In a future time, when most human thought has been accelerated by artifical intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially a cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome Murders. Time has passed since Batou's original partner, Major Motoko Kusanagi, cybernetically enhanced to such a degree that only her
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