Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex · Season 1
Son of a bitch. He hated his parents that much?
No. It was just for a split second, but I felt something when I burned out Kago’s brain. “Well, Mom? What do you think of me in my steel body?” It was a strange sensation. It wasn’t pride… Or vengeance.
Forget about it. It was just a hallucination.
I hope so. There’s no way we’ll ever know for sure now.
Hey, we don't even know its capabilities and we're going in with Tachikomas.
[chuckles] Don't be too quick to underestimate them.
That's right!
You tell 'em, Major!
Bring it on!
You get all the fun jobs, don't ya?
Don't come crying to me if you get blown away.
Harima Research Academy is the place where our neurochips were made.
A triumphant return to our birthplace.
The Major gets mad when we chatter.
First time I've seen them work.
I didn't think Section 9 really existed.
You ok?
I'm fine!
Wait there for assistance.
Sure thing...since I can't move.
[entering the chatroom] So I've heard that this is a place where one can find out more about the Laughing Man.
You betcha!
Wow, it sure is damp. Our optical camouflage visibility index is definitely going to shoot up.
Our gaskets won't corrode, will they?
Quit your whining. Just be thankful you don't have a sense of smell.
Is there an unpleasant odor? We can analyze it with our sensors.
Bouma's discomfort index is at 68%.
Ah, shut up.
Writing, in blue oil-based paint, on the inside of the door to the cable box: "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. Or should I?"
Writing, in blue oil-based paint, on lefty's catcher's mitt: "You know what I'd like to be? I mean if I had my goddamn choice, I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all."
What do you think?
I have to admit, for a movie it wasn't bad- but diversionary entertainment is transitory, it just comes and goes at the viewers whim. It's the way it should be, but a film with no beginning or end that hooks an audience and won't let go of them is harmful no matter how wonderful you may have believed it was.
Ohh, you're a tough critic. Are you saying that we members of the audience have a reality to which we should return?
Yes I am.
For some who sit and watch the film, misery will be waiting for them the instant they go back to reality. You're willing to accept responsibility for depriving these people of their dreams?
No, I'm not. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.
You're a realist.
If a romantic escapes from reality, then yes.
A strong girl you are. If the reality you believe in ever comes about, you give me a call. When it happens, that's the time we'll leave this theatre.
[shoots the guards down a flight of stairs] How do you like that?
Moron! Have you forgotten that you've got somebody inside your pod?
[whines] Ohh/Aww! But I wanna fight some more!
I've got a better idea of the internal design, but it looks like this thing's not equipped with any autonomous functions to output its condition to the outside.
You mean it can't even talk? It's a sub-Turing machine!
[The Tachikomas circle behind the Operator]
Huh?
Keep up the good work.
It's nice to see a robot enthusiastic about her duties.
Ah, what are you up to? I'm responsible for this prototype until the debriefing is over. Don't you Tachikomas even come near it.
We won't do anything.
Please stop wasting my time with your blatant lies.
You're right. I only tell lies. I never, ever say anything that's true.
Eh?
A curious dilemma. Because if what it said is true, that means it wasn't lying. And if what it said is false, that would mean that it does tell the truth. How do you resolve this perplexing contradicton?
Uh. Um, well.
Well, come on, don't you know, figure it out.
[The Operator malfunctions. Tachikoma 1 takes the prototype, and all the Tachikomas leave the Operator behind.]
Folks who can't handle a self-reference paradox are real suckers.
So, will we be sent back to lab too?
Wha...? Who's been telling you that?
Well, it's just that the way the Major's been looking at us lately is kinda scary.
Oh, is that all? The major's always scary, remember? I think you guys are doing a fine job.
You really think so?
What, you're still worried about that?
Yeah... It just seems like the Major is angry about what we've acquired recently.
"Acquired"? Acquired what?
Well, it's ... Individuality.
Individuality?
Yeah! And you know that "existence of God" thing that I had trouble understanding before? I think I am starting to understand it now. Maybe, just maybe, it's a concept that's similar to a zero in mathematics. In other words, it's a symbol that denies the absence of meaning, the meaning that's necessitated by the delineation of one system from another. In analog, that's God. In digital, it's zero. what do you think? Also, our basic construction is digital, right? So for the time being, no matter how much data we accumulate, we'll never have a Ghost. But analog-based people like you, Batou-san, no matter how many digital components you add through cyberization or prosthetics, your Ghost will never be damaged. Plus, you can even die 'cause you've got a Ghost. You're so lucky. Tell me, what's it feel like to have a Ghost?
How's it feel...? No, I take back what I said earlier. You're pretty messed up, all right.
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