| Episode | English title (AnimEigo)/ English title (Manga UK) Japanese title | Original release date [4] |
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| 1 | The Phantom Woman/ Voomer Madness Maboroshi no Onna (幻の女) | 25 May 1990 |
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| At the beginning of the episode,a heavily wounded Leon McNichol,who is still part of the Normal Police,faces down and kills a rampant Boomer prostitute. The action then cuts to a later incident,where the Normal Police are trying to destroy an older-model female Boomer that has gone rampant in a local Chinese restaurant. The Boomer proves too tough for them as it kills and injures several officers,and the AD Police are called in to assist. Several AD officers rush the Boomer and attempt to physically shut it down. Alus,one of the AD Police's veterans,is shot dead when the Boomer slips out of the squad's control. Having obtained the shop owner's permission,the squad commander orders the boomer to be destroyed by firing squad. Later,as the squad mourns Alus,an administrative official calls the legitimacy of his death into question. He says that after some investigation,there were no faults found in the Boomer’s programming,it was simply overworked,and wasn’t at fault for going haywire. He claims Alus knew the Boomer that killed him,frequented the tea shop regularly,and theorizes that he had tampered with the Boomer to kill him so that his family could collect on his large life insurance policy. Leon and his partner Gina Malso disagree,and aim to disprove the claim. They set out to show that other local Boomers had hidden faults as well. They make a visit to a hacker contact of Gina's who is able to provide them with a list of possible users that have been illegally recycling old and decommissioned Boomers. Meanwhile,they are shadowed by an unknown female,who is revealed to be the boomer Leon killed when he was with the Normal Police,obsessed with finding him. Gina and Leon split up to follow separate leads on Boomer recycling operations. After interrogating a shady factory owner,Gina discovers that the original,recycled Boomer was part of an underground sex trafficking business. Leon is stalked by the Boomer,but does not recognize her,instead taking her for a common prostitute. The boomer begins erotically fantasizing about Leon killing her again,is driven mad with bloodlust,and attacks him,hoping that he'll shoot her again. In the ensuing fight,Leon is again injured,and runs out of bullets. Just as the Boomer is about to kill him,Gina arrives and kills it,saving him. The episode ends with Leon questioning whether humans have a place in the city,or whether it belongs to the Boomers. |
| 2 | The Ripper/ The Paradise Loop Za Rippā(ザ·リッパー) | 24 August 1990 |
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| After a gruesome murder of a prostitute on the Tokyo subway line called Paradise Loop,AD Police steps in to help the Normal Police find the killer. 6 prostitutes in total have been murdered on the Paradise Loop line and it is believed that a Boomer is the culprit. Two officers of the Normal Police,Iris Cara and her partner Vanessa Bach,believe the killer is a human and was done out of hatred. While all the victims share the same stab wound to the abdomen,they died from massive cardiac arrest or shock. Feeling pain in her right eye,Iris goes to the organ bank to replace it with a cybernetic one and runs into Leon,who knows her from his time in the Normal Police. Leon tries to change her mind,saying she'll lose part of her humanity,but Iris laughs it off. Later,during a meeting with the doctor,Iris overhears an argument started by another patient,Caroline Evers,a billionaire and CEO of the Green Food Corporation. Iris has a hunch that Caroline is connected to the murders,and asks Leon and Gina to help shadow her. They track Caroline to an abandoned industrial district that Paradise Loop runs under. After further investigation,Vanessa and Iris learn that Caroline’s entire lower body was replaced with cybernetics. While investigating Paradise Loop,Iris is ambushed by Caroline. Caroline explains to her that long ago she had been competing for the title of CEO of her current company,however a man got the job because he concocted a falsified chart that compared her menstrual cycles to her productivity. To alleviate the concerns of the company's board of directors,she had most of her organs replaced with cybernetics. As a result,she got the job. In time,the same man came to work under her and they fell in love and eventually married. She later discovered he had cheated on her with a Paradise Loop prostitute,and when asked why,his response was "real women are better after all." After finishing her confession,Caroline loses all self-control and tries to kill Iris,but AD Police officers led by Leon and Gina arrive to save her,and Caroline flees. Shortly after,Leon tells Iris that if at least 70% of the human body becomes cybernetic,he or she is treated as a "Boomeroid" and can be killed with the same prejudice as a Boomer. But Iris believes Caroline is still human,and should be arrested instead. Fleeing to a subway train on the Loop,Caroline enters a car full of lowlifes and exposes herself,hoping to feel like a woman again. After AD Police stop the train with crash foam,she is found raped and stabbed to death. Leon then tells Iris that she got her wish:that Caroline died as a human. The episode closes with Iris opting to undergo the cybernetic surgery,and to "throw away a bit of her humanity." |
| 3 | The Man Who Bites His Tongue/ I Want Medicine Shita o Kamu Otoko (舌を噛む男) | 22 November 1990 |
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| Billy Fanword is the captain of the AD Police Special Mobile Squad. After sustaining massive injures during a fight with a rogue Boomer and almost dying,his only remaining viable organs—his brain and tongue—are transplanted into an experimental battle cyborg body. He has a habit of biting his tongue,as the pain of it reminds him that he was once human. After Billy physically tears apart a heavy Boomer,concerns are raised about his combat abilities and performance. Dr. Manabe,who created his body,blames him for what she sees as degrading performance,but her colleague argues that since he retains his brain and memories,it is an emotional issue. He suggests that Billy's memory be erased to improve his performance. Manabe develops an unhealthy sexual attraction to Billy and ups his dosage of DA-27,a sensory stimulant drug,so that he is more receptive of her advances. Billy gets hooked on the drug and becomes increasingly aggressive whenever he is deployed,which happens more and more frequently thanks to Manabe’s influence. Suspecting something is amiss,Gina,his former lover,confronts Manabe and accuses her of intentionally addicting him. Manabe waves the accusation away,saying that Billy is simply getting back to normal again. Gina disagrees,saying the she can feel that he's changed. As Manabe attempts to wean Billy off DA-27,he flies into a rage and experiences hallucinations. He obtains DA-27 from an illicit source to keep getting high without Manabe’s permission. After finding out that she plans to let him die in the line of duty once she has gained prestige from selling his design,he helps himself to a massive dose of DA-27 that finally causes him to lose touch with reality. Billy kills Manabe when she comes to check up on him,and goes on a rampage through the AD Police HQ,gunning down many officers. Gina,who has discovered his drug connection,arrives with an anti-tank rifle just in time to stop him from killing Leon. Billy begs her to kill him,saying that he can't feel anything and that pain will make him human again. As his final request,he asks her to shoot him in his tongue. The episode closes with Billy being buried in the cemetery atop AD Police HQ. |
