1. Like a cruel angel
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2. Become a legend, young boy
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3. When a blue wind
Knocks on the door to your heart
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4. You just gaze back at me
And smile oh so gently
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5. So eager for something
You touch so softly
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6. Those innocent eyes
Know nothing of the fate that awaits
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7. But one day, you will realize
That upon your back
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8. You have wings
You can fly to the faraway future
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9. The cruel angel's thesis
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10. One day, you'll take off through a window
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11. If your overflowing pathos
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12. Leads you to betray your memories
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13. Then embrace the heavens and shine bright
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14. Become legend, young boy
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15. Apoptosis process on three Evas
will begin as scheduled
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16. following Magi system restart.
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17. Confirming process.
Abbreviate steps 450 to 670.
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18. Command Center, approved.
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19. You're very fast, Maya. I'm amazed.
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20. I should be.
I learned from the best, Senpai.
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21. Hold on. An A-8 would be faster there.
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22. Let me drive.
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23. That's my Senpai...
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24. How's it coming? You done with
the Magis' diagnostic testing?
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25. Just about. As promised,
they'll be ready before today's testing.
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26. That's my Ritsuko! Checking over three
identical systems is a tall order!
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27. That coffee is cold.
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28. ROUTINE DIAGNOSTIC
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29. All three Magi system units
have entered self-diagnostic mode.
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30. Routine diagnostic no. 127
shows all systems green.
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31. Roger. Good work, everyone.
Get some rest until the testing starts.
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32. All systems green, huh?
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33. Mother is as healthy as ever,
while I get older with each passing day.
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34. We have to undress again?
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35. Yes, you'll be going into
a super-clean room.
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36. A shower and change of underwear
won't cut it.
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37. Why do we have to go through all this
just to test some autopilot system?
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38. Time isn't the only thing that marches on.
So does the Evas' technology.
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39. We constantly need
new data to work off of.
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40. There! Here we are,
exactly how you want us.
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41. Squeaky clean
after 17 thorough scrubbings.
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42. Okay, I need the three of you
to remain undressed.
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43. Go through this room
and get into your entry plugs.
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44. Don't worry, the visual feed is off.
We'll respect your privacy.
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45. That's not the point, and you know it!
I'm seriously uncomfortable here!
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46. The aim of this test is to gauge how well
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47. harmonics are picked up from your bodies
without the aid of plug suits.
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48. Asuka, that's an order.
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49. Oh, fine! But don't you dare peek!
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50. All pilots ready for entry sequence.
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51. Start test.
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52. Starting test.
Now commencing autopilot recording.
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53. Inserting simulation plugs.
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54. Connecting systems to imitation bodies.
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55. Simulation entry plugs
now under Magi control.
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56. Wow, look at it go!
The Magi sure make a big difference.
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57. This is a far cry from those first tests
that took a whole week!
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58. Test scheduled to end
in approximately three hours.
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59. - How do you feel?
- Something is different.
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60. Yeah, it's not the same as usual.
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61. My senses are all messed up.
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62. I can feel my right arm just fine,
but everything else feels hazy.
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63. Rei, mentally picture
your right arm moving.
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64. Yes, ma'am.
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65. Data collection proceeding smoothly.
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66. Everything seems to be fine.
Return the Magi to normal mode.
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67. An inner conflict...
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68. It really shows the personality
of the person who built it.
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69. What are you talking about?
I thought you built them.
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70. You don't know much
about the Magi, do you?
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71. That's your fault for not talking about
yourself as much as I do, Ritsuko.
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72. I suppose it is.
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73. I only got the system up and running.
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74. The one who came up with the core theories
and built it was my mother.
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75. - You've verified this?
- Yes, just to be sure.
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76. This is a part we got in three days ago.
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77. Here, this is the area
that's deteriorating.
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78. Protein wall no. 87, eh?
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79. Under magnification, you can see
what appears to be stains.
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80. What do you suppose it is?
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81. It must be corrosion. There are minute
temperature and conductivity fluctuations.
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82. There's been a lot of cases of
clean room deterioration lately.
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83. The construction schedule was
shortened by 60 days or so,
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84. so some air bubbles
must have gotten mixed in again.
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85. The construction in Wing B
is awfully slipshod.
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86. That wing was built
after the Angels showed up.
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87. I can't say I'm surprised.
Everybody is exhausted.
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88. Address the issue by tomorrow.
Ikari will raise a stink otherwise.
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89. Yes, sir.
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90. Another water leak?
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91. No, they say there's corrosion.
In the protein wall above us.
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92. Oh, terrific. Has it affected the test?
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93. Not so far, ma'am.
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94. Continue, then. We can't abort this test
midway without good reason.
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95. - Cdr. Ikari would raise a stink.
- Roger.
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96. Synchronization position nominal.
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97. Connecting simulation plug to Eva
primary body via imitation body.
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98. Connection to Eva-00, confirmed.
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99. Projecting A.T. Field
at strength of 2 yoctos.
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100. What happened?
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101. Contamination alert, Sigma Unit, Floor A!
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102. Protein wall no. 87 has degraded!
Emitting heat!
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103. Abnormalities also detected in tube no. 6!
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104. The corrosion is expanding
along the protein wall!
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105. It's like spreading wildfire!
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106. Abort experiment!
Emergency seal, tube no. 6!
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107. Yes, ma'am!
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108. Sixty, 38, and 39 have been sealed!
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109. Corrosion in segment 42 of tube no. 6!
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110. It's not working! The corrosion is
spreading along the walls and lining!
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111. Ready polysomes!
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112. Set lasers to maximum!
Fire at first sign of intrusion!
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113. Corrosion has reached segment 58
of tube no. 6! Here it comes!
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114. Rei!
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115. Rei's imitation body is moving!
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116. That's impossible!
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117. The corrosion is spreading even further!
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118. It's attacking the imitation body's
pituitary system!
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119. - Rei's status?
- Unharmed!
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120. Emergency eject all plugs!
Have those lasers ready!
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121. - An A.T. Field?
- That can't be!
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122. What... the hell?
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123. Analysis pattern, blue.
No doubt about it... it's an Angel!
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124. An Angel?
You let an Angel infiltrate HQ?
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125. I'm sorry, sir.
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126. Spare me the excuses.
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127. Physically isolate Central Dogma!
Quarantine it from the Sigma Unit!
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128. Physically isolating Central Dogma.
Sigma Unit will be...
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129. We're abandoning the Box!
All personnel, evacuate!
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130. What are you doing? Hurry!
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131. Isolating Sigma Unit from Floor D.
All bulkheads closing.
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132. All personnel within
affected areas must evacuate.
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133. Yes, I'm aware. I'll leave it to you.
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134. Turn off that alarm.
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135. D-Disabling alarm!
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136. It was a false alarm.
Due to a faulty sensor.
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137. That is what you will tell
the government and Council.
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138. Yes, sir.
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139. Polluted area spreading downwards.
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140. It's spreading out from the Pribnow Box
to the entirety of the Sigma Unit!
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141. - That's a dangerous spot.
- Yes, it's too close to Adam.
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142. Contain the spread
to within the Sigma Unit!
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143. If need be,
sacrifice the Geo-front to do it.
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144. The Evas?
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145. Standing by at Cage Seven. We can launch
once the pilots are retrieved.
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146. Don't bother waiting for the pilots.
Launch them to the surface immediately.
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147. Unit 01 has top priority. Sacrifice
the other two units to do so if necessary.
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148. Unit 01, sir?
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149. But, sir, without the Evas,
we can't physically destroy that Angel.
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150. If the Evas are contaminated
before then, all is lost. Do it!
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151. Yes, sir!
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152. All areas of the Central Dogma
below the Sigma Unit
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153. will be completely locked down
in 60 seconds.
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154. So that's the Angel, huh?
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155. I guess my work is on hold for a while.
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156. Central Dogma now completely locked down.
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157. Deep underground facility
has been overrun by the intruder.
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158. Now, then, how do we attack
this Angel without any Evas?
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159. Look, there's the heavy water boundary.
That's a high-oxygen area.
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160. It has a definite preference.
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161. The area where ozone is pumped in
to maintain aseptic conditions
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162. is free of contamination.
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163. So it's vulnerable to oxygen?
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164. It would seem so.
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165. Now pumping in ozone.
Concentration is increasing.
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166. I think it's working!
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167. Will this do it?
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168. Zero-A and Zero-B appear to be recovering.
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169. Tube area has returned to normal values.
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170. That core area is pretty resilient.
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171. All right, increase ozone levels.
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172. That's strange.
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173. Huh? It's spreading...
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174. This is weird. Heat release is increasing!
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175. Contaminated area is spreading again!
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176. The ozone has lost all effect!
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177. It's now steadily ingesting the ozone!
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178. Halt ozone flow!
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179. Amazing...
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180. It's evolving before our eyes.
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181. What's wrong?
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182. Subcomputer is being hacked into!
Intruder identity unknown!
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183. No, not now!
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184. Crap! Using Mode C as a countermeasure!
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185. Lowering firewall!
Deploying decoy interface.
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186. Decoy interface circumvented!
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187. - Eighteen seconds to trace!
- Firewall up!
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188. Firewall has been penetrated!
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189. Deploying another decoy interface!
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190. No human could do this...
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191. Trace successful!
It's coming from inside this facility!
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192. Origin, beneath B Wing...
It's the Pribnow Box!
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193. Optical pattern is changing!
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194. The glowing lines are electrical circuits.
This thing is a literal computer!
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195. Deploying decoy interface.
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196. Failed! Attempt prevented!
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197. Physically sever the main cable.
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198. Negative! Not responding to command!
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199. Shoot it with the lasers!
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200. It's generating an A.T. Field!
Ineffective!
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201. It's accessing Security's main banks.
Now brute-forcing the password.
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202. Twelfth digit... Sixteenth digit...
D-word discovered!
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203. Security Department's main banks
have been compromised!
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204. It's accessing the main bank!
I can't cancel it!
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205. What's it after?
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206. It's searching through the main path...
Wait, that's the code for... Oh, no!
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207. It's trying to crack the Magi!
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208. Crash the I/O system.
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209. Go on your mark!
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210. Three! Two! One!
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211. Power won't shut down!
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212. Angel intrusion continuing!
It's accessed Melchior!
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213. I can't stop it!
It's being taken over by the Angel!
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214. Melchior has been
reprogrammed by the Angel!
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215. Artificial intelligence Melchior has
proposed autonomous self-destruct.
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216. Rejected.
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217. Rejected.
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218. Melchior is now proceeding
to hack into Balthasar!
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219. Damn, it's fast!
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220. Its computational speed is crazy!
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221. Change logic mode!
Set synch code to 15-second intervals!
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222. Roger!
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223. How much time did that buy us?
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about two hours.
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225. To think that the Magi
have turned against us...
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226. We speculate that this Angel is composed
of nano-machines the size of microbes.
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227. These gathered to form a colony
and rapidly evolved to the point
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in a very short time.
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229. - Evolution?
- Yes, sir.
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231. to work out the ideal system
to cope with any given situation.
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232. A perfect example of the system
that life employs to survive.
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233. The only effective method against a target
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234. that corrects its weaknesses
and constantly evolves
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236. Our only choice is
a Magi-Angel double suicide.
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237. I propose the physical elimination
of the Magi system.
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238. Unthinkable. Scuttling the Magi
is tantamount to sacrificing HQ.
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239. Then I formally request it
as Chief of Operations!
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240. Request denied. This is a job
for the Technology Department.
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241. Why are you being so stubborn?
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242. Because it was my negligence
that caused this.
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243. You've been this way
as long as I've known you.
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244. Always shouldering the burden by yourself.
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245. You never ask for help, do you?
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246. If the Angel is continuously evolving,
it means we have a chance.
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247. - Encourage its evolution, you mean?
- Yes, sir.
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248. The ultimate end of evolution
is self-destruction. Death itself.
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249. So the solution is to
accelerate its evolution?
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250. If the Angel decides it is the most
efficient way to avoid death,
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251. then it may opt for
coexistence with the Magi.
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252. But how do we do that?
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253. If the target is the computer itself,
we connect Casper directly to the Angel.
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254. We can then reverse-hack it and plant
a self-destruct acceleration program.
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255. But...
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256. It would also mean lowering
its firewall against the Angel.
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257. Is Casper faster, or is the Angel?
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258. - It will be a race.
- Yes, sir.
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the program ready in time?
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260. Because if Casper is also turned,
it's all over.
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261. I keep my promises.
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262. Alarm Code R is in effect.
Alarm Code R is in effect.
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263. An emergency situation
has occurred inside Nerv HQ.
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264. All Class D personnel, please evacuate.
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265. What on earth are all these?
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266. Notes left by the developer.
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267. Wow! It's a backdoor code!
This is the Magis' backdoor code!
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268. So it's a treasure trove of Magi hacks?
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269. Am I cleared to see this stuff?
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270. Wow, I never thought of that!
This is c-as-integer!
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271. This will let us knock out that program
in no time! Right, Senpai?
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272. Thank you, Mother.
We'll be ready in time for sure now.
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273. Hand me that socket wrench.
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275. Hand me that no. 25 keyboard.
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277. It's a long story.
And not a very interesting one.
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278. Have you heard of
the Personality Transplant OS?
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279. Yeah, it's that system where a person's
personality is transferred into
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280. a seventh-gen organic computer
to let it actually think.
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281. That's the same technology
used for piloting the Evas, right?
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282. Supposedly, the Magi were
the first real-world use.
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283. The tech was developed... by my mother.
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284. Wait, your mother's personality
was transplanted into them?
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285. Yes.
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286. In a manner of speaking,
we're looking at my mother's brain.
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287. Is that why you wanted
to protect the Magi?
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288. No, I don't think so.
I didn't like my mother enough to do that.
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289. It was a decision made
as a scientist, I suppose.
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290. That's it!
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291. Balthasar has been taken over!
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292. AIs are voting in favor of
autonomous self-destruct.
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293. - It's started?
- In event of unanimous decision,
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294. self-destruct will occur
.02 seconds later.
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295. Self-destruct area will encompass
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296. geoid depth -280, -140, and Floor Zero.
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297. Due to Exception 582 being in effect...
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298. Balthasar is hacking further into Casper!
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299. - We're losing ground!
- Its speed is crazy!
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300. Self-destruct device
will activate in 20 seconds.
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301. Oh, no!
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302. Casper will be taken over in 18 seconds!
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303. Self-destruct device
will activate in 15 seconds.
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304. Ritsuko! Hurry!
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305. Don't worry. We have almost
a whole second to spare.
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306. A second?
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307. That's not zero or a negative.
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308. - Maya.
- Ready here!
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309. Four seconds. Three seconds.
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310. Hit it!
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311. One second. Zero seconds.
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312. REJECTED
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313. Autonomous self-destruct
has been canceled by AIs.
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314. - We did it!
- Yeah!
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315. Furthermore, Exception 582
has also been lifted.
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316. Magi system returning
to normal operating mode.
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317. R-Alert lifted. R-Alert lifted.
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318. All personnel,
stand down to condition one...
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319. What's been going on out there?
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320. Damn it! We can't leave these
stupid things if we're naked!
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321. Somebody come and help!
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322. Sigma Unit now open. Magi system
will restart in minus zero three.
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323. Maybe I am getting old.
All-nighters do a number on me.
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324. You kept your word yet again. Great work.
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325. Thanks.
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326. Misato, I can't ever remember when
your horrid coffee tasted so wonderful.
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327. The night before she died,
Mother said something to me.
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328. That the Magi were
three facets of herself.
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329. The scientist in her. The mother in her.
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330. The woman in her.
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331. The Magi are those three sides of her,
constantly vying for control.
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332. She deliberately incorporated
the inner conflict we all have.
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333. Actually, the three have
slightly different programming.
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334. I could never be a mother,
so I'll never understand that side of her.
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335. As a scientist, though,
I had a great deal of respect for her.
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336. But as a woman,
there was a part of me that hated her.
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337. - You sure are talkative today.
- It's been known to happen.
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338. Casper was implanted with my mother's
personality traits as a woman.
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339. The woman in her held on
to the bitter end.
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340. That's so like her.
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341. TO BE CONTINUED
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342. NEXT EPISODE
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343. Seele, the cabal which secretly controls
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344. Nerv and the Human
Instrumentality Project.
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345. Are Cdr. Ikari's actions merely
the realization of the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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346. Next episode!
"Seele, the Seat of the Soul"!
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347. Tune in next time
for lots more fan service!
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348. Dan Kanemitsu
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