Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex Quotes

Togusa: We've been through this, like I've told you over and over, that's not true.
Questioner: Then why was a member of Section 9 in contact with Mr. Serano while impersonating the Laughing Man
Togusa: Look, that was only to...
Questioner: To what?
Togusa: Hey! Section 9 didn't even exist six years ago, did it? How the hell could it be involved with the Laughing Man incident?! Huh?!
Questioner: Word has it that data falsification is a specialty with you guys, that true?
Togusa: Huh? Ah... gimme a break, would ya? Six years ago I was a police investigator, same as you.
Questioner: All right, let's take this again... from the top.

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Batou: Hell, this is my own life. How I decide to waste it is my own damn business.

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Yellow tachikoma: Once a problem child always a problem child, know what I'm sayin'?

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Soldier: Finally done putting up a fight? Damn... I killed him!
Batou: What's wrong? I forgot, I look dead to you don't I? Well, don't believe it.
Soldier: Uh??!
Batou: I'm sorry, but I had to hack your eyes pal.

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Blue tachikoma: Goodbye.... Mr Batou! [Before both tachikomas sacrifice themselves for Batou]

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Batou: By the way, I have something that almost didn't make it here. [Batou pulls out a wrist watch]
Mokoto: I knew it.
Batou: No matter how many prosthetic bodies you've went through this was the one thing that was always ticking away, keeping the same time as you. Nowadays thats far to fleeting, people entrust their memories to external devices because they want to set down solid psyical proof that can distinguish them as unique individuals. That watch is all you have though, isn't it? Your only external mnemonic device that identifies the person you've been up to this minute.
Mokoto: Those are pretty serious words, where'd you get them from I'd like to know. A watch and weight training gear, both of us have clung to useless scraps of memory, haven't we?

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Togusa: It's a lot livelier here than I had heard.
Batou: The refugees have been building up this high rise slum for over twenty years. That's why I don't find it strange they refer to the place as their castle.

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Togusa: It's not like I had aspirations to be a hero or anything. However, I'm positive we followed a code of justice that all of believed in without condition or compromise. Laughing Man, you were the one who first tried to shed some light on the black abyss of this case and bring it to the world's attention. Is it possible that at this moment, you're feeling the same as I am? Nah, you wouldn't. Your not the type to go in for that stuff. You must've had a revelation of something and you're watching this with eyes that see the big picture. Isn't that right? I could tell. Major...

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Laughing Man: Welcome. You took longer than I expected.
Motoko: Don't give me that. You didn't even send me an invitation.
Laughing Man: "If you stay right where you are, then people will eventually come to you."
Motoko: I believe it was Doisneau who said that?
Laughing Man: Yes.

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Laughing Man: I'll tell you. It was a simple piece of mail I stumbled across on the net that began the whole thing. What I'd found was a blackmail document that had probably been sent to Serano Genomics. It was armed with a thesis that was a comparative of the inadequacy of Serano micromachines versus the effectiveness of the Murai vaccine.
Motoko: Then the original Laughing Man was the person who authored it?
Laughing Man: You could put it like that, I suppose. "I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it"
Motoko: Dziga Vertov. He was a Russian filmmaker, wasn't he?
Laughing Man: Yes. I was kidding myself by thinking it was my personal mission to prove and circulate that information, vital data I alone had happened upon.
Motoko: Failing spectacularly. The pure innocent mediator grew dejected at the base nature of the social system and he turned mute.

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Fukami: You have to adapt in order to survive. Bend your morals, or you'll break eventually.

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Tachikoma 1: Are these the people they refer to as perverts?
Tachikoma 2: Yeah, but maybe we should refer to them as eccentric.

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Tachikoma 1: 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?
Tachikoma 2: For us, maybe it correlates to deleting data from our cache when it's full.
Tachikoma 1: Yeah, maybe it's similar to that, and having our data synchronized, too.
Tachikoma 2: Wow, if that's true, maybe we could link up with someone who's meditating , and download enlightenment!
Tachikoma (all): Yeah!

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Bato: Hey, what do you think you are?
Gouda: What do you think you are? A small elite special force? If the refugees were armed, you all would get killed.

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Ishikawa: The key to survival on the battlefield isn't courage or weapons, it's caution.

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Kid: [When Motoko gets into bed that night] I have a question. When you're full prosthetic, can you have sex?
Major: care to find out?

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Guy With Gun: The real deal, with these we can mount a war.
Kuze: We didn't buy them for the purposes of fighting a war. These oughta give us enough power so we won't have to fight.

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Motoko: Sounds like Dejimas declared itself an autonomous region.
Daisuke: Hmm.
Batou: You figure Kuzes 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.
Togusa: 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 11 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 in 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.

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Ishikawa: In cases like this, it's always the ones whose backs are up against the wall that pull together and take action the quickest. The actions of our own citizens are an opposition to the government agencies at this point.
Togusa: It's a mass trend toward individualism. No, it's more like a peace at any price movement growing within the population. Even though this is basically a declaration of war from the refugees.

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Motoko: Batou, you and the others go on ahead and gather information on how extensively the refugees are armed. Ishikawa and I will dive the refugees' net and rendezvous with you after we've pinpointed Kuze's location.
Batou, Ishikawa and Togusa: Roger!

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Batou: Section 9, looks like things are starting to turn ugly here.
Police: The top brass don't seem to think so. I admit we're always hard up here on the field. More than a few of them are itchin' to pass operation command over on to the self defense army. I'm guessing you guys are here as part of them right?
Batou: We just came as part on an independent op.
Police: Huh, must be nice to pick your jobs with no strings attached.
Bateau: You'd think but we gotten haul our own ass' out of the fire.

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Motoko: Now then, what would be the shortest route to Kuze?
Tachikoma: Major! I found a duty roster for a Dejima police station showing that a female officer no else is of full percent is on duty right now!
Motoko: Alright good work. Give me a visual.
Tachikoma: Here you go!
Motoko: Hmm they sure seem bored.
Tachikoma: Maybe they're on alert for terrorist attacks.
Motoko: Ok we're going to borrow this woman's cyberbrain.
Tachikoma: Roger!

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Motoko: Ishikawa, I want you to run a trace back from gate 5 on the net and try to find out what draws these people to him.
Ishikawa: I'm on it.
Kusanagi Motoko: Tachikoma, inject maskarae I'll cross his ghost line using my corma file.

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Kuze: It's me.
Refugee: That you Kuze? Something happened?
Kuze: I'm sorry, but there's a good chance that you'll be raided by the police or a military special ops soon. There's no need for you to fight them and um hide the weapons and avoid combat as much as possible. Don't throw your lives away.

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Motoko: Batou.
Batou: What's up?
Motoko: We have Kuze's location. It's a camouflaged harbor on the north east edge of Dejima. There's a retro fitted fishing trawler anchored there. He's probably aboard it.
Saito: That's not like you Major are you sure?
Motoko: He spotted me at the last minute. We're currently circling above the harbor. He hasn't gone anywhere yet. We'll grab him before he escapes. Meet up with us at the harbor ASAP.
Everyone: Roger!

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Refugee: You came here to capture Kuze.
Motoko: What the hell.
Refugee: You're idiots. Kuze will never be caught by the likes of you. He's the real thing, he's a legend.

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Batou: Major what the hell's going on? You never screwed up like this before. Kuzes not here and we've just lost one of our own damn rookies. In an ambush by a handful of armed refugees!
Motoko: I know, sorry because he was never even here to begin with.
Batou: Huh?
Motoko: Kuze is securing a deal with the Russian mafia for plutonium. He's in Etorofu.

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Kuze: Just as water runs downhill, the human heart also tends to revert to its basist instincts.

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Man in Car: Ishikawa of Section 9 I take it. I came here to take that off your hands.
Ishikawa: Oh, you mean this?
[Ishikawa motions to the plutonium hanging from his shoulder.]
Man in Car: That's right.
[Ishikawa punches him in the face through the car window]
Ishikawa: Don't screw with us punk, Section 9 practically invented dirty tricks and information warfare.

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Motoko: Kuze?
Kuze: Yes?
Motoko: Do you know how to fold origami cranes?
Kuze: Cranes?
Motoko: That's right, and only using your left hand.
Kuze: With the correct control software, anyone can do that.
Motoko: No, that's not what I mean.
Kuze: Can you do that, fold left handed?
Motoko: Now I can.
Kuze: It sounds like you've endured your fair share of loneliness too. I never asked, but who are you? What's your name?
Motoko: Don't recall, I do have a pseudonym though. It's the same thing with you, isn't it?
Kuze: I see, you're right. The refugees have given me countless names. I joined forces with them with the intent to save them. But maybe the real reason I united with them was to keep the loneliness at bay.
Motoko: Yet in the end you couldn't make it go away, because others could rely on you, but you couldn't rely on them.
Kuze: Do you have someone you can open yourself up to?
Motoko: I suppose I do.

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