Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

Cease what you are doing and gaze at me.

Stop everything, save for the thrumming of your heart.

Theft. It is an especially sweet vice,

more elegant than vandalism

and more complex than simple robbery.

A beautiful blend of secrets and crime and mischief and fear.

Like dear Heathcliff,

I am defined by my all-consuming passion.

Stealing is my greatest carnal pleasure,

a pleasure for which I will risk my life,

a sexy prison from which there is no escape.

Why am I this way? Who can know?

Who is the slave and who's the master?

Do divine eyes fall upon me any longer,

or have the given up?

The rush of a theft allows me to forget all,

and yet to distantly remember all, as well.

Run and speak not. Hide and run not.

When you've found me, punish me.

When you've punished me, kill me. Save me.

Little boy, there is nothing left to steal from you.

You have long been an empty shell. Just as I have.

And so, if you would gaze at me, cease what you are doing.

Stop everything save for the thrumming of your heart.

No!

Please!

That's my bear!

It was a special birthday present!

My Papa and Mama gave it to me!

I love it so much!

You know that's wrong.

I am your papa.

You know that.

This is what happens when you do bad things.

Your special treasures will be burned until only ashes remain

and then your soft flesh will be burned, as well.

I'm betting the kidnapper is after the Belize family fortune.

He'll be making a ransom demand soon, I'm sure.

Maybe, but--

'Scuse me, boys.

Ah here it is.

Glad I'm not him.

Fujiko got away; his lieutenant's gone

and what's worse he's off the Lupin case.

It's over for him.

I'm hungry.

I'm gonna grab some food.

Sir?

And when I'm done, there'll be nothing left.

Dining alone?

Oh, yes.

No, she's not.

This broad's with me.

What was he doing?

Why was he pretending to be you?

Sorry.

I really couldn't say.

Don't play dumb.

Oscar's body was never recovered.

You know what I think?

You disposed of it somehow.

You believe that?

Look, what you really want is to avenge that boy's death,

isn't it? Then why not work with me?

Sending you to the hangman will avenge him.

That's enough for me.

I see.

Everybody is talking about the recent kidnapping or,

rather the recent series of kidnappings.

Give me a break.

A "series?" I'll grant you, there have been

a lot of girls taken worldwide recently.

But the locations and circumstances are different.

There's no reason to think they're all related.

There's a pattern, though.

What?

In each kidnapped girl's bedroom,

there was a curio or painting. Different things each time

but always something to do with owls.

With Owls?

That means

Luís Yu Almeida?

So perceptive.

As always.

We should try to play nice, agreed?

You're just planning to use me as cannon fodder.

That's just the kinda woman you are.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna pass.

Aren't you being hasty?

This is Glaucus Pharmaceuticals we're talking about.

A company that big has gotta have enough assets

to tempt even the most jaded of criminals.

Hmph!

Besides, I'm only after one thing and once I've got that,

everything else there is yours.

Fujiko Mine, again?

I don't get why you're so hung up on that woman.

You know she's crazy, don't you?

Do those eyes of yours work, man?

That woman is a whole other class of treasure.

Really, she's one of a kind.

A fine porcelain marionette.

This is it, right?

Yes.

Glaucus Park, hmm.

May I see your tickets?

Tickets, uhh?

What, my coat?

There's nothing in my-

How did these?

Someone sure has horrible taste.

What's the matter?

The sign says House of Fujiko.

What is this?

I know this place.

Yeah, it's what's left of that town, Eulenspiegel.

I was born and raised here.

In the town Glaucus Pharmaceuticals

was based out of.

That's right.

My father was a scientist, doing experiments in their laboratory.

He said his work was going to make the world

a happier place and then-

Hey!

What the?

I remember in the place that Papa took me there

were lots of other girls.

Are you okay?

Papa took me to that place, and before I knew it,

he just disappeared and I... went to the castle in the sky.

Fujiko.

What's that?

Who's there?

Fujiko!

What's going on?

This is your tale and no one else's.

Fujiko.

I've waited for you so long.

All these many years of yearning.

Can you hear me?

Are we in a lab?

We are.

I was taken away to the castle in the sky

and they did experiments.

No!

Stop it!

Stop it, you bastards!

Stop it!

Hey, snap out of it!

Let me go!

This way!

Come on!

Tickets please.

Tickets, huh?

Let's see.

Just as I suspected.

How'd those get in there?

Even you must have figured out by now that we're walking

into a trap.

If we're gonna turn back, now's the time.

Ooh!

Look, ice cream!

It's the wrong flavor.

The Order of Fraulein Eule was established so that

Glaucus Pharmaceuticals--the company controlled

by Count Almeida--would have a secret means

of testing their new drug.