Air date: October 2003
One by one, the members of Section 9 are hunted down and captured. Batou stops by at Motoko Kusanagi's safe house and confronts two arm suits ambush. Barely defeating the enemy, he manages to escape and joins up with Kusanagi, but...

Script: Yoshiki Sakurai
Storyboard: Kazunobu Fusegi
Director: Kazunobu Fusegi
Animation Director: Takayuki Goto