my visual feed?

Of course. I wouldn't miss the
Big Man's big infiltration.

I'm already recording.

You can be a real smartass

"Please let the dawn..."

"...be waiting in the underworld."

Intruder alert. Reactivate
security system at level 2.

Begin facility-wide scan
of all cyberbrain activity.

Scanning for terminals where memory
usage and virus size matches.

Possible time bomb virus.
Be advised.

Unable to establish logic connection
with supervisor.

Execute reinitialization.

System reactivation complete.
Running at level 2.

Establish diversionary route
for intruder.

Rebuilding logic barrier.
Loading antibodies.

Virus scan in progress.

Trace route team

Deploying full array of ambush virus
variants inside barriers.

Commencing isolation
of infected areas.

Rebuild peripheral barriers
at level 1.

Barrier 014 breached.

Barrier 032
showing type 280 error.

Enemy attack barrier
modulation pattern determined.

Commencing virus transfer.

"Please let the dawn..."

Pull out! It's too dangerous for you to stay
any longer! You'll get your brain fried!

Not yet! I can keep working
a little longer!

You dumb bastard!
Don't try to be a hero!

"...be waiting in the underworld

the blossoms beseech the gods.

"When we face death

"As soon as one string is cut

Illegal input in gynoid production line

Unidentified ambush-type
virus suspected.

Deploy all antibody variants
and stop it.

Unable to track. All machines
have been activated.

Unable to establish
logic connection.

Now loading self-defense programs
for combat-model prosthetic bodies.

Alert. Abnormal startup
of bodies on THO7 line.

Security teams

Repeating...

The blossoms beseech the gods.

"Even though in this world..."

"...we may know grief and suffering

"our dreams shall never die

...and they fall from the branch in anger.

"And the Holy Spirit descended
in bodily form upon Him..."

Been a long time

Or what should I call you
these days?

To be precise

This gynoid's cyberbrain simply
doesn't have the capacity.

The combat control programs alone
are taking up most of its free space.

This is the best I can do
for speech and facial expression.

Go straight up this corridor
about 50 meters

and there ought to be
an emergency terminal.

We'll gain access through that and
take control of the whole system.

You haven't changed
one bit.

Get moving

I've got your back.
Just like the old days.

"There are few who can hold up
a mirror and not become evil."

"A mirror does not expose evil;
rather

Hey

"In short

...and they fall from the branch
in anger.

Hey

It's just until I get control
of ship's receiver system.

Jack into the auxiliary
terminal in the floor.

Until I gain control

My only defense will be
your.30 caliber

My regular brain can handle the targeting

If I have to go hand-to-hand with those
things

I'm starting.

Illegal connection
to shipboard systems.

Shipboard? Scan for access point
and raise attack barriers.

Multiple virtual signals
at multiple terminals.

No increased fluctuations in
terminal cyberbrain activity.

Scan all external
access points.

Sever all external connections

Physically isolate shipboard
input devices.

No response from emergency
control systems.

Remote ignition impossible.

Modular viruses assembling system-wide.
System-area barriers being breached.

Prepare for system reboot.
Commencing data isolation at level 1.

In the sad perpetual darkness...

...of a hundred nights

they pray to the gods of the land...

...for the egg of the next world to be born.

"When we face death

I have control. I've locked out
all external access.

This ship is operating
in full standalone mode.

It's started moving?

The ship is heading from the
extraterritorial Northern Frontier...

...to a neighboring country
where the rule of law applies.

The ship itself is hard evidence
of Locus Solus' criminal activity.

They're gonna come
after us.

Ships will turn up before then
to escort us in.

I've already sent out
a request.

Now

...Locus Solus used to breathe
souls into these dolls?

You don't know already?

You have your suspicions

There's no noise at all. This chamber
is completely EM-shielded?

Ghost dubbing...

The technology was able to produce
multiple degraded copies in animal tests

but it was banned when they learned
that it destroyed the brain of the original.

They take the kids they smuggled in
using the Koujinkai's routes

brainwash them

So

Please help us...

You came to save us!
Mr. Vaucanson said you would!

He was sure that people from the police
would come! That they would save us!

I'm a stage 4

She can't hear anything

The murdered inspector tweaked their
ethics code to try to help these children

and when he was found out

That's the long
and short of it.

He said that if the robots caused accidents

Someone would come
help us!

Didn't it ever occur to you
that there would be victims?

I'm not talking about
the humans.

Didn't you stop to think what would happen
to the dolls that were given souls?

But I...
I didn't...

I didn't want to
turn into a doll!

"We are saddened by a bird's cry

"Blessed are those
with voices."

If those dolls
had voices

I bet they would have screamed

Let me ask you something.
Are you happy the way you are now?

I haven't seen things that way
for a long time.

At the very least

"Let a man walk alone

"Let him have
few wishes..."

"...like an elephant
in the forest."

Don't forget

Whenever you access the net

Time to go.

Gods in Heaven

She appeared to you on that ship

Being tight-lipped again

I'll come pick you up
at 0800 tomorrow.

I need to repay you for
looking after my gal

How about it?
Want to come in?

Getting all warm and fuzzy with
someone else's family isn't my thing.

Daddy!

Did you bring me a present?
Where's my present?

- I didn't forget. Here.
- Yay!

A Team Nanban (594mgnav) Release