1
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Fuchikoma — amplify footsteps.

2
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I'm fine. And so is he.

3
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Thought you were gonna die?

4
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Still, that back there — that was brutal.

5
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Even if he IS the perp,

6
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having someone else hold your own
ghost-intrusion key and use it on you...

7
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...doesn't exactly feel good.

8
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That's what you get for
aiming at his head.

9
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A corpse won't cough up its
handlers or its sources.

10
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A guy like that, you
might as well just kill.

11
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Leave him alive and his buddies
attack civilians at random somewhere,

12
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demanding we release him.

13
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We have to make an example of him.

14
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Naturally, we'll heal the
dangerous parts of him.

15
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And we won't let the
handlers slip away either.

16
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As long as you keep
calling him 'the perp,'

17
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I'll hold onto the intrusion key.

18
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I don't like it either,

19
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but it's the job. Nothing to be done.

20
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Quit saying 'the perp, the perp.'

21
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I thought you were about
to get hit, Major.

22
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Huh? Wasn't it to protect the
kid dangling from my right arm?

23
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You've gotten a little sloppy.

24
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I'm grateful, though.

25
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Batou. Batou, it's Kusanagi.

26
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Patch me through to the Chief.

27
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Right — when the chopper's guest
enters the mansion, we move in.

28
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Do it politely.

29
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I love this kind of thing.

30
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You're a sadist.

31
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Huh?

32
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The kid's alone?

33
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No need to be so tense.

34
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That car that just entered the
mansion — it's been reported stolen.

35
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Have your squad pull the plugs
on every car at the mansion.

36
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Don't make such a gloomy face.

37
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Puppet Master.

38
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I've come to collect the rest of my pay.

39
00:08:01,898 --> 00:08:07,320
Puppet Master — Section 6 has
been reverse-tracing the HA3.

40
00:08:08,029 --> 00:08:11,741
No need to rush. Of course they have.

41
00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:15,537
The man they'll catch by
that trace is a puppet.

42
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A pitiful civilian with a fabricated past —
a hitman hired by a military attaché
of the Republic's embassy.

43
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That man believes himself to be a puppet master,
able to manipulate ordinary people like puppets.

44
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A superb setup.

45
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Using the puppets, you made it look like internal
strife within the Republic's government.

46
00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:40,812
Better to keep him alive
and use him than kill him.

47
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Killing him is something
we can do anytime.

48
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I ordered you to kill the representative.

49
00:08:47,902 --> 00:08:51,239
No, no, no — this time
was a demonstration.

50
00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:53,867
I merely proved my worth to you.

51
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Just how much are you
planning to make me pay?

52
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Any idea how hard it is to manipulate the
intelligence bureau's financial data?

53
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I don't care.

54
00:09:02,625 --> 00:09:05,128
Not my problem!

55
00:09:06,045 --> 00:09:10,216
Not when you're raking it in on platinum.

56
00:09:10,383 --> 00:09:14,679
He's the man YOU brought
in. YOU deal with him.

57
00:09:15,013 --> 00:09:21,770
Come on now — your request was to set it up so the
interpreter would attack the conference, wasn't it?

58
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Break the contract, and
things get unpleasant.

59
00:09:25,482 --> 00:09:29,068
Enough of this idiotic wordplay.

60
00:09:29,194 --> 00:09:29,986
Wrong.

61
00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,907
This is a hundred-thousand-dollar
cash deal.

62
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Purely mechanical.

63
00:09:36,785 --> 00:09:40,038
There's nothing more to discuss.

64
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Excuse us.

65
00:09:46,711 --> 00:09:48,421
Who the hell are you?

66
00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:50,423
What are you doing in my mansion?

67
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Public Security.

68
00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:53,092
You're under arrest.

69
00:09:53,343 --> 00:09:54,469
Colonel Malles.

70
00:09:54,636 --> 00:09:57,013
On what investigation?

71
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Do you have evidence?

72
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I'll sue!

73
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I'm calling my lawyer!

74
00:10:00,975 --> 00:10:03,228
You'd be wise to call one, yes.

75
00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:04,979
Go ahead.

76
00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:08,066
Look what you've done.

77
00:10:08,149 --> 00:10:13,029
Two years of my undercover
operation — all down the drain.

78
00:10:13,112 --> 00:10:16,616
Then let's hear about
this operation of yours.

79
00:10:16,699 --> 00:10:19,035
Somewhere nice and dark, at length.

80
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Treason against the state.
Financial fraud investigation.

81
00:10:22,247 --> 00:10:25,375
Corruption. Accessory to murder.
Cyberbrain ethics violations.

82
00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:29,003
Prison's hard enough on a cop as it is.

83
00:10:29,254 --> 00:10:30,672
Whoops.

84
00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:33,007
S-So you're a cop?

85
00:10:33,258 --> 00:10:36,511
Drop any notion of resisting
and getting yourself shot.

86
00:10:36,594 --> 00:10:39,305
Walk on with a dream in your heart, hm?

87
00:10:40,098 --> 00:10:44,060
There's an extradition request for
you from your home country, Colonel,

88
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so you'll be sent home in a few days.

89
00:10:46,688 --> 00:10:47,480
What?!

90
00:10:47,605 --> 00:10:50,066
If I go home, they'll kill me!

91
00:10:50,150 --> 00:10:50,900
Is that so.

92
00:10:51,067 --> 00:10:52,777
My condolences.

93
00:10:53,027 --> 00:10:55,071
I have a hundred thousand
in cash right here.

94
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Use it and let me go.

95
00:10:56,948 --> 00:10:57,365
Please!

96
00:10:57,615 --> 00:11:01,286
It was Nakajima —
Nakajima put me up to it!

97
00:11:02,954 --> 00:11:06,958
Zui Sema. Nobody's resisting?

98
00:11:07,041 --> 00:11:09,669
Hey.

99
00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:12,255
Simulated experience?

100
00:11:12,338 --> 00:11:13,840
What do you mean?

101
00:11:14,132 --> 00:11:16,217
In other words, you're single.

102
00:11:16,426 --> 00:11:20,263
The wife, the kids, the divorce,
the affair — all of it's a dream.

103
00:11:20,346 --> 00:11:24,767
You've been running ghost-hacks
on government officials.

104
00:11:24,851 --> 00:11:25,977
That... can't be.

105
00:11:26,060 --> 00:11:28,229
What on earth did you—

106
00:11:28,313 --> 00:11:31,566
There's a way to erase this
false dream, isn't there?

107
00:11:31,691 --> 00:11:37,196
Unfortunately, with current technology, only
two successful cases have ever been reported.

108
00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:38,740
I really couldn't recommend it.

109
00:11:38,865 --> 00:11:41,242
My condolences.

110
00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:49,459
This one's a puppet too.

111
00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:52,128
Rokka's taking over from here.

112
00:11:52,212 --> 00:11:54,255
A puppet master, huh.

113
00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:57,926
Such skill — a shame.

114
00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:11,397
I... I have a daughter...

115
00:12:13,608 --> 00:12:18,863
Simulated experiences, dreams — all
existing information is at once real...

116
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...and also illusion.

117
00:12:20,782 --> 00:12:24,077
Just as a novel or a film
can change a person,

118
00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,456
the information a person touches
in a lifetime is a mere trickle.

119
00:12:28,539 --> 00:12:32,710
One nation's fate, one person's life
— most of it gets treated as garbage.

120
00:12:32,877 --> 00:12:37,465
Just as this case is of no concern
to the vast majority of people.

121
00:12:41,469 --> 00:12:44,347
So the divorce worries just... vanished?

122
00:12:44,430 --> 00:12:45,390
What happened to him?

123
00:12:45,473 --> 00:12:47,308
He's gone?

124
00:13:21,592 --> 00:13:44,407
...our world, the world of AI.

125
00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:34,976
Come here a sec. Got a job for you.

126
00:15:35,059 --> 00:15:36,394
Patrol unit.

127
00:15:41,524 --> 00:15:46,696
We're changing the training-ground
set — mind lending us a hand?

128
00:15:46,779 --> 00:15:58,166
We'll pour in some nice-smelling oil and
boost your experience points for you.

129
00:16:00,835 --> 00:16:03,629
My line just now sounded
just like the Major's.

130
00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,550
Was that kind of thing built into my data?

131
00:16:09,010 --> 00:16:12,972
Not much different from last time, was it.

132
00:16:14,599 --> 00:16:17,935
Are these exercises really necessary?

133
00:16:18,102 --> 00:16:20,438
Let them debate like this now and then,

134
00:16:20,730 --> 00:16:23,357
and I doubt you'll ever
get a robot uprising.

135
00:16:23,441 --> 00:16:26,235
It's a gauge of the situation,
and a preventive measure too.

136
00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:32,200
Besides — even if things actually turn dangerous,
I've got about four more moves planned out.

137
00:16:41,667 --> 00:16:43,336
There is.

138
00:16:43,419 --> 00:16:47,882
On the other side of the world, famine
refugees are dropping dead one after another.

139
00:16:47,965 --> 00:16:52,094
They've got every right to eat —
but there's no food, is there?

140
00:16:52,178 --> 00:16:54,597
Same goes for murder victims.

141
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,392
They've got human rights, but
no more life to speak of.

142
00:16:58,476 --> 00:17:03,773
The human world is really something
deeply unfinished, isn't it.

143
00:17:03,898 --> 00:17:07,401
So that's why we prop it
up with robots and AI.

144
00:17:07,485 --> 00:17:10,738
Irreverent types like me gripe at God,

145
00:17:10,947 --> 00:17:13,824
then try to get our money's
worth when we're reborn.

146
00:17:13,908 --> 00:17:18,621
The devout ones prattle on about
training, or trials sent by God,

147
00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:22,375
polishing their souls to make their
next incarnation easier, apparently.

148
00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:25,753
That word, 'God' — I don't really get it.

149
00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:29,215
That's because you're semi-immortal.

150
00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:32,343
Erase your software and you CAN die.

151
00:17:32,426 --> 00:17:35,304
Batou — have you ever died?

152
00:17:35,429 --> 00:17:39,684
A good-looking guy like me doesn't die.

153
00:17:52,863 --> 00:17:54,782
The know-how and the coat?

154
00:17:54,949 --> 00:17:57,159
The know-how's out on Spinsol.

155
00:17:57,243 --> 00:18:00,538
The pack and the coat are ready.

156
00:18:00,621 --> 00:18:03,541
The sensory membrane's gotten
quite a bit thinner too.

157
00:18:03,624 --> 00:18:07,044
Machine tools keep evolving through
micromachining applications,

158
00:18:07,295 --> 00:18:10,881
so they say fiber-optics are getting
down to micromachine fineness now.

159
00:18:10,965 --> 00:18:14,343
For the face, tongue, and fingers,

160
00:18:14,427 --> 00:18:17,596
you have to use a bio-type
sensory membrane,

161
00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,183
while deep sensation and organ
sensation run on fiber-optics.

162
00:18:21,267 --> 00:18:23,352
Fill the cylinder with fluid,

163
00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:26,731
and open the micromachine valve.

164
00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:34,780
Immersed in the membrane-forming fluid,
the surface membranizes in minutes.

165
00:18:38,409 --> 00:18:44,165
Smoothing the whole thing so it doesn't clump
— that's the part that takes the most care.

166
00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:48,836
Then you dip it in this fluid
loaded with micromachines,

167
00:18:52,632 --> 00:18:56,177
and run a tiny trickle of
current through the electrodes.

168
00:18:56,260 --> 00:19:00,264
The micromachines — shown there as black
dots — are drawn by the electricity,

169
00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:04,060
and obediently link up to
the nerve-net terminals.

170
00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:08,230
Once that's done, our dreaming
girl goes into the shell.

171
00:19:08,648 --> 00:19:11,192
Do you base it on a mass-production
model like Motoko's and add options,

172
00:19:13,778 --> 00:19:13,903
or go with a custom job like hers?

173
00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:19,825
Personally — design aside — I'd want
the only body of its kind in the world.

174
00:19:19,909 --> 00:19:25,081
Modern shells are made from flexible materials,
so you can build in individual variation.

175
00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:30,252
The combination patterns for each part are
programmable, tailored to each person's taste.

176
00:19:30,336 --> 00:19:33,964
A little distortion, and
nobody's going to complain.

177
00:19:34,632 --> 00:19:38,594
So I, as the legal witness,
show up 32 hours later,

178
00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:42,640
supervise the work, and protect
her rights. That's all.

179
00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:44,517
Legally speaking, yes.

180
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,395
Well — I'm here, so there's
nothing to worry about.

181
00:19:47,478 --> 00:19:49,355
About two months ago, wasn't it —

182
00:19:49,688 --> 00:19:52,149
eighteen prosthetic bodies stolen from
the hospital in the West District,

183
00:19:52,274 --> 00:19:53,984
and that whole compensation dispute.

184
00:19:54,068 --> 00:19:57,571
Ever since then, they've put
heavy security on the place.

185
00:19:57,655 --> 00:20:02,702
The background-check detectives
and insurance folks are swamped.

186
00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:16,465
Oh — these days the job's
finished at this stage, is it.

187
00:20:16,757 --> 00:20:22,304
The nostrils, lips, even the eyelid finishing
are automated now. Tough on the craftsmen.

188
00:20:22,722 --> 00:20:27,685
With this she's up past sixteen
too, so look forward to it.

189
00:20:27,977 --> 00:20:31,188
Just thinking about it,
my heart could burst.

190
00:20:31,272 --> 00:20:35,317
No physical limits —
that's a terrifying thing.

191
00:20:35,401 --> 00:20:38,320
After this there's a
four-hour connection check,

192
00:20:38,404 --> 00:20:41,157
and once that's done, she wakes up.

193
00:20:41,449 --> 00:20:44,660
One cyborg, hot off the line.

194
00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:57,256
By the way — when you toss and turn in
your sleep, don't you astral-project?

195
00:20:57,465 --> 00:21:01,635
You do, you do — see weird things
and all. Strange, isn't it.

196
00:21:01,719 --> 00:21:04,180
A prosthetic body doesn't
toss and turn, after all.

197
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:07,183
You CAN make time today, right?

198
00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:10,978
Last time was strictly an irregularity.

199
00:21:11,479 --> 00:21:12,855
I'll make it up to you, promise.

200
00:21:12,938 --> 00:21:14,607
You always say that.

201
00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:18,402
Order whatever you like. My treat.

202
00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:23,240
Sometimes I think —
maybe I'm already dead,

203
00:21:23,491 --> 00:21:29,580
and this me now is just a simulated personality
made of a prosthetic body and a cyberbrain.

204
00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:31,832
Scary — stop it.

205
00:21:31,916 --> 00:21:37,463
But I've got an actual brain and all,
and I'm treated as human, so... *sigh*

206
00:21:38,422 --> 00:21:41,884
You've never seen your own brain, though.

207
00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:46,263
You're only judging by your
surroundings that it's there.

208
00:21:46,931 --> 00:21:49,850
One day the maker suddenly shows up,

209
00:21:49,934 --> 00:21:57,650
says 'we're replacing a defective unit,' takes you
apart — and what's left is two or three brain cells.

210
00:22:00,194 --> 00:22:05,783
The minimum parts needed to be human...
that's really not so few, you know.

211
00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:12,498
True — cerebral function can be handled pretty well
by chemical reactions and machinery, but still.

212
00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:17,086
You're creeping me out — stop.