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| Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex |
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| 4 :01x04 - C: The Visual Device will Laugh; INTERCEPTER (Oct/22/2002) | | Togusa receives a call from an old colleague at Police HQ who has been working on a very important case. The colleague wants to discuss some classified information with Togusa, and the Section 9 agent agrees. On his way to meet Togusa, the man loses control of his car, crashing it on a superhighway, and dies in the subsequent explosion. Togusa's colleague had been working on the Laughing Man investigation and the agent believes that his friend's death was no accident. | | Guest Stars: Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Yamaguchi, Ryou Kamon (1) as Daidou (Superintendent-General), Yuuji Aoki as Matsuoka, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Michiko Neya as Yamaguchi's Wife, Yuzuru Fujimoto as Nibu, Hiroshi Yanaka as Fuukami, Katsumi Chou as Takekawa | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Hideyo Yamamoto
Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga | | | |
| 5 :01x05 - C: The Inviting Bird will Chant; DECOY (Oct/29/2002) | | After six years of silence, the Laughing Man has returned. Taking over the cyberbrain of a police officer, the Laughing Man threatens Superintendent-General Daidō at a press conference, discussing the illegal use of intercepters, aired live throughout the nation. In three days the Superintendent-General is to give a speech about the progress in the Laughing Man investigation. Chief Aramaki puts his unit on the case to make sure that the Laughing Man does not make good on his threat. The first information Section 9 looks at is Police HQ's investigation of Nanao A, who the police suspect is the Laughing Man. | | Guest Stars: Shinji Tokumaru as Plainclothesman, Ayako Itou as Ran, Keiji Okuda as Plainclothesman, Yuuko Sumitomo as Kurutan, Yousuke Akimoto as Home Affairs Minister, Hiroshi Yanaka as Fuukami, Ken Narita as Nanao=A, Toshihiko Nakajima as Ernst Serano | Director: Ryuutarou Nakamura, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga | | | |
| 6 :01x06 - C: The Copycat will Dance; MEME (Nov/05/2002) | | Section 9 has staked out the hotel where Superintendent-General Daidō will give his speech on the Laughing Man investigation. People from all over Japan are tuning in to see if the Laughing Man will make good on his threat to kill Daidō. Just before the speech, Major Kusanagi detects a modular, delayed-action virus sent by Nanao A. At the same time, Batou and Togusa find that Nanao A has given them the slip. With little time left, Section 9 tries to figure out who will be affected by the virus. | | Guest Stars: Hiderou Ishikawa as Fake Laughing Man, Masako Inui as Reporter, Makoto Aoki as Fake Laughing Man, Satoru Tsugawa as Policeman, Yasunori Matsumoto as Commander, Hiroshi Yanaka as Fuukami, Ken Narita as Nanao=A, Ryou Kamon (1) as Daidou (Superintendent-General) | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Masaki Tachibana
Screenplay: Junichi Fujisaku | | | | | | |
| 8 :01x08 - SA: The Fortunate Ones; MISSING HEARTS (Nov/19/2002) | | Motoko's friend Kurutan, a nurse at a hospital, asks the Section 9 agent to help her unravel a sticky situation. A young girl in need of a heart transplant for her new cybernetic body received a heart from a donor instead of having to use a mechanical one. The donor's parents, however, never gave consent for the donation. Motoko calls in her team to try and find out how the girl received the donor's heart. | | Guest Stars: Mitsuaki Mori as Med Student, Wataru Hoshino as Doctor, Miyuu Tsuzuhara as Moe, Toshiya Mori as Med Student, Kyousei Tsukui as Med Student, Takashi Onozuka as CEO's Secretary, Kouji Ishii as Meditech CEO, Yuuko Sumitomo as Kurutan | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Kazuki Fusegi
Screenplay: Junichi Fujisaku | | | | | | | | | |
| 11 :01x11 - C: Inside the Forest of the Sub-Imagoes; PORTRAITZ (Dec/10/2002) | | Togusa is assigned to go undercover at a vocational aid centre where it has been learned through channels that a top-level hack job had been instigated. What is odd is that the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, which controls the aid centre, has not filed an incident report on the security breach. Aramaki fears that a cover-up is in the works and he wants Section 9 to find out what is going on at the centre. | | Guest Stars: Risa Tsubaki as Child, Asuka Tanii as Child, Yuuji Kishi as Staff, Eri Sendai as Girl, Miyuu Irino as Omba, Minami Takayama as Kuroha, Rin Mizuhara as Maruta | Director: Toshiyuki Kouno, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai | | | | | | |
| 13 :01x13 - SA: Unequal Terrorist; NOT EQUAL (Dec/24/2002) | | A recent photograph taken by the Japanese Coast Guard of the New World Brigade shows a girl named Eka Tokura who had been kidnapped sixteen years ago. Eka had been one of the first people cyberised and the New World Brigade, which opposes cyberisation of any kind, kidnapped her to send the world a message. The picture taken shows Eka to be as old as she was when she was abducted. Aramaki sends his team in to figure out the mystery behind the girl's sudden reappearance. | | Guest Stars: Mitsuaki Hoshino as Sakakibara, Michiko Yamamoto as Old Woman, Yumi Kakazu as Girl | Director: Kazuki Fusegi, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga | | | | | | | | | |
| 16 :01x16 - SA: Chinks in the Armour of the Heart; Ag2O (Jan/14/2003) | | With Aramaki and Motoko away in London, Batou is given an assignment to bring in a suspected spy in the Japanese Self-Defence Force. Unfortunately, other things are on Batou's mind. Due to the fact that the Tachikomas have been sent back to the lab for further testing and the suspected spy that he is investigating was a former hero of his, Batou's ability to complete the mission may be in jeopardy. | | Guest Stars: Shihori Niwa as Miyahara, Yayoi Kazuki as Zaitsev's Wife, Tarusuke Niigaki as Self-Defence Official, Toshiaki Kuwahara as Self-Defence Official, Kenta Miyake as Self-Defence Official, Naomi Kusumi as Pavlo Zaitsev, Fumihiko Tachiki as Spy Leader | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Masaki Tachibana
Screenplay: Nobuhisa Terado | | | |
| 17 :01x17 - SA: The True Reason for the Unfinished Love Affair; ANGELS' SHARE (Jan/21/2003) | | Wrapping up their time at the annual international counter-terrorism conference in London, England, Chief Aramaki goes to visit an old friend who had immigrated to the United Kingdom. Allowing the Major some time to herself, Daisuke learns from his old friend, a wine fund broker, that some illicit activities are going on at the wine fund that may be mob related. | | Guest Stars: Yuuji Kishi as SWAT Officer, Makoto Yasumura as SWAT Officer, Ayumi Kida as Saleswoman, Koujirou Takahashi as Security Guard, Naoki Makishima as Robber, Kiyoyuki Yanada as Robber, Yuuji Mikimoto as Police Chief, Ryuusuke Oobayashi as SWAT Leader | Director: Yasuhiro Shimotsukasa, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai | | | | | | |
| 19 :01x19 - SA: Embraced by a Disguised Net; CAPTIVATED (Feb/04/2003) | | The Russian Mafia's Northern Territories' Syndicate, using the kidnapping technique knows as the Blindfold Ivan, have taken young, cyberised females in order to harvest their cyberbrains and organs. Unfortunately, the organisation has kidnapped the daughter of the one politician in Japan, who, when he was Prime Minister, had been protecting them. The current Prime Minister sends in a request for Section 9 to mobilise and stop the terrorists before they kill all the hostages. | | Guest Stars: Ayako Itou as Abductee, Yoshinori Mutou as Paku, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Arisa Ogasawara as Reiko, Mitsuki Yayoi as Kruzkova, Yousuke Akimoto as Home Affairs Minister, Takehiro Koyama as Kanzaki | Director: Minoru Oohara, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga | | | | | | |
| 21 :01x21 - C: Left-Behind Trace; ERASER (Feb/18/2003) | | As a wounded Togusa is operated on to fix the damage done by a bullet, which had been fired at him by the Narcotic Suppression Squad, the unit working for the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW), Section 9 begins to piece together what Togusa had uncovered at the Sunflower Society. Their investigation leads them to a document that is worth killing for. | | Guest Stars: Yuuki Nishizawa as Doctor, Mitsutaka Tachikawa as Yasuoka Gayle, Toru Shinagawa as Imakurusu Hisashi, Toshihiko Miki as Niimi (MHLW Chief), Eri Oono as Doctor, Masato Funaki as Bellboy, Yuuko Kaida (1) as Niimi's Secretary, Sakiko Tamagawa as Togusa's Wife | Director: Kenichi Takeshita, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Dai Satou | | | |
| 22 :01x22 - C: Corporate Graft; SCANDAL (Feb/25/2003) | | After his near-death experience at the hands of the Major, Yasuoka Gayle, the leader of the NARC Squad, has cooperated with Section 9 in their apprehension of MHLW Chief Niimi. The Laughing Man investigation, however, is far from over. On a credible tip, a new player has emerged from the shadows, as well as the rest of the NARC Squad, who will stop at nothing to make sure that Section 9's investigation is put down. | | Guest Stars: Takehiro Koyama as Kanzaki, Toshihiko Miki as Niimi (MHLW Chief), Ai Orikasa as Sanou, Yuuko Kaida (1) as Niimi's Secretary, Kenichi Mochizuki as MHLW Personnel Chief, Makoto Homura as Reporter, Yasuhiro Fujiwara as Homeless Man A, Yuuko Sumitomo as Kurutan, Toshiaki Kuwahara as Homeless Man B, | Uncredited: Osamu Saka as Yosuke Aramaki | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Masaki Tachibana
Screenplay: Junichi Fujisaku | | | |
| 23 :01x23 - C: The Other Side of Good and Evil; EQUINOX (Mar/04/2003) | | Their evidence chain slowly disappearing, Section 9 has now lost another witness, MHLW Chief Niimi, to cyberbrain suicide. Quickly resuming his post as Section Chief after being in the hospital, Aramaki informs his team that they must now convince the last witness they have to the Laughing Man Incident to testify against the men behind the farce: Ernst Serano, CEO of Serano Genomics, and the man who had been kidnapped by the Laughing Man six years previous. | | Guest Stars: Tomoyasu Sakata as SWAT Chief, Yasushi Niko as Plainclothesman, Yasuhiro Fujiwara as Plainclothesman, Hideo Watanabe as Plainclothesman, Makoto Homura as Plainclothesman, Toshihiko Nakajima as Ernst Serano | Director: Atsushi Matsumoto, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Junichi Fujisaku | | | |
| 24 :01x24 - C: Sunset in the Lonely City; ANNIHILATION (Mar/11/2003) | | With Serano willing to testify in the Laughing Man Incident, Section 9 begins to tighten the knot around Secretary-General Yakushima. However, the ex-MHLW Head is not to be underestimated. Before Section 9 can close the books on the case, they come under scrutiny by the media. With their secrecy blown, Aramaki heads to the Prime Minister's office to negotiate with the various leaders within the Japanese government. | | Guest Stars: Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Kenichi Mochizuki as Investigator, Masako Inui as Nurao, Daisuke Egawa as Commander, Minoru Inaba as Captain, Yousuke Akimoto as Home Affairs Minister, Yoshiyuki Kaneko (1) as Prime Minister | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Yasuhiro Shimotsukasa
Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai | | | |
| 25 :01x25 - C: Smoke of Gunpowder, Hail of Bullets; BARRAGE (Mar/18/2003) | | The Major has dissolved Public Security Section 9 and its former members go into hiding. However, after their attack on the Home Affairs Building, where Section 9 had its offices, the super-secret military outfit known as the Umibouzu continue to pursue their quarry. Meanwhile, having failed to persuade the Prime Minister, Aramaki meets with the Minister of Justice to see if his unit can be salvaged. | | Guest Stars: Maaya Sakamoto as Little Motoko, Makoto Homura as Pilot, Kenichi Mochizuki as Pilot, Masao Harada as Pilot, Toshihiro Nakamura as Pilot, Takkou Ishimori as Minister of Justice, Minoru Inaba as Captain | Director: Kazuki Fusegi, Kenji Kamiyama
Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai | | | | | | |
| 27 :02x01 - DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY (Jan/01/2004) | | With the Section 9 Incident still fresh in the minds of the Japanese public, Aramaki's team nonetheless assembles to address a hostage situation. While the newly-elected Prime Minister takes over her first negotiation with terrorists, the Major and the rest of her unit wait below as Aramaki makes his case for Section 9 to be mobilised to deal with the threat. | | Guest Stars: Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Yousuke Akimoto as Home Affairs Minister, Kenichi Mochizuki as Secretary, Koujirou Takahashi as SWAT, Yoshikazu Nagano as SWAT, Makoto Aoki as SWAT, Makoto Yasumura as Terrorist, Ikuji Nose as Terrorist, Kaori Mine as Embassy Staff | Director: Masaki Tachibana, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai | | | |
| 28 :02x02 - DI: Well-Fed Me; NIGHT CRUISE (Jan/01/2004) | | A former combat veteran named Gino, who fought during World War IV, now spends his days as a helicoptor pilot for the chairman of a large television studio. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Gino slowly grows more dissatisfied with the world that he believes needs to be "reset." | | Guest Stars: Hiroaki Hirata as Gino, Tomomichi Nishimura as Katakura, Yasuo Iwata as Dietwan, Koujirou Takahashi as Chief, Kazusa Murai as Reporter, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Makoto Yasumura as Colleague, Souichirou Shibata as Colleague, Shuuhei Sakaguchi as Colleague, Shigeru Wakita as Colleague, Takehiro Murozono as Colleague, Akimitsu Takase as Colleague, Kenichi Mochizuki as Colleague, Rin Kozue as Idol | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Kenichi Takeshita
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga | | | | | | |
| 30 :02x04 - DU: Natural Enemy; NATURAL ENEMY (Feb/07/2004) | | During a combat readiness exercise between the Maritime and Ground Self-Defence Forces in the Niihama Refugee Residential District, a helicopter pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. However, the helicoper's AI continues to operate and goes rogue when it is told to return to base. Section 9 heads to the refugee area while Aramaki has a meeting with his Defence MInistry contact Kubota. As the situation escalates over the refugees, a CIS agent named Gōda Kazunoto introduces himself to Aramaki and offers his services to help Section 9. | | Guest Stars: Ken Nishida as Gouda, Taimei Suzuki as Kubota, Hirofumi Nojima as Pilot, Yuu Sugimoto as GCI, Yasushi Niko as GCI, Makoto Yasumura as GCI, Eisuke Asakura as Ranger, Masao Harada as Ranger, Kenichi Mochizuki as Flight Deck Crewman, Masaki Nakai as Ranger, Masako Inui as Support AI | Director: Masayuki Yoshihara, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Junichi Fujisaku | | | |
| 31 :02x05 - IN: Those Who Have the Motive; INDUCTANCE (Mar/06/2004) | | Prime Minister Yōko Kayabuki makes her first visit to the Dejima Refugee Residential District to commemorate the opening of the area for Asian Refugees displaced during the war. However, elements are conspiring against her in the form of the Individual Eleven, who leave her a calling card. | | Guest Stars: Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Ken Nishida as Gouda, Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Yousuke Akimoto as Home Affairs Minister, Yuzuru Fujimoto as Commissioner-General, Yoshinori Mutou as Takakura (Chief Cabinet Secretary), Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Kenichi Mochizuki as Secretary | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Kenichi Takeshita
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Dai Satou, Kenji Kamiyama | | | | | | |
| 33 :02x07 - DU: Rhapsody - The Melody of a Bygone Nation; Pu239/94 (Apr/03/2004) | | A possible leak in security has caused the Prime Minister to summon Aramaki and ask for Section 9 to protect the convoy taking the plutonium fuel rods out of Tōkyō by road from the nuclear power plant that Togusa had found in Shinjuku. Grumblings within the unit, however, have caused Section 9 to sense that someone is moving against them. | | Guest Stars: Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Ken Nishida as Gouda, Yousuke Akimoto as Home Affairs Minister, Yoshinori Mutou as Takakura (Chief Cabinet Secretary), Kenta Miyake as Terrorist, Daisuke Egawa as Platoon Leader, Chie Matsuura as Self-Defence Official, Eisuke Asakura as Self-Defence Official | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Itsurou Kawasaki
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Junichi Fujisaku, Kenji Kamiyama | | | | | | |
| 35 :02x09 - DU: The Hope Named Despair; AMBIVALENCE (May/08/2004) | | Several bombs have gone off in Niihama recently that are following a pattern of a similar incident in Fukuoka the week before: A warning is issued by a refugee liberation group that five bombs will go off in the city. With only one bomb left to be detonated, Section 9 tries to figure out where the final bomb will be placed. At the same time, the Major, along with the Tachikomas, performs a dive into the Cabinet Intelligence Service's mainframe. | | Guest Stars: Ken Nishida as Gouda, Tomoyuki Shimura as Security Chief, Kenichi Mochizuki as Midori Yama, Yuu Sugimoto as CIS Operator, Sousuke Tenjin as Aojima, Chie Matsuura as Girl | Director: Kenichi Takeshita, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Yuuichirou Matsuka, Dai Satou, Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 36 :02x10 - DI: One Angry Man; TRIAL (May/08/2004) | | When a woman, who is being chased by a man, runs in front of Togusa's car, Togusa gives chase and arrests the man. However, before he can disarm him, the man shoots the woman to death. In the aftermath, the attacker, through his attorney, claims that Togusa neglected his individual liberties and Togusa is brought to trial. | | Guest Stars: Sakiko Tamagawa as Togusa's Wife, Mika Kanai as Togusa's Daughter, Yuuji Ueda (1) as Ueda, Mika Doi as Judge, Katsumi Suzuki as Mori, Shinji Kawada as Izumi, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer | Director: Toshiyuki Kouno, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai | | | | | | |
| 38 :02x12 - IN: To Those Without Even a Name...; SELECON (Jun/05/2004) | | Attempting to find any information on the whereabouts of Shou Kawashima ("FAKE FOOD"), Section 9 comes across a data store left by Gouda that may trigger the virus that takes over an individual's cyberbrain and turns them into part of Gouda's Individual 11 group. Just as the Major readies herself to dive into the stream, she is contacted by the Chief, who has some information pertaining to the recent attack on Prime Minister Kayabuki ("INDUCTANCE"). | | Guest Stars: Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Kenta Miyake as Individual 11, Mitsuaki Hoshi as Individual 11, Yuuji Ueda (1) as Individual 11, Yonehiko Kitagawa as Professor, Kenji Nomura as Mihashi, Makoto Yasumura as Dobashi, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Masaki Tachibana
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama, Yutaka Oomatsu | | | |
| 39 :02x13 - DI: Face; MAKE-UP (Jul/03/2004) | | Reviewing the footage captured by NTV atop the Kyūshū Radio Tower in Fukuoka, showing the members of the Individual 11 decapitating themselves with samurai swords, the lab techs notice that Kuze's facial features are very specialised and there are only two people in Japan capable of creating such a face. When Batou and Togusa head to talk to one of the aritists, they find the man dead. Footage reveals that the killer happens to be a member of Section 9. | | Guest Stars: Mitsuaki Hoshi as Individual 11, Kenta Miyake as Individual 11, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Tetsuo Komura as Inspector, Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Youko Soumi as Kaori | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Itsurou Kawasaki
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Yutaka Oomatsu, Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 40 :02x14 - DI: Beware the Left Eye; POKER FACE (Jul/03/2004) | | While guarding Prime Minister Kayabuki as she meets with Imperial America's Secretary of State, Saitou sits in the surveillance van with some recruits and Tachikomas. Having not lost a game yet, Saitou tells his colleagues about a battle he was in during the last World War. Hiring himself out as a mercenary, he took up his bolt-action sniper rifle in Mexico, where a United Nations force enters into his kill zone. | | Guest Stars: Ooki Sugiyama as Pickles, Masanori Takeda as Snow, Matsuo Matsuo as Mother, Keiji Fujiwara as Rod, Tomoyuki Shimura as Minimi, Masahiro Ogata as Azuma | Director: Masayuki Yoshihara, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Yoshiki Sakurai, Kenji Kamiyama | | | | | | |
| 42 :02x16 - IN: The Fact of Being There; ANOTHER CHANCE (Aug/07/2004) | | Returning from the Korean Peninsula, Ishikawa prepares to brief the rest of Section 9 on Hideo Kuze, the man who has now been connected to several Individual 11 incidents. At the same time, Prime Minister Kayabuki forms a temporary committee to deal with the possible threat of a refugee uprising. | | Guest Stars: Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Yoshinori Mutou as Takakura (Chief Cabinet Secretary), Masahiro Ogata as Azuma, Eisuke Asakura as Kimura, Yuzuru Fujimoto as Commissioner-General, Yasuo Muramatsu as Defence Minister, Kousei Hirota as Maritime Safety Chief | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Masaki Tachibana
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 43 :02x17 - DI: Mother-Child Relationship; RED DATA (Sep/04/2004) | | Kusanagi flies to Taiwan to learn more about Kuze. While there, she saves a boy who was about to be killed by a local mafia group. The boy follows Motoko, telling her that he is not out of danger yet. Learning that the boy is a refugee, she gathers more info on Kuze from her new friend. | | Guest Stars: Minami Takayama as Chai, Gorou Naya as Lead Elder, Mitsuaki Hoshino as Elder, Hiroshi Naka as Elder, Takuma Takewaka as Security Guard, Sayori Ishizuka as Clerk, Hirohiko Kakegawa as Guard (as Kimitake Kakegawa), Megumi Yamato as Chai's Partner, Kenichi Mochizuki as Boss | Director: Itsurou Kawasaki, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga | | | |
| 44 :02x18 - DI: Angel's Poem; TRANS PARENT (Sep/04/2004) | | Motoko and Batou are handpicked to travel to Berlin, Germany, to aid in the capture of a terrorist who bombs world summits. Surviving the harsh cold of northern Europe becomes rough even for a fully prostheticised individual, but Batou's blood soon warms when he notices a wheelchair-bound girl who seems to sense his presence. | | Guest Stars: Sayuri Sadaoka as Orphanage Director, Atsushi Goutou as MI6 Agent, Makoto Yasumura as MI6 Agent, Tetsuo Komura as Correspondent, Megumi Hayashibara as Theresia, Katsunosuke Hori as Angelica, Tamio Ooki as Roland | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Toshiyuki Kouno
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 45 :02x19 - IN: Chain of Symmetry; CHAIN REACTION (Oct/02/2004) | | In the CIS Building, Gōda and his subordinates prepare to capture Kuze before Section 9 does. Due to the fact that a Japanese national is helping the refugees, Section 9 is able to assemble in Dejima to locate Kuze and bring him in for questioning. | | Guest Stars: Ken Nishida as Gouda, Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Masahiro Ogata as Azuma, Ooki Sugiyama as Proto, Kenichi Mochizuki as Yano, Eisuke Asakura as Kimura, Hiroshi Naka as Doctor, Takeshi Maruyama as Captain, Makoto Yasumura as Hooded Refugee, Shizuka Itou as Policewoman, Daisuke Hirakawa as Policeman | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Kazuki Fusegi
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 46 :02x20 - IN: Confusion at the North End; FABRICATE FOG (Oct/02/2004) | | Kuze's attack on the Major causes her to make a mistake and think that their target is in Dejima. Due to this, Section 9 is ambushed and loses one of their newest recruits. When her head clears, Motoko realises that Kuze's attack on her was done while he was in Etorofu. Section 9 quickly heads to the Northern Territories island to capture Kuze. Nipping at their heels is the CIS, who has a few surprises of their own in store for Section 9. | | Guest Stars: Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Yuuichi Nagashima as Coil, Wataru Takagi as Man, Makoto Yasumura as Hooded Refugee, Kenichi Mochizuki as Refugee, Daisuke Hirakawa as Refugee, Ooki Sugiyama as Refugee | Director: Kenichi Takeshita, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama | | | | | | |
| 48 :02x22 - DU: Abandoned City; REVERSAL PROCESS (Nov/06/2004) | | With the refugee issue reaching its climax, a threat of a nuclear detonation is sent out. The town of Fukuoka and the outlying areas, totalling nearly 35 million people, is evacuated. Section 9 heads to the Kyūshū Radio Tower where the bomb has been placed. There, they meet up with their old nemesis. | | Guest Stars: Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Ken Nishida as Gouda, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Kenichi Mochizuki as Secretary, Daisuke Egawa as Platoon Leader, Takeshi Maruyama as Self-Defence Official, Chie Matsuura as Self-Defence Official, Eisuke Asakura as Self-Defence Official | Director: Itsurou Kawasaki, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Dai Satou, Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 49 :02x23 - IN: The Day the Bridge Falls; MARTIAL LAW (Dec/04/2004) | | Although the nuclear incident in Fukuoka has been handled and Section 9 has the plutonium, when the refugees declare their independence the Prime Minister is left with no choice but to declare martial law in Nagasaki and its artificial island of Dejima. Meanwhile, the Chief Cabinet Secretary makes his intentions known to Kayabuki that her administration is finished once the situation in Dejima is handled. | | Guest Stars: Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Ken Nishida as Gouda, Yoshinori Mutou as Takakura (Chief Cabinet Secretary), Yasuo Muramatsu as Defence Minister, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Announcer, Ooki Sugiyama as Proto, Daisuke Egawa as Self-Defence Official, Chie Matsuura as Self-Defence Official, Kenichi Mochizuki as Refugee, Daisuke Hirakawa as Refugee, | Uncredited: Osamu Saka as Yosuke Aramaki | Director: Kenji Kamiyama, Toshiyuki Kouno
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama | | | |
| 50 :02x24 - IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER (Dec/04/2004) | | • No Summary (Add Here) | | Guest Stars: Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kayabuki, Rikiya Koyama as Kuze, Ken Nishida as Gouda, Taimei Suzuki as Kubota, Ooki Sugiyama as Proto, Yasuo Muramatsu as Defence Minister, Shigenori Souya as Self-Defence Head, Mitsuaki Hoshino as Ranger, Daisuke Hirakawa as Ranger, Kenichi Mochizuki as Ranger, Atsushi Kakehashi as Ranger | Director: Masaki Tachibana, Kenji Kamiyama
Story: Mamoru Oshii | Screenplay: Kenji Kamiyama | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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