Now, stop everything
but your beating heart and look at me.
To steal...
is not to take something away or break something.
It is a special case. An elegant vice.
It's an amalgam of secrets, felonies,
mischief, and terror.
Just like with Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights,
a life dedicated to stealing brings about the ultimate sensuality.
It's a prison of sexiness from which she cannot escape.
Its psychological foundation is...
unknown.
Who is the slave?
Who is the master?
Is God watching her?
Has God abandoned her?
The act of stealing lets her forget everything
and keeps her memories at a safe distance.
Don't speak, run.
Don't run, but hide.
If you find me, punish me.
If you punish me, kill me.
Save me.
But you have nothing left for me to steal, silly boy.
You've long since been empty, just like me.
So if you want to look at me,
then stop everything you're doing.
Stop everything but your beating heart and look at me.
A Woman named Mine Fujiko
Mine Fujiko!
Where am I?
Did some kind of human experimentation take place here?
What is all this?
Fräulein Eule.
Who's there?
Fräulein Eule.
"Fräulein Eule"?
Man, this looks like it's gonna be one twisted tale.
Now that I think about it, that nightmare
was only the beginning.
Dead City
Mine Fujiko?!
I would like you to steal Mine Fujiko.
Oh dear, aren't you rude?
I'm afraid I must decline.
I would like you to act on the calling card you sent
in a timely manner.
The calling card, huh?
It was back then...
To think we've been under their watch all along.
I'll be taking Mine Fujiko.
It isn't a passing fancy or desire.
I'll be taking Mine Fujiko.
She's the woman I want.
I don't care about the request.
But I was informed that you take pride in unfailingly stealing that which you issue a calling card for.
Go back to the forest,
Mr. Owl.
Am I to take this as your refusal?
Man, I'm half awake. I gotta get to bed.
Then I will excuse myself for tonight.
See ya.
Owls are a pain in the ass.
They have sharp night vision.
But I need to know.
What do they want with Mine Fujiko?
What does she mean to them?
Good to see you, Inspector Zenigata.
Moving right along, I need transportation to the villa owned by Count Almeida of the Glaucus Pharmaceuticals.
Certainly, sir. However...
If we set out now, we'll arrive at a late hour.
Let's save it for tomorrow—
I don't care.
Bring me to the villa.
Yes, sir.
This is supposed to be an international airport?
What a tiny country.
Be grateful. I came all the way here to meet you,
A few months earlier-
Count Luis Yu Almeida.
This is just an advance payment.
Oh, that's a nice haul!
Fräulein Eule.
It's a cult with a facility containing a narcotics production factory.
From there—
A cult?
Sorry, but I'm not getting involved in something shady like that.
In that case, Lupin III,
just steal this woman who is sure to appear there.
That is all we want from you.
That's a fine woman.
Another pain in the ass is here.
You wait here.
Yes, sir.
I'll...
I assume Count Almeida is present.
How may I help you?
I have some questions. Take me to him.
Though you are policemen, do you not suppose you're intruding a bit late?
It's still early evening. We're being courteous enough by not forcing our way in.
Oh?
And what exactly is this about?
Let us meet with the Count!
Do we need a search warrant after all?
Or is the renowned Count
ready to confess to his connection with dirty thieves?!
What I have to ask concerns Lupin III.
In that case,
I will take you to him.
This place is full of owls, huh?
Your master must be quite infatuated with them.
Owls are servants of Minerva.
She is known as the goddess of wisdom that governs medicine.
I see. How appropriate for a pharmaceutical company.
This is the Count's bedroom.
Thanks for leading me to him, Inspector.
I know you've been in contact with Lupin III.
What are you after?
The pharmaceutical company that you've supported
amassed a huge fortune using shady connections.
Do the words "dizzy dizzy" mean anything to you?
A cult which roped in believers using the influence of a drug with that ridiculous name was destroyed.
As luck would have it, Lupin was behind that.
I wonder who his client was.
I'm sure you know.
I see.
The pharmaceutics company was running that cult from behind to test the drug in humans.
It was a cover.
The drug artificially overwrites personality.
It was involved in the MKULTRA experiments carried out by the CIA.
Yes, it was behind the truth serums made from LSD and thiopental.
Oh, scary.
These so-called medical mafias kept creating conspiracies over the Cold War.
In other words, fear.
Fear alone can control people.
By controlling people through making them doubt each other,
they could monopolize a vast fortune.
I have a bone to pick with you for disturbing my sleep last time.
Sorry to disturb you at night, old man.
A mechanism?
How elaborate.
Fräulein Eule.
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
Hegel?
Oh?
Then tell me when that butterfly will spread her wings,
Lupin III?
Who cares?
When Hegel saw the Weltgeist in Napoleon at the height of his career,
he sensed the demise of an age.
I can still hear it even now.
Minerva, the goddess of war that governs not only wisdom, but also justice...
I can hear her owl Glaucus flapping its wings.
Fräulein Eule.
This is how the end will come
along with the dusk.
I will ask you again.
I would like you to steal Mine Fujiko,
Lupin III.
Straight ahead from here
is a town called Eulenspiegel.
That place is in ruins and entry is forbidden.
It doesn't matter. Just take us there.
Yes, sir.
I'm going to take the drug Fraulein Eule secretly made on the solitary island of a religious cult. Lupin III
Fräulein Eule, huh?
I had the narcotics crystal that Lupin was after analyzed at a lab.
When did you...
Preparation of purified drugs is not something a cult can figure out alone.
I knew there had to be someone behind it all.
And they tried to contact Lupin once again.
What are they after?
The answer to that should be in the abandoned Glaucus Pharmaceuticals buildings.
Fräulein Eule.
Who are you?
This isn't a place for the likes of you.
And who are you?
I am Dr. Fritz Kaiser.
I was left behind in this town.
A doctor, huh?
So, what is this place?
The destroyed town whose name will be lost in the earth forever.
This is Eulenspiegel.
And here exists the Glaucus Pharmaceuticals research facility, built to produce the fear of death.
They were secretly experimenting on people's minds here.
There were Japanese scientist refugees here as well.
One of them was my wife.
We extracted and crystallized a compound from a certain plant.
A water-soluble hallucinogen.
It caused a temporary euphoria.
Acute poisoning induced assaultive behavior, and some of them started perceiving humans as owls.
Owls?
Yes.
When certain subjects took the drug,
they began shouting "Fräulein Eule."
They lost all their faculties shortly after,
and became permanently disabled.
Fräulein Eule?
What does it mean?
In German, it means "Miss Owl."
Miss Owl, huh?
Anyway, why are you still here by yourself?
I'm searching for my daughter.
By the name of...
Mine Fujiko.
A Woman named Mine Fujiko
13 years earlier-
Congratulations.
Hm?
We don't have the results of the experiment yet.
No, Professor.
It's your birthday today, right?
Oh.
Is it?
We did have a party for your daughter on her birthday.
I took my daughter's birthday away from her.
And yet you're celebrating mine?
Professor...
A birthday party is a ceremony as meaningless as a funeral that a person cannot attend because he's dead.
There is no special difference between life and death for people.
Are you referring to Memento mori?
What's special is the fear that all life holds toward death.
The fear in that process...
A leak has been detected in Block C.
Block C will now be sealed off.
Professor!
Professor, your mask!
Let's head to emergency exit!
I left the reagents in the lab!
And my daughter is in the ward!
Professor!
I must find my daughter!
And that was the end of this place?
There was no news of it, even though a whole town disappeared.
Glaucus Pharmaceuticals didn't care about exposing the truth.
It was fear.
It was to stage a cover-up of the situation.
Yes, fear itself was my aspiration.
But it slipped out of my grasp,
leaving me with eternal despair,
along with my daughter.
Professor?
Mine Fujiko?
A town erased from memory.
The cause was an accident thirteen years ago.
They took only the reagents that hadn't been clinically tested
and closed this research facility.
Thirteen years ago...
It coincides with the time that cult rose to prominence.
The cult of Fräulein Eule was a convenient experimentation ground for Glaucus Pharmaceuticals.
But that alone wouldn't motivate Lupin.
Inspector, you've known all this from the beginning?
But you didn't—
...tell you anything, right?
Who do you think you are?
Am I your subordinate?
No, of course not.
Don't get in my way anymore.
You're free to follow me from now on, but...
look here, this is my case.
Inspector.
To go this far...
Professor, where are you?
So you came, Lupin.
I was just thinking the same thing about you.
When I try to have some fun with the "dizzy dizzy" drug,
and things start getting good, you show up.
Don't play dumb, Lupin.
You're after neither the cult's narcotics nor the great fortune that you could make off it.
What do you mean?
It's Mine Fujiko.
You're after the woman created in the human experimentation here.
The unshakable proof of the evil deed that links the cult and the pharmaceutical company!
Sorry to interrupt you in the middle of your speech,
but there's shaking proof right behind you.
Hey, Lupin!
Who are these guys?
Illusions!
They were whipped up by Fräulein Eule!
If they're really illusions, we shouldn't have to worry about being shot.
Wanna put that to the test?
You're the one they're after!
You also know too much.
The secret about the Count's precious treasure.
We're outnumbered.
You got that right!
Professor!
What are you doing here?
What's going on?!
Hey!
Just how much of this is an illusion?
Damn it!
Hey, you!
Come this way!
Hurry and come!
Where are we?
A part of my story, and at the same time, the entirety of it.
Hey...
You experimented on your own daughter, didn't you?
I had believed...
that experiment would put an end to long, brutal strife.
That's why I offered up my beloved daughter. However...
...you were buried here along with the entire city
and lost both your research and your daughter.
So why did you save me?
I want you to save...
my daughter.
It's a new morning!
Not like the evening!
You're special!
And if I'm so special,
what day is it for me?
Happy birthday!
Professor?
He's not here anymore.
This is my story, after all.
Not quite.
This is because of Fräulein Eule.
I'll be back to normal when I wake up.
I'm not so sure.
There are people who lose sight of the exit and get stuck in a story all their life.
Like the professor?
Yup.
How do I find the exit?
Make use of something linked to reality to catch me.
For instance, pain!
Why must I catch you?
Weren't you listening?
It's because this is my story.
Damn it.
Guess I'll play along.
This way!
Too bad!
Over here!
What am I chasing after?
An illusion?
Mine Fujiko?
That's it.
Fujiko.
Ouch!
Enough of that.
Huh? You're giving up?
You're gonna disappear, too, right?
Do whatever you want.
Are you sure?
Yeah, go ahead.
Now's my chance!
Gotcha!
Don't be so rough, Lupin.
Fräulein Eule... Fräulein Eule...
What a wonderful twilight.
Perfect time to meet one's demise.
Professor.
You're an illusion.
You're dead.
It's all just a story.
A story cannot bring salvation.
However, Lupin III...
The moment you lay your hand on it, butterflies will soar, and everything will collapse.
Inspector Zenigata!
Please get a hold of yourself!
Glaucus Pharmaceuticals covered up the accident by wiping out the city.
Furthermore, they carried out human experimentation.
The child of Dr. Fritz Kaiser, who he called "Daughter,"
was a test subject as well, according to a disturbing rumor.
Hey, stop it.
Eulenspiegel is still private property.
Are you going to bring charges with evidence gathered from trespassing?
And what happened to Lupin?
The pharmaceutical company's president, Luis Yu Almeida, and Lupin are both after that woman!
Lupin will show up there for sure.
Mine Fujiko!
This is...
That wasn't a dream.
But is it the truth?
Fräulein Eule.
Was this nightmare...
just the story of a woman named Mine Fujiko?
atashi ga dare to doko de nani wo shiteta ka nante
Just telling you where I was, doing what and with whom
shiraseta tokoro de kimi no kimochi sukuenai desho
won't salvage your feelings
motto jiyuu ni naru hazu datta kimi ga
You were supposed to live more independently than that
atashi nashi ja miugokitorenai nara
but if you can't even move without me there
suki da yo to iwareru hodo tsukihanaseta
then I'd rather refuse you the more you tell me you love me
suki da yo to iwareru hodo tsukihanaseta
then I'd rather refuse you the more you tell me you love me
tsukihanasete shimaeru hodo kirai demo nai
Even though I don't dislike you enough to do that
tsukihanasete shimaeru hodo kirai demo nai
Even though I don't dislike you enough to do that