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I'm amazed we got permission to exhume the body.
It's backward.
They disregarded our investigation by burying him to begin with.
Yes, sir. Still, a military cemetery...
It's ridiculously expensive
to dispose of a prosthetic body that can't be reused.
Thanks to their cost-cutting, we can recover the cyberbrain.
Where are the engineers?
Drawing straws at HQ.
Apparently connecting to a dead criminal's cyberbrain is creepy.
We don't know yet that he's a criminal.
Chief Aramaki!
We'll check the contents, then take it back to headquarters.
What are you waiting for? Put it down!
Sorry, sir!
Don't open that coffin!
This is from your unit.
Are you military?
I'm Aramaki, with Public Security Section 9.
We're investigating Lieutenant Colonel Mamuro's ***.
I'm seizing his cyberbrain and prosthetic body as evidence.
He's also suspected of taking bribes,
and we're investigating that too.
Public Security has no right to ransack this place.
We'll bury him again when the case is closed.
And how do I know you won't pull a cover-up, or fabricate evidence?
The military is in the middle of its first major shakeup since the war.
It would be more suspicious
if this only got an internal investigation.
If he were still with us, Mamuro would have been the first to say so.
You knew him?
Yes, back when I was an Army man.
There's not a soldier in the world more squeaky-clean than he was.
Your name and unit?
Major Motoko Kusanagi,
Unit 501.
501?
So you were his subordinate.
Open it up.
Can I ask your rank?
I was in the old Investigations Section. That's all.
They sold off whatever wouldn't fit in the coffin to a junk shop.
That's not his body!
Get down!
Finally back on base, you delinquent?
Why did you authorize Public Security's involvement?!
Since I can't dismiss the possibility that Mamuro was corrupt,
I had no choice.
Unit 501 should be investigating this!
The higher-ups told us to stay out of it.
Someone set a trap at his grave.
- Ignore it. - His cyberbrain is gone!
This isn't the time to stir up a hornet's nest.
Then you believe that he was taking dirty money?
He got mugged downtown. That much is fact.
Not an honorable death,
but compared to indictment, maybe he got lucky.
Thanks to him, our letters of recommendation are on hold, too.
Concentrate on your work for now.
Work?
I distinctly remember asking you to analyze that infected hardware.
Not possible. I just got back to Japan today, you know.
True enough.
I'll do the assignment.
In return, give me leave to go off-base and authorize direct debit.
Such a problem child.
I'm only going to find out who set the trap.
Very well.
I'll take care of it in Mamuro's place.
Thanks, Kurutsu.
Don't forget your meeting with the brass.