M Margo
[Lupin, hidden behind a pillar, presents a rose for Margo] [gasps]
Lupin? It's Lupin!
[melodramatic]
You're so beautiful, Margo!
M Margo
[chuckling]
Stop joking now, Lupin.
[walks out to her, wearing a formal dress suit]
You think I'm joking? The soft breeze of Paris must have melted my callous heart. [smells the rose] I thought I made myself extremely conspicuous tonight.
M Margo
[chuckling]
I can see that. You look very nice.
O, the fragrant flower! You are like a rose.
M Margo
How old-fashioned!
Even the pain of thy thorns gives great pleasure... to the love in my heart. O Margo!
M Margo
Enough of that stupid act. Let's get down to business now.
Can she be so hard?! [throws the rose away] You really do have a lot of thorns, don't you?
M Margo
I am in a hurry. Or perhaps, Lupin, you mean...
Don't be hasty. Look here...
M Margo
[Margo’s eyes widen as Lupin presents her the Wiseman Stone]
Ah, Lupin, you did it!
[Lupin yanks the Stone away from Margo]
Hold it! Ah-ah-ah! How come you got all enthusiastic so suddenly? Ah, life is a bore. How worthless and stupid it all is! Talking Dan Dunn into helping me, and going through all kinds of trouble to get it, and look at your attitude! Or maybe, Margo, you made some kind of a deal with somebody else for this? Well, the deal was not to ask you questions, but now you must keep your part of the deal and keep your date with me.
[Lupin finishes the dinner while Margo (Fujiko) sleeps]
Some fun! Some fun! After leading me into temptation like that! It's just too bad that I'm not Alain Delon! Oh, how disgusting. I didn't know that a girl like you was just all talk! [He finishes the food, then throws down the pan. He grabs a hatchet] I finished eating. Now's the time to appeal to my true violent nature. Here I come!
M Margo
[He slashes at the door and breaks it down. He looks at Margo with a lecherous expression and bounds in, then jumps out of his underwear. As he goes in for the landing, he finds himself getting hazy. He lands face down on the ground beside Margo, completely naked] [gently shaking him]
Lupin! Lupin, get up! [She realizes she can't wake him up and holds up the medicine bottle] I didn't know that drug was so effective. [Lupin lets out a stertorous exhale. Margo gets out a transmitter from her bra and turns it on] Lupin, I'm doing all this for your sake, you know.
Ah, it's time for us to have a little fun!
M Margo
No, wait, you! I've got something to tell you.
Come on, you don't mind, do you? The time is ripe.
M Margo
[enjoying it]
No!
M Margo
No! Someone help me...
[The two lovers don't realize they've ended up in Mamaux's throne room. Mamaux stares at them, outraged]
Oh, I don't think it's possible to behave now! [Margo tickles Lupin] Oh, that's ticklish! Oh, I've gotten to the point of no return, Margo! You've got to do something! [Margo knees him in the crotch] Do something, Margo, come on!
[finally at the end of his rope]
NOW, BOTH OF YOU STOP IT!
[Mamaux shows Lupin and Margo surveillance footage of Dan Dunn and Don Samurai] [chuckling]
I believe your friends have arrived.
[Detective Scott, with a picture of Lupin, is shown questioning Laozi of his location]
Even the old shamus! [laughs] This is getting crazier and crazier!
The man who's entertaining him right now is an ancient Chinese philosopher.
You mean he’s paranoiac and thinks he is...
[Mamaux shows them images of the people he has cloned]
Listen carefully. It took me 10,000 years to collect them. Politics, religion, philosophy, art. I preserved the most brilliant men in history from every field, and right now they still exist here. Have you ever thought about the end of the world? Well, here's a prophecy: in but a few more days, the world will come to an end. Only those chosen by me will live... for eternity. Only... beautiful and superior things can obtain eternal life from me.
[apparently deep in thought]
Now I get it. So that's it... [chuckles, then laughs hysterically]
[still chuckling]
Oh, very artistic and original drama! I give you credit! The gift of eternal life, followed by the destruction of the world! Oh, that's very good!
Ah, how ignorant and stubborn he is! You see what I mean, Margo? This man does not have the type of brain that should live throughout eternity.
[Margo is put off by Mamaux's statement]
Margo, it will only be you who will have eternal life.
M Margo
Well, if I can't be with Lupin, then I don't want it.
M Margo
Oh, I'd like to have eternal youth... but I don't want to stay around and see Lupin as a shrivelled-up old man.
M Margo
[referring to Mamaux's promise of eternal life]
Oh, terrible! Everything he said was a lie.
Not all of it. It's true that he's trying to find a way to avoid death.
Don't be stupid. You know that's impossible.
It's a scientific method used to make an exact copy of a human being. They only need a single hair; anyway, all they need is one cell to fiddle around with; to make a perfect look-alike. If you go on repeating that process, one man could go on living, forever and ever!
If what you say is true, then the one who was executed...
All you need is a single hair... to make a perfect look-alike...
So... even a clone has its limitations.
The transfer of chromosome information has not been exactly 100% complete. As you repeat the copying process, the image begins to fade... the endless clone chain reaction has been disturbing the cell system. For 130 generations, I have preserved my original body in all its exact detail by floating it in a special Ringer's Solution. Since then, my bodies have all been copies of a copy.
You mean that... you're an inferior quality Mamaux?
All this is for the sake of immortality... [dies]
