Ghost in the Shell – The Human Algorithm

Hackers attempt to assassinate a politician during a speech preaching the advantages of cybernetic prosthetics.

Fortunately, Togusa is there to whisk her to safety,

and the investigation leads Batou to a suspicious factory in the artificial islands in southern Japan. Meanwhile,

Chief Aramaki hears of a disturbing discovery at the other end of the country:

dozens of artificial bodies, illegally dumped near a village

where an anti-cyberization sect conducts their training and “rites.”

Among the empty shells is one formerly inhabited by the woman

who embodied Section 9 until she left it behind

and disappeared: Major Motoko Kusanagi…