Pluto Volume 2 Act. 8 Tetsuwan Atom - Page 3 - Sirens: (weeeoh)(weeeoh)(weeeoh) Police: Stand back, stand back!! No entry past this point!! Follow orders! No entry... Ah... Tawashi: Chief Tawashi, Metro Police. What do we have, here...? - Page 4 - Police: Well, an old traditional-style mansion has been destroyed... Act. 8 : Tetsuwan Atom Tawashi: I can see that already! - Page 5 - Tawashi: Was it destroyed naturally? Or did someone take a Power Shovel to it? (crumble) That's what I want to know! Agents: We are currently analyzing. Tawashi: Shouldn't this be easy for you? Shouldn't it be a snap for a bunch of intelligent robots like yourselves? Nakamura: Chief Tawashi! Tawashi: That was quick, Nakamura. Nakamura: Take a look... - Page 6 - Tawashi: My goodness... - Page 7 - Tawashi: Who's the victim? Nakamura: Junichiro Tazaki. A legal scholar. Tawashi: Legal scholar...? Nakamura: The founder of our current international robot laws. Tawashi: The founder of robot law... The very man who gave robots freedom and equality... There are many in the world who would think ill of him... Including myself. Well, start off by doing a thorough search on all likely anti-robot law organizations! Nakamura: Yes, sir!! - Page 8 - Tawashi: Horns... Nakamura: Huh? Tawashi: Haven't you heard of that, recently? Some murder to do with horns... Nakamura: I'll check. Hey!! We've got it, Chief. Switzerland and Germany! Tawashi: Switzerland... that's it!! - Page 9 - Tawashi: That robot Montblanc had them sticking out of its head... Nakamura: Indeed. The other one's in Germany. Dusseldorf... Bernard Ranke was another leader of the robot liberation movement. Tawashi: Then call Europol and let's get some more info from the people in charge of both of those cases... Nakamura: Actually, according to the data... Both cases are under the helm of the same detective... - Page 10 - Tawashi: Same detective...? Nakamura: And he's a robot agent. Tawashi: A robot... well, isn't that lovely. What's his name? Nakamura: Gesicht... - Page 11 - Waitress: Ahem... your order? Gesicht: Ah... I'll have tea... What would you like, Atom? Atom: Umm, let's see... I want ice cream. - Page 12 - Gesicht: It's odd... Atom: What is? Gesicht: When I look at you, my systems for detecting a robot or human start to give me errors. Atom: I hear that a lot. Gesicht: Sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up. I'm just surprised to finally see you in person. I've seen you on the news enough... Atom: The news? Gesicht: Remember how wild the media went when you entered the 39th Central Asian Conflict with the peacekeeping operations? - Page 13 - Gesicht: Did I say something you didn't like? Atom: No... But I only went there because I wanted to bring peace to their country... Gesicht: And you were treated like a celebrity or a pop star... Atom: Yes. Kid: Wow, neato!! Mother: Play with that when we get home! Saucer: (vwee vwee) (vwee vwee) - Page 14 - Atom: Whoaaa... Waitress: Here is your order. Atom: Yummy! What is it? Gesicht: Just thinking... it really looks like you enjoy it... I mean, my act of drinking this tea is fake, right? - Page 15 - Atom: As you pretend... Eventually, you feel like you can understand. Gesicht: Understand what? Atom: That it tastes good. Gesicht: Huh...? Atom: I couldn't say anything about the true senses that humans have... But it makes my chest feel... Gesicht: My goodness... May I ask you something else, then? Atom: Yes? - Page 16 - Gesicht: When you saw that boy who just bought his new toy, did you feel a longing for it as well...? Atom: Yes! It's really popular with kids right now! "Flying Saucers"! You need to be on a waiting list to get one! Gesicht: And you saw that snail earlier, out in the rain? You were examining that, not because it was a pulmonate of the snail family... But because it "grabbed" you? Atom: I don't know... Gesicht: Please... hear me out. - Page 17 - Gesicht: You were moved by the life itself? Atom: I can't really say... It's hard to understand. Gesicht: The rumors were true, you ARE amazing... I can see that your artificial intelligence is far beyond my own. Yet you appear to be a child... Atom: That's why I was sold. Gesicht: Sold...? - Page 18 - Atom: I was sold to the circus because people found my childlike appearance to be fascinating. Gesicht: Sold... Atom: What's wrong, Mr. Gesicht? You must know my past, don't you? Gesicht: Oh... Yes... I'm sorry, I didn't mean for the conversation to turn to this... I'll get to the point. The details of the case are as I wrote in that e-mail... - Page 19 - Gesicht: Montblanc in Switzerland, Norse #2 in Scotland... Both killed in turn... Atom: And now I'm in danger? Gesicht: Yes... Atom: What does the killer want? Gesicht: We can't say for sure... But he seems to be intent on destroying the seven most powerful robots in the world... Atom: Why would he do that...? Gesicht: You already know, don't you? - Page 20 - Atom: May I read your memory chip? There might be a clue that solves the mystery, within the input data you've collected. Gesicht: I'm afraid not. There's top secret info from other cases in there, and my own personal memories as well... Oh, right... Your A.I. is much better than mine... I trust you. Atom: I appreciate that. - Page 21 - Atom: Thank you. Gesicht: Please discard the unnecessary data, if you would. - Page 22 - Atom: Sure. Gesicht: Hopefully you'll notice something I haven't... Atom: Something you haven't noticed... Excuse me, I need to use the restroom... Gesicht: Restroom...? Atom: As I pretended to be a human, I got into this habit, too... Gesicht: I see. I can believe that, seeing how close you've been to humans... Door: (vweeeen) - Page 23 - Tears: (drip) (drip drip) - Page 24 - Atom: Mr. Gesicht... You poor man... Gesicht: It's raining pretty hard... Atom: Yes... Are you leaving Japan right away? Gesicht: Yep. I've got lots of other work piling up. And there are two more robots I need to speak to... - Page 25 - Atom: I hope you can visit again, with your wife! Weren't the two of you planning to visit Japan? Gesicht: Hey, this is why I didn't want you to read my memory chip! Atom: She's a wonderful woman. Gesicht: Kids shouldn't be toying with adults like that!! Delete it!! Atom: Don't worry... You'll be fine if you're with your wife... - Page 26 - Atom: You'll be able to overcome anything. Gesicht: Thank you. Well then, Atom... Atom: Come back again. Promise! - Page 27 - Gesicht: Sure. I'll be back with my wife. You can show us around Tokyo. Atom: Pay us a visit, won't you? My mother and father and sister would love to meet you! Gesicht: Yeah. Atom: It's a promise! Gesicht: It's a promise. - Page 28 - Gesicht: {He kept waving his hand... Until I could no longer see him... It filled my heart with emotion... My robot heart...} - Act. 8 End -