"Number 813, it's time for your interview." "Number 808, it's time." "Number 851, it's time." "I need an immediate decision." "will you spend the rest of your lives, in this orbital prison, or become agents of the Cyber police?" "You mean, serve as your trained hounds?" "Either way, we'II never be free." "Not true." "For every Type A cyber criminal you apprehend, your sentences will be reduced by a few years." "Some day, you might even earn your freedom." "It all depends on how efficient you are." "What a load of crap?" "At least it will end the boredom." "Besides, the stars are right for a new venture." "I'm in, too." "Anything to get another taste of freedom." "Prisoner 813, Shunsuke Sengoku, what is your decision?" "If you're ready to work for me, take your baton." "Don't worry, Hasegawa," "I'm swallowing the bait." "Have a good laugh." "SHUNSUKE SENGOKU" "From deep within the darkest corners of the night," "Convicted: murder, assault, computer fraud, forgery, traffic violations" "SENTENCED TO:" "375 years SUSPENDED SENTENCE" "Oh, we're gonna take the answer; make, make me down." "MERRILL YANAGAWA, alias "BENTEN"" "CONVICTED: murder, assault, forgery, embezzlement, space flight violations" "SENTENCED TO:" "295 years SUSPENDED SENTENCE" "I hear a voice I cannot, no, will not forget." "GABIMARU RIKIYA, alias "GOGGLES"" "I'm running away from flash lights; what, what is wrong?" "CONVICTED: murder, assault, possession of weapons, vandalism" "SENTENCED TO:" "310 years SUSPENDED SENTENCE" "Once there was a dark night, When we loved each other," "So desperate, yet so sad," "Never to return." "Lonely game, silly game," "There can be no retreat from night and day?" "Endless game," "Hold on tightly to your broken dreams." "Follow me, stay with me," "Last chance, time to risk it all?" "It's so hard," "Baby, let me go." "A Burning World?" "Varsus, raise the drawbridge." "please justify the requested action." "Do it fast, if you don't want him to get away." "Understood." "Cyber police override on Bay Bridge 13." "Go to hell?" "Too bad." "The profit from your black market data, won't do you much good in an orbital prison." "God damned hound?" "Request backup at Bay Bridge 13." "hold your position until backup arrives." "Roger." "Mission completed." "Are you injured, Sengoku?" "What a headache." "That vodka was terrible, last night." "Drinking is a violation of police regulations, article 9." "alcohol may impair performance in critical situations." "Have I ever let it affect my performance?" "You'd never understand, you pile of junk." "The advised cure for a hangover is sleep." "Thanks for the news flash." "Answer me, dammit?" "Sorry, I had problems finding my neck." "You have 24 hours." "Then your collar will explode, and you won't be able to tell any more stupid jokes." "Fine." "If it cures my hangover, blow my head right off." "Your choice." "I expect you at the station, immediately." "Damn him?" "Traffic update:" "delay in Zone 7-1" "Your performance has been evaluated on yesterday's case." "You received 3 years, 6 months of credit." "Your remaining term is now only 312 years, 4 months." "pile of junk!" "How many more people do I have to arrest, before this God damned collar comes off?" "Insufficient data." "These are the pertinent files." "You're late." "I thought traffic jams were a thing of the past." "What's up?" "We're evacuating the space-scraper." "Why?" "Someone hacked into the building's main computer system." "The primary systems included miIitary-IeveI hardening." "Evidence indicates massive infiltration by an unknown virus." "Have they made any moves on the rest of Oedo?" "We haven't received any demands, yet." "But he has hostages in the main computer room and elevators." "Yoshikazu Amachi:" "whereabouts unknown" "We'II hear from the perpetrator, soon enough." "It's your job to catch him." "You have 24 hours." "If he kills the main computer, every network in Oedo will crash." "The leeches and maggots of this city would have a field day." "Do we have any leads?" "Scanning the suspect database." "goggles and Benten are already on the job." "Put your heads together, and solve this one fast." "Do you ever get tired of manipulating people?" "I've set your collar's timer for 23 hours, 16 minutes." "After that, there's going to be three missing heads." "No, four." "I'II personally make sure there's a fourth head, to join them." "Dave Kurokawa:" "ACCESS DENIED." "I'm here at the base of the skyscraper amid pandemonium." "Families and friends of those trapped inside have gathered, hoping for news" "But we haven't even heard the demands from the unknown party behind this." "The authorities are trying to regain control of the building's computer, but so far without success." "This is Oedo News." "What a joke." "We built a monstrous city, then we put the computers in charge." "We rely too much on you damn machines, don't we, junkpiIe?" "AII of these mechanisms are human creations." "AII machines are merely responding to human direction." "Maybe, but just look at this place?" "It's completely insane." "Do you have the anti-virus software?" "downloading now." "How about the new system files?" "download complete." "Wait." "files 2 and 3 have been infected." "AII passwords have been compromised." "They're intercepting all outside data." "No good." "How's it going, goggles?" "This is fascinating." "It's like chess." "A checkmate is inevitable, eventually." "Our opponent is a genius." "Just do something, while we still have our heads." "Most computers use a password to prevent unauthorized access." "This guy cracked the passwords in a matter of seconds." "This data provides no new correlations in the database." "How about defensive software?" "We tried, but the system blocked us out." "We still have 100 million combinations to try." "Doesn't sound good." "Okyo is one of the elevator hostages." "Cheer her up." "She is?" "She was helping with the evacuation, but she got trapped." "Jonouchi speaking." "This is Sengoku." "Sengoku?" "How are you doing?" "AII fifteen of us are fine." "Good." "You'II be back to your paperwork, tomorrow." "Trust me." "I trust you." "Later." "Nice job." "It doesn't look so bad, after all." "Maybe I should have told her." "She's barely out of the Academy." "She's too young to die." "How many hostages in the main computer room?" "Just one." "He's the systems supervisor, Dave Kurokawa." "He's a super-eIite, one of the most important people in Oedo." "But we can't reach him." "He's cut off from all outside contact." "This stinks." "That's a perfect place for the criminal, too." "We can't get in." "The hallway has anti-personneI Iasers, which are hidden behind armored shutters." "And we're locked out of the security systems." "This REALLY stinks." "That's what Benten said." "You two think alike." "close shave." "Varsus, what's the delay between beam sweeps?" "Each sweep is .75 seconds;" "delay is .25 seconds." "How long will my laser shield last?" "After 3.02 seconds, all power will be exhausted." "Distance to computer room door:" "67 meters, 20 centimeters." "You could spend all day at this." "I need a Nambu  Luger." "Hurry it up." "Fingerprint lock, verified." "Now get that grate." "Good." "We've finally found decent work for you." "It's going to ram me?" "Where's mobility control on a maintenance robot?" "A type AU-50 robot, or an Iwata-896?" "How should I know?" "Type AU: the upper right side." "The 896 has the control on the end of its arm, an improvement on the older type 459 robot." "However, the type AU-50 is still the most popular model." "Dave Kurokawa, I presume?" "Who are you?" "I'm with the police." "I'm here to rescue you." "Rescue me?" "What's so funny?" "This is hilarious!" "Where could we possibly go?" "There's nowhere to run." "This is the safest place I couId be." "What do you mean?" "I've locked out every system in this area." "I'm one step ahead of him." "You know who's behind this?" "You'd never catch him." "You police are such incompetents?" "I don't know; we're pretty good with parking tickets." "It won't do you any good, but if you really want to know..." "The systems have been taken over by Yoshikazu Amachi." "Do you have proof?" "He helped design this building." "He's the only one who could manage something like this." "Varsus, run a check on a man named Yoshikazu Amachi." "Understood." "What's going on?" "The security systems are back on Iine?" "The cracker must be working inside the building?" "impossible?" "Trace these new transmissions?" "Yoshikazu Amachi:" "australian citizen of Japanese descent." "developed software techniques used in the control of Oedo city." "High ranking member of the space-scraper development team." "Yoshikazu Amachi was declared missing in 2793." "No one's seen him in fifteen years." "I know that, but he's somewhere in Oedo." "You have to find him?" "Warning" "Give me Kurokawa." "Kurokawa?" "Was he after you, all along?" "Varsus, the hostage elevator is dropping!" "Stop it?" "That's quite a warning." "This guy really wants you dead." "Why is he after you?" "I don't have to tell you." "Stay back, or I'II kill you?" "Idiot." "This gun has a fingerprint lock." "It's a useless hunk of metal, to anyone but me." "But I'd be happy to demonstrate it for you." "I bet Amachi would thank me, for saving him the trouble." "And you call yourself a police officer?" "Sort of, but I'm still working off a few life sentences." "Do you think you can get away with this?" "If you want to live, start talking." "Why is Amachi after you?" "Amachi was a genius." "We worked on the computer systems together, during the space-scraper's construction." "But Amachi was always better than I was." "They were going to make him one of the super-eIite." "But if I eliminated him, they'd give that rank to me." "So I did it." "I killed him." "Fifteen years ago, in this very building." "I'm sure I killed him." "He couldn't still be alive, could he?" "It's been fifteen years, and now he's come for revenge?" "He's come back from the dead, just to get me?" "I don't believe it?" "Varsus, connect me to Sengoku." "Understood." "Sengoku here." "I've pinpointed the transmissions." "Ready for this?" "He's inside the building." "Right under our noses." "He's at the far end of corridor 63." "Okay, I'II get him." "Watch out." "There's something weird about this." "We don't know what he's capable of." "Maybe not, but I'm going to finish this." "I owe this guy." "Turn off the security outside this room." "And then, start praying." "Don't just stand there." "We've got work to do?" "Our target is in corridor 63." "I don't like this." "The stars are not auspicious." "An outbound transmission?" "From where?" "3F-102." "The satellite control dish." "He's using the satellite laser cannon to destroy the building?" "He's insane?" "Okay, route everything you've got through my station." "Want to take a taxi?" "Sure." "I bet they'd take us straight to hell." "There's too many." "Benten, handle the traffic control for me." "He's turned off the gyro-stabiIizer." "The space-scraper's starting to tilt?" "Emergency evacuation!" "clear the area?" "Stop it, Amachi!" "Stop?" "This is Hasegawa." "I'd love to chat, but I'm kind of busy." "I recorded Dave Kurokawa's confession." "Execute him." "What?" "kill him." "He's responsible for the current threat to Oedo." "Why bother?" "Let the courts handle him." "I was in charge of the Amachi case, 15 years ago." "Pressure from Kurokawa halted the investigation." "He should have paid for his crimes 15 years ago." "I don't have time for your sob stories." "I'm going to settle things with Amachi." "This is an order." "Kurokawa's death will end the crisis." "Do it, or I'II blow your head off?" "I don't like the way either you or Amachi work." "Both of you can go to hell?" "Varsus, how many blocks in corridor 63?" "12 blocks." "Are you positive?" "We're short one block." "That explains it." "What's that?" "Amachi?" "It's a simulation." "He's predicting my moves." "He has the satellite?" "Damn machine?" "Time for some new input?" "Try to compute this, you bastard?" "Sengoku?" "Varsus, mission accomplished." "tell the kennel master." "kennel master?" "Meaning unclear." "There is no identification attached to that phrase." "Figure it out." "I can't believe it!" "Why didn't my sentence go down?" "Repeating:" "You ignored orders while on a critical case, resulting in a demerit of 10 years, 6 months." "Your total term is now 315 years, 2 months." "Give up, Sengoku." "You can't argue with Varsus." "I agree." "We saved the city, and we still have our heads." "As long as we're alive, we can still get out of this." "Mind your own business." "Listen, you pile of junk, I'm going to sell you for scrap." "Think of me, when they start recycling your parts." "That's when you'II regret being a heartless piece of junk." "Sengoku, I'm glad I found you?" "What should I put in this space?" "Yoshikazu Amachi died 15 years ago." "So how can he be responsible?" "Ask the junkpile." "Varsus said he doesn't know!" "How should I fill this in?" "Write, "Insufficient data."" "Amachi died years ago." "Somehow, his consciousness survived in the computer." "Amachi programmed it to take revenge on Kurokawa." "How can you explain that in a report?" "There's only one thing I'm sure of:" "When Kurokawa died, Amachi was finally satisfied." "Nothing we did could have stopped that." "Quite a mystery." "Yeah." "Sengoku, want to get something to eat?" "No, thanks." "It's hard to relax with this collar on." "I'II massage your neck for you?" "Thanks, but not today." "I'd rather blow this thing off." "But first, I'II get rid of this city's parasites and scum." "It may be true that I may be in love with you," "If I unwrap my heart and see what's inside." "It may be that I have been wand'ring around lost," "Hiding my true feelings from everyone." "Never to see you anymore," "Has turned out to be so painful for me." "Before time moves on without us," "And takes you away forever," "I just want to say I Iove you," "Ever so gently I whisper." "Before time moves on without us," "And takes you away forever," "I just want to say I Iove you," "Ever so gently I whisper." "Putting my trust and faith in you," "I will open my heart to you." "I always want to be able," "To continue my search for you."