The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been hacked into, and classified material from their database has been stolen. Section 9 traces the hack and determined that the hack job originated from a facility that helps people with Cyberbrain Closed Shell Syndrome. Togusa goes undercover to investigate the social welfare facility, and immediately encounters suspicious behaviour from the facility's supervisors. Togusa manages to learn that a person called "the chief" visited the center during the week that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare was hacked, but before he can determine the significance of this information Togusa is discovered; simultaneously, the facility unexpectedly goes online and Section 9’s databases are subsequently hacked, leading Kusanagi and Batou to make an e