Daisuke Aramaki quotes from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Aramaki

At section 9, we aim to please.

This next footage is of the Minister and a geisha going into the bathroom.

Aramaki

With a geisha?

Apparently, he sometimes likes to swap bodies with geishas when he gets drunk.

Aramaki

Major!

Motoko

Almost there!

Aramaki

The military's itching to jump in. Watch your back!

Motoko

Thanks for the concern.

Motoko

All personnel in position! Standing by!

Aramaki

Right. You're on.

Motoko

Go!

It's been a long time, Aramaki.

Aramaki

It can't be! What's the meaning of this?

At first I had no intention of doing anything, I only wanted to tell me the truth. A truth I thought posterity should know. The thing I needed to tell me, was that I overwrote my memories into my cyberbrain. I never suspected the potential danger of it. That it would turn me into an assassin.

Aramaki

What have you hidden in there? What's in your data library?

The truth about Okinawa. I only wanted to hand it down to future generations, but when I learned this truth, I discovered the truth behind mom's death. All I wanted after that was revenge. It was a miscalculation on my part. I had no intention of carrying out an assassination, but I am unable to stop the thirst for revenge that festers in my heart.

Motoko

Sounds like Dejima's declared itself an autonomous region.

Daisuke

Hmm.

Batou

You figure Kuze's behind it?

Daisuke

So far, there's been no evidence of Kuze himself, but it's a safe bet it's him. He's cleverly making affected use of the net to divulge the refugee's intentions to the media.

He's the Che Guevara of the refugee residential district. At least that's what the Nonial Press is calling him.

Batou

Great, another intangible hero. The thing I don't get though is, Kuze started it as one of the Individual Eleven, correct? Why did the refugees welcome the guy with open arms? Does he really have some kind of special ability like investigations of The Major and Ishikawa suggested?

Motoko

To get the answer, we'll just have to capture him and ask him in person. You also have to realize it's only due to his involvement that we can even step in here like this.

Daisuke

That's right. The first order of business is to put the bricks on this situation by apprehending Kuze, the suspected leader of the refugees. We'll worry about getting the authority to challenge the C.I.S. afterward.