Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor

Synopsis

The Second Unit are on vacation. Most of the team have a place to go except Goto, who just seems to want to hang around the office with Shinobu, and Asuma who decides to go to his father's factory. He meets Jitsuyama, the manager of the factory, and family friend. He discovers that Shinohara Heavy Industries are building a prototype JGSDF Labor. Asuma is quite disgusted by this. Jitsuyama suggests that he should see his father more often, but Asuma says that he had already seen him today, and they already fought. He decides to visit Shinshi and later Kanuaka, but gets the feeling he is not wanted. The only option left is Noa, he calls only to discover that she lives in Hokkaido, and he will have to catch the train to get there. Meanwhile in Tokyo, a police road block stops a truck. One of the policemen become suspicious when they see a Labor under the truck's tarp. He asks to see the Labors' permit, but the truck runs the road block. The police give chase, but the Labor in the back of the truck fires upon them destroying all the police cars following. It is a JGSDF Labor.

Asuma is waiting in a restaurant for Noa to meet him. A very distinguished man in his 40s enters the restaurant and orders a bowl of cold noodles, and covers them with cayenne pepper. He finishes the bowl quickly and looks straight as Asuma with a cold glare. Noa finally arrives to pick him up and take him back to her parents' house. Back in Tokyo, Gotoh lets on to Shinobu that the real reason that he has stayed behind is because some very suspicious men are watching the SV2. The men discover that Shinobu and Goto are watching them back, and speed off in their van. Preempting their moves, Goto asks Sakaki to take one of the Labors back to the factory. Later that night, Goto calls Shinobu outside her house. He tells her that a truck with a JGSDF Labor ran a road block and shot up several police cars. With the JGSDF in the middle of war games, it will take several days for them to account for all their Labors. Are the JGSDF trying to stage a coup? Goto asks Shinobu to help him in his plan to thwart it.

The next day, JGSDF rebels invade Tokyo. They take over the SV2, but Goto has already shipped out the Patlabors back to the factory via the bay, away from the prying eyes of the men who have been spying on them for the last few days. Shinobu and Division 1 are at Police HQ and are blocking the path of the JGSDF. She states she will not move until the siege is over. Noa and Asuma watch the situation on TV. They show a picture of the ringleader. Asuma is shocked to discover it was the same man he met in the restaurant. He is Kiyoteru Kai, a man that Captain Goto knows quite well. Like the rest of Division 2, Noa and Asuma rush back to Tokyo to help.

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