The Goat Bills
- The Goat Bills are such great forgeries that they can fool almost anybody. But Lupin and Jigen just throw them away? And why was Lupin so excited when he learned that Fujiko had the plates, allowing her to make more? He doesn't want them, he tossed out a car-full of the things.
- Fridge Brilliance: For Lupin, there's no fun stealing fakes. He is better than that. As for MAKING fakes...
- Lupin is shown, multiple times through the franchise's lifetime, to have more money than most small nations, and owns literally an entire town to keep his horde safe (complete with entire families of "employees" who get to live there for free just to watch his stuff). Part of this is stuff he inherited from his grandfather, but the bulk is stuff he's stolen himself. Lupin steals for the fun & prestige, and there's no prestige in stealing a fake.
- Another possibility is that, Lupin might've figured the plates themselves might have value... or he might've wanted to keep them stashed away specifically to prevent the Goat/Gothic Bills from ever returning to print. Or he was just trying to flirt with Fujiko and only pretended to care about the plates. Really if he wanted them, he had a chance when he and Zenigata were down there in the printing press.
- Something similar to this actually comes up in a Red Jacket episode where NASA invents a dirt-cheap method of synthesizing diamonds; When Fujiko starts cooing over a diamond the size of a grapefruit, Lupin coyly asks if she'd like it as much if its resale value was, say, five bucks.
Fujiko in Army Camo
- Why does Fujiko feel the need to pull off her pink dress to reveal a camouflage outfit while on live TV? (Apart from Rule of Funny, of course.)
- They were broadcasting in the middle of an ongoing gun battle. She even draws a pistol from her cleavage and caps one of Cagliostro's goons with it, when he tries to take them off the air. After a brief cutaway scene, she cracks another goon with a wrench. The dress would've been in the way, so she ditched it.
The Risky Treasure-Revealing Mechanism
- Since there's a mechanism to uncover the ruins, obviously they were meant to be uncovered at some point. Sooo...why does uncovering them require you to put yourself in the way of the man-squishing clock hands, with no clear way to escape?
- There probably was a safe way to open the flood gate. Lupin even told Cagliostro that he'd tell him how to use them when he offered to exchange the rings for Clarisse's safety. Cagliostro screwed himself because all that mattered to him, was knowing what the rings were for and where to insert them. Once he knew that, he figured he no longer needed Lupin. Had he taken the offer and allowed Clarisse back inside, Lupin might have divulged how to reveal the treasure safely.
The Count's marriage
- If all the Count needed was Clarisse's ring, why on Earth did he need to marry her?
- All the Count had to go on was a vague statement about the two houses being reunited. He knew the rings were a part of it, but he didn't know in what way.
