She's alive!
Incredible!
She's really still alive!
She's human all right.
It's uncanny, how well the brain was preserved under those conditions.
Look, she's coming out of torpor!
Hello, my name is ldo? What's yours?
N...
a...
me?
After all this time, she's not likely to remember much.
I think I can restore most of it.
You'll be keeping her, then?
Here you are, ldo.
Thank you.
How do you feel, Gally? Have you adapted to your new body yet?
Yes Mr. Gonz! It feels wonderful to move about so freely.
Well, ldo is the best cyberdoctor in town, you know.
But Gally, wandering off by your self can be dangerous,
especially at night with that killer stalking young girls for their brains.
And that's not even mentioning the spine thieves.
That's a fact,Jack! One minute I'm whole, the next I'm spineless!
You see, most cyborg parts are easy to obtain,
but without a viable synthetic replacement,
the human spinal column is a different matter.
And that means there's a thriving black market of "spare parts" dealers,
ruthless organ brokers who'll take the back from under your shirt.
Doctor!
It's giving me more trouble than I expected. I'll finish up tomorrow.
Well, thanks for trying.
Would you like a drink before you go, Yugo?
Oh, no thanks. I've still got another thirty houses or so to hit today.
Well, I'm off!.
Courteous and hardworking, rare qualities in a young man these days.
Am I right, ldo?
Yes, sadly true.
Who's there?
Doc, you know I don't have enough chips to pay for this.
Don't worry, I'm not at the point of starvation yet.
You can pay me when you get the funds.
Good morning, ldo.
Oh, Good morning, Gally.
What happened to your arm?
Ah, this? I guess I must have tripped.
Are you all right?
He must have done it when he was out last night.
Hey up there! What are you up to?
I said, " Hey!"
Can't you see I'm in the middle something?
You live here with the Doc, don't you?
That's right! My name's Gally!
That's a strange name.
And you're just rude. I think it's a pretty name.
You're right. It suits you.
My name's...
Yugo, right?
You knew it already?
Yugo, do you have family here?
Nope.
Wow, that's impressive.
I mean, that you can make a living all by yourself.
You think so?
Now, THAT's impressive.
What is?
How can you say "what" ?
I mean Zalem, of course.
Oh, I see.
Hey! Why don't you come with me?
Where to?
To a better place.
Hey Doc, I've got it working now!
Ido, I'm going out too!
It's up this way!
Wait up!
Here, take my hand.
Geez! What are you made of? It felt like you weighed a ton!
And you're strong too.
Really?
Yeah, really!
I think the view of Zalem from here is just the greatest.
Sometimes, if I keep staring at it, I can feel it calling to my soul.
What kind of people live there, I wonder?
My brother wanted to go to Zalem. He even broke the law and built an airship.
As for me, I'll just make lots and lots of money.
And then I'll go there myself!.
Why are you looking at me so funny?
I'm sorry Yugo, but the look on your face is the most interesting view here.
More interesting than Zalem? Get real.
What a disgusting cesspool of humanity!
It's nothing but the dumping grounds for Zalem, you know.
These people are vultures feeding on the trash that falls from the sky.
Why should it be anything but a garbage heap?
Oh, I see.
You really don't understand, do you?
Are you from the out lands or something?
I really don't know.
I have no memories, no past.
Even my name, "Gally", is something made up.
I see.
But, in a way, that's not so bad.
No past means a clean slate for your soul, no memories to haunt you.
Chiren, do you want to go back to Zalem that badly?
I have to. There are things that I didn't get a chance to finish.
And you really think you can manage it?
What can anyone hope to accomplish in Scrap I ron City?
The only work for someone of my skill in this dump is repairing crippled cyborgs!
What's wrong with that?
It's a crime! Squandering a talent like yours in this backwater.
You know you could do much better up in Zalem.
Does it amuse you to play fallen angel to these insects?
An angel of mercy?
Ido, you have no idea how far you've fallen.
You were Zalem's finest, the best cybernetics doctor ever!
Where is your pride?
My pride is not the problem. What has become of yours?
I don't intend to spend the rest of my life here.
I'll claw my way back to Zalem with my bare hands if I have to.
I'll do whatever it takes.
Chiren, I know it's no longer my business,
but as your former partner, please trust me on this:
You mustn't get involved with the Factory.
Ido, this is the last time I'll ask.
Don't you have any regrets about Zalem?
None.
I see. I'm sorry it has to be like this.
He's done it! Another victory for Zahriki!
With the disappearance of Grewcica, he is in arguably the new champion!
Unbeatable Zahriki! Another glorious victory for the record books!
Hold it!
Who are you?
Hunter-Warrior
Ooooo, scary!
Brother, brains are brains, even though they belong to a man.
I know you won't enjoy them as much, but if you'll wait, I'll carve them for you!
Not bad for an old man!
Get your hands off ldo!
Gally!
How dare you do that to Rasha!
Gally, get out of here!
Gally...
Gally, are you all right?
Is your body damaged?
Gally!
Yes, I'm fine.
Those moves you made... very impressive.
It surprised me too.
My body moved by itself.
A flash of rage coiled inside me, and then I sprang.
And I nearly had him! One more second and he would have been mine!
Still, I can't believe you saved me.
Your bounty is 1 00,000 chips.
Of course, his partner would have been worth ten times that.
Brain eating mutants are bad for business.
So are you in the market for some new body parts today?
I knew you'd find out eventually.
I'm what they call a hunter-warrior, a bounty hunter.
Once there were people called " Police," whose purpose was to prevent crime.
These days the Factory just puts bounties on the heads of criminals
and lets freelance hunter-warriors like me do the dirty work.
What's wrong, Gally?
It's just that I want to be a hunter-warrior too.
Don't be stupid! You don't know what you're saying!
I didn't give you limbs to do things like that!
You don't have to work; all you have to do is be beautiful.
This isn't about money! This is for me!
What do you mean, "for you" ?
Yes! Tonight I felt some thing new, as if I was truly alive for the first time!
You don't know what you're saying! Hunting is an ugly profession.
I don't want you soiling your perfect hands with blood.
I'm not some doll for you to play with!
Ido, you just don't understand!
And you'll really get me to Zalem?
That's what I said.
Really?
Enough already!
Don't worry your pretty head about it.
Your job is to upgrade the quality of the gladiators for the Coliseum.
How soon you go to Zalem will depend on the quality of your work and my profits.
Grewcica!
Doctor, help me!
My whole body burns like it's on fire!
You're not the pampered star of the Coliseum anymore.
Why should I work on a brain-eating junkie with a price on his head?
Damn that ldo! And where did he get that little bitch?
Ido?
Yugo...
Gally, you're absolutely right.
You're not my doll.
Your life is your own.
But why a hunter?
Is it some demon hidden in your untapped memory?
The laser will imprint your registration number on your brain tissue.
Please hold still.
On my BRAIN?
Finger prints, voice prints and retina patterns can be changed.
Can you think of a better way to tell one cyborg from another?
Let me show you.
Incredible.
To cause this much damage with a single impact
would require an unbelievable amount of power for such a small body!
Only ldo could accomplish such a feat.
Grewcica, I'll not only rebuild you;
I'll make you more than a match for ldo's little toy.
I'll use every skill and dirty trick I know.
Imprinting completed!
But that was so simple!
That's because the hard part is the job itself.
So what is Zalem really like?
The official answer to that is " No Comment."
I've just registered my self as a hunter-warrior.
Ido!
There he goes! Zahriki's awesome attack!
Where are we going?
A hunters' hangout, I'll need to introduce you to everyone.
What a horrible sound.
It's from the tubes that connect the Factory with Zalem.
"Officially" it's caused by the moon's tidal pull against Zalem.
Grewcica!
I've come to pay you back with interest, Baby!
Oh, my God!
It's Grewcica! What is he doing here?
So, Baby, are you ready to play with me?
Gally... Someone, give us a hand!
Screw that! Can't you see he's powered up?
You couldn't pay me enough to fight that son of a bitch!
Are you going to run away from me too, Baby?
I accept!
Gally!
What a good girl!
Chiren, you didn't rebuild this monster?
What? With a bounty on his head?
But still, I can't help but wonder... which one will win?
Suffer, ldo! I want to see your face when your little toy is broken.
But such eloquent pain belongs on a more suitable stage.
Eat this!
What a funny plaything!
That's it...
Gally!
It's time to finish this.
Try and catch me!
Do it! Use your cutters.
And when you do, those lacerations on your servo will...
DIE!
Gally, you did it!
Ido!
I've lost again, ldo. Nothing I do seems to have any effect at all!
I'm garbage, your and Zalem's cast off scrap!
But someday I'll get back to Zalem, and then I'll be the one looking down!
And then, ldo, I swear that I'll make you look up to me!
Gally, your powers and abilities are still growing,
which is fine, but...
I know what you're worried about,
but you have to trust me.
From this point forward, no matter how much I seem to change, I'm still Gally.
Ido, I'll always be your Gally.
I believe you.
You can only be what you are.