Lupin the Third (TV Series)

Beware the Time Machine! (1972)

Chikao Ôtsuka: Ishikawa Goemon XIII

Quotes 

• Daisuke Jigen : [shaking Goemon roughly]  Hey, Goemon! Why the hell didn't you help him?

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : And what exactly did you do to help?

  Daisuke Jigen : [bent double over the table, distraught]  Lupin... Lupin...

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : Don't cry, Jigen.

  [the situation is too much for Jigen and he bursts into tears] 

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : I'll avenge him.

  Daisuke Jigen : Idiot! You're too old-fashioned! He's in the Fourth Dimension! The 29th Century! What can an Edo Period guy like you do? If Mr. Edo Period could do something, Lupin would most likely have done something himself.

  [He continues crying into the table] 

  Arsène Lupin III : [from behind the aquarium]  Edo Period, huh? How insightful of you two. You've given me a great idea.

  [Goemon and Jigen stare in shock. Jigen breaks out into a cold sweat, and his eyes well up with fresh tears] 

  Daisuke Jigen : Lupin...

  Arsène Lupin III : Well, you see, I was worried that people would miss me when I was gone, so I hid for a bit.

  [He bursts into carefree laughter] 

  Daisuke Jigen : [angry at Lupin for scaring him]  Damn you, Lupin!

• [Lupin finds Jigen sitting in the middle of a room cluttered with books, perusing obsessively] 

  Arsène Lupin III : Hey, Jigen, will you quit this already? Forget about that loon.

  [Jigen walks off to the side] 

  Arsène Lupin III : Hmph. Fine. I'll just take Goemon with me for this next job. Hey, Goemon! Goemon!

  [Goemon appears from the pile of books, likewise perusing the volumes] 

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : What?

  Arsène Lupin III : Good grief, Goemon.

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : I'm certain I've heard of Kyousuke Mamoh as well.

  [Lupin goes to the front room, sits down in an armchair and puts his feet on the table] 

  Arsène Lupin III : You gotta be kidding me. Mamoh, Mamoh, Lupin the 13th, the year two-thousand something... This ain't a sci-fi manga.

  [Some time passes. Lupin is now asleep in the armchair. As though in a dream, he hears Mamoh's voice speaking to him] 

  Mamou Kyosuke the Mad Time Traveller : Allow me to explain, Lupin. I have conquered the fourth dimension. Behold. With this time machine, I can traverse the temporal plane, past or future. And I saw it.

  [Lupin frowns] 

  Mamou Kyosuke the Mad Time Traveller : I saw my descendants kill your descendants. It all occurs about nine hundred years from now.

  [Lupin moans softly] 

  Mamou Kyosuke the Mad Time Traveller : Still don't believe me? Then I'll tell you my date of birth. It's November 18th, 1932.

  [Lupin wakes up, and sits up in confusion] 

  Arsène Lupin III : November 18th, 1932... Yeesh! What a lousy dream.

  [He goes to the window and stares contemplatively out of it. Jigen and Goemon enter the room] 

  Daisuke Jigen : Hey, Lupin, we found it. Listen up. Kyousuke Mamoh, a scientist. Sci-fi author and recipient of the Hugo award. His passion lies in the fourth dimension, especially the study of time and space, but he went mad in 1966.

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : While institutionalised in the city's psychiatric hospital, he declared the world was in crisis, and built a time machine, his version of Noah's Ark. He is currently traveling in time.

  Arsène Lupin III : What's his date of birth?

  Ishikawa Goemon XIII : Date of birth? Yes, it's here. November 18th, 1932.

  Arsène Lupin III : [smirking]  Quite interesting, Mr. Kyousuke Mamoh.