Tokyo Override (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

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[electronic bleeping]
- [tense music playing]
- [grunts]
- It's him!
- [Father] Okay, let's just calm down.
I understand how you feel,
but please hear me out.
Doesn't look like you had too much trouble
getting good treatment for your friend.
- Isn't that a relief?
- Get out!
Okay. So why are you here?
If you're caught now,
it's my ass on the line.
- Yet you've been after us for how long?
- Oh, a while.
And it goes without saying
that all of you are wanted.
First for drug trafficking,
and second for the murder
of those dealers.
- We're innocent, you damn--
- [Father] Kai.
Let's focus on evading arrest.
It certainly helps that the old man
is quick on the uptake.
Now then,
how 'bout we figure out where to run?
Huh?
You didn't think you could slink back
to that dingy garage you call home?
My colleagues in the Narcotics Department
should be turning the place over
as we speak.
- [Watari] Why are we working with him?
- [Father] It was all a misunderstanding.
- [Watari] Is that a joke?
- [Father] Just wait.
Hmm.
[door opens]
[nurse] I found it.
[Lizard] Good. Thanks.
What is that? A map?
[Lizard] Yeah.
We might get detected if I use my device.
Now let's see.
Hmm?
[Lizard] Assuming our pursuers
know what they're about,
we'll be traced the moment
we start moving again.
Luckily, there are spots where
Traceability's precision is diminished.
- We'll have to cut through them.
- That's some dubious-looking intel.
Where'd you get it from?
Well, when you exterminate rats
for a living,
you learn things,
like where rats like to hide.
So what hole strikes your fancy?
Have you any backup hideouts?
A safe house
in a place where Traceability's weak?
Of course not.
We don't have those kind of resources.
[Lizard chuckles] Amazing.
You gallivant around on your bikes,
but at the end of the day,
you're just as locked into the system
as the rest of us.
Yeah. We don't need a hideout.
Or we didn't until we ran
into your pack of hyenas here.
But everyone looks like a drug dealer
when you're desperate
to justify your predatory job.
[Lizard grunts]
[Watari] Mm.
[Spoke] This is no time to argue.
[both] Hmm?
The Wall's sensitivity just got boosted.
- [Lizard] Hmm.
- Where should we go?
- [Kai] Here.
- [Lizard] A dead suburb.
- That could work.
- Kai, do you know this place?
[mysterious music playing]
- [Watari] Father, we're cutting right.
- Got it.
Think it's about time
you explained yourself.
Why'd you decide to start helping us?
[sighs]
My colleagues and I were tracking
the flow of drugs across the city,
but we struggled to find enough intel
to make a major arrest.
Until your group appeared
right in front of us,
as if you were being dangled from a stick.
- I was getting strung along. So were you.
- What's that supposed to mean?
Yesterday, we planned an op
to interrupt a drug deal
at a concert venue.
But, before we could close our net,
a dealer we were tracking left
for a second location.
I assumed that they changed locations
'cause they caught wind of us,
but when we arrived at the scene,
they were dead,
and you were standing over their corpses
looking guilty as sin.
The story told itself.
You were in business with them,
a dispute broke out, you gunned them down.
- However
- [narc] The killers didn't miss one shot.
They must be some real professionals.
Ruthless too.
Funny. You think they'd have shot at us.
I suppose
they could've been short on ammo.
They did kill a lot of people.
Professional hitmen running outta ammo?
Not something I've ever heard about.
[narc chuckles]
Thank God they're stupid, I guess.
Like I said, we're not the ones
who killed those guys!
They were already dead when we got there!
I'm curious.
Have any of your devices
been hacked recently?
Well, yeah. Mine was.
- It's how we met Kai.
- Uh.
Well, um, when I hacked you,
there was evidence that someone
had hacked into your device before.
I told Hugo as much,
but we got busy with work and forgot.
So this whole time, some hacker
could have been tracing our every move?
It's a lot worse than that.
I think your movements are being guided,
along with your little acts
of supposed rebellion.
You thought you were riding
around freely on your bikes,
but you've been rats in a maze all along.
- No way.
- [Watari] I get it.
There's no way that this was
just a freak coincidence, right?
Someone arranged for the narcs
to find us at that crime scene,
and they timed it down to the second
because they wanted us to take the fall
for a killing they'd committed,
so it's the only thing that makes sense.
- I don't know. How could that work?
- I don't think it could.
If I hadn't snuck out of the garage,
then none of us would've set foot
anywhere near that concert.
I doubt anyone could predict that,
let alone trick us into it.
[Watari gasps] No.
There's one person who could've planned
around all of it.
Someone we trusted.
[agitated music building]
Ieuji.
[curious music playing]
[gasps]
Miss Ieuji
is just one government official,
but she does have one unique privilege.
She has access to the Insight,
an amalgamation of every data point
in Tokyo.
[Ieuji] The Insight.
In this city, it's as good as omniscient.
[Spoke] So what?
She's able to see everything we do?
Not quite. It's not humanly possible
to observe everything at once.
The Insight's data stream is so vast
that no one can access
more than a fraction of it.
Most of its functions work
with zero human intervention.
There's just one exception.
One point which happens
to be managed by Ieuji herself.
The Wall.
That's right.
By keeping tabs on traffic
that passes through the digital Walls,
she can obtain movement information
at a human level.
As long as we're within the system's web,
she'll use that to track us.
[Kai] Huh?
What do you mean
Traceability isn't finding them?
How is that possible?
There are certain places in Tokyo
that have weak scan coverage.
I suspect they're threading
their way through them.
Well, that's inconvenient.
What assistance do you need?
Well, if you were to grant me
guidance authorization,
I could do some rerouting
and expand Traceability's coverage.
You intend to move citizens arbitrarily?
[sighs] It leaves a bad taste
in the mouth.
Putting that aside,
there are fools who think
that the mere use of their data
constitutes a restriction of freedom.
[Ieuji] This system already does this
during emergencies.
Most people won't blink an eye.
If we redirect traffic
into these weak points,
we can utilize the citizens' devices
to enhance the range,
and then the precision
of the scan will be ensured.
Mm.
I'll grant you authorization,
but make sure you don't do anything
that can be traced back to me.
Thank you very much, sir.
[bleeping]
[Watari] If she's been playing us
this whole time,
then did she have us deliver those kids
so she could use of them
for God knows what?
[Lizard] Ieuji has had an epiphany.
The digitally invisible
are a mighty, untapped resource.
The tagless, wielded subtly,
can be used to move mountains.
Unlike official resources, these can be
disposed of however she sees fit,
so long as the city stays efficient.
[Kai groans]
- Would she really use children to--
- [Father] Hey!
What in the world?
You're kidding me.
The cars are moving like ants.
They're coordinating
to flood the whole block.
Someone's using the system
to control them all.
Looks like they're finally starting
to use citizens as mobile scanners.
[Watari] So Tokyo,
the whole optimized city,
has been turned against us.
Hmm.
There you are.
- [thud]
- [groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
She found us!
Ugh, we had almost made it.
Go. Take the bikes.
Kai, let's go!
But I
Kai!
I can't. I'm sorry.
Just move!
[Watari yelps]
I'll screw up. I can't do it!
- What? Listen. Kai
- [thud]
[all groan]
Kai, try hacking them.
My device is broken.
We could always throw the bikes at 'em.
[thud]
Here's a thought.
You ride the third bike, Lizard.
Not in my wheelhouse.
I can drive a car fine,
but on a bike, I'd crash in a second.
Hmm.
[gasps] Great idea.
[all] Huh?
[bleeping]
Hmm.
[intense rock music playing]
[grunts] They're gaining on us!
Father, speed up and whip around us.
I'll go left. Say when.
[chuckles]
Floor it!
Ah!
Oh.
- Things might get a little bumpy!
- [all cry out]
[gasps]
[Father chuckles]
Well, it's been a minute
since I've gotten to ride.
[scoffs]
[groans]
[grunts]
- [music stops]
- [engines rev]
Hmm. [breathes deeply]
[grunts]
[somber music playing]
Oh.
- It's so quiet.
- [Lizard clears his throat]
We're far beyond the reach of Traceability
and far
from any functional infrastructure.
Of course it's quiet.
No one would ever wanna live here.
Much as I'd like to argue,
I don't think we've ever had a delivery
this far out.
[Watari] To think
that we're still inside of the capital,
this place feels like a different world.
Kai. Is this where you're from?
[Kai sighs deeply]
Yeah. This place is my hometown.
[enigmatic music playing]
[Watari] Hey, you.
You're pretty much a government official, right?
Yeah, why?
Well, why can't you go public
with what you know?
It's a clear-cut case. The Insight
should be full of evidence, right?
The problem is
that the people you're hoping to expose
happen to control access to the Insight.
Sure, but still
So Ieuji's department
is part of the Justice Bureau,
which is under the Digital Ministry?
Right, and they now have sole access
to Wall data,
so they alone can monitor
who moves in and out of Tokyo.
Then the evidence we would need
is firmly in enemy hands.
But if we stand by and wait,
then Ieuji won't ever stop.
- [Hugo] If we just need evidence
- [Spoke] Huh?
then we're in luck.
- [all] Hugo!
- Huh?
Yo. [groans]
[Father] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Kai] Hugo! You sure you're okay?
- [Hugo groans]
- [Father] Let's set you back down.
I can't go on.
- [Kai] What?
- Without a belly full of grub, that is.
- Oh!
- [Hugo laughs]
This isn't bad.
Think we might just be able
to do somethin' with it.
What is it?
A ledger made by a guy that got busted
by Lizard way back when.
The fella was smuggling
to make ends meet despite his fear.
Hmm.
[Mikuriya] So despite the fact
that I extended your authority,
they still escaped.
[Ieuji] I'm truly sorry, sir.
To prosper, we must optimize.
Efficiency knows no sentiment.
So when a nail sticks out,
we don't hammer it down.
We destroy it. Do you understand?
[Ieuji] That which is unnecessary
must be eliminated.
- [Hugo] It's a treasure trove.
- [Lizard] Huh?
[Hugo] Full of times, dates,
and locations.
With that, we can pinpoint
all the times he crossed the Wall.
[Hugo sighs] Once that's done
We should be able to uncover traces
of the data that Ieuji wiped out.
Yeah.
But how do we indict her?
If we submit our evidence
through the system,
she may well intercept it.
Hmm.
[determined music playing]
Make a delivery.
[all] Hmm?
Right! We'll deliver it directly.
Huh? Hold on, Hugo.
Nobody's forcing us
to dig in our heels here.
They might find us
if we stick around too long.
- And if we stay on the move--
- You think we can keep running? Really?
[sighs dejectedly]
Fact is we're short on options,
and time's not really on our side
right now.
Either we rough it
as an outlaw biker gang,
or we do our damnedest to deliver
this data to the Digital Ministry.
Either way, I know
that we're gonna have to go full throttle.
[both sigh]
[Kai] Mm.
- [Hugo] How about this?
- [Watari] Huh?
We can all take the night
to think about what we wanna do,
then, come sunrise,
we'll talk and see how everybody feels.
I promise
that no matter which path you choose,
I'll have no hard feelings.
[all] Hmm.
[music fades]
[Lizard] We humans have a strange ability
to move without direction.
[tuts]
- [Watari] It's been a while
- Hmm?
[Watari] since I've seen stars.
[Lizard] As we search for belonging,
we guard and steal,
fight and lose,
wake up with the sun, and start again.
[Kai] Hugo.
- Mm?
- Um
Uh
Are you still in pain?
They were small bullets.
I've been meaning to tell you I'm sorry.
If I hadn't joined Suma Garage,
you'd all be fine--
[Hugo] That's funny.
I've been meaning to thank you.
Huh?
'Cause you're the one who noticed
that Watari's device had been hacked.
You helped us down the path
that led us to the truth about Ieuji.
I broke your trust.
If I hadn't stolen your bike--
[Hugo] You should be proud. Okay?
There are lifelong bikers
who aren't able to take off like you did.
- Huh?
- [poignant music playing]
A motorcycle is the opposite
of a self-driving car.
Without you, it can't even stand.
Bikes give us the freedom
to rush past traffic
when someone we care for is in a pinch,
but without hands to guide,
this is just a lump of cold steel.
Hmm.
Kai, earlier, when you pushed your way
past me on your bike,
you reminded me of a notion
I've always believed in.
Whether the path you chose
is optimal or not,
you should take it full throttle.
So thank you.
I'll wear these scars with pri Ah. Agh.
Uh Are you okay?
[Hugo laughing]
Oh. [chuckles]
[both laughing]
[triumphant music playing]
[Kai] I wanted to leave this place
so badly.
I could never quite feel free
or at home without a tag.
Where did I come from?
[Lizard] You're nothing more than a weed
that's been pulled up by the root now.
You can't hide, kid. You got no future.
[Kai] Who am I?
Maybe you should go back to wherever.
[Kai] I was always a blank slate.
But that isn't true anymore.
I long for that.
Because from now on
[triumphant music builds]
[music fades out]
[Kai] Listen, everyone.
I think I'm gonna do this delivery
no matter what.
But the rest of you don't need to
- [horn blares]
- Ah!
What was that? You need our help?
We're with you.
Just hurry up and get ready.
Damn Ieuji.
She's overdue for a thorough ass-whooping.
[chuckles]
Just make sure
there's something left to arrest.
[spirited rock music playing]
[sighs] Can't believe you idiots
gave me so much trouble.
- [Hugo] Think fast!
- Huh!
Time to deliver our hearts!
Mm.
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Everywhere, I wander ♪
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Everywhere, I wander ♪
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