Hounds of SCHAFT.Utsumi and Kurosaki are cornered by Three-S, but escape with the Griffin. The division manager of Schaft orders Three-S to capture them. Captain Goto discovers that the crash was faked, and the Griffin Labor is still out there somewhere. Noa is upset at the news. She does not want to fight it. After Three-S track's Utsumi down, he decides to take the Griffin and flees to Tokyo to show what it can do. Matsui is in pursuit and tells Goto that they will be entering by boat through the "Castle Gate", the entrance to the Babylon Project. Three-S know this too and plan to stop Utsumi there...