1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,240 What is it? It's the middle of the night. 2 00:00:04,380 --> 00:00:06,940 Oh, there's just something that was concerning me. 3 00:00:07,110 --> 00:00:11,700 If it's about Scar, I still don't have anything. Or is this about Marcoh, in the care of the Fuhrer? 4 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:14,460 Yeah, there is that too, 5 00:00:14,470 --> 00:00:16,700 but lately, it feels like we haven't even appeared... 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:20,700 That idiot. He doesn't know how I feel. 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,920 I wonder if you shouldn't have also reported to Col. Mustang. 8 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:27,820 About the brothers, I mean. 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,470 We don't need to tell him. Not yet. 10 00:00:32,410 --> 00:00:36,220 The group that I was going to send to the library for security is standing by. 11 00:00:36,380 --> 00:00:39,430 They should be more reliable than I am for now. 12 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:40,510 Does that mean...? 13 00:00:40,780 --> 00:00:41,580 Yeah. 14 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:46,180 On my own authority, I approve the entrance and investigation of the site of the 5th Laboratory. 15 00:00:46,650 --> 00:00:49,020 However, get ready to be punished. 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,120 I hate that place! 17 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:24,100 It's been a long time, huh, boy? 18 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:28,260 But then, I guess it was four years ago that you first saw me. 19 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:31,820 That night, with the pretty fireworks. 20 00:01:38,110 --> 00:01:39,900 Who in the world are you...? 21 00:01:40,570 --> 00:01:42,960 That other guy said you were a Homunculus. 22 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:44,860 But that couldn't be. 23 00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:47,040 Oh, why is that? 24 00:01:47,740 --> 00:01:51,480 A Homunculus is an artificially created person. 25 00:01:52,090 --> 00:01:53,740 A man who isn't a man... 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,180 But there has never been anyone who could create one. 27 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,440 It's impossible! 28 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:04,360 Impossible? There's no such thing. 29 00:02:05,030 --> 00:02:09,640 After all, there's a boy who is nothing but a soul standing in front of me. 30 00:02:14,140 --> 00:02:16,200 You're not a person! 31 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Can I eat him? 32 00:02:29,210 --> 00:02:32,740 Man cannot obtain anything without first sacrificing something. 33 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:37,360 In order to obtain anything, something of equal value is required. 34 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:42,380 That is alchemy's Law of Equivalent Exchange. 35 00:02:43,970 --> 00:02:48,460 At the time, we believed that to be the true way of the world. 36 00:04:27,350 --> 00:04:30,680 I'm starting to understand the research that took place here. 37 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:35,550 The gist of it is the large-scale military use of alchemy. 38 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,360 In particular, research related to human transmutation. 39 00:04:40,970 --> 00:04:44,340 They used these incomplete Philosopher's Stones. 40 00:04:45,450 --> 00:04:49,240 Knowing you, it's possible that you can complete the Philosopher's Stones. 41 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,420 You know about how these things are manufactured? 42 00:04:53,560 --> 00:05:00,280 No. By the time I was brought here, those had already been mass-produced and then abandoned. 43 00:05:01,450 --> 00:05:05,520 The person who was in charge here before, Doctor Marcoh, must have left them behind. 44 00:05:05,780 --> 00:05:06,860 What's that? 45 00:05:06,870 --> 00:05:10,820 Regardless of what they are made from, do they have any meaning? 46 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,150 Even if the ingredients are people, 47 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,360 would you be able to turn them back? 48 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:28,780 In that case, making them into complete Stones would give them a lot more meaning. 49 00:05:29,170 --> 00:05:30,940 I agree with him. 50 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:32,600 You? 51 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:37,100 As they are, their lives will have meant nothing at all. 52 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:38,240 But... 53 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:46,780 No meaning, huh? 54 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:03,380 Al, your life hasn't lost its meaning, huh? 55 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,420 You have overtime this late into the night? 56 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:22,540 F-Fuhrer! Sorry to cause a commotion! 57 00:06:23,580 --> 00:06:26,900 I hear you have suspicions about the 5th Laboratory. 58 00:06:28,090 --> 00:06:30,320 There have been rumors before now that I always overlooked, 59 00:06:30,330 --> 00:06:34,620 thinking that Brigadier General Grand was working for the good of the military. 60 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:40,630 However, things are different, now that the lives of the two young alchemists are at stake. 61 00:06:41,740 --> 00:06:44,380 I'll send a squad with the major, and come myself. 62 00:06:44,930 --> 00:06:47,760 There's no way I'm going to have you guys go in alone. 63 00:06:51,780 --> 00:06:53,200 Where is the scarred man? 64 00:06:53,540 --> 00:06:55,680 He dropped into a nasty place. 65 00:06:56,190 --> 00:06:58,560 I see. No matter. 66 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,740 Greed may be coming to interfere. 67 00:07:02,140 --> 00:07:04,400 We'll have to get the Fullmetal boy to speed things up. 68 00:07:14,220 --> 00:07:16,480 This is the area right above the transmutation circle, right? 69 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,800 They've been made into storage tanks, to supply the Philosopher's Stones in the room below us. 70 00:07:27,230 --> 00:07:29,080 All right, I can use this. 71 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:50,220 You humans... really, a hundred years can go by, and you never change. 72 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,120 What's with that bastard? 73 00:08:01,310 --> 00:08:03,860 Is he really a soldier? 74 00:08:07,060 --> 00:08:11,010 Do you still think that person is his Excellency, Basque Grand? 75 00:08:11,290 --> 00:08:14,920 His Excellency isn't that great a bigwig. 76 00:08:17,180 --> 00:08:19,400 You say you're going to transmute in both rooms at the same time? 77 00:08:19,460 --> 00:08:24,030 Yeah. The Philosopher's Stones in this room alone won't be enough, 78 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,980 and even Marcoh's research suggested a way of using two transmutation circles. 79 00:08:29,860 --> 00:08:33,020 The Philosopher's Stones above, and the Philosopher's Stones here, 80 00:08:33,030 --> 00:08:35,720 will collide with the two transmutation circles and condense together. 81 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:41,060 That kind of explosive power is necessary to refine them. I'm changing the transmutation circle, too. 82 00:08:50,380 --> 00:08:52,900 A transmutation circle with seven corners... 83 00:08:53,350 --> 00:08:54,700 First time I've seen one. 84 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,420 It just came to me. 85 00:08:57,030 --> 00:08:59,480 If I succeed in creating a Philosopher's Stone, 86 00:08:59,490 --> 00:09:02,100 I'm going to return Al to normal, and then disappear. 87 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,100 You can do whatever you want to after that. 88 00:09:05,850 --> 00:09:07,560 I'm glad to hear that. 89 00:09:20,650 --> 00:09:23,060 Let us out! Is anyone out there!? 90 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:24,220 Hey! 91 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,500 Stifle it, will you? 92 00:09:27,590 --> 00:09:29,860 What are you all relaxed about? 93 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,420 Not even you, the comrade-killer, once known as the Crimson Alchemist, 94 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:35,380 can do anything about this, can you? 95 00:09:37,070 --> 00:09:40,880 Do you know why I am called the comrade-killer? 96 00:09:40,890 --> 00:09:44,520 Y-you blew your comrades all up, right? With bombs? 97 00:09:44,570 --> 00:09:45,690 Bombs? 98 00:09:45,950 --> 00:09:47,860 I have no need for such things. 99 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,170 The human body is composed of mostly water, 100 00:09:53,180 --> 00:09:55,860 but there is a certain quantity of metallic atoms included within. 101 00:09:56,610 --> 00:10:01,280 By making use of that composition, and a small amount of organic compounds, 102 00:10:01,370 --> 00:10:05,060 I can easily transmute explosive materials. 103 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:10,040 And, surrounded by this much red water... 104 00:10:10,660 --> 00:10:12,600 ...my power becomes... 105 00:10:36,030 --> 00:10:37,700 Why are there people here...? 106 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,260 Were there any other researchers left besides you? 107 00:10:41,510 --> 00:10:45,080 What those people are wearing are prisoner uniforms. 108 00:10:50,420 --> 00:10:54,480 Why are they here!? If I had transmuted without knowing they were there...! 109 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:01,780 You guys! Who brought you here!? 110 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:05,760 I did, Fullmetal Alchemist! 111 00:11:07,260 --> 00:11:11,740 Under my orders, the prisoners from the 2nd Prison were relocated here. 112 00:11:11,910 --> 00:11:14,190 And whose permission did you obtain to be here? 113 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:19,920 That was a close one. 114 00:11:20,290 --> 00:11:24,200 The general died, right before my eyes. 115 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:29,160 Who are you? 116 00:11:29,460 --> 00:11:31,780 Nice to meet you, Fullmetal Pipsqueak. 117 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,620 I'm impressed that you found your way here. 118 00:11:35,510 --> 00:11:38,020 Just kidding, you good-for-nothing! 119 00:11:39,620 --> 00:11:44,140 Whoa! My, you really are driven, huh, Pipsqueak? 120 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:47,240 That's too bad. I really hate fighting, you know? 121 00:11:47,330 --> 00:11:49,150 You shut up with that "Pipsqueak" stuff! 122 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,700 You're the one who started this fight! 123 00:11:57,740 --> 00:12:00,820 Good grief, you don't even know your own place. 124 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:04,960 Do you know who you're picking a fight with? Huh? 125 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:11,660 We've only kept you alive because we were told to keep you alive! 126 00:12:12,290 --> 00:12:16,670 You're going to pay... You are definitely going to pay... 127 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,280 You, who carry his blood...! 128 00:12:19,330 --> 00:12:20,400 Envy! 129 00:12:23,550 --> 00:12:26,760 It's your fault for not thoroughly checking the ingredients. 130 00:12:28,270 --> 00:12:29,720 You...! 131 00:12:30,790 --> 00:12:33,540 You don't want this experience to become any more painful, right? 132 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,960 If not, would you be a good boy and continue with your transmutation for us? 133 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,840 We've had a setback, but there are still some ingredients remaining, and all... 134 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,620 Use these prisoners to create a Philosopher's Stone...? 135 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,240 You set this up for me to do from the start...? 136 00:12:58,410 --> 00:13:00,680 You aren't going to say no to us. 137 00:13:03,650 --> 00:13:04,580 Al! 138 00:13:06,020 --> 00:13:07,120 Brother... 139 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:08,960 ...these guys... 140 00:13:09,170 --> 00:13:10,600 ...they're Homunculi. 141 00:13:11,780 --> 00:13:13,020 They couldn't be... 142 00:13:13,370 --> 00:13:15,280 He's right. 143 00:13:19,890 --> 00:13:24,760 These people are all Homunculus - "perfectly created humans". 144 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,560 They have promised to reveal their secrets to me. 145 00:13:28,890 --> 00:13:31,740 Once they do, Nina will come back to life. 146 00:13:34,310 --> 00:13:39,370 What's the point of bringing just her form back to life!? Nina's spirit won't be in there! 147 00:13:39,380 --> 00:13:41,600 I do have her spirit. 148 00:13:41,750 --> 00:13:42,920 Right here. 149 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:46,540 The Nina that lives in my memories. 150 00:13:46,910 --> 00:13:50,620 I will transplant all of it into the Homunculus Nina. 151 00:13:51,150 --> 00:13:56,380 Once I do, the truly perfect Nina, the greatest one that I could desire, will be born. 152 00:13:56,860 --> 00:13:59,200 Transplant... memories...? 153 00:13:59,340 --> 00:14:01,200 That won't be Nina! 154 00:14:03,060 --> 00:14:05,240 Okay, that's enough chit-chat. 155 00:14:05,740 --> 00:14:09,980 Fullmetal Pipsqueak, why don't you start the transmutation already? 156 00:14:10,380 --> 00:14:12,460 First, repair the ceiling. 157 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:20,440 This is a problem. We cannot use alchemy. 158 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:23,040 We have to ask someone else to do it. 159 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:28,600 You can't use alchemy? So then, why do you need the Philosopher's Stone? 160 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,120 Are you like Cornello? 161 00:14:33,730 --> 00:14:37,820 Are you megalomaniacs, with designs on controlling the world? 162 00:14:40,340 --> 00:14:41,940 We want to be human. 163 00:14:43,630 --> 00:14:44,610 That's all. 164 00:14:46,980 --> 00:14:52,880 If you're really Homunculi, then there must be an alchemist who created you. 165 00:14:53,020 --> 00:14:55,240 And if even he couldn't create a Philosopher's Stone... 166 00:14:56,010 --> 00:14:59,790 We weren't created by anyone! We were born! 167 00:15:01,170 --> 00:15:06,350 All we can do, is dangle hints about the Philosopher's Stone, 168 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,920 leading those who desire the Stone to someday complete it. 169 00:15:11,690 --> 00:15:16,520 Hold on. Then you're the ones who taught Mugwar how to use the red water...? 170 00:15:17,190 --> 00:15:21,240 And informed Marcoh and Tucker here in this laboratory of different things...? 171 00:15:22,110 --> 00:15:26,560 And in the town of Liore, gave Cornello that fake Philosopher's Stone...? 172 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:31,030 By doing so, you fools who held interest in the Philosopher' Stone would gather around. 173 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,680 And so, we found you. 174 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:40,060 And then I... ended up here... 175 00:15:42,290 --> 00:15:46,640 No! Me and Al came this far for our own sakes! 176 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:51,050 Our long journey... we've finally arrived...! 177 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,040 Because that's what we wanted. 178 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,760 We aren't being controlled by anyone! 179 00:15:58,290 --> 00:15:59,830 It's an equivalent exchange. 180 00:16:00,390 --> 00:16:03,720 We teach you the way to refine the Philosopher's Stone, 181 00:16:03,730 --> 00:16:08,160 and then you use the Stone, and turn us into humans. 182 00:16:12,130 --> 00:16:14,880 I can't trust you. 183 00:16:15,150 --> 00:16:19,460 Do not misunderstand. We are not asking you to do this. 184 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:24,340 This is an order. 185 00:16:26,050 --> 00:16:30,400 After all the trouble it took to bond this soul, by doing this... 186 00:16:34,090 --> 00:16:36,600 H-hey! Stop that! You stupid bitch! 187 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,160 Edward Elric, I... 188 00:16:56,260 --> 00:16:57,240 It's simple. 189 00:16:57,250 --> 00:16:58,210 Stop! 190 00:16:58,540 --> 00:17:02,750 Please stop! Please, don't do anything else to my brother! 191 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:03,970 Brother! 192 00:17:04,620 --> 00:17:08,060 Brother, it's all right. After all, I'm just... 193 00:17:08,210 --> 00:17:10,590 Suppose you were an imitation. What would you do then? 194 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,650 Do you have any proof that you ever really existed? 195 00:17:14,120 --> 00:17:16,030 You keep quiet, Al! 196 00:17:38,210 --> 00:17:40,600 Brother, stop! Are you serious!? 197 00:17:49,020 --> 00:17:53,240 What folly! I knew I should have sent him back to God. 198 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,460 The boy can do it. I'm sure of it. 199 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,520 Brother! Stop! 200 00:18:14,940 --> 00:18:18,660 Brother, stop! Those people are human! 201 00:18:18,740 --> 00:18:21,660 Yeah, that's right. So what? 202 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:26,260 I don't want to go back to my original body if it means sacrificing other humans! 203 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:32,380 You were aware of that from the beginning, when you tried to bring your mother back to life, weren't you? 204 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:38,220 Nothing else but a human life will do when it comes to human transmutation. 205 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,820 For someone to live, they must take from someone else's life, to some degree. 206 00:18:46,180 --> 00:18:49,600 In order to accomplish something, a sacrifice must be made. 207 00:18:50,260 --> 00:18:52,020 All grown-ups know that. 208 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,080 But, we didn't..! 209 00:18:54,170 --> 00:18:56,880 You didn't care if you are cursed as dogs of the military? 210 00:18:57,420 --> 00:18:59,900 That's what you decided when you entered adult society, isn't it? 211 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:03,540 Don't go turning back into children, now that it suits you. 212 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,560 So this is the truth behind truths, is it? 213 00:19:15,860 --> 00:19:17,050 Brother!! 214 00:19:17,940 --> 00:19:22,280 Al... if we give up here, then we'll never... 215 00:19:39,420 --> 00:19:41,440 I'm sorry... Al... 216 00:19:42,490 --> 00:19:44,800 I just can't... 217 00:19:58,300 --> 00:19:59,700 Fullmetal Alchemist! 218 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,050 Take your brother and go! 219 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,780 Don't be ridiculous! 220 00:20:05,890 --> 00:20:08,390 The older brother protects the younger one! 221 00:20:11,350 --> 00:20:12,300 Al! 222 00:20:12,770 --> 00:20:15,600 We cannot allow this to end just yet! 223 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,420 Oh, no... 224 00:20:30,740 --> 00:20:35,920 Even with the unfinished Philosopher's Stone... With this much of it, the caster's power will be augmented. 225 00:20:42,260 --> 00:20:44,440 Ready to charge in through the back entrance! 226 00:20:44,550 --> 00:20:46,440 The surrounding area is also sealed off! 227 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,810 I repeat, secure the large suit of armor and the boy with the braid. 228 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:54,540 Take anyone who appears to be a civilian employee into custody. 229 00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:55,960 And everyone else? 230 00:20:56,150 --> 00:20:57,330 Mow them down! 231 00:20:57,660 --> 00:20:58,680 Move in! 232 00:21:04,220 --> 00:21:06,600 It couldn't be! The Crimson Alchemist...? 233 00:21:23,290 --> 00:21:24,330 Edward! 234 00:21:24,870 --> 00:21:27,300 The transmutation reaction is increasing without bound! 235 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:29,940 Lieutenant Ross! 236 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:50,300 Mom...? 237 00:22:01,220 --> 00:22:02,300 Good work. 238 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,100 Fullmetal Alchemist! 239 00:23:39,450 --> 00:23:42,120 Episode 23: "Fullmetal Heart" 240 00:23:43,710 --> 00:23:48,700 Brother, what is it that you've been wanting to say for so long, but couldn't? 241 00:23:49,410 --> 00:23:51,820 It's not, by any chance...?