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Episode #18 |
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| (AT THE AIRPORT) | |
| (sign): | "Welcome representatives of the Miss Global Contest" |
| Lupin: | Here they come. |
| Lupin: | No wonder they’re the Miss Global Contest’s representatives from all over the world. |
| Jigen; | Where? |
| Jigen: | I see..every one of them is a beauty. |
| Lupin: | What d’ya say we steal the prettiest one? |
| Jigen: | Don’t be stupid. You can’t even handle Fujiko. |
| Jigen: | Who’s that? |
| Lupin: | The promoters of the contest. |
| Jigen: | Who, them? I get it… just like beauty and the beasts. |
| Jigen: | I remember seeing that face somewhere… |
| Lupin: | It’s this guy. I guess my scrap book has some use too. |
| Jigen; | Infamous thief, Smith. Can’t arrest due to lack of proof. |
| Jigen: | It doesn’t even look like him at all. |
| Lupin: | You idiot. That picture is from 10 years ago. Think of him without the glasses or moustache. |
| Jigen: | I see it… |
| So, he’s Smith the masterpiece robber who once stirred up the world, eh? | |
| Lupin: | That’s right, he stole all kinds of masterpieces: Picasso, Renoir, Da Vinci and Japan’s Utamaro among them. |
| Jigen: | And now he’s down to being a promoter of a beauty contest. |
| Lupin: | The worse a man is, the more gentlemanly he can seem I guess. Check that out. |
| Jigen: | What’s that? |
| Lupin: | Publicly speaking, they’re the special judges for the contest. |
| Jigen: | And privately speaking? |
| Lupin: | Men who will pay any amount to get first rate items into their possession. No matter legal or not. They’re from country corporations of Europe. |
| Jigen: | The beautiful, the masterpiece thief, and the rich, huh? And so how are the three tied together? |
| Lupin: | Now that, is what we get to look forward to. Let’s go. |
| TITLE: | MARK THE BEAUTY CONTEST |
| Man 1: | Those are very important costumes for the contest. Be careful with them. |
| Jigen: | Miss Global..How grand.. It’s not up to the costume to decide the winner. |
| Lupin: | Well, shall we go? |
| Jigen: | TV? What’s this supposed to be? |
| Lupin: | Just shut up and come along. We use substitution to get by. |
| Jigen: | Hey! |
| Man 1: | This here will be the stage for the contest. |
| Smith: | Getting ready for worldwide live broadcast, right? |
| Man 1: | Yes, we’ve hired some very good pros for the technical staff. |
| Smith: | And the stage for the final judging? |
| Man 2: | Yes. It’s the larger island of those islands. It’s been arranged to be held there on the main island. |
| Smith: | There’s no way our secret will be revealed, correct? |
| Man 2: | Yes, of course. Rest assured. |
| Smith: | I’m counting on you. After all, this is gonna be the event of the century. |
| Jigen: | Hey, why do we have to be fooling around with TV cameras? |
| Lupin: | From today, we’re temporary part-time workers for the broadcasting. |
| Jigen: | Yeah, but why? |
| Lupin: | It’s been too long since Smith has taken the masterpieces. Masterpieces or not, you can’t take them to your grave. |
| Smith: | This is the catalogue I’ve created. You guys will accompany our special judges and have them put points on each one. And it’ll seem like they’re placing points on the contestants on the stage. |
| Man 2: | I see. So Japan’s beauty is Utamaro’s print of a beauty, huh? And to the viewers it only looks like they are judging the contest. |
| Smith: | Exactly. Those points make up the score for the contestants and also become the bidding price for the paintings. Interesting concept, huh? |
| Jigen: | Eh? But it’s going a little overboard to make a beauty contest just for negotiations of the paintings. |
| Lupin: | Yeah, but it’s always been a fact that stolen painting are extremely hard to change for cash. Buyers won’t dare to reach out for ‘em unless they’re assured their secret will be kept. And so know here’s when they thought of this contest. They can do deals out in the open with everyone watching and making their alibis. No one would suspect anything and even if the world’s richest men are here, it wouldn’t be unnatural since they’re the special judges for the beauty contest. |
| Jigen: | Now that’s getting clever. |
| Lupin: | Even an info-freak like me could only get that much info. It’s harder to know what’s going on with them being so publicly open. |
| Jigen: | Well, if that’so, why dress like this and fuss around? We should just get it over with. |
| Lupin: | Nah, if we move now there is the possibility that they’ll cancel the dealings. |
| Lupin: | Mm, then everything’s will be lost. |
| Jigen: | So – we can’t even lay a finger on them.. |
| Lupin: | That is why we use a camera. TV is the best when it comes to public crimes. |
| Jigen: | Do you think they’ll leave hints so easily? |
| Lupin: | This is where Goemon’s gonna help out. |
| Jigen: | Goemon? |
| Lupin: | And Zenigata. He’s gonna play an important role for our act. |
| Jigen: | Our act? |
| Lupin: | Well, anyways, there’s the first part of our plan. |
| Smith: | Lupin? |
| Man: | Lupin? |
| Smith: | What? Congratulations on the opening of the Miss Global Contest. I regret to tell you that I would like to get the world’s most beautiful women. –Lupin III. |
| Smith: | Lupin, that bastard’s on to something. |
| No, that’s not possible. | |
| Men: | What should we do? |
| Call the police. Call detective Zenigata. It’s said he’s a skillful cop who risks his life to capture Lupin. | |
| Man: | Isn’t that a bit risky? |
| Man: | If that Zenigata notices this thing…. |
| Smith: | Don’t’ worry. This isn’t such a simple plan that the police can find out about. Fear Lupin more than the police. Call Zenigata right away. |
| Men: | Yes , Sir! |
| Sign: | MISS GLOBAL CONTEST |
| Zenigata: | Nothing unusual? |
| Cop: | No, Sir! |
| (CHEERING) | |
| Zenigata: | It’s started. |
| Announcer: | We will be starting this Miss Global contest now. |
| Lupin: | People of the world, it is the opening of the greatest festival of the century. Miss Global – who will be the prettiest woman on earth? The crown will be fought over by 25 beautiful representatives from all over the earth. This entire contest will be brought to you all by our worldwide coverage. Please sit back and enjoy the show. |
| Sign: | Miss Global Contest. |
| Announcer: | Here is contestant no.1. Representative of India – Miss Gandhi! |
| Zenigata: | Don’t let down your guard, all right? We don’t know what disguise Lupin could be in. Don’t hesitate. If there’s anyone like Lupin arrest them at once. If all goes well, the moment of arrest might even be shown thru out the world via the world wide coverage. |
| Announcer: | No 5. Representative of France – Miss Ernoir. |
| What do you think of no.5, Miss Ernoir of France. | |
| Lupin: | Mm..you just wait. |
| Announcer: | No.5 Representative of Spain – Miss Carmen. |
| Representative of Italy – Miss Polo. | |
| Representative of Japan – Miss Kazeya. | |
| And last no. 15, representative of America – Miss Burgen. | |
| Zenigata: | Well, seems like it’s gonna end safely, nn? |
| (GOEMON) | |
| Zenigata: | It’s a person! |
| Zenigata: | Don’t let him this way! |
| An/lupin? | Something terrible is happening! A suspicious figure has just arrived here in the arena. Let us watch for a while. |
| (GOEMON ON RAMPAGE) | |
| Lupin: | Come on chase him! |
| Zenigata: | Wait! He’s a quick one. |
| Don’t give up. Chase him to the last mile! | |
| Lupin: | Ladies and gentlemen, it seems as though the suspicious figure has run away. However, we cannot continue the broadcast at his time. We will be taking a short break. Thank you. |
| Lupin: | Jigen, let’s check the machines in the mean time. |
| Lupin: | Fujiko. Check out the cameras, huh? |
| Fujiko: | Okay. Leave it to me. |
| Rich Man: | What are you gonna do about this, Mr. Smith? |
| Smith: | Don’t worry. All we have left is the final judging and the photo session for the contestants. Let’s just push the schedule a bit faster and finish everything by today. |
| (FOOTSTEPS) | |
| Jigen; | Good going, Goemon. |
| Lupin: | Well, well. Let’s see if we’ve got any results on the video right away. |
| Jigen; | It’s backwards. |
| Jigen: | What’s that? |
| Lupin: | Probably something that’s not to be seen. Probably the points for the contesting pieces. |
| Jigen: | But we don’t know the important stuff. Like where the paintings are or where the exchange is gonna take place. |
| Lupin: | That is what we find out from now. |
| Lupin: | It’s after this. Take a good look. So what are we gonna find inside. |
| Jigen: | There’s nothing inside. |
| Lupin: | That the end, I guess. |
| Jigen: | Man, that was no good. We didn’t get anything out of it. |
| Lupin: | That can’t be possible. |
| Goemon: | I found this on the way… |
| Lupin: | It’s a catalog. |
| Jigen: | It’s no doubt that there’s a deal goin’ on. |
| Lupin: | Yeah, but where in the world did they hide the items? |
| (DOOR OPENS) | |
| Lupin: | Something happen? |
| Fujiko: | Hey. They’ve suddenly hurried and are taking the next move. They’re talking of going to the main island by today and doing the finals and photo session. |
| Lupin: | By today.. something smells fishy. Does it seem like they’re carrying anything like those masterpieces? |
| Fujiko: | The only thing they’re carrying are those tiny bags and the paintings won’t fit those. |
| Lupin: | And the contestants? |
| Fujiko; | They’re empty handed. Well, they had the costume boxes for the photo sessions. |
| Lupin: | That’s it! It has to be that… |
| Lupin: | All right, let’s take another look at the tape. |
| Jigen: | But I didn’t see anything like that. |
| Lupin: | It’s right here. |
| Jigen: | Costume boxes backstage – there’s nothin’ strange ‘bout that. |
| Lupin: | Yeah, but why are they here? |
| Jigen: | Hmm, now that ‘ya mention it. |
| Lupin: | See? Smith and the others have all gone to secure the paintings. |
| Jigen: | Oh yeah. |
| Lupin: | Damn! Why didn’t I see it sooner? |
| Fujiko: | Whatever, but we’d better hurry, Lupin. The boat’s leaving soon. |
| Lupin: | Ok. Let’s get movin’ right away! |
| (music) | |
| Lupin: | Mr. Smith.. we’d like to interview the contestants. |
| Smith: | Well…all right. |
| Lupin: | Thank you! |
| Lupin: | Whew…We’re right on time. |
| Zenigata: | Mr. Smith! |
| Smith: | Hi, Mr. Zenigata. Whatever happened to the suspicious man? |
| Zenigata: | We’re sorry, but he ran away. However, we have sent out an emergency arrest warrant. So we should get him right away. |
| By the way, where are you all going? | |
| Smith; | The girls photo session and the final judgement meeting. We’ve gotta hurry and finish so we can let the contestants and audiences go home. |
| Zenigata: | Yes, I agree. I’ll accompany the contestants there. |
| Smith: | Oh! Uh..Detective. Don’t worry, we’ll be alright. |
| Zenigata: | No, no. That won’t do. As long as the women are on the board, I’ll have to escort them. |
| Cop: | Detective! We have an emergency! It seems that Lupin has appeared in another area. |
| Zenigata: | Lupin? |
| Cop: | Uh, Yes. Maybe the warning he sent of stealing the women is a fake. One of his first rate cons. |
| Zenigata: | All right, you replace me and get on this boat. |
| Cop: | Yes. |
| Man: | What should we do? |
| Smith: | Don’t worry. We can fool a mere cop or two. |
| Smith: | Hey! Get the boat going! |
| (music) | |
| Lupin: | Whew! Pretty good. |
| Goemon: | I can disguise this much if I need to. |
| Jigen: | Yeah, Zenigata must be in a panic now. |
| Zenigata: | Mr. ! |
| Zenigata: | Please tell me more details of the situation. Which are is Lupin at? |
| Lupin? What are you talking about? | |
| Zenigata: | Hah? |
| (music) | |
| Lupin: | Oh, excuse me there. I’ve come to interview the century’s most beautiful work. Uh, excuse me women. Whoa, but it seems like we just can’t settle down. Let’s go somewhere a bit more quiet, huh? Hey, that small island is good. We’ve got time, right? Let’s stop over. I bet it’ll be a great backdrop for the photo session, too! |
| (music) | |
| Smith: | Well, let’s begin the special judging. |
| Rich man: | But I’d like to see your gifts first. |
| Smith: | What? |
| Rich man: | You really do have the gifts, don’t you? |
| Smith: | Of course. It’s in the boat with the women. It should be arriving soon. |
| Rich man 2: | But that’s so uncareful on you. |
| Smith: | Don’t worry. I’m carrying things out and even thinking of your alibis. Richard, make sure the boat gets in safely. |
| Richard: | Yes. |
| Richard = man 2: | Why are you so slow for? Hurry up and take the costume boxes to the judging room. Hey! What’s wrong? Isn’t there anybody here? |
| Jigen: | Coming right up. |
| Smith: | Line them up. |
| Jigen: | All right. |
| Smith: | Where’s the women? |
| Lupin: | They’re doing the photo shoot at the small island on the way. They told us to go pick’em up again when they’are about done. |
| Smith: | What about the cop escort? |
| Lupin: | He said something about "the world’s most beautiful women are like pieces of art" and he’s just following them and hanging and sloberring over’em and.. |
| Smith: | I see, Ok. You can go now. |
| Smith: | As you can see, I’ve collected your gifts. We’ll be announcing our results. Gentlemen, please have the treasure ready. |
| Smith: | All right, Richard. Read them out. |
| Richard: | # 5 France’s Miss Ernoir, in other words, the Renoir for $100,000 goes to Mr.Morgan. #8 Japanese beauty Utamaro’s print, $60,000 to Mr. Godar. |
| Jigen: | I guess your guess was right. |
| Lupin: | Ok. Let’s move on to the last step. |
| Zenigata: | Hurry. Can’t we speed up? |
| Lupin: | We’ve got trouble! The women have disappeared. |
| Zenigata: | What the beautiful girls? Has to be Lupin. |
| Smith: | Ok. Gentlemen, please stand in front of the boxes with the numbers you have obtained. I’ll explain how to take out your gifts. First, please open the cover. |
| Zenigata; | Mr. Smith, I’ve heard the women have disappeared. |
| Smith: | The women? |
| Zenigata: | The women that Lupin sent warning for. |
| Smith: | Oh, that. |
| Zenigata: | "That", what do you mean "that"? And what are you guys doing here? |
| Zenigata: | Mr. Smith, what is the pile of money doing here? |
| Smith: | mm..this.mmm..is nothing. |
| Zenigata; | What is it? |
| Smith: | Uhh.. |
| Zenigata: | This is…? |
| Zenigata: | Hey, hurry up try open the other boxes. |
| Rich man: | This is..? |
| Lupin: | I’ve stolen your girls/ Lupin III. |
| Smith: | It’s Lupin? Lupin did this. |
| Zenigata: | No. This is not Lupin. Lupin didn’t do thing like this. |
| You have used Lupin’s named and kidnapped these women and have sold them off. Arrest them! | |
| Smith: | No! It’s wrong. No! It’s a misunderstanding. |
| Smith: | Damn --- that Lupin. |
| Cop: | We’ve got in trouble again, a boat is missing. |
| Zenigata: | It’s my boat. |
| Lupin: | Hi, Paps Zenigata. I’ve certainly gotten the beautiful girls. |
| Zenigata: | What? |
| Smith: | Lupin. |
| Lupin: | Gentlemen, all together huh? Watch carefully. I’ll teach you how to truly appreciate masterpieces. For example.. |
| (Squeak) | |
| Lupin: | This is one way to enjoy it. |
| Smith | That’s my painting! Give it back! |
| Rich man: | That’s mine! Give it back! I bought it! |
| All: | Give my painting back! |
| Zenigata: | I got it. Lupin, you’ve used me again. |
| Lupin: | No way, Paps. It’s a big arrest for you. Well, before your backup arrives, I’ll better leave. Bye bye. |
| Zenigata: | Ugh. Lupin. You’ll pay for this. I will arrest you next week!! |
| PREVIEW | |
| Lupin: | Now for next week. It’s the battle against Detective Gullimar III and grandson of Alsaine Lupin’s arch enemy, who has come to escort the France Fair. You’ve got the channel set. |