Angely i demony kruzhili nado mnoj, Angels and demons circle above me,
rassykhali ternii i vechnye puti. through the thorns to the stars.
Ne znaet shast'je tol'ko tot, Only those unable to perceive its call...
kto jevo zova ponjat' ne smog. ...do not know happiness.
Naljubuites', naljubuites'. Watch in awe, watch in awe.
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris.
Naljubuites', naljubuites'. Watch in awe, watch in awe.
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris.
I am calling, calling now,
spirits rise and falling.
Soboj ostat'sja dol'she. To remain myself longer.
Calling, calling, in the depths of longing.
Soboj ostat'sja dol'she. To remain myself longer.
Naljubuites', Watch in awe,
aeria gloris.
So, they haven't found that one yet, huh?
Well, guess I'll wait until nightfall...
It's an honor that you remembered the existence of the Justice Ministry.
This little incident was quite a disaster. I feel for you, I really do.
I don't have much time. Let's make it quick.
Technically, I disbanded Section 9, but my men are still at large.
It's them that I want to protect, not the good name of Section 9.
Can you use this to persuade the committee?
Even if I manage to persuade the committee,
winning over the Prime Minister is probably out of the question.
Not until the Lower House elections are over.
For now, he'll support Yakushima.
Then after the election, he'll push for a new Secretary General,
give the media a scoop,
and he'll give the public the illusion of social justice.
That's probably the plan the Prime Minister has in mind.
In exchange for my men?
So long as you're left free, your organization can always be brought back.
There's no need for you to go down with Section 9.
If I let this chance pass me by, I'll never be able to assemble members of their caliber again.
Without them, Section 9 can never be rebuilt.
Stop the car.
Yakushima is a powerful man.
His arrest is probably a dream come true for the public prosecutors, too.
But in the end, they work to serve the good of the state.
What do you want to do with this? Take it back with you?
No. I'll leave it with you.
Then why don't you ask more politely?
Asking politely never works until you have the upper hand.
Don't you think?
You're right, of course.
It's nothing personal.
That report about Section 9 has me worried...
The battle is going badly...
It sure is, mister...
The battle's going badly.
The building that blew up last night is where I used to live.
It's pretty nice here, and I like all you old guys,
but there's someone that I really want to go help.
The battle is going badly...
Mister, is that what I think it is?
Mister, I... Thanks!
I'm gonna go now!
Analyzing reader code.
Time to convert data to seeds and complete dispersal, 16 minutes.
Good...
Stay calm! Follow our instructions and leave the premises at once.
Captain, we've evacuated the civilians.
Right, then.
Get to work on seizing the evidence.
Roger!
Good.
Sorry, guys.
What happened?! Verify the situation!
Payback's a bitch.
Why won't you let us evacuate?
Are you trying to kill us?!
You must be Ishikawa.
Once you've seen to the wounded,
reform your units with whoever's left and pull out of here.
We won't get anything out of there now.
Gee, that's too bad...
I'll make sure that you're held accountable for the deaths of my men.
I'll make you wish you really had died back there.
Captain! It looks like we've caught something in the net we put up around the safehouse.
The lady commander?
No, sir. The big guy with the prosthetic eyes.
Send over the powered exoskeletons we kept.
Roger!
Batou, you left some natural oil out for us!
Hey there!
What are you guys doing here?
Once a problem child, always a problem child, you know?
I guess this means we all had the same desire even though we were independent of each other.
One thing we have in common is that we all want to help Mr. Batou.
Besides, you can't load that howitzer shell you're holding by yourself, right?
Yeah...
But are we the only ones who came here?
Of all the ones who were sent back to the lab, I'm the only one who survived.
They left me lying around, hooked up to equipment for final testing.
So I ripped out the cords and ran away!
I couldn't stop wondering what was happening...
...while I was doing high-altitude work at a construction site.
How 'bout you?
Pretty much the same thing.
What happened to the other guys who went to the lab?
Yeah, what happened?
They all got dismantled!
Hey, there was that one guy who was reading books all the time, right?
When we got to the lab, the first thing they did was take apart his brain.
It kinda seemed like he enjoyed it, though...
Oh, I see...
So, everybody got to experience death...
That's my Major...
She doesn't miss a trick.
Don't do it! Drop your weapon!
All right. I surrender.
Bingo!
I knew the Major'd have a stash hidden around here.
You finally through putting up a fight?
Damn, I killed him...
Oh, I get it... It looks like I'm dead to you, huh?
Sorry, pal, I hacked your eyes.
Are you kidding me?! There's more?!
Nobody had to die, damn it.
Screw taking you in alive!
I'm taking your corpse back with me.
But before that...
This is for my buddies that you killed!
That was for my dead partner!
What the...?
Now's our chance! Get Mr. Batou out of here!
Yeah!
The think-tanks?!
I'll go in first!
Mr. Batou... I'm sorry I was late.
It took us a while to tap into their comm signals.
We'll take that guy out no matter what, so you wait here for us to come back, okay?
Son of a...
Where the hell have they been?
Think you can pin him down with your wires?
I'll try!
What are they trying to do?
Oh, I get it...
Bastard!
I can't rush this... I only have this one shot.
Now! Shoot!
Right!
Eat this!
Are you kidding me?
It's a dud?
I'm still alive?
O God...
How powerless we are...
...my brothers and I...
That's not true.
What you and the others gained makes you far from powerless.
That voice!
This is the last I've got!
Now!
R-Right!
Mr. Batou!
Goodbye, Mr. Batou...
We just lost Unit 2's signal, too.
It's hard to imagine, but do you suppose both of them were destroyed?
I make the judgment calls around here.
For now, make for the site at top speed.
What were they doing here?
All they could think about was saving you, so they escaped from the lab.
Major? Is that you?
I made the call that they were useless as weapons...
...because their A.I. had evolved too quickly.
But while they were actively pursuing the accumulation of data...
...and synchronizing with each other again and again,
they acquired individuality without my knowing, and even became capable of self-sacrifice.
If I'd only realized that sooner,
I could have found out whether or not what they had acquired was a Ghost.
A Ghost?
If they hadn't been here, you'd be dead right now.
Let's move!
You've got a nice view of Section 9.
I can't believe you have a safe house here of all places...
Hey.
Yep, no other body will do...
That was a remote puppet?
That's right.
That reminds me, I almost didn't manage to get this to you.
I knew it...
No matter how many prosthetic bodies you went through,
this was the one thing that was always ticking away the same time as you, right?
In this time that's far too fleeting,
people entrust memories to external devices because they want to set down proof...
...that can identify them as a unique individual.
For you, isn't that watch the one external mnemonic device...
...that can identify the person you've been up until now?
Those are some serious lines... Where'd you get them from?
A watch and weight training, huh?
We've both clung to useless scraps of memory, haven't we?
You and I are probably the only members of Section 9 who haven't been arrested.
Let's both survive and leave a record of what we tried to accomplish.
Yeah, I'm not about to die without completing my mission.
Primary sniping target is Motoko Kusanagi.
The committee has issued an order for her termination.
We've only got one chance at this.
Take her when she's climbing aboard.
Motoko!
Damn it!
No vitals detected. Target destruction confirmed.
Sons of...
MOTOKO!
She's so cold and human
It's something humans do
She stays so golden solo
She's so number nine
She's incredible math
Just incredible math
And is she really human?
She's just so something new
A waking lithium flower
Just about to bloom
I smell lithium now
Smelling lithium now
How is she when she doesn't surf?
I wonder what she does when she wakes up?
When she wakes up?