Ghost In The Shell
Season 02
S02E21 - IN: Escape in Defeat – EMBARRASSMENT
Batou confronts Kuze in an effort to stop him from leaving with the plutonium, but Kuze disables Batou’s right leg and left arm in a fight, putting Batou out of commission so he can escape. When Kusanagi arrives at the scene, she and the Tachikoma assigned to her destroy the other GSDA combat suit and manage to locate Batou, who informs them that Kuze has gotten away. Kusanagi and her Tachikoma race after Kuze, and in the process meet up with Saito and his Tachikoma. Together, they head to the harbor in an attempt to stop the fishing trawler from leaving, but the refugees provide cover fire for Kuze and manage to keep Section 9 at bay long enough for the trawler to escape from the harbor and make it out to sea. Section 9 regroups at the top of the hidden sub base to wait for the tiltrotor to arrive, but when the aircraft sets down to retrieve the team, the [[suicide bomber]] who came with Kuze gains access to the tiltrotor and detonates his bomb, destroying the aircraft, killing two Section 9 operators, and seriously injuring Ishikawa. The loss of the tiltrotor removes any chance of Section 9 pursuing Kuze, so the team shifts its focus to getting medical attention for their wounded comrades. Kusanagi and the remaining Section 9 members attempt to retrieve data on the plutonium purchase by accessing Sagawa’s records, only to discover that their records have been deleted. Taking all of this into account, Aramaki and Kusanagi outline a hypothesis that has the Cabinet Intelligence Agency pulling the strings behind the plutonium deal, and further speculate that Kuze may not have acquired the plutonium he wanted from the Russians after all. In the midst of this briefing, Section 9 receives word that the Coast Guard net has spotted Kuze’s boat attempting to enter Dejima. The Coast Guard Cutter and the fishing trawler exchange shots, leading to a fire on Kuze’s boat, but just when it seems that Kuze will be captured, [[Nagasaki, Nagasaki|Nagasaki]] unexpectedly suffers a massive blackout, allowing Kuze to escape from the trawler with the plutonium. However, when he inspects the case, he discovers that he had been given lead bars instead of plutonium, but hides this revelation from the refugees.
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