The BEST episodes of Patlabor: The Mobile Police
Every episode of Patlabor: The Mobile Police ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Patlabor: The Mobile Police!
In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human—and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can be a dangerous weapon, the police of the future are set to fight fire with fire, using advanced patrol labor units, "patlabors." This is the story of the Second Special Vehicles Division, a motley crew of patlabor policemen and women doing their best to fight crime and live a normal life.
#1 - Go to Demon Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1989
A monster surprises a group of hikers in a forest. The police sends SV2 to capture it.
#2 - Special Vehicles Department 2
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1989
Noa must adapt to living in SV2.
#3 - Kanuka Appears!
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1989
Kanuka comes to Japan from America. She participates in a labor combat tournament. Noa and the gang also compete in it.
#4 - Ingram Activated
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/11/1989
SV2 is assigned new AV 98 Ingrams. Asuma and Ota go to Shinohara Heavy Industries to pick them up. Noa also heads there to take her labor aptitude test. When someone steals one of the Ingrams, Noa gives chase.
#5 - Red Labor Landing
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1989
Noa and Asuma are sent to investigate a terrorist who is going to steal a military labor of the Soviet Armed Forces.
#6 - Labor X-10, Out of Control!
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1989
Runaway Labor X-10 is loose in the forest. Division 2 is sent to go stop it.
#7 - Griffon Resurrected
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/22/1990
It's 30 December 1999. Utsumi and Bud have returned to Japan to challenge the SV2 again, and sell their team's services in the format of the Griffin. At the SV2, the AV-Zero is going though its paces. It has been improved and is now much faster. Kanuka has returned to Japan to visit her grandmother and has dropped by to visit her former colleagues at the SV2. Detective Matsui discovers that several top Labor specialists are in town and informs Captain Goto of his findings. Meanwhile, Momoko Sakurayama receives a tip-off that several arms dealers are also in Tokyo. She informs Kumagami, who in turn tells Captain Goto. Something big is going to happen. That night the Griffin Labor returns. Division 2 was previously called out to a fire, so Division 1 is called in to deal with the Labor. Bud soon figures out the Zero's weakness: it is programmed to stop near buildings to avoid damage. He takes full advantage of this and defeats both Patlabors.
#8 - Noa's Big Adventure
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/11/1990
Division 2 goes to stay by the mountains for a week for training. While out buying dinner, Noa finds 20,000 yen and goes to find where the money came from all by herself.
#9 - Condition Green
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 9/26/1990
Noa goes back to her hometown and sees the grave of her dog Alphonse. Asuma goes to get her when a terrorist comes. Division 1 and 2 must find the terrorist without using weapons since it would cause a fire.
#10 - His Name is Zero
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 9/19/1990
SV2 gets a new patlabor model called the Zero. It is superior to the ingram. After messing up during a mission, Noa is worried that she will lose Alphonse.
#11 - Vocational Options
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 9/12/1990
Noa is offered to become a pilot for a Helldiver. While Noa tries to make her decision, she must stop a criminal without Alphonse.
#12 - Long Live CLAT
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 9/5/1990
Shige is being sent to New York. However, he gets hurt before he goes and has a dream that he is in New York working with CLAT.
#13 - The Working Woman
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 8/29/1990
Momoko Sakurayama is interviewing Noa for "The Working Girl" show. Meanwhile, a sick man steals a labor in order to commit suicide.
#14 - The Men Who Returned
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 8/22/1990
Three old terrorists team up to steal some money.
#15 - Terrorist Rescue
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 8/15/1990
Division 2 must save 2 very lousy terrorists that set off a bomb in the wrong place.
#16 - The Painful Coastal Order
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 8/8/1990
People claim to have seen some kind of monster on the beach. Division 2 investigates this.
#17 - Mass Market Product Plan
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 8/1/1990
Shinohara Industries has finished the new production model of a police labor. Noa, Ota, and Gomioka tests them. What will they think of them?
#18 - Mysterious Underground Labyrinth
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/25/1990
Something is out stealing stuff from Division 2. It appears to come from an old tunnel. Ota and Shinshi go to check it out. When Division 2 loses contact with them, Noa, Asuma, Hiromi, and Takeo go to find them.
#19 - I'm Selling Peace of Mind
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/18/1990
Division 2 must get the Patlabor Insurance to cover for the cars they destroyed.
#20 - All Quiet in the Second Unit
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/1992
Division 2 are on vacation. Noa is doing some cleaning at home, but can't find a personal item she had since she was a child. She goes to work but can't find it there either. She meets Kumagami there who is writing up a proposal to create two extra Divisions. Ota is also there, dismantling and cleaning his Labor's gun. Kumagami submits her plan to Captain Goto and Shinobu. He tells her that they are already planning something like this and ask if she would be interested in being captain for the third division. She says that she would have to think it over, which surprises both Goto and Shinobu. The next day Kumagami is taking a trip to see some of the new cadets who will eventually form the third division, and asks everyone to come along. Asuma says he and Noa can't and tells them they have something important to do. Despite her protests, Noa goes along with Asuma.
#21 - Schaft's Counterattack
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/22/1990
The remains of Division 1's Labors return to the hanger. Noa is somewhat scared of the prospect of having to fight the Griffin again, but Asuma assures her that she can defeat it. Meanwhile Schaft's section chief is livid at Utsumi's actions. Goto asks Kumagami about her relationship with Utsumi. She tells him it is none of his business. Bud leaves the ship where the Griffin is being hidden to visit the SV2.
#22 - The Greatest Showdown in History
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1991
The Griffin is ready to fight Division 2. Momoko Sakurayama races to the scene, but a traffic jam is holding them up. She decides she can wait no longer, and runs to the scene without her camera crew. Meanwhile, the Ingrams face off the Griffin across a bridge. In the ensuing battle, the Griffin escapes off the bridge into the water and Ota shoots a hole into the bridge with the shotgun in an attempt to hit it. But the Griffin pulls Ota's Labor down through the hole. Ota manages to escape, but his Labor is at the bottom of the bay.
#23 - GAME OVER
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/1991
Noa isn't moving, so Hiromi moves his carrier back, out of reach of the Griffin. Meanwhile Shinshi rams the Griffin with his carrier to enable Hiromi and Noa to escape. Noa's Labor is now totally out of power. She needs to recharge her batteries fast. Unfortunately, the Griffin has gotten past Shinshi, who tries to block it, but feels the Griffin's wrath for his trouble. The Griffin runs after the escaping carrier, but Kanuka arrives in the nick of time and starts fighting it. Sakaki has also arrived in machine 3's carrier with a new set of batteries for Noa. Kanuka needs to hold off the Griffin until Noa can change her batteries.
#24 - One of Those Days
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/24/1991
Noa wakes up to discover she has a toothache. But some members of the team think it's more than that, especially when Asuma has been teasing her about her wisdom teeth all morning. The team force Asuma to apologize, but that just makes things worse, especially when there was no apparent reason to apologize. Shinshi gives Noa painkillers to ease the pain, but unfortunately she takes them all at once causing her to sleep most of the morning. Later in the afternoon, Division 2 are suddenly called out to an incident where a stolen Labor is running a muck in a forest. Only problem is that every time Noa takes a step in her Ingram, her tooth hurts like mad.
#25 - 90% Viewer Rate
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/22/1991
The children's TV program Together With Mother has finally been axed after 20 years, and is about to begin its final broadcast. Unfortunately, one of the cast members, Kumagoro, a man in a bear suit, has decided to take the rest of cast hostage by grabbing them with a small a Labor. He demands ¥300,000,000 and a helicopter or he'll blow up the cast. To prove his claims, he sets off a car bomb in the parking lot. Division 2 are called in, but the producers of the show seem to want to prolong the situation in order to get higher ratings. Kumagami and Noa enter the studio disguised as waitresses in order to free the hostages, but the plan does not go well. The riot police are called in after Division 2's failure, but Goto thinks they'll just inflame the situation more. However, Goto does have a plan which is so bizarre it might just work.