Shepherd 2, you're going too fast. Where are you right now?
I can't find Hound 4... Sasayama.
What's going on? Where did he go?
Calm down, Kogami! Things are getting out of control. Come back for now!
I'll bring Sasayama back!
Sasayama?
My head is overflowing with thoughts I can't allow anyone to know about
I've strayed into a world void of even mistakes
It's being rubbed in so deep it's hard to believe
This "world" that holds only what the eye can see
Can I flush out the truth?
Plastic Tac Tic, no one can go crazy anymore
You, too, are in a plastic beautiful world
In a world with too much beauty, for some reason I can't see the light
My bursting heart is an eternal reflection
Secret remains for you
Don't expose these false colors and futures
fake's plastic world keep it secret motion
#06 Return of the Psychotic Prince
Looks like she's working hard, huh?
Since she's still inexperienced, she acts unprofessionally rather often.
But it's still true that she's an excellent employee.
I think she's got a bright future.
I hope so.
There's still at least a chance she'll end up in an unfortunate state similar to
that of your partner, who started the same year as you.
Yes, Chief.
You Inspectors have very demanding jobs.
Even when you face the distorted minds of criminals and Enforcers,
you still need to have an unyielding spirit to pursue your duties.
You, too, should be on your guard, Ginoza.
A causal relationship between genes and Crime Coefficients
still hasn't been scientifically proven.
However, that also means that it hasn't been scientifically disproven.
I hope that you won't make the same mistake as your father...
I hope it from the bottom of my heart.
I'll keep that in mind.
"In faith, they are as true of heart as we/'
"We men may say more, swear more, but indeed
Our shows are more than will, for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love."
Stop there.
Yes ma'am.
The first performance of Twelfth Night took place in 1601.
In the sentences Kagami just read,
you can get a glimpse of the astonishing universality of Shakespeare.
Are you in literature class right now?
Yes. We're studying Twelfth Night by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's comedies are boring.
You don't like his work?
I do like his tragedies, especially Macbeth and Titus Andronicus.
So those two are the interesting ones, huh?
Not only are they interesting, but they're especially cruel.
But why aren't you looking it up in the database?
You're an Inspector. You have authorization, right?
If I access those files, Mr. Kogami will know.
You don't want him to know?
Or are you that concerned about Ko?
Are you in love?
Have you even been in love, Kagari?
Listen, Akane. I'm more experienced in life than you are.
Not only love, but I've done all sorts of bad things.
I've glimpsed into a world you, a wholesome girl, can't even imagine.
Really?!
For example, this one.
Juice?
No! It's alcohol. Real alcohol.
Ol' Masaoka shared it with me.
These days, people are afraid of getting addicted to it,
so they stick to safe therapeutic tripping or go virtual, right?
That's for drinking, right? Not for blowing fire?
Say what?
No, nothing.
Well, this kind of naughty fun is now our privilege.
I see...
Whoa! This is good!
This is real cooking.
Hey, hey! I told you those are the snacks for those who're drinking!
You're stingy!
Or, would you like to try?
What?
If I get drunk, I may start talking about all sorts of things.
The thing is...
...when I came on, Ko had already been stripped of his position as Inspector.
So I don't know the details,
though I heard that an Enforcer who was under him at the time got killed.
Killed?
Right. He was going after a culprit, but then he became a victim.
If I remember correctly, his name was Sasayama.
He was killed in the same manner as the other victims. I heard it was terrible.
So it messed Ko up and his Crime Coefficient went way too high.
That case was never solved, but I heard Ko's still investigating it.
I see...
Anyway...
...how come you're okay after drinking so much?
Well, you get drunk too easily.
Enforcer Sasayama? Ah, there's no way I could forget the Specimen Case.
Specimen Case?
That's how we, and the detectives, referred to the case.
Do you know what plastination is, Akane?
It's a process used to create biological specimens, right?
Right. It's a technique for preserving tissue by impregnating it with resin.
So in the Specimen Case, this process was used to commit grotesque murders.
They first dismembered and cut open the body,
and then they used plastination to turn it into a human specimen.
Then they brought it right into the middle of town and displayed it...
...underneath a Holographic illumination used in the entertainment district.
How terrible...
Thousands of passersby thought they were just looking at environment Holo.
But the truth was that they were facing the dismembered body underneath it.
When people found that out, the area stress jumped up four levels.
It was so bad that even a news ban was imposed.
Uhm, I'm sorry for discussing this while you're eating.
Hm? What're you talking about?
Yayoi wouldn't get worked up over something like this.
She's into more violent and passionate stuff.
Uhm?
You guys were talking about the Specimen Case, right? Go on.
Well, since it was obviously done by an expert,
the investigation was focused on experts in pharmacy and chemistry.
But then, while working on it, Sasayama was...
In the end, while investigating a totally unrelated report of a missing
high school teacher, they came across plastination resin in his apartment.
See, this guy. Kouzaburou Touma.
Right after he went missing, the crimes stopped,
so it's certain that he must've been the culprit.
But all we had was circumstantial evidence.
So it actually ended up as an unsolved case.
In addition, Touma didn't have any knowledge of chemistry,
so even the question of who created the resin remains a mystery.
Does that mean that there was an accomplice?
I don't know if we can call this person an accomplice when we don't even know
if he made the resin knowing what it was going to be used for in the first place.
How it was acquired remains a mystery, too.
At this point, God only knows.
Looks like you're having a rough time as usual.
You can tell?
Considering how gloomy you look, it'd be hard not to.
Being on the fast track is tough, huh?
You have to keep lots of things confidential.
Exactly. It's hard.
Is this still about that erratic colleague of yours?
I feel like I don't know what to make of him.
In addition, it seems that he was in the same position as me.
Don't tell me this troublemaker used to be an honor student
whose test scores were over 700 or something?
Right! It's like that!
This is just a thought, but...
Yeah?
Could it be that you and your subordinate are quite similar?
What?!
It's urgent! I gotta go!
Hey, we just got here!
I'll make it up to you next time!
It seems that Satsuki Kuzuhara is still missing.
I've heard the teachers have been ordered to keep silent about it,
in order not to worry the students.
Why?
That worries us even more.
The selling point of this school is that they keep girls of susceptible age
isolated from society in a conservatory environment
in order to prevent their Psycho-Pass from getting cloudy.
So they sweep problems under the rug.
They also need to keep up appearances in front of our parents, so...
Oh no, I'm scared!
There are some more scary rumors.
One of the teachers who used to teach in this school was actually...
Miss Ouryou!
That's Miss Rikako!
I wonder why Rikako Ouryou is so popular...
She's pretty. She's very smart, too.
It's pretty obvious.
I'm a little afraid of her.
Why?
Her eyes... are sometimes blank.
It seems as if...
...they're staring into a different dimension.
Kawarazaki. Shimotsuki...
Hi.
H-Hello.
Sorry to interrupt your lunch.
What brings you here?
Neither of you belong to any clubs, right?
Educational organizations that have club activities
like our school, Ousou Academy, are very rare these days.
I thought it'd be a shame to miss out on that, so...
Are you recruiting us?
Oh, you figured it out!
I'm the president of the art club.
If you like, please come and see us in our club room.
Also, Shimotsuki...
I sometimes get absorbed in thought,
but it's not like I'm looking into a different dimension.
I'm not an alien, you know.
You dummy, Mika! She heard you!
Sorry.
Pardon me.
Thank you for coming.
I heard about your father.
Your mother's new husband...
So you took... notice of it?
Yes, since I've been watching you all this time, Yoshika.
Miss Ouryou!
Will you tell me what happened?
That man... uhm...
...clearly looks at me... with...
...o- obscene eyes.
Every time I go home, I find indications that someone was in my room.
I can't stand it anymore... but...
You can't talk to your mother, right?
The debt my biological father left is so big
that my mother cannot repay it by herself.
So we have to depend on that man.
But at last week's regular check up, my Psycho-Pass was very cloudy.
As it stands, I'll...
Yoshika...
It seems you can't choose the life you wish.
I understand how hard that is.
In this era, the System determines
everyone's aptitudes and we all have no choice but to live by it
and be satisfied with only a happiness forced upon us...
...as we are unable to make our real dreams come true.
The person you desire to be... Your true worth...
Don't you want to try discovering them?
What?
I can show you...
...the true beauty that's hiding inside you, Yoshika.
Shall I tell you more about Shakespeare's work?
Yes.
Titus Andronicus...
The character I like in it is Titus's daughter, Lavinia.
She got dragged into trouble because of her father.
The enemy raped her,
cut out her tongue,
and cut off her arms as well.
"It was my deer..."
Poor Lavinia...
She was killed by her own father.
There are tons of things that humans can do but animals can't.
One of them is safety control.
No matter what it is, humans have always put a safety device on it.
Enforcers are also equipped with a safety device called Inspectors.
Particularly, the Drones you controlled were equipped with rigorous controls.
Those Drones were supposed to be absolutely safe,
and yet, this memory card made them kill people.
Where did you obtain it?
The safety canceller that Kanehara used in the Hachioji Drone incident
and Mido's Holograph cracking...
Well, in both cases, I could only recover a bit of the source code,
but they clearly have similarities.
I think the same programmer wrote the code for both.
I'd bet the bra I'm wearing today on it.
You can keep it!
It's true that Mido was obsessed with social networks,
but he wasn't skilled enough to mess with public Holo.
There's no mistake that
both Kanehara and Mido were being backed by a professional cyber-criminal.
But this testimony of Kanehara's isn't going to help.
It's true! It was sent to me one day by mail all of a sudden!
The letter from the sender had no name on it.
It just said that he had a grudge against that factory,
so he wanted the two of us to mess it up together!
That's pretty vicious for someone who'd commit crimes just for kicks, isn't it?
How could the sender predict that Kanehara would kill in the first place?
Pops figured out Kanehara just by checking the records
of the staff's periodic checkups.
There was someone else who could do the same thing.
That periodic checkup record wasn't confidential, either.
Then what was the motive for this guy to help Mido?
It was Kanehara and Mido who had the motive.
That must've been enough reason for him.
Kogami?
The intent and means to kill...
Creating a crime by bringing those two otherwise separate things together...
That's his goal.
Tsk.
Hey!
Kogami, you are...
Gino, this is the same as that case.
There's someone who gives the means to those who have not yet found a way
to manifest their desire to kill, and turns them into real killers.
Calm down and think about it. A special resin was used that time.
But in this case, it's a tool for cracking programs.
They're totally different!
The engineer and the middleman are two different people!
There's someone who brings together those who want to kill
and those who can create the tools they need to do it.
That's the real mastermind.
Enough already!
You're chasing a ghost that we don't even know exists!
Sasayama was on the brink of figuring it out.
I'll settle the score for him.
That's what I've spent the past three years working towards!
This is Takahashi from the Public Cleaning Bureau calling.
I'm at the Central Fountain Tower right now.
Noise has been appearing in the Hologram for a while now...
Yes, that's right.
Please turn off the fountain Holo so that we can check it out.
What's that?
Whoa! That's creepy!
Is that a doll?
Isn't it some sort of artwork or something?
Yeah... but isn't this in too poor taste?
Who the hell did it?
But... when you look closely, it looks pretty real, doesn't it?
How elaborate...
...though I wouldn't want to display it at my home.
Do you think Lavinia was happy...
...being freed from her violated body?
"Because the girl should not survive her shame,
And by her presence still renew his sorrows," was it, Mr. Makishima?
Beautiful flowers, too, eventually wither and fall.
That's the fate of all living beings.
If that's the case, it's just natural for one to want to stop time
while they're still blossoming in full glory.
But if you really loved her as if she was your own daughter, will you too say...
"Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind," as Titus did?
Oh, that'd be a problem...
...because I still have many more drawings to complete in the future.
I'll give you your justice
Before you destroy and get destroyed
Pay karma's price, and let's go together
Monster without a name
Looks like the fairy tale died a moment ago
In a hospital ward made of bricks, I found it hard to sing
Red moon, come out on this foggy night
Now look at me, don't avert your gaze
I was born behind black iron bars
Wish for payback for the evil done
As you wish, I'll give you your justice
Before you destroy and get destroyed
Pay karma's price, and let's go together
Monster without a name
A world where humans' state of mind and the tendency of their personalities can be quantified. While all sorts of inclinations are recorded and policed, these measured numbers used to judge people's souls are commonly called "Psycho-Pass." This story is fiction. The names of all individuals and organizations that appear in the show are fictitious and have no relation to those in existence in the real world.