Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG / Episode list

The Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG episode list includes all 26 episodes of the Japanese anime television series Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG , which is the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex .

As with the first season, the episodes of Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG can be divided into different categories. The "Individual" episodes (IN) primarily drive the plot about Hideo Kuze and the group of the Independent Elf and the "Dual" episodes (DU) mainly deal with the events surrounding Kazundo Gouda and the cabinet intelligence service. The "Dividual" episodes (DI) roughly correspond to the "Stand Alone" episodes of the first season and tell a separate story that is not directly related to the other two story arcs. However, this delimitation is far less strict than in the first season, so that each episode contributes a part of the framework, albeit with different focuses.

Episodes

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in Japan	German-language first broadcast (Germany)	category
1	Reboot!	Saikidō REEMBODY ( 再 起動 REEMBODY )	Jan. 1, 2004	Aug 6, 2006	DI
Terrorists who call themselves the “Independent Elf” occupy the Chinese embassy and take its employees hostage. They are calling on the government to end the reception of refugees from Asia and to close the refugee camps. The police are overwhelmed with the situation. When the terrorists set a deadline for fulfilling their demands and threatened the shooting of the hostages, Section 9, which has not yet been officially restored, is given permission to enter the building at its own risk. After Section 9 has ended the mission with no losses among the hostages, Prime Minister Kayabuki's unit will also be officially reactivated. In addition, the task force is reinforced by the Tachikomas, which have since been revised.
2	I, the wolverine	Hōshoku no Boku NIGHT CRUISE ( 飽食 の 僕 NIGHT CRUISE )	Jan. 1, 2004	Aug 13, 2006	DI
Gino Tadashi, a refugee and partially cyborgized veteran of the Fourth World War, works as a helicopter pilot for the board of a media company. In his mind, he keeps going through violent fantasies in which he kills his employer and his bodyguard in order to bring his idea of ​​the truth about the war into the public eye. When another refugee from among Gino's colleagues carried out an attack on a government building, Section 9 investigated Gino's background. It turns out he's just a disaffected war veteran who poses no real threat to the public.
3	Saturday night and Sunday morning	Doyō no Yoru to Nichiyō no Asa CASH EYE ( 土 曜 の 夜 と 日 曜 の 朝 CASH EYE )	Feb 7, 2004	Aug 20, 2006	DI
The Prime Minister asks Section 9 to prevent an announced break-in by the hacker “Cash Eye” at Tadokoro, a member of the former government. In fact, the allegedly imminent theft is a ruse by Section 9 in order to gain access to Tadokoros safe, which is protected by the latest security measures. It is believed that black money from the former General Secretary Yakushima is being kept there. After pretending a successful intrusion and the subsequent capture of the alleged thief by the security systems, Tadokoro opens the safe himself. Section 9 can secure the sought evidence and the former politician is arrested for tax evasion.
4th	Natural enemies	Tenteki NATURAL ENEMY ( 天敵 NATURAL ENEMY )	Feb 7, 2004	Aug 27, 2006	YOU
During a maneuver, the pilot of a jigabachi attack helicopter dies of a heart attack. The machine's AI takes control and, as the pilot's cyberbrain is still active, ignores the command to return. Instead, it brings other helicopters of the same type under control, circles with them over a refugee district and attacks anyone who approaches. Kazundo Gouda, Special Envoy for the Cabinet Intelligence, asked Section 9 for assistance. To prevent the helicopters from falling on the residential area if they run out of fuel, the task force lures them away from there. Saito uses the sniper rifle to destroy the dead pilot's cyberbrain in the command machine, whereupon the helicopters again accept orders from outside and return to the base. In Section 9, it is believed that the incident was staged by strangers to further exacerbate the already strained relationship between the government and the refugees.
5	Motifs	Dōki aru Monotachi INDUCTANCE ( 動機 あ る 者 た ち INDUCTANCE )	6th Mar 2004	3rd Sep 2006	IN
After Prime Minister Kayabuki annuls the Special Treatment of Refugees Act, she receives a death threat and Section 9 is assigned to protect her. The next day, Kayabuki visits a Buddhist monastery to celebrate zazen there. During the meditation she is attacked by the assassin, but can be saved through the intervention of Major Kusanagi. The highly cyborgized attacker manages to escape. Togusa, Ishikawa and Boma find out some information about the possible origins of the ideology of the Independent Elf: on May 15, 1932 , eleven young naval officers murdered the then Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi . They followed their convictions even in court and received broad support from the population. There also appears to be links to the eleventh essay by a certain Patrick Sylvestre on the incident.
6th	Hidden heat source	Senzai Netsugen EXCAVATION ( 潜在 熱源 EXCAVATION )	6th Mar 2004	Sep 10 2006	DI
Kotan Kanji, a refugee alleged to have blackmailed the Department of Energy, is found murdered. While the remaining members of Section 9 are busy protecting the Prime Minister, Togusa follows the trail of the dead to Tokyo, which was largely destroyed in the war . There he meets Ruriko Asagi, the dead man's fiancé, who is also investigating his fate. The two discover that Kotan was involved in the excavation of a pre-war relic in Shinjuku district . When they penetrate the excavation site, which has meanwhile been shielded by the military, Togusa realizes that it is actually a former nuclear facility that is radioactively contaminated after an accident. After the two are discovered, they flee the complex. Section 9 begins a formal investigation to find the perpetrators of the excavation.
7th	Rhapsodies, the notes of a lost nation	Kyōsō wa Bōkoku no Shirabe Pu239 ( 狂想 は 亡国 の 調 べ Pu239 )	Apr 3, 2004	17 Sep 2006	YOU
Terrorists have announced a raid on a military convoy that is supposed to transport plutonium fuel rods recovered from the Shinjuku nuclear facility from the refugee district. Section 9 is placed under the command of Kazundo Gouda, who is personally participating in the action, to protect the transport. On the way, the convoy comes across an overturned garbage truck that is blocking the route. One of the soldiers believes he sees weapons in the refugees standing by and opens fire. The emergency team then opened fire and killed the refugees. The feeling of having killed innocent people for no reason spreads among the members. At the destination, this feeling is reinforced when Gouda reveals that the convoy was only used as bait and that the plutonium was transported by sea by a second military unit.
8th	A vegetarian supper	Soshoku no Bansan FAKE FOOD ( 素食 の 晩 餐 FAKE FOOD )	Apr 3, 2004	Sep 24 2006	DI
Aramaki no longer wants to be manipulated by Gouda and goes on the offensive with regard to the investigation into the case of the Independent Elf. Terrorists carried out several attacks on a publishing house. Each time an ex-soldier named Shō Kawashima, who works as a cook in a vegetarian restaurant nearby, was seen at the scene. Section 9 wants to arrest him and question him in order to possibly shed light on the background to the previous cases. While a team is shadowing the restaurant and waiting for Kawashima, Aramaki learns from Kubota that Section 1 is also looking for the man. After members of Section 1 shot Kawashima because he was allegedly an internationally wanted terrorist, it became clear that both sections were deliberately manipulated with false information.
9	Despair is the name of hope	Zetsubō toiu Na no Kibō AMBIVALENCE ( 絶望 と い う 名 の 希望 AMBIVALENCE )	May 1, 2004	Oct 1, 2006	YOU
Batou and his colleagues try to prevent a series of announced suicide attacks, but always come too late. Through surveillance recordings, they find out that the perpetrators are refugees and, with the help of the police, can locate the last assassin in a subway station. Batou shoots the young woman in the artificial jaw, where the trigger for the bomb is in the belly of her cyborg body. At the same time, Major Kusanagi penetrates the computer system of the intelligence service and investigates Gouda and its motives: he wants to create a hero for the masses who will take the lead in the conflict between Gouda and the state and Japan in the long run seen back to its old size. The Independent Eleven were also created by Gouda as a means to this end.
10	The mad man	Ikareru Otoko TRIAL ( イ カ レ ル オ ト コ TRIAL )	May 1, 2004	Oct 8, 2006	DI
On the way home from work, Togusa runs into a young woman who is fleeing from her partner, Katsuhiko Izumi. Togusa tries to stop Izumi with several shots in his cyborg prosthesis, but cannot prevent the man from shooting his girlfriend. Izumi's parents hire a well-known lawyer who wants to portray Togusa as a trigger-happy cyborg hater and the murder of the young woman as an accident due to the malfunction of a body prosthesis at the subsequent hearing. Section 9 finds out that the lawyer apparently accepted bribes from a manufacturer of cyborg prostheses in order to cover up defects in the manufacturer's products through false accusations in court. In order to prevent this information from becoming known, the lawyer resigns and Togusa is rehabilitated.
11	In the thicket	Kusa Meikyū AFFECTION ( 草 迷宮 AFFECTION )	June 5, 2004	Oct 15, 2006	IN
During a test for potential new recruits, Kusanagi comes across a woman who tells her the story of two children who were the only ones to survive a plane crash. After the accident, the boy was paralyzed except for his left arm, with which he was constantly folding cranes , and did not speak a word. The girl was in a coma and received a full-body prosthesis after her condition worsened. When the boy persists after two years, the girl, who has largely recovered thanks to his cyborg body, is supposed to persuade him to have the same operation. However, since she still has problems with her fine motor skills, the boy initially refuses, but later becomes a full cyborg. After that he searches for the girl for a long time, but can only find her former prosthesis and has been considered lost since the war. Kusanagi folds a crane, places it next to the two cyborg bodies the woman is keeping, and leaves. It's not explicitly stated in the episode, but evidence suggests that it is about the youth of Kusanagi, i.e. that is, the girl is Kusanagi.
12	For the nameless	Na mo Naki Mono e SELECON ( 名 も 無 き 者 へ SELECON )	June 5, 2004	Oct 22, 2006	IN
Ishikawa and Boma find a computer virus created by Gouda on a specially protected server that only breaks out in people who have read Patrick Sylvestre's eleventh essay and then make them part of the Independent Eleven. Togusa is supposed to get a printed copy of this essay, but this turns out to be an impossible task: He learns that there was supposedly never a printed version. Elsewhere, the rest of the task force is tracking the assassin on the prime minister, who unexpectedly reappeared. The stranger meets with eleven other men who have carried out various attacks on behalf of the Independent Elf. On the Kyūshū radio tower in Fukuoka , the men finally behead each other with katanas . Only the stranger stays alive and can escape.
13	face	Kao MAKE UP ( 顔 MAKE UP )	July 3, 2004	Oct 29, 2006	DI
Section 9 analysts believe that Independent Eleven suicide survivor Hideo Kuze wears a facial prosthesis made by an artist. Only two people in Japan are eligible for this. When Batou and Togusa visit one of the two, the artist was already murdered by someone who is imitating Paz. Section 9 begins an investigation to clear Paz of the murder suspicion. When one of the investigating police officers is murdered, Paz comes across a former lover who is obsessed with him and who copies him and his body down to the last detail. A fight ensues between the two, in the course of which a Paz dies. However, it is not clear whether this is the original or the copy.
14th	Pay attention to your left eye!	Hidari Me ni Ki o Tsukero POKER FACE ( 左眼 に 気 を つ け ろ POKER FACE )	July 3, 2004	Nov 5, 2006	DI
While the Japanese and American envoys meet to negotiate, Saito plays poker with other security guards and wins every game. For an increase in the deployment, he tells how he lost his left eye: He was a mercenary in Latin America and, as a sniper, had killed several soldiers of a UN force , which also included Major Kusanagi, Batou and Ishikawa. Finally, Saito and the major faced each other on a roof for the final exchange of fire. Saito speculated based on the major's previous shots that she didn't have the right software for medium-range shots and fired at her. Kusanagi had bluffed, however; with one shot it destroyed Saito's telescopic sight, the rubble of which cost his left eye. Then she takes Saito into her unit. Saito leaves open to his fellow players whether the story is the truth or an invention.
15th	An afternoon of machines	Kikaitachi no Gogo PAT. ( 機械 た ち の 午後 PAT. )	Aug 7, 2004	Nov 12, 2006	DI
Major Kusanagi, Batou and Togusa come to the disappearance of Dr. On the trail of Akio Asuda, a scientist who was significantly involved in the development of the neurochip prototype for the artificial intelligence of the tachikomas. Since Asuda worked for a government research institute, he could not register his invention for a patent in order to earn money. Therefore he wants to go to America with the data about his work, but can be arrested by the emergency team beforehand. Batou and Togusa learn from Major Kusanagi that the AI ​​of the Tachikomas is no longer in their bodies, but is housed on a server in a satellite in orbit for security reasons.
16	Over there	Soko ni Iru Koto ANOTHER CHANCE ( そ こ に い る こ と ANOTHER CHANCE )	Aug 7, 2004	Nov 19, 2006	IN
Ishikawa returns from the Korean Peninsula with information on Hideo Kuze. Shortly after the end of the Fourth World War, Kuze was stationed in Korea, where he was supposed to defend the country at war against the People's Army . Kuze's unit ended a massacre perpetrated by marauding troops in a refugee camp but were not allowed to speak about it due to a news blackout . A short time later the rumor arose that the Japanese soldiers, most of whom now suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder , had committed the massacre themselves. At that time, Kuze began to mingle with the refugees and get to know their lives. When the Japanese troops were ordered to return, Kuze disappeared from the camp. He was last seen in a refugee camp in Taiwan.
17th	mother and child	Shūkō Boshi RED DATA ( 修好 母子 RED DATA )	4th Sep 2004	Nov 26, 2006	DI
Major Kusanagi follows Kuke's trail to Taiwan and learns that he is said to have set up a smuggling ring for drugs and weapons there. She saves the life of the refugee boy Chai, who stole drugs from a mafia organization and wants to get into the drug trade himself. The next day, with the help of a key card that the boy slipped her, she found the stolen drugs in the locker of a bathhouse. She follows Chai, who wants to negotiate with the criminals, to their headquarters and again saves his life there. In exchange for the drugs, she demands that the criminals stop bothering the boys and the other refugees.
18th	Heaven over Berlin	Tenshi no Shi TRANS PARENT ( 天使 の 詩 TRANS PARENT )	4th Sep 2004	Dec 3, 2006	DI
A terrorist who is sought worldwide and who calls himself “Angel's Wings”, for an unknown reason, regularly comes to Berlin for several days before his attacks on the conference venues of the summit of the industrial nations. International police forces, including Batou and the major, are monitoring different parts of the city in order to capture the terrorist, whose appearance is unknown, before his next attack. During the observation, Batou notices a girl in a wheelchair who is waiting for her father. He follows her and finds out that she is the daughter of the wanted man. The terrorist pays her a regular visit before his attacks and meets with her in a church. There Batou and the major can finally arrest the man.
19th	Relative response	Sōtai no Rensa CHAIN ​​REACTION ( 相 対 の 連鎖 CHAIN ​​REACTION )	Oct 2, 2004	Dec 10, 2006	IN
The refugees on Dejima have declared themselves independent from Japan and have obtained weapons. The Section 9 task force lands on the island that has been cordoned off by the police to arrest Hideo Kuze and possibly ease the situation. While part of the team is scouting out the refugee camp, the major tries to break into Kuze's cyberbrain and determine his whereabouts, but encounters unexpected problems and is briefly incapacitated. Together, the task force advances to Kuze's alleged whereabouts, a camouflaged harbor in the northeast of the island. There they are ambushed and Yano, one of the new members of Section 9, dies. Major Kusanagi realizes that she has made a mistake: Kuze is not on Dejima, but in Russia, where he wants to buy plutonium.
20th	Confusion in the north	Hokutan no Konmei FABRICATE FOG ( 北端 の 混 迷 FABRICATE FOG )	Oct 2, 2004	Dec 17, 2006	IN
After the failed mission on Dejima, the mission team flies to Etorofu Island , where, according to information Aramaki received from one of his contacts, the most likely place for the plutonium deal is. Once on the island, Kusanagi visits an old friend who was recently killed by a security system while diving into the net. In his notes, the major finds indications that in addition to the cabinet intelligence service, the Ministry of the Interior could also be involved in the deal. Kuze wants to pay for the plutonium with money that he has accumulated from the Japanese population by cleverly diverting the smallest amounts of money. At the handover, however, he and his men are ambushed. When Batou and Saito arrive with their Tachikomas, Kuze and his companions flee with the plutonium. Batou can stand Kuze and faces him with the gun at the ready.
21st	Escape	Haisō EMBARRASSMENT ( 敗走 EMBARRASSMENT )	Nov 6, 2004	Jan 15, 2007	IN
Batou attacks Kuze, but can be incapacitated by him. Major Kusanagi pursues Kuze, who, however, escapes in a boat after a brief firefight. When the emergency team tries to follow him with the tilt rotor aircraft , it is blown up by a suicide attack by a companion Kuzes who has not fled with him; Ishikawa suffers severe head injuries. On the boat, Kuze discovers that the captured containers do not contain any plutonium. Section 9 also comes to this conclusion due to the involvement of the Interior Ministry, which is considered to be certain, but has no evidence of this. Some time later, Kuze's boat is arrested by the coast guard off Nagasaki . When there is an unexpected complete power outage in the city, Kuze can use the following darkness to escape.
22nd	Ghost town	Mujingai REVERSAL PROCESS ( 無人 街 REVERSAL PROCESS )	Nov 6, 2004	Jan. 22, 2007	YOU
When a dirty nuclear bomb is found in the Kyūshū radio tower in Fukuoka , the military evacuates the city and places it under martial law. With the Prime Minister's approval, Boma and Paz set about defusing the bomb and discover that the detonator came from the American military. While the two are at work, Batou discusses with Gouda on the upper platform of the tower in order to get more information about the Independent Elf from him. Major Kusanagi and Saito pretend to be members of the military's bomb clearance squad and take the now defused bomb with them to compare its plutonium with the material from the nuclear facility in Shinjuku district of Tokyo. Section 9 hopes that this will prove the involvement of the Cabinet intelligence service and thus prevent the impending civil war.
23	Dejima Bridges Falling Down	Hashi ga Ochiru Hi MARTIAL LAW ( 橋 が 落 ち る 日 MARTIAL LAW )	Dec 4, 2004	Jan. 29, 2007	IN
After the cabinet decides to deploy the military on Dejima, the Prime Minister turns to the UN on Aramaki's advice to buy time for a peaceful solution to the conflict by requesting nuclear inspectors. When the connection to Aramaki is broken, Major Kusanagi decides to bring some of the plutonium from the bomb to Dejima under the guise of general mobilization of the military. She wants to capture Kuze and hand it over to the inspectors together with the plutonium, who should arrive in two days. The other part is to be brought by Ishikawa for analysis. Gouda has a plane with a jammer circling over the island to cut off the refugees from the outside world and thus cause unrest. When one of the refugees shoots a soldier, the military moves against the barricaded refugees, who then blow up the only bridge between Dejima and the mainland.
24	Bombardment of Dejima	Dejima, Kūbaku NUCLEAR POWER ( 出 島 、 空 爆 NUCLEAR POWER )	Dec 4, 2004	Feb 5, 2007	IN
Prime Minister Kayabuki is removed from office and placed under arrest at the request of the UN inspectors. Aramaki, Togusa and Proto are also being held. Several jigabachi attack helicopters are dispatched to Dejima and attack the refugees when they fire at them. On arrival on Dejima, the Section 9 operations team was also attacked by a jigabachi; Major Kusanagi is separated from the others. A special unit of Section 4 rangers sent by Gouda attacks the team as alleged deserters who are said to have stolen plutonium. Kuze and his comrades manage to destroy the aircraft with the jammer using surface-to-air missiles. At the same time, the Tachikomas discovered by satellite an American nuclear submarine off Okinawa that was apparently planning to bombard Dejima with a nuclear missile at the secret request of the Japanese government.
25th	Beyond paradise	Rakuen no Mukō e THIS SIDE OF JUSTICE ( 楽 園 の 向 こ う へ THIS SIDE OF JUSTICE )	Jan. 8, 2005	Feb 12, 2007	IN
Togusa is able to escape custody with Aramakis and Protos' help and free the prime minister who is being housed elsewhere. Kayabuki wants to establish contact with the Americans in order to prevent the imminent launch of the nuclear missile. While Dejima is being bombed by the military, Batou and the rest of the task force continue to flee from the Section 4 special unit, but are eventually surrounded. Batou reveals himself as a former ranger and is able to pull the members of the unit to his side by explaining the true background of the conflict. At the same time, Major Kusanagi meets Kuze. The two are buried during the bombing. Enclosed under the rubble, Kuze reveals to the major that he understands his planned revolution to be a kind of detachment from the body and the rise of people to become ghosts based on the Internet.
26th	Return to patriotism	Yūkoku e no Kikan ENDLESS∞GIG (憂国へ の 帰 還 ENDLESS∞GIG )	Jan. 8, 2005	Feb 19, 2007	IN
The Prime Minister's efforts are unsuccessful and the nuclear missile is fired from the American submarine. The Tachikomas sacrifice themselves by crashing the satellite in which the server with their AI is located and thus destroying the rocket in flight. Batou is able to free the two victims and Kuze is taken into custody. The rest of the team hands the plutonium over to the military. Defense Minister Takakura is arrested in the government building as one of the masterminds of the conflict. Kazundo Gouda tries with the help of the CIA , which has apparently staged the entire conflict, to evacuate to America. However, he is stopped by the police and killed by Major Kusanagi. At the same time, another CIA employee murdered Hideo Kuze in his cell because there was no need for a charismatic leader in Japan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Broadcast dates for the Japanese premiere. Anime News Network, accessed December 25, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Broadcast dates of the German first broadcast. fernsehserien.de, accessed December 19, 2009 .