Ghost In The Shell
Season 02
S02E10 - DI: One Angry Man – TRIAL
On his way home from work, Togusa becomes involved in a [[Domestic violence|domestic dispute]] between a woman and her boyfriend when the woman runs in front of Togusa’s car and screams for help. Trying to protect the woman, Togusa fires several rounds into her assailant’s prosthetic limbs in an effort to disable him; despite this, Togusa fails to prevent the woman’s death. Since Togusa carried out the shooting while off-duty, a [[preliminary hearing]] is convened to ascertain the facts in the case. The suspect’s parents hire a well-known [[lawyer]] to defend their son, who wastes no time attempting to make Togusa look bad, first by criticizing his choice of [[handgun]] and then by claiming that Togusa acted out of a [[bias|subconscious hatred]] for cyborgs while making the excuse that the defendant suffered from defective prosthetic parts. When Section 9 sets out to clear Togusa’s name they stumble across some interesting information about the suspect’s lawyer. Apparently he has been secretly colluding with prosthetics companies to rig and bury product defect lawsuits. In addition he is likely acting under orders from the CIS to use the case to pull all of Section 9 into court to embroil them in a humiliating public scandal. Kusanagi threatens to expose these secrets in court, which prompts the lawyer to drop his charges against Togusa, while the state formally brings murder charges against the suspect. However, the lawyer and his client are later severely injured in a car accident, implied to have been set up by Section 9 in retaliation for Togusa’s public humiliation.
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