The Best Episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 2

A group of terrorists identifying themselves as the "Individual Eleven" barricade themselves within the Chinese Embassy. Section 9 is called in to eliminate the terrorists without any civilian casualties, all before the scheduled police raid.

Director: Masaki Tachibana

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Taiki Sakurai

A refugee living in Japan has plans to "reset the world" and change things. But are his plans merely violent daydreams, or something more sinister?

Director: Kenichi Takeshita

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Shoutarou Suga

=A hacker and thief by the name of Cash Eye plans on infiltrating a vault during a party, and Section 9 is called in to prevent it. But there are a number of strange elements in this case that don't all add up.

Director: Kazunobu Fuseki

Writer: Dai Sato

A routine live-fire exercise goes wrong, leaving a fleet of AI controlled helicopters flying above a refugee area, firing on anyone who comes near. And a mysterious and creepy man known as Gohda arrives to tell Section 9 how to handle it.

Director: Masayuki Yoshihara

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Junichi Fujisaku

An assassination threat has been made against Prime Minister Kayabuki; Section 9 is called to serve as bodyguards Meanwhile, investigation on the Individual Eleven turns up some interesting history.

Director: Kenichi Takeshita

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Dai Sato

A seemingly run-of-the mill hit-and-run turns into anything but when Togusa investigates. While in Tokyo, he discovers a secret from the past the GSDF is trying to keep hidden deep underground.

Director: Toshiyuki Kono

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Junichi Fujisaku

Plans have been leaked to terrorists that the plutonium recovered from the underground nuclear facility in Tokyo is to be moved. Section 9 is called in to ensure the plutonium reaches its destination, and Gohda is there again.

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Junichi Fujisaku

While on a stakeout of a Taiwanese vegetarian restaurant, Section 9 finds out that someone is pulling strings and feeding misinformation to the Public Safety Sections.

Director: Kazunobu Fuseki

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Dai Sato

The Tachikomas and the Major continue to investigate Gohda and his motives, while the rest of Section 9 are out to stop a string of suicide bombings.

Director: Kenichi Takeshita

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Dai Sato, Yuichiro Matsuka

Togusa is brought up on charges after he becomes involved with a murder while off duty. But during the course of the trial, it becomes clear who the attorney is really after.

Director: Toshiyuki Kono

Writer: Taiki Sakurai

While field testing new recruits, the Major finds herself hacked, and an old woman tells her a story from her past.

Director: Jun Matsumoto

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Yutaka Oomatsu

The Tachikomas, Ishikawa, and Borma locate a suspicious file believed to be the Individual Eleven virus, The Major, Batou, Saito go after Kuze, and the Individual Eleven prepare to put their plan into action.

Director: Masaki Tachibana

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Yutaka Oomatsu

With the latest Individual 11 incident still fresh in the public's mind, Section 9 discovers that only a skilled face sculptor could have created Kuze's prosthetic face. Since only two artists fit that description, they quickly locate the craftsmen and go to question them.

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Yutaka Oomatsu

Saito recounts his first run-in with the Major, and how he became part of the group that would eventually become Section 9.

Director: Masayuki Yoshihara

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Taiki Sakurai

During a scheduled maintenance, the Tachikomas begin to chat away about the Individual Eleven. While talking in their new "forum", Batou and Togusa appear and take one of the Tachikomas - who just happens to be Batou's pet - with them to Spring-8 to look at the scientific evidence gathered on the Individual Eleven.

Director: Kenichi Takeshita

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Taiki Sakurai

The Prime Minister is alerted to the existence of "hub cyberbrains," while Ishikawa returns from the peninsula to report on what he found out about Kuze's past.

Director: Masaki Tachibana

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

Following a tip, the Major conducts an undercover investigation of Kuze in Taiwan. While there, she saves a boy running from the Mafia.

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Writer: Shoutarou Suga

The Major and Batou are flown to Berlin in an effort to track down a terrorist called "Angel's Feathers". While there, Batou attracts the attention of a young girl in a wheelchair.

Director: Toshiyuki Kono

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

Despite close scrutiny by the authorities, the Dejima refugees declare their independence. Kuze is suspected to be the mastermind behind this new resistance and Section 9 is sent to detain him.

Director: Kazunobu Fuseki

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

Section 9 heads to Etorofu in search of Kuze. During their investigations, the Major finds an interesting floppy disk on the body of a dead addict.

Director: Kenichi Takeshita

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

Much to the chagrin of Batou, Motoko, and the rest of the team, Kuze and the refugees manage to escape in one of the camouflaged boats. They are further hampered when an explosion causes heavy losses, leaving them unable to follow the fleeing boat.

Director: Masayuki Yoshihara

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

The city of Fukuoka is evacuated when a live nuclear bomb is found. With the Dejima Refugees targeted as the prime suspects, the government sends the Self-Defense Forces into the city.

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama, Dai Sato

The government declares martial Law in Dejima, believing that the refugees have a nuclear device and plan to use it to gain independence. When the refugees' connection to Kuze is cut off, one shot begins a bloody war.

Director: Toshiyuki Kono

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

The Prime Minister is taken into custody, and the military begins its strike on Dejima. The Major and part of Section 9 head to Dejima to try to hand over the nuclear device to the military there, in order to defuse the situation, while Ishikawa heads to SPring-8 to deliver the rest of the plutonium.

Director: Masaki Tachibana

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama

Kuze manages to take down the jamming plane, but becomes trapped in rubble with the Major. The Tachikomas begin discussing what to do about the nuclear submarine they have spotted, and Batou manages to convince the special forces that have been sent to kill them to listen to him.

Director: Jun Matsumoto

Writer: Kenji Kamiyama