She's alive!
Incredible!
She's really still alive!
She's human all right.
It's uncanny, how well the brain was preserved under those conditions.
Look, she's coming out oftorpor!
Hello, my name is Ido? What's yours?
N...
a...
me?
After all this time, she's not likely to remember much.
I think I can restore most ofit.
You'll be keeping her, then?
Hereyou are, Ido.
Thankyou.
How doyou feel, Gally? Haveyou adapted toyour new bodyyet?
Yes Mr. Gonz! It feels wonderful to move about so freely.
Well, Ido is the best cyberdoctor in town, you know.
But Gally, wandering offby yourselfcan be dangerous,
especially at night with that killer stalking young girls for their brains.
And that's not even mentioning the spine thieves.
That's a fact,Jack! One minute I'm whole, the next I'm spineless!
You see, most cyborg parts are easy to obtain,
but without a viable synthetic replacement,
the human spinal column is a different matter.
And that means there's a thriving black market of''spare parts'' dealers,
ruthless organ brokers who'll take the back from underyour shirt.
Doctor!
It's giving me more trouble than I expected. I'll fiinish up tomorrow.
Well, thanks for trying.
Would you like a drink beforeyou go, Yugo?
Oh, no thanks. I've still got another thirty houses or so to hit today.
Well, I'm off!.
Courteous and hardworking, rare qualities in a young man these days.
Am I right, Ido?
Yes, sadly true.
Who's there?
Doc, you know I don't have enough chips to pay for this.
Don't worry, I'm not at the point ofstarvation yet.
You can pay me when you get the funds.
Good morning, Ido.
Oh, Good morning, Gally.
What happened toyour arm?
Ah, this? I guess I must have tripped.
Areyou all right?
He must have done it when he was out last night.
Hey up there! What areyou up to?
I said, '' Hey!''
Can'tyou see I'm in the middle something?
You live here with the Doc, don'tyou?
That's right! My name's Gally!
That's a strange name.
And you'rejust rude. I think it's a pretty name.
You're right. It suits you.
My name's...
Yugo, right?
You knew it already?
Yugo, doyou have family here?
Nope.
Wow, that's impressive.
I mean, thatyou can make a living all byyourself.
You think so?
Now, THAT's impressive.
What is?
How can you say ''what''?
I mean Zalem, ofcourse.
Oh, I see.
Hey! Why don'tyou come with me?
Where to?
To a better place.
Hey Doc, I've got it working now!
Ido, I'm going out too!
It's up this way!
Wait up!
Here, take my hand.
Geez! What areyou made of? It felt likeyou weighed a ton!
And you're strong too.
Really?
Yeah, really!
I think the view ofZalem from here isjust the greatest.
Sometimes, ifI keep staring at it, I can feel it calling to my soul.
What kind ofpeople live there, I wonder?
My brotherwanted to go to Zalem. He even broke the law and built an airship.
As for me, I'll just make lots and lots ofmoney.
And then I'll go there myself!.
Why areyou looking at me so funny?
I'm sorryYugo, but the look on your face is the most interesting view here.
More interesting than Zalem? Get real.
What a disgusting cesspool ofhumanity!
It's nothing but the dumping grounds forZalem, you know.
These people are vultures feeding on the trash that falls from the sky.
Why should it be anything but a garbage heap?
Oh, I see.
You really don't understand, doyou?
Areyou from the outlands or something?
I really don't know.
I have no memories, no past.
Even my name, ''Gally'', is something made up.
I see.
But, in a way, that's not so bad.
No past means a clean slate foryour soul, no memories to hauntyou.
Chiren, doyou want to go back to Zalem that badly?
I have to. There are things that I didn't get a chance to fiinish.
And you really thinkyou can manage it?
What can anyone hope to accomplish in Scrap Iron City?
The onlywork for someone ofmy skill in this dump is repairing crippled cyborgs!
What's wrong with that?
It's a crime! Squandering a talent like yours in this backwater.
You knowyou could do much better up in Zalem.
Does it amuseyou to play fallen angel to these insects?
An angel ofmercy?
Ido, you have no idea how faryou've fallen.
You were Zalem's fiinest, the best cybernetics doctor ever!
Where is your pride?
My pride is not the problem. What has become ofyours?
I don't intend to spend the rest ofmy life here.
I'll claw myway back to Zalem with my bare hands ifI have to.
I'll do whatever it takes.
Chiren, I know it's no longer my business,
but as your former partner, please trust me on this:
You mustn't get involved with the Factory.
Ido, this is the last time I'll ask.
Don'tyou have any regrets about Zalem?
None.
I see. I'm sorry it has to be like this.
He's done it! Anothervictory forZahriki!
With the disappearance ofGrewcica, he is inarguably the new champion!
Unbeatable Zahriki! Another glorious victory for the record books!
Hold it!
Who areyou?
Hunter-Warrior
Ooooo, scary!
Brother, brains are brains, even though they belong to a man.
I knowyou won't enjoy them as much, but ifyou'll wait, I'll carve them foryou!
Not bad for an old man!
Getyour hands offIdo!
Gally!
How dareyou do that to Rasha!
Gally, get out ofhere!
Gally...
Gally, areyou all right?
Is your body damaged?
Gally!
Yes, I'm fiine.
Those moves you made... very impressive.
It surprised me too.
My body moved by itself.
A flash ofrage coiled inside me, and then I sprang.
And I nearly had him! One more second and he would have been mine!
Still, I can't believeyou saved me.
Your bounty is 1 00,000 chips.
Ofcourse, his partnerwould have been worth ten times that.
Brain eating mutants are bad for business.
So areyou in the market for some new body parts today?
I knewyou'd fiind out eventually.
I'm what they call a hunter-warrior, a bounty hunter.
Once there were people called '' Police,'' whose purpose was to prevent crime.
These days the Factoryjust puts bounties on the heads ofcriminals
and lets freelance hunter-warriors like me do the dirtywork.
What's wrong, Gally?
It'sjust that I want to be a hunter-warrior too.
Don't be stupid! You don't know whatyou're saying!
I didn't giveyou limbs to do things like that!
You don't have to work; all you have to do is be beautiful.
This isn't about money! This is for me!
What doyou mean, ''foryou''?
Yes! Tonight I felt some thing new, as ifI was truly alive for the fiirst time!
You don't know whatyou're saying! Hunting is an ugly profession.
I don't wantyou soiling your perfect hands with blood.
I'm not some doll foryou to playwith!
Ido, youjust don't understand!
And you'll really get me to Zalem?
That's what I said.
Really?
Enough already!
Don't worryyour pretty head about it.
Yourjob is to upgrade the quality of the gladiators for the Coliseum.
How soon you go to Zalem will depend on the quality ofyourwork and my profiits.
Grewcica!
Doctor, help me!
Mywhole body burns like it's on fiire!
You're not the pampered star of the Coliseum anymore.
Why should I work on a brain-eating junkie with a price on his head?
Damn that Ido! And where did he get that little bitch?
Ido?
Yugo...
Gally, you're absolutely right.
You're not my doll.
Your life is your own.
But why a hunter?
Is it some demon hidden in your untapped memory?
The laserwill imprintyour registration number on your brain tissue.
Please hold still.
On my BRAI N?
Finger prints, voice prints and retina patterns can be changed.
Can you think ofa betterway to tell one cyborg from another?
Let me showyou.
Incredible.
To cause this much damage with a single impact
would require an unbelievable amount of power for such a small body!
Only Ido could accomplish such a feat.
Grewcica, I'll not only rebuild you;
I'll makeyou more than a match for Ido's little toy.
I'll use every skill and dirty trick I know.
Imprinting completed!
But that was so simple!
That's because the hard part is thejob itself.
So what is Zalem really like?
The offiicial answer to that is '' No Comment.''
I'vejust registered myselfas a hunter-warrior.
Ido!
There he goes! Zahriki's awesome attack!
Where are we going?
A hunters' hangout, I'll need to introduceyou to everyone.
What a horrible sound.
It's from the tubes that connect the Factorywith Zalem.
''Offiicially'' it's caused by the moon's tidal pull against Zalem.
Grewcica!
I've come to payyou back with interest, Baby!
Oh, my God!
It's Grewcica! What is he doing here?
So, Baby, areyou ready to playwith me?
Gally... Someone, give us a hand!
Screw that! Can'tyou see he's powered up?
You couldn't pay me enough to fiight that son ofa bitch!
Areyou going to run away from me too, Baby?
I accept!
Gally!
What a good girl!
Chiren, you didn't rebuild this monster?
What? With a bounty on his head?
But still, I can't help but wonder... which one will win?
Suffer, Ido! I want to seeyour face when your little toy is broken.
But such eloquent pain belongs on a more suitable stage.
Eat this!
What a funny plaything!
That's it...
Gally!
It's time to fiinish this.
Try and catch me!
Do it! Useyour cutters.
And when you do, those lacerations on your servo will...
DIE!
Gally, you did it!
Ido!
I've lost again, Ido. Nothing I do seems to have any effect at all!
I'm garbage, your and Zalem's cast off scrap!
But someday I'll get back to Zalem, and then I'll be the one looking down!
And then, Ido, I swear that I'll makeyou look up to me!
Gally, your powers and abilities are still growing,
which is fiine, but...
I know whatyou're worried about,
butyou have to trust me.
From this point forward, no matter how much I seem to change, I'm still Gally.
Ido, I'll always beyour Gally.
I believeyou.
You can only be whatyou are.