Episode
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: IN: The Day the Bridge Falls; MARTIAL LAW
Overview
The government declares martial Law in Dejima, believing that the refugees have a nuclear device and plan to use it to gain independence. When the refugees' connection to Kuze is cut off, one shot begins a bloody war.
Details
- Series
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 2004-12-04
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
IN: The Day the Bridge Falls; MARTIAL LAW is Episode 23 in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It aired on 2004-12-04. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 22: DU: Abandoned City; REVERSAL PROCESS
The city of Fukuoka is evacuated when a live nuclear bomb is found. With the Dejima Refugees targeted as the prime suspects, the government sends the Self-Defense Forces into the city.
Episode 24: IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER
The Prime Minister is taken into custody, and the military begins its strike on Dejima. The Major and part of Section 9 head to Dejima to try to hand over the nuclear device to the military there, in order to defuse the situation, while Ishikawa heads to SPring-8 to deliver the rest of the plutonium.
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Episode 21: IN: Escape in Defeat; EMBARRASSMENT
Much to the chagrin of Batou, Motoko, and the rest of the team, Kuze and the refugees manage to escape in one of the camouflaged boats. They are further hampered when an explosion causes heavy losses, leaving them unable to follow the fleeing boat.
Episode 25: IN: To the Other Side of Paradise; THIS SIDE OF JUSTICE
Kuze manages to take down the jamming plane, but becomes trapped in rubble with the Major. The Tachikomas begin discussing what to do about the nuclear submarine they have spotted, and Batou manages to convince the special forces that have been sent to kill them to listen to him.
Episode 20: IN: Confusion at the North End; FABRICATE FOG
Section 9 heads to Etorofu in search of Kuze. During their investigations, the Major finds an interesting floppy disk on the body of a dead addict.
Episode 26: IN: Return to Patriotism; ENDLESS∞GIG
The tables seem to be turning in favor of Section 9, but the nuclear missile is still being prepared for launch.
Episode 19: IN: Chain of Symmetry; CHAIN REACTION
Despite close scrutiny by the authorities, the Dejima refugees declare their independence. Kuze is suspected to be the mastermind behind this new resistance and Section 9 is sent to detain him.
Episode 18: DI: Angel's Poem; TRANS PARENT
The Major and Batou are flown to Berlin in an effort to track down a terrorist called "Angel's Feathers". While there, Batou attracts the attention of a young girl in a wheelchair.
Episode 17: DI: Mother-Child Relationship; RED DATA
Following a tip, the Major conducts an undercover investigation of Kuze in Taiwan. While there, she saves a boy running from the Mafia.
Episode 16: IN: The Fact of Being There; ANOTHER CHANCE
The Prime Minister is alerted to the existence of "hub cyberbrains," while Ishikawa returns from the peninsula to report on what he found out about Kuze's past.
Episode 15: DI: Afternoon of the Machines; PAT.
During a scheduled maintenance, the Tachikomas begin to chat away about the Individual Eleven. While talking in their new "forum", Batou and Togusa appear and take one of the Tachikomas - who just happens to be Batou's pet - with them to Spring-8 to look at the scientific evidence gathered on the Individual Eleven.
Episode 14: DI: Beware the Left Eye; POKER FACE
Saito recounts his first run-in with the Major, and how he became part of the group that would eventually become Section 9.