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Synopses for The Next Generation - Patlabor -
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Shinji
receives a phone call in the SV2 offices from a man
with an electronically disguised voice who warns him
that there is a bomb planted somewhere in the SV2.
Everyone thinks it's a hoax, however moments later the
henhouse explodes. Kasha hypotheses it's a warning and
another threat will soon follow and believes it's
already been planted somewhere in the SV2. Gotoda
orders everyone to be on alert, but every one is
rather baffled as to why the SV2 have been targeted. A
second phone call tells them another bomb will explode
in 10 seconds. Everyone evacuates the office just
before it explodes. Luckily there are no casualties
and very few injuries. The bomber calls a third time
in Gotoda's office. The captain asks the bomber what
his demands are, however he only replies by saying a
third bomb will explode in an hour. The Labor teams
and the mechanics franticly search the SV2 hanger. A
highly suspicious tin is found at the back of one of
the rooms where the mechanics sleeps. Marked "do not
open" the mechanics discover it contains old idol
magazines and gravure idol photo books dating back to
the 1990's. Excited by the discovery they find more
hidden for at least a decade under tatami mats.
However a third phone call advises the SV2 the bomb is
in the bottom the tin, which explodes. The captain
then decides that the SV2 hanger should evacuated.
With all the equipment and staff outside, the Labor
teams and the mechanics start acting as if they were
on holiday. The staff speculate who the bomber is and
Kasha suspects that it could be an inside job. Shige
becomes paranoid and staters outing various mechanics
as the bomber. The SV2 receive yet another call from
the bomber on their field phone. The bomber tells them
not to think their safe just because they're outside.
Behind them a land mine goes off. Later a delivery
truck heads to the SV2 hanger, but of course the
driver can find no one around as everyone has been
evacuated. Gotoda orders the deliveryman to be
captured, however when they interrogate him, he just
seems to be an ordinary deliveryman. Gotoda orders
Kasha and Shige to open the package for the SV2.
Inside is a pressure cooker bomb. As Kasha begins to
dismantle it, she realises something isn't right about
the situation...
Gotoda and
Kasha have been ordered to the police headquarters to
meet with the head of Security Bureau. A Russian
diplomat has been killed by a sniper in Tokyo.
Division 3, Foreign Affairs as well Public Security
and the as Security Bureau have all become involved in
the case. Kei Takahata of Public Security makes a
formal request of the SV2 to lend them Kasha at the
request of the Russian Federation. A new diplomat,
Ivan Ivanovitch, is arriving in the country to replace
to deceased one, and they have specifically asked
Kasha to provide her skills as a bodyguard to protect
him, mainly because they don't really trust the
Japanese police force. Kasha requests that either the
diplomat cancels his trip or that she should act as a
counter sniper in order to stop the assassin. Back at
the SV2, Akira jokingly suggests that the assassin is
Golgo 13. Yuma is upset that Kasha is leaving, however
Gotoda orders him to accompany her to a shooting range
so that she can zero in her new sniper rifle. Yuma
later finds Kasha's lighter which seems to be men's
lighter. He realises it must have belonged to a former
lover. Takahata visits the SV2 with surveillance video
showing the assassin of the murdered Russian official.
The assassin has been identified as Sergey
Stephanovich Togo, a former KGB agent who trained
snipers for the Russian Federal Security Service,
including Kasha. His code name is Red Togo. In a
flashback we see Togo training Kasha and giving her
his lighter. This is too much for the SV2 members to
take. They end up mocking the situation by dressing up
as Golgo 13 (whose code name was Duke Togo) and openly
speculating what kind of relationship Kasha and Togo
had. Regardless, Kasha decides to take on Togo even if
it's an impossible task. She decides she will go it
alone and won't need backup. Using a map of the
motorcade journey for the diplomat, she scopes out the
possible vantage points that a sniper would use and
formulates her counter sniping tactics.
A
television news show reports on an alligator in a
local zoo which has laid a pearl the size of a ping
pong ball which is valued at Ą2 billion. The mechanics
discuss what they've seen and recall some of the older
members talking about a similar situation where a
albino crocodile laid pearl like eggs in the labyrinth
of tunnels under the reclaimed land. Excitement builds
amongst the mechanics as they think about all the
things around the SV2 that could be fixed or improved.
Knowing what happened previously, Shige tries to talk
(or shout) some sense into the young mechanics.
However it's all too tempting for some, with four of
the mechanics entering a manhole and making their way
into the abandoned tunnels. They leave a note saying
not to follow the. Shige has had enough and prepares
to cover up the manhole with cement to prevent anyone
else foolhardy from following them. Buchiyama pleads
with Captain Gotoda to save the mechanics to no avail.
He then tries asking the Labor team members for help
but everyone refuses the request, except Yuma. Yuma
gives rousing speech on why the mechanics should be
saved and not abandoned and manages to convince
Captain Gotoda to give them permission to carry out a
rescue mission. However the other members of the SV2
are highly suspicious of Yuma's motives. The mechanics
gather up the data (on old floppy discs) of the
previous rescue mission in the tunnels. Amazingly it's
still readable and useful. The two Labor units gear up
and enter the manhole. The rescue crew explore the
tunnels for life while sending back data via video
cameras mounted on their clothes. They soon come
across the strange message that Tadayama Fumihiro left
on the ceiling of one of the tunnels, just as the
former SV2 members had seen long ago. Suddenly they
hear someone coming towards them. They all panic with
Yuma throwing a grenade, shots are fired from everyone
and the camera feed is lost to the mechanics tracking
them on the surface. Just before the chaos, Kasha
spots a tail of some unidentified creature slinking
past the end of the tunnel... The rescue crew end up
inside an abandoned room, which was Fumihiro's old
hide out. Yamazaki is missing and they're low on
supplies due to them being dropped during the panic.
Inside the abandoned room they find two of the
mechanics hiding the corner, literally covered in
crap. Though they hysterically mutter on about a
monster, Yuma decides to forge on when he realises
there is a large stash of pearls not far from the room.
Kei
Takahata of Public Security once again pays a visit to
the SV2. She attempts to pressure Captain Gotoda into
working with her again to help stop the illegal
importation of a cold war era Soviet military Labor.
However Gotoda float out refuses. Takahata finally
gives up but warns Gotoda that he will eventually be
forced by Security Bureau
to cooperate with her. Late that night on a bus,
Ichiro Hachino, the convenience store terrorist from "
Akira
receives an invitation to her class reunion in the
mail at work. Though she states she won't attend, Yuma
and Shinji tease her about former lovers who might me
attending the reunion. This predictably causes a fight
between her and Yuma. However later she begins to day
dream about her former boyfriend from high school who
gave her a necklace as a good luck charm for her
police officer entrance exams. Much to her annoyance
Yuma catchers her daydreaming. Even worse is that Yuma
has already send back her RSVP stating she will be
attending, even though she is rostered on for night
duty on the evening of the reunion. Yuma also wants to
go to his school reunion and tries to make a deal with
Akira to cover her for her when she goes to her
reunion, so in turn she will do the same for him.
Though completely reluctant at first, Yuma
and Shinji manage to convince her to go to her
reunion. Unfortunately Akria doesn't have much time.
She rushes out to buy a new dress, but manages to miss
the cruise boat the reunion is on. One of her
classmates calls and tells her that her former
boyfriend, Kou Takato, is on the pier waiting for her
and that she should have a drink with him as she
missed the reunion. However another person has showed
up late for the reunion, Ichiro Yoshita, a senior whom
neither really know. He persuades them to go to a
Chinese restaurant with him which they reluctantly
agree to. The trio chat with each other and Akira
discovers that Kou is the president of a small trading
company and that the third wheel, Ichiro, works in
aged care. Akira also discovers that Kou wanted to be
an actor, something she's a bit miffed about as he
never told her when they were together. She also
discovers he will be moving to Indonesia soon. Ichiro
excuses himself to take a phone call, but Akira feels
as if there is something suspicious about him. Akria
recalls the time in high school where Kou corrected
the translation on a poster of foreign film there were
going to see, only to be chased away by the owner of
the theatre. Meanwhile at the SV2, they are called
into action and Yuma panics saying he'll pilot the
Ingram. Luckily it's a false alarm. Back at the
restaurant Kou says he wants to apologise to Akira for
breaking up with her and is surprised she didn't throw
away the necklace. While Ichiro goes to the toilet.
Kou decides to make a break and runs with Akira though
the streets, recounting the day they ran from the
theatre owner. While it looks like their romance may
be rekindled, Kou is not exactly who he seems to be...
We revisit
the opening scenes of "Patlabor 2 the movie" where
Yukihito Tsuge's UN peace keeping mission in Cambodia
is apparently abandoned and left to fend for
themselves. After the events of "Patlabor
2 the movie", Shinobu and Gotoh disappear, however we
are told they have inadvertently left a "time bomb"
for the SV2. In the present day, somewhere in the
middle east Shinobu is working for UNHCR and hand
delivered a letter by a UN solider. Back in Tokyo, the
Police Commissioner has succumbed to his prostate
cancer. The head of the Security Bureau is due to be
the next Police Commissioner, however is warned by
elements in the government that he has to get rid of
the SV2. Both Shige and Captain Gotoda are seen as
threats and he must exorcise the ghosts of the past.
At the SV2 a package arrives for Gotoda. Shige hand
delivers it to Gotoda who is out on the pier fishing.
Gotoda tries to get Shige to tell him about the legacy
that the two former captains, Shinobu and Gotoh. After
Shige leaves, Gotoda opens the package to find an old
mobile phone. He switches it on to discover it
belonged to his former senior Gotoh. He tries ringing
the phone in the address book, apparently Gotoh's
landline phone number, however no one picks up. Later
Gotoda goes to visit Tsuge in prison. The guard
informs him that a woman had also visited Tsuge
recently. Gotoda suspects it was Shinobu. Gotoda asks
Tsuge if he still believes in his ideals and Tsuge
retorts by asking him what his purpose is. Tsuge says
that he holds the same views on war and belives in
justice then as he does now. As Gotoda leaves he asks
if there is anything he'd like to pass on to Shinobu.
Tsuge replies by saying that though they had a short
time together it was a precious memory. Meanwhile
somewhere, a mysterious black helicopter is being
readied... Back at the SV2, Akira enters the cockpit
of her Ingram and checks the operating system. Yuma
asks her if she could fire her Revolver Cannon, what
would be the target. She replies she would target
tomorrow. Gotoda echoes Tsuge's line that while his
time as the SV2 was short, it was a precious memory.
Suddenly the phone Gotoda received in the mail
rings...