"Begin – Danger – Message" is the first episode of the first season of Ingress: The Animation and the first episode of the series in general.
Plot summary[]
In 2013, a secret research group at CERN discovered a quantum particle called Exotic Matter. XM affects the mind.
Jack Norman, a bodyguard who used to be a mercenary and and Christopher Brandt, a "Comprehensive Scientist" with a vast knowledge of physics, engineering and computer science are in a car looking to find protect Sarah Coppola. However they are ambushed, and start to fight until a helicopter arrives. Brandt is kidnapped, but Jack manages to escape, and looks at a photo of Sarah.
In the meantime, Sarah runs while looking at her phone. She broadcasts a cry for help, saying the world is in danger, but she is found and is taken to a man. We find Sarah was a researcher who found out the research she was making was not on XM. Brandt is brought to Sarah. He tells her she is special and he starts using a power and tells her the world is not what it seems. An explosion occurs.
Makoto Midorikawa makes it to the crime scene.
Police officers cover the explosion, saying it was a faulty gas line. The only witness is Sarah, who is unconscious, but police do not take her to a hospital because she seems to be in a normal condition and is also the only clue they have so far. Makoto Midorikawa arrives at the scene and is greeted by his boss. It is revealed that he is a special investigator. He has the power to see memories of whatever he touches which is what would be known as a psychic investigator.
He touches Sarah and sees what she saw and starts screaming because everyone got burned up and vanished. The main detective thinks it is weird because even if they would been burned up, there would be bones at the scene.
A man arrives with two bodyguards and announces that it is time for the detectives to leave, as the matter was now under Hulong Corporate Security jurisdiction, and hands the main detective a phone in which they are told to leave again, so they do just that.
Jack puts some glasses on and looks at portals in the sky. He goes to a parking lot and sees an ambulance, which Sarah is taken to. He places a tracker on the ambulance.
Makoto did not always have an easy childhood.
Having left the scene of the explosion, the investigator offers Makoto a drink, but he refuses because "he’s busy". While at home, Makoto pours himself some tea, but pours too much, causing an overflow. He gets touched by a watch and sees himself as a kid. People thought he was weird when he was younger because of his ability to see memories. He asks himself how Sarah's case was even possible, and wonders why the Hulong Lab explosion was being covered as a gas explosion. In a chat he is told a virus is in danger, and that only he can help. Suddenly everything on his computer screen closes.
Jack Norman chokeheld Makoto when he found Sarah Coppola.
Makoto goes to Tokyo Medlab Hospital, which is now abandoned, but he is sent somewhere inside. Jack is also inside sneaking in to see Sarah. Makoto finds Sarah, but is taken by Jack, who choke holds him and asks him what happened to Christopher Brandt. Makoto has no idea who this is, which makes Jack ask him what he was doing there. Makoto says Sarah asked him to get there, but the man does not believe him. Sarah wakes up and hits him on the head.
Sarah asks Makoto if she knows him, and decides to trust him when he tells her to go with him. He introduces himself and says he does not know why he is helping her. Sarah has amnesia and cannot remember anything.
A message on Makoto's phone tells him to go back to the hospital. Makoto suggests going back to Hulong and reminds her of her name. They go to Hulong and Sarah starts walking towards it. Makoto stops Sarah and is taken to a vision of a space-like scene with a broken building. Sarah tells Makoto Hulong works with XM, which can directly affect the human mind. In their hands, it will be used to betray humanity.
Makoto decides to believe Sarah Coppola when she tells her it is both of them against the world.
It turns out that Sarah is like Makoto, but she needs Makoto to believe because it is both of them against the world. Makoto tells her he believes, and tells her maybe both of them are crazy.
The mystery man calls his men idiots for letting Sarah escape. They say Jack - Brandt's bodyguard took her and that he can read memories. Makoto asks if Sarah wants to go back into Hulong, and she says she does, but Makoto is attacked by Jack, who says they need to sort things out.
Cast[]
- Makoto Midorikawa - Yoshiki Nakajima
- Sarah Coppola - Reina Ueda
- Jack Norman - Shigeo Kiyama
- Christopher Brandt - Tarusuke Shingaki
- Liu Tien Hua - Kosoke Toriumi
- Zion Kunikida - Kentaro Tone
- Hank Johnson - Hiroo Sasaki
- ADA (a detection algorithm) - Megumi Ogata
Trivia[]
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