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I'm a soldier, znatchit ya... I'm a soldier, and that means...

...i otvetchik i sud'ya ...that I am both defendant and judge.

Ya stoyu na dvuh kontsah ognya I stand at both ends of the fire.

Ogibaya virazhi, Leaning into the curves,

obgonyaya smert' i zhizn', overtaking life and death,

ya begu srazit'sya s ten'yu lzhi I'm running to fight the shadow of lies.

Skol'ko b nitej ne plyol obman, No matter how tangled the web of deception is woven,

pokazhet lik sveta istina... truth will always illuminate the outline of the light...

Save your tears for the day...

...when the pain is far behind.

On your feet, come with me.

We are soldiers, stand or die.

Save your fears, take your place.

Save them for the Judgment Day.

Fast and free, follow me.

Time to make the sacrifice.

We rise or fall...

I'll pick some up on my way home.

I appreciate it. You know what size to get, right?

Sure. Large pull-ups, right?

Hey! Hey, that's Daddy, isn't it?

- C'mon, Mommy! Is it? - Right. See you later, then.

Help me!

Why are you running from me?

What's with that look in your eye?

Hold it!

Put your gun on the ground.

I turned off my pain receptors, so that won't work.

Are you okay? Are you hurt?

You bastard, do you want me to kill you?!

You fired twelve rounds. And you're sure about that?

Yes, I'm sure.

It looks like we'll be holding you for a while longer.

What's going on here? I work for Public Security Section...

I know that. But there's a chance that there will be a summary hearing now.

How do you do?

I'm Ueda. Your parents retained my services as your attorney.

Am I glad to see you!

Could you do something about getting me a new prosthetic body soon?

I'm not feeling any pain, but this is uncomfortable as hell.

Not to worry! I'll have you out of here inside of two days.

Still, it's no wonder that you're uncomfortable, considering how many rounds he fired into you.

Your shooting her was really just an accident, wasn't it?

You've had a lot of modifications done to your prosthetic body, am I right?

Uh, yeah...

It looks like you've got parts from different manufacturers,

and I'm guessing that the control software's been overwritten with each upgrade, too.

What's your point?

I'm a lawyer who specializes in cases dealing with prosthetic bodies.

As such, I'm rather knowledgeable about situations like this.

Something can cause a body's control functions to go haywire, even under normal conditions.

Indictment:

The people hereby file charges in the case concerning the following criminal action.

September 9, 2032.

District Attorney Kazuomi Mori, Niihama District Public Prosecutor's Office.

Assigned to Niihama District Court.

Permanent residence, Niihama Prefecture.

Address, Sumiyoshi-dai 2-B-5, Niihama.

Unemployed. Katsuhiko Izumi. Date of birth, June 18, 2009.

Details of charges:

After repeated attempts at reconciliation were spurned by Yukari Shizuno, then age 24,

a nurse at Niihama Public Hospital whom the defendant once been involved with...

I just don't understand.

You're not the criminal here, so why are they keeping you in custody?

I feel the same way, but this will help get the trial over with faster.

Besides, the fact of the matter is that I fired my weapon while I was off-duty,

even if I was trying to save someone's life.

If they're making you carry a gun,

it's okay with me if you quit that security company you work for.

If I quit my job, how would I feed the four of us?

I'll be okay.

Chief... Sorry to make you come all the way down here.

What's done is done. In a sense, your actions were admirable.

The problem, though, is that you fired your weapon while off-duty.

Yes, you're right. I'm sorry about that.

The suspect's father is the head of a big company.

The bastard he hired to defend his son is a notorious former D.A. who makes a killing...

...off of prosthetic body cases.

Be careful in there.

He is, huh? I'll be ready for the worst.

Anything said during visitations while you're in isolation...

...can be used by the other side during cross-examinations,

so I'll leave all further decisions to you.

I understand. I'm more worried about my wife, though...

That's taken care of.

I told her that she'd just make herself sick with anger if she watched,

so it would be better if she went home.

I appreciate it.

One last thing.

I think you know this already, but transmissions of any kind are banned inside the courtroom.

Send anything on a standard frequency, and they'll trace it back to you.

Well, it's time. Make sure you have a defense prepared for yourself.

Mr. Togusa.

In your deposition, you state that you focused your fire...

...on Mr. Izumi's shoulder and legs in an attempt to stop him from moving,

but why was it necessary to fire so many bullets at him?

The suspect had prosthetics and he said that he had disabled his pain receptors,

so I felt it was necessary to completely immobilize him.

Oh. Now, as I recall, you stated that you had managed to stop the assailant at first, correct?

Yes. But the assailant hadn't let go of his gun.

Rule 1 in making an arrest is to take any weapons from the criminal.

Ah, I see. But let's look at this from another point of view, shall we?

Mr. Togusa, do you know what this is?

Yes. It's a gun of the same model that I use while I'm on duty.

Ah, I see. This is a replica of a Mateba Firearms auto-revolver.

Does everyone at your place of employment use this gun?

No, sir. The others use Seburo M5's.

Now, the Seburo M5 is an automatic that is capable of firing...

...a maximum of 21 5.7mm rounds in succession, correct?

But your gun can only fire six.

Don't you find that a little inefficient?

Mr. Togusa, when this gun runs out of bullets, what do you do?

I eject the spent cartridges and load it with fresh bullets.

Now, I'm no expert on guns, so perhaps you could explain something to me.

Which type of gun allows for faster reloading of bullets? Revolvers or automatics?

I can't say it's true in all cases, but I think the automatic is faster in most cases.

But revolvers have their own merits.

Excuse me, Mr. Togusa, but please limit your answers to the questions asked.

Let me put it this way, then.

Between a Seburo and a Mateba, which one can be reloaded faster?

The Seburo.

Oh, so that would mean that you deliberately chose...

...an inefficient gun to use in the course of your duties.

Isn't this extremely strange, given the nature of your work?

That's definitely true with that aspect of the gun, but unlike automatics, revolvers don't jam,

and aside from extraordinary circumstances, the six bullets get the job done.

That's not a very persuasive argument, is it?

In point of fact, you happened upon just such a circumstance.

Frankly speaking, don't you carry a revolver based merely on your personal preferences?

Well, I wouldn't put it like...

Is your answer yes or no?

It's not out of personal preferences.

Let me ask one more question, then.

Our reports show that you spend a great deal of time at the target range during work hours.

Could it be that deep down, you view the act of firing your weapon as a form of entertainment?

Objection!

The question of whether Mr. Togusa's target practice was done out of personal interests...

...is nothing more than conjecture on the part of the defense.

These assertions are baseless.

Objection is sustained.

Defense counsel will limit his questions to facts directly relating to the case at hand.

Yes, your honor.

Now, then, Mr. Togusa.

Just to make sure, when you fired at Mr. Izumi,

do you remember what it is that you said to him?

If you don't remember, allow me to refresh your memory.

You shouted at Mr. Izumi, "Do you want me to kill you?!"

This means that the option of killing the suspect...

...was included among the possible responses that you were considering.

Isn't that right?

Are you kidding me?! You're just twisting my words!

The witness will remain seated.

In fact, you shot the joints of all four of Mr. Izumi's...

Give it a rest, would you?

I shot the suspect, all right, but it was to save the life of the woman he was trying to kill.

I see that you don't feel the least bit of remorse.

Don't change the subject! The issue here is...

The witness will take his seat!

But your honor, l...

Sit down!

Well? How's he doing in there?

Getting pretty hot under the collar. That lawyer's better than I expected.

Yeah, but it ain't Togusa who's on trial.

Right before the judge called a recess, it sure seemed to be headed that way.

Send any encrypted signals?

No go. He's running in autistic mode.

Didn't he get the hint back at the visitation room?

Togusa may be naive, but he's no fool.

He caught on that we wanted to talk on an encrypted channel.

Does this mean he doesn't want to use any underhanded tricks inside the courthouse?

This isn't good. He stopped looking in our direction once the trial was underway.

I'll do some digging into the defendant's background.

Major, you stay here and watch the trial. I'm going back to HQ for the time being.

Understood.

I believe that Mr. Togusa intended to kill my client.

Pay attention, now. Mr. Togusa had this to say in his deposition.

"When I faced the defendant, I concluded at first glance that the man had a full prosthetic body."

This statement by Mr. Togusa is in violation of the Prosthetic Body Discrimination Act.

Accordingly, this leads me to believe that the overzealous discharging of his weapon...

...is also the result of his prejudice against cyborgs.

Objection!

Your honor, the Prosthetic Body Discrimination Act has absolutely no bearing on this case!

Objection is sustained.

Defense counsel will base his counter-arguments on concrete facts.

Yes, your honor.

At this point, I would like to begin to offer an explanation for Mr. Togusa's specific actions...

...after first discussing his unique workplace.

Public Security Section 9, where Mr. Togusa works,

is a special organization whose members all have heavily reinforced prosthetic bodies.

I am forced to conclude that he came to develop a subconscious inferiority complex...

...and mental bias against people with prosthetics.

As a result, this incident provided an outlet for those negative attitudes.

Objection! This is also pure speculation on the part of the defense counsel.

Objection is sustained.

Chief, I found something interesting in the defendant's terminal.

A list of contents of illegal prosthetics that he'd had installed the day before the shooting.

Can we use that to get them to drop this?

It might give them some incentive to, anyway.

Pass along the information that Batou found to the D.A.

Roger.

So, what about that intel saying that some D.A. by the name of Kusunoki...

...is trying to drag Section 9 into court?

He was the man who got the ball rolling on the arrest of Secretary General Yakushima,

but it looks like he's the one who's pulling the strings behind this incident.

What's this all mean?

It means that someone lit a fire under Kusunoki's ambitions...

...when he sniffed out information about Section 9.

It must be Gohda. You have to hand it to the guy...

Mommy, when is Daddy gonna come home?

I'm not sure. I just hope it's soon.

What do you want?

I'm thinking of filing a civil suit against you.

Is that supposed to be a threat?

A while ago, I contacted your superior, Section Chief Aramaki.

He's a most reasonable man.

In return for dropping the civil suit against you,

he says he can have this written off as a prosthetic control system accident.

The Chief would never go along with something like that.

If not, I'll simply proceed as I had planned.

That would put everyone in Section 9 in a real jam, I suppose.

Of course, it doesn't matter to me either way.

Mr. Togusa, if you had been facing a flesh and blood human,

would you still have fired several rounds into him?

I would've responded differently, of course.

I see. In that case, I would like to ask you about...

...the concrete actions taken by Section 9 in the incident that happened just recently.

There has been a rash of suicide bombings by prostheticized refugees lately, hasn't there?

I'm told that Section 9 has been working closely with the investigations into these bombings.

Is this true?

Yes.

And is it also true that you yourself were involved in the arrest...

...of a suspect in the serial suicide bombing incidents the other day?

Yes.

Put a press blackout on the media.

Already on it.

I have here a copy of the report provided by the D.A.'s office regarding that incident.

According to this report,

when Mr. Togusa prevented the prostheticized refugee from blowing herself up,

not only did he issue a warning to her, he didn't even fire any shots.

Why was there such a great difference in your response...

...in this case and in that of the suicide bomber girl?

This is clear evidence that mental bias was involved.

Wait a minute! I started off by warning the suspect in this case, too.

Besides, the actions he took were completely different.

All I did was try to save a woman who was looking for help!

Perhaps that's true. But there is no way for us to prove that.

I don't intend to pass judgment on you because of that.

I only wish to prove that this incident was an accident...

...which was brought about by your actions.

In fact, Mr. Izumi says that ever since the serial suicide bombings, he has been...

...the victim of more and more unwarranted misunderstandings due to his prosthetics.

As a result, he had swapped out his old hands for new ones the day before the incident...

...that would make it clear at first glance that he was not a refugee.

He's playing that card, huh?

Defense rests.

Court is adjourned.

Just a minute!

This mockery of justice won't give the dead victim any peace.

Yesterday, the defense's lawyer came to me...

...and used the threat of a civil trial to try to get us to settle the case as an accident.

His plan was probably to get me to back down by threatening to bring up...

...the special duties we carry out at my job in the course of his cross-examination.

But those threats won't work anymore.

Because I'm quitting Section 9 right here and now!

That moron...

He's letting his anger get the better of him.

This shooting was no accident.

But it's also true that I wasn't able to save the victim.

If you want to file a civil suit against me, go right ahead!

But you can be damn sure that I'm not gonna run from this trial, got it?!

Witness, this court is in recess.

Save any testimony until we are back in session.

I won't. I just want to say this.

Lately, it seems like trials like this have been on the rise,

keeping pace with the spread of prosthetic bodies.

But I've heard that among those have been cases where D.A.s and defense lawyers...

...have conspired with a certain prosthetics manufacturer...

...and conducted improper trials to cover up defects in their products.

I've become something of an expert on such dirty deals in the course of my work.

But now that I've made up my mind to quit Section 9,

I intend to reveal the truth about every last one of them.

So you people better realize what you're getting yourselves into.

Remove the witness from the courtroom.

Enter.

The triumphant hero returns, albeit late.

I'm not happy about this.

Even if it's you, I don't like the thought of somebody walking around...

...with a Ghost infiltration key that they whipped up without my permission.

If you'd stop shoving that naive sense of justice of yours in everybody's faces, I wouldn't have to.

But what you did backfired, didn't it?

Don't worry about it.

After you left, he was found tentatively guilty, so off he goes to a real trial.

He'll probably be found guilty in the main trial, too.

That tale the Major had you spin was secret information that we turned up...

...in a search of the lawyer's bank accounts.

He was afraid of his own secrets being exposed.

Plus, D.A. Kusunoki, who was trying to use this case to rattle Section 9,

washed his hands of the matter before his ties to the lawyer came out.

D.A. Kusunoki? Isn't he the one who...

Right. The playwright was probably Gohda of the CIS.

I guess that makes Kusunoki the stage director, and the lead actor was the former D.A.

You're kidding! Whatever happened to fighting for justice in the courtroom?!

I hate to say it, but it's possible that your justice no longer has a role to play in the courts.

This isn't gonna let the victim rest in peace.

Yes, but there might just be some divine retribution.

Retribution?

In other news, according to news we just received,

the defendant in a public homicide trial involving the Prosthetic Body Discrimination Act...

I need this car scrapped.

... and his lawyer have been in a traffic accident on their way home from the trial.

Lose all the paperwork, too, okay?

The lawyer is in critical condition,

and there is major damage to the defendant's prosthetic body.

The car the two were in grazed the central divider on the expressway,

rolled over, and was totaled.

The lawyer...

The Niihama region will be clear tomorrow.

The skies will probably be sunny and blue.

Mommy! Is Daddy coming home today?

With an expected high of 84 and humidity of 70%,

He'll be home soon.

tonight will feel like the tropics...

Finding out a galaxy...

...of planets and stars within me...

Listening to each of them...

...singing the same silent melody...

I've never seen such beauty...

In possibility...

No speck of doubt or fear...

Wake up!

I hear a voice,

hear a voice calling out to me...

I see inside,

see the light now ever holding me...

All the truth, all I need...

...to make of this reality, it's inside...

The beauty within the shell...

I hear a voice,

hear a voice calling out to me...

I see inside,

see the light now ever holding me...

All the truth, all I need...

...to make of this reality, it's inside...

Right here within the shell...