Sorry. I imagine a hacker like you isn't used to disposing of dead bodies.
It's not exactly my strong point, no.
One can't afford to waste time when breaking and entering, though, so I did what I had to.
Incidentally, what do you think of Midou Masatake?
He does worry me. A show-off isn't suited to a life of crime.
That's precisely what makes this interesting.
These crimes put his true worth to the test.
If you want to measure a person's worth, simply pushing them is not enough.
You must give them power.
When they gain the freedom to act outside the boundaries of law and ethics,
you can sometimes catch a glimpse of their souls.
I want to see what happens when the weak become strong. When good citizens become free to engage in violence.
It fascinates me.
Do you use things like the net and high-tech avatars?
I sometimes check on them to gather information.
Overall, I think people tend to reveal their true selves when they step into an avatar.
As I said earlier, they probably feel some sense of freedom.
But freedom easily gained quickly turns into a false sense of omnipotence.
In any case,
I wonder how it will turn out for Midou Masatake.
I'm sorry.
Ah yes, this classic scene. It's just like they always say:
If “sorry” was enough, then we wouldn't need the police, would we?
And after all that fuss, you let Talisman, the very man you were after, slip through your fingers.
I never should have cooperated with the police in the first place.
But there's no doubt that Talisman has gotten caught up in some sort of crime.
You helped us because you felt you couldn't just ignore that, right?
Give me a break!
I'm Spooky Boogie, the anarchist!
Under no circumstances will I ever act as your agent again.
But...
Bad news for your friendship?
Well, she was just someone who used to be in my class.
I don't even know who she is, really.
You recorded that chat, right?
What?
Yeah, of course.
Dare ni mo miserarenai mono
My head is full of things
Atama no naka afurete
That I can never tell anybody of
Machigai sae mo nai sekai he
In this perfect world
Machigai sae mo nai sekai he
In this perfect world
Mayoikonderu
I roam, a lost being
Arienai hodo surikomareteru
This world is impossibly hard on me
Arienai hodo surikomareteru
This world is impossibly hard on me
Arienai hodo surikomareteru
This world is impossibly hard on me
Arienai hodo surikomareteru
This world is impossibly hard on me
Arienai hodo surikomareteru
This world is impossibly hard on me
Me ni mieru mono dake no "sekai" genshou
It's an illusion that plays out before my eyes
Me ni mieru mono dake no "sekai" genshou
It's an illusion that plays out before my eyes
Me ni mieru mono dake no "sekai" genshou
It's an illusion that plays out before my eyes
Abakidaseru kana
Can I find its faults?
Plastic tac tic
Mou dare mo okashiku narenai yo
Nobody is allowed to be insane
Kisama mo plastic beautiful world
You're made of plastic too, like this beautiful world
Utsukushi sugiru sekai ni
In this beautiful world
Boku wa nazeka
There is something
Hikari ga mienakute
That obscures all light for me
Haretsu shite yuku kokoro ga
My heart tries to break out
Mugen no rifurekushon
And finds no answer
Secret kills for you
Secret remains for you
Misekake no iro to
Don't show me a dark future
Mirai wo abakanai de
Nor a world of pretense
Keep it secret motion
Talisman Saloon is packed with guests, as usual.
Today is another busy day for the ghost of Hayama Kimihiko, as he dispenses advice without a care.
Not only is he not running or hiding,
he's even been talking about what happened in Club Exoset.
More to the point, just what is his game here?
Was his goal to make it look like Hayama Kimihiko was still alive?
Then there's no way he'd leave Hayama's bank account untouched
and his apartment empty for two months, right?
I wonder if his goal really was simply to gain control of Hayama's Avatar.
I could see someone who commits crimes for kicks doing that, but...
Would someone like that kill?
Gino, don't try to understand the minds of criminals.
You'll be taken in.
Was that warning directed at me or yourself, Kougami?
Hey...
Even if this guy's just doing it for kicks, he's no fool.
He anticipated that he'd fall under suspicion.
There's no way he could have cracked the Holo-Cosplay in the hall unless he'd prepared beforehand.
If he thinks he can play us like fools, we'll have to teach him a lesson.
Karanomori, trace Talisman's access routes.
We'll find out who he is and capture him this time for sure.
Don't get too worked up, Gino.
He's clearly very confident in his ability to hide his tracks.
That's why he's still hanging around the social networks as if nothing happened.
But what's the point in us sitting around doing nothing?
There might be another way to get a lead on him.
There's one more thing that I want to look into.
That's fine. Suit yourself.
I'm still going to trace his access routes.
I don't really get stuff like Avatars and virtual worlds.
I mean after all, it's our bodies that actually breathe, sweat, and eat, right?
Masaoka, I think people like you are an endangered species.
Isn't using the net just like using knives for cooking or using paper to write things down?
It's not intrisically good or bad.
It's just there, so we accept it and use it.
You're good at explaining things, aren't you? Like a teacher.
Really?
Have you heard of Rousseau?
Um... You mean the philosopher?
Yeah. And his work “A Discourse on Inequality.”
Hold on a second, please. I'll look it up.
You don't need to.
It's all stored right here.
Let's say there are two hunters in a forest.
Should they hunt for rabbits separately?
Or...
Should they work together and go after bigger prey?
Which do you think is the better option?
The latter, of course.
That's a basic rule of game theory.
You work together to catch bigger prey.
That's right. Humans are social by nature.
Languages, letters, currencies, telephones...
All the communication tools that exist in the world are there in order to strengthen social nature.
Do you think the net has the same effect, missy?
Yes... I think it does.
I see... That sounds kinda interesting.
Shall I give you a bit of assistance?
What?
It wouldn't be a bad idea to get one of the Public Safety Bureau's rising stars in my debt, right?
If “sorry” was enough, then we wouldn't need the police, would we?
I never should have cooperated with the police in the first place.
That's it.
Huh? What are you talking about?
I never should have cooperated with the police in the first place.
Her choice of words is different.
Earlier, she used “Public Safety Bureau.” Now, “police.”
You don't think it's just a coincidence?
Then let's check all the logs available.
Public Safety
Public Safety Bureau
Just as I thought.
Spooky Boogie rarely used the word “police” in the past.
The one you talked to this morning is a different person.
The person we're after now is a murderer who kills people and takes control of their Avatars.
Our trace showed that the culprit was operating the Talisman Avatar from here.
This apartment.
Electromagnetic Shield in Operation
Unable to Perform Interior Scan
Door breach.
Huh?
Oh shit!
If you're calling me, I'm guessing it's bad news.
Sorry about that. Some hunting dogs got caught in the trap.
About time.
I can get you as many replacement proxy servers as you require, but do you still plan to continue with this?
Of course. It is my duty.
Well, you are Makishima's favorite.
Please don't screw up. Seriously.
How did you guys get out without even a scratch?
Hey, don't glare at us like that.
Maybe somebody here's been misbehaving lately.
What is it?
We've got another victim.
It's Spooky Boogie.
We did a search on people who were in Inspector Tsunemori's class
and narrowed it down to those who had affiliate income.
Sugawara Shouko, twenty years old.
The murder took place in her home and was carried out exactly like Hayama's.
We found pieces of her body in the sewer and yet her Avatar is still wandering about on the net.
The estimated time of death is before dawn.
She must've gotten killed after last night's raid on Exoset.
Let's go back to the office and rework our strategy with Karanomori.
If this keeps up, we'll be playing right into his hands.
Dammit!
Because of me...
she got dragged into this.
Missy...
It was my fault.
It's all because of me.
Did you view Spooky Boogie...
Sugawara Shouko... as a decoy?
No...
Did you force her to cooperate?
No...
Did you leak information on her to the enemy?
No...
Then how is this your fault?
But...
She actually got...
Yeah. If we had caught the culprit last night,
Sugawara Shouko wouldn't have had to die.
The responsibility for that lies with all of us.
For now, just think about fulfilling your responsibilities.
Let's catch this guy.
In short, that's the only thing we can do to allow the victims to rest in peace.
I found another weird case.
Melancholia's Rainy Blue.
It belongs to an eighty-two-year-old man,
but his grandson begged him to let him use his name and info.
And then, his grandson died in an accident half a year ago.
Tokitou Yuuichi. He was fourteen years old.
But his Avatar, Melancholia, is still active even after his death.
His grandfather doesn't even know how to access social networks.
In fact, he thought the affiliate income was his pension.
Rainy Blue is a big community, too.
More and more ghost Avatars keep cropping up...
Is it even possible to operate several different Avatars at the same time?
It's not uncommon for heavy users, right?
Yes.
The unusual part is the acting abilities of this culprit.
Not only do these hijacked Avatars manage to avoid suspicion,
they're more popular than when their real owners operated them.
How is it that among tens of thousands of users, nobody noticed they were fake?
Because it's not a matter of real or fake.
These Avatars are idols on the net. In other words, icons.
Icons cannot exist solely through their own will.
Neither Hayama nor Sugawara built their reputations on their own.
They were able to become Talisman and Spooky Boogie because their fans
idolized them based on their own distorted perceptions.
The true feelings and natures of these idols are not the same as the ideals their characters represent.
So it's not surprising that a fan could do a better job than the real owners of playing the idol fans expect to see.
Are you saying that the culprit is one of their fans?
Melancholia, Talisman, and Spooky Boogie.
He knows those three characters very well, to the point of being able to imitate them perfectly.
The real culprit is someone whose level of activity matches that enthusiasm.
And how can we find this person?
Just how many people do you think would be fans of all three Avatars?
We can use certain criteria to narrow things down.
First, Talisman.
Let's take the top one hundred fans among the regulars in his CommuField
and draw a graph of their time spent there per day,
predominantly around the estimated time of Hayama Kimihiko's death.
Looks like the time his guests spent there went down overall.
That's around when Talisman's reputation went into decline.
But after that day, two months ago, it started to recover.
At that point, Hayama was killed and Talisman was hijacked by an unknown party.
And yet, there are some regulars who stopped coming to Talisman Saloon at that point.
This pattern on the graph is the key.
When Tokitou Yuuichi, who operated Melancholia, died half a year ago,
and when Sugawara Shouko, Spooky Boogie, died the day before yesterday,
there should be a user who showed the same pattern.
I see. That's the culprit's own Avatar.
That's right.
Once the culprit had hijacked the victims' Avatars,
he no longer had to visit their CommuFields as a guest.
Well? Does anyone fit these criteria?
There's only one person who does.
Midou Masatake, twenty-seven years old.
He works at a virtual sports management company.
His last Psycho-Pass Hue Check was run four years ago at an annual checkup.
And he hasn't even run into any street scanners since then?
Each day, he'd take routes that would allow him to avoid street scanners.
That means he's got something to hide, huh?
Trace his access records.
Way ahead of you.
His last access was just a few minutes ago from a budget hotel in Roppongi, Minato ward.
His home address is...
located in Motoazabu, also in Minato ward.
Inspector Tsunemori, go investigate this hotel room with Kougami and Masaoka.
Okay!
I'll go to Motoazabu to investigate his home with Kagari and Kunizuka.
He's a dangerous character, skilled at cracking and explosives alike.
Don't let your guard down.
What's that for?
Strong alcohol is the best thing for handling illegal Holograms.
That's a trick you can take advantage of after you turn twenty.
Public Safety Bureau! Midou Masatake,
please present your Psycho-Pass immediately!
Please come out!
What's going on?
Forget cracking Holo-Cosplay! He can even crack interior Holo!
Kou!
Wh-What do we do?
Kou!
Crime Cofficient is 335.
Enforcement mode is Lethal Eliminator.
A pain-inhibiting drug, huh?
He won't get far with those injuries.
Let's leave the rest to Ginoza and the others.
Welcome back, Midou!
Welcome back!
Yeah...
I'm home.
I'm okay.
You guys are eternal.
You were released from the chains of a physical body and polished by collective intelligence.
You're the souls most close to Plato's “idea.”
No one can look down on you.
I won't let anyone destroy your nobility.
I will...
I will protect it at any cost.
Thank you.
Thank you, Midou.
Once I was guided by you.
And now, together with you, I will guide people and the world.
You are eternal.
But...
Couldn't you have done a better job, Midou?
Wait a sec. What on earth...
There's something that I've been searching for. Something I want to know.
I've done whatever it takes to get closer to that goal.
Say, have you read Terayama Shuuji?
Huh? T-Terayama?
You should read his play, “Saraba, eiga yo.”
It seems like everyone is an agent for someone.
And what's more, those agents have their Avatars communicate in place of them.
Are you... Makishima?
You have a thorough knowledge of various Avatars and are able to imitate them perfectly.
You can become anyone, so I was very interested in what your personality was like.
That is why I lent you my people and my assistance.
S-Stop it!
Give them back to me!
Don't speak with their voices!
But...
I see this play is drawing to a close.
Now that we've arrived at the final act,
instead of borrowing the ideas of others, why don't you come up with an idea of your own to close the curtain?
You bastard... What are you...
You can play any character, and yet in the end it turned out that you yourself are nobody.
Your core personality is null. It's empty.
You don't have a face of your own.
That's how you could wear any mask at all over your smooth, featureless face and have it fit perfectly.
Shut up! Stop it!
It's time to say goodbye, Midou Masatake.
The hunting dogs, those harbingers of death, have arrived.
Enforcement mode is Lethal Eliminator.
Aim carefully and eliminate the target.
Clear.
No one else is here... right?
Then who on earth was he talking to?
You did quite well this time.
In the end, it was Kougami who identified the culprit.
I can't believe he was able to understand how the culprit thought and predict his behavior so accurately.
That's what Enforcers do.
They can understand criminals precisely because they have the same psychological tendency as them.
But...
Kougami comforted me... and encouraged me.
Even if he's a latent criminal,
it's hard to think that he has the same mind as a homicidal maniac like Midou.
You're an Inspector. All you have to do is fulfill your duty as one.
Draw a line between yourself and the Enforcers.
Is that an ironclad rule for this job?
No. It's my own rule of thumb.
Huh?
I once lost a partner who made a mistake.
I couldn't stop him.
I don't want you to make the same mistake.
This is a file from the Personnel Department.
Destroy it when you're done reading.
Kougami Shinya. Enforcer. Male.
Twenty-eight years old. Former Inspector.
Huh?
While investigating an unsolved case, Public Safety Bureau Special Case 102,
his Crime Coefficient rapidly increased.
He prioritized the investigation over his own therapy.
His Crime Coefficient exceeded the regulation limit and he was demoted to Enforcer.
Okay, got it.
Sasayama...
If you don't like it, shoot me. That's your job.
Crime Coefficient is 282.
Sasayama Mitsuru, an Enforcer registered at the Criminal Investigation Department.
This target has Enforce At Will status.
Don't go, Sasayama!
Sasayama!
So it was you, Kougami.
I came alone. I left the the crime scene to Gino and the others.
Where are you, Sasayama?
The GPS is working, but the map is totally dark. I can't see a thing!
You left the crime scene? Seriously?
You sure that was okay?
I don't want you telling me that!
In any case, let's meet up. I have a bad feeling about this.
Don't do anything reckless by yourself.
Okay.
Problem is, not even I know where I am.
These alleys are like a labyrinth.
Makishima!
Makishima? Hey, what's going on?!
Sorry, but I'll explain later! I have to follow him!
Hey, hold on! What's this about?!
If I follow him to wherever he's going, I'll find Touma. I'm sure of it!
He's probably the one behind the Specimen Ca—
Hey! Sasayama! Sasayama!
Dammit! He's gone out of range!
Shepherd 2, you're going too fast. Where are you right now?
I can't find Hound 4... Sasayama.
What's going on? Where did he go?
Calm down, Kougami!
Things are getting out of control.
Come back for now!
I'll bring Sasayama back!
Sasayama?
Looks like she's working hard, huh?
She's still inexperienced, so she acts unprofessionally rather often.
But it's true that she's an excellent employee.
I think she has a promising future.
I hope so.
There's still at least a chance she'll end up in an unfortunate state similar to that of your partner,
who started the same year as you.
Yes, Chief.
You Inspectors have very demanding jobs.
But you must keep a firm and unyielding spirit to pursue your duties,
even up against the distorted minds of criminals and Enforcers.
You should be on your guard too, Ginoza.
Science has yet to prove a causal relationship between genetics and Crime Coefficients.
However, science has also yet to prove that there is no relationship.
I hope that you won't make the same mistake as your father.
I hope it from the bottom of my heart.
I'll keep that in mind.
“In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
We men may say more, swear more, but indeed
Our shows are more than will, for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.”
Stop there.
Yes, ma'am.
The first performance of “Twelfth Night” took place in 1601.
In the sentences Kagami just read,
you can get a glimpse of the astonishing universality of Shakespeare.
Are you in literature class right now?
Yes. We're studying “Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare.
Yes. We're studying "Twelfth Night" by Shak espeare.
Shakespeare's comedies are boring.
You don't like his work?
I do like his tragedies, especially "Macbeth" and "Titus Andronicus".
I do like his tragedies, especially “Macbeth" and “Titus Andronicus."
So those two are the interesting ones, huh?
I do like his tragedies, especially "Macbeth" and "Titus Andronicus".
You don't like his work?
Shakespeare's comedies are boring.
Not only are they interesting, but they're also especially cruel.
cruel
But why aren't you looking it up in the database?
You're an Inspector. You have authorization, right?
If I access those files, Kougami will know.
You don't want him to know?
Or are you that concerned about Kou?
Could this be love?
Have you even been in love, Kagari?
Listen, Akane. I'm more experienced in life than you are.
Not only love. I've done all sorts of bad things.
I've glimpsed into a world that a wholesome girl like you can't even imagine.
Really?
For example, this one.
Juice?
No! It's alcohol. Real alcohol.
Ol' Masaoka shared it with me.
These days, people are afraid of getting addicted to it,
so they stick to safe therapeutic tripping or go virtual, right?
That's for drinking, right?
Not for blowing fire?
Say what?
No, nothing.
Well, now's when we get to enjoy vices like this one.
I see.
Whoa! This is good!
This is real cooking.
Hey, hey! I told you, those snacks are for drinkers only!
Spoilsport.
Or would you like to try?
What?
If I get drunk, I might start talking about all sorts of things.
The thing is...
When I started here, Kou had already been stripped of his position as Inspector.
So I don't know the details.
Though I heard that an Enforcer who was under him at the time got killed.
Killed?
Right. He was going after a culprit but ended up as a victim.
If I remember correctly, his name was Sasayama.
He was killed in the same manner as the other victims. I heard it was terrible.
So it messed Kou up, and his Crime Coefficient went way too high.
That case was never solved, but Kou's still investigating it.
I see...
Anyway...
How can you drink so much and still be okay?
You just get drunk too easily.
Enforcer Sasayama?
Ah, there's no way I could forget the Specimen Case.
Specimen Case?
That's how we, and the detectives, referred to the case.
Do you know what plastination is, Akane?
It's a process used to create biological specimens, right?
Right. It's a technique for preserving tissue by impregnating it with resin.
So, in the Specimen Case, this process was used to commit grotesque murders.
They first dismembered and cut open the body,
and then they used plastination to turn it into a human specimen.
Then they brought it right into the middle of town and displayed it...
right underneath a Holographic display in the entertainment district.
How terrible...
Thousands of passersby thought they were just looking at environment Holo.
But in truth, there was a dismembered body right underneath it.
When that got out, the area stress jumped up four levels.
It was so bad that they even imposed a news ban.
I'm sorry I asked about it while you were eating.
Huh? What're you talking about?
Yayoi wouldn't get worked up over something like this.
She's into more violent and passionate stuff.
Um...
You guys were talking about the Specimen Case, right? Go on.
Well, since it was obviously done by an expert,
the investigation focused on experts in pharmacology and chemistry.
But then, Sasayama was killed while working on the case.
In the end, while investigating a totally unrelated report regarding a missing high school teacher,
they came across plastination resin in his apartment.
See, this guy. Touma Kouzaburou.
Right after he went missing, the crimes stopped,
so there's no doubt he was the culprit.
But all we had was circumstantial evidence.
So in the end, it remains an unsolved case.
In addition, Touma didn't know anything about chemistry,
so even the question of who created the resin remains a mystery.
Does that mean that there was an accomplice?
I don't know if we can really call them an “accomplice"
when we don't even know if they understood what their resin would be used for.
It remains a mystery as to how it was acquired too.
At this point, God only knows.
Looks like you're having a rough time as usual.
You can tell?
Considering how gloomy you look, it'd be hard not to.
Being on the fast track is tough, huh?
You have to keep lots of things confidential.
Exactly. It's hard.
Is this still about that erratic colleague of yours?
I still don't know what to make of him.
What's more, it seems like he was once in the same position as me.
Don't tell me this troublemaker used to be an honor student
whose test scores were over 700 or something?
Right! That kind of thing!
This is just a thought, but...
Yeah?
Could it be that you and your subordinate are quite similar?
What?!
It's urgent! I gotta go!
Hey, we just got here!
I'll make it up to you next time!
It seems that Kuzuhara Satsuki is still missing.
I've heard the teachers have been ordered to keep silent about it
so as not to worry the students.
Why?
That worries us even more.
The selling point of this school
is that they keep girls of susceptible age isolated from society in a conservatory environment
in order to prevent their Psycho-Passes from getting cloudy.
So they sweep problems under the rug.
They also need to keep up appearances in front of our parents.
Oh no, I'm scared!
There are some other rumors that are pretty scary too.
One of the teachers who used to teach in this school was actually...
Miss Ouryou!
It's Miss Rikako!
I wonder why Ouryou Rikako is so popular.
She's pretty, she's smart...
It's pretty obvious.
I'm a little afraid of her.
Why?
Sometimes, her eyes just look so empty.
It's as if...
they're staring into a different dimension.
Kawarazaki. Shimotsuki.
Hi.
H-Hello.
Sorry to interrupt your lunch.
What brings you here?
Neither of you belongs to any clubs, right?
Educational organizations that have club activities like our school, Ousou Academy,
are very rare these days.
I thought it'd be a shame to miss out.
Are you recruiting us?
Oh, you figured it out!
I'm the president of the art club.
If you'd like, please come and see us in our club room.
Also, Shimotsuki...
I sometimes get absorbed in thought,
but it's not like I'm looking into a different dimension.
I'm not an alien, you know.
You dummy, Mika! She heard you!
Sorry.
Pardon me.
Thank you for coming.
I heard about your father.
Your mother's new husband.
So you took... notice of it?
Yes, since I've been watching you all this time, Yoshika.
Miss Ouryou!
Will you tell me what happened?
That man... he...
clearly looks at me... with...
o... obscene eyes.
Every time I go home, there are signs that someone was in my room.
I can't stand it anymore... but...
You can't talk to your mother, right?
The debt my biological father left us is so big
that my mother couldn't hope to repay it by herself.
So we have to depend on that man.
But at last week's regular check up, my Psycho-Pass was very cloudy.
If I don't do something...
Yoshika.
It seems you can't choose the life you wish.
I understand how hard that is.
In this era, the System determines everyone's aptitudes,
and we all have no choice but to live by it
and be satisfied with whatever “happiness” is forced upon us,
as we are unable to make our real dreams come true.
Don't you want to discover the person you desire to be?
Don't you want to realize your true worth?
What?
I can show you...
the true beauty that's hiding inside you, Yoshika.
Shall I tell you more about Shakespeare's works?
Yes.
“Titus Andronicus”...
The character I like in it is Titus's daughter, Lavinia.
She got dragged into trouble because of her father.
The enemy raped her,
cut out her tongue,
and cut off her arms as well.
“It was my deer...”
Poor Lavinia.
She was killed by her own father.
There are tons of things that humans can do but animals can't.
One of them is safety control.
No matter what it is, humans have always put a safety device on it.
Enforcers are also equipped with a safety device called Inspectors.
More to the point, the drones you controlled were equipped with rigorous safety controls.
Those drones were supposed to be completely safe,
and yet, this memory card made them kill people.
Where did you obtain it?
So we have the safety canceller that Kanehara used in the Hachiouji Drone incident,
and Midou's Holograph cracking.
In both cases, I could only recover a bit of the source code,
but there are clear similarities.
I think the same programmer wrote the code for both.
I'd bet the bra I'm wearing today on it.
You can keep it!
It's true that Midou was obsessed with social networks,
but he wasn't skilled enough to mess with public Holo.
There's no doubt that both Kanehara and Midou were being backed by a professional cyber-criminal.
But this testimony of Kanehara's isn't going to help.
I'm telling the truth! I just got it one day in the mail!
The letter had no name or return address.
It just said that it was from someone with a grudge against that factory
who wanted to mess up that place together with me!
That's pretty vicious for someone who'd commit crimes just for kicks, isn't it?
How could the sender predict that Kanehara would kill in the first place?
Pops figured out Kanehara just by checking the records of the staff's periodic checkups.
There was someone else who could do the same thing.
That periodic checkup record wasn't confidential, either.
Then what was this guy's motive for helping Midou?
It was Kanehara and Midou who had the motive.
That must've been enough reason for him.
Kougami?
The intent and means to kill...
To create a crime by bringing those two otherwise separate things together.
That's his goal.
Tsk.
Hey!
Kougami, what are you doing?
Gino, this is the same as that case.
There's someone who seeks out those who have not yet found a way to manifest their desire to kill
and grants them the means to become real killers.
Calm down and think about it.
Back then, it was a special resin.
This time, it was a tool for cracking software.
They're totally different!
Public Safety Bureau Special Case 102
The engineer and the middleman are two different people!
Public Safety Bureau Special Case 102
There's someone who brings together those who want to kill
and those who can create the tools they need to do it.
That's the real mastermind.
Enough already!
You're chasing a ghost that we don't even know exists!
Sasayama was on the brink of figuring it out.
I'll settle this for his sake.
That's what I've spent the past three years working toward!
This is Takahashi from the Public Cleaning Bureau.
I'm at the Central Fountain Tower right now.
Noise has been appearing in the Hologram for a while now.
Yes, that's right.
Please turn off the fountain Holo so that we can check it out.
What's that?
Whoa! That's creepy!
Is that a doll?
Is it some sort of artwork? A sculpture?
Yeah... but isn't this in kinda bad taste?
Who the hell did it?
But...
When you look closely, it looks pretty real, doesn't it?
It's quite elaborate.
Though I wouldn't want to display it at my home.
Do you think Lavinia was happy...
having been freed from her violated body?
“Because the girl should not survive her shame,
and by her presence still renew her sorrows,” was it, Mr. Makishima?
Even beautiful flowers must eventually wither and fall.
That's the fate of all living beings.
If that's how it is,
it's only natural that one would wish to freeze them in time while they're still blossoming in full glory.
But if you really loved her as if she was your own daughter, would you too say...
“Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind,” as Titus did?
Oh, that'd be a problem...
because I still have many more drawings to complete in the future.
Fearii teeru wa
It seems all fairy tales
Fearii teeru wa
It seems all fairy tales
Fearii teeru wa
It seems all fairy tales
Fearii teeru wa
It seems all fairy tales
Sakki shinda mitai
Are dead
Sakki shinda mitai
Are dead
Sakki shinda mitai
Are dead
Sakki shinda mitai
Are dead
Renga no byoutou de
In a hospital ward of brick stones
Renga no byoutou de
In a hospital ward of brick stones
Renga no byoutou de
In a hospital ward of brick stones
Renga no byoutou de
In a hospital ward of brick stones
Umaku utaenakute
My voice is too coarse to sing
Umaku utaenakute
My voice is too coarse to sing
Umaku utaenakute
My voice is too coarse to sing
Umaku utaenakute
My voice is too coarse to sing
Kiri ni kemuru yoru
Outside in the foggy haze
Kiri ni kemuru yoru
Outside in the foggy haze
Kiri ni kemuru yoru
Outside in the foggy haze
Kiri ni kemuru yoru
Outside in the foggy haze
Ukabe akai tsuki
A red moon glows
Ukabe akai tsuki
A red moon glows
Ukabe akai tsuki
A red moon glows
Ukabe akai tsuki
A red moon glows
Hora mite watashi wo
Look at me
Hora mite watashi wo
Look at me
Hora mite watashi wo
Look at me
Hora mite watashi wo
Look at me
Me wo sorasanai de
Do not avert your gaze
Me wo sorasanai de
Do not avert your gaze
Me wo sorasanai de
Do not avert your gaze
Me wo sorasanai de
Do not avert your gaze
Kuroi tetsu goushi no naka de
Behind black bars
Kuroi tetsu goushi no naka de
Behind black bars
Kuroi tetsu goushi no naka de
Behind black bars
Watashi wa umarete kitanda
I was born
Kuroi tetsu goushi no naka de
Behind black bars
Watashi wa umarete kitanda
I was born
Watashi wa umarete kitanda
I was born
Akui no daishou wo negae
I wish there were a punishment for evil
Watashi wa umarete kitanda
I was born
Akui no daishou wo negae
I wish there were a punishment for evil
Akui no daishou wo negae
I wish there were a punishment for evil
Nozomu ga mama ni omae ni
Always I need you
Akui no daishou wo negae
I wish there were a punishment for evil
Nozomu ga mama ni omae ni
Always I need you
Nozomu ga mama ni omae ni
Always I need you
Saa ataeyou seigi wo
Now, grant us justice
Nozomu ga mama ni omae ni
Always I need you
Saa ataeyou seigi wo
Now, grant us justice
Saa ataeyou seigi wo
Now, grant us justice
Kowashite kowasareru mae ni
Before chaos takes us all
Saa ataeyou seigi wo
Now, grant us justice
Kowashite kowasareru mae ni
Before chaos takes us all
Kowashite kowasareru mae ni
Before chaos takes us all
Inga no daishou wo harai tomo ni yukou
Pay the price of fate and let us go together,
Kowashite kowasareru mae ni
Before chaos takes us all
Inga no daishou wo harai tomo ni yukou
Pay the price of fate and let us go together,
Inga no daishou wo harai tomo ni yukou
Pay the price of fate and let us go together,
Namae no nai kaibutsu
Nameless beasts
Inga no daishou wo harai tomo ni yukou
Pay the price of fate and let us go together,
Namae no nai kaibutsu
Nameless beasts
Namae no nai kaibutsu
Nameless beasts
Namae no nai kaibutsu
Nameless beasts
This is a world where the mental state and personal tendencies of humans can be quantified. While all sorts of inclinations are recorded and policed, these measured numbers used to judge people's souls are commonly called “Psycho-Pass”.
This story is a work of fiction. The names of all individuals and organizations that appear in this show are fictitious and any similarity to those in existence in the real world is purely coincidental.