"Angely i demony kruzhili nado mnoj, rassykhali ternii i vechnye puti." "Ne znaet shast'je tol'ko tot, kto jevo zova ponjat' ne smog." "Naljubuites', naljubuites'." "Aeria gloris, aeria gloris." "Naljubuites', naljubuites'." "Aeria gloris, aeria gloris." "I am calling, calling now, spirits rise and falling." "Soboj ostat'sja dol'she." "Calling, calling, in the depths of longing." "Soboj ostat'sja dol'she." "Naljubuites', aeria gloris." "What's going on?" "Hey, who's in there?" "Hey, hold it!" "What the...?" "It stopped." "Hey, what's going on down there?" "!" "I hope this is what you really wanted, Kago." "Runaway Evidence" "I'm not detecting any individuality among any of the units so far." "In other words, you don't have any idiosyncrasies." "Idiosyncrasies?" "Please, just say that you always have the same specs no matter which unit you choose." "Yeah, but where's the fun in that?" "I've got something nice for ya..." "Natural oil." "Is it a good idea to give it that stuff?" "It might get funny ideas." "It's okay." "This is just an expression of love for our machines." "This is way better than our usual synthetic oil!" " Damn straight." " The Major!" "Prep six Tachikomas for dispatch with full loadouts!" "Something happen?" "36 minutes ago, a new multiped tank went haywire at the Kenbishi Heavy Industries proving grounds dome." "We don't have many details, other than the person in it is using the ID code of Takeshi Kago, the tank's designer, who died a week ago." "There haven't been any claims of responsibility or demands at this point, but considering that it happened at Harima City for Academic Research," "The Ministry of Home Affairs suggested the possibility of terrorism, so they requested that Section 9 mobilize to stop it." "The runaway happened during a Kenbishi test exercise for final fine-tuning." "If it turns out that the runaway was due to hardware or a lapse in software security, the Self-Defense Forces will want to pin all the blame on Kenbishi because they were considering officially adopting them into service." "Yeah, that sounds like them." "They say they'll intervene only if terrorists claim responsibility." "Unbelievable!" "They think they can defend the country with their pride?" "We don't even know its specs, and we're gonna go up against it with Tachikomas?" "These little guys are nothing to sneeze at." "You tell him, Major!" "You can't be serious." "Major, the tank appears to be changing course  and leaving Harima City for Academic Research." "Now's our chance." "The Techno-line leaving there is a private road that used to be a mountain pass." "It's just farms and forests around there." "Okay, we'll hit the tank while it's still on the Techno-line!" "Paz, check to see if there have been any claims of responsibility from any terrorist groups opposed to cyberization or prosthetic bodies." "Borma and Saito, you go on ahead and prepare for intercept on the Harima Techno-line." "Snipe it and stop it at a point where it can do the least amount of damage." "Togusa, meet up with the Chief at Kenbishi." "Find out what caused the tank to go haywire." "Batou and I will herd the runaway tank with the six Tachikomas." "Gee, you get all the action..." "Don't come crying to me if that tank blows you to hell." "Harima City for Academic Research was where our neurochips were made, right?" "A triumphant return to the place of our birth!" "The Major gets mad when we chatter." "We're Section 9!" "Give me a situation report." "Yes, ma'am!" "Reports say that it'll arrive soon." "Commander!" "It's only destroyed its fellow tanks so far, so it probably won't open fire." "Clear the road, and we'll take it from here." "Wow!" "Don't get so googly-eyed that you wander into its field of fire!" "Let's go!" "I've never seen Section 9 in action before!" "I didn't think they really existed!" "We'll keep our distance and continue observation until the intercept point." "That's a Jigabachi." "I guess the folks in the Self-Defense Forces wanted a good view." "It's their insurance and their threat against Kenbishi." "Anyway, what's this thing after?" "We don't even know where it's headed." "Are you sure somebody's really on board?" "I know we don't stand a chance against it, but being totally ignored like this ticks me off." "Care to head around in front of it, then?" "I'm kidding." "I'll wait until we get some info from the Old Man and Togusa." "Major." "I've checked 20 of 23 relevant organizations, but there haven't been any claims of responsibility for this incident." "All right, check the remaining three, and if nothing turns up, start checking around through different channels." "Why not try something along the lines of a joyride, tank theft, or Al malfunction, and be done with it?" "Joyriding and tank theft are both terrorism in a broad sense." "We can't rule out Al malfunction, but let's wait to make a conclusion until we hear from Togusa and the Chief." "Yes, ma'am." "There's an engineer here named Ohba, a colleague of the late Takeshi Kago, who, like Kago, was also in charge of development." "They say he was doing maintenance on the tank until just before the incident." "You two question him." "I'll talk to Kenbishi's higher-ups." " Yes, sir!" " Yes, sir!" "You're Mr. Toshio Ohba, in charge of development, right?" "Y-Yes, that's right." "If you want to keep the damage to a minimum," "I'd like you to give us all data pertaining to the new tank immediately." "This is everything, I presume?" "Yes..." "Major." "I'm sending you the data provided by Kenbishi." "Confirmed." "We should be able to come up with something using this." "So we just spent the day looking at the ass of a huge tank, huh?" "We're almost at the intercept point." "Saito!" "How's it coming?" "Almost ready." "That okay?" "Yeah." "Major, get clear!" "Not yet." "We'll wait until the last minute to keep him from spotting us." "Now linked with satellite." "Major!" "Do it!" "Chief?" "!" "Major, it's peeping my Hawkeye data." "Looks like it's linked up with the satellite." "I've got one chance to eyeball a shot!" "Unfortunately, it would seem that we weren't given all of the data, after all." "Pull out of there and meet up with us." " Yes, ma'am." " Yes, ma'am." "It's gonna get onto the expressway." "It must have someplace it wants to get to in a hurry." "The Jigabachi is clearing out." "That means the press blackout is about to lift." "As long as no terrorist claims responsibility  and Kenbishi doesn't admit fault on their part, the Self-Defense Forces will probably play innocent." "Then it's up to us to stop it, I guess." "Let's hope the old ape comes through." "Don't be so blasé about it." "The way we'll handle this depends on which way he wants to go at the fork in the road." "I believe you already know that the Self-Defense Forces won't help." "All that's left now is whether Kenbishi will trust Public Security Section 9." "Kenbishi spent six years developing the HAW206!" "Are you saying that you police people will cover the losses Kenbishi will incur if the specs of that tank were to be made public?" "!" "That's only if you still have a buyer!" "At this rate, you'll have a billboard car with the Kenbishi logo on it making the worst product demonstration in history!" "Is that what you want?" "Can you do anything to slow it down using just those mini tanks of yours?" "What is it that's been bothering you?" "Can you tell us anything?" "You built that tank, didn't you?" "Something must have triggered the runaway." "Are you sure you can't think of anything?" "We're not questioning you as a suspect or anything." "Are you sure you won't be a little more cooperative?" "Or maybe there's something that's keeping you from talking?" "Batou, we're going to find out which way this thing wants to go!" "Don't you think it's heading into the city?" "Don't get yourself shot!" "Scatter!" "You okay?" "I'm fine!" "Wait there for assistance." "Yes, ma'am!" "He's so lucky!" "He broke down!" "Maybe they'll do a structural analysis on him!" "Chief, it's changed course for the bridge." "This may be our last chance to use antitank missiles." "At least get them to tell you if they'll even work against it." "Tell them that if we blow this, we may end up bringing down a bridge  that cost four times the budget of the SPring 8 particle accelerator." "You heard her." "What will it be, Development Chief?" "Lt'll be in an urban area once it's across." "We're quickly running out of options here." "You should forget about using missiles." "We believe it to be operating in Mode L, so most wireless guided missiles will be jammed." "Even laser guidance?" "In the case of laser guidance, it sends out decoy signals and diverts the missile." "Even with online guidance, if the firing range is greater than 300 meters, it is capable of sending the missile back at the person who fired it by hacking the connection with a 90%-plus success rate." "This might have made good promotional material if you'd kept it secret." "Chief, we found out who's in the tank." "Who's piloting it?" "It's Takeshi Kago." "Takeshi Kago?" "!" "He died a week ago!" "Yes, I heard." "Mr. Ohba says that he hooked up Kago's brain to the tank's Al after his death." "Why would you do such a thing?" "!" "It was his last request." "Major, are you getting this?" "The tank is heading for Takeshi Kago's parents'house." "Here's the location." "That's pretty close." "Yeah." "This isn't good." "We think Kago's objective may be revenge against his parents." "Kago had a gift for weapons design and was scouted by Kenbishi while he was still in college." "But he was born with a frail body, and his doctors said that without a prosthetic body, he wouldn't live to see his 20th birthday." "Because of his family's religious beliefs, though, prosthetic bodies and even cyberization were forbidden." "Basically, it was tenacity for developing the tank that kept him alive until the age of 28." "Ohba grew up under similar circumstances, but did receive prosthetics to live, and so he says he carried out Kago's last request, which was, "When my body dies, I'll be free of my religion."" ""When that happens, remove my brain and connect it to the tank I built."" "It's me." "Get me Ishizuka of the Awaji Police Bureau." "So why does he want revenge against his parents?" "While he was alive, he hated his parents for his sickly body." "Given the situation, he apparently said he wanted to be reborn into a steel body." "Once free of life, he wouldn't be burdened with his parents'beliefs, and would be able to get that steel body." "Kago entrusted Ohba with that dream." " Kago" " In Mourning" "All residents, please follow police instructions and evacuate immediately." "I repeat, all residents are to follow police instructions and evacuate immediately." "Man, talk about aggressive..." "Getting off here puts him close to where he wants to go." "Anyway, let's get after him!" "Gonna try a kamikaze run or something?" "So, the tank has finally entered an urban area." "At present, that tank hasn't caused a single fatality." "However, I can only imagine what is about to happen." "Zero fatalities so far..." "M-Mr." "President, that's..." "I have to give Kenbishi a future." "Thank you for your cooperation." "Aim for the tank's legs with your wires!" " Roger!" " Roger!" "Cut your wires!" "Looks like physical attacks are useless." "Don't get any stupid ideas!" "It's got a military attack barrier!" "Lt'll fry your brain!" "How would you even connect a wire to it?" "!" "I've got to at least try!" "How much longer until we're in firing range?" "!" "About two minutes!" "Major!" "Major, it's useless!" "Forget it!" "Hold it right there!" "Chief!" "The old ape must've badgered 'em!" "Kenbishi's anti-multiped tank weaponry?" "If they had 'em, they should've handed 'em over in the first place!" "It finally stopped?" "Man, that stuff's sticky." "Chief, I need the cipher code for disengaging the tank's attack barrier." "I'll pop the hatch and remove Kago's brain." "Without the tank's barrier, it's just a defenseless brain..." " Batou, give me a hand!" " Sure thing!" "A physical trap?" "It's probably okay, but just to be on the safe side, open it carefully." "Takeshi..." "Takeshi, is that you?" "Damn it, why haven't they evacuated?" "!" "Tachikoma!" "Did she stop it?" "!" "We're terribly sorry about all this." "They say Kago's brain was just fried." "Kago..." "Son of a bitch..." "He hated his parents that much?" "No." "It was just for a split second, but I felt something when I burned out Kago's brain." ""Well, Mom?" "What do you think of me in my steel body?"" "It was a strange sensation." "It wasn't pride..." "Or vengeance." "Forget about it." "It was just a hallucination." "I hope so." "There's no way we'll ever know for sure now." "Tachikoma..." "Tachikomatic Days!" "I'm back!" "Listen, listen!" "Huh?" "Isn't anybody here?" "Let's see here..." ""We were all ordered out on a call by the Major."" ""The destination is a secret."" ""Furthermore, to make positive use of words, we wrote you this note"?" "!" "Darn it!" "They don't understand the point of word use at all!" "This is exactly the sort of information that ought to be relayed electronically, so why did they go and write out a long note just to tell me that?" "The significance of words isn't their superficial ability to relay information, but rather to structure the self-programming quality that's inherent in language itself!" "Take... that... you... stupid...!" "Huh?" "You know, I've been noticing some strange tremors..." "Could it be an error in my control system?" "Maybe that's what's causing my anger circuit to be stimulated..." "My self-diagnostic program says that nothing is..." "Huh?" "Who's that?" "Oh, brother..." "What the heck is going on around here?" "Up!" "Up!" "Look up!" "Are you kidding me?"