Chuck Glay aka Peekaboo is a character from Lupin the Third Part 5.
Character History[]
Glay was born on November 4, 1990 in Arizona, USA. He along with Kunal Robinson (Chap Tip) and Sonia Boutella (MooMoo) are wanted by the Judicial Authorities of the UK with his crime being large scale money laundering. Despite only knowing English, he seems to be known for typos including calling Marco Polo "MALCO POLO", calling himself "Peeca Boo" and for being over confident yet aggressive if he loses. It is implied that Glay was connected to a gang who kidnapped and kept children in inhumane conditions forcing them to do child pornography, they changed from child porn to the black market since it made more money. He was also a drug dealer however this was only briefly mentioned.
Five years ago before the events of Part 5, he had hired a lease on a building that was later dubbed The Twin Towers. Ami Enan was forced to set up the payment system for Marco Polo, a dark web black market where drugs, weapons and forged documents can be sold. According to her, she had rented the room in the cloud data center but was put in there beyond her control as she had to escape from the beatings.
On a private boat, Glay was surrounded with women as he looked at his tablet that the sales from Marco Polo had got him over 3.5 million bitmoney on his offshore bank account. A woman pulled her strap on her bra as she wanted Glay's attention and he delightfully hugged her explaining about the deep web without properly explaining it. He pushed her aside as he was furious that Lupin III had stolen his bitmoney thanks to Ami then contacted Chap Tip and MooMoo while swearing, MooMoo had her admin access revoked and Chap Tip noticed that their money transfer system was also hit. Glay shouted as he didn't know who had done it and then passed out that he got a virtual calling card from Lupin for his "donation", Chap Tip vowed to get him as The Lupin Game was set up.
Glay retreated to a closed down shopping mall, he was furious and slammed his tablet thinking that Lupin was acting like he didn't have a care in the world however MooMoo and Chap Tip messaged him back knowing that it would happen with Chap Tip considered Lupin to be a pro. The Happy Death Day website was set up and he tapped onto the site sinking everything he had left hoping to get a return, he was also happy that the site used digital currency that wouldn't be tracked. MooMoo messaged him that the people who placed the bets and guessing was protected by private browsing with Chap Tip added that it would guess what day Lupin would die and was considered legal, yet he wondered as no one had said about killing Lupin. He considered it a game free of danger.
He had watched the livestream of Lupin and Ami getting chased, he thought that in a tiny country with many hitmen on his trail that Lupin wouldn't escape with Chap Tip letting him know that if Lupin escapes, the ICPO would be on his tail and MooMoo thought that he would be boxed in either way. Glay laughed to himself and thought that it served Lupin right. He was reading the comments about Lupin taking on the assassins thinking no way that Lupin would pull it off, MooMoo wondered why and he knew that Lupin was desperate.
After the assassins were taken care off and Koichi Zenigata took Lupin to the desert, he watched as a Bwanda helicopter tried to take them out but they escaped from the explosion, Gray noticed that the bounty on the Death Day site doesn't expire until he is dead as Lupin hoped that it would fool the site and claims to not run out of hitmen. Chap Tip let him know that new assassins had arrived in Bwanda and MooMoo mentioned that Lupin could stay and die or go over the border to get arrested by the police as he was done for. Drone Fighter had then stopped broadcasting the stream causing Glay to get annoyed that Lupin went to the desert to die and no one could see him, he didn't find it fun. The stream continued the next day as the Bwanda military were firing on Lupin and Zenigata then Ami took out the helicopter, Glay had moved to watching it on his computer and sat down on his chair by a disused food court. He laughed and called Lupin "a sore loser" as two camouflaged people were trying to take out Lupin at the border. Chap Tip thought that it was too early for Glay to celebrate and MooMoo wanted "Mr. Drone Fighter" to win, he went from being relaxed to curious as Lupin was hidden underneath a rock however smoke had blocked the broadcast and watched as Lupin got shot.
When Marco Polo had reopened, he had managed to make over 2 million bitmoney in sales within a day despite the risks. MooMoo had noticed that they are in debt however Chap Tip thought that the gamble was needed and Glay assures that he won the game and if it keeps going it would offset the loss within a year. He then got a message from UNDERWORLD about a game of chicken and smiled thinking that it was from a funny guy but realized that it was from a girl as Chap Tip thought that it was the person who made the backdoor. Glay wanted to see her however both MooMoo and Chap Tip backed out, MooMoo thought that it was a bad idea but he had seen it from a film and wanted to try the idea.
Ami had arrived outside of the shopping mall as he spied on her but she wondered whether he can see her, he messaged the others that she was Underworld however MooMoo was cautious. Ami had entered the mall as he proclaimed to be Marco Polo's castle and activated the escalators and signs, Glay asked how crazy she was wanting to work for them while Ami had advised to make the website less shoddy and how scary getting hacked can be but he was annoyed. She had then arrived at a room with a camera as he told her to have a seat but not to have a drink, she sat down but wondered why only one seat as it was suppose to be face to face and quickly he cuffed her then chuckled thinking that they were on equal terms with each other. Ami asked him whether she made more than one backdoor, he shrugged it off as a threat and press the enter key on his keyboard to close the door and for the pipes to burst causing the room to flood. They both thought that it only happened in movies but he wanted to try it for real. Ami thought that he was the "bad guy" but he corrects himself as they were both bad from the beginning and he wanted to know about the Lupin Collection, Ami thought it was the reason why they agreed as he knew that she hung around with Lupin and wanted to know his secrets with the goal to take everything back from him. He told her to don't expect the rising water to stop as he was a crook.
Ami explained that she was excited when she touched her first computer, he smiled at first but was surprised as it meant that she could go anywhere and meet people as her horizons had expanded. Chap Tip was watching the stream and found it the same with his first motorcycle, Ami got praise from her code around the world and people stopped treated her a child. MooMoo was annoyed and he was the same due to Ami explaining that she got information, money and security with ease. He wanted her to shut up about her life story and wanted to know about Lupin, he was bored as Ami babbled that it was no longer exciting but didn't want to change and Lupin gave her an invite to go to the "real world". He still wanted to know about Lupin but all she said was the real world was bad, it made him pissed off and told her that she was going to die but he was shocked as the real world gave Ami her high. Glay got up from his chair and called her an idiot for being stubborn.
"Chup Chip" (Chap Tip) had phoned up and asked whether his real name was Chuck Glay because their photos were posted on the Death Day website, he checked and it was true as they were targets for the same amount of money as what Lupin had stole. Glay told him that Lupin was dead but Chap Tip thought that it was Lupin's friends that had done it, he wanted to beat them at their own game and told him to put Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII on there however it wouldn't make any difference. He got worried as Chap had to stop the call due to that Jigen was targeting him, Glay got worried thinking that it was an assassin and was annoyed that MooMoo had to leave. He was surprised that Ami was still alive and told him that it was the hitmen, she also dared him to have a look and make a deal to take his name off the website. She also wanted to meet him in person to discuss the details, he dashed off while holding his phone wondering whether Ami was going to do it but she had hacked the website before to remove Lupin's name yet couldn't make it in time. They agreed to the deal and will be treated equally.
Glay had noticed that the door was opened and went in holding his pistol wanting help from Underworld however it turned out to be Lupin and he thought it was impossible as he was "dead". He then looked at his phone but could not see anyone else, it turned out that an AR filter was applied as Lupin knew about his trap. Lupin told him that he made sure that there was a way out for Ami and for her to put on a watery AR filter. Ami got up from the hole holding a note and he pointed the gun towards her but then moves to Lupin as he figured out how Lupin survived. Ami put a bloody AR filter on as the bullet went past Lupin's hair however he claimed that it was tricky to get to the right spot for people not to notice, causing Glay to twitch. Lupin says he also has his partner locations with Chap Tip being outside with Jigen and MooMoo being in the library with Goemon. Lupin pointed his Walther P38 at Glay that caused him to panic. He closed his eyes as Lupin wondered whether the gun was a toy then panicked causing his phone to drop, he was shaking his pistol as Lupin says he shouldn't be a crook if he doesn't have a resolve. Lupin gave him the choice to have a safe life to obey the rules that others make.
As Lupin was about to fire, Zenigata pushed Glay to the floor and saying that if Lupin kills him, he'll be done for murder. He tried to crawl away however Lupin says that he hasn't finished talking and was with Zenigata of the ICPO, who is the enemy of every crook. Lupin gave him the choice of turning himself in as if he coughs up enough info, he might be safe behind bars for a decade. He was sweating and gasping whether he wanted his life or his freedom, Lupin counted down from five and once it got to one, he screamed "save me!" Glay grabbed Zenigata's legs and begged him to be taken in as he confessed that he sold drugs on the Internet yet Zenigata wondered whether he would testify, in desperation he told Zenigata that he would say anything that he would want adding please. Zenigata agreed while Lupin thought that Glay was no match for him, Lupin fired his gun however it turned out to be a prop and Glay fainted.
As Lupin and Ami left, Glay was still clinging onto Zenigata's legs as he didn't want to be alone. Zenigata grabbed him with a smile as narcotics are his thing now. He was later arrested and put into prison, Marco Polo was later closed down.
Notes[]
- It is likely that his name was meant to be Chuck Gray due to the l/r problem in Japanese and that he is American however it appeared throughout A Crook's Resolve. There is an author called George Albert Glay however very little is known about him. It could also be a reference to the Japanese band Glay.