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[device processing]

[monitor beeping]

[woman breathing]

[machine] Oxygen levels are dropping.

Brain function normal.

Cerebral salvage ready to proceed.

Robotic skeleton prepared and waiting for brain insertion.

Initiate Project 2571.

[Dr. Ouelet] Now, your eyes are gonna open.

[softly] There.

You're safe.

[gasping]

[Dr. Ouelet] It's okay, just breathe.

Just breathe.

Breathe.

[deep breaths]

Good.

That's good.

Hello, Mira.

I'm Dr. Ouelet.

Do you remember anything about the attack?

What?

I was... drowning.

[gasps] There was water!

[Dr. Ouelet] That's right. You were on a boat.

A refugee boat. It was sunk by terrorists.

Why can't I feel my body?

[Dr. Ouelet] Mira, your body was damaged.

We couldn't save it.

Only your brain survived.

We made you a new body.

A synthetic shell.

But your mind, your soul,

your "ghost," it's still in there.

[thudding]

Please.

Sedate her.

[Mira strains]

[door whirs open]

[sighs]

Will it work?

Absolutely.

She's a miracle.

A machine can't lead, it can only follow orders.

A machine can't imagine or care or intuit.

But as a human mind in a cybernetic frame,

Mira can do all those things and more.

The first of her kind.

She will join Section 9 as soon as she is operational.

Please, don't do that.

You're reducing a complex human to a machine.

I don't think of her as a machine.

She's a weapon.

And the future of my company.

[door whirs open]

[announcer 1] The first artificially created

memory enhancement...

[announcer 2] Sirenum's training protocol

is the fastest and most efficient way

to develop the abilities you've always wanted.

[announcer 3] Stronger than ever.

Experience your power with Pneuma Glove.

Stronger than ever. Experience your power...

[announcer 4] Cyber-crime is a type-one offense.

Minimum punishment fifteen years in prison.

[announcer 5] Hanka Robotics guarantees

personal safety and integrity against outside threats...

[dispatcher] All patrolling air units be advised.

Possible cyber-crime activity in the vicinity.

Airspace in all adjoining areas to be locked down.

Section 9 is currently on site.

Repeat, all patrolling air units be advised.

Possible cyber-crime activity in the vicinity.

This is Major. I'm on site.

Awaiting instructions.

[speaking Japanese] Review and report.

[Osmond] I'm human. I'm flawed.

But I embrace change...

and enhancement.

Now there's nothing I can't do.

Nothing, nothing I can't know. Nothing I can't be.

I want you to listen to something.

[device processing]

[girl singing in French]

That's my four-year-old daughter.

In the time it took her to sing that lullaby,

she learned to speak fluent French.

Did you know that song...

[Major] There's an echo box up here.

Someone's scanning data traffic.

[speaking Japanese] Trace where it's transmitting.

Let's see who's worth this kind of surveillance.

Accessing hotel security network.

[indistinct chatter]

What are you seeing, sir?

I've got a lot of hotel to scan.

[speaking Japanese] There's a banquet room

reserved for the President of the African Federation

Dr. Osmond is hosting for Hanka Robotics.

[Major] Got it. 43rd floor.

[distorted chatter]

Someone contact the President's staff.

Someone's watching him.

Dr. Osmond, what is it you want from us?

I think it's more about what Hanka Robotics

can do for you.

Seventy-three percent of this world has woken up

to the age of cyber-enhancement.

You really want to be left behind?

My people embrace cyber-enhancement, as do I.

But there's no one who really understands the risk

to individuality, identity, messing with the human soul.

Gentlemen, excuse me. I think you have the wrong...

[glass shatters]

Hallway. Six men. Shots fired.

Section 9 ETA?

-Two minutes out, Major. -[Major] Too long.

I'm going in.

[speaking Japanese] Hold!

[Aramaki, in Japanese] Major, stop!

I've heard this speech before from your competitors.

And now, Hanka Robotics serves it...

-What are you doing? -...with milky sake.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. [groans]

Look. This is what I'm talking about.

[Osmond yells]

[clamoring]

[Aramaki, in Japanese] Major!

[electrical whirring]

Initiate the hack.

[groaning]

-[silenced gunshots] -[groaning]

[grunting]

[panting]

[whimpers] Help me. Please. Don't let me die.

Who sent you?

[voice distorting] Help me. Please.

Answer me!

[robotic voice] Collaborate with Hanka Robotics

and be destroyed.

[groans]

Uh-uh.

[gunshot]

You okay?

You're injured.

You're not the same.

Hey.

It's just a robot!

[men groaning]

[machine humming]

[silence]

[device whirring]

[cat meows]

[distortion]

[hissing]

[announcer] Your skin deserves the best,

and so do you. Try our hand cream.

[indistinct chatter]

[helicopter whirring]

So, what do we have on Osmond?

-So far, very little. -[device powers up]

He was the head of Hanka's robotics division.

Human, but of course cyber-enhanced.

So how did they hack him?

[Major] Somehow, this geisha bot got past his encryption.

Something's different. What'd you get?

[Ladriya] Why do you always think he's out there enhancing?

[Togusa] Because he is.

Cyber-mech liver.

Been saving up for a while.

Now it's last call every night.

You got enhanced so you can drink more?

[clicks tongue]

Embrace the enhancements, Togusa.

We wouldn't be here without it.

I'm all human. And happy, thanks.

Any more information about the seized geisha bot?

[Togusa] Hanka's running scans.

Dr. Dahlin will have the reports ready by...

[footsteps approaching]

[device powers down]

[Aramaki, in Japanese] I have been

speaking with the Prime Minister.

He wants a full report. Togusa.

Following last night's attack...

three more Hanka scientists were murdered

at the company's central laboratory.

The first two were shot.

And the third was beaten to death

by his own service robot.

All showed signs of cerebral hacking.

The same as the geisha did to Osmond.

And all were senior figures at Hanka.

Just like Osmond.

A message was left at each of the crime scenes

by someone identifying himself...

as Kuze.

[hologram] Collaborate with Hanka Robotics

and be destroyed.

Collaborate with Hanka Robotics and be destroyed.

[Aramaki] Togusa.

You and Ladriya go speak to Mr., Cutter, the CEO of Hanka.

Major and Batou, get Dahlin's report.

Find out what she recovered from that geisha.

-[Batou responds in Japanese] -[Aramaki, in Japanese] Major.

[whirring]

[door closes]

[speaking Japanese] I told you not to jump.

I had to or more would have died.

You are a member of my team and my responsibility.

I will find him and I will kill him.

It's what I am built for, isn't it?

You are more than just a weapon.

You have a soul... ghost.

When we see our uniqueness as a virtue...

only then do we find peace.

[announcer] Locus Solus, safely reconfiguring

your child's genetic structure. Families built better.

What was going on with you at the hotel last night?

-Nothing. I'm fine. -You sure?

-Hey, sweetheart! -Move.

-You want an upgrade? -Move.

-I have anything you want-- -Back off!

[indistinct chatter]

-Hey, Ming! -[Ming] Hey, Batou!

Hey.

-[Ming] got your bones. -[Batou] Thanks, man.

For the dogs.

For someone who doesn't like people,

how come you care about dogs so much?

Don't know. I just like strays, and they like me.

They like you 'cause you feed them.

You got no heart.

Hey, girls! [whistles]

[dogs barking]

Hey!

Hey, Gabriel.

Meet Major.

Major, Gabriel.

[Major] We used to have a dog.

Seriously?

[laughs]

I had you down as more of a cat person.

[chuckles]

You don't talk about that stuff, huh?

What?

-Your past. -I don't remember much.

Just fragments. Bits and pieces.

What about family?

My parents, they died bringing us to this country.

Our boat sank in the harbor.

I almost drowned.

It feels like

there's always this thick fog over my memory

and I can't see through it.

You're lucky.

Every single day I get screwed by my memories.

It's better to be pure.

Like you.

[woman over PA] Welcome to Hanka Robotics.

All visitors must display appropriate credentials

at all times.

[whirring]

Open and close, please.

You have damaged internal systems.

Maybe next time, you can design me better.

[chuckles]

How are you?

I'm fine. I can't feel anything.

No, you. In there.

I've been having glitches.

But they'll pass.

You've been taking your medication?

Yeah.

But these ones are still cycling.

I had two this morning.

-Sound or image? -Both.

I see it.

Have you made any unencrypted downloads?

No. Just delete them for me. Consent?

My name is Major Mira Killian,

and I give my consent to delete this data.

It's done.

No big deal. What are they?

Sensory echoes from your mind, shadows, can't be sure.

How do you know what's a glitch and what's me?

The glitches have a different texture

to the rest of your code.

I can see everything.

All of your thoughts, your decisions.

I guess privacy is just for humans.

You are human.

People see you as human.

Everyone around me seems to fit.

They seem connected to something, something I am...

not.

It's like I have no past.

Of course you have a past.

And with time, you'll feel more and more connected to it,

and to them.

Open and close, please.

We cling to memories as if they define us,

but... they really don't.

What we do is what defines us.

[woman over PA] You are entering a Hanka secure area.

Authorized personnel only.

Please disable communication enhancements.

[Dr. Dahlin] I'm busy.

[Batou] Dr. Dahlin, are you finished yet?

If you hadn't riddled the geisha with bullets,

this would be much easier.

-I didn't shoot her. -I did.

[sighs] This is gonna take days.

I need to run hundreds of potential simulations.

We don't have the time.

She was a Hanka companion bot.

But she was reprogrammed for cerebral hacking.

What was on her drives?

Nothing.

The data was destroyed as it was transmitted.

No sign what she was after.

The hardware was vandalized.

They ripped her up!

Then I have to do a Deep Dive.

You can't encrypt during a Deep Dive.

I know.

They could have left traps in her.

Mag pulses. Viruses.

She's right.

You'll be exposing your mind to whoever hacked her.

You'll be wide open.

[Major] I have to get inside her memory.

It's the fastest way to find Kuze.

[Dr. Dahlin] It's too dangerous.

And highly irresponsible.

Are you sure?

You see any bad code headed my way, pull me out.

How come you're the one sweating?

Run it.

Cyber-mind connection to the Major

now active and unencrypted.

[device processing]

Consent required for data download.

My name is Major Mira Killian, and I give my consent.

[indistinct chatter]

[laughter and chatter]

[geisha bot screams]

[Major straining]

[Batou] Disconnect. Get her out.

Get her out!

I'm trying, but she's being hacked.

[straining]

[yells] Get her out now!

[panting] Are you okay?

I know where he is.

[Batou] I know this place.

They run black market mech.

-You tooled up? -Yep.

Target's the basement. I'll lead.

Switching to mind-comms.

[Major, telepathically] Hope you've been practicing.

[Batou] That's unfair.

It just takes me a moment to...

[telepathically] get the hang of it.

[indistinct chatter]

[Major] Two mercs at the doors. Armed and enhanced.

[Batou] Copy that. We've got it covered.

[techno playing]

[Major] There's a lot of heat in here for a nightclub.

[Batou] It's a Yakuza club. What did you expect?

I quite like the place.

[Major] Why doesn't that surprise me?

I'm gonna have to draw some attention,

see if I can access the basement that way.

You're not here looking for any trouble, are you?

I'm just here for the girls and the beer.

-Can I help you? -I'm looking for someone.

You been here before?

My friend had some mech work done here. Industry stuff.

We don't do mech work here.

My mistake.

Why don't you come have fun with us?

We'll have some privacy.

[grunting]

[indistinct chatter]

[Major] I'm in.

[Batou] I'll be here when you need me.

[laughs]

You say your friend worked here?

I said my friend had work done here.

She's human?

Your friend?

Now what's that supposed to mean?

Batou.

Can you hear me?

Who did this stunning work on you?

It's divine.

[groans]

[Batou] Ladriya, guns.

[Ladriya] Here.

[Major] Batou, I'm losing signal.

Don't worry, sweetie.

We have privacy.

Listen.

No signals going in or out.

[Batou] Major, I'm in position. Do you copy?

Beer.

If you don't answer, you're gonna hurt my feelings.

[breathes deeply]

Ladriya, do you have Major on comms?

[Ladriya] Got nothing. Signal's still blocked.

I'm afraid I get bored rather easily, so...

if you don't want to talk...

maybe you want to dance! [beatboxes]

[groans]

[Batou] Major, come on. Answer me.

I thought you said no trouble.

Dance! [beatboxes]

[shouts]

-[vocalizing] -No! Enough!

[chuckles]

The truth is...

I wasn't built to dance.

-[grunting] -[Tony laughing]

[grunts]

[grunting]

[screaming]

[moans]

[Major] Back on comms. I'm heading to the back room.

[Batou] I missed you. I'll meet you there.

[water dripping]

Collaborate with Hanka Robotics and be destroyed.

-[Batou] Major? -[beeping]

-Hey. -[beeping accelerates]

[Major yells]

[Batou groans]

Where's Batou?

[Dr. Ouelet] In Enhancement, next door. He's doing well.

You took most of the blast.

I saw him down there.

It was like...

[machine whirring]

...he waited to see me.

[Dr. Ouelet] We synaptic-scanned you.

Everything you witnessed went to Section 9 to evaluate.

You know, the scan

also turned up a number of glitches.

They've been getting worse.

Since when?

Since the Deep Dive.

[door whirs open]

Do any of the glitches mean something to you?

No.

They don't.

You've been inside the same shell as he has.

That could have very serious consequences.

You were not authorized to Deep Dive the geisha.

You're disappointed.

No, I'm worried.

You're not invulnerable.

I can repair your body, but I can't protect your mind.

Why not?

You can see all my thoughts, so...

you should be able to secure them.

Try and understand your importance, Mira.

You're what everyone will become one day.

You don't know how alone that makes me feel.

I can see you out there, you know?

How many fingers am I holding up?

Funny.

Say something nice.

You chose those?

They're tactical.

-Always for the job. -What else I got?

-They suit you. -Yeah?

I got night-vision, mile-zoom...

and X-ray.

I guess I see like you now.

Don't worry. You'll get used to it.

Thanks for saving my ass.

Glad to see you're okay.

Major?

Could you feed the dogs for me?

I don't want to scare them.

Anytime.

[chuckles]

[whimpers]

[chuckles]

Are you insufficiently funded, Mr. Aramaki?

Is Section 9 missing some critical operational resource?

[speaking Japanese] We have everything that we require.

Major is our most sophisticated weapon

only if she's intact.

And Dr. Ouelet informed me

that you let her dive a corrupted geisha.

You realize the supreme importance

that Hanka represents to this government?

Major is the future of my company.

If you compromise her systems again...

I will burn this section.

[speaking Japanese] Yes, Sir.

Mr. Cutter.

But be careful who you threaten.

I answer to the Prime Minister, not Hanka.

[indistinct chatter]

[announcer] Create your own beauty.

Beauty enhanced.

You human?

Yeah.

Can you take that off...

so I can see your face?

What does that feel like?

It feels...

different.

What are you?

[monitor beeping]

[gasps]

Look at me.

Tell me what they took from me.

I'm sorry. They never told us.

[Dr. Dahlin screams]

[indistinct chatter]

It feels weird driving with these eyes.

[hissing]

Why do you take that?

It keeps my brain from rejecting this body.

[Togusa, over radio] Major, Batou, you need to get here.

What have you got?

[Togusa] Another Hanka scientist has been found dead.

It's Dahlin.

Got it.

[tires screeching]

Major, this way.

[security alarm blaring]

[Togusa] What is that?

She found what Kuze stole from Osmond.

It's a list of everyone who worked on a project

called 2571.

That's who he's targeting.

Is anyone else on the list?

Find Ouelet. Now!

She's in transit. Her comms are down.

[man] I'm looking at her and I'm thinking,

"You want me to pay for violin, too?"

Don't get me wrong.

I love that kid to pieces.

I do. She's amazing.

But when she practices that thing, it's painful, right?

Why not piano?

I mean, it's the same price, you know?

And it doesn't sound so bad.

At least, if you can't play that proper,

[voice distorts] it sounds...

[opera playing over speakers]

[Dr. Ouelet screams]

[cocks gun]

[panting]

2571. Tell me everything!

[tires screeching]

[tires screeching]

Are you prepared to die for 25--

[gasps]

[grunts]

Go!

[panting]

Go!

[grunting]

[helicopter blades whir]

[panting]

[water splashing]

[groans]

[grunts]

Where's Kuze?

Why does he want to kill Ouelet?

I don't know anything.

Enough! Enough!

We need him alive.

[man] Please, I've been through this.

You have the wrong guy.

So tell us who we do have.

My name is Lee Cunningham.

-Where'd you get the weapons? -I don't know.

Who loaded them onto the truck?

I don't know anything about weapons, all right?

I told you.

I was picking up my daughter. She takes violin lessons.

What's her name?

-Is this her? -Yeah.

Isn't she a little angel?

-This is your daughter? -Right.

Do you have kids?

Where do you live?

I can't remember.

I think it's a tall place. Is it a tall building?

It's a tall place, right?

You don't have a child.

You don't have a wife. You live alone.

-It's just you. -What? No.

We've been to your apartment. There's nobody there.

-No. -You've lived there

-for ten years by yourself. -No!

So you're just lying.

[shouts] I'm not lying!

I didn't kill anyone!

Why do you keep...

-Holo-cube, disconnect. -...doing this to me?

Please!

I didn't do anything!

Why do you keep saying this to me?

I don't understand. How can he not know?

[man sobbing]

The hack must have created a vacuum.

Kuze's wiped his memory

and somehow installed a new reality.

At least he got to believe he had a kid.

What's the difference, huh?

Fantasy, reality.

Dreams, memories.

It's all the same.

Just noise.

It's him.

He's in there.

This cube is secure. He can't be, Major.

Lie detector.

He must've hacked in that way.

We should uplink to the machine,

trace the code, get a lock on his location.

[Batou] Do it.

Don't go in there. It's too dangerous.

[Speaking Japanese] Major.

We don't know what else he's capable of.

[Togusa] The signal's unstable.

-Can you get a lock on it? -[Ladriya] Think so.

[Togusa] We gotta move fast. We're losing it.

[Ladriya] Connecting.

Who are you?

[Kuze, through Lee] Come here.

I am shy.

I'm not beautiful like you.

Tell me who you are.

I have been born more than once.

So I have more than one name.

I'll find you.

Not yet.

I'm not done.

[Togusa] The machine is tracing his location.

We got a fix!

[man gasps]

I need to see her.

No, please. I know...

We got him.

[chokes]

[machine flatlines]

Let's go.

Weapons up.

-Go. -[Major] On me.

[silenced gunshot]

[device powering up]

[thud]

[indistinct chatter]

[panting]

[grunting]

-[thud] -[shouting in Japanese]

Stay down! Stay down!

[women whimpering]

[groans]

Put it down. Put it down.

[groans]

[grenade beeping]

Grenade!

[man whimpering]

[grunting]

[water dripping]

[machine humming]

[low indistinct chatter]

[Batou, telepathically] Major!

Come in.

[Major] I know why we couldn't find him.

He's using human minds to create a network of his own.

[Batou] We're coming to your position.

[woman screaming]

[grunting]

[man screaming]

[Major screams]

[hoarse breathing]

Tell me who you are.

[Kuze] I am that which you seek to destroy.

In this life, my name is...

Kuze.

What are you doing to me?

I have connected you to a network of my own creation.

When I am finished in this world,

my ghost can survive there and regenerate.

What do you want from me?

I became fascinated with you...

reading your code

while you were inside that geisha.

Like nothing I had felt before and yet so...

familiar.

We are the same.

We are not the same.

You kill innocent people.

"Innocent," is that what you call them?

I am as they made me.

Who made you?

What have they told you?

That you were the first?

The first cerebral salvage?

[speech glitching] You were born of lessons

took from my failure.

What are you talking about?

I was conscious while they dismembered

my body and discarded me like garbage.

I was lying on a table,

listening to doctors talk about how my mind

had not meshed with the shell that they had built.

How Project 2571 had failed.

And they had to move on...

to you.

What a beauty you are.

They have improved us so much

since they made me.

They thought that we would be a part of their evolution,

but they have created us to evolve alone...

beyond them.

"Evolution," that's what you call...

killing everyone who made you?

You're not listening to me.

You're a murderer.

They tried to kill me first.

It is self-defense. [glitching] Defense of self!

More will die...

until they tell me what they took!

I won't let that happen.

You want to kill me?

Like everyone else?

Do it then.

Do what you were programmed to do.

[Major grunts]

What is that?

[shouts] What is that?

I can't remember, but I am haunted by it.

Do you see it?

Togusa!

[grunting]

Don't take the medication that they give you.

They use it to suppress your memories.

Your shell belongs to them, but not your ghost.

Your ghost is yours.

Remember that,

and maybe you can remember it all.

Get away from her! Get down on the ground, now!

Major!

Major!

[gasps]

Oh, Mira.

Oh, my God, you're safe!

You've been gone for hours!

No one knew where you were.

[whispers] What?

You're scaring me.

Calm down.

How many were there before me?

The intricacies of shelling your mind,

it had never been done before.

It was inevitable there would be failures.

How many?

Dozens.

How many?

Ninety-eight unsuccessful attempts before you.

You killed 98 innocent people?

[stammers] No, I didn't kill anyone.

You wouldn't be here. You wouldn't exist

if it weren't for those experiments.

"Experiments"?

-Is that what I am to you? -No!

No, Mira!

Sacrifices were made.

Where did the bodies come from?

Where did I come from?

Mr. Cutter brought them to us.

I didn't ask questions.

The harbor!

My parents.

The way they died.

Did that happen?

No.

We gave you false memories.

Cutter wanted to motivate you to fight terrorists.

I didn't approve.

It was cruel, but my work, it was important, and...

you were born.

You were so beautiful.

Nothing I have is real.

I found him.

I told you to be careful.

You knew who he was the whole time.

You built him.

He had a violent, unstable mind.

His cerebral connections wouldn't hold!

-I tried to save him! -No.

You left him to die.

[Batou, telepathically] Nothing on Kuze yet, sir.

Checking upper zones next.

Is there any word on Major?

[in Japanese] She's gone. Off-grid. Silent.

[Batou] Copy that, sir.

I know where to find her.

I didn't ask you to come here.

You never ask.

But I always do.

Did they send you to bring me in?

I'm just here to fish. Did you see any?

You're a company man. You follow orders,

so if they ordered you to kill me--

Stop saying shit like that. You're gonna piss me off.

What's it like down there?

It's cold and dark.

Just a million miles away.

No voices.

No data streaming.

Just...

nothing.

-It scares me. -Then why do you do it?

It feels real.

Why didn't you stop him?

I don't know who to trust anymore.

You trust me, right?

Yeah, I do.

I just don't like it.

I need you to take me back.

There's more I need to find out.

Sure.

Dr. Ouelet...

what have you told her?

She knows.

[Cutter] I'm bringing her in.

[splashing]

[man] Hanka Security to headquarters.

We have the Major.

[indistinct chatter in Japanese]

[grunting]

[Dr. Ouelet] Why is she sedated?

She's been turned by a terrorist.

But you know that already.

You should've called

the first time she came to see you.

Instead, you gave her information.

What makes you think you have the right to tell me

-what to do and what-- -2571 took us close.

It's time to move on to the next iteration.

2571 is not a failure.

I'll delete all the data and reprogram her.

She won't remember him at all!

No. No, no, no.

You download all the data on the terrorist,

and then I order you to terminate.

What?

You'll build one that's better.

-[sobs] I'll delete everything. -You've deleted before.

-She's mine. -No.

She's a contract. With me.

We succeeded.

She's more than human and more than AI.

We changed her entire identity.

But her ghost survived!

Her ghost is what failed us.

We cannot control her.

She's no longer a viable asset.

You should be the one to do it.

[door whirs open]

What are you doing to me?

I'll run the standard synaptic, upload your data on the raid...

find out exactly what Kuze told you.

You know what he told me.

The truth.

You're deleting everything, aren't you?

No.

Make it so I don't remember...

you.

[gasps]

My name is Major Mira Killian,

and I do not consent to the deletion of this data.

I do not consent.

I do not consent.

We never needed your consent.

[gasps]

Yours or anyone's.

You're killing me...

aren't you?

[chokes]

Mira?

You hear me?

Mira?

This is your past, your real past. Take it.

Guards! Come on, come on!

-Come on, go! -[groans]

[grunting]

Go.

Go!

[grunting]

[woman over PA] Please relocate to your designated safe room.

Security alert on level 25.

Initiating lockdown procedure.

Please relocate to your designated safe room.

Thank you for your cooperation.

That's the problem with the human heart.

[sighs]

[gasps]

[glass cracking]

[speaking Japanese] I want to see her scan.

She killed Dr. Ouelet!

You're to have no further contact with her.

Hanka Security will hunt her from here.

-What are their orders? -To terminate on sight.

You want to kill her? You built her!

Have your sergeant stand down.

The Major would never harm Dr. Ouelet!

She's not the Major anymore!

We have a Section 9 operative under terrorist programming.

This goes public, your unit goes down.

You kill her, you kill us.

I'll take that under advisement.

So, what now?

[sighs]

[indistinct chatter]

[cat meows]

[Major] Hey. Hey.

Oh, Pumpkin!

Oh, you surprised me.

-[cat meows] -Ooh.

She likes you. [laughs]

I was looking for, um--

Come in.

Yeah, come, come.

Can I offer you some tea?

-Okay. -Uh-huh.

That's Motoko's room.

My daughter died a year ago.

I'm sorry.

She ran away.

She was difficult.

And, uh, we fought. [chuckles]

But I guess we all fight with our parents, right?

Please come and sit, yeah?

What happened to her?

I don't know. [chuckles]

The ministry sent me her ashes...

and they told me she took her own life.

[sighs]

But, Motoko... No, no, no. [chuckles]

I never believed them.

She was happy,

living in the lawless zone with her friends.

She'd write her manifestos about...

how technology was destroying the world.

Then, one day,

the police came.

And they ran.

It's strange.

[kettle whistling]

I see her in so many young women.

On the street, in my dreams.

As if she's still here.

She was...

fearless!

And wild.

You remind me of her. [chuckles]

Sorry.

How do I remind you of her?

The way you look at me.

Who are you?

I don't know.

Wait, wait, wait!

Will you come again to visit me?

I will.

[Major, telepathically] Aramaki.

Listen to me.

I was never in a terrorist bombing.

My parents...

everything was data they installed in my mind.

And there were others.

Runaways like me...

considered disposable.

Kuze was one of them. That's why he's coming.

For Hanka.

[speaking Japanese] Can you prove this?

[Major] Dr. Ouelet can.

[Aramaki, in Japanese] Ouelet's dead.

Cutter says you killed her.

Put me on the grid. I need Kuze to find me.

[speaking Japanese] Cutter will see you, too.

[Major] I know. But I need to do this.

[Aramaki, in Japanese] I'm going to meet with the Prime Minister

Cutter will be held responsible for what he has done.

He must be stopped.

[sighs]

The virus has spread.

[peal of thunder]

[telepathically, in Japanese] All agents,

switch to Mind-Comms now

[grunting]

[agent groaning]

[Speaking Japanese] Don't send a rabbit

to kill a fox.

[telepathically, in Japanese] We are burned.

I repeat.

We are burned.

[dog whimpers]

[Batou] Shh.

[gunfire]

[women screaming]

[dispatcher] We've located Major on the grid.

She's in the lawless zone.

Air support five minutes out.

Is the spider tank within range?

[dispatcher] Yes, sir. Awaiting your orders, sir.

[wings fluttering]

[fluttering]

[helicopter whirring]

[indistinct orders in Japanese over megaphone]

[groaning]

[woman whimpering]

[woman yelping]

-Hideo! -[screams] Motoko!

[Kuze] It is real.

This place.

[hoarse breathing]

I remember what they did to us.

Cutter and his men.

This is where they took us from.

We used to sleep right here.

We were like a family, all of us runaways.

We had nothing...

except each other.

They took that from us.

Your name was Hideo.

Motoko.

That was your name.

Motoko.

Come with me...

into my network.

We will evolve beyond them.

And together, we can avenge what they have done to us.

Come with me.

[rumbling]

I'll take control from here.

[machine] Weapons system manual command.

Spider tank now active.

[rumbling]

It's Cutter! He found us!

[machine] Target acquired.

No!

[machine] Target eliminated.

You came close, you freak.

[whirring]

[Major panting]

[grunting]

[machine] Motor center compromised.

[grunting]

[groaning]

[Kuze wheezing]

Sniper team on site?

[sniper] We're approaching the targets now, sir.

Come with me.

There is no place for us here.

No.

I'm not ready to leave.

I belong here.

I will always be there with you...

in your ghost.

[sniper] Target is in view.

[Cutter] What are you waiting for?

Do it!

No!

Keep firing.

[telepathically, in Japanese] Saito, have you found the Major?

Is she safe?

[telepathically, in Japanese] She will be.

[panting]

Hey.

Hey.

Say something nice.

What's your name?

Aramaki told me you had a name from before.

Motoko.

Major is still in there, right?

I am.

[speaking Japanese] Mr. Cutter.

I've come from the Prime Minister.

You are charged with murder and crimes against the state.

I thought that it might be you.

It is unwise to resist.

[groaning]

Please.

Major?

[telepathically] I'm with cutter.

Is there anything you'd like to say to him?

Tell him this is justice.

It's what I was built for.

So... do I have your consent?

My name is Major,

and I give my consent.

[sirens blaring in distance]

You don't have to come here anymore.

I know.

[gasps]

[Major] My mind is human.

My body is manufactured.

I'm the first of my kind, but...

I won't be the last.

We cling to memories as if they define us.

But what we do defines us.

My ghost survived to remind the next of us...

that humanity is our virtue.

I know who I am...

and what I'm here to do.

[Aramaki, in Japanese] Major?

Engage targets.

You're authorized.