Public Security Section 9

The unit is summoned to break a hostage situation at an establishment staffed by android geisha. Once the standoff ends, Chief Aramaki is met by Kubota, who reveals that the Japanese Foreign Minister had drawn scrutiny from military intelligence after showing interest in the Ichinose Report, a document mapping out diplomatic and military responses to a national emergency. Given how delicate the matter is, Kubota asks the team to pick up the investigation where the earlier group left it.

Combing back through the geisha-house incident, Togusa works out what truly occurred: the Foreign Minister had his cyberbrain switched with that of an unidentified agent serving the American Empire. The team moves fast, stopping the impostor, who is wearing the minister's body, before he can leave the country carrying the sensitive report.

The hostage crisis at the android geisha house is resolved, opening the door to the deeper case. Kubota's briefing steers the team toward the compromised Foreign Minister and the Ichinose Report. Togusa's insight cracks the cyberbrain swap, revealing the foreign agent behind it, and the operatives intercept him at the border before the report can slip out of Japan.

This is the first episode of Stand Alone Complex, subtitled SECTION-9. It aired in Japan on October 1, 2002, and in English on November 7, 2004, directed by Toshiyuki Kawano from a script by Kenji Kamiyama, leading into Runaway Evidence. The episode is remembered for the Major's blunt speech to a cornered perp about changing yourself if you dislike the world, a line that sets the tone for the series.