Lupin III Chapter 2 is titled "Prison Break".
Synopsis[]
Following his arrest, Lupin is immediately delivered to one of the nation's highest-security prisons. Though he plays on Zenigata's paranoia to a small extent (and even briefly escapes his handcuffs), the authorities successfully incarcerate him, scheduling his execution for one year hence.
Bound in a straitjacket, the imprisoned Lupin resorts to a strange new tactic: pleading to everyone in earshot that he is actually an innocent guard, and the real Lupin has impersonated him, until the entire prison staff has become inured. By the day of his execution, even the prison chaplain (after counseling him to deal with his lust by imagining sex with the prison's most beautiful guard) has deemed him a lost cause.
In truth, Lupin is fully prepared to escape, as even the prison's most thorough strip-searches have failed to uncover one tool: a tiny razor hidden under his fingernail. After secretly cutting the straitjacket loose, he meekly requests that his executioners allow him a shave before the execution. Over the guard's objections, Zenigata grants it.
As the guard enters his cell with a shaving kit, Lupin decoys him with a dummy built out of his straitjacket, his already-shaven hair and beard, and various odds-and-ends from around the cell. Overpowering the guard, Lupin brings his year-long lie to life, stealing the guard's uniform and then trapping him inside the straitjacket, while gluing the hair and beard to his head.
Now taken for Lupin, the guard is pulled off to execution, his pleas ignored. Meanwhile, the real Lupin joins Zenigata outside the cellblocks, where he casually notes "Lupin" has been sent to the gas chamber—a sentence that immediately alerts Zenigata to his real identity, as the prison has only ever used electric chairs. A moment later, however, Zenigata realizes this means an innocent guard is about to die, and runs off to stop the execution, giving Lupin all the time he needs to walk out the prison gates.
Characters[]
New characters:
- Father Wakou
- Jou
Existing characters:
Notes[]
- More directly than the prior chapter, this chapter adapts one of Maurice Leblanc's original Lupin stories, namely the third book titled The Escape of Arsène Lupin.
- The differences mainly lie in how they pull off their prison break: in the original novel, Arsène Lupin announces his escape and, using his knowledge of various chemicals, gradually disguises himself as a harmless lookalike. He successfully fools everyone, including Inspector Ganimard, that he isn't Arsène Lupin in a public trial, therefore making everyone let him go. The book ends with Lupin privately revealing his plan to Ganimard in the Bois de Boulogne after the inspector tails him minutes after his escape.
- This chapter was directly adapted into Part 1 Episode 4, making it the second-ever manga story (after Chapter 14) to be animated.
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