Episode 4: Natural Enemy
Air date: starting February 7, 2004
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter Jigabachi AV Digger Wasp goes astray. The pilot is unconscious and an independent AI rejects outside control. Unmanned helicopters gather as though they were induced, and Section 9 is dispatched. Goda, Chief of Staff of the Strategic Influence Research Council, arrives to lead the Section. What are these helicopters trying to do?
Script: Junichi Fujisaku
Storyboard: Masayuki Yoshihara
Director: Masayuki Yoshihara
Animation Director: Koichi Maruyama