[NARRATOR] They first appeared over a hundred years ago.
[NARRATOR] Giant, humanoid creatures
[NARRATOR] with a taste for our blood.
[NARRATOR] The brute strength of these aberrations
[NARRATOR] trumped an average person's many times over.
[NARRATOR] We were shoved to the brink
[NARRATOR] of extinction almost overnight.
[NARRATOR] The survivors erected Walls Maria, Rose, and Sina;
[NARRATOR] withdrawing behind them in frightened huddles
[NARRATOR] for what was to be a century of uneasy peace.
[NARRATOR] And then...
[NARRATOR] The Titan assault on Trost left us reeling.
[NARRATOR] Owing at least in part to
[NARRATOR] the Scout Regiment's absence at the time,
[NARRATOR] military causalities were profound.
[NARRATOR] Ironically, they'd embarked on a reconnaissance
[NARRATOR] mission beyond the wall that very morning.
[MAN] Heads up! The main unit of the Scout Regiment is back!
[MAN 2] That's right, Commander Erwin!
[MAN 2] Did you give those ugly bastards a thrashing?!
Look! It's Captain Levi!
[COMMONER] They say he's like an entire brigade unto himself!
Spare me, please.
That scowl will crush your fans.
Not that it's any of my business, but from a
public relations standpoint, you might wanna lighten up.
[Levi scoffing]
[HANGE] Lo! The threshold of Titania!
Can't you just envision the horrors
in store for us, comrades?
I'm on pins and needles! We bag an Abnormal,
I'll burst with tears of joy!
[LEVI] I think we've bagged the craziest abnormal already.
What? Seriously? Where?
I mean you.
[ERWIN] Move out!
[NARRATOR] The Scout Regiment's primary function is to
[NARRATOR] establish bases of expansion.
[NARRATOR] Acting as a spearhead for human knowledge.
[NARRATOR] Theirs is a solemn and dangerous honor.
[NARRATOR] Thanks to the ingenuity
[NARRATOR] of its exemplary members,
[NARRATOR] the regiment's survival rates have improved.
[NARRATOR] That said, excursions into
[NARRATOR] long-relinquished territory still commonly
[NARRATOR] result in a death-toll exceeding 30%.
[NARRATOR] A stark illustration of the disparity between
[NARRATOR] our own strength and that of the Titans.
[SOLDIER] One day... One day you'll all just be a bad memory.
Mankind will destroy all of you!
Mark my words: the last ones standing will be us!
[soldier screaming]
[SOLDIER] Gorge while you can, you bastard.
Just wait 'til Captain Levi--
♪
[LEVI] One on the right.
[LEVI] Two on the left.
Captain! The reinforcements are here, sir!
[LEVI] Good. Tend to our comrade below, Petra.
[LEVI] You two, take out the Titan to your right.
The pair on the left belongs to me.
Captain, wait!
[Titan roar]
[excited holler]
Don't be scared, big guy! I won't hurt you.
[HANGE] Cross my heart n' hope to die!
[Hange laughing]
Points for tryin', but you're a li'l slow on the uptake!
Hiyah!
See? Bet you barely felt a thing.
[LEVI] I know you probably can't help being hideous.
[LEVI] But I can't help being tired of looking at you.
♪
[pained screams]
[LEVI] Uh oh. Easy, big stuff.
[LEVI] Nobody's got time for a crybaby.
Let's take it like a man, shall we?
Ugh. Disgusting.
[PETRA] Captain!
I-- I can't stop the bleeding.
[SOLDIER] Captain Levi.
I'm here.
[SOLDIER] Did-- Did this make a difference?
[SOLDIER] Was I-- Was I helpful?
Please, sir. Don't tell me this was for nothing.
Tell me this'll advance the cause.
[LEVI] We've made great strides today, soldier.
[LEVI] And tomorrow, because of you,
[LEVI] your strength won't die with you;
[LEVI] the torch will be carried on by me.
This I swear on my very life.
The Titans will be eradicated!
[PETRA] Sir.
I'm sorry. He's--
Did the man hear what I had to say? Any of it?
Yes, sir. Matter of fact I think he heard all of it.
Look at him.
[PETRA] That's a face at peace.
We can hope.
[ERWIN] Levi!
We're pulling out.
Sir.
What do you mean?
You damn well know that we can push further!
My men didn't die to pave our retreat!
There's a swarm of Titans moving north.
They're bearing down on the city.
It's just like five years ago.
Something tells me this is going to be bad.
For all we know, the wall's already been reduced to rubble.
[EREN] Damn you.
[Eren breathing]
[screaming]
This-- This isn't real!
[EREN] We were ready. We were ready.
[EREN] We hit the books. We trained.
[EREN] These things weren't a mystery to us anymore.
[EREN] We knew how to beat them. How to survive.
[GIRL] Help me. It's so hot.
[GIRL] I need to get home. Mom'll be worried.
[GIRL] I know she will.
[EREN] Mom.
[EREN] Oh, Mom.
Help me. Pleas--
[EREN] How has it come to this?
[EREN] Why has everything been taken from us?
[EREN] Our lives. Our dreams.
Everything.
[EREN] Damn you. Damn you all to hell!
[EREN] I refuse to die like this!
I'll drive them all out! Kill them with my bare hands!
Do you hear me? With my bare hands!
[roar]
[thud]
♪
[roar]
♪
[TITAN EREN] This isn't your world. Not anymore.
[TITAN EREN] I'll kill every last one of you.
[TITAN EREN] Get up. Get up!
[TITAN EREN] Let me kill you again! And again, and again!
[TITAN EREN] You're mine. All of you.
You're all gonna die.
[ARMIN] Eren?
You alright?
[ARMIN] Look at me. Eren, hey, can you move?
[ARMIN] Can you hear me? Say something!
Listen, you've got to tell them everything!
They're terrified, but they'll understand!
Armin, what--
[ELITE] You catch that? He said we're all gonna die.
There's not much else you can make of that.
Son of a bitch wants to eat us. You watch!
[EREN] What the hell are they talking about?
[EREN] What is this?
[EREN] Why are all their blades pointed at us?
[EREN] Those are meant for taking down Titans.
[EREN] What's going on?
[EREN] And what's with that look?
[EREN] Are they terrified of me?
[SOLDIER] I want all you cadets on standby. Look sharp!
[CONNY] If we hadn't found the gas,
[CONNY] we'd have never gotten out of Trost.
Basically, we got lucky. That's it.
That sounds terrible. I'm so sorry.
We volunteered to run supplies out to everyone,
but the situation was so bad.
We'd even found some gas we were gonna dole out to you guys,
but then everything went to hell.
So, you're saying everyone who
isn't here now didn't uh... you know.
Yeah.
Wait. What about Mikasa?
[CONNY] No, no. She's good.
[CONNY] She made it in after us with the group Jean led.
Hey, Jean! Where in the world's Mikasa?
[YMIR] She get hurt or what?
[CONNY] Hey. Talk to us.
[JEAN] I'd tell you if I could.
[JEAN] They slapped us with a gag order.
[CONNY] Whoa. You're joking, right?
[YMIR] That's nuts.
[JEAN] They're nuts if they think people aren't gonna talk.
[JEAN] Word'll get out, and when it does...
Well, that is, if we survive.
[HANNES] You gotta hand it to the Engineering Corps for
[HANNES] puttin' the heap of rancid Titan corpses
[HANNES] to good use, I suppose.
[HANNES] Still just a barricade, though.
[HANNES] We can't get too comfortable.
Stay on your toes.
Whatever happens next, it's bound to happen here.
This is the proverbial line in the sand--
Hey, something wrong?
Sir. My apologies. I completely agree.
I'm just a little preoccupied about
my friends in the Vanguard.
There was a messenger on the way to HQ
with this look on his face.
Kid. Difficult as it may be, you've got to wrangle your mind
to stay focused on what's here in front of us.
[ELITE] Is it true what they say about you saving those
[ELITE] kids five years ago, sir?
[ELITE] They're cadets now, right?
[ELITE] Won't they be at the Vanguard, too?
That's right.
I'm really sorry, sir.
Don't know why I felt the need to bring it up.
They're good.
Some tough little bastards.
Believe me, they know what it takes to stay alive.
One of 'em's just about the best fighter I've ever seen.
The other's so stubborn it can drive you crazy.
Loads of inner strength.
And their friend's a certifiable genius.
They'll be fine. Not a doubt in my mind.
[WOERMAN] Cadets Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Akermann,
[WOERMAN] and Armin Arlelt!
[WOERMAN] The three of you have jointly
[WOERMAN] committed an act of high treason!
Whether or not a swift execution is the result depends on you!
What?
[WOERMAN] Any attempt to move from where you stand now,
[WOERMAN] anything I deem the least bit suspicious,
[WOERMAN] will be met with cannon fire. Do not test me.
[WOERMAN] Answer carefully.
[WOERMAN] Eren Jaeger. What exactly are you?
[WOERMAN] Human? Or Titan?
[EREN] Wh-What is that supposed to mean?
[EREN] Why are they all glaring at me like that?
[EREN] It's like-- Like they're looking at a monster.
[EREN] Oh god. Is that what they think?
I'm sorry, sir! I don't understand!
Son of a bitch is playing innocent.
Answer me, damn you!
Evasion will get you nowhere!
[WOERMAN] Don't try to stall with pretend ignorance!
[WOERMAN] You won't stand a chance! You'll be blown to hell
[WOERMAN] before you can assume your true form!
What true form?
Please! Scores of us saw it happen!
[WOERMAN] You emerged from the carcass of a fallen Titan
[WOERMAN] in full view of your comrades!
[WOERMAN] A creature of unknown origin, ability, or allegiance
[WOERMAN] has slipped through and infiltrated Wall Rose,
[WOERMAN] and that creature is you.
[WOERMAN] Under the circumstances,
[WOERMAN] your being sanctioned by His Majesty is neither
[WOERMAN] here nor there. You are a risk I am
[WOERMAN] well within my rights to eliminate!
I will not let the situation stand!
[WOERMAN] Every moment I squander mulling over your
[WOERMAN] supposed innocence puts us all in further
[WOERMAN] jeopardy from attack by the Armored Titan!
Hell! For all I'm aware, you're a tactical diversion
precisely for that purpose! I'm sorry.
Humanity's fate hangs in the balance!
[WOERMAN] I cannot waste any more time or manpower on you!
[WOERMAN] Do you understand?
[WOERMAN] My conscience will not falter to watch you die!
Nor should it.
As soldiers, they all know the price of their position.
If they're this committed to defiance
under threat of death, so be it.
They won't be persuaded.
And as you say, it's just a waste of time.
Sir, please! This may be our best chance!
[ELITE] We'll expend far less artillery if he's in human form!
[MIKASA] Excuse me!
I wouldn't. Not while I'm standing here.
[MIKASA] Unless anyone's feeling up to the task, in which case,
well, I 'm happy to demonstrate my own technique.
On you. And every last inch of your traitorous flesh.
Sir. There's something you should know.
She was assigned to the elites fresh out of training.
Equal to a hundred soldiers, easily.
[IAN] If we lost her, it'd be quite the tragedy.
Okay. Somebody talk to me now.
The hell is all this?
Mikasa! You can't take them all on!
Even if you took down a few,
there's nowhere left for you to run!
Whoever comes at Eren, deals with me.
I'll take on the entire regiment if I have to.
I don't give a damn what they try to throw at us.
[ARMIN] This isn't the only way! They're just scared.
[ARMIN] They don't understand what's happening!
[ARMIN] We need to calm down and just talk it out!
[EREN] Am I the only one here who doesn't think I'm a Titan?
[EREN] Damn it! Why can't I remember how I got here?
[EREN] I'm too weak to stand up, and if I say the wrong thing...
[EREN] Is this it for me?
[EREN] Killed by people.
[EREN] What was that he said about me coming out of
[EREN] a Titan carcass in front of everyone?
[EREN] Is he insane?
[EREN] Why is no one making any sense?
[EREN] That was all just a dream!
[EREN] Or...
[EREN] No. My sleeve. My arm.
[EREN] Am I really one of them?
[EREN] That's not possible. It's just now I--
[WOERMAN] One more time!
Are you a human being or a Titan?
[EREN] I-- I don't know what to say.
[EREN] My life's not the only one at stake.
[EREN] But, I mean I've always been one of you.
I'm human!
So you say.
[WOERMAN] I'm left with no choice.
[WOERMAN] Forgive me.
[WOERMAN] When push comes to shove...
[WOERMAN] all of us are monsters.
Armin! Head for the wall! I've got Eren!
Wait, no--!
[GRISHA] Eren.
[GRISHA] Behave while I'm gone and I'll let you in on
[GRISHA] what I've been doing in the cellar.
[GRISHA] Listen to me. It's vital that
[GRISHA] you keep this key on you at all times.
[GRISHA] Whenever you look at it,
[GRISHA] let this thought flood over you:
[GRISHA] "I must return to that cellar."
[GRISHA] I'm going to give you a little something
[GRISHA] to make you forget for the time being.
[GRISHA] I'm sorry.
I wish there was more time to explain all this.
[GRISHA] When the time comes though, know that you
[GRISHA] must reclaim Wall Maria and head for the cellar.
[GRISHA] It won't be pleasant, but in my heart,
[GRISHA] I know what I'm doing is for the best.
When the ability confuses you,
let their memories act as your guide.
[GRISHA] Eren!
[GRISHA] One day, the truth will come out. I swear to you!
[GRISHA] The journey will be a painful one.
[GRISHA] But it is yours to make!
[GRISHA] Mikasa's life.
[GRISHA] Armin's life.
[GRISHA] Everyone's life...
[GRISHA] hinges on your being able to control this power!
[WOERMAN] Did we get him?
Dear god.
[distant screaming]
[NARRATOR] Armin pleads for the life of his friend,
[NARRATOR] desperate to convince their comrades
[NARRATOR] Eren isn't the monster he seems.
[NARRATOR] But however eloquent, however passionate,
[NARRATOR] reason finds no hold in minds wracked by fear.