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Synopses for Patlabor On Television
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The
Phantom Labor lands and is heading towards Sashiki. It
has already destroyed one of the Holly Security
Services Labors. Captain Fuwa and her military Labor
team plan to lure the Phantom Labor into the military
training grounds to destroy it. Division 2 arrive, but
are ordered not to get involved, if at all possible.
As Captain Fuwa's team are dropped from a military
plane they are immediately attacked by the Phantom
Labor's beam weapon, even before they land. One of the
Labors is damaged but they still continue on with
their plan. Kanuka decides that they should be the
ones leading the Phantom Labor into the training
ground. The plan certainly works but Ota is attacked
and is severely beaten. Captain Fuwa manages to save
Ota by forcing the Phantom Labor away. Ota notices
that there is a second armed Labor lurking around
helping it. Meanwhile Kurosaki decides that he needs
more battle data. He instructs his team to get the
Phantom Labor to steal Noa's movement disc at any
cost. Noa is now the sole target of the of the Phantom
labor. She has to fight it alone without any backup.
Even if she does win she still may have to deal with
the second Labor.
The Tokyo
Metropolitan Police are holding a Public Safety
Awareness Week. Division 2 are holding a seminar on
Labor safety when a Yakuza boss decides to take an
interest in what they're doing. He introduces himself
to Noa and Kanuka. Are the Yakuza trying to intimidate
them? But he seems quite freindly and even
invites them to his house to show off his Labor
collection. All he wants to know is how set the
defaults on his Labors so he can use them. Noa shows
him but is a little concerned. He rewards the SV2 with
gifts, but for a police unit to receive gifts from a
Yakuza boss, well that's ruat with danger. The
relationship begins to get a bit stronger, and the
boss becomes so enthralled with piloting Labors he
decides to do help out the SV2! The Yakuza are now
helping to stop crime. Trouble brews when a rival
Yakuza boss gets jealous and wants a piece of the
action. This could lead to a gang war. Noa and Kanuka
must stop them before blood is shed. Screenplay by
Michiko Yokote. Originally broadcast 21 March 1990.
Kanuka's
stay with the SV2 is up. She must now return to the
New York Police Department. She explicitly states she
doesn't want a farewell party. However several members
of Division 2 have other ideas. They literally break
into her apartment to give her a surprise party. But
Shinshi accidentally discovers a report she has been
working on for the NYPD. It's a report on Division 2
and there is a dossier on every member. The report
however does not give Division 2 a good review. Far
from it. Eventually when they reach Ota's dossier, it
is so bad he practically destroys the lounge room an d
the computer, and Kanuka is due back any minute.
Kanuka is
finally heading back to New York. The team feel like
they have disgraced themselves so Noa is the only one
there to see her off. Before the plane takes off a
strange man named Ginji Nekowatari enters the cockpit
and tells the pilot that he has a bomb on board. He
demands the release of one of the "Home of the Sea"
terrorists currently in custody. Unfortunately Kanuka
has had to check her gun in with the pilot before she
boarded. She decides to disguise herself as an air
hostess to get closer to the terrorist and move freely
about the plane. Although it probably won't take much
to fool this terrorist.
With the
departure of Kanuka, Shinshi has has been given the
unenviable job of being Ota's backup. Things are not
going well. Shinshi just can't control him and he
won't listen to any of his orders. Maybe he isn't cut
out for this work. An opportunity comes up for him to
return to his old line of work; computer programming.
The job sounds good, he'll get three times more than
what he's getting now and he'll be the head of his own
department. But can he turn his back on his
colleagues, his job and resign from the police force?
A new
member is a about to join Division 2. Her Name is
Takeo Kumagami. She's an excellent cop, good at
cooking, a great typist, gret with computers, has
mastered the basic pattern movements of the Ingram in
less than a day and was even scouted by Interpol but
turned the offer down. Why on Earth is she here at the
SV2? Captain Gotoh is thinking of changing some of the
positions in his team. Is Kumagami trying to take
Noa's position? Will changing the team be a problem
for morale? Screenplay by Michiko Yokote. Originally
broadcast 25 April 1990.
Division 2
are out on a training mission at a group of abandoned
buildings set for demolition. They are training for
urban combat and hostage situations. Everything seems
to be going fine until the nightshift comes. Local
residents claim that the buildings are haunted. Voices
can be heard at night and a ghostly group of samurai
can sometime be seen. Shinshi discovers that disaster
and death have always befell the area, with many
deaths due to earthquakes, especially the big one
which happened fours years prior. One night Captain
Gotoh's computer malfunctions and the world "Help!"
scrolls across his screen continually. Then he is
attacked by a man with a sword who vanishes! Later Ota
feels someone "tugging" at his Labor and Noa sees a
ghostly vision of a young boy. Are these mysterious
occurrences the work of spirits? Is the site cursed?
On leave,
Noa and Asuma head out to the city and end up in a
game arcade. Asuama spots a Patlabor game, but both he
and Noa are beaten by it. A man named Utsumi shows up
claiming his company created the game and then
proceeds to clear all the levels. Noa decides she
won't be beaten and tries again, and fails. A young
boy named Bud shows up and says he'll avenge Noa. Noa
can't believe even a kid is better at this game than
she is. Utsumi and Bud are actually employees of
Schaft. They're getting read to make their next move.
Utsumi and Kurosaki are heading up the Griffin
project. An experimental Labor with battle
capabilities higher than most military Labors. The
Labor has been created to develop components for other
Labors. The first part of their plan involves testing
out Division 2. Utsumi sends out a Saturn Labor to
cause havoc on a construction site hoping that
Division 2 will show up.
With the
SV2 hangers being out in the middle of an isolated
reclaimed landfill, getting food has always been a
problem. The Shanghai Restaurant is the only place
that will deliver to them. In what should have been a
typical order, the food doesn't arrive. Apparently the
delivery boy has disappeared with the order. Ota rings
the restaurant to complain and ends up insulting them.
eventually the hunger gets to them and Ota is forced
to apologise .But the restaurant now says it doesn't
want to go out at night because of the stray dogs that
live on the reclaimed land and the fact the there is
no one to deliver the food. Fed up after waiting hours
and hours, Ota says he will provide an escort for the
restaurant but he doesn't return. A few hours later
the mechanics take off to find Ota, but they also
don't return. Where have they gone and why don't they
return?
On a
secret training ground, military Labors are fighting a
large black Labor. All the teams are defeated
including Captain Fuwa's team. Her Labor's movement
disc is ripped out of her Labor. The mysterious black
Labor leaves a message written in the sand; "The
Griffin has Arrived". The Schaft team is delighted
with the results, although some think that Bud is a
dangerous pilot who takes too many risks. Utsumi now
wants to take on Division 2 so that he can capture an
Ingram to study it and for it's movement data. Shinobu
meets her old friend Fuwa for a meal. Captain Fuwa
takes the opportunity to ask Shinobu if she knows
anything about a Labor called the Griffin that can
mimic human movement. Meanwhile news comes though that
the police chief is thinking of creating two new
divisions. But all four divisions would get new
economy Ingrams being developed by Shinohara Heavy
Industries. This means Division 2's old Ingrams would
have to go. Captain Gotoh isn't too sure this is a
good idea. Are the Labors worse than the current ones?
There's only one place to find out; The Tokyo
International Labor Show.