The Morning News! Murder in the Louvre Museum!
Arsene Lupin hunted by French police!
Thank you, sir.
Read it in the Morning News!
I wan't let that rascal destroy your life.
Certainly not.
Clarisse!
Let's take her to the Duke's.
Move aside! Don't just stand there!
Is it serious, doctor?
- Is the girl married? - No, why?
Then it's serious.
- Where's Josephine? - Never mind.
She tried to kill herself!
Kill herself? You don't know her!
Anyway, you know nothing about her.
Men like you, they come and go.
But only one remained.
Putting the police on that young man's trail,
was that the right move?
Only he can get us the 2 missing crucifixes.
If he's not arrested.
Trust me. He's the best of us all.
About Lupin, Excellency, I have a last request.
When he's delivered the crucifixes,
could Your Excellency use his influence
to save Lupin's head?
Very well.
If he brings us what we want!
Thank you, Excellency.
She won't keep it.
Think of your daughter.
She's not my daughter! She's ruined!
Who will want her now?
To save her honor, I'll take her.
You, Bonnetot?
Help me! I beg you! The potion!
Free me, and I'll get it for you!
On the table!
Hurry!
Give it a try...
Where are the two crucifixes?
I'm going home, Ferdinand.
Close up after me.
My wife will chew me out.
Mr. Kasselbach,
of "The Kasselbach Bank", I presume?
Arsene Lupin.
Please don't kill me.
Don't believe the newspapers. I'm a gentle burglar.
Blood horrifies me.
It's here. Safety box 22.
Perfect.
One last effort, Mr. Kasselbach:
The...
the...
the combination.
Never!
- You refuse? - Yes.
- When I'm so close to my goal... - Yes.
You have ten seconds. Not one more.
In ten seconds, I'll blow out your brains.
One, two, three...
four, five, six...
seven... eight...
nine...
- and a quarter - 813.
Just in time. Hold this.
Are you following me?
How much?
You decide on the price.
That's an offer I can't refuse.
Hands up, Arsene Lupin!
Don't waste your time.
Crook!
You see, Kasselbach, we're really alike.
I steal from safes and you from stock portfolios.
Same racket.
Pour me more wine...
It's no good...
Keep going...
What are you doing?
I'll start counting. When I'm through, you'll do what I say.
10...
9...
Who are you?
5...
4... 3...
2...
1...
0...
Tomorrow night, at the Duke of Orleans' ball,
when you hear the word "Firefly",
you'll steal the crucufix from his of fice.
You'll bring it to me in the blue room,
Then you'll jump out of the window.
When I Clap my hands,
you'll go into a deep sleep and forget everything.
Leonard?
I swear, Countess.
I'll repay you for everything,
whatever it was worth.
You fool, your life isn't worth what I lost!
*Forgive me, Clarisse. I behaved abominably. *
*May the future be brighter, *
*and may your generous heart forgive me. *
*I apologize again. Arsene. *
What's wrong, miss?
Leave me alone.
Allow me to insist.
No!
Spare us a penny, little lady.
What do you want?
Allow me... to insist.
Sorry, I was very rude to you, sir. You're Mr...?
Prince Sernin,
at your service.
I'm your man. Whistle and I'll come running!
Sir, your invitation?
I'm a friend of Miss Clarisse de Dreux-Soubise... Prince Sernin.
Sorry. Without an invitation you can't come in.
Delighted you could come...
He's my guest. It's fine.
Come, I'll intoduce you to my father.
Your Grace, Dad.
Prince Sernin from St. Petersburg.
He's a painter. Without him I might be dead.
My daughter told me everything.
I'm so grateful. If I can be of help...
Let her pose for me. Nothing could please me more.
You're a painter?
What do you paint?
Mostly portraits. I have a show next week.
In which gallery?
"The Firefly".
"The Firefly"? Where is it?
On a barge, I'll give you the address.
Gladly.
A show on a barge, how original!
I'm original!
Now music, maestro.
Let's dance... Come.
Madame?
I'm looking for Mr. Beaumagnan.
Now, ladies and gentlemen...
Remove your masks!
You save young ladies, you paint them,
and you're a marvelous dancer...
To be so perfect, you must have a flaw?
I do: I can only stay half an hour.
Why not longer?
I might lose my head...
Clarisse!
Father, what is it?
- Where's the necklace? - What necklace?
Grant me this dance!
Dance with you? How hilarious!
Mr. Beaumangnan's is in the billboard-room.
Who are you?
Someone who loved you, in another life.
That necklace? Where did you get it?
I've never seen it. You're mistaken.
I'm never mistaken.
Neither am I.
Your voice and your face...
don't belong together.
With a scer, you're more familiar.
Prince Sernin, are you there?
Are you Beaumagnan?
Yes, I am. But for 10 years, I've had other names.
I was Brignac, librarian.
Louis Lecossais, merchant navy captain.
Or a missionary, Father Anselme Dutartre.
A fine-sounding name!
Clarisse!
Leave me alone!
- We must talk. - Let go!
- No, come with me! - You're hurtung me.
This battle has just begun and I'll win it!
Soon we'll be betrothed, then married!
Have you gone mad?
Your father agreed. Who'd marry a pregnant girl?
You monster! Stay away from me!
You won't keep that child!
Give me a kiss, just one!
Clarisse wore my ancestor's necklace!
It belongs in the Royal treasure, it's ours!
You must recover it.
Before someone beats you to it.
You would needs dressing. Come!
Close the door.
Fast!
- What's happening to you? - Stay away!
Stay away!
You need help.
I'll call someone. - Don't!
- I Can't... - Leave me...
I can't...
Arsene?
Clarisse, don't worry. It's over.
After an hour, the glue burns your skin!
He's here with a crucifix.
Come to this address. I'll explain.
Arsene, I must tell you something...
Later! Stop them from coming up.
Thanks.
The Queen's necklace!
I gave it to Josephine.
Who did you kill for that?
No one.
Don't you remember, Arsene? You stole it.
For my father. You, his accomplice, killed him!
You're way off. No one killed your father.
What? No one?
Distract your opponent.
Remeber that, and no one will defeat you.
No!
Arsene?
You brought me the crucifix?
So Lupin can Kill?
May I be your first vivtim?
Right-handed, then left-handed!
You won't fool me twice!
Guards!
Alert my staff, let nobody leave!
Two men opposite, the rest with me.
Bar all the doors!
Sorry, madame, you can't leave.
Bar the door! Grab her! Don't let her leave!
- The crucifix? - What do you mean?
She's not alone. Where's your accomplice?
You didn't kill him?
A first: I wish I had.
I'll come to that address.
Don't move, Mr Lupin!
Stop him!
No!
The lamps! Fire at the lamps!
She doesn't know what she's doing!
Yes, she does: She's protecting
her child's father.
Beaumagnan! What nonsense!
It's the truth.
He's the Countess's accomplice and Clarisse's lover.
You have to sacrifice Clarisse.
Sacrifice her?
Force Lupin to make a choice:
The crucifixes, or your daughter.
Valmont, Fecamp, Montivilliers...
3 of the 7 abbeys of Caux County.
Where are the 4 others?
Cruchet-le-Valasse...
St. Wandrille...
Jumieges...
Saint-Georges...
She's here.
Who's that man?
A friend. He hid me from the police. I trust him.
You weren't followed?
I was sent to you.
You must return the 3 crucifixes, or else...
Or else?
They'll kill your friend Josephine.
Arsene, don't go! Do it for me, and for him?
Him?
Your child that I carry.
Let's escape, all three of us.
The police want me. I'm an outlaw.
What future can I offer a child?
Give up your past.
Become a new person with a new life!
A murderer's blood may run in my veins.
I can't hand it down!
Where do I meet them?
The Grand Cafe by the Opera, at 10AM.
May I never hear of you again!
My God!
The Great Bear!
Arsene!
If Lupin delivers, we can't spare the Creature.
Not her, Lupin, or Beaumagnan.
I've taken precautions.
He won't come.
He's done with me.
No, he's sentimental, like me.
Like father, like son?
- I was about to say it. - You're wrong.
He's not like you.
He's all you can't be. That's why I love him.
You're incapable of love. You manipulated him.
No, or I'd have told him who you were at once.
He's here: Good blood can't lie.
But you don't stand a chance: Clarisse wants him.
He'll marry a Dreux-Soubise, like his father.
You lie! Arsene has only one mistress
and that's me.
His child has one mother: Her!
Watch her till I get back.
I don't trust him!
He's a gambler!
He's always one up on us!
Leonard? Why are you here?
Go ahead!
Arsene, run! Hurry!
Get me out of this trap!
Don't panic!
Josephine!
No!
Help me!
He's alive!
Arsene!
I did that for us.
To be rid of them. I didn't think you'd come.
I was blinded by my love for you.
Now I see who you are: A criminal!
You're deranged!
I'm a thief, a burglar... So be it.
But I'll never be a murderer.
You hear me?
Never!
Here they are there, all three.
Keep them. I've understood their secret.
Think you can do as much?
Arsene, don't leave me.
I don't want to end up like you.
I despise you.
I'll get even.
Really?
What if I scarred
this beautiful face?
Wouldn't a lot of crimes be avoided?
You'll come back to me.
I'm only beautiful for you.
I don't feel well.
I'll start counting.
You'll go to sleep and when you wake, you'll do as I say.
You like Arsene's love nest?
You'd make a pretty couple, but for me...
Let me lie down.
Has it started wriggling in your belly?
It's fragile...
Why put a child in this ugly world?
Maybe it's all you know how to do: Lay eggs!
You never will!
What do you mean?
Nature gave me what it denied you. I'm life, you're death.
Who says you may speak to me that way?
- I do! - You're jealous of what she can do.
What?
Be tolerant for once in your life.
If you let her escape, I'll strangle you!
Leonard! At dawn we'll be gone!
Years of hard work, but deprived of the treasure,
so close to the goal. Very upsetting!
Though you still have your powers!
Leonardo isn't with you?
As you can see!
You didn't forgive him for defending the girl.
You put a bomb on the barge?
Is that it?
You're a bad loser.
I decided to draw a line on my past.
And his future.
Two birds, one stone!
Keep digging!
It's all you have left to do.
Watch out!
Two old pros like you,
fooled by a newcomer!
Poor Josephine, this is your Waterloo!
Go on, kill me. You can't save Clarisse!
Lost faith in me?
You know I succeed where others fail.
I gave the Police Chief evidence to convict you both.
High time the Law got scum like you two!
He's gifted.
There you are, guv.
Masterful! Beginner's luck!
Sorry, Beaumagnan. France needs your help again.
Your surgeons have to fix my face again.
Or I won't recognize myself.
You dismantled the monarchist plot. Now get us the treasure.
Is France short of cash?
Others covet that booty!
We hold the Countess.
There's a new boy, even wilier:
Arsene Lupin. Remember his name!
It's going to blow up!
Josephine hid a bomb on the boat!
Where is she?
In a jail cell!
Quick, in the hold.
Free the girl, I'll deal with the bomb!
We must run!
- Hurry! - And you?
Me? I'll go to Hell!
I did my best, but he was in pieces.
I don't get it: I hated him,
but I still want to cry.
Your father was one-eyed?
I didn't replace his glass eye, shattered in the blast.
It doesn't matter now.
It does. And I have what it takes.
Sloppy work isn't my style.
Arsene, remove the eye, please.
Take it out?
It pops out easily. Here, miss...
I have a fine collection.
Take your pick.
What's this?
"Ad lapidem curebat olim regina."
The first letter are the key.
That's it: Ad lapidem
curebat olim regina.
The 8th star will be divine: Alcor!
Alcor?
It's a star in the Great Bear.
That's it!
Fitted together they form a map of the abbeys.
Each ruby is a star, each star an abbey.
Merak, Phecda, Duble, Megrez,
Alioth, Mizar, Alkaid.
And Alcor?
It's a hidden star.
Something's missing.
What would it tell you?
The location of the treasure.
You're the greatest!
With an ounce of perversity, you'd be invincible.
But your mother had none to give you.
Did I scare you?
You'll make me the richest scumbag on earth!
Go on, shoot!
You outdid me!
But I have a big edge:
I don't mind killing!
Not me!
But can you kill your own son?
You're the last trace of my past,
I must erase you!
Team up with me! We'll make a killing!
- I'll grow on you! - I'd rather die!
Tell me the truth.
What?
Off to play cards again?
Keep it up, and some day you'll lose.
I never lose.
Never ever.
Jean!
Jean, come here.
My little fellow...
Now this passage is no longer secret!
Go to it, friends!
Get to work, let's clear out this room.
Very pretty...
A fine Houdon...
Superb!
Take the clock!
It's a fake!
Hurry, gents!
We want that case...
Roger...
Sorry, boss.
Head for the barn in Benouville.
And you, boss?
I'll go on the bike.
You? Madame...
Mr Lupin!
I never steal twice from the same person.
Especially a beautiful woman.
By dawn, everything will be put back.
You have my word.
And I always
keep it.
The painting's a fake.
Arsene, are you there?
No, not him!
Josephine!
Louis, make a new man of me again.
I've wanted this day for ages:
Sometimes I feel you're wearing a mask.
A mask?
You never take anything seriously.
Nothing touches you.
You jest all the time!
But I'm not serious, not a chance!
Yes, but you're sensitive.
Took me years to find that out.
Let the real Viscount d'Andresy come out,
more often?
- Maybe he doesn't exist! - See?
You're impossible to talk to!
But we're talking, I assure you.
I'm talking.
You're hiding a deep wound.
I want to know what it is.
What deep wound?
You know all about my life...
Nothing happened in it until you, Eglantine.
Impossible, you're too seductive.
Who are all those people waiting for?
The Archduke of Austro-Hungaria. It was in the papers.
An Archduke!
How exciting, I've never seen one!
Sure you don't mind waiting?
I mind nothing that amuses you.
Present arms!
Jean!
What did you say?
You know what to do!
Are you alright? You've grown pale!
Excuse me.
Where are you going?
Arsene!