[Describing the Major in a hooker's body] Her beauty is an undeniable truth. A beauty that makes no attempt to hide the fact that she's a living creature. A purity that accepts pleasure for its own sake and possesses nothing except that which is necessary for survival. A single glance tells you this body is a full prosthetic. Perfect physical form indistinguishable from a being that's specialized for pleasure. This is true beauty. She's the only one that I can be certain is human. I see something in her, something I connect with. It's as if she's stubbornly trying to protect her humanity just like I am. Everything else pales before her spirit. Even if you obtain her body through the power of money you could never possess her will, her beauty, or her truth.
S1 E15Unfinished Business
[Describing Gino, after learning his assassination plan is just a fantasy] He's just one of the countless number of pitiful souls who harbor faint dreams of greatness and is frustrated by reality. He'll never carry out his plan. He's a member of the proletariat who is pathetically out of touch with reality.
Are these the people they refer to as perverts?
Yeah, but maybe we should refer to them as eccentric.
If I understand it correctly, zen is not so much a religion, but rather it is a means of freeing human karma from worldly thoughts, right?
For us, maybe it correlates to deleting data from our cache when it's full.
Yeah, maybe it's similar to that, and having our data synchronized, too.
Wow, if that's true, maybe we could link up with someone who's meditating , and download enlightenment!
Yeah!
You son of a bitch; who the hell do you think we are?
The real question you should ask is, who do you think you are? An elite special unit of the handpicked chosen few? If your little group had been confronted by an angry mob of refugees and they had come at you with those smuggled weapons, you know you couldn't have stopped them! Try to rein in your ego and be thankful you got to play the role of decoy under my direction.
If you let AIs handle everything, even the mice will outsmart you.
Thanks for telling me the story. I'll bet that even now, that girl is still searching for the first boy she ever loved.
Hey, Are you getting this? What did he say? Get him on camera!
What the hell?!
Swords! They're swinging swords and— [horrified yell] Their heads! They just chopped off each other's heads! Each of them, they—they killed each other! What a unbelievable sight! [grunts] THESE MEN WHO APPEARED ON THE ROOF AND MURDERED ONE ANOTHER WITH SWORDS!
[the rookies with whom he's playing poker are lashing out at the Tachikomas] Now don't take it out on those two just because you're losing.
The key to survival on the battlefield isn't courage or weapons. It's caution.
Cover us! Snow and I will storm the building!
So, what am I? Her backup?
Look on the bright side, pal: this means you've earned her trust now.
[narrating his confrontation with the Major] In that fleeting moment when I was facing off against the Major, I envisioned the outcome of our exchange of fire, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. After assessing the situation and taking all the factors into account, my experiences as a sniper led me to one conclusion: I was about to die.
[When Motoko gets into bed that night] I have a question. When you're full prosthetic, can you have sex?
care to find out?
The real deal. With these, we can mount a war.
We didn't buy them for the purpose of fighting a war. These oughta give us enough power so we won't have to fight.
Sounds like Dejima's declared itself an autonomous region.
Hmm.
You figure Kuze's behind it?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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