"When the Devil Calls to Lupin" is the 87th episode of Lupin the 3rd Part 2.
Synopsis[]
On a torrential night, a doll in the shape of a small girl is delivered to Lupin's hideout, and manipulates him into stealing the jewel known as the Phoenix's Tear. The next objective is the Dragon's Tear, the Phoenix's Tear opposite. From the shadows, the villain named Mephisto is pulling the strings. But what does this devil want with the stones which belonged to a Jewish millionaire that was slain during the days of the Third Reich?
Long Summary[]
One dark and stormy night, Lupin and Jigen are hanging out in their hideout when they hear somebody at the door. Jigen answers it and finds a man with pointed ears, a cape and a top hat standing in the doorway. He hands Jigen a box covered in wrapping paper, telling him to give it to Lupin. He tells him he's a "fan" of him and leaves. Lupin starts to unwrap it, but Jigen is worried it's a time bomb. After the men toss it around in a panic, they find that it's not a time bomb, but a doll. Lupin is endeared to it, and tells Jigen he used to play with dolls. He takes it to his room.
Later that night, Lupin is woken up by a female voice calling to him. He sees the doll's eyes glowing demonic red. The doll gets up and begins to dance. It jumps out the window. Lupin follows it to a circus tent. He finds the figure from earlier that night standing in the tent, who introduces himself as Mephisto. Mephisto tells Lupin he sold his soul to him. He holds out Lupin's heart and crushes it to prove the power he has over him. All around Lupin, puppets mock him. Mephisto declares that Lupin can do nothing but follow his orders. However, this all turns out to be a dream, and Lupin had fallen out of his bed. Jigen wakes him up and assures him he's had a bad dream. Lupin looks around in bewilderment and finds that everything is right where it was the previous night.
The men watch the news. Overnight, a thief broke into a jewelry shop and stole a diamond, the Phoenix's Tear. Zenigata is on the case and declares that Lupin was the one who did it. He shows the news crew security footage of Lupin stealing the diamond. Lupin doesn't understand how it could have happened; he was asleep the whole night. He finds to his disgust that not even Jigen trusts him. Lupin goes to his room to think about the situation. He wonders why, despite the fact that he was sound asleep the previous night, he feels so tired. He starts to think the doll has something to do with it. Suddenly, Goemon appears outside his window. He tells Lupin the doll is a hypnotic puppet. This confirms what happened last night: Lupin was hypnotised by the doll and stole the diamond in his sleep. Lupin promises to catch Mephisto and unmask him.
That night, Lupin is sleeping fitfully with the doll on the armchair opposite him, while the gang watch outside his door. Fujiko has arrived as well. The doll's eyes glow red, like in Lupin's dream. Lupin tosses and turns, then opens his eyes, takes the doll, quickly gets dressed and escapes out the window. The gang follows the hypnotised Lupin, who has gotten into the car with Mephisto. They wonder where he could be going. Fujiko realizes that he's gone to a museum to steal the Dragon's Tear. As she drives Jigen and Goemon, Fujiko explains to them that the Phoenix's Tear and the Dragon's Tear were originally a pair owned by Thomas Jacob, but the diamonds were confiscated during the Third Reich, and Jacob and his wife were murdered by the Gestapo.
The hypnotised Lupin approaches the museum and breaks in with a jet pack. He evades the police, and after he dives into a bush, Mephisto distracts the police with a Lupin puppet. As Lupin makes a run for it, he trips on a rock. He breaks out of his spell, but is too tired to move and falls asleep in the middle of the road with the diamond in his hand. The gang finds him, and Goemon wakes him up with a sharp kick in the behind. Mephisto appears, and Fujiko reveals his true identity, as Peter Jacob, the son of the murdered Thomas Jacob. Peter unmasks himself and demands the diamond. He tries to use the doll on Lupin, but Goemon destroys it. Peter makes his escape.
The next morning, Fujiko brings the gang an invitation, in a letter soaked in blood, to "the first puppet show of the Devil Theater Group" in Berlin on the 11th of June, at the Olympic stadium. The gang attends the show. Jigen notices all the other audience members are ex-Gestapo. "Mephisto" appears in the stadium, and some clowns around him fill a colossal balloon with gas. Lupin notices there's dynamite attached to the leg of the balloon, and Jigen notices the balloon is filled with inflammable gas. The gang evacuates the stadium, then Lupin confronts Peter and urges him to stop. He asks Peter if he still wants the diamond, but he doesn't care for that anymore. Peter threateningly holds a cigarette lighter to the dynamite. Lupin shoots the lighter out of his hand. The balloon becomes untethered and Peter is impaled by one of the stakes and pulled upwards into the sky by the balloon. The Phoenix's Tear drops from Peter's body.
Later, Lupin and Jigen are on a plane to America so Lupin can put the diamonds in the graves of Peter's parents. The balloon floats by with Peter's corpse still impaled on the stake. Lupin watches it go by with profound sadness.
Cast[]
- Japanese
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Yasuo Yamada |
| Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Makio Inoue |
| Fujiko Mine | Eiko Masuyama |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Gorō Naya |
| Mephistopheles | Takeshi Aono |
Additional voices:[1]
- Keiko Han
- Takeshi Taniguchi
- Italian ("La Bambola del Diavolo")
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Roberto Del Giudice |
| Daisuke Jigen | Sandro Pellegrini |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Massimo Rossi |
| Fujiko Mine | Piera Vidale (as Margot Mine) |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Marcello Prando |
| Mephistopheles | Unknown (as Mefistofele) |
- Spanish (Unknown / "El diablo a través de una muñeca")
| Characters | Voice Actors | |
|---|---|---|
| Telecinco (1991 dubbing) |
Animax (2008 dubbing) | |
| Lupin III | Txema Moscoso | Juan Navarro Torello |
| Daisuke Jigen | Juan Pascual (as Óscar) |
Iker Muñoz |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Paul Muniain (as Francis) |
José María Carrero |
| Fujiko Mine | Luz Emparanza (as Patricia) |
Raquel Martín |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Mario Hernández (as Basilio) |
Ángel Rodríguez |
| Mephistopheles | Unknown | Unknown |
Gallery[]
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Censorship[]
Italian[]
- In the Italian airing, this episode was heavily censored with various freeze frames throughout the second part of the episode.
- The scene where Jigen and Goemon pointing and then a wood freeze frame was the remove the blood splatter on the scene.
- Lupin reading the Newspaper with Fujiko holding an envelope with blood was replaced by a freeze frame. A short cut was made before opening the envelope was also cut due to the blood.
- The freeze frame of the stadium was to remove the Japanese text.
- The freeze frames of Lupin gang and the crowd were added to remove the banner with the Japanese text.
- The corpse of Peter hanging from a balloon was replaced with a freeze frame of Jigen and Lupin.
Mistakes[]
- The British Museum is not surrounded by a forest, but is right in the center of town, near Tottenham Court Road.
- How did the hypnotised Lupin get dressed so fast after the doll controls him on the second night, while the gang is ready to grab him?
- Lupin and Goemon should have searched for muddy footprints after the first heist, since it was raining the previous night.
Trivia[]
- Lupin is in his pajamas when he sees the doll dancing, but is fully dressed when he goes to the window. This would be a mistake, except he's dreaming at this point. Furthermore, security footage shows the hypnotised Lupin stealing the diamond while he's fully dressed, which means the doll hypnotised him to get dressed before going on his heist each time, and then on the first night changed back into his pajamas and put his clothes where they were while under the doll's spell.
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| Lupin the 3rd Part 2 |
| Anime Episodes | ||||||||||
| Season 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | |||||
| Season 2 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | |
| 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | ||||||
| Season 3 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 |
| 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | |
| 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | |
| 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | |
| 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | |
| 102 | 103 | |||||||||
| Season 4 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 |
| 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | |
| 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | |
| 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | |
| 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | |
| 154 | 155 | |||||||||
References[]
- ↑ 第87話 悪魔がルパンを 招くとき. www.mau2.com (in Japanese)