1. Angely I demony kruzhili nado mnoj,
Angels and demons circle above me,Copy !req
2. rassykhali ternii I vechnye puti.
through the thorns to the stars.Copy !req
3. Ne znaet shast'je tol'ko tot,
Only those unable to perceive its call...Copy !req
4. kto jevo zova ponjat' ne smog.
do not know happiness.Copy !req
5. Naljubuites', naljubuites'.
Watch in awe, watch in awe.Copy !req
6. Aeria gloris, aeria gloris.Copy !req
7. Naljubuites', naljubuites'.
Watch in awe, watch in awe.Copy !req
8. Aeria gloris, aeria gloris.Copy !req
9. I am calling, calling now,Copy !req
10. spirits rise and falling.Copy !req
11. Soboj ostat'sja dol'she.
To remain myself longer.Copy !req
12. Calling, calling, in the depths of longing.Copy !req
13. Soboj ostat'sja dol'she.
To remain myself longer.Copy !req
14. Naljubuites',
Watch in awe,Copy !req
15. aeria gloris.Copy !req
16. They beefed up
the patrols, huh?Copy !req
17. Ishikawa, any luck getting new testimony
out of the remaining narc squad members?Copy !req
18. We weren't able to get much
useful intel out of them.Copy !req
19. Their boss was Director Niimi, who
tried to commit cyberbrain suicide,Copy !req
20. so that lead
is a dead end now.Copy !req
21. And we can't find the
Laughing Man himself, either.Copy !req
22. That's true.Copy !req
23. Following the Chief's instructions,
we're now going after this man.Copy !req
24. That's...Copy !req
25. Right.Copy !req
26. Assemblyman Kaoru Yakushima, standing
Secretary General of the ruling coalition.Copy !req
27. Yakushima, huh? He's the most
powerful man in his party right now,Copy !req
28. and he was Minister of Health at the
time of the Laughing Man incident.Copy !req
29. He's a diehard MHLW man
who built his current position...Copy !req
30. by switching jurisdiction of cyberbrain tech
from METI to the Ministry of Health.Copy !req
31. And although it's
not widely known,Copy !req
32. there's a secret connection
between him and the JMSDA.Copy !req
33. So you're saying that's where
that Armed Suit came from?Copy !req
34. That's what the Chief
seems to suspect.Copy !req
35. The fat pipeline between the political world
and the JMSDA was laid by Yakushima,Copy !req
36. who was Chief of Staff
for the JMSDA,Copy !req
37. when he set up shop as a politician
with a huge sum of stake money.Copy !req
38. But where he got that money
raised questions,Copy !req
39. and the JMSDA's chief accountant accused
Yakushima of misappropriating secret funds.Copy !req
40. However, the lead prosecutor on the case
was found run over next to a railroad track,Copy !req
41. and the investigation
came to a stop.Copy !req
42. In the end, Yakushima was never charged, and
the suspicions about him remain unresolved.Copy !req
43. There's more.Copy !req
44. Superintendent General Daido,
who recently retired,Copy !req
45. was Yakushima's junior at the
National Defense Academy,Copy !req
46. and word has it that the late Imakurusu
had been a close golf buddy of Yakushima's...Copy !req
47. since his days
as an army medic.Copy !req
48. Should you be
up and around?Copy !req
49. I can't be the only one
around here lying in bed.Copy !req
50. Which would mean that as far as
this string of incidents is concerned,Copy !req
51. he has more than enough clout to be
the one pulling the strings behind it all?Copy !req
52. Although we don't have
a shred of evidence at this point.Copy !req
53. So, how do you intend to go after
the serving Secretary General?Copy !req
54. We'll tug on the
last thread that links...Copy !req
55. Chief Secretary Yakushima
and the Laughing Man incident.Copy !req
56. Serano Genomics.Copy !req
57. That's right.Copy !req
58. The suppression
of the Murai Vaccine,Copy !req
59. which we believe to be the origin
of the Laughing Man incident,Copy !req
60. and Serano's micromachine therapy,
which received approval at that same time.Copy !req
61. If we take into custody Mr. Ernest Serano,
who seems to be deeply involved in both,Copy !req
62. and question him immediately, the link
between the two will probably be made clear.Copy !req
63. In the six years since right after
the incident to this very day,Copy !req
64. Mr. Serano has been under house arrest
under the pretext of police protection.Copy !req
65. Do whatever it takes. Take him into
custody this time no matter what.Copy !req
66. The Laughing Man is probably
thinking the same thing.Copy !req
67. What do we do
if we run into him?Copy !req
68. Arrest him. In a sense,
he's the key witness to this case.Copy !req
69. Isn't it possible that Serano will be liquidated
once we go into action, just like before?Copy !req
70. It's possible, of course. That's why
I want you to do whatever it takes.Copy !req
71. Mr. Serano, you have a call
from the Holland branch.Copy !req
72. What would you
like me to do?Copy !req
73. Tell them that I'll call them back
when I get to the office.Copy !req
74. Understood.Copy !req
75. I feel terrible about having you
play secretary for me all the time.Copy !req
76. Even so, you're the most competent of all the
detectives that have been assigned to me.Copy !req
77. What do you say? How about
becoming my secretary for real?Copy !req
78. I'll make it worth
your while.Copy !req
79. Thank you,
but no.Copy !req
80. It looks like your car
has arrived.Copy !req
81. I see.
Thank you.Copy !req
82. I'll come up to escort you,
so please wait there a moment.Copy !req
83. All this heightened security
is making me a little nervous.Copy !req
84. It's nothing
to worry about.Copy !req
85. It's open.Copy !req
86. Ever since I saw the news about the
Sunflower Society and Imakurusu,Copy !req
87. I've been resigned to the fact that
you would probably come here next.Copy !req
88. I'm here to see to it that you make good
on the promise you made six years ago.Copy !req
89. Will you come
with me?Copy !req
90. Subject has left
his room.Copy !req
91. He's heading for
the entry hall.Copy !req
92. Good morning,
Mr. Serano.Copy !req
93. Good morning.Copy !req
94. Now opening
entry hall door.Copy !req
95. Be careful.Copy !req
96. Thanks.Copy !req
97. Subject is through
the entry hall.Copy !req
98. Roger that.
We have visual.Copy !req
99. It's just like last time,
isn't it?Copy !req
100. You're right.Copy !req
101. The only difference is that it was detectives
in the hall instead of your family.Copy !req
102. There wasn't a car
following us, either.Copy !req
103. So, what are you going
to do about them?Copy !req
104. Well, let's see...Copy !req
105. Driver, go left at the
next intersection.Copy !req
106. That's not like him...Copy !req
107. Don't let him
shake you.Copy !req
108. It'll take that unmarked police car about an hour
to reach Serano Genomics' head office now.Copy !req
109. Until then, I'd like you to tell me
why you haven't kept your word,Copy !req
110. and have kept silent
these past six years.Copy !req
111. I have to decide on
my next course of action.Copy !req
112. You're awfully
audacious.Copy !req
113. Hold it! Put both hands
on the hood of the car!Copy !req
114. Take it easy.Copy !req
115. We're Public Security Section 9.
We contacted you earlier.Copy !req
116. I was told that Mr. Serano
had already left. Is that true?Copy !req
117. His ride to the office left,
same as always. What about it?Copy !req
118. Look at your watch.
Is that the same time as always?Copy !req
119. Gee, that guy's a real
working man's CEO, ain't he?Copy !req
120. Every last one of you bozos
had your eyes hacked by him!Copy !req
121. Mr. Serano was alone
when I called his room, too.Copy !req
122. Looks like the surveillance
camera Al's been hacked...Copy !req
123. "Medusa"?Copy !req
124. Your ID.Copy !req
125. Huh?Copy !req
126. Hurry it up.Copy !req
127. Of all the stupid...Copy !req
128. You guys are such
easy marks.Copy !req
129. What's that?Copy !req
130. Interceptors. I can't believe you're
still being bugged with them.Copy !req
131. When Interceptors upload data, they use
the comm devices in the subject's cyberbrain.Copy !req
132. You probably noticed a load spike
every once in a while.Copy !req
133. What the hell?Copy !req
134. Your brains recorded Serano
walking past you by himself,Copy !req
135. but he's showing up just fine
on the Interceptors.Copy !req
136. This is what really happened
in the kidnapping six years ago.Copy !req
137. Major, dive into all IR-Systems inside a radius
of three kilometers from the Serano estate...Copy !req
138. and look for Mr. Serano's
company car.Copy !req
139. The Laughing Man has kidnapped
Mr. Serano again.Copy !req
140. Find them, no matter
what it takes!Copy !req
141. Understood. But there's no guarantee
that the car will show up on the IR-System.Copy !req
142. Ishikawa!Copy !req
143. I was listening.
Beginning full-scale search.Copy !req
144. Bear in mind the possibility
of an A.I. overwrite.Copy !req
145. Roger that.Copy !req
146. Circle around the area
for half an hour or so.Copy !req
147. I have some personal
business to see to.Copy !req
148. Let's go.Copy !req
149. The view from here has changed
quite a bit, hasn't it?Copy !req
150. I see your hair has
gone white, Mr. Serano.Copy !req
151. It's been a rough
six years.Copy !req
152. The official story is that the police are there
to protect me against threats from you,Copy !req
153. but they're really there
to keep an eye on me...Copy !req
154. to make sure I don't blab anything
about the truth behind the incident.Copy !req
155. For all intents and purposes,
I'm under house arrest.Copy !req
156. Compared to back then,
I see you've lost your naiveté.Copy !req
157. I suppose I've managed
to mature a little.Copy !req
158. I'll admit that
back then,Copy !req
159. I seriously wanted to give all the phonies
in the world a swift kick in the ass,Copy !req
160. Still, you were pretty wild
back then, yourself.Copy !req
161. For two whole days, you hung out
with a mere anonymous student...Copy !req
162. who had hacked into you, in spite of the fact
that you were being brain dived.Copy !req
163. I had enough passion
left in me...Copy !req
164. to make me want to debate a student
who spouted naive crap.Copy !req
165. I understand what
you're trying to say,Copy !req
166. but I'm a micromachine developer, not
a member of the Drug Evaluation Council.Copy !req
167. I don't have anything to do with
the rejection of the Murai Vaccine.Copy !req
168. I understand that.Copy !req
169. But the Drug Evaluation Council
is a bunch of crooks and phonies.Copy !req
170. I'll have to confront them someday, but first,
I want you to publicly disclose the data that...Copy !req
171. shows that your company's micromachines
have practically no effect on cyberbrain sclerosis.Copy !req
172. I've told you again and again
that I can't do that!Copy !req
173. I'll admit that like you wrote in your
blackmail letter three years ago,Copy !req
174. micromachine therapy was nothing
more than a theory at that point.Copy !req
175. But that's how
patents work!Copy !req
176. There's no law against
being the first...Copy !req
177. to register technology that's certain
to be practical one day!Copy !req
178. That's what goddamn
lawyers always say.Copy !req
179. For Christ's sake...Copy !req
180. I was well aware that our approval
request was premature.Copy !req
181. It was partially meant as
a bluff to our competitors.Copy !req
182. But I believe that the reason we got approval
from the Drug Evaluation Council...Copy !req
183. after just three months,
faster than anyone expected,Copy !req
184. was because they realized that my company's
theories are the superior ones.Copy !req
185. You have no idea how much
damage would be caused...Copy !req
186. by a loss of faith in the use
of medical micromachines now.Copy !req
187. You're trying to kill a technology
that holds more potential...Copy !req
188. What I'm trying to say is that this
is a matter of life or death...Copy !req
189. for those people who are suffering
from cyberbrain sclerosis.Copy !req
190. At the very least, can't you concede
the effectiveness of the Murai Vaccine...Copy !req
191. until micromachine therapy
shows clear results?Copy !req
192. I have nothing to say
in regards to Murai.Copy !req
193. Can you really
say that?Copy !req
194. If that sonuvabitch God gave you
cyberbrain sclerosis for kicks,Copy !req
195. would you choose micromachine therapy
without giving it a second thought?Copy !req
196. Of course. I have pride and faith
in my company's products.Copy !req
197. So, you'd even choose it if it was
your children who came down with CS?Copy !req
198. Yes. I suppose
I would.Copy !req
199. Look, let's drop this
hypothetical stuff.Copy !req
200. Pride and sentiment are two different
things, aren't they?Copy !req
201. That's no fair,
Mr. Serano.Copy !req
202. If you're really so proud
of micromachine therapy,Copy !req
203. you should make use of
your position to do what's right.Copy !req
204. The only thing Imakurusu
could think of...Copy !req
205. was rejecting the vaccine that had
Dr. Murai's name on it.Copy !req
206. The goddamn Drug Evaluation Council,
whose only job was to rubber-stamp...Copy !req
207. any new medicine that came
through the Ministry of Health,Copy !req
208. was chaired by Imakurusu,Copy !req
209. a man who had a stamp specially made
to reject the Murai Vaccine...Copy !req
210. which read
"Approval Denied"!Copy !req
211. Your own micromachines
were used in that dirty deal!Copy !req
212. You can't be completely unaware
of those circumstances, Mr. Serano.Copy !req
213. It didn't really matter to them
if it was your micromachines.Copy !req
214. Any goddamn micromachine that was
up for approval back then...Copy !req
215. would have worked
just as well!Copy !req
216. If you know how corrupt
the shitty medical industry is,Copy !req
217. can you honestly say that it's got
nothing to do with you?Copy !req
218. All right.
Let's do this, then.Copy !req
219. For now, release me
and let me act on my own.Copy !req
220. Once I make preparations
after that,Copy !req
221. I'll call the press together and disclose
the current state of micromachine therapy.Copy !req
222. Are you being serious? There's no
advantage for you in that promise.Copy !req
223. I'm not such
a petty man.Copy !req
224. It may not be
as grand as yours,Copy !req
225. but I believe I have a sense of social
justice just like anyone else.Copy !req
226. I wonder.Copy !req
227. You have my word.Copy !req
228. At the time, I was exhausted
from your brain dive,Copy !req
229. and I fervently made that promise
in the hopes of escaping.Copy !req
230. I thought that if I could get you in front of
a TV camera, the eyes of the viewing public,Copy !req
231. you wouldn't do
anything crazy.Copy !req
232. That's right...Copy !req
233. But unfortunately, I had
an S&W Chief in my pocket.Copy !req
234. Will you disengage
your brain dive?Copy !req
235. Even you have to know that
what you're doing is illegal.Copy !req
236. If you want to hide your face
and maintain your anonymity,Copy !req
237. it wouldn't be a good idea
for you to be shown on TV.Copy !req
238. I enjoyed our debates.Copy !req
239. But as a man who protects his enterprises,
I might not be able to keep my promise.Copy !req
240. Society isn't as cut and dried
as you think it is.Copy !req
241. I won't try to uncover
who you really are, either.Copy !req
242. For now, let's go our
separate ways here.Copy !req
243. That's no fair!Copy !req
244. Then look into that camera there
and tell the truth!Copy !req
245. Stop that.
You won't shoot me.Copy !req
246. Are you so sure?Copy !req
247. Afterwards, when I had been taken
into protective custody by the police,Copy !req
248. I learned from a company director
who came to visit me...Copy !req
249. that the two days
I had spent with you...Copy !req
250. had developed into a major kidnapping
incident that had shaken our whole society.Copy !req
251. I also learned that immediately after
I left home with you,Copy !req
252. a demand for a huge ransom
was delivered to the company.Copy !req
253. But I couldn't believe that it was you
who made that demand.Copy !req
254. The fact that you're an ingenious hacker
didn't change the fact that you were a criminal,Copy !req
255. but it seemed to me that you
were only using those abilities...Copy !req
256. to fight the injustices of the world
out of the righteousness of youth.Copy !req
257. But the police determined that you had
kidnapped me for the ransom money,Copy !req
258. and they questioned me again and again,
asking if I knew anything that could help them.Copy !req
259. But the director and I decided to maintain
that we couldn't think of a single thing.Copy !req
260. We couldn't cause a situation
which would lead to suspicion...Copy !req
261. that our company's micromachines
were defective.Copy !req
262. Just like you said, we were taught
that we had a guilty conscience.Copy !req
263. The secret of our micromachines
was being held hostage,Copy !req
264. and a ransom was
being demanded.Copy !req
265. And then the micromachine killer
virus incident happened.Copy !req
266. That's right.Copy !req
267. Even as I was angry at myself
for being overjoyed...Copy !req
268. by our micromachine
therapy being approved,Copy !req
269. I was cursing you from the bottom
of my heart at the same time.Copy !req
270. I thought, "This is corporate
terrorism, plain and simple!"Copy !req
271. But that wasn't you,
was it?Copy !req
272. The evil that lurks in this world exists on a level
that's far higher than we imagine.Copy !req
273. I assume you know that we blackmailed
companies that were granted an influx of...Copy !req
274. public funds because we were on the verge
of bankruptcy due to the killer virus infection.Copy !req
275. Let me tell you what
happened afterwards.Copy !req
276. At the same time our stock prices were gradually
beginning to climb after their collapse,Copy !req
277. we were visited by a man who
introduced himself as a member...Copy !req
278. of the private support association
of a certain assemblyman.Copy !req
279. He said that he was acquainted with someone
who could put an end to the corporate blackmail,Copy !req
280. so he asked if we would be willing to make
a political donation to this assemblyman...Copy !req
281. in the event that a declaration was
made that the blackmail would end,Copy !req
282. The amount he suggested was
equal to the public funds...Copy !req
283. plus the demanded
blackmail money.Copy !req
284. This clearly meant that Serano Genomics
had been targeted for blackmail all along...Copy !req
285. because we were the latecomer
among the manufacturers.Copy !req
286. To them, what I did must have seemed like a
performance that came at exactly the right time.Copy !req
287. I suppose it did,
at that.Copy !req
288. By continuing to imitate
the incident you triggered,Copy !req
289. they created a fabricated image
called the Laughing Man.Copy !req
290. They manipulated stock prices by invoking
the name of a criminal that didn't exist,Copy !req
291. stealing money from
companies besides us.Copy !req
292. That, in spite of the fact that
they had probably been...Copy !req
293. making a tidy sum even before then
off of short-selling the stocks.Copy !req
294. Was this assemblyman
Secretary General Yakushima?Copy !req
295. You knew, did you?Copy !req
296. Basically, hackers have always existed
to peek at things that others have hidden.Copy !req
297. But the depth of the darkness in the hotbed of
corruption I had tried to confront defeated me,Copy !req
298. and all I could do was become a deaf-mute
and avert my eyes from it all.Copy !req
299. Just as you have done
these past six years.Copy !req
300. The Laughing Man... That was
a good name they came up with.Copy !req
301. And here I'd thought that if
I failed to persuade you,Copy !req
302. I'd simply follow Holden's quote
and disappear...Copy !req
303. They followed the Salinger angle...
Good grief.Copy !req
304. Say, Mr. Serano, if that's what they're doing,
I have to become the original Laughing Man...Copy !req
305. and drag that phony Yakushima
into the light of day.Copy !req
306. When you showed yourself to me,
I made up my mind, too.Copy !req
307. There isn't much evidence
to accuse him with,Copy !req
308. but I'll become your copycat
and fight him, too.Copy !req
309. Don't die before you
take the witness stand.Copy !req
310. Sure.Copy !req
311. Squad 2, ready.Copy !req
312. Squad 3, ready.Copy !req
313. Squad 4, ready.Copy !req
314. All squads
are in position.Copy !req
315. Building's security system
now under our control.Copy !req
316. Batou.Copy !req
317. No change
in subjects.Copy !req
318. Storm the place!Copy !req
319. Everyone, freeze!Copy !req
320. Hold it right there!Copy !req
321. Subject B secured.
He's alone.Copy !req
322. No sign of subject A.Copy !req
323. Hold position there.Copy !req
324. That was one hell
of a performance.Copy !req
325. With chops like that, you could fool
anybody with no trouble at all.Copy !req
326. Gee, and I was never in
a single school play, either.Copy !req
327. I guess this clinches the connection
between Yakushima and Serano, huh?Copy !req
328. Right. And what the Laughing Man
told me was the truth, too.Copy !req
329. This should have lit a fire
under Mr. Serano, too.Copy !req
330. This might work.Copy !req
331. She's so cold and humanCopy !req
332. It's something humans doCopy !req
333. She stays so golden soloCopy !req
334. She's so number nineCopy !req
335. She's incredible mathCopy !req
336. Just incredible mathCopy !req
337. And is she really human?Copy !req
338. She's just so something newCopy !req
339. A waking lithium flowerCopy !req
340. Just about to bloomCopy !req
341. I smell lithium nowCopy !req
342. Smelling lithium nowCopy !req
343. How is she when she doesn't surf?Copy !req
344. How is she when she doesn't surf?Copy !req
345. How is she when she doesn't surf?Copy !req
346. I wonder what she does when she wakes up?Copy !req
347. When she wakes up?Copy !req