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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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| Title: | C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL |
| Episode Number: | 22 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 22 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday April 10th, 2005 |
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The arrest of the NARC Squad members allows Section 9 to move in to arrest MHLW Bureau Chief Niimi. With Imakurusu dead, Niimi is the lead that Section 9 needs to crack the case. However, several well-trained NARC Squad members still remain to be dealt with. While Motoko goes to the hospital to be fitted with a new prosthetic body, Aramaki is presented with some very troubling news.
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| Japanese Title: 「疑獄」 - 「Gigoku」
The DVD translates the title as 「Scandal」
| The slow intro sequence for 「SCANDAL」 is not an error. It was intentionally done by Production I.G to reference the hallucination-induced view that Batou experiences when he links with a doped-up Aramaki.
| Kanji on Office Door:
麻薬取締局人事課 課長室
Mayaku Shutei-kyoku JInji-ka Kachō-shitsu
The translation differs slightly from what is displayed beneath the Japanese on the glass. In the ep, it's translated on the glass as "Narcotics Agent Personnel Section - Section Chief Room". It actually translates to: Narcotic Suppression Personnel Section - Section Chief's Office.
| Kurutan's statement about Motoko's new body at the hospital reveals that Motoko uses an commonly sold exterior, while using enhanced parts that are technically illegal for sale with cybernetic bodies.
| Kanji on Highway Sign:
警察病院前
豊島
Keisatsu Byōin-zen
Toyojima
Police Hospital Front
Toyojima
The sign to the left of that shows the Kanji 出口 (Deguchi or Exit) and the city name 浜崎. The sign to the right spells out Poseidon Industries in Japanese Katakana (used to spell out foreign words).
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| | Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Origa | 「Inner Universe」 | | | •Origa | 「Flashback Memory Plug」 | | | •Scott Matthew | 「Lithium Flower」 | | | •Yōko Kanno | 「Security Off」 | |
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| Outro Credits Errors:
Bandai Entertainment must have had an off day when putting up the credits for "SCANDAL"; they made three errors on the Japanese cast list. First, they spelled the character MHLW Personnel as MHLW Personnnel. Then, they spelled the seiyū playing Niimi as Toshiko Miki when it should be Toshihiko Miki. Finally, the spelled the seiyū playing Sanou as Ai Orisaka when her name is Ai Orikasa.
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| "Must be nice to have a desk job."
The scene where Pazu retrieves the records of the remaining NARC Squad members from the Narcotic Regulation Bureau's Section Chief, along with the Chief closing the image curtains and Pazu's parting line, is similar to the scene in chapter 8, "DUMB BARTER", from the 1991 Ghost in the Shell manga by Shirō Masamune. In the manga, it is Ishikawa who pays a visit to the Personnel Department Chief of Section 1 as Pazu was not in the manga. Instead, he was first seen in Mamoru Oshii's 1995 movie Ghost in the Shell giving orders for the raid on the house where the former Gavel Republic warlord will soon arrive at.
| Location of New Port City
The map that Ishikawa uses to locate the Chief puts New Port City (Niihama on the map) in the Kinki (also called Kansai) region on Japan's main island of Honshū by the cities of Kōbe, Kyōto, and Ōsaka. The island (Shima) that has a vertical shape and is displayed on the left side of the map is Awaji Shima, which is an island located in Ōsaka Bay. Also, using the land image displayed when the satellites beam down the information from the American Empire's Global Satellite Intercept Net in "ERASER", New Port City is actually an artificial island located just off of Kōbe. The city is the new artificial island built near the old Port Island, which is an actual artificial island built next to Kōbe and first opened in 1981. In the northeast corner of the bay are three small islands. The westernmost island is Port Island, and the island just to the right of it is New Port Island, otherwise known as New Port City. More on Port Island can be found here.
| Brain Dive: "JUNK JUNGLE"
Batou's dive into Aramaki's brain and, as a result, feeling the effects of the same narcotics used on the Chief, is similar to what happens to Batou in Chapter 3, "JUNK JUNGLE", from the 1991 manga Ghost in the Shell by Shirō Masamune.
| "Then all the phonies in the world will be legitimized": The Catcher in the Rye
Aoi's use of the word "phonies" is a direct reference to The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. The protagonist of the novel, Holden Caufield, uses the word phony to define anyone who he does not like.
| "The mark of an immature man...": The Catcher in the Rye
Motoko's response to Aoi's request for help, by quoting the psychoanalyst Wilhem Stekel, comes directly from a scene in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Towards the end of the novel, Holden has a talk with his old English teacher, Mr. Antolini. His old teacher tells him that he is heading for a huge fall, but that he is afraid that Holden will not be able to see it happen because the fall will happen over time. He can see Holden someday becoming so hateful of the world that Mr. Antolini, "can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some higly unworthy cause." It is then that Holden's old English teacher writes down the quote by Wilhelm Stekel for Holden in order to help him see that, no matter what he feels now, eventually he must grow up.
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| NARC Squad: "ERASER", "RE-VIEW"
As Ishikawa's computer reveals the real faces of the remaining NARC Squad members, two of the faces are that of a young man with black hair and Sanou. The man, in the driver's seat, and Sanou had gunned down Imakurusu "from their car in ERASER". If you look closely at the woman who shoots Imakurusu in "ERASER", she is wearing light blue lipstick, the same kind worn by Sanou. To add, all of the final three NARC members can be seen in "RE-VIEW" when Togusa dives into the unconscious NARC Squad man's cyberbrain.
| Poseidon Industries: 2nd GIG
The highway sign that Aramaki passes under has the name Poseidon Industries on it. The company will play a small role in the second season of the series.
| Asian Refugee Residential District
This episode marks the second look at the Niihama Asian Refugee Residential District. Situated on an island to the southeast of Niihama, the district, whose structures were decimated by a past earthquake and never rebuilt, was first seen at the beginning of "MACHINE DÉSERIANTES". The Asian refugees in Japan, and the districts in which they reside, will be covered in 2nd GIG.
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