Paul St. Peter: Mamo (2003 Pioneer dub)
Quotes
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Mamo : Obviously, eternal life would be wasted on a vulgarian like that man there.
Arsene Lupin III : That's not true. I eat meat!
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Mamo : I see you personify the type of genius that's incapable of rational thought.
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Mamo : You know, you're a very rational fellow, Lupin... which of course makes you absurd.
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Mamo : The process has its limitations.
Fujiko Mine : Limits?
[Over in a hallway, Lupin talks to a dying older Mamo clone]
Mamo : The transfer of the chromosomal data is never accomplished with complete fidelity. There are... anomalies, infinitesimally small in each case, but the cumulative effect of such - chaotic - pollution... can be observed after only a dozen or so generations, and what you see before you is a 130th generation facsimile. I am but a faint, distorted echo of myself.
Arsene Lupin III : But you were always distorted by your obsession.
Mamo : But is it not... everyone's obsession?
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[Mamo seems to walk on thin air]
Mamo : Something the matter, Mr. Lupin?
Arsene Lupin III : Uh...
Mamo : No?
[Lupin gingerly tests the thin air and finds it's re-inforced glass underneath]
Mamo : Well, come along, then.
[Lupin edges onto the glass and laughs]
Arsene Lupin III : I was giving you more credit than you deserve.
[He suddenly falls through the air and lands on the ground]
Arsene Lupin III : Aw, me and my big mouth.
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[Lupin, strapped to a cross-shaped medical table, yells as a helmet-like object descends towards him. It's placed on his head, and Lupin instantly faints]
Fujiko Mine : Mamo, what are you doing? What is that thing?
Mamo : Actually, it reveals to us the subject's ongoing subconscious thoughts. You know the words. It's a window into the soul of this man whom you esteem so highly.
[He pushes some buttons and images come up on the screen of naked breasts, and Zenigata in a pinup pose]
Inspector Zenigata (2003 Pioneer dub) : [in Lupin's subconscious] Lupin, I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna get ya!
[More images show, of Lupin eating Telepach pop rocks, of a naked Fujiko floating across the screen and of the male symbol inserting its arrow through the female symbol. Fujiko gasps]
Fujiko Mine : Lupin!
Mamo : Prince Charming, indeed. He has the soul of a shallow, dirty-minded little cretin. Now let's proceed to the deepest core of his subconscious. To his dreams, which are the very seat of a man's soul.
[He finds only a black void on the screen]
Mamo : Impossible. It can't be!
Fujiko Mine : What is it? What's happening?
Mamo : He doesn't appear to dream. There's nothing in there! Oh, no! It's just a void!
Fujiko Mine : Is that a problem?
Mamo : It's the mental characteristic of either a complete idiot... or a god!
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Mamo : Cloning was my entree to godhood.
Arsene Lupin III : Are you saying I owe my very existence to you?
Mamo : Lupin, you're nothing but a random byproduct of my whim. And yet, being an idiot has its advantages. A smarter man than you might be tempted to wonder what really happened last spring. Was it the copy that was executed... or the original?
Arsene Lupin III : Why, you son of a bitch! I know who the hell I am!
Mamo : You see, it's a philosophical riddle.
[He disappears, cackling]
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Mamo : You are so brave. Very well. If that's what you want, I'll grant you a hero's death. And since I'm feeling magnanimous, I'll even reveal to you, that it was your clone who died last spring! Now, rest in peace!
[laughing maniacally, he sends beams of lasers to home in on Lupin. Lupin holds up the tip of the Zantetsuken and deflects the beams back at Mamo]
Arsene Lupin III : [in thought] Thanks, Goemon... wherever you are.
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Mamo : Mr. Lupin likes his games, I see.
Fujiko Mine : What?
Mamo : The jewel he passed along to you is a fake.
[Fujiko gasps]
Mamo : And now he'll learn the price of trifling with Mamo.
Fujiko Mine : Mamo?
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[Lupin climbs a staircase and sees a figure with long white hair, wearing a purple suit, sitting at a harp and playing it]
Arsene Lupin III : Are you the hospital director, or just another one of the inmates?
Mamo : You seem to be under the misapprehension that this is some sort of an asylum for the insane. I assure you nothing could be further from the truth, Mr. Lupin.
[the figure turns around and reveals his grey, ghoulish face]
Arsene Lupin III : [gaping, horrified] Uh...
Mamo : Yes, I am Mamo. I've obtained the Philosopher's Stone now.
Arsene Lupin III : [confused] You're the big scary bad guy?
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Mamo : Well done, Lupin. For an idiot, you really are quite a savant.
