Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (1998–…): Season 1, Episode 16 - I Surrender - full transcript

Sylia musters up the strength to begin building new hardsuits, but a pissed off Saber walks out on the project. The AD Police go on strike and Nene is locked inside HQ when Galatea's playtime awakens hundreds of rogue boomers in storage!

Hey, Priss! What's
wrong with you?!

Hey!

Priss!

Did you see that too?!

Anyway, we have to go see Sylia!

Sylia, what's the matter?!

I heard she collapsed suddenly
and hasn't moved since.

Her body temperature and pulse
are rapidly dropping.

I've already called
a doctor, but...

What the hell is this?

Sotai...



The Sotai Phenomenon is
beginning to rise rapidly.

The shield's strength is 500 times
greater than that of Wiz Lab,

but we must do something or...

Get the elevator up here.
But we must do something or...

Get the elevator up here.

Galatea is just lonely, I know.

Elevator ascension completed.
Condition, nominal.

What's wrong, Galatea?

You've been calling your friends,
right? But it's too early.

Too early?

Yes, it's too early.

You're a good girl. You're
becoming more and more clever.

I want to show you to Stingray,

who, in his stupidity, tried
to kill your intelligence.



I want to play!

I guess I need to see her
power anyway.

I see. You want to play?

Then we need to find
a place for you.

Sylia!

I guess she's calming down.
Sylia!

I guess she's calming down.

Who's calming down?

The Sotai, my other self, has
been confined somewhere.

She's been bombarding us with
her desire to go outside.

What do you mean? What's
the relationship between them?

A quasi-living organism,

a nano-mechanism implanted in
her brain when she was little.

She's called Sotai?

In addition to her, I'm
one of the failures.

I hate your way of putting that.

Sylia!

Sylia, don't move yet!

Mr. Meisio, Sylia's back!

Thank you, Meisio.

How do you feel now, Miss Sylia?

Horrible of course, since she's
been yelling in my brain.

I'm so relieved, Sylia!

Sorry to make you worry, Nene.

And the rest of you too.

But I wonder why...

We were also struck by the dream
you were dreaming.

We all saw the same image from
your dream. What did that mean?

I see...

Does that mean we all
understand each other?

In other words, it wasn't
a coincidence for us

to have met and become
Knight Sabers, was it?

If someone calls it a coincidence,
it might have been,

but it was also inevitable.

Before you arrived, I formed
another band of Knight Sabers.

At that time, I was young, and I
led the others into the fight.

I scouted other members the
same as I did with you.

A girl who was good
at martial arts.

An American who used to be in
Special Ops for the Pentagon.

No matter what their fighting
abilities were,

they were too ordinary to
fully use the hard suits,

even though I chose the girls who
had similar shapes to mine.

A hard suit can only
maintain its shape

and special functions by forming
to a female body.

Because originally,
it was a boomer.

I get it. A boomer can only be a
boomer by imitating a human.

But that means we were...

I'm sorry not to have
told you about it.

But the cores I mounted in your
suits were copied from clean ones,

so the hard suits could never have
a mind of their own or move alone.

But why does it have to be female?

Because I am female.

The hard suit is customized
to my body.

Therefore, at first,

I thought it was proper to choose
girls with bodies similar to mine.

But in that case,
Nene or I are not...

Well, of course it's better
if they can move well,

but there's something more
important than that.

What?

I have to have the feeling that
I will really like them.

No way, Sylia!

Well, of course I like you,

but it's not something like
falling in love or...

What a weird girl!

But she's right.

Hard suits don't just follow the
action synapses of their wearer.

They move with information from
deep inside of the brain

or the emotional part
of the person.

That's why the person has
to get along with me.

"Get along" might not be the
proper words to describe it.

In other words, person's
wavelength matches mine.

I see. I was so surprised.

You're selfish. You think you can
get along with us in your own way

and pretend to let us earn
some allowances,

but actually, you manipulated
us to cheer you up, didn't you?

Yet you made us put
on a boomer?!

I already apologized to you for it.

I know you have the most extreme
feelings about boomers...

That's not something
for you to discuss!

I've had more than enough!
No more!

Priss!

Mackey, can you call Nigel?

I have to ask him to create
new hard suits.

Sure.

It's a boomer, isn't it?

If you don't like that,
you can quit.

Even if I'm all by myself,

I will deal with Sotai, and
smash her core!

I've heard about you.
What a guy you are!

What are you talking about?

The rumor has already spread
all over the Totem Pole.

You and the lady singer at Hot
Legs had a midnight rendezvous.

It's not like that!

Oh, it's not like that?
Of course not, right?

No ordinary girl would go out with
someone like you, would she?

You're serious, aren't you?

I guess I shouldn't reveal
another rumor

to a guy with the mental state
of a mere mortal, should I?

I don't have time to listen to
stupid rumors one by one.

I've heard that all the director
types in the frontline division

were called up to the top
management office this morning.

The AD Police will be merged into
the Normal Police soon,

according to a disgusting story
that leaked out somewhere.

What does it mean?

This place can't survive without
the support of a private business.

Do you mean Genom?

Genom doesn't think boomers are
a main part of its business now.

Even so, how can they
dump us so easily?!

After all, we're just a waste
disposal team for Genom.

Genom!

Mason, you're hiding something
from me, aren't you?

What are you talking about?

It could cost you your life if you
underestimate this old man.

You brought a dangerous thing
into this tower, didn't you?

It's just an experiment of the
system which transfers

the beam being sent
from the umbrella,

currently under construction
in orbit, into kinetic energy.

I'm just concerned about
an overflow of energy.

Please don't worry about it.

I see...

Mason.

Yes, Chairman Rozenkroitz?

Do not betray me.

Yes, Sir.

Who is it?

Geez. Don't send me
e-mail at the office.

Are you doing well at work, Nene?

That's Ms. Nene!

Can you come to Sylia's
shop after work today?

Sylia is... It's too late for Sylia
to wear the hard suit.

After someone has
matured as a female,

she can't keep the core
of the hard suit pure,

because of the functioning
of her brain.

If you put it that way,
then I haven't matured.

In order to make a new hard suit,
we need to measure your body.

Well, I understand I'm asking you
to do something horrible,

but I don't want to let
Sylia go by herself.

Younger brother?

What? You're still here?

I'm sorry to be here, but
I don't have a choice.

No, that's not true. You
didn't know, did you?

This afternoon, everybody
has to leave the office.

What do you mean?

It's a strike. The AD Police will be
merged into the Normal Police.

You aren't a member of
the union, are you?

No. I don't like things
like that very much.

Then you can do whatever,
including go home for half a day.

Why don't you go out with your
boyfriend? If you have one.

How rude you are!

What shall I do? A new hard suit?

You're a member of the union,
aren't you?

There's a penalty if you
stay here, isn't there?

I don't care. Just for once,
tell me the truth, Nick.

Is the AD Police going to
be dissolved?

I've heard there's a
rumor like that.

Is it just a rumor?

A rumor contains some
truth once in a while.

I see.

I didn't say anything.

Sure, I understood your
words in my own way.

Leon McNichol.

You've been a good
frontline officer.

You can go back to the normal
police triumphantly.

I applied here because
I hated it there.

I don't intend to go
back there at all.

An excellent policeman can
only live as a policeman.

Where is the evidence
to prove that?

I guess you're sure.

I feel the same as you.

What are you going to do, Nene?

Well, do you have any
suggestions?

I don't know.

You're a man, aren't you?

You should decide what to do
by yourself, shouldn't you?

I guess so. I have to
decide by myself.

I wonder if Linna ever
goes there or not?

I guess Priss doesn't go.

What the hell is happening?!
Nothing is coming in!

What the hell's going on?!

What?

No way!

Am I the only one left
in this building?!

I just can't be!

Hey!

Director!

You're an operator in the
information center, aren't you?

What's happening now?

Well, even though there's
no sign of anything,

our protection system
has initiated itself.

Ridiculous! Is the system
here that stupid?!

No way! If an error occurs, this
system can correct it by itself!

It's a waste of time to argue
about it here.

If the alarm is telling us the truth,
we shouldn't be here.

What happened?

Excuse me!

Hey, you!
Excuse me!

Hey, you!
I'm going back to the Center
and investigate!

I'm going back to the Center
and investigate!

What just appeared?

Underground...

What the hell are you?!

Boomers?

No way!

What the hell is going on?!

Why are there so many boomers
underground?

It's the warehouse. Mad boomers
recovered by frontline officers.

Why did they revive?

I don't know.

Anyway, we have to
stop them here.

Dragon Lines K-24, R-34 and
Y-133 have been closed.

The area affected by the
phenomenon is spreading
along the Dragon Line.

It's not contamination.

Galatea's phenomenon is allowing
boomers to show their true self.

Good. The experiment is over.

The contaminated area has
penetrated the wall.

I guess you never would have
thought that the Dragon Line

would be used for a purpose
like this, right, Chairman?

How is the Totem Pole?

The boomers stored in the
warehouse are reviving.

I don't think the striking workers
need a home to return to.

We need not do anything. The
boomers will do what they want.

What's wrong, Sylia?

She's shouting in my mind again.

This isn't good.

The phenomenon seems
to be recurring.

Boomers are not just a
tool to serve humans.

You...

You...
Yes, Galatea. Someone named
you Galatea, didn't he?

Yes, Galatea. Someone named
you Galatea, didn't he?

Hold yourself together, Mackey!
You are not a boomer!

I... I'm not a human either.

You are yourself!

I...

Nene's in danger!

We're finished!

Back off!

Run!

They're endless!

Nene Romanova, place emergency
calls to all frontline officers

and request the
Normal Police to help!

I've already tried that, but
I can't contact them.

All the outside circuits
have been cut.

I know. When someone
attacks headquarters,

the highest level fire wall
engages automatically.

Damn! They're coming
this way too!

That fire wall will be broken soon!

This way! Hurry!

Director, hurry and get up here!

You can't stay there any longer!

I guess you're right. Is there
anybody left in this building?

I ran an ID search, but there's
nobody except us.

There are many calls, but AD
Police Headquarters is closed

and its communications with
the outside world cut.

The AD Police Union
is on strike today

and nobody should be
inside the building.

This looks good.

What the hell is that?

What was that?

This is Linna Yamazaki.

Nene's in danger! Help Nene!

What?!

Nene is locked up in
the Totem Pole.

There are countless
boomers in there!

I got you!

But we don't have any hard suits!

Zombie boomers suddenly attack
the AD Police building

which is short on personnel
because of the strike.

As their numbers rapidly increase,

we are gradually cornered!

Neither Priss, Leon or the others
are aware of this situation.

What the hell is this?!
I'm surrounded by them!

Next Bubblegum Crisis!