Patlabor: Early Days

The 450-Million-Year-Old Trap (1x3)

Data emisji: Lip 25, 1988

A series of incidents occur in Tokyo Bay including a damaged undersea cable, and a car being pulled off a pier. Could this be the work of an actual sea monster? Detective Matsui of the Metropolitan Tokyo Police Department asks Captain Goto for help. Shige and Saksaki help pilot a remote control Labor, to search for what caused the incidents. The Labor is destroyed, and Shige is convinced that the monster exists. The SV2 are given orders to kill the monster; however, they discover something even more bizarre. Note: This episode pays homage to 1954 film, Godzilla, as well as other classic Kaiju films.