02x01 - Launch Tank Police

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When the sunlight comes through the clouds…

Kumo no kire makara nozoku taiyou ga

and shines off the wet asphalt…

Nureta ASUFARUTO mabushiku somereba

it reminds me of a fading dream.

Wasure kaketeta yume ga mou ichido mezameru yo

It brings courage deep into my eyes.

Hitomi no oku ni hateshinai yuuki wo hakobu yo

I just want to have a dream beyond time…

JUST toki wo koete yume ni aitai

having blue sky in my heart.

Mune ni hirogaru aozora wo daite

I just want to keep a dream beyond time.

JUST toki wo koete yume wo dakishime

I want to shine more than ever now.

Ima yori motto kagayaite mitai

New Dominion Tank Police

Stop! Why don’t you stop?!

Freeze! You’re under arrest!

You have the right to remain silent.

And the right to call a lawyer.

Plead guilty now…

and the court will likely spare you from the firing squad despite those three murders.

Now get up slowly.

Hey, wait! as*h*le!

You think you can get away?!

Advance full force! Charge!

Oh, my heart…

Come any closer and he’s a dead man!

If you k*ll the hostage, your trump card’s gone.

You have two choices:

Either surrender and come along peacefully or k*ll the hostage, get shot by my stun g*n,

causing 36 fractures and spend the rest of your life in the police hospital!

I won’t sh**t if you come along quietly.

Oh, really?

Make your mind up.
I’ll count to ten.

Okay?

One…

Two…

Three!

Four!

Five!

Six!

Seven!

Eight!

Nine!

Ten!

Wait a minute!

Oh, Chief. Good morning.

What on earth are they thinking?

All right. Back. All right. All right.

Are we stuck?

It’s okay. If we were able to get in, we should be able to get out.

Move out, Tank Police!

Chief’s Office

You’ve gone too far! How many times do I have tell you?!

As I explained in the briefing,

we were only trying to solve the crime in the quickest, most efficient way possible.

You’ve got the nerve to tell me that when you’ve demolished so much of this city?!

Look!

The Tank Police are a waste of taxes!

You’re inhuman!

I can’t believe our tax money are going to this!

Highway robbery!

Hey, Chief! Pay up on those damages or we’re gonna burn down the building!

We’re popular.

Music to my ears.

You guys!

It seems like your treasured Tank Police is the reason for your headache, Chief?

Now listen, the mission of the police is not just to hunt down criminals, but rather…

to actually protect the rights and property of the citizens,

maintaining their safety and the public peace.

You must work with the people to develop a model society.

Must be an election year?

What? I’m not saying this for the sake of a few votes!

Is it necessary for the police to terrorise the very people they’re trying to protect?!

My desk is a mountain of complaints because of your department!

Listen, Mayor!

In this city, there’s a m*rder every 30 seconds and a t*rror1st act every 25 minutes!

Even today’s t*rror1st…

D4-type Virtual Drug. The most dangerous hallucinogenic for cyberbrains.

That t*rror1st was the number three man in the Sannomiya cartel.

If we didn’t stop him he would’ve created 30 or 40 times greater damage!

Let’s think – what’s worse…

five or ten complaints or a hundred more people dying every day! Which one?!

What’s more, t*rrorists are aiming right for the cops these days!

There’s also a rumor that mechanical weapons are rampaging in the east district!

There are other ways of doing things.

Who the hell are you?

Oh, sorry. I’m Higashinada.

I’m here from the head office for a week to study your methods.

Inspector Higashinada came all the way from the top to observe how the one and only…

SWAT tank squad in the nation operates.

How we operate?

I’ve heard rumors of your tank’s activities and they weren’t very good.

If you don’t clean up your act the citizens won’t like it!

Thanks for the advice, but we’ve got our own way of doing things ‘round here.

Brenten!

Anyway, for next week the Tank Police will do one patrol a day and practice self-discipline.

That’s an order!

Cutting Down on Crime

Plan B seems to be well on the way…

You’ve reached the tank police.

Yep…

Too slow!

…and now on to the next story. Last week’s t*rror1st attack on New Port City was…

Captain…?!

Captain…?!

Hi, Captain! The Chief wants you to hand in last weeks’ report as soon as possible…

Oh, you’re already working on it?

And we’ll be cutting down the ammunition shipment for this week.

Okay, Captain?

I don’t have time for this now!

Hey, where’d the armor-piercing shell go?!

U-uh… I don’t know!

Hey, by the way Al…

What?

Doesn’t that Higashinada guy give you the creeps?

Always staring at people like…

I suppose unusual tanks amuse him.

He’s supposed to be the best the Special Investigation Dept has to offer.

Why’s that?

He’s had 24 decorations from the chief of police and 11 marksmanship awards.

He’s at the peak of his career. And he’s also done some fighting!

Even better, he’s had extensive field experience.

Ah ha, you hacked into main computer again, didn’t you? I’m gonna turn you in!

It’s better than stealing live a*mo!

I don’t like the way he’s always cleaning his glasses. Very weird!

What’s “weird”?

Can I help you?

This area is off-limits to unauthorised personnel.

Well, I don’t want to bother you, but I have a few questions about this place.

I'm not arguing that tanks have a definite deterrent effect,

but don't you agree that
they're a little too crude and bulky...

to handle all the subtleties of street crime?

What?!

What do you mean by that, Inspector?

A tank is big and powerful, but what is required…

is a small, mobile tank which is more effective in a street fight.

You mean our tank corp isn’t needed?!

I don’t think they should cause unnecessary damage.

Well, that would be nice – if such weapons actually existed.

A good dream is like medicine, but bad dreams are like poison.

Well, well, I’m calling it a day.

By the way, that mini-tank…

Bonaparte!

Excuse me… Bonaparte. It handles sluggishly after ignition.

I suggest you take a look at the clutch.

Well, then, ‘til tomorrow, everyone.

What a load of bull! I don’t care if he’s an inspector or the top of his class. He’s full of it!

Where does he get off saying Bonaparte has problems?!

He’s right.

Something is wrong with the clutch in fact.

It's still in operational condition, but I was hoping to get it checked next week.

Old fish lips…

Man, where’d those guys get all that firepower?!

Call HQ for backup!

I just did!

This is ADV-101, accompanying 102.
ETA 8 minutes. Keep me updated.

Roger.

Hurry up! Hurry up!

The b*stards are armed with a grenade launcher, a vulcan g*n…

and I guess they’ve got a m*ssile launcher!
So don’t screw up and get shot!

Anyone who gets hit is buying the rest of us dinner!

Is he sure about that?

Kinda funny since he’s the one who’s been shot the most.

Brenten! Who ordered you move out?!

Are you listening to me, Brenten?

Eh?! What’s that?!

I’m saying don’t go out without my orders!

Oh, I get it… The APCs aren’t powerful enough.

I know I’m still grounded, but I’ll sacrifice myself for you…

Not just for you, Chief, but for the people of New Port City!

What are you saying?! Get off now!

Hey, guys! The Chief’s here to send us off personally!

Don’t just stand there, say something?!

We’re off!

See ya later, Chief!

Tank Corp – Move out!

Those idiots!

Hey, Al, isn’t the engine acting funny?

It’ll be okay once the oil warms up some more.
The problem isn’t that serious.

What’s with you? Be a little nicer to Bonaparte!

Yes, this is it! The sound of engines roaring,

the feel of the earth rumbling beneath us!
This is it!

Hey, Nam! The music!

Let’s give ‘im a taste of this, eh?

Eat this!

What’s that?

What’s wrong?

There’s something weird over there!

sh**t it!

Stay still you damn machine!

Did ya get it?

The radio’s dead?

Yes, just now! I can’t get through to the scene at all!

What does that mean?

I don’t know. But the last thing they said was something about a strange machine.

Strange machine?

Captain, look!

Where’d that come from?

I’ve never seen anything like it.

Tanks, split up into three groups and drive it west! We’ll trap him in a pincer attack!

Okay!

What happened?

We were hit before we knew what was happening! He’s gone that way!

Where’s the Captain?

He should be somewhere ahead.

Okay!

Al! Above us!

Use the Vulcan!

No good! It’s not effective from down here!

Oh no! It’s on a collision course with the monorail!

What?!

What is that thing?

Why’d ya stop?! Follow him!

Leona, look! Over there!

Captain, he’s heading your way on the monorail track.

Okay, Nam! Load the net-shell!
Get ‘im while he’s on the track!

What’s wrong? Aim higher!

I know everything about your tanks.

sh*t! We can’t lock on to ‘im!

What are we gonna do?

This ain’t good! Retreat!

What is that stuff?

It’s atmospheric expl*sive! He just fired the catalyst!

It reacts with the argon in the atmosphere and explodes!

Who the hell is he?

All I know is that if we don’t stop him New Port City will be destroyed!

Nam, fire the smoke discharger!

Get us into firing range!

Roger!

A smoke screen? Child’s play!

Something to left on infra-red!

What?!

A laser?!

In something that small?!

Move it! Turn around and get behind that building!

We can’t! We’ve lost the left front wheel!

So, this is the best the Tank Police can do?!

Now it’s game, set…

Don’t underestimate the Tank Police!

Leona, don’t pursue him too far!

I can’t just let him go! He’s injured too many police officers already!

All right! Make sure you get ‘im!

He can somehow anticipate our moves! He’s also armed with a laser!

Don’t get shot!

With a laser?!

Captain…

What?!

You owe us dinner.

Huh?

Oh, come on…!

What?! Even Brenten?!
So who is this guy?

We’re still investigating, sir.

Chief, this just came in. They found Inspector Higashinada’s body at New Port Airport.

What?! When was this?

They just discovered the body, but it looks like he was k*lled yesterday.

Then who was that guy we saw this morning?

sh*t! We haven’t got a chance against a laser!

How dare he scratch my beautiful armor!

What are they doing…?

She neutralised it with the refraction. Nice try.

Stop!

Rear tracks reverse!

I’ll bet you can’t sh**t straight up.

Take this!

What?

b*stard!

How’d you like the taste of armor-piercing shells?!

Oh sh*t! Reverse! Reverse!

Phew, that was close!

Did you get him?

I don’t know. But it looked like it.

Let’s make sure.

Let’s use the other elevator.

— Stop a second!
— What’s wrong?

sh*t! Those b*stards! I didn’t think they’d break regulations and carry real shells!

Another smoke screen, eh?

That mini-tank’s smoke is just the normal sort….

It can’t block an infra-red scan.

Gotcha!

Hey you, in the mechanical spider!

Anything you say will be used as evidence in a court of law and…

It’s fish lips?!

Memo number 56. Three demonstration permits were filed today.

Those I call out go with Captain Brenten to help clear up afterwards.

I was so surprised! Under all that armor was Higashinada!

But something doesn’t seem right.
Where’d he get that machine from?

Yeah. The motive, the purpose and that spider-like thing. It’s all a mystery.

That thing was packing some heavy-duty stuff.
The atmospheric expl*sive and a laser.

And on top of that, though incomplete, a gravity control unit.

An imposter?

The body found at the airport yesterday was positively identified as the real Higashinada.

You’re telling me he k*lled the real Higashinada and took his place?

With PP Rubber, anyone can alter their appearance.

Even fingerprints and voices are no problem these days.

But why the tank police?

Intelligence is already launching a full inquiry.

No Visitors

They even taken that machine, for examination, so they say.

After all we’ve done – they just take it away.

Brenten!

You’re unbelievable!

While I slowly walked down spiral stairs…

RASEN kaidan yukkuri mai oriru jikan no naka de

I felt excited when I looked behind me.

Furimuku shunkan ni kanjita mune no zawameki

I think I’ve met you before.

Anata to wa ichido atte iru

Is this déjà vu? It’s just like a strange dream.

Sore to mo DEJAVU fushigina yume mitai ni

Just fallin’ in love

Sure, before I was born…

Umareru mae ni mo kitto

I’ll take off with you

I was watching you from a distant star.

Harukana hoshi kara mitsumete ita

After I fell in love with you, I realised that…

Anata ni koi shite wakatta no

the thread of destiny is always moving.

Unmei no ito itsudemo yureteru koto

Just fallin’ in love

Sure, before I was born…

Umareru mae ni mo kitto

I’ll take off with you

I was watching you from a distant star.

Harukana hoshi kara mitsumete ita

I can’t believe Sharon is dead!

Leona was informed of her friend’s death. And evil hands are about to reach her.

Be careful Leona!

It’s gonna be alright, I’ll be with her.

Next time:
The Great Detective Charles Brenten!
Black Rain in New Port.

Hey, don’t go off on your own…!

The Great Detective Charles Brenten!!
Black Rain in New Port