Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
He went to find Akira?
Kay:
That's what the strange one said.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
You, and Roy, and the Army keep talking about this guy called Akira, and now you're chasing Tetsuo. It has something to do with his power, right? But who the hell's this Akira?
Kay:
All I know is what Roy said. He said Akira has achieved pure energy.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
Pure energy?
Kay:
A human being, you know, achieves a whole lot of things in a lifetime, right? Like discovering things and making things like houses and motorbikes, and bridges and towns, rockets. Where does that tremendous knowledge and energy all come from?
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
[shrugs with an "I don't know" grunt]
Kay:
After all, humans are descended from monkeys, right? And before that, insects and then fish, and long before that, plankton and one-celled amoeba. When you think about it, each life form must have its own energy.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
Well, I... Uh... That's evolution, right?
Kay:
I'm talking about the life force that exists, even perhaps in water and atmosphere, perhaps even in space dust. If they evolved, they must hold some memory locked inside. If it could reach back, even before the beginning of time...
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
Hey, hold it. What's the matter with you? Are you all right? Maybe you hit your head back there, huh?
Kay:
Perhaps all things in existence have that memory, but what if the order of things were disturbed, if through experimentation, an amoeba were transfused with the power of a human being?
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
What? Is that what Akira is?
Kay:
Amoebas don't make motorcycles and atomic bombs! They only eat up anything that happens into their way.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
You mean Tetsuo? You're saying he has *that* kind of power?
Kay:
Before, there were those men who tried to harness such energy at the request of the executive council. They failed and the destruction of Tokyo was inevitable.
Kiyoko:
[who has been speaking through Kei]
But this time, that energy will be ours.
Kay:
[upon being released]
Ah!
[the door to the cell unlocks]
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
What?
Kay:
The door's open.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
Huh?
[after they leave the cell]
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
This smells, could be a trap.
Kay:
Then let's get back.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
No! This may be our only chance to get outta this nut house!
[as they're going towards the exit]
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
By the way, what's the story between you and that Roy guy?
Kay:
What's it to you, anyway?
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
Well, I mean, like you're always together.
Kay:
None of your business.
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
It *is* my business. I mean, does he know about us?
Kay:
About us? Wait a minute! What about us?
Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub):
Well...
