"1999:" "Somewhere in Southeast Asia" "Legs 2, 4 and 5 damaged." "Wheeled movement impossible." "Can you get us upright using the remaining legs?" "I'll try, sir." "Gong Zero to all units." "Be advised, minefield to rear." "Hold current position." "Command, Gong One." "Multiple contacts dead ahead and closing in." "Element size, roughly one platoon." "Number is increasing." "Danger, thermal signatures to our right!" "Target moving, heading 040!" "Distance 1200, multiple targets inbound." "Signature indicates armored vehicle." "Hostiles entering RPG range." "HQ, Gong." "Hostile element's threat level increasing." "Request permission to engage." "Negative, do not engage." "Canadian reinforcements are inbound." "Repeat, do not engage." "Do all you can to evade." "Evasion impossible." "HQ, do you read?" "Sensors show RPG thermal signatures inbound!" "Ejection system failure!" " Detecting multiple inbound thermal signatures!" " I can't eject!" " Detecting multiple inbound thermal signatures!" "Colonel!" "PATLABOR 2 THE MOVIE" "Boot okay." "Story and Planning by HEADGEAR" "System normal." "Type-XL standing by." "Screenplay by Kazunori Ito" "System startup complete." "Okay, go to visual control mode." "Roger that." "Optical calibration, check." "Character Designs by Akemi Takada, Yuuki Masami" "Mechanical Designs by Yutaka Izubuchi, Shoji Kawamori, Katoki Hajime" "Lower forward visual field, check." "Rear visual field, check." "C'mon, Noa." "We're not here to screw around." "Assistant Director:" "Toshihiko Nishikubo Director of Animation:" "Kazuchika Kise Director of Photography:" "Akihiko Takahashi" "Art Director:" "Hiromasa Ogura Color Designer:" "Kumiko Yusa" "Layouts:" "Takashi Watabe, Satoshi Kon, Atsushi Takeuchi, Yoshio Mizumura, Masatsugu Arakawa" "Auto-balancers functioning normally." "Lower visual field, nominal." "No obstacles detected." "Music:" "Kenji Kawai Sound Director:" "Naoko Asari Film Editor:" "Shuichi Kakesu (JSE)" "Executive Producers:" "Makoto Yamashina, Toru Uemura" "Producers:" "Shin Unozawa, Tsuyoshi Hamawatari, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa" "Okay." "Great work, Noa." "Hit reset, and let's take it again from the top." "Roger that." "Directed by Mamoru Oshii" "Simulation complete." "Simulation complete." " Maintenance squad chief, please report to Booth 2 after post-simulation check." " Nice work." "...to Booth 2 after post-simulation check." "It's been 3 months since we got sent here from Procurement." "Looks like you're getting a handle on working here!" "Not even!" "Try on that headgear, Asuma, and you'll see!" "I have!" "And?" "Having eyes in my back and stomach almost made me barf!" "Exactly!" "What's wrong with the interface we use now?" "This new system is ideal for controlling a Labor." "The ol' bulbus oculi just can't keep up in underground, underwater, and outer space situations." "The bulbus what?" "Eyeballs!" "Human vision!" "When bikes were new, people went to special schools to learn how to ride them." "And how long has it been since only racers drove cars?" "People can adapt to pretty much anything." "Yeah, but still..." "All right, all right!" "Why don't I take you to see you-know-who to cheer you up?" "Okay?" "Hello there!" "Back again, huh?" "Hello." "It's already been a year since we stopped using these..." "Yeah, time sure flies." "Now he's just a test bed for data collection." "Hey, why don't you take him for a spin?" "Nah." "Why not?" "I'm not sure how to put it..." "I don't need to anymore." "Come on." "If we don't move it, the cafeteria'll be packed again." "Yeah, you're right." "Let's go grab some food." "Thanks again." "Sorry to bug you." "No problem." "You moron!" "Can't you hit anything?" "!" "Give me five laps, numbskull!" "Sakabe!" "Nishibori!" "Quit slacking off!" "Run flat-out on the straightaways!" "Sprint it!" "Sprint it!" "Sprint it!" "Wipe off that smile, Kiseyama!" "You just earned another five laps!" "Okay!" "Next!" "Yes sir!" "HEY!" "Ogura!" "Stop puking on the field!" "That'll cost you another five laps!" "Question, sir!" "What?" "Um, why are you making us do this with only manual controls?" "I understand there's a 98% hit ratio using the fire control system." "And what if your FCS is malfunctioning?" "Sir?" "Police Labor activities are normally conducted in pairs." "And what if your partner's Labor is disabled?" "But the odds against that are a million to one..." "Training to prepare for that one in a million is our job as cops, YOU MORON!" "That just cost you 20!" "MOVE IT!" "He does fine work." "He gives the cadets lots of attention and he's serious about his job, but..." "Put some spirit into it!" "Prepare to fire!" " But they're not training for the high school baseball nationals." " Send down the target!" " But they're not training for the high school baseball nationals." " Send down the target!" " Send down the target!" " Yelling about "giving your all" or "guts and glory"..." " Yelling about "giving your all" or "guts and glory" just ain't gonna get through to these modern kids." "You're pathetic!" "Move over, I'll show you how it's done!" "Since you're here, could you have a chat with him as HQ's General Affairs Section Chief?" "Listen up!" "Shooting is all about reflexes and concentration!" "If you put your guts into it, you'll always hit your target!" "Send out the target!" "EAT LEAD!" "We're not done yet!" "See that?" "!" "Don't let your guard down just because your first shot hit!" "Never forget to finish off your target!" "Always go for the kill!" "What do you think you're doing, Mr. Oota?" "!" "Where do you get off, destroying valuable equipment during a budget crunch?" "!" "Step out of that Labor immediately!" "Commander!" "Excuse me, have you seen my unit's commander?" "Cap, he wants to know if you've seen Mr. Gotoh." "Huh?" "What about Mr. Gotoh?" "He says he's looking for Mr. Gotoh." "I saw him going out back a few minutes ago." "Thank you!" "Have you seen the Commander, Senior Yamazaki?" "Well, I saw him taking a fishing pole out of the shed, so he's probably fishing down at the wharf." "Commander!" "Commander!" "What is it?" "The Acting Chief just called." "She'll be coming back to the station house later than expected." "Why?" "Did the conference run long, or is it traffic?" "Um, she didn't say, sir." "Oh." "I see." "What is it?" "Um, it's time for our shift to end now, so could the 1st Unit go on watch while we go home?" "Well, I don't really mind, but Ms. Nagumo isn't back yet." "I guess it's a bad idea, huh?" "Oh, well." "I guess it would be okay." "Really, sir?" "Sure, why not?" "I mean, I'll be here, right?" "The 2nd Unit will now stand down, and will resume standby watch duty at 1200 hours tomorrow!" "Sure, good work." "If you'll excuse me then." "'Bye!" "Of course it's a bad idea..." "This chart shows the distribution and status of Labors used for the Babylon Project, the oceanfront development that was completed last year." "With the completion of the huge dike connecting Kawasaki to Kisarazu, the number of Labors in use has dropped steadily." "With the second expansion project of Osaka International Airport and major construction projects in other cities, the spread of Labors away from Tokyo has accelerated." "And with it, Labor crime has risen in other urban centers." "To combat this, Prefectural Police in both Osaka and Kanagawa have established Labor forces in their departments." "Furthermore, the Aichi, Miyagi, and Chiba prefectural police forces are considering creating Labor units in their traffic mobile sections." "Next, I'd like to..." "Ms. Nagumo!" "I had a feeling someone from the group would come, but..." "It's been a while, hasn't it?" "Oh, bull." "Whenever we invite you out, you refuse to leave that strip of reclaimed land." "So, first a promotion to Inspector, then to acting chief of the SV2?" "You have it all wrong." "The SV2 will be reorganized by year's end." "I'm just standing in until then." "Still, it's a promotion." "You should've gotten it long ago." "Anyway, we're getting together with the other Tsuge School graduates tonight." "Even Watabe and Tanaka from Technical RD are coming." "They gave us strict orders to drag you out." "I'm sorry, but I'll have to pass tonight." "Come on..." "If this is about you and Mr. Tsuge, that's ancient history." "Hey!" "I can't even remember how long it's been..." "It's been three years since Mr. Tsuge went missing after that peacekeeping operation." " He didn't get in touch with you at all?" " Give it a rest, okay?" "!" "I got a single letter from him right after he came back to Japan." "I'm really sorry." "My unit is on watch duty tonight." "Give my regards to everyone there." "You're heartless, man..." "I guess it's the only stain on the reputation of the woman they called the Tokyo PD's most talented female officer." "Hello, this is the SV2." "Mr. Shige?" "It's me, Nagumo." "The meeting finally ended." "How are things at the station house?" "There haven't been any dispatch calls." "It's been pretty quiet." "Is Mr. Gotoh around?" "Do you want me to go get him?" "It'll take a few minutes." "That man is in serious need of a cell phone..." "That's okay." "I just got on the Yokohane Expressway, so if traffic isn't bad, I should be there in 15 minutes." "And I'm stuck already..." "My condolences." "Well, there's no hurry." "We have everything under control." "Talk to you later." "...a Labor is passing overhead." "For safety reasons, please remain in your cars with your doors closed." "This is the Kanagawa Prefectural Traffic Police Mobile Unit." "Inspector Nagumo of the SV2 to the Road Runner on the Yokohane Expressway." "Please respond." "This is Traffic Mobile 201." "Is that you, Commander Nagumo?" "My name's Motohashi." "You used to be my instructor, ma'am." "I'm sorry to bother you while you're on duty." "I see that you have the bridge closed to traffic on both sides." "Would you mind giving me a situation report?" "We got a call that an abandoned car on the Bay Bridge has a bomb inside." "We've blocked all traffic and are en route to check it out." "Roger." "Nagumo out." "You've been very kind." "Around 5:20 PM, an explosion rocked the Yokohama Bay Bridge a segment of the Bayside Expressway linking Honmoku to the Daikoku Pier." "We have no specifics on the number of casualties as yet." "The Bayside Expressway was immediately closed to all traffic..." "At the time of the blast, all Bay Bridge traffic was shut down due to a bomb threat." "The police are trying to identify the caller, and are also looking into possible connections to other recent terrorist incidents." "...a picture is emerging of a large-scale terrorist attack." "While the prevailing view is that this was a coordinated terrorist attack, numerous witnesses claim to have heard a jet overhead at the time." "Police authorities are trying to confirm these reports." "Explosion, or bombing?" "It is now 11, six hours since the blast occurred, and the area is still gripped in an atmosphere of utter confusion." "At this point, we'd like to show you this one shocking scene from home videotape." "Upon analyzing this image from the video obtained by SSN, the expert consensus is that the aircraft is most likely an F-16J fighter." "It is a variant of the American-made F-16 that was officially adopted by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force in 1998." "Including the 3rd Air Wing at Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, over 130 F-16J's are assigned to various JASDF units across Japan." "In regards to any involvement of the JASDF in the Bay Bridge bombing, the Defense Agency has issued a statement that they have no aircraft that match..." "Although speculation is running rampant regarding the bombing, much is focused on..." "The Defense Agency has categorically denied that the JASDF was involved..." "The Cabinet has announced that it will form a special committee to study the Bay Bridge bombardment, vowing to spare no effort to uncover..." "We are preempting our regular programming to bring you coverage of this breaking story." "A witness remembered seeing your company's name on some equipment." "That's weird..." "Our staff was out filming at the Bay Bridge when it happened, all right." "But we already handed the tape over to the police as evidence." "Are you really with the police?" "He came yesterday around two, I guess." "This is really strange..." "He didn't say which police station he was from?" "No." "He looked about as authentic as you do." "Did he give you any paperwork when he confiscated the tape?" "Apparently, they did all the paperwork at my client's office." "All I got was a note from them telling me what to do." "We're really just a subcontractor, always at the mercy of our clients." "Don't you have any copies?" "When we can't even keep decent inventory of our masters?" "Once we send out the master tape, we record over whatever's left." "So, have you seen that F-16 footage they've been showing on TV?" "More times than I want to remember." "What about it?" "The tape they confiscated had better resolution than that, right?" "Sure, it was shot in Hi-Vision format." "Home camcorders don't hold a candle to that." "Did you notice anything on the tape?" "You caught the explosion on tape, right?" "Well, just after the moment of impact, I guess." "But you went through it with your own eyes, right?" "Yeah, I saw it a hundred times." "I did the editing myself." "But we had a rush deadline." "I was just looking for usable footage." "It's not like I was scanning the screen, looking for something." "If I knew what I was looking for, it'd be a different story." "Maybe there really was something on there..." "You don't say..." "Yeah, that would send up some red flags in my mind, too." "Yeah, if you could, I'd appreciate it." "Sorry for the trouble." "What?" "Oh, come on..." "Like I said, I'll make it up to you psychologically." "Okay." "Talk to you later." "That was Mr. Matsui, I take it?" "Um..." "Yeah." "He says to say "hi."" "Mr. Gotoh?" "Yes?" "I have no idea what you and Mr. Matsui are up to this time, but I'd appreciate it if you'd give me a heads-up when you make your move." "Don't go behind my back on this one, okay?" "Is that an order from the Acting Chief of the SV2?" "I don't want to make it an order." "Think of it as a favor to a colleague." "Well, I can't turn you down if it's a favor..." "Excuse me." "Um, there's a visitor for the commander." "There are two commanders here." "Which one?" "I'm not sure..." "Who is it?" "I'm not sure..." "Mr. Arakawa from... the JGSDF Chief of Staff Special Intel Office?" "Your card doesn't seem to have an address or phone number on it." "Well, certain issues prevent us from disclosing that." "So, what can we do for you?" "Before I get to that, I'd like to show you something." "I have it here." "Would you do the honors?" "Bay Bridge Memories" "Are you sure this is the right tape?" "Yes, this is the right one." "Hey, I know this song." "The important part comes later." "Would you like to sing it?" "The microphone isn't hooked up." "I'll fast forward through it, then." "This is the part." ""I fell head over heels and I cried an ocean "?" "No, it's after that." ""Oh, as I was drenched by the rain."" "It's right here." "Where?" "There, in the upper right." "Up by the edge of these clouds here." "Where?" "I can't see anything." "Here!" "Right here!" "This smudge that looks like a black bird." "I suspect that you already know what this is about, Mr. Gotoh." "The Bay Bridge was hit just moments after this." "Now that you've seen this, there's another tape that I'd like to show you." "Every step of the enhancement was recorded to show that nothing was altered." "A testament to the power of digital technology, I suppose." "Can you make it out?" "I'm no expert, but the shape doesn't look the same as the one on TV." "Now that you mention it..." "How about now?" "On the left is the plane in the video." "On the right is the one shown on TV." "Take a close look." "The one on the left has cutting-edge stealth wings." "And this is a vector nozzle, which was developed just recently." "Here's the most important part." "The SDF doesn't have any F-16s like this." "Wait a minute." "Before you go any farther, why did you bring this to us?" "Because I want your cooperation to uncover the truth, of course." "Also, I wanted to establish lines of communication with the police on the ground in the event of a worst-case scenario." "We're willing to share all the intel we've gathered thus far." "What do you mean by "worst-case scenario"?" "Would you care to go for a drive?" "We'll just circle around the area." "I'm the kind of person who can unwind in a moving car." "I find it's easier to collect my thoughts like this." "When I'm driving, I become motionless, and the world begins to move around me." "And there's the added bonus of not having to worry about anyone eavesdropping on you." "So, why don't we get down to business?" "On the night the Bay Bridge was bombed, a US fighter practicing nighttime maneuvers at Miyake Island went missing." "That's the plane in the video, you mean?" "The US military came forward and reported this to us." "This is all unofficial, of course." "We have our own back-channels with them, you see." "As one military to another, I suppose you could say." "It might surprise you, but it's not in their best interests to throw Japan's defense forces into disarray by withholding the facts from us." "But why would the US military bomb the Bay Bridge?" "Obviously, they didn't intend for this attack to happen." "Frankly, both the US military and even the pilot who fired the missile were probably just victims in all this." "You'll explain what you mean by that, I hope." "We've been secretly tracking a certain group for the last year or so." "Defense affairs politicians." "Former staff officers." "Elements of the US arms industry." "And a faction inside the US armed forces." "It's basically a loose coalition of people like that." "They felt threatened by Japan's refusal to step up its military capability with a post-Cold War arms race going on in Asia." "So they decided to stage a military spectacle that would jolt Japan's political status quo out of its peace-loving stupor in one fell swoop." "Remember the incident 26 years ago with the defecting MiG-25?" "It shook Japan's confidence in her air defenses and her sense of national security." "It was meant to be like that, all over again." "Sneak up to the front gate of the capital at low altitude, brand a lock-on signal onto its bright white door, and then go home." "And their plan was a resounding success." "Except for the part where a real missile was launched." "It was an accident?" "It's possible, but until we can prove otherwise, it would make more sense to assume that someone made it happen." "For one thing, that F-16 still hasn't returned to base." "So someone used that farce for their own purposes." "But what for?" "Just a minute." "If you already know all this, why not go public with it to clear up the allegations against the Self-Defense Forces?" " Doesn't the Defense Agency..." " Of course the Agency knows." "The staff officers are pressuring the government to go public, but the cabinet is still wavering." "The idea that this was a crime by a third party is just speculation." "There's not a single piece of hard evidence." "If they tell the public it was an accident, it might become a huge scandal that they can't control." "It's their standard operating procedure." "Press ahead with the investigation while keeping a close eye on the situation." "You know the drill." "They're a bunch of fools." "That's exactly what the culprit wants." "If the top brass keep on ignoring the people in the field like this, then..." "They might dig themselves into an even deeper hole." "I want to take down the culprit before it comes to that." "I assume I can count on your cooperation?" "Mister..." "Arakawa, was it?" "This story is fascinating and all, but it's just guesswork and circumstantial evidence." "You don't have any solid proof." "And even with that footage you showed us, you yourself proved how little value videotapes have as evidence." "I'm sorry, but I don't think I can buy this story of yours." "You certainly live up to your reputation, Mr. Gotoh." "I was right to come to you." "But even if we assume that both tapes were faked, it's a cold, hard fact that the Bay Bridge was blown to bits." "Am I right?" "Take a look at the file behind the passenger's seat." "Yukihito Tsuge." "One of the founding members of that group I mentioned." "Current whereabouts, unknown." "We're doing all we can to find him." "He's our prime suspect." "Since you work with Labors, I expect you've heard of him." "Finding people isn't our strong suit." "Our expertise lies elsewhere." "And since this is a delicate matter, we couldn't involve the police." "In case you hadn't noticed, we're cops, too, you know." "I've heard that Assistant Inspector Gotoh has powerful connections." "And then there's the SV2's extralegal exploits..." "Or perhaps I should say "accomplishments."" "Word gets around." "You've got us all wrong." "We're plain old public servants, same as you." "Excuse me." "Yes?" "What?" "Hey!" "You realize you have two active-duty police officers back here, right?" "!" "Our man has made his move sooner than we anticipated." "Three F-16J's armed with bombs just launched from Misawa." "They'll enter Tokyo airspace in about 20 minutes." "SIF verification complete." "Aircraft identified as three F-16J's belonging to the Northern Air Defense Force, 3rd Air Wing, 8th Squadron." "Call sign, Wyvern." "No response." "Area, H2K1." "Heading, 190." "Altitude, 32,000." "Speed, 720 knots." "Continuing southerly heading." "Any word from Misawa?" "Have you gotten through to them?" "No response from any of the air wing units, including Northern SOC itself." "Call the base commander directly." "Keep trying until you get through." "You don't think it was Misawa that..." "Don't be ridiculous." "That's impossible." "Interceptors are airborne." "Wizard 03 from the 204th at Hyakuri." "Priest 21 from the 303rd at Komatsu." "Estimated intercept times:" "Wizard, next 04." "Priest, next 10." "Trebor, this is Wizard 03." "Now maintaining angel 32." "Wizard 03, this is Trebor." "You are under my control." "Steer 040, maintain present angel." "Roger." "Wyvern is still heading south." "No response to hails." "Handing over pursuit watch from SS 37 to SS 27." "Wizard's revised ETI, next 05." "Wizard 03, target position 030." "Range, 90." "Altitude, 32." "Director..." "What if Wyvern still doesn't respond to our hails after intercept?" "We're patched through to Northern SOC." "This is Central SOC." "What's going on up there?" "Recall your southbound FS's immediately!" "What?" "None of your planes are in the air?" "!" "Misawa Control has no record of any planes taking off." "We're trying to reach the 8th Squadron to locate their aircraft, but the lines are down." "Even the direct line to their offices is down." "Verify location of all Northern Air Defense Squadron aircraft!" "This is priority one!" "Roger." "Director..." "The SIF codes are changing according to schedule." "This couldn't be orchestrated from outside..." "Could it be a system error?" "A self-diagnostic is running continuously." "Any errors would set off alarms." "Wizard, have you made contact?" "Target dead ahead, 25." "Wizard 03, how about contact?" "Negative contact." "Request target altitude." "What's their ETA to metropolitan airspace?" "About 10 minutes." "Alert the 1st Air Defense Missile Group at Iruma." "Prepare to intercept." "And call up the Defense Chief for emergency sit-rep." "Trebor, this is Wizard 03." "Negative contact." "Bogey dope." "Target dead ahead, 15." "Heading, 190." "Altitude, 32." "Mach 1.2." "Reduce speed!" "No joy!" "Negative contact." "I say again, no joy!" "Request target position." "This is too dangerous." "They should disengage and make another approach." "There's no time." "If the bogeys change heading, Priest might not intercept them in time." "Caution, almost same position, same altitude." "Use caution." "Wizard, use caution!" "Wizard, break!" ""Crew bailout"?" "Wizard's been downed?" "That's impossible..." "Target changing heading." "New heading, 210." "Target has begun to descend and is accelerating." "Priest intercept imminent." "Range, 20 miles." "What the hell?" "They're headed right for us!" "Are these the planes Fuchu reported?" "These guys are nuts!" "You don't think this is a follow-up to the Bay Bridge attack, do you?" "Gimme a break!" "Put everybody into a holding pattern except the planes that are on final approach!" "Keep a close eye on their altitudes!" "Redirect all international flights to Osaka!" "Now!" "Due to unstable weather conditions in the skies above the airport, all arriving and departing flights have been placed on hold." "We apologize for any inconvenience." "Wyvern has passed over Narita airspace!" "Now inbound for Tokyo!" "They will cross into metropolitan airspace in 60 seconds!" "Priest has made radar contact!" "They have Wyvern on their scopes!" "Clear them to fire." "But..." "Take them down before they reach a densely populated area!" "Priest 21, this is Trebor." "You are cleared to fire." "Kill Wyvern." "Trebor, say again." "I say again, kill Wyvern." "Roger." "Kill Wyvern." "This is Wizard 03." "Request orders." " This is Wizard 03." "Request orders." " Priest 21, hold your fire!" " This is Wizard 03." "Request orders." "Wizard." "Wizard 03, this is Trebor." "Are you normal?" "Trebor, this is Wizard." "We had heavy jamming and now lost position." "Request further instructions." "I say again, request orders." "Wizard 03 verified." "No bogeys in surrounding airspace!" "Priest, abort attack." "Aborting attack." "Wyvern disappeared..." "The FI's are requesting instructions." "Stand down from alert." "Priest, return to base." "Send Wizard back to base, too." "This is Wizard 03." "Request orders." "This is Wizard 03." "Request orders." "Given its nature, the JASDF's BADGE system was originally designed as a closed system, but along came the politics and the Japan-US Security Treaty and so on." "As it stands now, it's linked to the US bases in Japan." "Are you even listening to me?" "And the price they paid was that scramble incident the other day, right?" "The perpetrator used a gateway at an IT firm in Germany, then went through the US college net to access the US Forces Japan's base servers, and then accessed Fuchu COC's mainframe to stage an illusory attack on Tokyo." "That's how they pulled it off." "I'm sure it's possible in theory, but could you pull off something like that for real?" "The original BADGE system was revamped in 1991 to create what we use now, but they rewrote the software last year to improve processing speed." "They might've had a mole on the inside when the new software was developed." "And yet again, the truth is kept from the public, huh?" "Neither the government nor the Defense Agency wants to publicly admit that the BADGE system was hacked from the outside." "Once again, the people out in the field are left holding the bag." "And if there is some new development before the truth gets out..." "That's exactly what just happened." "Do you have anything else on Tsuge?" "You know about the "Tsuge School"?" "Just the basics." "It was called the "Multipurpose Ambulatory Mechanism..."" ""..." "Application Research Preparation Committee," right?" "They were the first to notice the military potential of Labors, and they proved their hypothesis through various simulations." "They were instrumental in bringing together the private sector and the SDF's Technical RD Institute." "The Tsuge School took its name from the man who was the heart and soul of the group." "When he heard that a Labor unit was going to be sent out on a peacekeeping operation, he volunteered, perhaps to test his theories." "He of all people knew what would happen to a mechanized unit sent without sufficient backup into a humid jungle." "That's the worst environment for a Labor." "But he went anyway." "I wonder why?" "But before all that, prior to the formation of a Tokyo Police Labor force, their HQ sent an officer to the Tsuge School to be briefed and trained." "Shinobu Nagumo." "She became the brightest star of the Tsuge School." "And she was Tsuge's greatest partner." "And there was a little... incident." "None of it is in the official records, of course." "Regardless of their positions, they were still a man and a woman." "These things happen." "If Tsuge hadn't been married, it wouldn't have mattered." "You've checked into this?" "Anybody at HQ back then would have heard about it." "Even a guy like me." "I'm not about to start looking for skeletons in a colleague's closet." "Colleague..." "Right." "Well, let's leave it at that." "The police force tends to be touchy about things like that." "She was on the fast track in the Security Bureau, but she wound up exiled to a strip of reclaimed land." "Could that be why?" "Who knows?" "Commander!" "I have to tell you, your uniforms stick out like a sore thumb." "Yeah, they're a bit loud at my age." "I envy how you get to wear civvies." "Actually, this outfit has its own set of challenges." "It's not enough to just dress plainly." "You have to wear something that won't get you taken for an enemy, but at the same time, not stand out." "That's paramount in my line of work." "I see..." "Well, catch you later." "Tell me, when it's all said and done, what do you think his ultimate goal is?" "What's he trying to do?" "Start a war all by himself?" "Start a war?" "This war began a long time ago." "It's just a question of how to end it, that's all." "Mr. Gotoh." "As police officers..." "As Self-Defense Force officers..." "What exactly is it that we're supposed to be protecting?" "It's been fifty years since the last war." "You and I have lived our lives without being touched by war." "Peace..." "This peace that we're supposed to be protecting." "But what actually constitutes the peace that this country, this city enjoys?" "The total war we fought, and the defeat we suffered." "The subsequent occupation by the US military and their policies..." "And until recently, there was the protracted Cold War based on nuclear deterrence, plus all its proxy wars waged around the globe." "And even today, half the world is locked in a cycle of civil war, ethnic strife, and armed conflict." "Our economic prosperity is based on demand created by those countless wars." "Its hands are covered in blood." "That's the stuff our peace is made of." "An unabashed lust for peace based on an unmitigated terror of war." "An unjust peace where we avert our eyes from the foreign wars in which others pay the price for that peace." "It may be a peace that reeks of gunpowder, but it's still our job to keep it." "I'll take an unjust peace over a just war any day." "I can understand why you hate the idea of a just war." "After all, those words tend to be spoken by unscrupulous characters." "The annals of history are full of long lists of people who were taken advantage of and made to suffer because of them." "But I'm sure you know this fact, too." "The line that separates a just war from an unjust peace isn't very clear." "Ever since hypocrites have made peace their just cause, we've lost faith in that peace." "Just as wars give rise to peace, peace also gives rise to war." "An empty, hollow peace that only defines itself as "not war" will eventually be replaced by something that is a state of war in all but name." "Has that thought ever occurred to you?" "While we gladly reap the benefits that come from war, we distance ourselves from it." "We banish war to a realm beyond the TV screen, forgetting that..." "No, we pretend to forget that we ourselves are on the rear lines of the battle." "Remaining in denial about a fraud like this will bring down a great punishment on our heads." "Punishment?" "Who's going to punish us?" "God?" "In this city, everybody is like a god." "Accessing other realms of existence without having to move an inch..." "Gaining insight into realities that they've neither seen nor touched themselves." "It's just that these gods can't be bothered to do anything." "If the gods won't do it, people will." "Sooner or later, we'll find out." "That is, if we can't catch up to him before he makes his move." "I'm well aware of that, sir." "Yes." "I know, sir, but it doesn't mean that we have to..." "But Director!" "...this is exactly why we must do what we can to prepare for the worst." "This is at the strong urging of the Superintendent General." "I will repeat your orders." "Tomorrow at 0700 hours, the SV2 is to mobilize all its forces and join with the local police and the 4th Mobile Unit in providing security for Camp Nerima!" "That is all." "You're going to send out your unit?" "Ms. Shinobu?" "You know that all squadrons at Misawa have been grounded, right?" "About 30 minutes ago, their base commander was taken in for questioning by the Aomori Prefectural PD." "He was on his way to Tokyo to protest the grounding." "They did this right in front of his own base's main gate." "The Prefectural Police Chief up there was famous for brown-nosing the Superintendent General in their Security Bureau days." "But boy, they're really pushing their luck now..." "Those flyboys won't keep quiet after seeing a stunt like that on their own doorstep." "Misawa Air Base is locked down and isn't responding to outside calls." "And with all this going down, where have you been?" "!" "You may have only been on reserve duty, but you left without permission and then had the maintenance speedboat pick you up?" "!" "What were you thinking?" "!" "So, I see your promise not to go behind my back didn't mean anything to you!" "I'm sorry." "Really sorry!" "But listen..." "Would you have given me permission if I said I was going to see Arakawa?" "Of course I wouldn't have." "A man like him..." "What's more, just think how it would look if word got out that a Security Bureau member was meeting secretly with an SDF intelligence officer?" "!" "I think it's important to have contacts, especially at a time like this..." "Excuse me?" "Look, try to think this through calmly." "What is it that we're supposed to do?" "Everybody's compelled to act in times like these." "To use their position to do some good." "And that's exactly the kind of thinking that's gotten us into this mess." "Don't you think so?" "But we need to prepare for a possible worst-case scenario, however unlikely it might be." "And what exactly is this "improbable but possible worst-case scenario"?" "No one seriously believes it will happen, but they can't deny that it might." "We've started to think like that since the Bay Bridge incident." "The recent scramble incident is a perfect example." "I hear Direction Center at Fuchu even ordered those planes shot down." "Our sly old fox of a boss wants to score some points off this mess to expand the Security Bureau's powers." "Think what would happen if the police went against the SDF right now." "This Tsuge guy..." "If he's really behind all this, he's on hell of a strategist." "He did all this with the launch of just one missile, and the situation hasn't stabilized yet." "C'mon, let's forget about tomorrow's security detail." "I don't want to go either, but it's a direct order from the director of the Security Bureau." "Well, my unit isn't going." "I could give you an order as Acting Chief and force you to go." "Sure, give it a try." "Fine!" "The 1st Unit will operate independently from this point forward." "I'll work out of the Chief's Office from now on." "But..." "Um, Ms. Shinobu..?" "!" "I'll come by later for my personal effects." "Excuse me." "Don't be like that..." "I don't care if you act like that!" "I'm not going, you hear me?" "!" "Um, Ms. Shinobu?" "I, uh, changed my mind." "Yeah, just now." "We're reporting from above the JGSDF camp in Nerima Ward." "As Misawa Air Base has begun what amounts to a sit-in protest, numerous SDF facilities are following their lead." "Even the 1st Division, which is stationed in the capital, are in a standoff with the Tokyo PD's 4th Mobile Unit and SV2, which arrived to guard this installation this morning." "Concerns have been raised in the government over this security mobilization and whether it is merely grandstanding by the TMPD's Security Bureau." "Its very legality has also been called into question." "Hey!" "I hear you haven't activated your unit's Labors." "What's going on?" " Sir?" " Your Labors." "Why are they flat on their backs?" "!" "Explain yourself." "Oh, that..." "They're malfunctioning." "What?" "They're malfunctioning?" "The SV2 sends out malfunctioning Labors?" " Don't lie to me." " It's the truth, sir." "All right, then at least raise the carrier decks and get them upright." "Begging your pardon, but since they're malfunctioning, there's a chance they might fall." "If that were shown on national TV, it would tarnish the good name of the Security Bureau." "Do you still insist, sir?" "This is blatant insubordination against your field commander!" "The director will hear about this!" "Mark my words!" "Yeah, Gotoh here." "It's me." "I'm watching you on TV." "It's tough to serve at the whim of fickle masters, isn't it?" "The top dog to too excited and can't back down after one of his underlings jumped the gun." "It's tough when you have to work under a boss who's an idiot." "It's the same story here." "Like they say, "There's no such thing as a bad military, only bad commanders." "The Chiefs of Staff of all three SDF branches are resigning to take responsibility for the protests across the country." "Is that true?" "Word came down 30 minutes ago." "It'll hit the airwaves any moment now." "With that out of the way, the top brass want to go public with the whole Bay Bridge story." "But it's too late." "Relations have soured too much." "If the US military denies their story, that will be the end of it." "Not only did they miss their opportunity to go public, they've also lost the means to bring this situation under control." "Another level of restraint just broke away." "Hey, are you listening to what I'm saying?" "Yeah, but I'd rather not." "Oh, but I insist." "Here's the crucial part." "Even as they ignore their own responsibility in this mess, the government is now blaming the police for exacerbating the situation." "Seems they don't think the police can be trusted." "In other words, they'll change the actors, but keep the script the same." "They wouldn't dare..." "Yes, they would." "The stage will be full of miscast actors who don't even want their parts." "Doesn't this sound just wonderful?" "That's what we get for civilian control." "I wonder, maybe Tsuge wants to test us." "See how we'd fight a war in a situation like when he lost his men three years ago." "Yatagarasu to Takama." "Confirming movement of Kamuyamato below." "Over." "Emergency News Bulletin" "This is an emergency news bulletin for the greater Tokyo area." "We ask all those who are watching this broadcast to contact as many people as possible so that they may also watch." "Chief Cabinet Secretary Ishikawa has just held an emergency press conference to announce the mobilization of trustworthy JGSDF units to keep the peace and prevent the outbreak of a foreseeable worst-case scenario." "Chief Cabinet Secretary Ishikawa has issued the following official statement regarding this deployment request." ""After careful consideration of the recent rash of incidents involving the Self-Defense Forces,"" ""the local police force alone has been deemed insufficient..."" ""...should the worst possible outcome come to pass."" "As part of this decision, the following units have been mobilized:" " JGSDF Eastern Army..." " Sit down!" " JGSDF Eastern Army..." " But, Chief!" "...1st Division's 1st Infantry Regiment." "...1st Division's 1st Infantry Regiment." " Shut up and sit down!" "...1st Division's 1st Infantry Regiment." "31st Infantry Regiment." "32nd Infantry Regiment." "1st Artillery Regiment." "1st Armored Battalion." "Hello, Shopping Unit." "It's me." "Listen closely." "You guys are now the Hoarding Unit." "Your mission is to buy all the provisions you can from the store!" "I just sent out reinforcements!" "Sir, yes sir!" "We will carry out our hoarding mission at once!" "Get to it!" "Good evening!" "Senior Buchiyama." "You morons!" "Why the hell are you wasting your time out here?" "!" "We ain't goin' to no picnic!" "Think about what food will keep the longest!" "Go back to their storeroom!" "Buy ramen by the case!" "Got it?" "!" "Miss, the SV2 Maintenance Crew just bought all your food!" "Check our propane and fuel reserves!" "Start charging all our spare batteries!" " The SV2 Maintenance Crew is now on 24-hour alert status!" " Mr. Shige..." " The SV2 Maintenance Crew is now on 24-hour alert status!" " The SV2 Maintenance Crew is now on 24-hour alert status!" "Get ready for the long haul!" "Everyone will be allotted 15cm of toilet paper per bathroom visit!" "Hey, Mr. Shige." "Here they come!" "They've got a Type-90!" "And even a Komatsu Type-2!" "Yatagarasu to Mobile Command." "Arrival of Ootori 1 and 2 at Takama confirmed." "Over." "Movement of Ooseguro 202 complete." "Seguro 4 and 5, 220, 80, Over." "Out of Order" "After the implementation of the Japanese Constitution, all provisions for martial law were dropped from the legal code." "The general consensus has been..." "Hello, this is the SV2." "Mr. Gotoh?" "Oh, is that you, Mr. Matsui?" "How's the health?" "Could be better, but I guess I'm all right." "How are things on your end?" "Quiet so far, but there's no telling if any of Tsuge's people were mixed in with the units that have been stationed inside Tokyo." "If they make a move now, who knows what will happen." "Where are you?" "In the suburbs of Fussa, staking out a blimp company called Shinteito Aviation." "Blimps?" "What are you doing at a blimp company?" "It came up when I checked out Tou-A Security Services." "The dossier from Arakawa listed them as the front for their group." "They bought Shinteito through a dummy last year when it was nearly bankrupt and sent in a new management team." "Six months ago, they bought three American-made blimps." "Haven't you noticed them over Tokyo lately?" "It got me wondering..." "Oh, those blimps." "How did you find out all this?" "In any crime, there are always two leads, money and women." "I'm no good with women, so I followed the money." "The big boys up top got spooked when Tsuge went rogue and closed up shop." "But you can't erase all your banking and tax records." "How the hell did you get access to that stuff?" "Tricks of the trade." "I don't think military types could pull it off..." "Oops!" "There they are." "I see a couple of shady characters with some nasty toys down there." "What, right out in the open?" "Wow, that's pretty bold." "Also, this company did some serious shopping about a week before the Bay Bridge bombing." "They bought three of whatever it was." "A huge wad of money was wired to America." "The magic number three again, huh?" "I wonder if they bought nuclear missiles." "No idea." "But this place is close to Yokota, so they could bypass customs if they used the US military to bring something into the country." "Sounds like this calls for some up-close investigating." "You're not actually suggesting that I go in there, are you?" "Destruction of private property." "Trespassing on private property." "And probably theft." "And maybe even assault and battery..." "Cops aren't supposed to do crap like this..." "This guy is a total amateur." "Think he's just a smalltime thief?" "No, I've seen him before somewhere..." "Got it." "He's a CIB detective with ties to that Commander Gotoh guy at the SV2." "Should we kill him?" "Our orders are to avoid taking lives unless absolutely necessary." "Knock him out and lock him up." "He hasn't got time to do anything, anyway." "Do it." "A call for me?" "Something about needing to talk to you tonight." "When your office was contacted, you had already left..." "All right, thanks." "What about dinner?" "I'm only here to pick up some papers and clean clothes." "I can't stay." "Hello?" "This is Nagumo..." "You sound well." "Stop right there!" "Hold your fire." "You won't hit anything in this darkness." "Contact the squad up above!" "Instruct them to pursue!" "Kill the lights!" "Always follow the woman..." "How did you know where to find me?" "Some informants go to the police not out of malice, but out of simple goodwill." "Parents will do anything for their children." "She... contacted you?" "Frankly, I'm not good with respectable ladies like her." "You'd be surprised how well-regarded some people are." "Japan Ground Self-Defense Force" "Where's a damn phone?" "!" "Attention, helicopter formation." "There have been no requests for attack helicopter deployment." "State your name and unit!" "Do you copy?" "Gong Zero to all units." "It's H-hour." "Commence situation." "Roger that." "Commencing situation." "Hey, what does that mean?" "What situation?" "I assume you know why I've called all senior officers to an emergency meeting at this early hour." "We need to discuss how we are to fulfill our duties as Security Bureau officers in the circumstances we now find ourselves in." "Given the gravity of the situation, I have asked Superintendent General Kaihou to join us." "But before we get to that..." "Early this morning, the Kanagawa Prefectural Traffic Police Labor Force was deployed under orders from Acting Section Chief Nagumo of the SV2." "Inspector Nagumo, would you care to explain yourself?" "Before I answer, I'd like to make a statement to everyone here." "We're not interested in hearing your opinions." "You blatantly overstepped your authority by failing to get my approval." "Don't you think your thoughtlessness has caused disruptions within the police, which in turn has caused needless confusion and uncertainty in the general public?" "Was it not equally thoughtless to mobilize a security detail against the SDF without any credible rationale or request from any party to do so?" "Or to unjustly take a base commander into custody in a manner that was for all intents and purposes a preventative arrest?" "The primary cause of this state of emergency can be traced directly to a faction in the upper echelons of the police attempting to forward their own agenda by taking advantage of the unrest brought about by this series of SDF incidents!" "The people in this room should know this better than anyone." "Why, you little..." "Nagumo, I'm not about to let slide your suggestion that there is some sort of political cabal at work within the police force." "Tell me, who is in this "faction in the upper echelons"?" "I'm sure you already know the answer to that question." "Excuse me." " Hey!" " Let him go." "Mr. Gotoh?" "Yeah, I got nailed." "Look, what's important is that all three took off about 15 minutes ago." "Yeah." "Okay, I gotcha." "The repeated, needless dispatches of the police under the pretext of maintaining law and order has fanned their sense of fear." "Who will take responsibility for worsening the situation to this point, and how?" "If we are to discuss maintaining cohesion within the force, we must address this first." "I trust you know that the Defense Agency is full of former police officers." "This matter has already moved into the political arena." "For now, rather than provoking them further, we should work with them to make it possible for a withdrawal to come about more quickly." "Then it is vital for the TMPD's leadership to clearly take responsibility and allow the public to pass judgment on the police's actions." "Might I remind you that this nation doesn't exist in a vacuum." "In the unlikely event that this situation deteriorates into a civil war, even US military involvement isn't out of the question." "If that happens, you must remember that we, the police, are entrusted with maintaining domestic law and order." "Any admission of fault on our part will needlessly inflame social unrest." "I never thought I would hear such sad excuses at a time like this..." "And you call yourselves police officers?" "!" "Noble Aspiration" "Noble Aspiration I've given you plenty of leeway in the past because you were instrumental..." "Noble Aspiration ...in making our Labor force what it is today." "But I can no longer tolerate these outbursts of yours." "Inspector Nagumo." "You are hereby relieved of your duties as Acting SV2 Chief and 1st Unit Commander." "You will be taken into custody until further notice." "Keep your hands off me!" "Do you have anything to add to the discussion, Gotoh?" ""The farther away from the slaughter, the more optimism replaces reality." ""Reality is often nonexistent at the highest decision-making levels."" ""This is especially true when you are losing a war."" "What are you talking about?" "No war has started yet." "This war has been going on for a long time." "We just didn't see it until too late." "It's been going on since the day Tsuge came back..." "No, it started a long time before then." "I'm sorry if this is abrupt, but I'm fed up with the lot of you." "I will join Inspector Nagumo." "I thought you were a smarter man than this, Gotoh." "Take them away!" "Sir!" "SDF attack helicopter just bombed the Trans-Tokyo Bay Bridge..!" "I told you!" "It's too damn late!" "Chief!" "Transmission circuits all over the city are going down!" "Route all international calls to the backup cable system and patch them through to Makuhari!" "Get me a damage assessment ASAP!" "Cables inside the city are going down one after another!" "Minato." "Chuo." "Shinjuku." "Bunkyo." "Setagaya." "Lines are going dead in every block!" "What the hell do you think you're doing!" "Ms. Shinobu!" "You were planning to resign, weren't you, Ms. Shinobu?" "You can't back down now." "We couldn't stop him, but we aren't down for the count yet." "But what can we do?" "We can't go back to the SV2, and..." "The SV2's probably been destroyed." "But we're not powerless." "We can still put up a fight." "Ojiro, this is Kigisu." "226, 06." "Over." "2nd Platoon Command to Company HQ." "Please come in!" "Unit 2, do you read?" "Unit 3, respond!" "HQ, this is the 201st Guard Unit." "HQ, please come in." "HQ, do you read?" "Onaga to Kamome, have verified blimp over Tokyo." "Most likely civilian." "Over!" "Onaga to Kamome..." "Hawkwind, this is Fizzyball." "We detect jamming of all frequencies in Tokyo area." "Heavy ECM by unknown party." "Currently negative contact to mobile HQ in Tokyo." "Requesting orders." "I say again, we detect jamming of..." "If they dig down, they'll find bugs to eat." "They'll be able to sit out the cold weather in the greenhouses, right?" "Yeah, I'm sure they'll do fine." "Growing up at the SV2 makes you tough." "Mr. Shige, where's the Maintenance Crew headed with that thing on the carrier?" "Mr. Gotoh and I had a plan in case something like this happened." "Sorry I kept you in the dark." "I need you to take care of the bills for the food deliveries, the propane, and all that." "Look after the place while we're gone, okay?" "Turn that off, will you?" "Listening to that thing won't do us any good." "I'm amazed." "I didn't think anyone would still be trying." "That's the work of electronic jamming." "The worst part is that you can still hear bits and pieces." "You know it's pointless, but you catch yourself trying anyway." "So, how's it look?" "Well, there's definitely some discontent in their ranks, but do you really think there could be a reason for anybody in the SDF to launch a revolt?" "What's more, even after taking all this action, they haven't occupied any key installations or issued any political demands." "What kind of coup d'état is that?" "They're not making demands because they never had any to begin with." "Interrupt the flow of information and create confusion..." "That isn't the means to their objective." "That is their objective." "This is nothing more that terrorism in a coup's clothing." "An act of conviction, guided by a specific philosophy." "To create war conditions." "Or more precisely, to play out a pseudo-war with the capital as its backdrop." "That's the perpetrator's one and only objective." "The only way to stop this is to track him down and arrest him." "But what I still don't get is why he's doing it." "I have my suspicions, but I think it would be best to ask him in person." "Well, I gotta go." "Take care of things for me, please." "Hey, that's the back door." "Remember, I'm a wanted man at the moment." "Cap, I know I don't have to say this, but please remember..." "Don't boss the young'uns around, right?" "I know." "Okay." "Ms. Nagumo." "Kicking yourself over what you could've done won't help." "Your next move, that's what you need to focus on." "Hey, Cap!" "Well, well." "There's my man." "You all know what needs to be done, right?" "!" "Yes boss!" "I hear the SV2's been wiped out, but we ain't pushing' up daisies yet!" "It's time we gave these bastards a little payback!" "Round up everybody you can and bring 'em to Hachioji!" "If anybody gives you lip, slap a leash on 'em and drag 'em there if you have to!" "Honey!" "If you go, you'll lose everything!" "You just got promoted to section chief!" "Why do you have to go, too?" "!" "I'm sorry." "But I have to." "If I don't, I'll lose something more important than my job." "Everybody's waiting for me." "There's another..." "There's another baby inside me!" "Come on!" "How long are you gonna drag this out?" "We don't have time for this!" "Sorry, we need to borrow your husband for a bit. 'Bye!" "Monsters!" "Demons!" "Husband-nappers!" "Miki-chan, come back to me alive!" "Boy, am I glad to see you." "I can't wait to get him out of my hair." "He tried to rally the cadets to march on Tokyo!" "I didn't know what to do with him..." "So, how many people did he get together?" "You think that hot-blooded idiot could rally kids like we have today?" "Oota, here's your ticket out of here." "Hey, there!" "Hey, Oota-chan!" "How ya been?" "You're late!" "Why'd you stop?" "We can still turn back, you know." "This isn't an official mission." "If we go, we'll get kicked off the force for sure." "You might lose your Labor license, too." "You still want to do this?" "Sounds like you're the one who's not sure, Asuma." "Come on, who wouldn't?" "!" "I don't want to be stuck as "That chick who's in love with Labors " my whole life." "I don't want to encourage that side of me." "Please..." "Just drive." "I knew it, it's unmanned." "It's just circling around on autopilot." "All right, we're gonna take it out before the JGSDF choppers get a shot." "Don't miss." "Like I could miss something that big..." " Got birds in the way..." " Screw the birds!" "Just take them out, too!" "Hey, it's losing altitude fast!" "Where the hell did you hit it?" "!" "You gotta be kidding me!" "I didn't hit anything but that pod!" "We've got a situation here!" "Gas!" "This is..." "Guard Unit..." "Gas is leaking..." "...over..." "Shinjuku..." "Evacuate all units that aren't equipped with NBC protection!" "Get them to move into buildings as high up as possible!" "Hey, don't just stand there!" "Those with gas masks need to go and direct the public evacuation..." "It was just an inert gas?" "They say it was colored, but completely harmless." "It couldn't hurt a fly." "It was certainly effective, though." "If it had been the real thing..." "You sure it's not just a bluff?" "They found canisters full of the real thing inside that blimp." "Our top brass don't have the guts to find out if they mean business." "I always figured those huge things were circling around for a reason." "They do double-duty as a means of holding tens of thousands of people hostage." "Now that's some smart thinking." "I guess we're at a stalemate." "We can't leave it that way for long." "Take a look at these." "Aerial photographs of a reclaimed area?" "Specifically, Reclaimed Island 18." "The second picture's an enlargement." "That's the wreckage from the destroyed helicopters." "According to our experts, the dish is a powerful field communications system." "This would appear to be their headquarters." "They're using it to control the blimps?" "What else would they use it for?" "That dish alone couldn't blanket an area this big with a jamming signal." "There's a good chance we'll be able to disengage that powerful ECM signal if we send out a compressed, encrypted code sequence on a specific preset frequency." "It would be absurd to have a standalone weapon that can't be controlled remotely." "But what about the frequency and code sequence?" "We'll have Tsuge himself tell us." "He's there, I'm sure of it." "Is tossing a couple of missiles in here out of the question?" "What if it there's a continuous link between that dish and the blimps, and the disrupting the signal triggers a program within the blimps?" "That's how I'd do it." "Guess who took that photo." "The US military." "They've had a close eye on this situation from the start." "About an hour ago, a communiqué came in through the US Embassy." "They'll intervene directly if this situation isn't resolved by 0700 hours tomorrow." "The US 7th Fleet is heading west at full speed while all US bases across Japan are preparing to mobilize." "They'd never do something that reckless." "Oh, they'll do it." "A nation never has true friends." "This is too good an opportunity for them to pass up." "Wouldn't you agree?" "It looks like this country is going to start all over again from the end of WW2 onwards." "Once the electrical system's swapped out and checked, start installing the OS!" "We won't be able to redo this once you attach the armor, got it?" "!" "Labor 3, rolling out!" "I'm mighty impressed with them." "It's no wonder, most of the guys cut their teeth on these babies." "If we can keep up this pace, we might just make it." "Since this operations calls for a surprise attack on their field command center on Island #18, approach from the air or sea isn't feasible." "We will therefore employ underground passageways that were used to transport construction Labors during phase 2 of the Babylon Project." "Next step, please." "Yes, ma'am." "The distance from Shiodome to our destination via an artificial midpoint island is 1200 meters." "The problem is this last stretch of tunnel." "It's a typical undersea tunnel built using caisson construction techniques." "Total length, approximately 250 meters." "From the artificial island, we'll descent to a depth of about 50 meters below the surface via an inclined elevator." "Then we'll pass through a 9 meter tall tunnel that's about 200 meters long." "We then take the elevator up to the surface of the reclaimed area." "It's the perfect spot for an ambush." "We have to assume that the enemy is also aware of this tunnel." "Question." "How do we get to the tunnel?" "Tokyo's crawling with armed units, and we can't be sure whose side they're on." "Commander Gotoh is working out the details right now." "What?" "!" "Commander Gotoh?" "Whoa..." "An honest-to-god anti-tank rifle!" "Damn it, I'm asking you if you got anything with real stopping power!" "You know, like machine guns or a Gatling cannon!" "Hey, a rifled slug fired from your shotgun can be pretty effective against fairly soft targets like armored cars and military Labors." "The important thing is to hit your target!" "Close one eye and aim real careful-like." "Well, I'm kinda busy right now..." "What are we supposed to do if tanks come at us?" "!" "What about tanks?" "!" "Close the other eye, too!" "Okay, that's good!" "Hold it there!" "What are you two doing in here?" "We thought this disk that Mr. Matsui got his hands on might be some kind of code book." "A code book?" "Hey, here it comes!" "Shimbashi" "I never realized there was a place like this beneath Tokyo." "It's the remains of a dream from the bayside development boom days." "The Ginza Line's "Phantom Shimbashi Station" lay dormant for over 50 years after its closure in 1943 until it was tied in to the bayside construction zone." "It's the junction point between the old and the new." "This route never did get used, though." "I bet there are lots of places like this in this city." "Places abandoned and left to be forgotten, huh?" "Here they come." "Detrain and fall in." "I'm glad you all came." "Shinohara." "Izumi." "Shinshi." "Oota." "And Yamazaki." "Your orders are as follows." "Together with Commander Nagumo, you are to arrest the mastermind behind this incident, who is holed up in Reclaimed Island 18." "You are under the command of Commander Nagumo from here on in." "Meet and neutralize all resistance with force." "This will be the final mission of the SV2, 2nd Unit." "Go give 'em hell." "We leave at once." "All personnel, mount up." "Ms. Shinobu." "I don't want you to go down with him, okay?" "Make sure you arrest him and come back with him." "I'll be waiting for you." "Roll out!" "I don't understand." "Why aren't you going with them?" "There are a few details I need to take care of." "Considering how indebted I am to you, I know this is rude, but I have to arrest you." "Everybody freeze!" "Shigeki Arakawa!" "You're under arrest on suspicion of violating the Subversive Activities Prevention Act!" "You have an explanation for this, I assume?" "Your information on these incidents was amazingly timely and accurate." "It's no wonder." "You yourself were a member of the organization you were investigating." "You were one of Tsuge's associates." "But he betrayed you." "When Tsuge changed the plan from a mere political demonstration into an all-out plan to start a war and then disappeared, he left you people in the lurch." "Given the nature of the conspiracy, you couldn't investigate openly." "That's why the SV2 caught your attention." "You could use us, plus you could also keep an eye on Inspector Nagumo." "That's nothing but conjecture on your part." "On the night before the final attack, you let Tsuge get away." "One shot would have drawn a swarm of peacekeepers whether or not you hit." "That waterway was narrow." "You stood a good chance of arresting Tsuge, but you didn't go for it." "Why was that?" "Because you needed to take him into custody yourself." "You had to stop Tsuge from carrying out his plans, but it would be for nothing if Tsuge divulged the scope of your organization." "Also, even after all this, you still haven't called in the regular troops." "Your motive for relying on a black sheep outfit like ours is obvious." "It's not something that an upright public servant would do." "That's the pot calling the kettle black..." "Public servants who aren't upright fall into two categories." "Heroes and villains." "Mr. Arakawa, I've enjoyed the discussions we've had." "All that stuff about a fraudulent peace versus a truthful war." "But even if you're right and the peace that we enjoy in this city is a false one, the war that Tsuge has created is just as much an illusion." "This city is too small to have a real war." "War is always a surreal experience." "There has never been a war that wasn't surreal." "Hey." "I'm here because I'm a police officer." "Why aren't you at Tsuge's side?" "All right, let's go." "I knew we'd have some company waiting." "Those are called Ixtl's." "They're tactical robots developed by the US Army." "They're basically wire-controlled, mobile gun platforms." "This isn't gonna be easy." "I say we use the Labors to create a diversion while Mr. Shinshi and I get behind them and cut their control cables." "Then we hit them with Labor 3's ECM." "We follow that basic plan and play the rest by ear." "What do you think?" "Yes, that looks like our only option." "Oota, you take point." "Noa, follow his lead while keeping guard over Commander Nagumo." "Hiromi, you provide support fire from here as necessary." "Move out when the flare goes off." "What's the matter, you dirtbags?" "!" "Oota!" "Are you out of your mind?" "!" "Bite me!" "What do you think you're doing, Mr. Oota?" "!" "Buchiyama, you're full of crap!" "In the time it takes me to line up one shot, they send a hundred at me!" "What did you expect?" "!" "At this range, you can't win a shootout with those things!" "Hiromi, where was our cover fire?" "Sorry, all I can see is white spots." "It was so bright, I thought I was gonna trip and fall on my face!" "In any case, this plan's shot." "Those things might be as trigger-happy as Oota, but since there are thinking humans at the controls, we're in trouble." "What?" "!" "What do we do now?" "Sitting around and talking about it won't get us anywhere!" "Hey!" "Get back here, you moron!" "I'll go, too!" "Officer Izumi!" "Like we've got a choice..." "Hiromi!" "Cut loose!" "Mr. Oota!" "Eat this!" "Oota!" "Mr. Asuma!" "I can't hold on, Mr. Asuma..!" "Asuma!" "Oota!" "Oota!" "You alive in there, Oota?" "Talk to me!" "Look at the pretty, pretty flower bed..." "Bright, white flowers that smell so nice are everywhere..." "They're starting to move!" "Commander!" "Commander Nagumo!" "Nagumo here." "Stand by on your ECM, ma'am!" "Officer Shinohara, what is your current location?" "Once their cables are cut, they'll go into automatic mode." "They'll fire on anything that doesn't respond to their friend-or-foe signal." "Hit them as hard and fast as you can." "Oota?" "You awake yet?" "Yeah." "Close-quarters combat, Oota!" "Your favorite!" "Get ready!" "Commander!" "Attention, all personnel." "Commencing jamming, maximum spread." "Once jamming begins, cut all sensors and operate visually." "Let's move!" "Eat lead, you Martian bastard!" "How ya like that?" "!" "Izumi!" "Hurry up and finish this thing off!" " It blasted through the ceiling!" " The tunnel's flooding!" "Commander, please go ahead!" "But..." "Hurry!" "GET OUT OF MY WAY!" "From here, the city almost seems like a mirage." "Don't you think so?" "Even if it's an illusion, there are those who accept it as reality and live in it." "Or are those people just illusions to you, too?" "Three years ago, I returned to this city and lived in that illusion." "I tried to get people to see it for what it was." "But in the end, no one realized the truth until the first shot rang out." "No..." "Some might not realize it even now..." "I'm standing here in front of you and I am no illusion." "Please start." "Beginning broadcast, maximum power." ""Do you suppose that I come to bring peace to the world?"" ""No, not peace, but division."" ""From now on a family of five will be divided,"" ""three against two and two against three."" ""Fathers will be against their sons, and sons against their fathers;"" ""Mothers will be against their daughters, and daughters against their mothers."" "You remembered that passage..." "That was all you wrote in the last letter you sent to me after you got back." "Back then, I thought it was about your experiences in the field." "People never notice things until it's too late." "Nevertheless, people should still be punished for that sin." "Don't you agree?" "Yukihito Tsuge." "I hereby place you under arrest." "Shinohara!" "Do you read me?" "This is Shinohara!" "Commander!" "If we can hear the Commander's voice up here, that must mean..." "The jamming signal's gone!" "We did it!" "Commander!" "In the end, I guess all I really have is them..." "We just got word a few minutes ago." "All your men who escaped by boat have surrendered to the peacekeepers." "They're still counting the casualties, and God only knows the extent of the damage." "So tell me one thing." "After causing all this chaos, why didn't you kill yourself?" "Perhaps there's a part of me that wanted to see a little more..." "See more?" "More of what?" "This city's future."