Episode #1 - Ingram Activated
The rag-tag second unit of the SV2 finally
gets a new labor: The Shinohara Industries
Advanced Vehicle Project's 'Ingram.' But
the Ingram is stolen suddenly by a rival company.
An unusual young woman planning to enlist with the SV2 named
Noa Izumi runs off after the stolen labor and takes control. Soon
she must fight off the thieves' labors. Later on Noa
is introduced as a new member of the second unit.
Episode #2 - Kanuka Has Come
The SV2 goes back to the police academy to retraining to prepare
for the renovation of the 2nd unit with the advent of
the Ingrams. At the end of their training a labor combat
tournament is staged to judge which positions are best suited
for each officer. Most of all it will decide who will pilot
the Ingrams. Kanuka Clancy from the NYPD shows up requesting
a temporarily 6 month position with the SV2. A final battle
takes place with Kanuka versus Noa.
Episode #3 - This is SV2
The newly revamped second unit is getting used to the changes and
we soon get to see how they live on the base. However, trouble is
always iminent in the SV2 and this day is no exeption. Ingram labor
unit #3 accidentally falls into Tokyo Bay. Now the
entire crew must retrieve it before Chief Sakaki comes back.
Episode #4 - Head to the Mountain of Mystery!
A giant unidentified creature is seen running loose causing
terror in the mountains. The second unit is sent to investigate.
Episode #5 - Runaway Labor X-10
The second unit is given very vague orders to assemble the team
and wait by a certain remote location. They soon find out that
an experimental JSDF military labor has gone on a rampage, but
the professionals had failed to stop it. Now it's up to the
second unit to put it out of commission.
Episode #6 - The Tower: SOS
Thanks to the use of labors, structures such as the Tower are
made possible. It's a gigantuan high rise project which will
be 1000 meters high upon completion. However a foreign diplomat and
his tour are suddenly trapped inside when a fire breaks out
300 meters up. The rescue labors fail and the 2nd unit's
Ingrams are the last hope.
Episode #7 - Glorious Type 97 Modified
The first unit are given a new test patrol labor named the
SRX-70 which has far better specs than the second unit's
Ingram and most military labors for that matter. It seems to
good to be true, especially since it didn't cost the department
any money. But soon it is discovered that it's part of a plot
by Shaft Enterprise to take police combat data for military
applications. Because of the ethical implications, Shinobu
decides to send back the labor and stick with their old Python
models.
Episode #8 - Elusive Green
The construction of an essential highway is being
sabotaged by an unknown force in the Onifuri village area.
It suspected that this is the result of a curse that was
invoked when the workers were about to remove the sacred Lord
Omogori tree that sits directly in the path of the planned highway.
But the true nature of these events are revealed as less than supernatural
in nature.
Episode #9 - Red Labor Landing
Doshuka, a Russian military labor was being secretly shipped
to Japan as a gift which was part of a military deal between Southeast
Asia and Russia. But they find out that a dangerous terrorist ex-member of the
JSDF is planning to swipe it. The Public Security Bureau pleads for
the second unit to help and Gotoh decides to send Noa and Asuma with them to
Sakata, probably knowing there's something fishy about the whole thing.
Episode #10 - Eve's Trap
Kanuka's grandmother who is visiting suddenly disappears. At the same
time, Special operatives of Shaft lead by Kurosaki gathered 4 Brocken
military labors along with a new prototype codenamed "Phantom" which start causing havoc
and render all communications in the Tokyo teleport area inoperative.
This is a ruse to bring out the second unit and steal the Ingram's
combat data. Detective Matsui and Shinshi go on a search for Kanuka's grandmother
while the rest face the unknown threat. At the same time the JSDF
is orginizing, thinking that it the communications trouble may be a
military jamming signal. As the fight starts, it soon becomes apparent
that the 2nd unit are completely overpowered.
Episode #11 - Eve's Terror
The battle with the Brockens and Phantom wages on. The 2nd unit is doomed
against the Phantom's LASER cannons and ECM field. Worst of all they can't
call for help because of the communications jam. Noa escapes to find help,
The JSDF's Helldivers get into the mix. Kanuka's grandmother is found.
At the end the evil labors are beaten, but the culprits escape and destroy all
of the evidence.
Episode #12 - Ohta's One Troubled Afternoon
Ohta's been set up to go to an omiai (formal meeting between
two parties with the possibility of arranged marriage) and meets a sweet
woman named Ayano. Ohta is a nervous wreck around her, but she
responds rather amicably towards him. Ohta finds himself falling for
her and decides he wants to marry. Yet she has to refuse for there's
another element in her life which conflicts with Ohta's wishes. We soon
find out what that is.
Episode #13 - Gently, Your Highness
The young prince of the small but wealthy desert country of Oasis comes to
stay with the SV2. His goal is to learn more about their work so that
Oasis can set up its own patlabor unit. This seems like a strange
goal since his country doesn't even have labors (hence no labor crime) but
the prince doesn't care since he loves labors so much, especially the Ingram.
Because of this commonality, the prince and Noa hit it off. However things take
a dangerous turn for the worse when the prince is targeted for asassination by
certain countrymen who plot to overthrow the imperial family.
Episode #14 - You Win
In a police judo tournament Asuma and Ohta are injured.
Gotoh assigns Kanuka and Noa to work together for the moment.
Because of their oppositional personalities and work methods, a
fight ignites between the two. Gotoh tries to remedy their
strained relationship and bring the whole crew closer together the
old fashioned way. By taking everybody out drinking. After
a while it starts to get a bit rowdy and things just snowball from there.
Episode #15 - The Whale That Sang a Song
Within the dike of the Babylon Project a pregnant humpback whale wanders in.
The bay waters are so polluted and crowded that it endangers the whale's
health, yet she refuses to leave. In reaction to this event, the whole
city becomes captivated by "whale-mania" as the media takes advantage of
the situation in every way imaginable. Even with the formation of a rescue
comittee, it remains more like a trite festival atmosphere than a serious
problem. After a few faliures to keep the whale out all of Tokyo seems to lose
interest in the whole thing. With the help of his partners,
Hiromi decides to give it one more try.
Episode #16 - The Unit Crosses the Sea
The 2nd unit is called out to Sapporo in the Hokkaido region
to help out building giant ice structures and statues for the
snow festival. They are told it is mostly for good press to
help mend the 2nd unit's reputation. Yet the real reason for being
shipped to Hokkaido was to stop a bomb threat instigated by the the
enviromental terrorist orginization the Earth Defense Force, House of Mountain
division.
Episode #17 - Target, Chief Goto
Gotoh has is being plagued by strange incidents such as
recieving death threats for starters, but he keeps it to himself.
The other members of the SV2, curious about Gotoh's behavior
decide to find out more about the past of thier enigmatic captain to
possibly find out what's happening to him. Unluckily for them, he's
way too sharp and their ploys accomplish nothing. Soon he finds out
who has him targeted: the former SV2 captain who had been dismissed
holds a huge grudge against Gotoh and with the help of his son intended
to get revenge. As a last resort the bumbling ex-captain Sofue gets
his homemade labor to attack, but it was put together so poorly that it
falls to pieces.
Episode #18 - I Love Noa-sempai
The current most popular idol in Japan, Kana Matsumoto comes to the SV2
to be trained in piloting patrol labors. She is to be piloting Alphonse
in a "Labor Safety Week" parade but is so horribly inept with labors that
Noa has her work cut out for her. Soon Kana becomes rather amicably attached to
Noa. In the midsts of her training she is targeted by kidnappers to extort an
Ingram from the SV2. However the job is botched and they kidnapp Noa by mistake
so Asuma heads up a covert rescue mission to get her back.
Episode #19 - Shadow in Geo-Front
The Geo-Front: A 40km underground city 100 to 200 feet below the surface
of Tokyo in the early stages of construction. In the construction a massive natural
cave had been found at the lowest levels. An Earth Defence Force
terrorist got deep into the depths of the tunnels, setting a bomb at a vital area.
Kanuka and Noa are sent to take the Ingrams into the tunnels and defuse the bomb.
However when they discover something far worse by the cave, a near-unstoppable dragon-like
monster. Kanuka and Noa have suddenly become the hunted and what's worse, there's yet another
bomb planted elsewhere in the Geo-Front.
Episode #20 - Movement in the Dark
Private security companies now use labors frequently and they are looking for qualified
pilots. A joint training course is taking place with the cooperation of the JSDF and
certain private security companies. Kurosaki shows up operating
under the guise of being a labor consultant for the HSS security
company. He also brings his own labor, Saturn (the production version of the
same SRX-70 which had almost been used by the SV2's 1st unit back in episode 7).
In the middle
of the exercises an unknown labor has been destroying the JSDF labors. This
labor turns out to be none other than the Phantom and it along with Kurosaki
and his Saturn is all part of a Shaft data collection conspiracy. At
the same time all of this is happenning a quarrel between Noa and Asuma had
created a huge gap between them. This started when Noa got nosy about
Asuma's relationship with his father which began a small disagreement between
the two that escalated. The SV2 soon gets dispatched to the training
ground but Gotoh sends Asuma to the Hachioji factory to retrieve the newly
upgraded Ingram #3.
Episode #21 - Phantom Again
The Phantom's reign of terror upon the JSDF grounds continue while the SV2's
2nd unit arrives on the scene. They cannot enter the grounds which is
JSDF jurisdiction. Yet Ohta, Kanuka and Shinshi enter and take on the Phantom
alone. Because Fuwa and her paratroops are attacked as well
they get caught up in the fight. Kurosaki sends the Phantom to challenge Noa's
Ingram #1 and the others figure out that the Saturn is working in in unison with the
Phantom. It's about to shoot Noa when Asuma finally arrives with Ingram #3 and
destroys it. Once again the Phantom self-destructs and Kurosaki escapes.
Episode #22 - Labor and Flower
After being impressed by their abilities, a yakuza (Japanese mafia) boss who collects
labors as a hobby keeps calling upon Noa and Kanuka to help him learn how
to use them. Being proud of his collection and his newly acquired piloting
abilities the yakuza boss begins bragging to a fellow boss who also has
acquired a labor of his own. The rivalry between them gets out of control
as they start doing vigilante crimefighting in competition of each other.
The SV2 aren't happy by their interferance, to say the least.
Soon it gets so bad that a war errupts between both yakuza gangs. From here on in
the episode takes on the tone of a martial-arts/yakuza movie. Noa in her
Ingram goes kung-fu on the two fighting labors while Kanuka dressed
in kimono and brandishing a kendou bokken takes on both gangs single handed.
Episode #23 - Kanuka's Report
The last day of Kanuka's training period with the SV2 has finally come.
She hates sentimental goodbyes so she refuses Gotoh's offer to set up a
farewell party. Undaunted by her hardened attitude, the crew breaks
into her apartment to hold a surprise party. On her computer they
come across the training report she was writing for her superiors.
It had personal evaluations of all the 2nd unit members which they begin to read
out of curiosity. This leads to a rather messy situation, especially after everyone
starts laughing at Ohta's evaluation.
After all the trouble they caused Kanuka is really angry to find
them there. But as she later concludes her report she does remember
to write something about the good in the 2nd unit.
Episode #24 - Farewell Kanuka
The 2nd unit sees off Kanuka as she boards her plane bound for America. Before
the plane even gets off the ground an odd, naive, cat-like hijacker named
Nekowatari announces that he's put a bomb on the plane. He threatens to set it
off unless Inubashiri, a Earth Defence Force terrorist is released from prison.
Soon Kanuka takes the matter into her own hands and poses as a stewardess trying
to fool Nekowatari. After the situation gets more dangerous Kanuka gets
physical and saves the day.
Episode #25 - Storm of Spring
With Kanuka gone, Shinshi fills in as backup for Ingram #2.
Shinshi's doing rather poorly at the job and becomes depressed at
his self-percieved incompetance. While Shinshi is feeling conflicted
about his work he gets an unexpected job offer in a managerial
position at a successful software company that is triple
his current pay. Now he must decide whether to quit the SV2 or
stay. He hasn't even told his wife yet.
Episode #26 - I'm Takeo Kumagami
The 2nd unit finally gets a new replacement member, Takeo Kumagami.
From the start she demonstrated extraordinary abilities. She quickly
gains the favor of the crew since she's such a nice person and an
unusually hard worker. There's even the possibility that she might be placed as a forward since
she's suddenly good with labors as well, which worries Noa. Even
before her training period is finished Gotoh puts
her in the position of backup for Ingram #2. In the field of battle
she shows her true talents. Only by the end does the crew learn that
she's an elite sergeant who was even being considered assignment with
Interpol, but she seems to prefer working at the SV2. Go figure.
Episode #27 - A Calling Voice in the Dark
The 2nd unit takes a training trip to hold mock Ingram combats
in an old abandoned building. Soon as night falls, many paranormal incidents start
happening such as malfunctions of machines and spirit attacks. In
light of the strange incidents, the crew begin discussing local legends and
ghost stories of the surrounding area, but for some reason Kumagami seems to
be acting a bit tense. She keeps trying to avoid hearing about ghosts. After
a while she can't hold it in any longer and the crew is quite shocked to
see her girlish berserker fear of ghosts firsthand. One apparition gives
a clue to the reasons for these hauntings that are all related to a particular
clan lord's killing spree in the Edo period, a bomb attack around WWII and
and the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Episode #28 - Suspicious Duo
On their day off Noa and Asuma go on a sort of date. They later decide to kill time
by checking out the video arcade. There they find a Patlabor arcade game which
Noa tries out but doesn't do too well (but not as badly as Asuma). Then along
comes a gleeful looking man with glasses calling himself "The Black Knight" who completes
the game to the amazement of the patrons. But a strange boy accompanying him named Bado is an absolute
game wizard and completes it with ease. It's not too good for Noa's pride. Later that night we see
The man calling himself Utsumi with Bado and Kurosaki looking over an old video of the Phantom.
It appears that once again the SV2 is the target of Shaft's data collection and feild testing with a
new machine that is far superior to any labor ever produced, the Griffon. Bado is to pilot the still
unfinished Griffon and so Utsumi takes Bado on a little field trip to see the Ingrams in action firsthand.
In two weeks the Griffon will be complete and that's when the party begins.
Episode #29 - SV2 Wiped Out!
This is the story of how lack of food brought the SV2 to its knees.
The Shanghai Restaurant is the only place willing to deliver food to the
out of the way station and so the SV2 is often dependent on them for lunches.
Because of Ohta's tactlessness and one disgruntled delivery boy, the lunchtime
delivery never came. The food along with the delivery boy just disappeared. With
no other food on base, civilization slowly but surely starts
to crumble. Later that night, they manage to place another order and leave their duties
long enough to pick up the food themselves, but then they all come down with severe food
poisoning.
Episode #30 - Griffon was Here!
Episode #31 - Tragedy in Rain
Episode #32 - Reunion
To be perfectly honest, this is the only Patlabor episode I have never
seen which is especially bad since it's in the middle of such a thrilling
story arc. Kumagami survived the gunshot, but her wound keeps her out of
action. From what I've been able to gather, Utsumi's boss decided to take
measures against his maverick actions so he calls in Shaft
Security Systems to take back the Griffon. On the trail of the 3S is Kanuka Clancy who
winds up being teamed up with her old friends in the 2nd Unit. Utsumi somehow fools everyone
into thinking the Griffon had self destructed but is still apprehended by Shaft officials.
Episode #33 - Hounds of SCHAFT
Episode #34 - The Battle of the Gate
Episode #35 - Griffon Down
Episode #36 - Noa's Adventure
Episode #37 - Safety on Sales
Episode #38 - Underground Labyrinth Case
Episode #39 - Mass Production Plan
Episode #40 - Shore Watch Out Order
Episode #41 - Save the Terrorists
Episode #42 - Return of the Men
Episode #43 - Working Ladies
Episode #44 - CLAT Forever
Episode #45 - Freedom to Choose a Job
Episode #46 - It's Name, Zero
Episode #47 - Condition Green
