Godzilla Singular Point (2021) s01e03 Episode Script
Nobae's Terror/ Nobae no Kyôfu
1
GAMESOME
You can't just concoct
any imaginary creature.
Things have to make sense.
Imagination is ruled by laws?
Dreams follow the laws of dreams.
Other universes have their own laws too.
What if there's a law that says no laws?
Anything is possible, isn't it?
Make up your mind.
We're back!
If you're far away, listen.
If you're close by, watch.
I dare not be presumptuous
and introduce this robot.
But if you must know, I will.
A steel body and an electronic brain.
Crying kids become silent
and silent kids start crying.
This is Jet Jaguar!
Finally, we meet.
Yun! Take that kid and run!
Let's fight fair and square…
I wasn't finished! Wait until I'm done!
Hold on!
Stupid beast!
What the heck?
You punk.
That hurts!
"Courtesan, how cruel of you."
My arm!
You can tear my body to pieces,
but I won't stop!
How dare you!
My precious Jet Jaguar…
"I put out my hand
and accept an octopus tentacle!"
It hurts!
Great Buddha, protect me!
Let this be a dream! I'll be a good man!
Yun?
Give it to me! You can't handle this!
PLAY WITH JET JAGUAR
What's this?
What did you expect?
I'll change the settings.
Hurry up!
RESTAR
SECONDS LEFT UNTIL RESTAR
-Get on with it!
-Seventy more seconds until it restarts.
SECONDS LEFT UNTIL RESTAR
Oh, no. What now?
Forty seconds. I'll stall him.
That's impossible.
Twenty seconds… I won't last.
Mr. O!
We made it in time.
Go, Jet Jaguar! Get him!
It flew?
What's that?
A bird? It's huge.
Something for the festival? No.
A pterosaur?
Get back down here, you coward!
This cry…
It's hot. Be careful. You'll get burned.
Better not touch it.
Is it dead?
It's hot?
CHIBA PREFECTURAL POLICE
I'm taking a look.
I'll be right back.
Hey!
Excuse me. Coming through.
I'm fine.
I'm not hurt.
Where are you taking me?
Are you listening? Who do you think I am?
Yun!
You can't.
They're my colleagues.
Yun!
How's Mr. O?
A few broken ribs,
but they said he'd be fine.
DO NOT ENTER
What is it?
What do you think?
Sorry. Excuse me.
The mysterious creature that suddenly
appeared during the festival…
Is it the last winged dinosaur?
Or are there others?
It resembles a Quetzalcoatlus.
Was it actually a dinosaur?
-Found as a fossil…
-Perhaps it's a runaway pet.
My friend couldn't escape.
It suddenly came flying…
Where did it come from?
Then it suddenly died?
Possibly of shock…
They couldn't catch it alive?
It'd be an important specimen
if it were alive.
Too bad they couldn't catch it alive.
Crucial evidence
is often destroyed by amateurs.
The operator was a local electrician
and robot designer…
He saved the children.
Was it self-defense?
He owned that weapon, right?
He should've waited for the police.
We're here in front of Otaki Factory.
The shutters are closed…
The self-diagnostic program
shows 1,345 malfunctions.
The main frame
had seven percent distortion,
twelve motors burned,
and eight had abnormal readings.
It needs a new hatch and right arm.
And batteries too.
It's badly damaged
but surprisingly resilient.
It did well.
But we have a problem.
How can we finish setting up
these three work robots by the weekend?
It will take ten days without Mr. O.
Jet Jaguar has to wait.
He said to forget those robots
and prepare for the next battle.
Satomi.
How was Mr. O?
Totally fine. He'll be released next week.
But they'll probably
kick him out before that.
He told me to show you this.
What is it?
That pterosaur
was one of these flying things.
"They'll be back. Just like this picture."
"Next time, it will be a flock."
"Make sure Jet Jaguar is repaired."
Do these look like the pterosaur?
The same picture
was displayed for the festival.
"Painting of Gojira"?
"Painting of Godzilla." A local legend
about an apocalyptic monster
that appears from the sea
when it turns red.
Apocalyptic? Sounds biblical.
Red sea? Red tide?
Is that a whale in the middle?
What do you think?
Mr. O's premonitions are often right.
But Jet Jaguar's parts won't be here
until next week.
Even after it's repaired,
it can't fight off a flock of them.
I have an idea.
Its cry?
Jet Jaguar recorded it.
And this.
The radio waves it emitted?
They're the same
as from the haunted mansion.
Its cry emits radio waves.
And the neon sign it destroyed
emits radio frequencies.
It was attracted to radio waves?
If it's how they communicate
I'll analyze this to produce
a signal that attracts them.
I see.
But what do we do when they're here?
I don't know.
Play the pipe and jump into the sea?
Perhaps it's not a dinosaur…
The former director,
two before me, showed it to me.
He said the director before him
showed it to him.
It wasn't like he was passing it down
to me or anything.
It's like one of those urban legends.
Like a mummified kappa
stored away in a temple.
It's just left there?
Shouldn't we investigate?
Sato, our job is to monitor radio waves.
Dinosaur bones are out of our purview.
And if the information somehow leaks out…
It was first observed three weeks ago…
If you're that concerned…
"Compact archives"?
Let me know if anything turns up.
"Year 1970."
The word "dinosaur,"
which means terrifying lizard…
I can't believe how agile they are
when they're so big.
I'm back.
I found the material you wanted.
You worked hard.
-I don't want to be uninstalled.
-You don't?
My character is linked to this computer.
But you're just a data structure.
What would you think if you woke up
one morning as a big insect?
Gregor Samsa?
Your data may be the same,
but the vessel is different.
These graphs…
I couldn't find data consistent
from figure 43 to figure 65
so I analyzed your notes about
transdimensional flying creatures.
You read my notes?
They're very interesting observations.
Aren't you going to publish them?
They're not organized. It's a big mess.
Let's get it organized and published.
If it's possible.
I'm on it.
Three billion yen.
Excuse me?
A museum is offering three billion yen
for that dead pterosaur.
Then I wonder how much
the skeleton in our basement is worth.
-Oh, how nostalgic.
-What are they?
Microfiche. Never heard of them?
We have the reader somewhere.
I'll go look.
What does it look like?
That's an OHP.
A 5-inch and 8-inch disk drive.
Not those either.
It looks more like a computer.
Here it is. The microfiche reader.
Now there are two of them
worth three billion.
Another dead winged dinosaur.
This is a beach 20km from the station…
Three more were found,
for a total of four…
A total of eight remains have been found.
Others may be flying around,
waiting to attack…
Here to catch a dinosaur?
The streets are full of…
I want one as a pet.
You didn't notice? I'll replay it.
The streetlights appear to flicker
when the dinosaurs cry.
They might be emitting
electromagnetic waves.
Can a living organism do that?
The tissue layers you see here are similar
to the electric eel's electric organs.
Its stomach was empty.
Did it starve to death?
Actually, we haven't found an organ
that works as a stomach…
The DNA of the pterosaurs
and other known animals…
The homeobox gene hasn't been detected.
The gene is a common feature
in many creatures on Earth…
The radioactive element,
radon, was detected…
Radioactive?
No immediate health issues…
A new, unidentified creature…
The word "kaiju"
means "strange beast" in old Japanese.
-So it's a radio-wave kaiju?
-Radio-wave monster Rodan.
Rodan, the radio-wave monster.
Rodan, the radio-wave monster.
Rodan!
"Radio-wave monster Rodan"?
Reaction to a paper? Whose?
A person called Professor Li responded
to your paper on the Internet.
My paper?
Why are you chilling an empty bottle?
Search for noodle soup base recipe.
Soy sauce, sugar, and what?
Mirin. Broth.
Broth? Search how to make bonito flakes.
It takes at least a year.
Can I use ketchup instead?
Tomato umami is glutamic acid.
Bonito umami is inosinic acid.
Should I distill it?
Or maybe use chromatography?
Oh, no!
It's so hot.
Sixty seconds overcooked.
You're 60 seconds too late.
What were we talking about?
There was a reaction to your paper
on the preprint server.
Paper? Mine?
Here it is.
"Introduction to Biologia Phantastica.
Mei Kamino."
"Co-written by Pelops II."
Did you do this?
I included my name.
It's collaborative research.
"The laws of physics distorted by
imaginary creatures' time regression…"
Is it a paper?
A scientific essay? What is it?
It's how it turned out.
I organized your data
and published a paper.
Well, you actually did a good job
organizing it but…
There are 32 people
who reacted to the title after 20 hours.
Five people downloaded the article.
One person sent a reaction via e-mail.
Reaction?
A person called Professor Li
sent you an e-mail about your article.
She wants to meet you in Tokyo.
Who does?
Professor Li, the sender of the e-mail,
wants to see you.
They said a microfiche lasts 100 years.
It must be 100 years old.
VERIFICATION OF SPECIMEN
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE RADIATION
"Old Tsuguno District Administration"?
"Ashihara"? It sounds familiar.
Michiyuki Ashihara
is the founder of this facility.
Really? You're well-informed.
Alarm system?
It's apparently very old
and nobody knows what it's for.
It's connected
to a machine in the basement
with a skeleton of a huge dinosaur.
Dinosaur? What are you talking about?
Well…
-Sato.
-Yes?
Give me a written report.
A dinosaur skeleton in the basement?
What's going on with him?
Professor Li,
a computational chemistry expert.
"Research on new molecules
through computer simulation."
Isn't it similar to your research?
Professor Li
studies molecules of the real world.
"Lightness, toughness, rigidness,
flexibility, strangeness."
She's discovered various new molecules
but hasn't been able
to synthesize them yet.
"SHIVA"?
It says she's currently a member
of SHIVA.consortium.
Ta-da!
Equipped with special Rodan antennas.
This is Gyro Canopy Tandem 2,
Gyro Z for short.
Short for what?
Mr. O.
Hey, I see you guys are ready.
Released already?
You idiot! I can't stay in bed forever.
A huge catch of deep-sea fish yesterday,
but not a single one today.
Rather than chasing fish that's not here…
Selling Rodan buns might be better.
Did you see that?
What's that?
That's…
Rodan.
Oh, my gosh.
Subtitle translation by: Annie Iwasaki
GAMESOME
You can't just concoct
any imaginary creature.
Things have to make sense.
Imagination is ruled by laws?
Dreams follow the laws of dreams.
Other universes have their own laws too.
What if there's a law that says no laws?
Anything is possible, isn't it?
Make up your mind.
We're back!
If you're far away, listen.
If you're close by, watch.
I dare not be presumptuous
and introduce this robot.
But if you must know, I will.
A steel body and an electronic brain.
Crying kids become silent
and silent kids start crying.
This is Jet Jaguar!
Finally, we meet.
Yun! Take that kid and run!
Let's fight fair and square…
I wasn't finished! Wait until I'm done!
Hold on!
Stupid beast!
What the heck?
You punk.
That hurts!
"Courtesan, how cruel of you."
My arm!
You can tear my body to pieces,
but I won't stop!
How dare you!
My precious Jet Jaguar…
"I put out my hand
and accept an octopus tentacle!"
It hurts!
Great Buddha, protect me!
Let this be a dream! I'll be a good man!
Yun?
Give it to me! You can't handle this!
PLAY WITH JET JAGUAR
What's this?
What did you expect?
I'll change the settings.
Hurry up!
RESTAR
SECONDS LEFT UNTIL RESTAR
-Get on with it!
-Seventy more seconds until it restarts.
SECONDS LEFT UNTIL RESTAR
Oh, no. What now?
Forty seconds. I'll stall him.
That's impossible.
Twenty seconds… I won't last.
Mr. O!
We made it in time.
Go, Jet Jaguar! Get him!
It flew?
What's that?
A bird? It's huge.
Something for the festival? No.
A pterosaur?
Get back down here, you coward!
This cry…
It's hot. Be careful. You'll get burned.
Better not touch it.
Is it dead?
It's hot?
CHIBA PREFECTURAL POLICE
I'm taking a look.
I'll be right back.
Hey!
Excuse me. Coming through.
I'm fine.
I'm not hurt.
Where are you taking me?
Are you listening? Who do you think I am?
Yun!
You can't.
They're my colleagues.
Yun!
How's Mr. O?
A few broken ribs,
but they said he'd be fine.
DO NOT ENTER
What is it?
What do you think?
Sorry. Excuse me.
The mysterious creature that suddenly
appeared during the festival…
Is it the last winged dinosaur?
Or are there others?
It resembles a Quetzalcoatlus.
Was it actually a dinosaur?
-Found as a fossil…
-Perhaps it's a runaway pet.
My friend couldn't escape.
It suddenly came flying…
Where did it come from?
Then it suddenly died?
Possibly of shock…
They couldn't catch it alive?
It'd be an important specimen
if it were alive.
Too bad they couldn't catch it alive.
Crucial evidence
is often destroyed by amateurs.
The operator was a local electrician
and robot designer…
He saved the children.
Was it self-defense?
He owned that weapon, right?
He should've waited for the police.
We're here in front of Otaki Factory.
The shutters are closed…
The self-diagnostic program
shows 1,345 malfunctions.
The main frame
had seven percent distortion,
twelve motors burned,
and eight had abnormal readings.
It needs a new hatch and right arm.
And batteries too.
It's badly damaged
but surprisingly resilient.
It did well.
But we have a problem.
How can we finish setting up
these three work robots by the weekend?
It will take ten days without Mr. O.
Jet Jaguar has to wait.
He said to forget those robots
and prepare for the next battle.
Satomi.
How was Mr. O?
Totally fine. He'll be released next week.
But they'll probably
kick him out before that.
He told me to show you this.
What is it?
That pterosaur
was one of these flying things.
"They'll be back. Just like this picture."
"Next time, it will be a flock."
"Make sure Jet Jaguar is repaired."
Do these look like the pterosaur?
The same picture
was displayed for the festival.
"Painting of Gojira"?
"Painting of Godzilla." A local legend
about an apocalyptic monster
that appears from the sea
when it turns red.
Apocalyptic? Sounds biblical.
Red sea? Red tide?
Is that a whale in the middle?
What do you think?
Mr. O's premonitions are often right.
But Jet Jaguar's parts won't be here
until next week.
Even after it's repaired,
it can't fight off a flock of them.
I have an idea.
Its cry?
Jet Jaguar recorded it.
And this.
The radio waves it emitted?
They're the same
as from the haunted mansion.
Its cry emits radio waves.
And the neon sign it destroyed
emits radio frequencies.
It was attracted to radio waves?
If it's how they communicate
I'll analyze this to produce
a signal that attracts them.
I see.
But what do we do when they're here?
I don't know.
Play the pipe and jump into the sea?
Perhaps it's not a dinosaur…
The former director,
two before me, showed it to me.
He said the director before him
showed it to him.
It wasn't like he was passing it down
to me or anything.
It's like one of those urban legends.
Like a mummified kappa
stored away in a temple.
It's just left there?
Shouldn't we investigate?
Sato, our job is to monitor radio waves.
Dinosaur bones are out of our purview.
And if the information somehow leaks out…
It was first observed three weeks ago…
If you're that concerned…
"Compact archives"?
Let me know if anything turns up.
"Year 1970."
The word "dinosaur,"
which means terrifying lizard…
I can't believe how agile they are
when they're so big.
I'm back.
I found the material you wanted.
You worked hard.
-I don't want to be uninstalled.
-You don't?
My character is linked to this computer.
But you're just a data structure.
What would you think if you woke up
one morning as a big insect?
Gregor Samsa?
Your data may be the same,
but the vessel is different.
These graphs…
I couldn't find data consistent
from figure 43 to figure 65
so I analyzed your notes about
transdimensional flying creatures.
You read my notes?
They're very interesting observations.
Aren't you going to publish them?
They're not organized. It's a big mess.
Let's get it organized and published.
If it's possible.
I'm on it.
Three billion yen.
Excuse me?
A museum is offering three billion yen
for that dead pterosaur.
Then I wonder how much
the skeleton in our basement is worth.
-Oh, how nostalgic.
-What are they?
Microfiche. Never heard of them?
We have the reader somewhere.
I'll go look.
What does it look like?
That's an OHP.
A 5-inch and 8-inch disk drive.
Not those either.
It looks more like a computer.
Here it is. The microfiche reader.
Now there are two of them
worth three billion.
Another dead winged dinosaur.
This is a beach 20km from the station…
Three more were found,
for a total of four…
A total of eight remains have been found.
Others may be flying around,
waiting to attack…
Here to catch a dinosaur?
The streets are full of…
I want one as a pet.
You didn't notice? I'll replay it.
The streetlights appear to flicker
when the dinosaurs cry.
They might be emitting
electromagnetic waves.
Can a living organism do that?
The tissue layers you see here are similar
to the electric eel's electric organs.
Its stomach was empty.
Did it starve to death?
Actually, we haven't found an organ
that works as a stomach…
The DNA of the pterosaurs
and other known animals…
The homeobox gene hasn't been detected.
The gene is a common feature
in many creatures on Earth…
The radioactive element,
radon, was detected…
Radioactive?
No immediate health issues…
A new, unidentified creature…
The word "kaiju"
means "strange beast" in old Japanese.
-So it's a radio-wave kaiju?
-Radio-wave monster Rodan.
Rodan, the radio-wave monster.
Rodan, the radio-wave monster.
Rodan!
"Radio-wave monster Rodan"?
Reaction to a paper? Whose?
A person called Professor Li responded
to your paper on the Internet.
My paper?
Why are you chilling an empty bottle?
Search for noodle soup base recipe.
Soy sauce, sugar, and what?
Mirin. Broth.
Broth? Search how to make bonito flakes.
It takes at least a year.
Can I use ketchup instead?
Tomato umami is glutamic acid.
Bonito umami is inosinic acid.
Should I distill it?
Or maybe use chromatography?
Oh, no!
It's so hot.
Sixty seconds overcooked.
You're 60 seconds too late.
What were we talking about?
There was a reaction to your paper
on the preprint server.
Paper? Mine?
Here it is.
"Introduction to Biologia Phantastica.
Mei Kamino."
"Co-written by Pelops II."
Did you do this?
I included my name.
It's collaborative research.
"The laws of physics distorted by
imaginary creatures' time regression…"
Is it a paper?
A scientific essay? What is it?
It's how it turned out.
I organized your data
and published a paper.
Well, you actually did a good job
organizing it but…
There are 32 people
who reacted to the title after 20 hours.
Five people downloaded the article.
One person sent a reaction via e-mail.
Reaction?
A person called Professor Li
sent you an e-mail about your article.
She wants to meet you in Tokyo.
Who does?
Professor Li, the sender of the e-mail,
wants to see you.
They said a microfiche lasts 100 years.
It must be 100 years old.
VERIFICATION OF SPECIMEN
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE RADIATION
"Old Tsuguno District Administration"?
"Ashihara"? It sounds familiar.
Michiyuki Ashihara
is the founder of this facility.
Really? You're well-informed.
Alarm system?
It's apparently very old
and nobody knows what it's for.
It's connected
to a machine in the basement
with a skeleton of a huge dinosaur.
Dinosaur? What are you talking about?
Well…
-Sato.
-Yes?
Give me a written report.
A dinosaur skeleton in the basement?
What's going on with him?
Professor Li,
a computational chemistry expert.
"Research on new molecules
through computer simulation."
Isn't it similar to your research?
Professor Li
studies molecules of the real world.
"Lightness, toughness, rigidness,
flexibility, strangeness."
She's discovered various new molecules
but hasn't been able
to synthesize them yet.
"SHIVA"?
It says she's currently a member
of SHIVA.consortium.
Ta-da!
Equipped with special Rodan antennas.
This is Gyro Canopy Tandem 2,
Gyro Z for short.
Short for what?
Mr. O.
Hey, I see you guys are ready.
Released already?
You idiot! I can't stay in bed forever.
A huge catch of deep-sea fish yesterday,
but not a single one today.
Rather than chasing fish that's not here…
Selling Rodan buns might be better.
Did you see that?
What's that?
That's…
Rodan.
Oh, my gosh.
Subtitle translation by: Annie Iwasaki