All language subtitles for Ghost In The Shell The New Movie (2015)

We have a follow-up report
from live at the scene

of today's armed occupation of the East Asian
Economic Federation's Far East trade embassy.

You're the ideal person
for the job, Major Kusanagi.

Thank you, Special Advisor Fujimoto.

Our victory is close at hand, Lt. Col. Kurutsu.

I agree, Ambassador Wong.

Our interview is just a formality.

These days Als and administrators
do the deliberations.

Won't this conversation affect the outcome?

Humans need not be daunted by machines.

Your unit aligns perfectly with
a critical governmental problem.

When the war ended,
the world entered an era of change.

This country is no exception.

The war accelerated cyberbrain
and prosthetic development.

The cybercrimes resulting
from that process are serious,

but the real problem is more fundamental.

The cyberbrain and prosthetics businesses

spawned the largest
profit-seeking system in history.

The massive amount of data
now shared in real time

has gone beyond what
any country can manage.

Even assuming that conglomerates will
eliminate all nations and races one day,

the state's role isn't over yet.

Yes. The anarchical system
calling itself the "global economy"

will destroy any private financial security,
which is the foundation of the state.

Fall back!

Cyberbrains and prosthetics are the bridge

connecting the systems of munitions
industry and household economics.

Government regulations are
meaningless at this point.

While no executive organ exists
which can truly contain the system,

that doesn't mean it transcends
laws established by the state.

Systems which break the law
must be taken care of directly.

Informatization forces us to choose
between becoming the system

and subordinating ourselves to it.

What we need now...

...is an executive organ to offensively
pass judgment on the system.

...Is a network to integrate with the system
and sort people appropriately.

We recognize you and your organization

as an enterprise we should welcome,
Lt. Col. Kurutsu.

Anti-terror activities under
direct governmental authority.

State-of-the-art cyber investigation. The power
to bring charges for corporate crimes.

Nothing is taboo for your unit.

You done yet, Major?

In a few minutes. What's the sitrep?

One hour into the raid, it's a circus over here.

Dammit! It's Ape-Face from
Public Security Section 9.

Isn't Chief Aramaki the one that requested us?

He wants us working for him.

That doesn't suit our separatist leader.

The ape's assumed authority.

What now, Major? Want me
to break into Section 9's Net?

I'll negotiate. Just wait for me.

The Prime Minister would like to
see this incident resolved promptly.

And you've just been given
the authority to do it.

Thank you, sir.

Do you like this country?

Enough to exert my full abilities, at least.

The country should work
to earn your love, then.

I'll begin immediately.

Oh, and...

Sir?

Your smile is too perfect.

You don't need to devote so much
of your prosthetic memory to it.

I've never given a programmed smile, sir.

I have no intention of questioning
your soul-your Ghost.

I'm heading to the scene.

Good luck.

lshikawa, information.

I see a report from federal council
session 320 approving the budget.

Nice work, Major.

Get in my lobby. We're taking this case.

Kusanagi. I didn't expect to see you here.

Did you come to wag your tail
for our antiquated government?

And you? Going to become a corporate
profit-seeking machine, Kurutsu?

Most of the military is going to be privatized.

This is a war. Side with the losers,
and you have no future.

The war is over. I won't let them
put a serial number on my Ghost, too.

Everyone is replaceable and expendable.

We'll soon find out which of us
is the disposable one.

ETA seven minutes. I assume you have my info.

Eleven soldiers who opposed downgrading
Defense from "Ministry" to "Agency"

have occupied the East Asian Economic
Federation's Far East trade embassy.

Here are their current positions,
backgrounds, and affiliations.

Um...

All eleven are prosthetized, and two of 'em
have heavy-class converted prosthetics.

Nothing the riot police oughta fool with.

Out of 42 hostages, 36 are confined
in the hall with the bombs.

The others are higher-ups who
escaped into the panic room.

They're probably the real targets.

If that door opens, we're screwed.

They'll either hole up in there for a year
or start staging public executions.

What are their demands?

They want the government to keep
the Ministry and suspend military trials.

They didn't ask for their own escape.

They just want their own little battlefield.

Execute domination on my signal.
We're going in.

Wait, just the seven of us?!

We have a sniper, cyberbrain hacking
for support, and Logicomas for shields.

The riot police at the perimeter
will keep enemy reinforcements away.

You need anything else?

Seriously?

Guess the rookie can't do anything
without a textbook and a necktie.

It must be rough, being the
only one with a natural body.

Why not take this chance to go full cyborg?

If you die, I'll call your pretty wife for you.

I can at least collect your last words
before your cyberbrain's blown away.

Call me if you want someone
to make your death painless.

Screw you jerks!
Fine, I'll do it and show you all!

You're top-notch parts I collected.

If you can't perform anymore, I'll purge you.

But most of you would wind up
in jail or shot in the back

if you weren't on my squad.

Don't forget that.

Get in position and prepare to go in.

She's calling us machine parts now?

Our unworldly princess probably
meant that as a pep talk.

That's demonic.

Damn gorilla.

She's a cruel woman.

It just means she trusts us.

Dammit, I seriously might get killed.

We need more personnel to storm them!

Where's Special Forces?
Where are the Rangers?!

Everyone refused to come.

They don't want to shoot their own people
to save some foreign war merchants.

Tell them to help these guys by stopping
them from committing more crimes!

Any squads associated with them
will be charged with conspiracy!

Pull out the negotiators, Chief.

You're finally here, Major?

Sorry, but you'll need to stand down.

Oh, so that suspicious squad budget
the council just passed was yours?

It's not like you to rely on politicians.

I saved myself some hassle
by negotiating with the top.

"Directly under the Prime Minister"
only means something on paper.

I recommend a squad that
follows international law.

A "shell squad within the international
rescue team," I think you said?

We'd already have one if it weren't for the war.

It would nip crimes in the bud, and stop
incidents like this before they happened.

Nice thought, but I'll take this
case over your fantasy squad.

When are you going in?

In 20 seconds.

We'll try not to kill anyone, so you'll
have something to do afterward.

She's like a kid with a new toy.

Dominate now.

Our comm lines just got dominated!

I like a good opponent. Bring it on!

My sights... She's infiltrated my vision!

Hey, what's wrong?

Hello!

Bastards!

Logicomas, protect the hostages.

Order acknowledged!

Are you my prey?

Move it! Don't turn over the hostages!

Do whatever it takes to buy time!

Hello.

See? I contribute.

Go down, dammit!

Where are you aiming? Don't kill them!

Don't monitor my vision all the time!

Break your kill shot habit. The war is over.

All these guys are still fighting it.

Bummer for you.

Guess your conversion was all about might.

I bet when you went full cyborg
after almost dying on the battlefield,

you thought you'd become your best self.

I did, too.

All done here, Major.

How's the panic room?

The door's fine. Two men on the move.

Batou and I will box them in.

Free the hostages and put everyone
you've captured in the hall.

Should we go in, too?

You like playing the clown?

As long as we beat the central authorities
to inspecting the scene, we're fine.

Seven people stealing the perps
we used 200 to surround...

Now that's entertainment.

"A Stalemate at the Occupied Embassy"

He's all right, Mr. Prime Minister.

I'll issue a directive.

Batou?

Major? Where's the enemy?

lshikawa, what's going on?

I was jammed for a second.
There's a twelfth person on the property.

A twelfth? Find them!

Look.

Friendly fire?

Come on, everyone outside!

Something's off. We're one person short.

There's been some noise on the comm line...

Hey, don't touch those!

The hostages' cyberbrains are
contaminated! This pattern is...

The false memory virus.

It's Fire-Starter! Give them the virtual vaccine!

I thought they were ghost locked!
Why can they move?!

I found the twelfth perp!

They're the host for the packaged virus.
Destroy their cyberbrain!

It's been a while since I got permission to kill.

Mr. Prime Minister, wait!

MY ear!

That was a flesh part! I'll kill that bastard!

This is horrible...

A false cyberbrain... This is just a
remote-control doll with no Ghost!

Where's the twelfth perp?

I lost track. I'm searching now.

The government's "state of emergency" alert?

Secret talks at Yagasaki Hotel? Bombing?

What the hell are you
talking about?! Who died?!

The first assassination of a sitting
Prime Minister in our nation's history

happened while Japanese soldiers occupied
an East Asian Federation embassy.

The relationship between
these events is unknown,

but authorities requested an analysis
of the Ministry faction's military Nets

from Vice-Minister Yoko Kitahara in her
interim role due to the Minister's resignation.

The administration is expected to force
the downgrade to Defense Agency,

increasing the bad feeling between
government and military groups.

"Which of us is disposable"...

Did someone use you and throw you away?

I'll find them and put them on
the slab next to you, Kurutsu.

The PM's talks were with Ambassador Wong
from the Far East trade embassy.

Investigate the simultaneous
embassy occupation

without making any assumptions.

--Yes, sir! --Find out what's been
going on at the PM's residence.

Put surveillance on anyone who makes
noise about their immunity to arrest.

Yes, sir.

We should have stopped this
from happening somehow!

All patched up?

Amazing what having a budget
will do for maintenance.

Who knows what'll happen with the
budget now that the PM's dead, though.

Give me two hours to fine-tune.

I'm gonna blow the brains
out of whoever shot me!

You go after the one with
the Major's body, Saito.

You're the only one who saw her.

I'll do both!

So what now, Major?

Paz, you're on the embassy.
Borma, you're on the bomb site.

Figure out whether this was
an operation on two fronts.

What about Kurutsu and
company's cyberbrains?

They're too damaged for me to read.
I'll investigate her death and the virus.

Let's say the chick with your body model
unleashed the virus. Can I kill her?

Do corpses give us info on the ringleader?
Quit the kill shot habit, idiot.

Are the rookie and I
goin' after the perps, then?

They oughta be halfway
around the world by now.

Nah, if their goal is to
mess with domestic affairs,

they'll have operatives in our government
who can't move right away.

In which case, there's a third party
who used these guys and then iced them.

I'll pray they're foreigners.
I'm sick of killing my countrymen.

Do background checks on everyone.
Don't get tripped up by petty spy battles.

Special Advisor Fujimoto...

I came for the DNA testing on his body.

He's not recognizable anymore, after all...

I promise to find the culprit.

My mind is so mixed up

that when they question me,
I can't even remember yesterday.

Or what Father and I last talked about...

I've experienced that, on the battlefield.

Did your memories come back?

All of them. I'll never forget again.

Right before he died, he issued
some kind of directive to me.

But someone jammed the signal.

Please... I want you to tell me
his last message for me.

Oh, and...

Could we have dinner sometime?

Pardon?

I'd like to talk to you again, if that's all right.

There aren't many restaurants I can go to.

lshikawa, I assume you heard.

Yep. I'll find evidence.

Want me to keep tabs on him, too?

Get the perps' Net and don't
do anything uncalled-for.

Who tries to pick up women
the day after his dad dies?

Not to mention the Major!

They probably hit it off from the start.

Rich third-generation politicians
don't meet her type every day.

Now let's get to work, old-timer.
Can't waste our new authority.

It's been 900 hours since
I last saw someone move.

I heard about Unit 501 being privatized,

but I didn't realize it would
become an automated factory.

Everyone went to work for Harimadara.

What did you want? A factory tour?

Why was Kurutsu at that meeting?

For profit and survival.

Ambassador Wong and the PM

were working on an agreement to avoid
a prosthetics development dead end.

To keep production lines going

by deliberately delaying
technological improvements.

Doesn't the government give research grants
so that development won't dead-end?

It's the opposite.
Most of the existing prosthetics

will be impossible to version up
within the next generation.

Others weren't full cyborgs from birth like you.

You were developed on
the premise of further growth,

thanks to the keen insight
of your designer, Dr. Kusanagi.

So you're making parts here?

Yes, to keep us alive.

Technology conservation
keeps vested interests going,

while a technological revolution means
control of an enormous market share.

Kurutsu bet on the former, and was
annihilated by the latter's system.

That makes a strong motive

for the perp to kill the ambassador
and the PM in the same hit.

Thanks for telling me.

You should say hello to your parents.

Another time.

Come whenever you like. Much like us,
they're not going anywhere.

Koichi Sawada, former Army
armored division signal man.

Would a military Net admin really hole up here?

If the access logs left in the perps'
cyberbrains are right, he did.

Logicoma.

I see one person's heat signature.

And nobody's dead?

My investigation doesn't go that far.

Dead men tell no tales. He'd better be alive,
or we're back where we started.

You're a dangerous guest.

Learn to shut your door.

I thought someone might come to
speak with me. Did you need something?

Koichi Sawada, I presume?
We're part of a special squad.

We'd like to ask you a few questions
about the Prime Minister's assassination.

What's that data?

Soldiers' last words.

They have no money to pass down,
so they only send their dying messages.

They program them to be automatically
sent to me after they kill themselves.

Since they have no families, they choose me,
an admin they've never even met.

I wish they'd at least come talk to me...

ls someone dead?

Somewhere out there, yeah.
You stand by until we get back.

Okay!

Get any transmissions that hinted
at the Prime Minister's assassination?

Not once. I do have the
occupiers' testaments, though.

Are there any you've lost contact with?

Plenty. I'll forward you a list.

Anybody you figure was in command?

Hmm, Army Colonel Haruyoshi Nada
would have the most clout.

He was an informal advisor
to Vice-Minister Kitahara,

but he disappeared before the incident.

You come talk to me first, too.

Why me?

Most suicides are full cyborgs.

Cyberbrain standards change,
meaning they can't use the newer prosthetics,

so they fall apart while still alive.

Like me.

Without my role to play as a relay point,
I would have killed myself, too.

If the cyberbrain version you chose
doesn't fit the tide of the times later,

this is what prosthetization dooms you to.

What did you do with the dead person?

We couldn't do anything.

If he can't be repaired,
I recommend recovering his data!

You can't recover his life
or his Ghost if he's dead.

What a badly designed unit.
Have you ever died, Mr. Batou?

I was supposed to, but I wound
up a full cyborg instead.

Are you working as one of the
Major's parts so that you can die?

Hey. now!

A stud like me doesn't die too easily. Got it?

Yes! Thank you for another
valuable learning experience!

Request it through Foreign Affairs.

We're victims here. I won't allow you
to "strip them of military affiliation."

I want compensation from the government.

That "victim" is trouble.

That was Robert Lee,
the Far East Trade Representative.

He's also an infamous fixer.

He almost got deported once
at the Americans' request,

but he weaseled his way out of it.

He's got balls. For all he knows,
he might be attacked again.

He's probably got a lot of secrets
he doesn't want exposed.

Makes me want to know who
arranged the PM's secret talks.

And who leaked their location.

Tell the Major I'm always open
to a joint investigation.

Standards are the national
borders for corporations,

just as they are for cyberbrains and prosthetics.

No country relinquishes
its borders just because

national boundaries give
rise to technology gaps.

Lt. Col. Kurutsu and I were trying
to find the way to the next epoch.

Aren't you the ones who've
profited from a system

that transcends those borders,
Deputy Director Amagata?

That's no longer my title.

Kurutsu told me the same thing--
that a day was bound to come

when cyberbrain Nets would
transcend even corporate borders.

That's a long way off yet.

If you feel you're in danger, I recommend
our protection and monitoring.

That's not necessary. Your former
colleagues will protect my company.

Major.

You've got the info?

No joy with the jamming yet, but I did
find a data transfer from Kurutsu.

It was an outside transmission,
automatically sent one minute after the blast.

And it wasn't some testament
sent to the military Net, either.

Give me the address. I'll go.

So, all the members of the 501
are corporate employees now?

Or are you research subjects?

Please stay out of this, Kusanagi.

Instructor lbachi.

We'll get justice for Kurutsu.
Don't involve yourself any further.

You're an outcast with no developmental
organization who just self-modifies.

Get in our way, and I really
will take you out this time.

Keep tabs on everyone at
Harimadara from the 501.

Expect them to obstruct our investigation.

Roger. They probably want to retaliate anyway.

I found the plan for averting
dead ends in some government docs.

There's a security plan set up based on
what happened over 20 years ago

when they tried the same national policy.

Security? What happened?

A ton of people went missing.

At the top of the list are a prosthetics
researcher and his pregnant wife.

They were last seen at the site
of a chemical weapons explosion.

Some organization is keeping their
bodies for research... Are you listening?

I'll have my Als analyze the data.
Find out the connection with these crimes.

They tell me you're with another unit now.

We have more non-military companies
interviewing here recently.

Now we foster a broader range of personnel.

Are they good purchases for the corporations?

The point is that we can promise
these children a future.

They're over there.

Hello.

Hello. What's your name?

Chris.

I'm Motoko Kusanagi. I used to live here.

Do you feel nostalgic?

Yes, I suppose it does bring back memories.

Do you know Kurutsu?

Everyone here does. She was
going to build a future for us.

But she died.

May I listen to her message?

Yes.

If you are watching this, it means
I'm no longer of this world.

Check your individual Nets for the rights,
assets, and duties I've assigned you.

I'm sure you're worried, but there is a future.

If you believe in the Third World,
we'll meet again one day.

"Third World"?

A world not of people or things, but of data.

Do you believe that
there's someplace we can go

even if we become unable to swap
prosthetics and we can't go on living?

That's not something I know.

Is this the only message?

Yes.

Will we meet again?

Good idea. Let's.

Why meet up to talk? Are you
implying my cyber lobby is bugged?

No, it's just... It's important
to talk over a meal sometimes

instead of just doing it
via cyberbrain, you know?

What are you talking about?

You're the one who chose to bring this
flesh guy into our unified-spec team.

Our rookie's afraid you
might secretly be a robot.

I didn't go that far! I just want to
deepen our understanding and trust--

He says this is a terrible working environment:

No vacation, no fun, and no cherry
blossom viewing even though it's spring.

I didn't say that!

So, about the Ministry faction...

The eleven hostage-takers,
plus Colonel Nada and seven MIAs,

all left the same testament.

Meaning they're all lying low somewhere,
and they're likely to strike again.

Colonel Nada's testament has
an extra line, and it's a weird one.

He said he'd "received a gift
from the Third World."

Doesn't that mean he got
the virus from the broker?

No... It's weird.

"Third World"? Is this some occult thing?

Find out if anyone at the Ministry of Defense
or affiliated companies uses that phrase.

Hire some more people, dammit.

I will if I find optimal parts.

Calling us parts again?

Got a problem?

The rookie says you're a crappy leader
who talks about people like things.

Seriously, I didn't go that far!

Report for ya, Major.

From the confiscated rifle and what I've
seen at the crime scene, it was an RMC.

They used a remotely controlled
machine gun, not a human sniper.

Someone did the shot, the virus,
and remote-controlled a body at the same time?

That's not the Major's body model--
that's the Major!

Just makes me wanna kill her more.

Also, I keep sensing someone watching me.

What a coincidence-so do I.

Me, too, actually.

Ape-Face from Section 9?

No, this feels different.

I found something that's probably related.

Come to my lobby, and I'll show
you something interesting.

What'd you wanna show us?

I used a forensic search to reproduce the
movements of objects caught in the blast.

This is pyro reverse measurement--
it's like replaying the explosion backwards.

Pretty amazing.

The case with the bomb in it
used fingerprint recognition.

Only the Prime Minister
or his aides could open it.

A surveillance cam?

It's military, but it's got a
limited range of transmission.

I did random testing with some white noise.

This is cheap encryption by Al.

Okay, I'm connected to our Peeping Tom's Net.

I want your name and outfit!

And FYI, my assassin's itching to kill someone.

I'm with the Treaty Review Department,
Section D! Contact them!

He's on loan to Foreign Affairs
from Public Security.

They're involved with the PM's secret talks?

I'm Akiyama, Treaty Review
Department section leader.

Give me the short and sweet explanation.

We captured her on camera a month ago.

Fire-Starter, the supposedly impossible trifecta

of brainwashing, Ghost infiltration,
and false memories...

She's the seller. A crazy bitch who
goes by the same name as the virus.

You approached her to get the virus,
and you fell into her trap.

So you put tabs on me, since we
have the same body. You're a fool.

You're a super-wizard-class hacker.
I'd be stupid not to suspect you.

It was two officers that she manipulated.

Office rs?

People who helped implement
the PM's established policies.

One of them was Colonel Haruyoshi Nada.

The one who went missing before the incident?

His job was to isolate the radical
elements within the Ministry faction.

And then he up and pulled the trigger
on a two-pronged terrorist attack!

It's like he had a personality transplant.

He was infected by the virus.
Would the broker go that far, though?

Enemies of the PM must have
bought the virus at auction.

I want to find out who they were,
and get hold of them and the broker.

Who was the other officer?

Yoko Kitahara, Vice-Minister of Defense.

Wh-What's the meaning of this?!

Don't move!

You protocol-ignoring scumbags!
You're under arrest for unlawful investigation!

Knock it off.

I... never expected this...

Let's hear your story.

She was infected by Nada, and she
induced the Ministry faction's flare-up.

She manipulated public opinion
for the "Agency" downgrade

and the layoffs of several thousand
troops in the restructuring.

Was she involved in the PM's assassination?

Not that we've discovered.

So a Foreign Affairs squad

and the backbone of the MoD got
used in a plot to assassinate the PM.

The virus itself hasn't been found.

If it's all this woman's scheme...

I saw this from the cyberbrain
infringement stage.

I'm aware that I'm a victim.

Who orchestrated this to
make this look like my set-up?

Excuse me?!

He's not Section 9, is he?

That's Kuwahara, head of
intelligence's strategy office.

He's after the broker who could be your twin.

Aramaki!

So it was the intelligence bureau that
outbid the treaties bureau for the virus?

I've got nothing to do with the treaties bureau.

The purchase was a ruse to arrest the broker,

and she got away from us
before we could secure the virus.

I'll pretend I believe that.

Right now we need everyone
working together on this.

Quit being stubborn and
team up with us, Major.

An organization that locks up
witnesses to protect itself

deserves to be punished along with the perps.

You're just some upstart rogue squad!

I'll call you when we take her down,
so you can have something to do afterward.

That squad has traced things
back to Kitahara, Fire-Starter.

They're nuisances. Can't you
take them over with your virus?

No need to panic.

Intelligence and the Treaty Review
Department are both under my thumb,

and the truth is the biggest trap,
the biggest tragedy, of all.

Simply taking advantage of people's
patriotism isn't a foolproof plan.

We should eliminate any possibility
of them tracing this back to us.

That will cost you.

Motoko Kusanagi...
Now, when shall I steal your name?

Prime Minister Fujimoto definitely
issued some sort of directive.

And our only related lead is that
Vice-Minister Kitahara remembers

a ghost ship of unknown origin
off the coast of Niihama.

Nada's hideout... And yet
intelligence isn't making a move.

If Nada's infected like
the treaties bureau says...

Odds are ten to one it's a trap.

The ship's likely location is near
a cluster of undersea cables.

Could be a spy vessel.

This is all the info we have, thanks to
intelligence stealing Kitahara from us.

Now what?

We find out the rest by taking over the ship.

You just love storming
enemy positions, don't you?

Quit the squad if you've got doubts.

Everything ties back to the PM.

Will you get to the truth, or back
out now? Let your Ghosts decide.

There's a new home
where you're headed, yeah?

Not a bloody battlefield
or a tight corner to die in.

I plan to get us a position
that suits us, if nothing else.

Just stand by. We don't
know what we're facing.

"An offensive unit with top priority"...

Plenty have talked about it,
but nobody's made it a reality...

...until now.

No sign of anyone on board.

Incoming!

They're pulling out the tanks from the get-go?!

I knew I should've stayed home!

Saito!

I can't pick them up!

Shit.

That's type-2902 thermo-optical camouflage--
Kyo-Re's newest release!

How much capital would it take to get
that for your tanks and your troops?

I'm taking the ship. Cover me!

HOW, exactly?!

I'll show you how it's done, rookie.

Go!

Go- Major!

I've reached the intermediate security server.

I have eyes on the barrier's gate array.

It's a variant on Army tactical defense barriers.

Lots of entrances, but only one exit...
This'll be a pain.

Opening a tunnel.

Shit, it's full of null data.
They're giving me the slip!

This fake looks familiar. The real data
is on the other side of the nulls.

I'll look for a way around.

I don't want to wait. I'll just force it open.

The broadcast Van's active protection
burned out! Close the connection!

Too late!

What?

Jeez, how many hidden servers do you have?

I don't storm a place unarmed.

I've taken control. The info--

What is this?

Signals 2, 6, and 7 lost.

Number and positioning
of enemy troops unknown.

They've taken our fire-control room!

Okay, I've got him.

We're done here, too.

Hit the deck!

Another one?!

Mr. Batou!

Stop!

When are you gonna get a cockpit?!

The request is being processed!

Military restructuring...?

Why my team? Who the hell--

So that's how it is?

Get out of there now, Major!

What's your status, Major?!

Hey, what the hell's going on?!

I know we took over the ship.

Somebody's remote-controlling
these from nearby.

Saito! Find them and kill them!

Give me more intel!

That bitch!

Oh, you're good. You can
work for me when she's dead.

Dammit. She got away, guys!

Why isn't anyone shooting at us?
Isn't their goal to recapture the ship?

Everyone all right?

Major?!

What the--

Did she use Ghost infiltration keys?

She assembled us by force.

There's no time, so I'll make this brief.

I'm redoing the investigation
with a new hypothesis in mind.

There's no need for us all to bear the risk.

Major...?

It's not her. Just projected data.

I just declared this squad disbanded.

Say What?!

I'll leave recommendation
letters with Chief Aramaki.

Choose for yourselves
where you want to transfer to.

You're top-notch parts.

When you're all together,
you perform better than I could alone.

That's all. Obey your Ghosts.

Her lobby's been shut down.

She purged herself.

She might've just cut us off.

It's messed up either way.

My ghost lock ain't working!

A remote-controlled body...

Was Colonel Nada captured?

You're upset that the hearing
was indefinitely postponed?

I don't even know what the truth is myself!

I'm not upset.

Send the repair bill to the Ministry of
Commerce or the Far East trade embassy.

I'm borrowing another car.

"Fire-Starter"... Was that just the
virus's code name during development,

or is it your own name?

Is there a difference?

I abandoned the spy vessel, just like
you asked. What more do you want?!

We don't know whether
Kusanagi is dead or alive.

Search your Net for her.

Cooperate... Or else the biggest
scandal since the war is going public.

"Section 9 Office"

Vice-Minister Kitahara was assassinated,
and Colonel Nada is still status unknown.

That makes your case hard to corroborate,

and you've also lost your
investigative privileges.

But you can stay on the investigation
if you do it as members of Section 9.

Not interested.

I'm outta here.

Hey, wait--

You guys are fine with this?!

Where do you want to restart from?

If the boat didn't give us anything,

I'd look into anybody involved
who refuses to testify.

You mean Robert Lee, the Far East trade rep.

He's a formidable opponent.
Use Section 9's Net.

Yes, sir!

What you cultivated is starting to thrive.

I won't let it be cut down, Major.

There was this intel...

Two developers, a married couple, went MIA
during the old project to avert dead-ending.

I just did some digging.

Their bodies are being kept by
Unit 501 for research purposes.

You better not tell me the wife was pregnant.

What are you talking about?

Someone who's been a full cyborg since birth.

They're the Major's parents?

I can't be sure. The bodies are so
contaminated they can't even be lD'd.

She was born without a body of her own,
and raised as Army equipment.

It's not that she has nothing to lose...

It's that she never had anything she could lose.

Until the war ended and she
went independent, you're saying?

So your take is that those vics
who might be her parents

are the reason she's gone rogue?

This is the Major.

They're probably secondary to
something bigger she's after.

This is just me speculating, but I think
she saw something real bad on that ship.

Bad enough to make her purge all of us.

If you're implying she wants
to protect us, that's a laugh.

She calls us "parts"!

She talks like we're things, but she
doesn't treat us like things.

Full cyborgs are parts anyway, really.

Gotta join some organization
who'll do your maintenance,

or fall apart while you're still alive.

Where are you going?

I'm not the type to obey my Ghost.

What I can see with my own eyes is all there is.

One ship, two tanks, and seven infantrymen.

That was one expensive trap.

What were they looking at?

I came to talk.

Sorry for asking you here out of the blue.

I hear you want to work for us again.

If you give me intel on
Major Kusanagi, I'll consider it.

You're the one doing the talking.

My role as a relay point... is...

Koichi Sawada, formerly of
the Army's armored division.

That name matches one of the Ministry loyalists

who died yesterday on a spy
ship of unknown affiliation.

I...

You've been implanted with false memories...

...Colonel Haruyoshi Nada.

"Uesawa Electrical Engineering
Kenichi Pazu"

Damn you, lshikawa, do you think you can get
away with making enemies of your old unit?!

This is filled with micromachines that
increase pain sensitivity 7,000-fold.

It takes them five minutes
to reach your cyberbrain.

It ain't the kind of thing you can withstand.

Stop! Stop!

Stop!

From the inside?!

Get in!

The East Asian Federation bigwigs
and the cyborg with the Major's model

have been together from the beginning.

That rules out a terror strike on two fronts.

Why were you at the embassy?

I managed to play back a scrap of the data

from that oversized e-paper at the bomb site.

A 3D map of the embassy?

Then the point of the PM's secret talks was...?

The ship was being used
for domestic espionage

under a secret deal with the Americans.

Forget a scandal-this is
a national security issue!

But you gave it up.
Why go so far to set up the Major?

Who's the Prime Minister's enemy?!

The PM wanted to use
the Defense Ministry faction

to oust the rebels in the Ministry of Commerce.

That's all I know! Please, give me the antidote!

It's a vitamin injection, idiot.

He's Colonel Nada?

Maybe his sympathy for the rank
and file spawned his false memories.

You think the host's desire and guilt
form the core of the false memories?

And they left him alive as a card to play when
they wanted to intimidate the government.

Unbelievable.

After the incident,
Representative Lee took over

a rare earth mine that had
been under Wong's jurisdiction.

They were outwardly cooperative,
but they were competitors.

This is all about war merchants
trying to crush each other.

The PM must've helped with the
Ambassador's plan to kill the Representative.

And the Representative counterattacked.

Our broker provided both sides with the virus.

Probably playing a double game.

When you get down to it, this was a war
between the PM and the Federation!

Got it.

Someone's ordered the Major's arrest.

Where are you going?

Even the Major decided to go this one alone.
I know you guys won't act.

Don't underestimate me.

I'll leave the Major to you. Do not let her die.

Major Kusanagi?

Section 9 told me to call them if you showed up.

You want to keep this secret even from them?

That depends on you, Special Advisor Fujimoto.

You carried the enemy's bomb to your father.

Oh, God...

One more thing. My squad's budget--
I couldn't trace some of it.

Where did that money come from?

I think it's a surplus from
privatizing a military wing...

From breaking up a post called Unit 501.

Please, put my memories back how they were!

I can't bear these memories!

I choose the truth.

I don't want to exchange
my memories for fabricated ones,

no matter how much my heart might wish it.

Never again.

A remote-controlled body...

Kurutsu!

Show me to the server floor.

A virus development Net...
transmitting externally?!

An attack barrier and a barrier maze.

Clearly that info is something
worth protecting to you two.

Your brain associated us
with our old bodies, I see.

We're sorry, but we're going to restrain you.

On Kurutsu's orders?

No, it's our collective will.

Kurutsu is only one part.

Then she is alive.

Please don't fight, Kusanagi.

We don't want to see you killed.

That's enough. Leave it be, Kusanagi.

Outcast.

Out of my WHY!

You've reached your limit, Kusanagi.

Major!

Yo. Awake now? I cracked your
secret lab to use it. No complaining.

It ain't like you to lower your body's
functionality with implanted weapons.

Why did you come?

How about you just be honest and say,

"As your leader I couldn't
order you to come with me,

but as a human with a Ghost
I wanted to give you the choice"?

Run.

Sure, once you're out of the maze.

Until then, we're gonna do our own thing.

I hope you can take responsibility for this!

Don't worry. I'll use members of the unit.

I'll have my subsidiaries give you soldiers.
Go through as many as you like.

You don't mind battlefield-level casualties?

It can't be helped.
This is a 500-billion-dollar business.

Fools out to change the
world are a minority group.

Isn't getting rid of those fast
what your "democracy" is about?

Don't resist, Kusanagi.

We don't want to see your brain fried.

My barrier isn't that cheap.

To think you reverse-breached the barrier...

There'll be no going back for any of us.

Tell me the real Kurutsu's location
and objective before that happens.

We don't know her location.
Her having multiple bodies was top-secret.

Her objective is the same as ever:
survive no matter who wins this.

I assume you know this, but the
East Asian Federation's objectives

are a technological revolution through
dead-ending and a monopoly on the market.

Some children aren't facing a dead end yet.

You'd turn them into merchandise?!

They are our successors,
to whom we should leave everything.

They will become next-generation models

and make long-term versioning up a reality.

And you'll make them repeat all this?
Sell even their Ghosts?!

Why, you...!

You were always free.

Constantly trying to create a future.

We envy you that.

You protected me...?!

Our brains are at their limit anyway.

We'll shift to the Third World
before they expire.

Pray that we become part of the sea of data.

Someday, someone may
be born who accesses you.

There!

Saito!

How dare that bastard screw with me?!

Hey guys, everybody alive?

We can't repair you if you die, you know!

We studs don't die!

Why are you just standing there?
I'll replace you if you don't perform better.

I was just about to show
my stuff, gorilla woman.

Major!

You outcast scum!

Major, are you all right?

Normal prosthetics are the best, am I right?

I told you to run, you thrill-seeking idiots.

You're the kind of parts
I won't be able to collect again!

We've got an important job still undone.

What good will arresting me do?

The same game will just start up again
after this administration dissolves.

Several retiring Ministers have
already said that to me today,

but I won't let it happen.

We've used money and technology
to fight an unscrupulous system.

It's no different from you with your guns.

We hate crime. You breed
criminals for the sake of profits.

You'll understand one day.

That's where you've been?

You're late. She's just leaving.

Kurutsu!

Kurutsu is dead.

Even controlling the same body, I can't
behave with the same personality again.

It's a mystery even to me.

How long have you been doing that?

Since the beginning.

I've been compensating for the
growth failure with micromachines,

and though I can't be prosthetized,
I've operated many prosthetic bodies.

But you're the only one
whose name I couldn't use.

And Fire-Starter? Were you the developer?

One day you'll understand

the diversity of information packages,
and the birth of a new world...

I'm going there... Going where everyone else is.

I pity you, remaining in a world like this
when you were once freer than anyone.

Did you get to say goodbye?

Why did you use her?

Two possibilities existed to avert the dead
end of cyberbrains and prosthetic bodies.

You and she were those possibilities. That's all.

Take him.

You should stop searching for the names
of the dead. There's nothing to be gained.

Take it from someone who's spent
a long time as one of the dead.

What is it?

Won't you take us with you?

Where should we go?!

What do you want?

To gain uniform standards
by selling your bodies and Ghosts

and sacrificing those who were given nothing?

You all have cyberbrains.
You have Ghosts you should be obeying.

You seek more than that from other people--
what do you plan to offer in return?

Build a future.

It's just the government's "official position."
it doesn't conflict with our trade.

Excellent. When the slave state fails
to serve, the aristocracy state starves.

The slave trade benefits from labor shortages.

You really gonna do this, Major?

So, here we have the
Far East Trade Representative,

Vice-Minister of Commerce Ito,
and some union officials.

How dare you?

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Defense Agency are watching this.

I'll have Vice-Minister Ito here

testify in a court of law about
the Prime Minister's assassination.

I'm ruined...

Impossible.

He applied for asylum and was accepted.
He even signed the written oath.

When?!

I don't have to answer that.

The papers are at the embassy.
I'll forward them to you.

The previous Prime Minister's
wishes survive. You'll be assassinated.

Ha! This is a civilized, pacifist nation.

Oh, is it?

Outside the window!

H-Help!

Hold your fire!

Off in the distance, a ray of light shines down

I rub the eyes I'd closed for so long

The naive ones are calling me

I flex and bend my heavy, rusted limbs

I need a reason to walk inch by slow inch
down that never-ending path

I can still move

I can still see

Cherry blossom viewing together is nice, huh?

This is an assignment.

Long ago, the illusions had names

As terribly precious things do

Aye! We saw the report that
the council passed your budget!

Okay. Flower stakeout suspended!

The great ones have left without us

Spread their wings and taken off
for that white shining place

They climb higher and higher
in the endlessly blue sky

But I can see them

We'll meet again

But I can see them

We'll meet again

I have a reason to walk inch by slow inch
down that never-ending path

I can still move

I can still see

I can still move

I can still see

I can still move

I can still see

I can still move