History Recap / LupinIIIS2E31

* CreatorInJoke: Creator/OhProduction inserts their name a few times in the episode, in particular on the license plate of Anita's car, and the cameras Lupin and Shirage use.

* KnifeNut: Both Anita and Latika know how to use a knife. Shirage the PsychoForHire also has an entie bandolier of throwing knives.

In Stockholm, a sleep-deprived Zenigata approaches a police car and asks for a place to take a nap, as he’s been unable to sleep properly due to the Midnight Sun’s light. As he tries to sleep, he explains to the agents that he’s after Lupin, who’s been spotted in the area, looking for something, and rambles about what he could be after. Unknown to him, Lupin, Jigen and Goemon passes nearby, as the thief explains his plan: during the Midnight Sun’s season two beautiful spy ladies named Latika and Yutika square off against each other in a duel to the death for the map of a secret treasure buried somewhere in the Swedish islands. As predicted by Lupin, the two girls engage in their ritual duel, first by plane, then on ground with guns and later knives. The two sisters are even, but as they clash for the last time Goemon interferes and disarms them. Lupin tries to talk some sense into the ladies, but they refuse and leave, ready to duel again another time, but they both failed to notice the tracking device Goemon planted on them both as they clashed.

Later, as Yutika is enjoying an evening at the local park she’s approached by Lupin: the thief informs her that he has decided to lend her a hand since her sister has hired the infamous killer Shirage. Yutika eventually accept Lupin’s help, while Latika encounters the white-haired Shirage in order to discuss the price of his service, mentioning that Yutika has likely employed Lupin for the same reason. Suddenly he hears something and throws his set of knives at the door, nearly nailing Jigen, who was eavesdropping. The gunman returns to the hideout, telling Lupin that he thinks Shirage is too dangerous to face, but the thief doesn’t seem worried the least. The following night, Yutika goes to a cabin in the woods where Lupin is waiting, while Latika encounters Shirage in a very similar cabin. Both men asks their respective lady to put on a special skin-tight bullet-proof suit, only to pull out a camera as they unrobe, revealing a strange mark on their backs. Lupin and Shirage take their pictures, revealing that they’re actually the same person in one room, divided in half by a special reflective membrane. With the pictures of the sisters’ backs taken, Lupin makes his getaway while Yutika and Latika are powerless. However, just outside the cabin they run into Fujiko, who’s in company of a mysterious man, and offers the two help in finding the treasure and end their pointless rivalry.

Thanks to the pictures Lupin took, now the trio can get his hand on Blemblatte’s treasure, reasoning that without the treasure the two sisters won’t have any reason to keep fighting. The following day the three thieves set off for the treasure island, but we also see Fujiko, along with Yutika, Latika and the bearded men, sailing the sea, not to mention Zenigata in a submarine (where he’s finally able to sleep peacefully, since it’s always dark); the two girls wear backless outfit, and soon the marks appear on their backs. However, said markings soon disappear and are replaced by two different markings, with the man taking pictures of them. The old man, who’s Georg himself, explains that the first markings are fakes, and the second ones are the real maps, only appearing for a short time after the first one. Now that it has been exposed, the map will never appear again, and Georg suggests splitting the treasure equally between the four of them, with the women agreeing.

* ClothingDamage: Yutika and Latika during their knife fight end up slicing a bit of each other's clothes.
* CrazyPrepared: Yutika has a hidden blade in the handle of her knife. Their father also made two differen "maps" on their back, the first to appear being fake.
* DuelToTheDeath: Yutika and Latika meets routinely to perform one using planes, then guns then knives, though so far, obviously enough, they failed to kill each other.

* KnifeNut: Both Latika and Yutika know how to use a knife. Shirage the PsychoForHire also has an entie bandolier of throwing knives.

* LivingMacGuffin: Yutika and Latika, due to the special maps drawn on their backs and visible only under certain conditions.

* PlotHole: It's not mentioned how Yutika and Latika's father, an old fisherman, could have found the money to afford the medical procedure to draw the maps on their backs, though it's implies that he used a small part of the treasure to afford the operation.

* SiblingRivalry: Between Yutika and Latika. Surprisingly enough, is Fujiko who helps them stop this feud.
* TakeThatKiss: Yutika and Latika blows several at Lupin's gang after having outsmarted them.