Writer:	Kenji Kamiyama
Director:	Kenji Kamiyama
Star:	Crispin Freeman (Togusa),  Dean Wain (Bouma),  William Knight (Daisuke Aramaki),  Bob Buchholz (Pazu),  Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Motoko Kusanagi),  Richard Epcar (Batou),  Michael McCarty (Ishikawa),  Dave Wittenberg (Saitou)
Recurring Role:	Michael McConnohie (Takekawa),  Doug Stone (Matsuoka),  Michael Forest (Kubota)
Guest Star:	Simon Prescott (Old Man),  Bob Papenbrook (Terrorist),  Barry Stigler (MOFA Head),  Dave Wittenberg (Terrorist)

Japanese Title: 「公安９課」 - 「Kōan Kyūka」 (edit) Original Japanese Airdate: October 1st, 2002. (edit) There are a few changes in the character's appearances from the 1995 movie. Motoko's hair has been changed from black to purple and her eye color from blue to burnt sienna, Batou has long hair, Togusa's hair has become a lighter brown, and Aramaki has been given a more chiseled face. (edit) Timeline: According to the clock in Aramaki's office, the date is April 14th, 2030. (edit) The Major shows Aramaki footage from the Yanagi (Willow) Room. A Yanagi Room is Japanese style room with an open-air thermal bath and a garden. The Yanagi Room in this episode has a garden and toilets with a ceiling overhead, but there are two doors opposite the entrance which could lead to open-air baths. To add, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn says the word wrong by pausing on the 'ya' when no pause is required. (edit)

Aramaki: Major!
Motoko: Almost there!
Aramaki: The military's itching to jump in. Watch your back!
Motoko: Thanks for the concern. (edit) Batou: But Major! What if the robot geishas demand a pay raise?
Togusa: Knock it off. (edit) Motoko: All personnel in position! Standing by!
Aramaki: Right. You're on.
Motoko: Go! (edit)

As the intro sequence begins, a single line of Japanese writing is displayed vertically on the screen (西暦二千三十年 新浜市ー). It says Seireki Nisensanjūnen Niihama-shi... or AD 2030 - New Port City... (edit) In the show's intro, as the Osprey is taking off, the title is displayed. Written in Japanese kanji - 攻殼機動隊 - is the Japanese name for Ghost in the Shell, Kōkaku Kidōtai, which literally translates to Offensive Shell Mobile Unit and is rearranged as Mobile Armoured Riot Police. (edit) At the very beginning of the episode, an introduction to the series is shown. As it is displayed on the screen, the English letters overwrite the Japanese characters.

Kanji:
あらゆるネットが眼根を巡らせ
光や電子となった意思を
ある一方向に向かわせたとしても
"孤人"が
複合体としての"個"になる程には
情報化されたない時代・・・

Rōmaji:
Arayuru Net ga Me Ne o Megurase
Hikariya Denshi to natta Ishi o
Aru Ippō Kyō ni Mukawaseta to shite mo
"Konin" ga
Fukugōtai to shite no "Ko" ni naru Hodo ni wa
Jōhō Kasaretenai Jidai...

The Japanese introduction can be found on the Japanese-edition DVD, sold through Japanese online retailers, and on the video game for the Sony Playstation 2 and the Sony PSP. (edit) On the left side of the title, and also in every title screen in all subsequent episodes, the beginning of the screenplay for the episode scrolls up the screen. (edit) After Aramaki is shown entering the meeting between Kubota and the police officers, the two subordinate police officers are shown saluting as the camera moves from right to left. However, in the very next scene, the two officers have put their hands down. No time had been given for this to occur. (edit)

SECTION-9: Ghost in the Shell (1995)

There are a few references to the 1995 movie Ghost in the Shell in this episode:
- a short introduction is shown at the very beginning of the movie and series.
- The series starts with two helicopters flying overhead past the Major, which is exactly how the movie opens.
- The Minster of Foreign Affairs in this episode appears to be the same MOFA head from the movie.
- The Major says that the dead NAIPA man's spinal column unit should have been, "made by the North American Neutron Company," which is the same company that Doctor Willis worked for in the movie. (edit) Section 9 Tiltorotor: V-22 Osprey

The plane that the Major and Batou jump down from towards the end of the episode, dubbed a Tiltorotor, is a descendant of the very Tiltorotor that the unit uses in the 1991 manga Ghost in the Shell by Shirō Masamune. In the manga, there are two blades on each rotor. Section 9's Osprey in the television series also has two blades per rotor. The aircraft makes its first appearance in the manga in Chapter 7 - "PHANTOM FUND". (edit)