I am Ohara, Special Assistant to the Department of Interplanetary Development.
Open the executive-use gates. I am here on an emergency mission.
I rate your reliable work as top grade, and will make a positive report to my superiors.
Thank you very much, Ma'am.
Lead the way. I don't have much time.
Yes, Ma'am!
This is indeed ESP4678-201.
It's just as the rumors say.
He's the Federation's most beautiful android.
Episode 16
Detonator
Doko e nagaretsuku no ka
Dare ga shitte iru no ka
Kurayami no naka mo akiramenakereba
Hikari wa kitto kurun da
Kodoku to ai ga tatakatte iru
Kaze to yuku tatoe tookute mo
Yume ga aru kagiri
Ikite yuku nani ga atte mo
Kimi ga iru kagiri
I want to talk with him.
Ma'am?
I said I'm opening the investigation!
Get the suspect out of the liquid resin!
Yes, Ma'am!
Surveillance Center! Get the special chamber's controller!
Yes, Sir! Sending the control unit!
Turn off the surveillance cameras!
This investigation is a classified Federation matter!
Yes, Ma'am.
Produced in the 70s.
You're a product of the era when android manufacturing technology was at its best.
I can tell the engineer assigned to build you
had not only great sensibilities but artistic sense as well.
Like these lips...
They're as young and luscious as those on the ancient Greek statues.
Ma'am!
I believe it is dangerous to conduct your interrogation so close to him.
Out of my way, Murato!
Don't forget that that your every action is under my control!
I'm terribly sorry, Special Assistant Ohara.
You too, Dew.
Every moment of your time,
your every action,
and every thought
have been put under my control.
You're an android with quite a sad fate, Dew.
Had you remained drifting in outer space after being discarded,
you could have died peacefully, but...
I could have died? But androids do not die.
The Final Mission...
Final Mission?
Yes...
A honor accorded to someone punished under the Android Law in their last hour:
a Final Mission.
In other words, the convict is sentenced to eternal suffering
and must continue to serve society forever,
but there is a Special Cases Clause
where one may be chosen to be an exception and be allowed to die.
Those allowed to have a Final Mission will, upon completing the mission,
be relieved from the consciousness of guilt
and granted discharge from their community service responsibilities.
In short, it allows you to end your life, just like a normal human dies at the end of his lifespan.
Android Law Special Cases Clause 14.2...
You were chosen by the Minister of Justice and ordered to perform a Final Mission.
Although, I certainly wouldn't have chosen such a beautiful work of art.
What is my Final Mission?
What was I ordered to do?!
To exist.
For the next nine months or so, you've been ordered to simply exist.
Until that day in January, Year 4701...
January, 4701?
That's the day...
The day when the ultimate weapon, the Moby Dick, destroys Moad?!
You have been selected to be the detonator of the Moby Dick.
The device has been installed in your life support unit as an Absolute Circuit.
You will continue to live until that day, and as your last act,
you can activate that detonator and end your mission and your life.
My mission is to keep you safely in custody until that day.
What if I stop my own life support system?!
My, my...
Do you plan to abandon the honorable Final Mission?
An android cannot kill itself. Such a circuit doesn't exist.
And your life support system cannot be stopped, no matter what, until that day comes.
Even if your body were destroyed or thrown into an incinerator,
your life support system would be protected.
Oh, is that what it is?
You may object to the plan to destroy Moad, but it's useless.
You're only wasting more of your energy the more you think about it.
Murato!
Yes, Ma'am!
Access Dew's thought circuit!
Hurry!
Yes, Ma'am!
Yes, a calm beauty becomes you.
Now, come with me.
Until the day comes for you to send your detonation signal to the Moby Dick,
I have to isolate you on a faraway planet no one can come near.
May I ask you a question, Madam Special Assistant?
I will give you special permission.
What would happen if, by some chance, his life support system stopped before the detonation?
Naturally, Moad would disappear that very moment.
The possibility of his life support system stopping is practically zero.
But in this universe, there is no such thing as a perfect zero.
That is why I've been ordered to supervise Dew until that day.
January 4701...
I'll probably be promoted from Special Assistant to Director of the Development Department.
It wasn't that we'd forgotten about Dew.
We had a series of our own problems to deal with and couldn't go look for Dew.
But everyone had joined up with the main Moad Release Group
Hurry up and play. But everyone had joined up with the main Moad Release Group
and seemed to have regained a little of their calm, at any rate.
Hey, you're pretty good, Lucky!
I love all those warbling tremolos!
''The sound of the flute
drifts away and disappears
to the Milky Way.''
''It brings back the memories
Where could Dew possibly be?''
How trite.
A person with no literary education won't be able to appreciate it!
Literary, frillerary. A frilling frill-necked lizard!
And how about this? ''Lizard, lizard, what makes you jump?''
I go where my food is and that's what my jumping means!
If you're going to eat jumping beans, eat 'em with soy sauce!
What you mean to soy is wasabi and sashimi!
Sashimi? Can't think of a sashimi line...
Ha! My wife sashays to me when she brings me my sashimi!
How do you like them apples?!
I'll save my zingers and let you off lightly today!
I win!
Losing sucks, winning is grand, and you let the win go to the bald man!
Bald man! Bald man! Bald man!
Let's play some soccer!
Yeah!
Here it comes!
Stop it! Ow, whoa...
BARBA!
Bald man!
Barba, you...
Of course, there was no way we could have known yet
that Dew held the key to the fate of Moad.
Madam Special Assistant!
Something seems to have gone wrong with the digital sensors.
Investigate the cause, and report to me promptly.
Let's make a brief return to Moad, Ma'am.
It would be very dangerous to continue this way!
I will not allow any changes to the schedule.
Something's not right, Ma'am!
There's some sort of extremely strong magnetic force very close to the ship.
We won't go back! I have no time!
What is that?!
It can't be!
It should be set to orbit around Moad!
Madam Special Assistant! Please abandon ship!
Am I really the detonation device?
Am I on the side of the ones that will destroy this planet?!
Dear me, do you take some sort of issue with your wonderful mission?
Now, come close to me, Dew.
You'll be fine as long as you are being controlled by me.
Dew!
Please let my Harry be all right.
And please let me be able to meet this ''Captain Ahab'' as soon as possible.
Please, God...
Who's there?!
Hey, wait a sec, isn't she the songstress?
Huh?
Yeah, you are, aren't you?
Sara, if I remember right. You're Sara!
You're the android songstress, Miss Sara,
who held a concert in our mining area way back when, right?
Yes...
Wow, what a surprise!
I didn't know you were still on this planet.
I heard all androids were taken back by the officials.
Yes, that's right.
What are you doing in a place like this?
Yeah, and all alone too?
I'm looking for someone, a person named Captain Ahab.
Captain Ahab?
Ahab?
Oh, wait a minute! Come to think of it,
I heard that recently Shiro group welcomed in a whale hunter named Ahab or something.
Really?! Where can I go to meet him?
You might be able to meet him at the Red Windmill.
The Red Windmill?
Yeah, there's gonna be a meeting at the Red Windmill.
All of the resistance groups scattered around Moad
are supposed to get together at the Red Windmill.
The ones who called the meeting are Shiro Tokisada's group,
so there's no doubt they'll be there.
Ahab might come too.
Really?
You can just come with us.
We're going to attend the meeting as well.
Oh, thank you!
What a horrible smell!
What kind of ingredients are these?
You sure there aren't too many preservatives in 'em?
I have been assigned to take care of your crew
and do things like your cooking and your laundry.
My name is Mika!
Mika, huh?
What the flaming heck is this awful smell?!
Don't tell me you're making this for humans to eat?!
Stinky! Barba, no like.
This is the dangerous smell of mass food poisoning.
We had a reputation as gourmets back on King Kuron!
You've got to be kidding me!
AHEM!
This is Mika, who will be cooking and washing our dirty underwear for us from now on.
Her name is Mika.
Pleased to meet you!
Please have some seconds!
Oh, Mika, seconds please!
Me too!
Yes! Please eat plenty!
Mika is so happy!
HEY, GUYS!
Something happen to your tongues?!
Nope!
Something must've,
because this isn't the kind of cooking a guy wants seconds of!
What are you trying to say, Captain?
Do you mean to tell me that you don't like what the gorgeous Mika has made for us?!
There may be a few minor issues,
but it's something even a pro's tongue can withstand!
Yeah, that's how it is.
Mika, you don't have to wash any of his underwear, okay?
How did underwear get involved in this conversation?!
You don't know, do you?
Don't know! Don't know!
Huh? What? What do they mean?
Please eat your meal!
We have this food because my comrades stockpiled for years
in order to support the civilian movement.
It's very precious!
I understand that, I do, but...
Hey, guys, I'm begging you!
Why don't we just honestly say what's not good is not good?!
I'm sorry to bother you during your meal,
but Priest Shiro says he needs to speak with you all.
Uh, sure.
What is it?
I apologize for our crude food.
Oh no, it isn't all that bad.
SHUT UP!
So, what did you want to talk about?
Well, as a matter of fact, there will be a big meeting tomorrow
of representatives of all Moad's civil movement groups.
The location is the Red Windmill on Hope Hill.
The Red Windmill?
You all are our shining stars of hope!
Could I ask you to please join us and attend the meeting?
Listen, we're still land lubbers, you might say,
in terms of understanding this planet's circumstances.
Besides, we aren't worthy to be considered shining stars of hope.
No, you are our hope!
You are the first people outside of this planet to lend your aid to our movement.
Without help from the entire universe, we cannot win.
You have shown us that possibility!
Please attend!
I want to introduce you to members of the other groups!
Captain Ahab...
Well, we may not look like it,
but my group is a democratic institution.
If, well... if the majority is opposed, I'm not going!
Guys, raise your hand if you want to go!
Silence...
Please! Doc, Cook, Speed!
We've already come here.
We have already come to this fateful planet.
There's nothing left to do but help them with all our might, am I right?
Silence...
I also think we should go.
Everyone!
I ask you as well!
On four! Two, two, three, four!
Yes! We will go!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Ten in favor, one undecided.
Don't come complaining to me! You easily-excited fools!
Commencing emergency rescue!
Rescuing the living is top priority!
Fire fighting group, get closer!
There's still fuel in the area. Beware of explosions.
Madam Special Assistant!
Madam Special Assistant Ohara!
Is that you, Murato?
Yes, Ma'am!
You're late.
What were you doing?
I'm terribly sorry, Ma'am.
Murato...
Yes?
My face...
Ma'am?
How are the burns? How severe are my wounds?
You're all right, Ma'am.
You're all right. You're just as...
Just as what?
Just as beautiful as always...
Madam Special Assistant...
Nakanaide ne
Watashi ga itsumo mamotteru sugu soba de
Yakusoku da yo
Tsurai toki koso akaruku ne waratte ne
Maioriru kanashimi sae
Kirei de shiroi omoide ni kieru
Watashi no yorokobi wa anata no tame ni
Utaitsuzukeru koto wasurenaide
Tooku ni hagurete mo mimi wo sumaseba
Kitto kikoeru hazu watashi no koe ga