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A jewelry fair for all the states' finest jewelers is set up. The guys dig out underneath the jewelry store. They leave for the night, and outside the manhole is a kid claiming to be Lupin's son. Of course, he couldn't be, right? Around the corner, a girl appears, saying Lupin is her papa too. Even in their hideout, a baby in a basket is outside with the same letter from the mother. He starts to doubt himself, and Jigen and Goemon insist he would do something like this, but he really starts to believe it. Soon enough, Jigen and Goemon are approached by kids who claim to be their dads, too. It's a full house, so Lupin asks Fujiko to care for them. Fujiko declines; she plans to steal the jewels all on her own and doesn't want anything to get in her way. So the gang just has to steal the jewelry with the kids. Since they carved out underneath the building, they drop the floor and easily swipe all the jewelry before Fujiko can get to it, but since she's the only one left hanging, she's blamed for the robbery. Fujiko pleads at the police station that she was forced to steal them because of Lupin, but they present her with the bag she stole; they're all fakes. The jewelry owner, Mackey, requests his $8 million policy since all his jewelry was stolen. Meanwhile, the gang is back at their hideout, where Zenigata has tracked them. Zenigata is stumped to see them all with kids. Lupin tells the kids to go play outside while he deals with Zenigata. But he's in no mood to arrest them, feeling bad that he doesn't have a wife and kids; meanwhile, they all have families. They escape while he has his midlife crisis, only to find no sign of the jewelry or the kids. They conclude they were set up, meant to believe the kids were theirs, while the kids returned all the jewels back. As it turns out, Mackey had them return all his jewelry to him as well as getting the $8 million. That is until he's cut off when Goemon cuts the bridge he's on so Lupin can swipe all the money right from him.

I was expecting this episode to be pretty annoying with so many kids. I couldn't remember what I originally thought of the episode, I don't think it was negative, but I know it certainly wasn't this time. This is the most fun I've had with a part 3 episode in a while. The kids don't really do much, so you mainly see the reactions the guys all have to the kids showing up. It's really nice how compliant they are so it really doesn't interfere with the plot or become annoying. Granted, that was their job, so it makes sense. Still, I think that brought on a really fun spin to what would have been a standard episode.


The reactions the guys have to kids showing up are priceless. Lupin doubted himself, and Jigen and Goemon like, "Well, we saw this coming eventually," and I think we all did, too. What's funnier is when the kids show up for Jigen and Goemon. Jigen just falls out of his chair and asks for more coffee. It's great. There's so much catty banter between them in this episode, and that's something I've been dying for for a while.
Jigen also said Goemon looks good in drag. 🧍Hell yeah...

Zenigataaaaa my poor boy just want a family. He really was just straight up having a midlife crisis. I think I've already said this before, but I completely believe that Zenigata has the most father potential of them all. Which is weird because they even illuded to him having a wife/kid in like the 2nd episode of part 3, but we know how consistent that is. Anyway, yeah I don't have much faith at all in any of the other characters, except Zenigata. Well, as we see in Fuma Conspiracy, it's not completely unlikely.

Fujiko playing innocent certainly isn't unusual, but I feel like her whole act was a lot more played up in this episode, which made it more enjoyable to watch. She's also wearing the Cat's Eye outfit again like the last episode. I'm wondering if this is just a straight-up reference to it since Cat's Eye is another TMS property. The show was airing at the same time as Part 3, so it would definitely make a lot of sense to cross-promote. I mean, like, episode 3 of Cat's Eye had a villain named "Lupin's Bride." But this isn't the first time, anyway. Look at the crossover episode that Part 2 did with Rose of Versailles. Wouldn't it be CRAZY if Lupin and Cat's Eye ever did a crossover?!?!?!?






Their reactions are so good. The top one I love because Jigen's voice is so high pitched, I just find it very entertaining. But I love the second one for how ashamed Lupin looks LMAOO. The reactions in this episode were just amazing. And they changed the art style when that baby pulled up. They never get this dramatic, even for part 3. It seems like they had a lot of fun writing this episode.



VIVIAN IS LITERALLY DRESSED LIKE HELLO KITTY I CAN'T SHE'S SO CUTE



The unasyn waving Zenigata off as he has his midlife crisis. This scene is honestly one of my favorites for the episode.