1. Welcome back.
And how was it?Copy !req
2. - Oh, they were just thugs!
- Nothing to do with the syndicate...Copy !req
3. - Dammit, was just a salaried employee...
- ...they just wanted money to play with.Copy !req
4. - ...that gave into his temptations.
- They went to the cops penniless!Copy !req
5. Then, what?Copy !req
6. All of you caught the criminals, but no
clue about the bounty we're really after?Copy !req
7. They still use paper just
for all the complaints.Copy !req
8. Dammit, they're just harassing us.Copy !req
9. AND, it's a waste
of valuable resources!Copy !req
10. The e-mail server is going down
from the sheer number of complaints.Copy !req
11. There is a movement out there
to sue our company for damages...Copy !req
12. What the hell are
the bounty-hunters doing?!Copy !req
13. We already have a huge bounty on him!Copy !req
14. Yes, however...Copy !req
15. Amigo!Copy !req
16. All you bounty-hunters in the
Sol system, how are y'all doing?Copy !req
17. Once again, it's time for BIG SHOT!Copy !req
18. We'll start with today's hot news!Copy !req
19. They apprehended the culprit in
the series of recent Gate assaults!Copy !req
20. Really? The bounty on him was
12 million Woolongs, right?Copy !req
21. But the weird thing is that
20 culprits were apprehended!Copy !req
22. What do you mean?Copy !req
23. Apparently, they were all caught in
the act, but none were the mastermind.Copy !req
24. Then you don't get the reward
unless you find that mastermind?Copy !req
25. But of course!Copy !req
26. Oh my...Copy !req
27. I feel sorry for all the guys
who caught the culprits!Copy !req
28. Why the hell do these
thugs that normally just...Copy !req
29. ...rob convenience stores
attack at the Gates?Copy !req
30. Maybe there are fads in crimes?Copy !req
31. Like "Hyperspace Gates are the IN thing
among today's fashion-conscious kids!"Copy !req
32. "...you assault at least
one Gate!" or something?Copy !req
33. Hey, guys.Copy !req
34. Why don't we trade the
information that we each have?Copy !req
35. And split the bounty three ways...Copy !req
36. What do you mean?Copy !req
37. You're the one that
started all this, saying...Copy !req
38. ...that we should research
this case on our own.Copy !req
39. You also said that the occasional rivalry
between comrades would be good for us.Copy !req
40. Come on, did the reward amount
make you lose your memory?Copy !req
41. What? You guys were really
keen on the idea, too!Copy !req
42. After all, we all wanted the
bounty to ourselves, right?Copy !req
43. In this case, all 20 cases
were done the same way,Copy !req
44. All of them infiltrated
the tollbooth...Copy !req
45. ...deftly attached the hacking unit...Copy !req
46. ...and in the exact
moment that passing ships...Copy !req
47. ...access the tollbooth
to pay the toll...Copy !req
48. ...they steal the entire
balance from the credit card.Copy !req
49. Furthermore, the unit automatically,
sent the money data that it just stole.Copy !req
50. It immediately launders all
the funds in a bank on Europa...Copy !req
51. ...making it impossible
to track where it went.Copy !req
52. All the culprits that were caught
in the act have nothing in common.Copy !req
53. Age, gender, nationality,
religion, criminal record...Copy !req
54. And on top of it, nobody has any of
the money that they supposedly stole.Copy !req
55. Well, that's about all I know.Copy !req
56. How about you?Copy !req
57. The guy that I nabbed said that
he was just following the...Copy !req
58. ...instructions from a manual
that he got through mail-order.Copy !req
59. Perhaps the other culprits are
reading the same manual that he was?Copy !req
60. Manual?Copy !req
61. This.Copy !req
62. "A new criminal support software."Copy !req
63. "Right now, it's a real bargain.
For the low introductory..."Copy !req
64. "...price of 30000 Woolongs,
you too can be rich!"Copy !req
65. What the hell?Copy !req
66. It's not easy to be a thief nowadays.Copy !req
67. I'm sure there are people
who want manuals to help them.Copy !req
68. And where is this mail-order company?Copy !req
69. It's a store that's only on the
'net, so I don't know where it was.Copy !req
70. Besides, the store has already closed.Copy !req
71. Spike, how about you?Copy !req
72. The hacking unit that was placed
on the Gates was something that...Copy !req
73. ...couldn't be made unless you knew
about the Gate system really well.Copy !req
74. The mastermind's likely someone who has
some connection to the Gate Corporation.Copy !req
75. That was my hunch, and
I investigated that front...Copy !req
76. The programmers would be fishy.Copy !req
77. ...but the guys from the Gate Corporation
suddenly became uncooperative.Copy !req
78. It was as if they knew something, but
didn't want us to find out about it.Copy !req
79. Are you dead?Copy !req
80. Where were we?Copy !req
81. Well, I guess those are the
only clues we have for now...Copy !req
82. Gimme that.Copy !req
83. Gimme.Copy !req
84. Yeah.Copy !req
85. This is a memory cartridge for
playing chess over the 'net.Copy !req
86. This piece has one match in its memory.Copy !req
87. And, when you push it,
it connects to the 'net.Copy !req
88. See?Copy !req
89. And this has something to
do with this incident?Copy !req
90. Nothing at all.Copy !req
91. Maybe all of this is a game...Copy !req
92. For now, continue playing
that game with the opponent.Copy !req
93. Yup.Copy !req
94. I'll go talk to the Gate
Corporation guys once more.Copy !req
95. Lesse...Copy !req
96. Eenie, meenie, miney, moe...Copy !req
97. Play ball!Copy !req
98. Another bounty hunter?
I don't care, send him back.Copy !req
99. But he's asking about
a chess-loving programmer...Copy !req
100. What?!Copy !req
101. Jet!Copy !req
102. What, Jonathan, were
you another one that...Copy !req
103. ...went through all the
trouble to get nothing?Copy !req
104. This thing isn't that easy.Copy !req
105. I believe we have given
out all the information.Copy !req
106. What more are you saying
you would like to know?Copy !req
107. Sorry, but there is no smoking
allowed in this building.Copy !req
108. Oops. I'm so sorry...Copy !req
109. Actually I had something
that I wanted you to see...Copy !req
110. What is it?Copy !req
111. This is a planned game.Copy !req
112. You guys at the Gate Corporation
should know what this means.Copy !req
113. I mean, to put a bounty on a mastermind
that we aren't even sure exists...Copy !req
114. ...suggests that it's someone you don't
want the police to know about, no?Copy !req
115. Bounty-hunters should just
look for their bounties.Copy !req
116. I don't know who you are, and
whether or not you used to work for...Copy !req
117. ...the ISSP, but it's better for
you to not make any extra inquiries.Copy !req
118. He's going home.Copy !req
119. Make sure he is kindly
escorted out of here.Copy !req
120. Damn this old piece of shit!Copy !req
121. I believe our risk is too great.Copy !req
122. If that gets out to
the general public...Copy !req
123. I am fully aware of our risk.Copy !req
124. If we don't catch him,
the situation will just get worse.Copy !req
125. But why is a ghost from
50 years ago coming back now...?Copy !req
126. To think that he gave
everyone a chess piece...Copy !req
127. Chessmaster Hex...Copy !req
128. So it IS a game that he set up...Copy !req
129. Chessmaster Hex...Copy !req
130. No good. This doesn't have anything
other than chess data in it.Copy !req
131. I wonder what they were going
to do with such a thing...Copy !req
132. If there is no meaning to the content,
maybe the pieces are the message...Copy !req
133. Great, great!Copy !req
134. Spike, I have a name...
Can you investigate the guy?Copy !req
135. He might be the mastermind
behind this whole thing.Copy !req
136. Hey, Ed.Copy !req
137. Ed's really busy right now.Copy !req
138. Here, here!Copy !req
139. Checkmate!Copy !req
140. ...or so you thought!Copy !req
141. I'll fork the king and the rook!Copy !req
142. Indeed! This is either
an idiot or a genius!Copy !req
143. I like this chap!Copy !req
144. Chessmaster Hex. Estimated
to be 98 years old.Copy !req
145. A programmer that had been
dubbed a genius from his teens.Copy !req
146. In the Cosmo-net chess tournaments, he
dominated the champion's seat for decades.Copy !req
147. He began work on the Hyperspace Gate
control program when he was 30...Copy !req
148. ...and created the central control
system that all Gates use to this day.Copy !req
149. However, that was his fatal error.Copy !req
150. He started to doubt the safety
of the Gates he helped create...Copy !req
151. ...and was against putting
them to practical use.Copy !req
152. As a result, he was banned
from the Gate Corporation.Copy !req
153. Ever since, his whereabouts
have been unknown for 50 years...Copy !req
154. So he's the mastermind behind
our current string of crimes...Copy !req
155. What do you mean?Copy !req
156. I mean, why is he seeking revenge
50 years after the fact?Copy !req
157. If we figure out where he is,
we'll know for sure.Copy !req
158. Hey, Ed.Copy !req
159. Ed's really busy right now.Copy !req
160. Hey, you, quit playing games
so much and help out a little...Copy !req
161. Ed, we want to figure out
where a guy named Hex is...Copy !req
162. Hex... Hex... The Chessmaster?!Copy !req
163. That's who I'm playing
chess against right now!Copy !req
164. We're almost at the location we got from
the trace we did on Ed's chess opponent.Copy !req
165. You guys standing by?Copy !req
166. I really don't like this.Copy !req
167. I mean, he's basically giving
us his exact location...Copy !req
168. Can we even trust that
trace in the first place?Copy !req
169. - Ya think he'd be in a dump like this?
- No, I think it was... that.Copy !req
170. I had heard once that there was a place
where all the scrapped remains of...Copy !req
171. ...obsolete Gates were gathered along with
scrap metal and abandoned spaceships...Copy !req
172. ...and that there were people
that started living there.Copy !req
173. Why the hell do they want
to live here of all places?Copy !req
174. That area has no nationality,
nor a government.Copy !req
175. You don't have to pay taxes,
and there are no cops.Copy !req
176. I see... It's the perfect
place to hide yourself.Copy !req
177. It might be a trap...Copy !req
178. This might be the
continuation of the game.Copy !req
179. Whatever happens, happens.Copy !req
180. Looks like we have air.Copy !req
181. Then there is someone here...Copy !req
182. Yo, Jet.Copy !req
183. Jonathan!Copy !req
184. How the hell did you get here?Copy !req
185. Thanks for leading the wayCopy !req
186. You... were following
us the whole time?Copy !req
187. Tough luck for you, but I have
important business with that guy,Copy !req
188. So I'll be going ahead.Copy !req
189. What the?Copy !req
190. What?Copy !req
191. How the hell?Copy !req
192. What is this?Copy !req
193. What is this?Copy !req
194. Hi!Copy !req
195. Peace to the world...Copy !req
196. ...and love to my bank account!Copy !req
197. You want one?Copy !req
198. Wow! Amazing!Copy !req
199. Chessmaster Hex?Copy !req
200. All right, give up!Copy !req
201. You guys...Copy !req
202. Can you be a little quieter?Copy !req
203. Old man!Copy !req
204. Don't joke with me!Copy !req
205. Hey, wait a minute.Copy !req
206. You won't get away with
pretending to be senile!Copy !req
207. Who are YOU?Copy !req
208. If you don't hand over
the money you stole...Copy !req
209. ...you'll get a nice
hole in your brain!Copy !req
210. That's a big tube you got there...Copy !req
211. Hey, whatcha doin', Hex?Copy !req
212. You gotta hear this. It's my first
formidable opponent in quite a while!Copy !req
213. Must be some player if
you have trouble winning!Copy !req
214. But before that, where's lunch?Copy !req
215. What are ya saying?
You just ate lunch a while back!Copy !req
216. Oh, is that so?Copy !req
217. - Really, you've lost so much of yer mind...
- Who are these guys?Copy !req
218. - ...that all you can do is play chess!
- Dunno. But you know, this old fogey...Copy !req
219. - Have ya lost it?
- Like you can speak... You...Copy !req
220. To... To think my life savings
are never coming back...Copy !req
221. Damn... Goddammit...Copy !req
222. Anyone and everyone, you and
that guy over there...Copy !req
223. The world is all a mistake!Copy !req
224. What are we gonna do?
This old man doesn't seem to...Copy !req
225. ...remember anything about
yesterday, let alone 50 years ago!Copy !req
226. That's right.Copy !req
227. Hex is no longer here.Copy !req
228. Here we merely have an
old man that loves games...Copy !req
229. Back then, Hex was riled up for
revenge, and planned this all out.Copy !req
230. He made it so that this incident
would happen 50 years later...Copy !req
231. ...during the one moment that the Gate
program gets automatically updated.Copy !req
232. Even making those that
physically commit the crime...Copy !req
233. ...hold chess pieces to hint
that it was his doing.Copy !req
234. However, to that old-timer,
50 years was too long.Copy !req
235. He went senile,
and had completely forgotten...Copy !req
236. ...about the traps that
he himself had set.Copy !req
237. Well, it works out better
for you this way.Copy !req
238. Because now you don't
have to worry about...Copy !req
239. ...the fundamental defect
in the Gates leaking out.Copy !req
240. Although, the price you paid was
that WE learned about that defect.Copy !req
241. What do you want? Money?Copy !req
242. Or... are you planning to leak
this information to the press?Copy !req
243. Just leave that old guy alone.Copy !req
244. That's all I want.Copy !req
245. It's a good deal, isn't it?Copy !req
246. Ed would get lonely if she
lost her chess partner...Copy !req
247. You're playing that thing again?Copy !req
248. Not again. Still.Copy !req
249. Still?Copy !req
250. You've been playing that
thing this whole WEEK?!Copy !req
251. Yeah.Copy !req
252. I see.Copy !req
253. Well, good luck.Copy !req
254. Yo, newcomer. You seem happy today.Copy !req
255. Hi!Copy !req
256. He's a really easygoing
fellow, isn't he?Copy !req
257. That he is...Copy !req
258. Checkmate.Copy !req
259. I lost...Copy !req
260. Aishiteta to nageku niwa...
Too much time has passed by...Copy !req
261. ...amarinimo toki wa sugite shimatta
...to lament that we were deeply in love.Copy !req
262. Mada kokoro no hokorobi wo...
The wind keeps blowing, while my heart...Copy !req
263. ...iyasenu mama kaze ga fuiteru
...cannot heal all the tears in it.Copy !req
264. Kawaita hitomi de dareka naite kure
Someone, cry for me with parched eyes.Copy !req
265. The real folk blues.Copy !req
266. Honto no kanashimi ga shiritai dake
I only want to know what true sadness is.Copy !req
267. Doro no kawa ni tsukatta...
Sitting in muddy water...Copy !req
268. ...jinsei mo waruku wa nai...
...isn't such a bad life...Copy !req
269. ...ichido kiri de owaru nara...
...if it ends after the first time...Copy !req
270. Love... It is to believe everything.Copy !req
271. Hey now, are you serious?Copy !req
272. Love... It is the heart
that provides for all.Copy !req
273. Come on... was that what
the story was about?Copy !req
274. Love... It is the heart
that accepts everything.Copy !req
275. You know, this is getting fishy.Copy !req
276. Whitney... You loved me that much...Copy !req
277. You really can't trust
the previews on this show.Copy !req
278. A romantic love story
for all you lovers.Copy !req
279. Next episode: My Funny Valentine.Copy !req
280. I'm sure it's a lie.Copy !req
281. Yeah, a lie. A lie.Copy !req