Fire Force (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - The Battle Begins - full transcript
While jogging, Shinra inadvertently disturbs Iris's purification rite, and sees that she is troubled. When Iris later turns up missing, the other members of Company 8 rally to Company 5's compound, to which Iris had secretly slipped away.
Causes of death are many and varied.
Old age, suicide, illness...
But the cause of death that scares
the most people in this day and age...
Nee-san...
Huh?
S-Sorry!
Was she crying?
I really am sorry.
Th-That's okay. I was the one
being absent-minded.
Take care with your training, okay?
Thank you very much.
Well, if you'll excuse me...
Oh, um, Sister...?
Is there something troubling you?
Helping others out is a Fire Soldier's
whole purpose, so...
Thank you very much.
The darkness is illuminated
The days we've grown accustomed
to walking are weeded out
My dream might be to make a stable living
but I'll moan over the lack of stimulation
The end is illuminated
Where are the streets we're
accustomed to walking?
Time can sometimes be irksome,
but we're enveloped in warmth
Flames rise to show us the way
reminding us of a gentle melody
There is no eternity, none at all, they say
I just smile, thinking that's fine with me
If we shine, someday, our light will go out
We'll keep on walking until the day
the fire of our lives gets doused
Playthings that make sounds
and magic that chases pain away
are all precious treasures to me
There is no eternity, none at all, they say
We'll keep on walking until the day
the fire of our lives gets doused
After that little dustup
with the 5th yesterday,
you probably know this,
but that bunch is hinky.
We're going to investigate them,
and it may come to blows.
Captain Obi, that's no
longer physical training...
It's something physical-training adjacent.
Hinawa!
Our primary objective
is to put Infernals to rest,
and to keep the public safe.
However,
we must keep in mind the
8th's hidden objective
to investigate suspicious crew members
and find the means to oppose them, as well.
"Setsuko-in-the-Wall"
Like Captain Obi said...
I'm so distracted by his cap,
I can't hear a word he's saying.
Damn you, griffin!
Attack my castle again, will you?
I'll tarnish Excalibur with your blood!
You really are an idiot.
Say what you want, but please don't
take down that adorable griffin.
You'll be arrested for violating
the wildlife protection laws.
You're pretty dangerous
yourself, there, Maki-san.
Then again, 90% of the time,
Maki-san is cool, beautiful, and lovely.
It's just a shame about the other 10%.
A shame...?
Hey, you people, this is an
important meeting. No idle chatter.
Lieutenant! Please don't point
your gun at us, even as a joke!
Do I look like the kind of man who jokes?
Huh?
Látom.
My leg! My... leg...
There's nothing there.
But how? An airgun...?
No, it's a real gun.
Lieutenant Hinawa is a
second generation, like me.
He can't start fires on his own,
but he is able to control them.
He weakened the gunpowder's explosive force
so that when he shot you,
it was with nonlethal force.
"Weakened"
Unlike Infernals, when you face a
hostile second or third generation,
there's no telling what they might do.
We're going to start
going up against them, too.
Arthur, you're an idiot,
so that goes double for you.
I'm a man who slays dragons.
You'll have to find a dragon first, though.
Training starts now. I'm going to
push the hell out of you.
Don't focus only up top!
Watch your opponent's whole body!
Lieutenant,
I can't stand how the 5th would
even joke about burning civilians.
Who is that Captain Princess, anyway?
Third-generation Fire
Soldier, Princess Hibana.
She rose out of nowhere from Haijima,
and landed in her current position.
From what I've learned,
she seems to have gotten where she is
by illegally researching Infernals
and selling away her data.
In that case, she might already know
the cause behind human combustion!
She has enough data to allow an upstart
like her to become a captain, at least.
We're planning on using force to get it,
too.
We're getting into the 5th,
even if it means violence.
Your feet and Arthur's plasma
will be useful to that end.
Forget the data,
I'm just in it to smash the 5th.
"Special Fire Force Complex 5"
Please, stop, already!
Gravel! Gravel! Gravel!
Silence! Your body is
the one I'm talking to!
Tell me everything about yourself
that I don't already know!
Both you and everything
that's not you is all gravel!
Lay the foundation for my happiness,
you gravel scum!
It's coming out! It's coming out!
What do I care, you piece of crap?
Keep on screaming, you nobody.
Lie there on the ground for
my strong, beautiful self, gravel!
The flame is the soul's breath.
The black smoke is the soul's release.
Ashes thou wert and art. May thy soul...
...return to the great flame of fire.
Látom.
I ought to know.
That smile was strained. Did something
happen with those 5th guys?
Hey, Arthur, do you know if
something's up with the sister?
What? The princess has appointed me
commander of the order?
You look absolutely
ridiculous when you sleep.
What's up? Is something wrong
with the princess?
Stop calling the sister a princess.
Besides, what about Maki-san?
...That woman is an ogress...
...Shinra!
...That woman is an ogress...
What brings you here?
Do either of you know
where the sister went?
Huh?
"Episode 5: The Battle Begins"
I beg your pardon.
What is a sister doing here at this hour?
Would it be possible for me
to see your captain?
Huh? What are you talking about?
Please tell your captain that Iris is here.
Something I can do for you,
little Miss Have-not?
I'm not entirely sure what you're doing,
but it's dangerous, isn't it?
It's also corrupt research
that defies the great Sol!
Are those really your ideals?
Nee-san...
Do not wear that habit in front of me!
Nee-san, why?!
Sisters are nothing but window
dressing for the Fire Force.
And you've devoted
yourself to this nonsense.
Once a fool, always a fool, I guess.
Don't talk to me about God.
What you all worship is a hollow
puppet that doesn't even exist.
What we have in this land,
and across the world, isn't God.
We only have devils such as myself.
Devils...
I'll use you to lure the 8th here,
and then crush them.
What was that? A mortar?
Something came down out of the sky!
Who are you?!
Who am I? Well, let's see...
I'm Find-the-Sister-and-Crush-the-5th Man,
from Company 8!
Lieutenant! Are you sure we
should be acting so rashly?!
The 5th has long been carrying out
some pretty shady research here.
It's not exactly like they
can file any reports!
Shinra, you find the sister.
Maki and I will take care of things here.
Just the two of you, against all of them?
Once you get inside
and start tearing it up,
we'll have more room to move, too.
Go!
Right!
Arthur! Keep going! We'll cover you!
You watch yourself, too, Lieutenant.
Here he comes!
You won't get past me!
He's fast!
Discount not; it was the back of my sword.
"Discount"
"D̶i̶s̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶" "Despair"
A-After him! Don't let him get away!
Don't think you can escape my discipline!
Run!
Lieutenant, as usual, you seem to be
more merciless against people
than you ever are against Infernals.
I didn't join the Special Fire Force,
I joined the 8th under Captain Obi
so I could lay out the idiots of this land
who won't listen to reason.
You pound on them, too, Maki. Pound on them
until they give you the location
of the spontaneous
combustion research data.
I left the military and joined the Fire
Force because I wanted to save lives.
So I'm not big on man-to-man fighting.
You did hit that rookie
from the 5th earlier, right?
That was just a light tap.
That devil sure can move when he's
running away. I can't see where he went.
Devil's Footprints.
Are you following the
Devil's Footprints, too?
Who are you, old-timer? A conehead?
It's dangerous here. Go back to your farm.
I can't have you snooping
around the 5th like this.
I'll kill you.
Aren't you...?
By administering a drug
I've been researching,
I've boosted this Infernal's firepower.
I'm tickled to have found
such a fine specimen.
We meet again, murderer.
I'll take my sword and... my sword and...
...my sword to...
Those small-timers from the 8th
are too big for their britches.
What is that?
Lieutenant, get back!
That was some tremendous firepower.
Heh, heh, 8th nobodies.
I just blow some flammable gas
into my zero-oxygen bubble gum,
send it toward my target,
pop the bubble,
...Here comes another one.
...and when the flammable gas
hits fresh oxygen...
...Please stay back.
...and when the flammable gas
hits fresh oxygen...
...and when the flammable gas
hits fresh oxygen...
...it explodes!
That's what's known as Toru Kishiri's
Backdraft Bubblish Gum!
"Backdraft Bubblish Gum"
And another, and another, and another!
Maki, where are we being attacked from?
From that warehouse. The target
must be inside. I can't be sure.
That's good enough.
"Ballistic control"
Lame. What are you even aiming at?
From the sparks generated on impact,
I tweak each bullet again.
"Ricochet control"
What...?
Pathetic. It takes more than
this to stop my rookies.
Maki, we're going to get these crewmen
to give up where the documents are.
Yes, sir.
Hold it!
5th Angels Three...
...On the scene!
...Has arrived!
...Breaking in!
Have you made your peace?
Finding yourself alone in an enemy's base
shows that the meager 8th is
as undermanned as our intel says.
The Infernal that my research has
fortified will reduce you to cinders.
He's my new weapon that can focus
his augmented firepower into one point,
and then release it!
Leave neither a body nor ashes, now.
Thanks to your drug, the flame and
power within my body are surging,
until they're ready to come out!
That was close.
Hey, you! Are you trying to
turn me into knight teriyaki?!
Teriyaki? What kind of seasoning
do you think you're basted in?
I alight upon the scorched earth,
clad in golden robes...
Huh? Are you talking about tempura now?!
What are you, an idiot?
I'm a knight.
Status?
The Angels vs. Hinawa,
Arthur vs. the Infernal,
and Obi is nowhere to
be seen at the moment.
Like moths flying into a flame.
Burn them all until there's nothing left.
The truth and the intrigue behind
spontaneous human combustion...
...are all the result of our research.
I won't allow gravel to stand in my way.
Are you seriously a Special Fire Soldier?
You got cold feet?
You're not putting up a fight.
Don't act like this is no big deal.
What's the matter with you?
You're only acting like you're tough,
when actually, you're
ridiculously weak! And stupid!
Why is this? Why am I not my usual self?
It's not a question of your manner.
My Infernal's firepower
is just too strong for you.
There are chumps who just say
they're out of the zone or whatever,
when really, they couldn't ever do anything
in the first place, and run away.
It's exactly the kind of excuse
you bogus Fire Soldiers would use!
Bunch of moronic nobodies!
What?
The newly-assigned rookie can't even
fathom how outmatched he is.
Then he blames it on
having a bad day. Pathetic.
An idiot who can only talk tough, a knight?
Good one, coming from
a behind-in-the-count loser!
I'm not just a knight; I'm the Knight King!
Shut up!
The least I can do for
a nosy nobody like you
is to kill you while making you suffer!
Why? I'm getting no power at all.
My left? Why, when I'm right-handed,
am I holding it in my left hand?
Huh?! How should I know?!
You can use that excuse
when you get to the afterlife!
Violet Flash.
What do you know?
I thought something was strange.
What the hell?
He's ridiculously strong!
5th Angels Three Three-on-Three
Triple-grating Slasher, ver. 2.3!
That's way too many... numbers!
There are more than just
three 5th Angels Three?
Looks like that's all of them, though.
I wonder if Shinra and
the others are doing okay.
While Shinra is dashing around,
we'll look for their documents.
In here.
"To be continued"
You can toil your way
through humorless days
and curse the unwavering present,
but words that simply hang in the air
are not enough to save you
We've been walking shoulder-to-shoulder
between sights we never reach
and pain that brings no warmth
to make it to a faraway place
Given the hope that you speak of
or the ideals that you dream of
I'll find a way to show you love,
however cold you may be
You can toil your way
through humorless days
and curse the unwavering present,
but words that simply hang in the air
are not enough to save you
You can cry out timidly
but that changes when
the nights grow fevered
Even if we let go of each other's hands,
I hope we can still walk together again
I'll refrain from saying goodbye
to ensure that we can meet again somewhere
"Next time"
"Episode 6:
The Spark of Promise"
Old age, suicide, illness...
But the cause of death that scares
the most people in this day and age...
Nee-san...
Huh?
S-Sorry!
Was she crying?
I really am sorry.
Th-That's okay. I was the one
being absent-minded.
Take care with your training, okay?
Thank you very much.
Well, if you'll excuse me...
Oh, um, Sister...?
Is there something troubling you?
Helping others out is a Fire Soldier's
whole purpose, so...
Thank you very much.
The darkness is illuminated
The days we've grown accustomed
to walking are weeded out
My dream might be to make a stable living
but I'll moan over the lack of stimulation
The end is illuminated
Where are the streets we're
accustomed to walking?
Time can sometimes be irksome,
but we're enveloped in warmth
Flames rise to show us the way
reminding us of a gentle melody
There is no eternity, none at all, they say
I just smile, thinking that's fine with me
If we shine, someday, our light will go out
We'll keep on walking until the day
the fire of our lives gets doused
Playthings that make sounds
and magic that chases pain away
are all precious treasures to me
There is no eternity, none at all, they say
We'll keep on walking until the day
the fire of our lives gets doused
After that little dustup
with the 5th yesterday,
you probably know this,
but that bunch is hinky.
We're going to investigate them,
and it may come to blows.
Captain Obi, that's no
longer physical training...
It's something physical-training adjacent.
Hinawa!
Our primary objective
is to put Infernals to rest,
and to keep the public safe.
However,
we must keep in mind the
8th's hidden objective
to investigate suspicious crew members
and find the means to oppose them, as well.
"Setsuko-in-the-Wall"
Like Captain Obi said...
I'm so distracted by his cap,
I can't hear a word he's saying.
Damn you, griffin!
Attack my castle again, will you?
I'll tarnish Excalibur with your blood!
You really are an idiot.
Say what you want, but please don't
take down that adorable griffin.
You'll be arrested for violating
the wildlife protection laws.
You're pretty dangerous
yourself, there, Maki-san.
Then again, 90% of the time,
Maki-san is cool, beautiful, and lovely.
It's just a shame about the other 10%.
A shame...?
Hey, you people, this is an
important meeting. No idle chatter.
Lieutenant! Please don't point
your gun at us, even as a joke!
Do I look like the kind of man who jokes?
Huh?
Látom.
My leg! My... leg...
There's nothing there.
But how? An airgun...?
No, it's a real gun.
Lieutenant Hinawa is a
second generation, like me.
He can't start fires on his own,
but he is able to control them.
He weakened the gunpowder's explosive force
so that when he shot you,
it was with nonlethal force.
"Weakened"
Unlike Infernals, when you face a
hostile second or third generation,
there's no telling what they might do.
We're going to start
going up against them, too.
Arthur, you're an idiot,
so that goes double for you.
I'm a man who slays dragons.
You'll have to find a dragon first, though.
Training starts now. I'm going to
push the hell out of you.
Don't focus only up top!
Watch your opponent's whole body!
Lieutenant,
I can't stand how the 5th would
even joke about burning civilians.
Who is that Captain Princess, anyway?
Third-generation Fire
Soldier, Princess Hibana.
She rose out of nowhere from Haijima,
and landed in her current position.
From what I've learned,
she seems to have gotten where she is
by illegally researching Infernals
and selling away her data.
In that case, she might already know
the cause behind human combustion!
She has enough data to allow an upstart
like her to become a captain, at least.
We're planning on using force to get it,
too.
We're getting into the 5th,
even if it means violence.
Your feet and Arthur's plasma
will be useful to that end.
Forget the data,
I'm just in it to smash the 5th.
"Special Fire Force Complex 5"
Please, stop, already!
Gravel! Gravel! Gravel!
Silence! Your body is
the one I'm talking to!
Tell me everything about yourself
that I don't already know!
Both you and everything
that's not you is all gravel!
Lay the foundation for my happiness,
you gravel scum!
It's coming out! It's coming out!
What do I care, you piece of crap?
Keep on screaming, you nobody.
Lie there on the ground for
my strong, beautiful self, gravel!
The flame is the soul's breath.
The black smoke is the soul's release.
Ashes thou wert and art. May thy soul...
...return to the great flame of fire.
Látom.
I ought to know.
That smile was strained. Did something
happen with those 5th guys?
Hey, Arthur, do you know if
something's up with the sister?
What? The princess has appointed me
commander of the order?
You look absolutely
ridiculous when you sleep.
What's up? Is something wrong
with the princess?
Stop calling the sister a princess.
Besides, what about Maki-san?
...That woman is an ogress...
...Shinra!
...That woman is an ogress...
What brings you here?
Do either of you know
where the sister went?
Huh?
"Episode 5: The Battle Begins"
I beg your pardon.
What is a sister doing here at this hour?
Would it be possible for me
to see your captain?
Huh? What are you talking about?
Please tell your captain that Iris is here.
Something I can do for you,
little Miss Have-not?
I'm not entirely sure what you're doing,
but it's dangerous, isn't it?
It's also corrupt research
that defies the great Sol!
Are those really your ideals?
Nee-san...
Do not wear that habit in front of me!
Nee-san, why?!
Sisters are nothing but window
dressing for the Fire Force.
And you've devoted
yourself to this nonsense.
Once a fool, always a fool, I guess.
Don't talk to me about God.
What you all worship is a hollow
puppet that doesn't even exist.
What we have in this land,
and across the world, isn't God.
We only have devils such as myself.
Devils...
I'll use you to lure the 8th here,
and then crush them.
What was that? A mortar?
Something came down out of the sky!
Who are you?!
Who am I? Well, let's see...
I'm Find-the-Sister-and-Crush-the-5th Man,
from Company 8!
Lieutenant! Are you sure we
should be acting so rashly?!
The 5th has long been carrying out
some pretty shady research here.
It's not exactly like they
can file any reports!
Shinra, you find the sister.
Maki and I will take care of things here.
Just the two of you, against all of them?
Once you get inside
and start tearing it up,
we'll have more room to move, too.
Go!
Right!
Arthur! Keep going! We'll cover you!
You watch yourself, too, Lieutenant.
Here he comes!
You won't get past me!
He's fast!
Discount not; it was the back of my sword.
"Discount"
"D̶i̶s̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶" "Despair"
A-After him! Don't let him get away!
Don't think you can escape my discipline!
Run!
Lieutenant, as usual, you seem to be
more merciless against people
than you ever are against Infernals.
I didn't join the Special Fire Force,
I joined the 8th under Captain Obi
so I could lay out the idiots of this land
who won't listen to reason.
You pound on them, too, Maki. Pound on them
until they give you the location
of the spontaneous
combustion research data.
I left the military and joined the Fire
Force because I wanted to save lives.
So I'm not big on man-to-man fighting.
You did hit that rookie
from the 5th earlier, right?
That was just a light tap.
That devil sure can move when he's
running away. I can't see where he went.
Devil's Footprints.
Are you following the
Devil's Footprints, too?
Who are you, old-timer? A conehead?
It's dangerous here. Go back to your farm.
I can't have you snooping
around the 5th like this.
I'll kill you.
Aren't you...?
By administering a drug
I've been researching,
I've boosted this Infernal's firepower.
I'm tickled to have found
such a fine specimen.
We meet again, murderer.
I'll take my sword and... my sword and...
...my sword to...
Those small-timers from the 8th
are too big for their britches.
What is that?
Lieutenant, get back!
That was some tremendous firepower.
Heh, heh, 8th nobodies.
I just blow some flammable gas
into my zero-oxygen bubble gum,
send it toward my target,
pop the bubble,
...Here comes another one.
...and when the flammable gas
hits fresh oxygen...
...Please stay back.
...and when the flammable gas
hits fresh oxygen...
...and when the flammable gas
hits fresh oxygen...
...it explodes!
That's what's known as Toru Kishiri's
Backdraft Bubblish Gum!
"Backdraft Bubblish Gum"
And another, and another, and another!
Maki, where are we being attacked from?
From that warehouse. The target
must be inside. I can't be sure.
That's good enough.
"Ballistic control"
Lame. What are you even aiming at?
From the sparks generated on impact,
I tweak each bullet again.
"Ricochet control"
What...?
Pathetic. It takes more than
this to stop my rookies.
Maki, we're going to get these crewmen
to give up where the documents are.
Yes, sir.
Hold it!
5th Angels Three...
...On the scene!
...Has arrived!
...Breaking in!
Have you made your peace?
Finding yourself alone in an enemy's base
shows that the meager 8th is
as undermanned as our intel says.
The Infernal that my research has
fortified will reduce you to cinders.
He's my new weapon that can focus
his augmented firepower into one point,
and then release it!
Leave neither a body nor ashes, now.
Thanks to your drug, the flame and
power within my body are surging,
until they're ready to come out!
That was close.
Hey, you! Are you trying to
turn me into knight teriyaki?!
Teriyaki? What kind of seasoning
do you think you're basted in?
I alight upon the scorched earth,
clad in golden robes...
Huh? Are you talking about tempura now?!
What are you, an idiot?
I'm a knight.
Status?
The Angels vs. Hinawa,
Arthur vs. the Infernal,
and Obi is nowhere to
be seen at the moment.
Like moths flying into a flame.
Burn them all until there's nothing left.
The truth and the intrigue behind
spontaneous human combustion...
...are all the result of our research.
I won't allow gravel to stand in my way.
Are you seriously a Special Fire Soldier?
You got cold feet?
You're not putting up a fight.
Don't act like this is no big deal.
What's the matter with you?
You're only acting like you're tough,
when actually, you're
ridiculously weak! And stupid!
Why is this? Why am I not my usual self?
It's not a question of your manner.
My Infernal's firepower
is just too strong for you.
There are chumps who just say
they're out of the zone or whatever,
when really, they couldn't ever do anything
in the first place, and run away.
It's exactly the kind of excuse
you bogus Fire Soldiers would use!
Bunch of moronic nobodies!
What?
The newly-assigned rookie can't even
fathom how outmatched he is.
Then he blames it on
having a bad day. Pathetic.
An idiot who can only talk tough, a knight?
Good one, coming from
a behind-in-the-count loser!
I'm not just a knight; I'm the Knight King!
Shut up!
The least I can do for
a nosy nobody like you
is to kill you while making you suffer!
Why? I'm getting no power at all.
My left? Why, when I'm right-handed,
am I holding it in my left hand?
Huh?! How should I know?!
You can use that excuse
when you get to the afterlife!
Violet Flash.
What do you know?
I thought something was strange.
What the hell?
He's ridiculously strong!
5th Angels Three Three-on-Three
Triple-grating Slasher, ver. 2.3!
That's way too many... numbers!
There are more than just
three 5th Angels Three?
Looks like that's all of them, though.
I wonder if Shinra and
the others are doing okay.
While Shinra is dashing around,
we'll look for their documents.
In here.
"To be continued"
You can toil your way
through humorless days
and curse the unwavering present,
but words that simply hang in the air
are not enough to save you
We've been walking shoulder-to-shoulder
between sights we never reach
and pain that brings no warmth
to make it to a faraway place
Given the hope that you speak of
or the ideals that you dream of
I'll find a way to show you love,
however cold you may be
You can toil your way
through humorless days
and curse the unwavering present,
but words that simply hang in the air
are not enough to save you
You can cry out timidly
but that changes when
the nights grow fevered
Even if we let go of each other's hands,
I hope we can still walk together again
I'll refrain from saying goodbye
to ensure that we can meet again somewhere
"Next time"
"Episode 6:
The Spark of Promise"