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Do you have any last words?
Tomorrow...
...will I see the sun?
You're dead.
What the hell's going on?
As of now, you no longer exist.
You're full of ***.
You couldn't kill anyone with a current that weak.
For prisoners about to be executed, low voltage is usually enough.
The psychological strain convinces them that...
...a high-voltage current has been delivered, and...
...they die of shock.
You're the first prisoner to survive.
On paper, the execution was carried out as scheduled.
Your next of kin will be notified.
As per your request, your ashes have been discarded.
As of this moment, you are deceased.
However...
You have two choices.
To live, or to die.
If you choose to live, you will be taken elsewhere.
What's going to happen to me?
I don't know.
And if I turn you down?
Then you'll be electrocuted again.
This time at a higher voltage.
What would you do?
I'll level with you.
You'd be better off dying now.
I'm getting out of here.
There are far worse fates than death.
I'm sure you know that.
So you survived the chair, too?
I thought I was saved. But they just stuck me back in a cell.
What is this...
...more prison time?
Let's begin.
Atsushi Gondoh...
Convicted of assault, drug dealing, blackmail, arson and...
...more than twenty other misdemeanors.
Fingerprints were later matched to nine homicides...
...committed over a 14-year period.
All of the victims were found to have been *** after being murdered.
Sentenced to death.
Tenshu Yashiro...
Convicted of attacking the six men involved in the *** of his girlfriend.
Murdered all six with the utmost brutality.
After evading the law for four months...
...murdered his girlfriend, Misako Hara. Arrested shortly thereafter.
Found to be mentally fit by psychiatric exams.
Sentenced to death.
Both sentences were carried out three days ago.
You have both been pronounced dead.
So what's going on?
You will both take part in a certain experiment.
Just a simple experiment.
All you have to do stay in that room.
You will not be permitted to leave.
But as long as you stay inside you can do whatever you want.
In other words, you're free.
Oh, yeah?
So are we having fun yet?
Hey, how long are you keeping us here?
We haven't decided yet.
This would be a good time to wash off the stench of your prison time.
I don't really see what's so different about this place, you know.
See that little door to the side?
You'll find a toilet and a shower in there.
You can ask for alcohol, drink, clothes, whatever you want.
If it meets our criteria, we'll bring it to you.
Okay then, I want a woman.
Bring me a woman!
That won't be possible.
Aside from you two and the guard...
...we can't allow any humans to enter your room.
Hey!
What is it?
There aren't any clocks in here.
You're not going to need any sense of time.
Okay then, a gun.
Bring me a gun!
We can't provide you with weapons.
What about TV? Or a radio?
I'm afraid there's no reception down there.
How about drugs, then?
I'll take speed, whatever you got!
***...
Then what the hell can you bring us?
I'm hungry.
Food's all right, isn't it?
I want steak!
Bring us wine, too!
Very well.
Jesus...
Hey!
You gonna make us eat steak on the floor here?
Bring us a sofa and a table!
And clothes, too!
Bring us something else to wear!
Something trendy!
I'm countin' on you!
Hey! I'm countin' on you!
So, I heard you wasted your own woman, is that right?
Say something, will you?
Listen, I really killed more than nine people, you know.
Why did you kill them?
Don't need a reason to kill someone. *** is ***.
Why'd you off your girlfriend?
Huh?
Did you have a reason to waste your own girlfriend, huh?
Stop acting like King ***, will you?
We're two of a kind.
Might as well be friends.
Come on, talk to me.
What are you looking at?
Nothing.
You got a problem with what I'm doing?
No.
Don't ever look at me again.
Go ahead and do whatever you want.
You can ask them for anything.
Just don't sit around all day with that dead look on your face.
Stop looking at me!
They're watching us.
Who gives a *** about them!
Goddammit...
What the hell are they up to, anyway?
If you were going to spend all your time whining, you should've let them fry you.
You came here because you don't want to die, right?
Just shut up and drink your wine.
Leave me alone.
You arrogant prick.
Who the hell do you think you are?
Just look at yourself.
You're as good as dead!
Maybe I should just kill you myself.
That's it...
They said we could do anything we wanted.
If I tried to waste you...
I wonder if they'd stop me?
How do you want to die?
That might be just what they want.
For us to kill each other.
We're not gonna kill each other.
I'm just gonna kill you.
How's that?
I like it.
All right.
You should get yourself a haircut too.
Let's cut down their meals to one a day.
And raise the room temperature 40 degrees.
***!
Why's it so hot in here?
I'm starving...
Where's our food, for chrissake?
Damn.
I was never a good fielder.
But they wouldn't let me have a bat, so what can you do?
I killed my first woman with a bat, you know.
When I asked her to go out with me, she said no. I think.
I don't remember it too clearly.
All I remember is that I lost it.
She just happened to say something that made me lose it...
...and I just happened to have a bat in my hands.
You don't believe me, do you?
I was on the high school baseball team back then.
Why wouldn't I be carrying a bat?
The cops thought it was some thug from the streets.
I thought it was pretty easy.
So long as I didn't confess, it would go straight into the cold case files.
Anyway, after that, I couldn't get enough.
See, I really liked women.
I just couldn't get up the nerve to talk to them.
But after that first ***, I never had a problem asking women out.
Because I knew that even if I got dissed, no matter...
...how badly they humiliated me, I could just make the whole thing go away.
After a while I just started kidnapping them to save time!
Shut up...
All of my victims were women.
Hey, listen.
Do you know what they do to someone with a rap like that in prison?
Shut up, you sonofabitch.
I don't want to hear that crap.
What did you say?
You want to be my first male victim, is that it?
Stop it!
Leave me alone!
Hey, I get it now!
If I kill you, they'll let me out of here!
I did it for you...
Shouldn't be long now.
Set off the alarm every 30 minutes.
They won't be able to think straight after this.
What the hell...
Cut the ***, you ***!
What the hell do you think you're doing?
You call this freedom?
Hey!
Those ***...
They deserved to die.
Misako?
Hey, who's that?
Hey, young lady...
What are doing in a place like that?
How about you guys?
How long have you been in there?
Beats me.
We've lost our sense of time, see.
Hmm.
Hey, wanna play?
Wait a minute.
Why are they keeping you in there?
I don't know, to punish me?
I guess I should say I'm being quarantined.
Quarantined?
Are you sick?
Yes.
See...
I'm a witch.
I like that! Hey, I don't mind punishing you.
Stop it.
Hey, you.
How do I get over there?
Do you want to come over here?
Sure I do.
Damn, how the hell do you open this?
All right...
Then...
...kill the other man first.
You mean if I kill him I can get over there?
Come on...
That's exactly what they want to happen.
If it means I can sleep with this girl, who cares if I die?
Remember they told us we couldn't have any women.
Don't tell me you don't want to screw her.
Look at us! What more could you ask?
What's taking so long?
Get yourself over here.
Hey, what the hell are you doing?
This won't take long.
I'll show you a good time!
Don't leer at her like that!
***...
You just want her all to yourself!
I'll be right over, little lady!
We might have picked the wrong man.
He's not your typical death row prisoner.
Then let's wait for the next opportunity.
Tenshu Yashiro was subjected to...
...various physical and psychological tests during his time in prison.
He's been diagnosed as having severe psychological trauma.
I'm sure he's the perfect candidate...
Let's hope so.
We're running out of time.
Misako!
Misako!
Misako is the name of the prisoner's girlfriend.
Yashiro's dead girlfriend, you mean?
Do they look alike?
No, they don't.
It must be a hallucination caused by the psychic waves of the lsomer.
I don't get it.
There's too much we don't understand.
And we don't have time for any of this!
You wait here.
Who the hell are you?
My name is Tokutake. I'm with the National Security Council.
I've read your report.
What's your conclusion?
What are you talking about?
This area is off-limits.
Never mind that. Just give me your report.
Who do you think you are?
You think you have the authority to...
We don't have time to play your games. Stop bugging us.
Get the hell out!
Cut it out!
Stop it!
Now do you understand my authority?
All right, where are we on this? How about the results?
It's not that simple.
We need more time...
According to your timetable one of them should be dead by now?
Our calculations do include some variation.
Listen.
The reason I'm here is because I've been ordered to report on...
...your little exorcism experiment or whatever it is.
You've already failed twice, you know.
But we do have some results.
Sometimes it's necessary to fail before you succeed.
Are you sure you can really expel the lsomer from that girl's body?
I'm absolutely certain...
...that we will succeed.
According to your report, the lsomer only migrates when it...
...discovers a more powerful host than the one it's already in.
That's correct.
If its current host shows signs of losing...
...the lsomer will switch sides in order to survive.
In other words, the lsomer transfers itself to whoever's more bloodthirsty?
That's right.
If you know that for a fact, then why did your first two attempts fail?
I thought you chose the most heinous death row prisoners?
In our previous experiments we only used one prisoner at a time.
However...
This time you're using two.
An even more powerful urge to kill could be generated by mortal combat.
Is that your argument?
But where has it gotten you so far?
I don't see any signs of mortal combat brewing in there.
These psychological experiments take time.
All you scientists say the same thing.
I've heard enough of your arcane excuses!
Do you have any idea how much it costs to keep this place running?
Your brains aren't good for anything but research!
It's very likely you don't give a damn...
I want to know if you think you can make this experiment succeed.
Absolutely.
I'm sure we'll succeed.
The lsomer has already eaten away most of her humanity.
She'll be consumed for good unless we transfer it now.
We have to send the lsomer into an expendable host...
...right away or else she'll never regain her humanity!
I understand the current host is your sister.
What a selfish reason...
Your sister can't be touched...
...but so what if the lsomer consumes a death row convict?
Listen to me...
We couldn't care less if the lsomer decided to stick around inside your sister.
She's a *** freak either way.
Hey, don't talk about her like that!
We know the host stops aging, but...
...that doesn't mean that...
...we have all the time in the world to wait for you to transfer the lsomer.
We need results now.
We're doing everything we can.
What do you want us to do, sit here and watch her die?
Just remember that we're not a charity.
You have one week. We'll be here to observe.
If you fail again, we're going to take the girl into custody.
And when we do, she'll no longer be a patient...
She'll be our specimen!
So you're alive?
You dummy.
How could I ever leave you behind?
Come here...
Misako...
Misako...
Misako...
Thank God...
It's all right, you don't have to force yourself...
What?
Tenshu...
You could never forgive me for being ***, could you?
You're wrong!
All I wanted was to protect you from...
You can't protect anybody.
Not Misako, not yourself, either.
Hey!
How'd you get in there?
It opened up.
All of a sudden...
Stop it!
Stop it, Gondoh!
Stay away from me...
Stop it.
Damn, I'm so glad I'm still alive!
Help me!
Please!
You can't save me...
He's out of the way now.
Let's have some fun!
Let me in!
Holy ***...
Who are you?
I told you...
I'm a witch.
Let me in...
Let me in!
So that's the power of an lsomer host...
If it could be harnessed for military purposes, the possibilities would be endless!
Open the door for him.
But you're not Misako.
Stop it, for chrissake!
It's all your fault.
You didn't come in here first, so I had to destroy him.
No.
It wasn't you who asked me to save you.
No?
Then do you want to see her now?
There's something...
...something alien inside me.
It's consuming me...
My name is Yurika Saegusa...
I haven't aged in years.
That's what happens when you have this thing inside you...
Please believe me!
What is it that's inside you?
How did it get in there?
I don't know...
All I did was try to fight it...
What was it...
...that you were fighting?
My father...
...he tried to kill my younger sister.
Please...
You have to believe me...
Save me!
Please...
You can't save this woman.
You let Misako die, after all.
Why'd you leave me?
All right.
I'll join you...
As if you had the courage to die...
Misako.
I killed those *** for you...
I didn't ask you to kill them for me.
Why not?
Are you saying that I was wrong to do it?
All I wanted was for you to treat me gently...
But you never slept with me after I was ***.
You couldn't forgive me for being tainted, could you?
No, you're wrong!
I just became a burden to you...
Stop it! That's not true!
Be gentle...
Misako!
You're wrong...
Misako...
Stop it...
Be gentle...
Be gentle...
Be gentle...
Be gentle...
Misako!
Such a stupid man.
You still can't get over her, can you?
It wasn't your fault at all.
But she was stupid not to see that.
What do you mean?
You're not very bright, are you?
That's why you ended up on death row.
Hey...
I'll let you in on something.
When your girlfriend was being ***...
...for just a moment she forgot all about you.
She was all doped up, you see...
And she actually reached the ultimate peak for a woman.
You were a fool to get yourself sentenced to death for a woman like that.
You just couldn't forgive her, could you?
What a petty man.
If only you hadn't been so cold to her, she wouldn't have had to die.
Hey!
You shut up.
Or I'll kill you!
We're at the final stage now.
Even if he's still hallucinating, if his urge to kill is stronger...
The lsomer will be sure to switch sides.
The ultimate thirst for blood...
How charming.
This one died because he saw his worst fears, buried in his subconscious.
But I have to hand it to you death row convicts...
...your darker side runs far deeper than a normal person's.
Why'd you kill him?
He just killed himself.
What a simple mind...
He couldn't stand to see the darkness inside himself...
...and he destroyed himself at once.
Hey...
What about the darkness inside you?
I'll kill you...
...you witch!
Let's see you do it, then!
Hey, your *** was a great lay!
I can't believe you got this far!
Your urge to kill is greater than his!
All right!
This is it!
We're going to transfer the lsomer now!
Well?
We did it!
The lsomer has migrated!
Are you there?
Yes.
We've reached the final stage. Stand by.
Yes, sir.
Hey, what the hell are you doing?
Your job is done. I'm going to take it from here.
What are you talking about? The experiment has only just begun!
But from now on, I'm going to be in charge.
What happened to me?
You poor thing.
You're going to lose your humanity.
It's going to eat away at you...