1 00:00:02,210 --> 00:00:04,629 What is it? It's the middle of the night. 2 00:00:04,713 --> 00:00:07,340 There's just something bothering me. 3 00:00:07,424 --> 00:00:09,009 I still have nothing on Scar. 4 00:00:09,092 --> 00:00:11,886 Or is this about Dr. Marcoh in the care of the Führer? 5 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:14,764 Yeah, there is that too. 6 00:00:14,848 --> 00:00:16,891 But lately, it feels like we haven't even appeared-- 7 00:00:18,059 --> 00:00:21,104 That idiot. He doesn't know how I feel. 8 00:00:21,187 --> 00:00:25,608 I wonder if you should have reported this to Col. Mustang too. 9 00:00:25,692 --> 00:00:28,486 About the brothers, I mean. 10 00:00:28,570 --> 00:00:31,614 We don't need to tell him. Not yet. 11 00:00:32,782 --> 00:00:36,369 The group that I was going to send to the library for security is standing by. 12 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:39,581 They should be more reliable than I am, for now. 13 00:00:39,664 --> 00:00:40,665 Does that mean...? 14 00:00:40,749 --> 00:00:44,335 Yeah, on my own authority, 15 00:00:44,419 --> 00:00:46,921 I approve the entry and investigation of the site of the Fifth Laboratory. 16 00:00:47,005 --> 00:00:49,174 However, get ready to be punished. 17 00:01:17,368 --> 00:01:19,496 I hate that place! 18 00:01:22,290 --> 00:01:24,125 It's been a long time, huh, boy? 19 00:01:25,293 --> 00:01:29,464 But then, I guess it was four years ago that you first saw me. 20 00:01:29,547 --> 00:01:31,966 That night with the pretty fireworks. 21 00:01:38,473 --> 00:01:40,183 Who in the world are you? 22 00:01:40,266 --> 00:01:43,561 That other guy said you were a homunculus. 23 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:45,396 But that couldn't be. 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,190 Oh, why is that? 25 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:52,195 A homunculus is an artificially-created person. 26 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:54,197 A man who isn't a man. 27 00:01:57,492 --> 00:02:02,038 But there has never been anyone who could create one. It's impossible. 28 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:05,208 Impossible? That's nonsense. 29 00:02:05,291 --> 00:02:10,463 After all, there's a boy who is nothing but a soul standing in front of me. 30 00:02:14,551 --> 00:02:16,511 You're not a person. 31 00:02:20,390 --> 00:02:23,476 Can I eat him? 32 00:02:29,566 --> 00:02:34,154 Man cannot obtain anything without first sacrificing something. 33 00:02:34,237 --> 00:02:38,449 In order to obtain anything, something of equal value is required. 34 00:02:38,533 --> 00:02:43,079 That is alchemy's Law of Equivalent Exchange. 35 00:02:44,247 --> 00:02:49,168 At the time, we believed that to be the true way of the world. 36 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:23,137 CREATED HUMAN 37 00:04:27,725 --> 00:04:31,521 I'm starting to understand the research that took place here. 38 00:04:31,604 --> 00:04:35,858 The gist of it is the large-scale military use of alchemy. 39 00:04:35,942 --> 00:04:40,071 In particular, research related to human transmutation. 40 00:04:41,281 --> 00:04:45,535 They used these incomplete Philosopher's Stones. 41 00:04:45,618 --> 00:04:50,248 Knowing you, it's possible that you can complete the Philosopher's Stones. 42 00:04:50,915 --> 00:04:53,835 You know about how these things are manufactured? 43 00:04:53,918 --> 00:04:57,255 No. By the time I was brought here, 44 00:04:57,338 --> 00:05:01,718 they had already been mass-produced and then abandoned. 45 00:05:01,801 --> 00:05:04,095 The person who was in charge here before, Dr. Marcoh, 46 00:05:04,178 --> 00:05:05,638 must have left them behind. 47 00:05:05,722 --> 00:05:06,556 What's that? 48 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:11,644 Regardless of what they are made from, do they have any meaning? 49 00:05:12,562 --> 00:05:16,065 Even if the ingredients are people, 50 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:19,110 would you be able to turn them back? 51 00:05:24,365 --> 00:05:25,533 In that case, 52 00:05:25,616 --> 00:05:29,287 making them into complete Stones would give them a lot more meaning. 53 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:31,873 I agree with him. 54 00:05:31,956 --> 00:05:32,790 You? 55 00:05:32,874 --> 00:05:37,295 As they are, their lives will have meant nothing at all. 56 00:05:37,378 --> 00:05:39,297 But... 57 00:05:45,219 --> 00:05:47,346 No meaning? 58 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:03,613 Al, your life hasn't lost its meaning, 59 00:06:17,168 --> 00:06:19,587 You're working overtime this late in the night. 60 00:06:19,670 --> 00:06:23,216 Führer! Sorry to cause a commotion. 61 00:06:23,925 --> 00:06:27,095 I hear you have suspicions about the Fifth Laboratory. 62 00:06:28,429 --> 00:06:32,183 There have been rumors before now, but I always overlooked them, 63 00:06:32,266 --> 00:06:34,852 thinking Brig. Gen. Grand was working for the good of the military. 64 00:06:34,936 --> 00:06:40,858 But now, the lives of the two alchemists are at stake, things are different. 65 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:44,570 I'll send a squad with the major and come myself. 66 00:06:44,654 --> 00:06:47,949 There's no way I'm going to have you go in alone. 67 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:53,871 Where is the scarred man? 68 00:06:53,955 --> 00:06:56,499 He dropped down into a nasty place. 69 00:06:56,582 --> 00:06:58,668 I see. No matter. 70 00:06:59,669 --> 00:07:02,505 Greed may be coming to interfere. 71 00:07:02,588 --> 00:07:04,674 We'll have to get the Fullmetal boy to speed things up. 72 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,145 This is the area right above the transmutation circle, right? 73 00:07:17,228 --> 00:07:19,188 They've been made into storage tanks, 74 00:07:19,272 --> 00:07:22,233 to supply the Philosopher's Stones in the room below us. 75 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:29,449 All right, I can use this. 76 00:07:45,465 --> 00:07:50,720 You humans, really, a hundred years can go by and you never change. 77 00:07:59,687 --> 00:08:01,314 What's with that bastard? 78 00:08:01,397 --> 00:08:04,317 Is he really a soldier? 79 00:08:07,445 --> 00:08:11,199 Do you still think that person is His Excellency Basque Grand? 80 00:08:11,282 --> 00:08:15,953 His Excellency isn't that great. 81 00:08:17,580 --> 00:08:19,790 You say you're going to transmute both rooms at the same time? 82 00:08:19,874 --> 00:08:24,378 Yeah. The Philosopher's Stones in this room alone won't be enough. 83 00:08:24,462 --> 00:08:29,175 Even Mr. Marcoh's research suggest a way of using two transmutation circle. 84 00:08:30,259 --> 00:08:33,387 The Philosopher's Stones above and the Philosopher's Stones here, 85 00:08:33,471 --> 00:08:36,599 will collide with the two transmutation circles and condense together. 86 00:08:36,682 --> 00:08:39,769 That kind of explosive power is necessary to refine them. 87 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:41,437 I'm changing the transmutation circle. 88 00:08:50,780 --> 00:08:53,699 A transmutation circle with seven corn. 89 00:08:53,783 --> 00:08:55,284 It's the first time I've seen one. 90 00:08:55,368 --> 00:08:57,328 It just came to me. 91 00:08:57,411 --> 00:08:59,789 If I succeed in creating a Philosopher's Stone, 92 00:08:59,872 --> 00:09:03,125 I'm going to return Al to normal and then disappear. 93 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:06,170 You can do whatever you want afterwards. 94 00:09:06,254 --> 00:09:07,797 I'm glad to hear that. 95 00:09:20,726 --> 00:09:23,729 - Let us out! - Is anyone out there? 96 00:09:23,813 --> 00:09:24,647 Hey! 97 00:09:24,730 --> 00:09:27,692 Shut up, will you? 98 00:09:27,775 --> 00:09:29,652 Why are you all relaxed? 99 00:09:29,735 --> 00:09:32,280 Not even you, the comrade-killer, 100 00:09:32,363 --> 00:09:35,908 once known as the Crimson Alchemist, can do anything about this, can you? 101 00:09:37,493 --> 00:09:41,747 Do you know why I am called the Comrade-Killer? 102 00:09:41,831 --> 00:09:44,917 You blew up your all comrades, right? With bombs? 103 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:45,876 Bombs? 104 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,671 I have no need for such things. 105 00:09:50,256 --> 00:09:53,509 The human body is composed mostly of water, 106 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:56,679 but there is a certain quantity of metallic atoms included within. 107 00:09:56,762 --> 00:10:01,642 By making use of that composition and a small amount of organic compound, 108 00:10:01,726 --> 00:10:05,146 I can easily transmute explosive matter. 109 00:10:05,229 --> 00:10:10,401 And surrounded by this much red water... 110 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:12,403 my power becomes... 111 00:10:36,469 --> 00:10:37,928 Why are there people here? 112 00:10:38,012 --> 00:10:41,807 Were there any other researchers left besides you? 113 00:10:41,891 --> 00:10:45,603 Those people are wearing prisoner uniforms. 114 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:55,363 Why are they here? If I had transmuted without knowing they were there... 115 00:10:59,909 --> 00:11:02,828 You guys! Who brought you here? 116 00:11:02,912 --> 00:11:06,791 I did, Fullmetal Alchemist! 117 00:11:07,583 --> 00:11:12,046 Under my orders, the prisoners from the 2nd Prison were relocated here. 118 00:11:12,129 --> 00:11:14,423 And whose permission did you obtain to be here? 119 00:11:18,928 --> 00:11:20,596 That was a close one. 120 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,433 The general died right before my eyes. 121 00:11:27,686 --> 00:11:29,772 Who are you? 122 00:11:29,855 --> 00:11:32,274 Nice to meet you, Fullmetal Pipsqueak. 123 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:35,152 I'm impressed you found your way here. 124 00:11:35,236 --> 00:11:38,155 Just kidding, you good-for-nothing. 125 00:11:39,824 --> 00:11:44,370 Whoa! My, you really are driven, huh, Pipsqueak? 126 00:11:44,453 --> 00:11:47,665 That's too bad. I really hate fighting, you know? 127 00:11:47,748 --> 00:11:49,500 You shut up with that "Pipsqueak" stuff. 128 00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:51,877 You're the one who started this fight! 129 00:11:58,134 --> 00:12:01,929 Good grief, you don't even know your own place. 130 00:12:02,012 --> 00:12:06,183 Do you know who you're picking a fight with? Huh? 131 00:12:06,267 --> 00:12:12,022 We've only kept you alive because we were told to keep you alive! 132 00:12:12,606 --> 00:12:16,861 You're going to pay. You are definitely going to pay. 133 00:12:17,486 --> 00:12:19,655 You, who carry his blood! 134 00:12:19,738 --> 00:12:21,866 Envy! 135 00:12:23,909 --> 00:12:26,996 It's your fault for not thoroughly checking the ingredients. 136 00:12:28,539 --> 00:12:29,957 You. 137 00:12:31,167 --> 00:12:34,295 You don't want this experience to become any more painful, right? 138 00:12:34,378 --> 00:12:36,964 If not, would you be kind enough to continue with your transmutation? 139 00:12:37,047 --> 00:12:42,678 We've had a setback but there are still ingredients remaining. 140 00:12:44,054 --> 00:12:47,600 Use these prisoners to create a Philosopher's Stone? 141 00:12:47,683 --> 00:12:50,436 You set it up for me to do this from the start? 142 00:12:58,444 --> 00:13:01,238 You aren't going to say no to us. 143 00:13:03,657 --> 00:13:05,075 Al! 144 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:11,081 Brother, these guys... They're homunculi. 145 00:13:12,166 --> 00:13:13,709 They couldn't be. 146 00:13:13,792 --> 00:13:15,586 He's right. 147 00:13:20,257 --> 00:13:25,513 These people are all homunculi, perfectly created humans. 148 00:13:25,596 --> 00:13:29,225 They have promised to reveal their secrets to me. 149 00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:32,311 Once they do, Nina will come back to life. 150 00:13:34,897 --> 00:13:36,899 What's the point of bringing just her form back to life? 151 00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:39,568 Nina's spirit won't be in there! 152 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:41,612 I do have her spirit. 153 00:13:42,154 --> 00:13:43,113 Right here. 154 00:13:44,323 --> 00:13:47,243 The Nina that lives in my memories. 155 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:51,497 I will transplant all of it into the homunculus Nina. 156 00:13:51,580 --> 00:13:53,791 Once I do, the truly perfect Nina, 157 00:13:53,874 --> 00:13:57,044 the greatest one that I could desire, will be born. 158 00:13:57,127 --> 00:13:59,380 Transplant memories? 159 00:13:59,463 --> 00:14:01,966 That won't be Nina! 160 00:14:03,467 --> 00:14:05,594 Okay, that's enough chit-chat. 161 00:14:05,678 --> 00:14:10,057 Fullmetal Pipsqueak, why don't you start the transmutation already? 162 00:14:10,140 --> 00:14:12,726 First, repair the ceiling. 163 00:14:16,188 --> 00:14:20,776 This is a problem. We cannot use alchemy. 164 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,988 We have to ask someone else to do it. 165 00:14:24,071 --> 00:14:26,490 You can't use alchemy? 166 00:14:26,574 --> 00:14:28,826 If so, why do you need the Philosopher's Stone? 167 00:14:31,412 --> 00:14:33,330 Are you like Cornello? 168 00:14:33,414 --> 00:14:38,377 Are you megalomaniacs with desires of controlling the world? 169 00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:42,006 We want to be human. 170 00:14:44,091 --> 00:14:45,175 That's all. 171 00:14:47,386 --> 00:14:53,350 If you're really homunculi, then there must be an alchemist who created you. 172 00:14:53,434 --> 00:14:56,312 And if even he couldn't create a Philosopher's Stone-- 173 00:14:56,395 --> 00:15:00,024 We weren't created by anyone! We were born! 174 00:15:01,442 --> 00:15:03,235 All we can do 175 00:15:03,319 --> 00:15:06,697 is dangle hints about the Philosopher's Stone, 176 00:15:06,780 --> 00:15:11,660 leading those who desire the Stone to someday complete it. 177 00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:16,707 Hold on. Then you're the ones who taught Mugear how to use the red water. 178 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:20,002 And informed Mr. Marcoh and Tucker of a lot of things 179 00:15:20,085 --> 00:15:22,212 while working here in this laboratory. 180 00:15:22,296 --> 00:15:26,759 And in the town of Liore, gave Cornello that fake Philosopher's Stone. 181 00:15:26,842 --> 00:15:28,719 By doing so, 182 00:15:28,802 --> 00:15:31,221 you fools who held interest in the Philosopher's Stone gathered around. 183 00:15:32,181 --> 00:15:35,225 And so, we found you. 184 00:15:36,894 --> 00:15:40,731 And then I ended up here? 185 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:47,571 No! Me and Al came this far for our own sakes! 186 00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:51,241 Our long journey... We've finally arrived... 187 00:15:51,325 --> 00:15:54,244 Because that's what we wanted. 188 00:15:54,328 --> 00:15:57,998 We aren't being controlled by anyone! 189 00:15:58,082 --> 00:16:00,709 It's an equivalent exchange. 190 00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,337 We teach you the way to refine the Philosopher's Stone, 191 00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:08,759 you use the Stone and turn us into humans. 192 00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:15,474 I can't trust you. 193 00:16:15,557 --> 00:16:19,853 Do not misunderstand. We are not asking you to do this. 194 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:24,858 This is an order. 195 00:16:26,485 --> 00:16:31,365 After all the trouble it took to bond this soul, by doing this... 196 00:16:33,701 --> 00:16:36,787 Hey! Stop that! You stupid bitch! 197 00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:40,290 Edward Elric, I-- 198 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,434 - It's simple. - Stop! 199 00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:03,063 Please stop! Please, don't do anything else to my brother! 200 00:17:03,147 --> 00:17:03,981 Brother! 201 00:17:04,857 --> 00:17:08,527 Brother, it's all right. After all, I'm only a... 202 00:17:08,610 --> 00:17:10,654 Suppose you were an imitation, what would you do then? 203 00:17:10,738 --> 00:17:13,991 Do you have any proof that you ever really existed? 204 00:17:14,074 --> 00:17:16,452 You keep quiet, Al! 205 00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:41,143 Brother, stop! Are you serious? 206 00:17:49,443 --> 00:17:53,655 What folly! I knew I should have sent him back to God. 207 00:17:54,364 --> 00:17:57,034 I'm sure the boy can do it. 208 00:17:57,117 --> 00:17:58,368 Brother! Stop! 209 00:18:14,968 --> 00:18:19,056 Brother, stop! Those people are human! 210 00:18:19,139 --> 00:18:21,850 Yeah, that's right. So what? 211 00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:26,355 I don't want to return to my original body if it means sacrificing other humans! 212 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:30,984 You were aware of that from the beginning when you tried to bring your mother 213 00:18:31,068 --> 00:18:32,569 back to life, weren't you? 214 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:38,742 Nothing else but a human life will do when it comes to human transmutation. 215 00:18:40,035 --> 00:18:45,833 For someone to live, they must take from someone else's life to some degree. 216 00:18:46,583 --> 00:18:50,587 In order to accomplish something, a sacrifice must be made. 217 00:18:50,671 --> 00:18:52,589 All grown-ups know that. 218 00:18:52,673 --> 00:18:54,091 But, we didn't-- 219 00:18:54,174 --> 00:18:57,803 You didn't care if you were cursed as dogs of the military? 220 00:18:57,886 --> 00:19:00,931 That's what you decided when you entered adult society, isn't it? 221 00:19:01,014 --> 00:19:04,268 Don't go turning back into children now that it suits you. 222 00:19:05,561 --> 00:19:09,356 So this is the real truth behind all truths, huh? 223 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,281 Brother! 224 00:19:18,407 --> 00:19:23,287 Al, if we give up here, then we'll never... 225 00:19:39,803 --> 00:19:41,638 I'm sorry, Al... 226 00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:45,309 I just can't... 227 00:19:58,363 --> 00:20:00,532 Fullmetal Alchemist! 228 00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:03,285 Take your brother and go! 229 00:20:04,494 --> 00:20:06,121 Don't be ridiculous! 230 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:08,665 The older brother protects the younger one! 231 00:20:11,251 --> 00:20:12,753 Al! 232 00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:15,839 We cannot allow this to end just yet! 233 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:30,354 Oh, no. 234 00:20:31,146 --> 00:20:33,232 Even with the unfinished Philosopher's Stone, 235 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:37,110 with this much of it, the caster's power will be augmented. 236 00:20:42,699 --> 00:20:44,952 Prepare to charge in through the back entrance! 237 00:20:45,035 --> 00:20:46,662 The surrounding area is also sealed off. 238 00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:52,000 I repeat, secure the large suit of armor and the boy with the braid. 239 00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:55,087 Take anyone who appears to be a civilian employee into custody. 240 00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:56,463 And everyone else? 241 00:20:56,546 --> 00:20:57,547 Mow them down! 242 00:20:57,631 --> 00:20:59,049 Move in! 243 00:21:04,137 --> 00:21:07,557 It couldn't be! The Crimson Alchemist. 244 00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:25,158 Edward! 245 00:21:25,242 --> 00:21:27,869 The transmutation reaction is increasing without bounds! 246 00:21:28,996 --> 00:21:30,080 Lt. Ross! 247 00:21:49,516 --> 00:21:51,018 Mom? 248 00:22:01,653 --> 00:22:03,238 Good work. 249 00:23:38,166 --> 00:23:39,751 Fullmetal Alchemist... 250 00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:42,212 Episode 23: "Heart of Steel" 251 00:23:44,131 --> 00:23:48,552 Brother, what is it that you've been wanting to say for so long, but couldn't? 252 00:23:50,053 --> 00:23:52,180 It's not, by any chance...?