B: The Beginning (2018) s01e12 Episode Script

Episode 12

1 [Keith.]
Koku.
Let me give you one piece of advice.
Whatever happens, you mustn't go near the Jetblack.
Why not? The black-winged king, who was called a god because of his power, was killed on that spot by the human who would become this country's first ruler.
Whenever someone who always wins loses, there's a reason behind it.
- [Koku.]
A reason? - [Keith.]
Yeah.
The Jetblack more than likely siphons off your ability to regenerate.
Listen to me.
Whatever happens, don't let yourself get lured to that place.
[crying.]
What sort of tears are these? Frustration? Pain? Despair? Or maybe sadness.
This moment's the only reason I've kept you alive until now.
The two of you will meet your end here, just as it is ordained in the inscription.
Then the legend of a new king will be born, and I'll etch that into the inscription.
[woman vocalizing.]
[Gilbert.]
This is what it boils down to.
What if a vaccine were incubated using Minatsuki's body and, from that experiment, a treatment that could stabilize the Reggies was developed? Then I suppose the public would receive an interesting piece of information, namely that the funds raised for reviving gods was used to make living weapons.
Moreover, everyone will learn that the military oversaw it and will know the name of the head of development, Albert Puzo, your father.
I saw his corpse on display in that room of yours.
In his later years, my father was starting to come around to Dr.
Kazama's point of view.
Perhaps in his old age, he grew sentimental.
[Gilbert.]
If anyone understands what I'm talking about, it's you.
What a country truly requires isn't gods or medicines.
In cities around the world, incredible weapons are hiding as humans.
When signaled, they'll slaughter everyone until they themselves die.
It is the fear of Reggies that keeps this country safe.
[Keith.]
Then why did you keep Minatsuki alive? It certainly wasn't out of kindness or some noble cause.
After you finish killing your prey, you get Minatsuki to brainwash a Reggie and frame him as the killer, and then Market Maker tidies up any bread crumbs.
An ideal system, one you can't walk away from.
Keith Flick, the man who knows all, godlike, the prodigy, Genie.
You think you know everything, don't you? However, in actuality, you're exactly like me.
You made contact with him to exploit him.
You've only been using that monster, Koku.
There you are, Koku.
[shudders.]
K-Koku.
Yuna.
I must say you took longer than expected.
Yuna what have you done to her?! Oh, don't worry about that.
She isn't dead yet.
Her death will come, though, and you'll bear witness as I snuff out her life.
[Koku grunting.]
[screams.]
Don't you dare compare me to you.
Using deceit and exploitation for your own benefit are your defining traits.
It's what you are.
There's no regret or remorse in you.
The instant you feel a twinge of guilt, you create a separate personality.
By suppressing the first personality and erasing it, you reset your emotions back to zero.
You shift your flaw of having to kill to survive onto someone else, which is how you've managed to stave off a complete mental breakdown.
[chuckles.]
The real monster here isn't Koku or even Minatsuki.
The real monster is you, Gilbert.
What's wrong? Your body not doing what you tell it to do? As long as you remain here, those injuries aren't going to heal.
This hallowed ground is for endings and beginnings, although it only comes to the aid of those who have completely accepted their destiny.
[Gilbert.]
I knew if I left a trail of illogical and unsolvable puzzles, you wouldn't be able to resist taking the bait.
The inscription's legends are the ultimate motif, a fantastical story, the tragedies surrounding it.
As a result, you found yourself trapped within the labyrinth I constructed.
The mystery grows with each puzzle solved, and you fall ever deeper, deeper, deeper, and what you discover at the bottom is darkness as black as velvet devoid of love, a world of nothingness.
Keith Flick all of this is about you.
They are all vignettes with the sole purpose of driving you headlong into action.
You would be tormented, suffer, and fumble for answers.
Then you'd step into my world entirely of your own volition.
You would look at me with eyes overflowing with hatred, and when I witness that exquisite moment, that will be the ultimate pleasure, one surpassing even murder.
[Koku.]
Are you kidding me? To hell with destiny.
As if I would ever allow myself to be the plaything of something like that! [gasps.]
Whatever happens, I swear to you, I'll protect Yuna to the end! [groaning.]
Is that it? You could at least fight back.
You're going to fight destiny? I'd like to see you try it.
Face it.
You don't know anything.
[Minatsuki and Gilbert.]
Like the cycle of death and rebirth, it will repeat itself, continuing forever.
[Gilbert.]
Inside our memories, Erika has a new beginning.
So, in the end, that's the reason you did all this? That's your answer? [sighs.]
[Gilbert.]
You enjoyed it, too, yes? Each time you solved a riddle, your cells momentarily overcame their grief, and you enjoyed it, basked in it.
I wanted to make you see what I've always seen that you and I are the same.
Go on.
Shoot me.
Shoot me, Keith.
Come again? Are you sure about that? Yes.
He told me himself.
You're kidding.
Erika's body had cedar and pine pollen covering it.
Believe it or not, Gilbert's the one - who leaked that information.
- You're right.
This island's the only place where both of those grow wild.
But if that's the case That's why I need to know for certain.
This whole mess was set into motion by theatrics orchestrated by Gilbert, which means, if I'm right, we're still being manipulated as part of his horror story.
Operate with that in mind.
We clear? Stay focused! [team.]
Roger that! I'm done with all of this.
I'm not playing your little game any longer.
Then what are you planning to do? Do you remember it? It was a summer day, just before graduation.
When I asked if there was anything in this world you didn't understand, you immediately answered with, "Murder.
" You rejected it as being equal to refusing rational thought.
I saw you genuinely despise something.
As we sat there, it felt as though you were personally rejecting me.
I shed tears for the first time ever.
- [Boris.]
Lily! - [Mario.]
Lily! Lily, wait! Don't go in there on your own! [Eric.]
Take a gun, Lily! [Gilbert.]
You're not the only one.
I loved Erika with everything I had.
As long as I had her by my side, I could fend off my madness, or so I thought.
But [Erika.]
Keith! You know why I did it, don't you, Keith? Erika had fallen in love.
However, she'd done so with a man that she shouldn't have.
I had no choice.
What's the matter? Pull the trigger.
Do it.
If you hesitate, you know I'll do it again.
Those you love most, those who owe their existence to you [gags.]
all the lives that have ever touched yours, I'll make them my playthings and extinguish them one by one.
[Lily, thinking.]
Keith, don't shoot him.
I'm going to carve an indelible code into you.
You're under arrest, Gilbert Ross.
If you want to shoot, do it.
It doesn't matter what happens.
I'll never become like you.
[Keith.]
You lose.
[Gilbert.]
You don't seem to understand.
[footsteps echoing.]
[gasps.]
Who will be the first one to get here? No.
Lily, maybe? Just give up, Keith.
It's over.
You know it's already over.
No, Gilbert.
Don't you dare.
[Lily.]
Keith! [Keith.]
Don't do it! [gunshot.]
[Gilbert.]
I started all this to bring it to an end.
[gunshot echo fades.]
A little bit more.
It will all be over, just as it says in the inscription.
As soon as I dig out that other eye of yours, I will send you to Heaven to join your friends.
My friends aren't dead.
They're not.
What? - They're still alive.
- [child.]
We're still alive.
- Dr.
Kazama - [child #2.]
We're all in here.
entrusted me with all of their futures.
It's the entire reason I was created in the first place.
- Not dead.
- [child #3.]
We'll be together They are all alive inside of me.
- Their consciousness - [child #4.]
We'll keep you safe.
- their memories - Trust us, Koku.
they're all inside of me.
- You don't know.
- [children.]
You don't know.
[Koku and children.]
You don't understand anything.
[Koku.]
I haveYuna and I have the duty of carrying them into the future.
That's our obligation.
I won't let you or even destiny stand in the way.
It seems playtime's over.
[Koku gasping.]
Wait.
Wait! [gags.]
[crying.]
[woman vocalizing.]
Yuna, I now forgive you for all your sins.
[muffled gasping.]
[muffled scream.]
Yuna! Koku.
[Koku gasping.]
Yuna! [yells.]
[yells.]
[Koku groans.]
[Minatsuki.]
Tonight, the ancient legend will end, and in its place, a new tale will begin.
At last, your roles are now over.
I'll make you pay for this, if it's the last thing I ever do! This is farewell, dear black-winged king.
[gasps.]
Why are you retreating? You don't have any more weapons to fight with.
Give in to your destiny! [Izanami.]
Do yourself a favor, and cut off my left leg.
It'll be useful to you someday.
That's Izanami's blade.
[Gilbert.]
I gave serious thought to killing you, but I decided against it.
It would be rash and indeed the cessation of rational thought.
So it occurred to me that I should instead test you.
I would test whether or not certain circumstances would drive Keith Flick to commit murder or if his thoughts were set in stone.
This would be a grand experiment.
Fantasies that defy comprehension would relentlessly assail a realist like him.
The tragedy that bound it together would gnaw away at Keith Flick's mind and soul.
His neurons would begin to grow agitated, and his soul, now ruled by madness, would whisper to him "Just pull the trigger.
" I wanted to see that moment from a front-row seat and etch it into my memory.
I would force you to kill me.
The four seconds for the brain to cease function after the shot rings out and the cranium is penetrated would be the ultimate moment, savored only by the two of us.
Keith morning will come to the world, regardless of my being there.
As you bask in the light of the morning sun, I will be reborn in your memory.
I will live on inside of you.
An indelible code will be etched into you.
A new legend will begin, one about us.
[Kaela.]
Good morning.
Gimme the usual.
Today's the day, huh? [Boris grumbles.]
You think Keith is really gonna show or bail? Didn't Lily go to get him? Things'll turn out just fine.
[Boris.]
It'll probably be fine Lily's the reason I'm worried to begin with.
- Then you go and see to things.
- Yeah, go out there, and do it yourself, you prematurely balding meathead.
[Mario winces.]
- [grunts.]
- Hey, there, Mario! - How's your morning going? - [angry muttering.]
- He actually left.
- [Brandon.]
What's going on? - Ignore him.
- Ah, well.
I guess this means things are getting back to normal.
- [Brandon.]
Hey, guys - When this began, people talked about Market Maker, Jaula Blanca, "bad cops.
" There was a worldwide ruckus over the whole mess.
[Brandon.]
ticking time bomb It's quiet again after only three months.
Would you stop ignoring me?! That's just the way we human beings are wired.
We get bored easily and also forget.
- That's why we can start over.
- I know, but there's still a ton of loose ends that needs to be tied up.
Yes, you're right.
Which is exactly why he's coming all the way back from headquarters.
That may be, but I can't shake the feeling that once Keith gets back, we're gonna be up to our ears in disturbing incidents again.
[Brandon.]
Why are you being so mean?! - I can hardly wait for it.
- You scare me.
Knock! Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock Knock it off! Just come in, would you? Lovely morning! Fresh from Matsuya! You don't make music by knocking on the door I did it with a half-time shuffle today! You don't do anything right, do you? Andup.
COULDN'T DO IT AT ALL Hmm? Hmm? They left already.
What?! What are you talking about? I even bought two extra.
I don't know! If that's all you wanted, get outta here.
Are you serious? Today's your first day back at the office! Boris gave me direct orders to drag you in, even if I had to slap a leash on your face! Therefore, I went out and bought a rope! Agh! My rope! Isn't it great? What the hell is it? I took the liberty of buying myself a '58.
I know she looks pretty dainty, but I swapped out her engine for a 356 and customized the exhaust manifold to do 140 - Hey, wait! - I can't fit into that, idiot.
- I'm walking.
- Do as you're told, or else I'm getting the rope again! Be grateful when someone offers you a lift.
Oh, shut up.
[Lily.]
I should have asked earlier.
Hmm? About Erika.
- Adopted.
- I knew it.
She didn't look anything like you.
'Scuse me? Forget it.
It's nothing.
You know, something's been on my mind for a little while now.
What? He died with a smile on his face.
I've been trying to figure out the emotion behind it, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.
[Lily.]
Satisfaction? Superiority? [engine revs.]
[Keith.]
What else would it be? Gratitude.
This is gonna sound way out there, but what if Gilbert wanted to finally put an end to his madness, but the multiple personalities rattling around in his head wouldn't let him? Basically, he was no longer in control of himself.
Maybe he put his destiny in your hands, you know? And in the end, when it came to stopping his madness once and for all, he entrusted that role to Keith Flick, who's the one and only person superior to him.
And you arrived at that place just as he hoped you would and pulled the trigger, releasing him from his pain.
There's only one thing I know for sure.
Gilbert's the real winner in all this.
You're saying you're not frustrated or anything? Huh? Should I be? Well, isn't that essentially the same as admitting defeat? Oh.
I couldn't give a damn about stuff like that.
Are you sure? To be honest, winning and losing were never that important, not to me and him.
One sets out a puzzle.
The other solves it.
That's all it was, nothing more than that.
What matters now is how hectic things are gonna get at work.
- The way I see it - [gasps.]
- we're in - [yells.]
[Keith grunts.]
[car horn honks.]
[Lily.]
Hey, Koku! hey, Yuna! - [Yuna.]
Lily! - Do the two of you want a lift? - [Yuna.]
Yes, we do! - [Keith.]
How?! - There's no room! - They'll fit! They'll fit! - We'll fit, Koku! - [Koku.]
We'll never fit.
[Keith.]
Hey, we're on our way to the station house.
- [Lily.]
Let's blow it off! - [Yuna.]
Get in! Get in! There's somewhere That we belong And God Has never played his role 'Cause I'm the one Who saves my soul It's a perfect world We're longing for So long Cursing shadows Hunt and gather In the city of no answer As we follow Endless questions Hands up In the same reflection Sometimes we try to feel How things just used to be In yesterdays Now or never, Make it better I hate to say I told you so, but this is what you get when you leave things to a Reggie.
I'll go this time.
I need to get my left arm back from him anyway.
[man.]
Have it your way, but don't screw this up, Kirisame.
I told you that we'd see each other again, Koku.
Subtitle translation By David Fleming
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