Ghost In The Shell
Season 02
S02E20 - IN: Confusion at the North End – FABRICATE FOG
Section 9 regroups from the firefight, and the body of their dead teammate is airlifted out of Dejima. Desperate for information on where Kuze’s plutonium deal would go down, Aramaki pulls some strings and learns that the probable location for such an act would be [[Iturup|Etorofu]] Island. Section 9 is dispatched to the island with the objective of stopping the deal while a request is formally made for a [[Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force]] security net to catch Kuze if he happens to evade capture. On the way to the island, Kusanagi explains that Kuze is very rapidly rising to power, and may eventually become a dictator of sorts if he is not stopped soon; she further explains that the refugees can see and feel what he experiences in real time, which helps him win them over. Upon arriving in Etorofu, Section 9 splits into three units. Batou, Saito, and two Tachikomas head to an abandoned Russian submarine base believed to be the site of the deal, Togusa and the Major go to see a man named Krolden who has helped Kusanagi in the past, and the rest of the team remains with the tiltrotor. Kusanagi discovers that Krolden has been killed by an attack barrier after diving and hacking into something he should not have seen, and when she calls up the records of his dive, she discovers a plan by the Russian mafia to sell plutonium to the refugees for 240 million yen. Kusanagi also uncovers evidence that the Cabinet Intelligence Agency may be pulling the strings behind the deal. Armed with this information, Section 9 sets out to stop the deal. Meanwhile, one of the refugees aboard the boat confronts Kuze over the death of Densetsu, a rapper who served as an inspirational figure to the refugees, at the hands of the Individual Eleven. The man intends to detonate a suicide bomb he has strapped to his body, which will kill Kuze and sink the ship, unless Kuze can explain the purpose for the refugees’ trip to Russia. Kuze explains his plan, and ultimately wins over the young man, but when he leaves to conduct the plutonium deal, his group of refugees become involved in a three-way firefight with two SDA-issued [[Armed Suit|armoured suits]] and Section 9’s Tachikomas. Batou catches up to Kuze and the episode ends with him holding Kuze at gunpoint.
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