7.5/10234 votes#1 - DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2004
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
7.4/10235 votes#2 - DI: Well-Fed Me; NIGHT CRUISE
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2004
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
7.4/10220 votes#3 - DI: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; CASH EYE
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/2004
=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
7.7/10198 votes#4 - DU: Natural Enemy; NATURAL ENEMY
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2004
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
7.5/10187 votes#5 - IN: Those Who Have the Motive; INDUCTANCE
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/6/2004
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
7.5/10186 votes#6 - DI: Latent Heat Source; EXCAVATION
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/6/2004
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
7.5/10187 votes#7 - DU: Rhapsody - The Melody of a Bygone Nation; Pu239/94
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/3/2004
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
7.3/10183 votes#8 - DI: Vegetarian Feast; FAKE FOOD
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/3/2004
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
7.5/10184 votes#9 - DU: The Hope Named Despair; AMBIVALENCE
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 5/8/2004
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
7.5/10194 votes#10 - DI: One Angry Man; TRIAL
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 5/8/2004
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
8.3/10217 votes#11 - IN: Kusanagi's Labyrinth; affection
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/5/2004
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
7.9/10182 votes#12 - IN: To Those Without Even a Name...; SELECON
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/5/2004
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
7.3/10182 votes#13 - DI: Face; MAKE UP
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/3/2004
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
8.1/10197 votes#14 - DI: Beware the Left Eye; POKER FACE
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/3/2004
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
7.5/10180 votes#15 - DI: Afternoon of the Machines; PAT.
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/7/2004
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
7.3/10177 votes#16 - IN: The Fact of Being There; ANOTHER CHANCE
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 8/7/2004
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
7.4/10181 votes#17 - DI: Mother-Child Relationship; RED DATA
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 9/4/2004
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
8.0/10187 votes#18 - DI: Angel's Poem; TRANS PARENT
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 9/4/2004
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
7.7/10178 votes#19 - IN: Chain of Symmetry; CHAIN REACTION
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/2/2004
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
7.8/10179 votes#20 - IN: Confusion at the North End; FABRICATE FOG
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 10/2/2004
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
8.1/10176 votes#21 - IN: Escape in Defeat; EMBARRASSMENT
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 11/6/2004
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
7.7/10173 votes#22 - DU: Abandoned City; REVERSAL PROCESS
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 11/6/2004
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
8.0/10187 votes#23 - IN: The Day the Bridge Falls; MARTIAL LAW
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 12/4/2004
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
8.2/10189 votes#24 - IN: Aerial Bombing of Dejima; NUCLEAR POWER
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 12/4/2004
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
8.2/10183 votes#25 - IN: To the Other Side of Paradise; THIS SIDE OF JUSTICE
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 1/8/2005
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
The Best Episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"DI: Reactivation; REEMBODY" is the best rated episode of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 234 votes. Directed by Masaki Tachibana and written by Kenji Kamiyama, Taiki Sakurai, it aired on 1/1/2004. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "DI: Well-Fed Me; NIGHT CRUISE".