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In a future, where huge amount of humans are equipped with cybernetics, causing various qualities like sight, power, strength and intelligence to be advanced. The world's leading developer of augmentative technology, Hanka Robotics, forms a secret project to enhance a mechanical body, or shell, that has the ability to incorporate a human brain instead of an Al. Mira Killian, a young woman and sole survivor of a cyber-terrorist attack, is picked for it, after her body is visibly destroyed. Dr. Ouelet, her designer, objects to it but Hanka CEO Cutter goes ahead to train Killian as a counter-terrorism operative.
One year later and Killian has attained the height of Major in the counter-terrorist bureau Section 9, working in line with co-operatives Batou and Togusa under Chief Daisuke Aramki. The team successfully repels a terrorist assault on a Hanka business conference, and Killian destroys a rogue mechanical geisha after it murders a hostage. Killian, who has been suffering hallucinations confides in Ouelet, who dismisses them as glitches, becomes increasingly bothered by how little she remembers her past. After being informed that the geisha was hacked by an unknown entity, by name Kuze, Killian goes against the rules and "dives" into its Al for answers. The entity attempts a counter-hack, and Batou is forced to disconnect her. The information she gathers, leads them to trace the hacker to a Yakuza nightclub, where they are drawn into a trap. An explosion destroys Batou's eyes, and leaves Killians's body severely damaged. Cutter is berserk by Killian's actions, and threatens to have Section 9 shutdown unless Aramaki keeps her in line.
Elsewhere, Section 9's Hanka consultant is traced and killed by Kuze. Her murder is linked to the deaths of other senior company researchers by the team and they realize that Dr. Ouelet is the next target. Kuze takes control of two sanitation workers and sends them to kill Ouelet but Batou, possessing cybernetic eyes, kills one of them while the now functional Killian defeats the other. During interrogation, Kuze momentarily speaks via the surviving worker before making him commit suicide.
Meanwhile, Togusa is able to trace the hack to a hideout, where the team find considerable numbers of human beings mentally linked together as a signal network. Killian is captured by Kuze who then explains that he is a failed Hanka test subject from the same project that created Killian, otherwise known as 2571. He tells her to question her own memories before letting her go and escaping. Kuze"s message causes Killian to approach Ouelet, who admits that Killian was, actually, the 98th test subject, and the only survivor of the process. Cutter reckons that Killian is too much of a liability, and orders Ouelet to euthanize her but Ouelet gives Killian an address to find and assists her to escape. Cutter kills Ouelet when he realizes and subsequently informs Aramaki and the team that Killian has gone rogue and will be terminated by any means necessary.
Killian traces the address to an apartment occupied by a widowed mother, who reveals that her daughter, Motoko Kusanagi, ran away from home a year ago and was arrested, before taking her own life while in custody. Unable to reflect on her past memories, Killian leaves and contacts Aramaki, who intentionally allows Cutter to listen in on their conversation. Batou, Togusa and Aramaki each survive attempts on their lives by Cutter's men, while Killian follows her memories to the hideaway where Motoko was last seen. There, she and Kuze meet, and recall their past lives as anti-augmentation radicals who were kidnapped by Hanka for use as test subjects.
Cutter deploys a "spider-tank" to kill them, and Kuze nearly dies before Killian is able to tear off the tank's motor, loosing her hand in the process. Kuze is eventually killed by a Section 6 sniper. Killian is rescued by Batou and the team while Aramaki kills Cutter.
The next day, Killian, having being repaired, embraces her real identity as Motoko. She reconnects with her mother, before returning to work with Section 9.
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