Lupin III - First Series Episode 8
Goemon is finally in the group (his joining them was better told in the manga) as they go after Mr. Gold's gold, Mr. Gold shown sitting around way too much of it. Mr. Gold holds up a deck and kisses it, saying he owes his gold to the deck. Lupin calls him to say he will steal the deck of Napoleon cards and Mr. Gold laughs.
We then see Mr. Gold's casino surrounded by cops, of course led by Zenigata, who, as always, invites himself in and tells Mr. Gold to stop the party he is throwing for his birthday (Party crasher!) , but Mr. Gold says he won't and then shows off the Napoleon cards to everyone. He tells how Napoleon owned them and then brags about the French army (The invincible French army? Hah!) before continuing about how Napoleon used the cards to decide whether he should go on with the battle against Russia. But before Napoleon could read them a gust of wind came and blew them all away, taking their good luck with them and leading to Napoleons defeat and later his death. So, whoever gets the cards will get a lot of good luck and fortune.
The lights go out and Lupin's laugh is heard. Actually, it's the other way around... Anyway, he says he has already taken the cards and left fakes. Zenigata then dives head first into a giant cake (Oh my god fun!!) to find a recorder. Mr. Gold is tricked to take out his cards, which are then vacuumed away. (I like how all the cards fits perfectly into that narrow slot.) Lupin jumps up way too high to a window and breaks in, doing some weird flip thing to a higher ledge where he inflates a Lupin (in an Arsene Lupin outfit) balloon and lets it go. (He has the goofiest look on his face as he waves to the balloon.)
Fujiko winds up with the deck (after doing absolutely no work to get them) and tells how Joker came to her to tell her that the Napoleon cards would be in her hands soon. (I vote she was on drugs and that there was no Joker.)
A girl delivers flowers wherever it is they are staying, Jigen answering and taking them. The flowers then explode and Jigen winds up in the hospital. A nurse comes to his room, but is there to kill Lupin, not getting far as she is quickly killed by Goemon. Lupin, Fujiko and Goemon wheel Jigen out of the room and are attacked by two more people, both of who are quickly killed as well. They go on the elevator and then leave, Lupin coming out wheeling a casket, telling the front guards some sob story about a girl dying and her supposedly marrying him in the spring. Saddened, the guards let him leave.
Zenigata then gets creepy, just knowing he'll catch Lupin.
Lupin and the others are then driving, oil getting spread on the road and the car sliding into the back of a semi. Goemon makes himself useful and cuts the trailer in half. Zenigata appears, of course smoking a cigarette and of course tossing it into the oil and catching it on fire, allowing Lupin to escape.
Still being followed, they decide to split up, all planning to meet in the mountains.
Fujiko and Jigen are in some building that Zenigata and his officers have surrounded.
Fujiko starts looking at the cards and finds a small transmitter in one of them, Jigen taking and burning it.
Mr. Gold takes over and orders the cops to storm the building. (Why does one cop have an axe?) Tear gas is shot through the windows while Lupin and Goemon watch in the distance.
Goemon, not liking the fact that Lupin isn't helping Jigen and Fujiko, leaves.
The cops finally storm the building and Jigen takes out like fifty guys with just his hands and feet. (Come on, please...) Lupin is going on with his odd plan while the cops keep coming in, cornering Jigen and Fujiko and getting ready to kill them when Goemon comes in and saves the day. (Yay!)
Lupin winds up helping them all escape, thanks to the plan he stuck to Goemon's back. (Fujiko yells out "Goemon! You're alive!" Was he ever in danger of being killed?) The three glide away on a giant kite-like thing and as they are Joker thanks Fujiko for taking the cards from Mr. Gold (or "a sleeze", as he calls him) and the cards fly away.
I liked this exchange between Jigen and Fujiko while they were in the building: Jigen: We're like a mouse in a bag. This is why I said I didn't want to run with a woman. Fujiko: How long are you going to say the same thing? It's so unmanly of you.
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