The Mystery of Mamo1978

[Mamaux shows Lupin and Margo surveillance footage of Dan Dunn and Samurai]

Mamaux:
[chuckling] I believe your friends have arrived.

Lupin:
Oh, it’s them!

Mamaux:
And one more person…

[Detective Scott, with a picture of Lupin, is shown questioning Laozi of his location]

Lupin:
Even the old shamus! [laughs] This is getting crazier and crazier!

Mamaux:
The man who’s entertaining him right now is an ancient Chinese philosopher.

Lupin:
You mean he’s paranoiac and thinks he is…

Mamaux:
No, he’s the real one!

Lupin:
You mean a real nut?

[Mamaux shows them images of the people he has cloned]

Mamaux:
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.

Lupin:
[apparently deep in thought] Now I get it. So that's it... [chuckles, then laughs hysterically]

Mamaux:
What's so funny?!

Lupin:
[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!

Mamaux:
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]

Mamaux:
Margo, it will only be you who will have eternal life.

Margo:
Well, if I can't be with Lupin, then I don't want it.

Mamaux:
Margo!

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.