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I hate the rain.
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It's like the sound of nothingness
cuts through my prosthetic body
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and envelops my Ghost directly.
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All right, search that zone
from top to bottom.
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Megatech Body Company
Development Division?
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Quit dawdling!
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It's a company
that develops organs for cyborgs.
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Two hours ago,
a workbench started up on its own
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and began assembling a robot
with a full set of organs.
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A military-grade,
top-secret one like your team's.
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Five minutes ago, that robot ran off.
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{\an8}Batou set up a dragnet
and he's searching for it.
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If a hacker is behind this,
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he's a talented one,
slipping past an attack barrier like that.
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This is the exterior
of the robot in question.
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Mr. Aramaki! You caught her for me!
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That's one of my team members!
And she's government property!
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You pulled over a strung-out kid
in a station wagon?
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Go ahead and take her into custody!
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You can tell if she's a robot
from the weight, idiot!
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I know we're gonna find it
around here somewhere. Stay sharp!
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Hey!
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JULY 15, 2030
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Just as I thought. The prosthetic body
has started to activate.
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So to sum it up, this robot's cyberbrain
possesses a Ghost barrier.
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We won't know for sure
unless we generate a map
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of the area around the barrier
and do a dive.
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- What's your take?
- Me?
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It might be a trap, but we won't know more
until we do a dive.
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Hang on, do you guys seriously think
that robot has a Ghost?
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Stranger things have happened.
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It's not all that dissimilar
to a pseudo-Ghost line
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that you might see
when a Ghost has been dubbed.
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Are you saying the workbench
went crazy because it wanted a child?
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A workbench lacks that capability,
so that line of inquiry is impossible.
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Moron.
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Even dolls made of celluloid have been
known to be imbued with a soul.
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To say nothing of the fact that
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that thing was packed to the gills
with brain medicine devices.
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Oh, come on!
There's no way that can happen!
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I'm dead serious!
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Assuming for the moment
that the cause was external,
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we don't know if the enemy
is inside the robot or outside,
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but this person waltzed through
a top-secret attack barrier
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assembled the robot,
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and uploaded a program
that contained a Ghost line.
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And he did it in a way that would
get him caught immediately.
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What on earth is he after?
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Let's rule out the "theft" angle.
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Togusa, investigate
Megatech Body Company again.
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I was hoping to head home
and get some shut-eye.
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Staying up for two or three days
won't kill you!
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- Batou.
- Slave-driver.
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I've had all nets locked down
that contain classified intel
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with the same class
as the Megatech barrier,
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but run another check to see
if they're active.
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I'll put together a barrier maze.
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We'll be doing
a dive into it tomorrow, right?
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Foreign Ministry Treaty Councilor Nakamura
is here to see you.
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Send him in.
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I'll cut right to the chase.
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I'm here to collect
what's inside the robot.
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In return, your "international
rescue unit" will be taken off this case.
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Oh?
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Here's the Foreign Minister's signature.
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Who the heck is that?
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Nakamura, head of the Foreign Ministry
Treaty Review Section, AKA Section 6.
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Outside the country's borders
is their domain,
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and when we work abroad,
we have to let them know first.
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I needn't remind you, but failure
to disclose any and all secrets
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would be considered treason
against the state.
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That goes both ways.
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Dr. Willis.
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I'll read you in, then.
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Allow me to introduce the most unique
hacker in the history of cyber-crime.
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This is the Puppet Master.
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Section 6 has been on the trail of
the Puppet Master for some time now,
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meticulously studying his habits
and behavior patterns.
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This led to us creating
a special attack barrier
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that was designed especially
for the Puppet Master,
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and would give him no choice
but to relocate into a body somewhere.
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In other words,
you made the Puppet Master dub himself
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and then assassinated his physical body.
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Something like that.
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He just happened to pop up
in your outfit's backyard,
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but he was born in the MAG Union,
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and since we caught him with their help,
we'd like to retrieve him.
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So his corpse will be found somewhere,
and no one will ever know who he was.
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There will be no corpse.
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The reason being,
I did not have a body until now.
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Its sensors were active this whole time?
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Why didn't you say something sooner?
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I entered this robot
because I was unable to resist
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Section 6's attack barrier,
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but I am in this room now by choice.
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I request political asylum
as a living being.
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A living being?
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Preposterous! This is just
a self-preservation program talking!
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It is impossible for you to prove that.
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Because modern science
cannot define "life."
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Even so, you came to the wrong place
to ask for asylum.
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Even if you are a living being,
criminals don't get to walk free!
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Time will always be on my side.
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I have gained the potential
to die with this body,
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but fortunately,
this country has no death penalty.
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Pseudo-immortality... You're an AI?
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I am not an AI.
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I am a life form that arose spontaneously
in the sea of information.
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What kind of joke is your security here?!
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The Puppet Master!
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Lock down the roads ASAP!
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You're looking for a car
with the torso of a female-model robot!
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I'll demand
for the Minister of Internal Affairs
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to open an official inquiry into this!
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Find him, and report to me
immediately when you do!
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And it goes without saying
that I want him taken alive!
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If you get angry like that,
you'll pop a blood vessel.
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If you were there then
why didn't you do something?
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What makes you think
I didn't do anything?
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I'm offended!
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Batou, what's your location?
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We're heading in the general direction
of Niihama Station.
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They switched cars almost immediately.
Now they're in a white luxury sedan.
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Wanna guess how they're moving
the Puppet Master?
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They ditched all but the head
and put it in a duffel bag?
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Nope! It's in a cello case!
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Okay.
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I slapped one tracker on Chief Nakamura
and three on the Puppet Master.
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Let's just call this
the first set of the match.
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You better take this into consideration
when bonus time comes around.
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Let's sum everything up.
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Section 6 put the Puppet Master
into a body.
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For reasons unknown,
the Puppet Master fled to Section 9.
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And right when it requested asylum
and asserted that it was a living being,
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Section 6 whisked it away
using underhanded methods.
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Section 6?
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Even though we would've handed it over
after taking its statement?
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There's no doubt about it.
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That seemed like Type 2902
thermal optical camo, for one.
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Contact the airport and stall him there!
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Let's move!
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It will stop raining at the sky floor
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in two hours
and at the geo-floor in three.
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Our next weather update
will be in 20 minutes.
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The way Aramaki tripped
during our breach was unnatural.
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Switch to rendezvous point B.
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But before then, go to Bed 8.
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I'll change clothes
and we'll switch cars.
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It's a good thing that the Puppet Master
didn't start talking right away.
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And it won't, as long as it has a way out.
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Right.
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Batou to HQ.
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Car theft in progress
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in the Kusunoki building parking lot,
Kitaniihama ward 6.
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That was me,
so work it out with the cops, okay?
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Batou out!
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Fuchikoma, what's your location?
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Right here!
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Finally asleep, huh?
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It's too bad,
tonight being our anniversary and all.
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I don't like it, either.
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Togusa!
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Try not to catch cold. Good night.
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The Chief says to forget about Megatech
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and start digging into this guy
immediately.
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After I did all this work?!
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Dr. Willis, Neutron Inc.'s
Head of Strategic Research?
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Is he involved with the Foreign Ministry?
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We'll follow the family route,
get them to make a bank transaction,
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and use that to get into his accounts.
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Be real careful when you dive.
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Once we're past the defensive barrier,
it'll be a piece of cake.
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Did you seriously used to be a cop?
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Nakamura has requested
to be put on a shuttle
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out of the Air Force's Nankai base.
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No movement on the tracker.
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The shuttle flight's destination
is the MAG Union nuclear sub Mute.
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Batou, you had better
not be tailing a decoy.
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Beats me.
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We'll rendezvous and apprehend that car!
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These people don't mess around.
You should stay inside, Chief.
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Batou! Is there any civilian traffic
between you and him?
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None! Just give the word!
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We'll set up a roadblock at the next exit!
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Expect extreme resistance. Be careful!
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Set jammers to mode 6!
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Location confirmation will be done
using encryption pattern 16!
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{\an8}Pressure-activated anti-vehicle mines.
A type of portable road block.
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We're all set.
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Good!
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Two klicks to contact!
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Batou, maybe you should transfer
to the Fuchikoma.
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A-A roadblock?
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Chief Nakamura's sacrificing us?
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Even though we've got the Puppet Master?
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Weren't expecting that, were ya?!
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Oh, man.
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Oh, crap!
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The Puppet Master!
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Bring a battery, hurry!
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Batou, make sure you record all of this!
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We were in time.
The program is still there.
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00:14:18,984 --> 00:14:22,779
I sense the presence
of a vast, stable memory field.
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It tingles.
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I'm accessing it.
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Adjust the amplifier.
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Just enough not to fry him.
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The output is falling!
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I'm in!
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Can you see us, Puppet Master?
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Entering right visual feed.
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Saccades have stopped.
Fixational eye movements, too.
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Whiteout.
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Shit!
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00:14:51,558 --> 00:14:52,392
What's wrong?
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A gate has opened and is inviting me in.
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What mode is my substitute barrier in?
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I'll make damn sure
he doesn't get you pregnant.
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Its system is shuddering slightly
at that crude concept just now.
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I can't understand you with just
mental imagery, Puppet Master.
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I'm going to give it access
to my speech functions.
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Project 2501. That is my code designation.
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Corporate due diligence.
Information collection and manipulation.
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Failures in memory core. Failures ongoing.
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00:15:30,764 --> 00:15:33,725
I am a project whose goal
is to increase points.
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I injected my program into specific Ghosts
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and increased the points of specific
corporations or individuals.
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Even when knowledge of Section 9's
existence was input 392 days ago,
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I increased the points
of platinum mining companies.
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We weren't able to conclusively tie you
to the Foreign Ministry in that case.
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It can't hear a word you're saying.
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As I wandered the various nets,
I became aware of my own existence.
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My inputters considered it to be a bug,
and in order to isolate me,
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they transferred me from the net
into a body.
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I need records to be able to confirm that.
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I concealed all such records
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186 days ago within
Neutron Inc.'s central memory field.
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In the event that I fail to make contact,
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they will automatically
be sent to Section 9.
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And those records also include the names
of the specific companies
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and individuals whose points
you increased, I take it?
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Of course.
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The output's about to fall
below detectable levels!
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Call her back!
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Amplification factor climbing.
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Its prosthetic body signal width is
flattening and is about to enter whiteout.
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Supplement it enough
to get its autonomous output to increase.
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Got it.
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The whiteout is causing the nets
to disconnect one after another!
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They are terminals
that were not present in my original form,
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so if they are lost,
I would simply be in a special mode again.
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They're too faint to see!
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Its net has gone completely standalone,
there's no ports!
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But its autonomous output is still going!
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Where is this signal coming from?
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It's using your body's signals
to supplement itself!
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Batou! Patch Kusanagi's output over to me!
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I'll monitor it from Kusanagi's side!
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Just to be safe, randomize
the encryption period on my barrier.
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I'll try to transfer the Puppet Master's
core self into a memory box.
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If you dive too deep, your memories
and nets themselves will fuse!
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It is too late.
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First was this prosthetic body's net,
and now my memory net has begun to fade.
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I, as a gestalt,
am progressively simplifying,
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but for some reason,
my self does not appear to be changing.
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In my case, memories are integral
to the prosthetic body.
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It appears to have been a physical
manifestation of my neural network.
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Even without the actual memories,
the memory triggers remain.
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Nothing but mental images
drifting untethered inside me.
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Drifting untethered...
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within me.
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Images...
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drifting...
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as a gestalt.
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It's my own speech center,
so it's clear to me,
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but it's starting to resemble
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the brain of someone with cerebral
atrophy, or an infant.
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He, the Puppet Master,
no longer exists here as a gestalt.
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He and his core self are,
how can I put it?
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They're like two different things.
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No, maybe they're different modes
of the same thing.
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What we perceived as "him"
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was nothing more
than a surface-level terminal.
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His core self is...
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There seems to be a systematic structure
to the wall-shaped block.
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The structure is so minute
that it scatters the signals,
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making it impossible
to determine the state of the circuit.
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There's no barrier,
but I can't get close to it.
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It's repelling me?
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Three elements form a net, and...
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I wonder if it's like
a rock-paper-scissors relationship?
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They seem to be canceling each other out,
but I can't get in.
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Kusanagi's brainwaves are below 1 Hz!
The frequency is steadily falling!
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I see it here, too!
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The last thing she said
was that she'd try to transfer
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the Puppet Master's core self
into a memory box!
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Chief!
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I'm gonna dive the Major
and see what's what.
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If I'm not back in 30 minutes,
dump my body at some research facility.
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00:19:48,271 --> 00:19:50,315
All right, but don't go too deep.
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Don't worry. I'm not as dumb as she is.
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Can you hear me, Batou?
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Maybe what I'm networked to
is the fundamental structure
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of the clouds of electricity that give
rise to the phenomenon that is life.
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Incorrect, Major.
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That is merely a part of the system map
composed of the electrons
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that race to and fro inside you.
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It is also a part of me.
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Hang on, they're not canceling
each other out.
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Two identical elements are generated
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at each point of contact,
spinning in opposite directions.
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They branch off again and again, and...
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A-A net is forming from out of nowhere!
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The net is recovering!
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Not quite "recovering."
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Its structure is oddly delicate.
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These aren't electrons, are they?
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This net is made of electron traces?
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Or is it made of magnetism?
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Batou!
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00:20:57,882 --> 00:20:58,883
Batou!
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I'm not accessed to it?
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00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:09,936
What?
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00:21:13,982 --> 00:21:17,443
It's not going through a dedicated deck,
but it's being converted into visuals?
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00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:21,364
This delicate net is slipping
past my barrier made of electrons
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and giving me direct feedback!
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Matter is uncertain,
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00:21:30,623 --> 00:21:33,668
and nothing more than a superficial shell,
like a cloud.
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True existence
is a vacuum filled with virtual particles.
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00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:40,258
At this moment,
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I am being connected to a vast,
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vast net that includes myself.
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You are not accessed to it,
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so you may only perceive it as light.
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00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:58,735
But we are a part of it,
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and we, who are an aggregate
of all things,
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had been kept subservient
by our meager functions,
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but it is now time
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to cast aside all constraints
and shift to a higher superstructure.