I'm gonna go ahead and borrow it, pops.
I would like to show
Cut open my skull
Look into my head
I don't know why I'm so harsh
I could be so brash
I'm going to clash
'Cause I feel
I can always show my everything to you
If this moment was for me
I try to hear
Lend my ear
Voices inside
One link to join it all again
'Cause I feel
I can always show my everything to you
If this moment was for me
I try to hear
Lend my ear
Voices inside
One link to join it all
So it goes again
Your Hue is in a critical state.
Your Crime Coefficient is still fluctuating,
but it's possible it could worsen rapidly.
#19 Transparent Shadow
If you don't address your clouded Hue,
in the worse case, you could be declared a latent criminal.
Well...
I just remembered that my partner fell into the same situation long ago.
What happened to your partner after that?
He stopped being my partner.
He's one of my subordinates now.
It's ironic.
I've been trying my best to protect myself so that I won't end up like him,
and yet, this is how it turns out... What a joke...
I'll set up an intensive therapy program for you immediately.
I'll notify your office.
Please wait.
I can't do it yet.
Mr. Ginoza!
Doc, I'll manage to get by.
But I can't be responsible for what happens.
My current colleague... is a young woman who was hired this year.
Watching her gives me hope...
...that everything depends on how you look at things.
Professor Saiga...
Just get inside.
Hm? Hey, hey...
You're even carrying a gun?
You can tell?
An old revolver... am I right?
It's like you're psychic.
As I always tell you,
it's the result of observation and logical thinking, Kogami.
I think you all know by now, but Kogami escaped.
There's no doubt about it at all.
Yes.
He'll probably go after Makishima. We will, too.
If you encounter the escaped Enforcer, take care of him immediately.
We capture Makishima alive, but we take care of Mr. Kogami right away...
That's right.
Why don't we put the matter of Kogami aside for now?
We're bound to run into him if we drive Makishima into a corner.
I wonder where Makishima is.
His face is known, but because of the aftermath of the riots,
parts of the monitoring system are still undergoing repairs.
It'll be five days before it's completely restored.
During that time, we can't count on facial recognition to help us investigate.
Wouldn't Makishima disappear and use that time to try and flee?
No, he'll definitely make a move.
That man isn't the type that gives up just because he's been cornered.
He's compelled to test this world until his dying breath.
He'll confront this society protected by the system with blunt human nature.
That's why...
Shogo Makishima made a provocative call to Mr. Kogami.
A lot has happened...
Are you okay?
Well... this isn't the time to feel depressed, so...
I may not be the best person, but my ear is yours if you want it.
Come to think of it, I haven't vented at all.
Mr. Kogami...
...becoming a real killer, not just a latent criminal...
I don't want that to happen no matter what.
You shouldn't shoulder everything all by yourself.
I'm okay. If you're worried, would you like to check my Hue?
I was surprised when I checked it myself this morning.
Even after what happened, it's a pale turquoise color.
Just how coldhearted am I?
Your heart and Psycho-Pass are two separate things.
Then, what on earth is Psycho-Pass?
What is... a person's heart?
Hm? You didn't sleep?
I had a hard time predicting what Makishima's next move would be, so...
So you think that man is going to do something more?
The security network in the metropolitan area will be fully restored in five days.
That's the information I got from the CID's analyst.
To Makishima, that'll be the time limit he has to launch his last fireworks.
I made some coffee.
It's made from real coffee beans, so it's really strong.
Thank you.
I looked through the information you brought with you.
I can see why you're having a hard time.
What's your impression?
If there are such things as political offenders in this society
managed by the Sibyl System...
this man would be one of them.
Terrorists, anarchists, agitators...
...revolutionists with suicidal tendencies, who aren't interested in the people...
The whole lot of them are all good-for-nothings.
By the way, what's the definition of anarchism?
It's a denial of governing and authority,
but it is different from confusion and disorder.
That's right.
It's denying an inhuman control system and building a more human system.
Makishima is close to an anarchist,
but since he likes destruction so much,
he's quite different from the original meaning of the word.
An inhuman control system... that is, Sibyl, isn't it?
If I am to borrow Max Weber's words,
ideal bureaucrats are those
who intently perform their duty without anger and fondness...
without hate and zealousness,
and without love and personal predilection.
In that sense, the Sibyl System
may be close to the ideal bureaucratic administration.
But that is, assuming that all the known specs about Sibyl are true.
Makishima told me on the phone that he came to know the true form of Sibyl.
He also said it's not something worth me putting my life on the line to protect.
Let me quote a little more from Max Weber.
Bureaucratic administration dominates the people through knowledge.
Technical knowledge and practical knowledge...
Keeping that knowledge secret increases their superiority.
Makishima is trying to strip away that superiority.
And he almost succeeded.
Those riots pushed society right up to a very dangerous line.
And, the Ministry of Welfare made some sort of proposal to Makishima.
But he refused that proposal.
I'd like to talk to this Makishima guy once
in a session recorded on video or audio.
For your research?
He doesn't interest me that way yet. It'd be purely to help your investigation.
If Makishima was here right now, how do you think he'd join our conversation?
He would...
probably respond by quoting Foucault or Jeremy Bentham
the moment you quote Max Weber.
Rather than a system, isn't it a huge prison?
Panopticon...
...a facility that allows you to observe everyone at once.
Sibyl is its worst possible form.
You can control the maximum number of prisoners
with the minimum number of people.
He might even quote Gulliver's Travels, too.
He's is a cynical man with a distorted sense of humor.
I see... he satirizes science and politics that have gotten too advanced...
He's that kind of man.
Let me ask you a personal question.
Do you think you and Makishima are alike?
There are some aspects of him that I can understand.
I don't know anything about his past.
But one thing I'm certain of is that there was a critical turning point in his life...
the moment that he realized that he was idiosyncratic.
He can control his Psycho-Pass at will.
Some people would probably think that's a privilege.
But Makishima didn't.
What he felt was... probably... a sense of alienation.
In this society, if the Sibyl System doesn't acknowledge you,
in a sense, isn't it the same as not being recognized as a human being?
A child who wasn't accepted into the group...
I see... That feeling might actually be the starting point, huh?
That being said, this is all our guess.
We won't know the truth until we ask Makishima himself.
But you're not going to ask him...
Right.
When you're done here, come to my study.
I'll show you something interesting.
Hence,
the ones who know Shinya Kogami's personality and way of thinking
and are most suited to predict his pattern of actions
are us at CID Division 1.
Oh?
I see...
So how did it go?
There's no change in our task.
We, Division 1, will continue to work on tracking down
Kogami and Shogo Makishima.
That's reckless.
Missy and you both should stop concerning yourselves with those two.
It has to be Division 1
If it's us, we can urge Kogami to surrender before we shoot him.
Say, Nobuchika...
...since when did you become so soft?
Even if Ko surrenders, he'll probably be sent to the facility and get executed.
As long as we go after Shinya Kogami,
we have no choice but to put our lives on the line.
That being the case, why don't we leave it to Division 3 and...
And make it someone else's problem?!
I bet you too realized what Kogami was thinking and just let him be, right?!
When he left, I bet you didn't even try to stop him
and just saw him off, didn't you?!
In order to let him kill Makishima!
That's clearly a breach of trust! No, in fact, it's a criminal act!
No matter what excuses you make, you can't deceive the Dominators!
Do you want me to check your Crime Coefficient right here right now?!
Dammit!
Everybody leaves me behind...
...and just heads on over to the other side!
Do you and Kogami want to be heroes that badly?!
It's not about justice. It's an obsession.
Even though you know there are other, wiser ways to live,
if you turn your back on it, everything you have built becomes a sham.
There's a moment like that.
Are you saying... that that's your pride as Enforcers?
It's not because we're Enforcers. This is what you'd call a man's pride.
Then, I have my own pride.
I'll stop that idiot Kogami with my own hands at any cost...
...no matter what anyone says.
He's done for.
But under the current circumstances,
there's no one immediately available to use as our pawn.
Hm?
What?
Is that the final collective decision by everyone?
Yeah... but...
Well, I can't fully understand with my current capacity.
I'd like to go back there once and check the consensus.
What is this?
It's an old type anonymous message board.
It's operated via several overseas servers.
Overseas servers?
If you look in the right place, you can find them.
So, anyway, they haven't caught the Sibyl System's attention.
The users of this board are former college professors, journalists,
critics, literary scholars...
They're the people whom the Sibyl System determined were no longer needed.
They still comment even now when their frustration builds up,
saying things like, "there's nothing good about Sibyl,"
or "this part is so problematic."
It might be fruitless,
but it's better to have this kind of place than not having it.
I started a thread before breakfast.
Ways to cause a complete collapse of the Sibyl System in five days?
This is...
They responded to my thread by taking it as an interesting game.
They all look like stupid jokes to me.
Then find the joke you think the funniest.
You and Makishima are alike. Trust your inspiration.
Leak classified information to foreign countries
Hm?
What's the matter?
If it's not possible to break into the system, I think a good approach is to start by breaking things that surround it."
To cause a collapse of the Sibyl System, wouldn't the best way be to destroy the food sufficiency system?
Something caught my eye.
The Sibyl System collapses due to a food shortage...
Hyper-oats...
99% of the food currently consumed in this country
is processed food made from hyper-oats.
They're genetically modified oats that have the ultimate harvest efficiency,
and we depend solely on this single item.
An enormous amount of a "monospecific genus" that eliminates diversity, huh?
I see... If a single fatal defect is found,
it's possible that they could be completely wiped out.
This might be Makishima's next target.
Food self-sufficiency, huh?
Yes. This might be it.
Crops, production system, genetic modification...
Do you have any information on things like that?
Leave it to me.
Due to the sharp decline in population and the completion of the Sibyl System,
it became impossible to restrain the excess concentration of population
in urban areas.
But while people can move, we can't move land.
The primary industry of agriculture was forced to shift to complete automation.
Mechanized farming by Drones...
genetically enhanced hyper-oats
and disease countermeasures using good viruses...
Those things enabled us to achieve fully automated farming and because of that,
agriculture as a type of occupation disappeared from this country.
Now the Hokuriku area is a vast granary with zero population.
If there are problems with crop health management,
hyper-oats, which are a monospecific genus, will be devastated by disease.
If the food self-sufficiency system collapses,
Japan will have to once again import food.
The government will have to rapidly
change their attitude of refusing communications with other countries.
With food shortages,
the entire Japanese population's Crime Coefficients will rise.
Once they lift the ban on food importation,
they have no choice but to relax border security.
An inflow of refugees will probably start, too. Once that happens,
measuring Crime Coefficients itself might become meaningless.
In order to make it happen...
Right now Makishima needs...
...an expert's help.
I intentionally took part in your plan to kill Shogo Makishima.
Since I'm aware of it, the next time I get a surprise check, that'll be it for me.
I'm really sorry to trouble you.
Don't worry about it.
I just got punished for burying myself at home
and not participating in society, that's all.
Professor...
By giving you a hand, I feel that I've fulfilled my own role. But...
...even so, Kogami...
...I am dumping all the dirty work on you, after all.
That, definitely, is not something you should worry about.
For some reason, I can't even imagine someone else besides me killing him.
Mr. Kogami...
Inspector Akane Tsunemori...
I will now...
...tell you the truth about everything.
There's no way that I could love someone
But I want someone to love me
Even if yesterday could continue unchanging into forever
You and I would never get anywhere
God... where did you go?
I don't hear any response, but that's how it always is
Are you still here?
You'll never walk alone
I'll go with you
No matter the sin, I'll bear the burden for you
I'll walk an uncharted path
All alone with you
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.