'''"Electric Pigeon Tactics"'''[[note]]電撃ハトポッポ作戦 (''Dengeki Hatapoppo Sakusen'')[[/note]], released in English as '''"Fry Me To the Moon"'''. Released in 2004 by Geneon on ''Volume 5: Mission Irresistible''.

A drive along a set of seaside cliffs turns treacherous for Lupin and Jigen when the brakes on Lupin's car suddenly give out. The car, Lupin, and Jigen go through a guardrail, but get caught in a nearby tree. Momentarily saved, they're not entirely in the clear because a man holding a chainsaw accompanied by Fujiko, holding a gun, are standing at the bottom. Lupin has apparently developed a secret levitation technique, and Fujiko wants to know how it's done; she cut the brake line on Lupin's car to force him into doing it. The man with the chainsaw introduces himself only as X-8; he's Fujiko's new boyfriend, and he finishes cutting down the tree, forcing Lupin, Jigen, and the car over the cliff. The car crashes and explodes, but Lupin and Jigen float down safely to the bottom... the levitation secret appears to be true! Except, after Lupin and Jigen flee the scene, they float over the water and out of sight to a nearby boat with Goemon. Goemon slices his sword in the air near Lupin and Jigen, and they splash down into the water, revealing some kind of trick.

Fujiko, X-8, and two mysterious men watch surveillance footage of the incident. One of the men, the Professor, theorizes that Lupin has somehow managed to harness his own body's electromagnetic field. Baron, a sinister syndicate crime boss orders the Professor to figure out how Lupin did it. He also offers fifty million francs to Fujiko if she can bring him the technology. She and X-8 leave and Zenigata enters the room afterward, revealing he also is in on the whole thing... but only so Fujiko can lead him to his longtime rival, Lupin. Baron presents the inspector with one more part of his plan: he has had two of his own men made up to be perfect doubles for Lupin and Jigen!

Later, in the foggy evening, Lupin and Jigen notice they're being pursued by two figures in black. The two thieves easily get the drop on their assailants, who happen to be Fujiko and X-8. They X-8 to a hidden sewer lair, where Lupin and Jigen begin to physically and mentally torture X-8 into revealing what he and Fujiko were after. Although he reveals he's supposed to get the levitation technique, he won't break on his boss. After further torture using his own mother's piano music box, he breaks free, using his chains as weapons to try and smash Lupin and Jigen. They managed to shock him one more time, just long enough to get away. Fujiko arrives soon after to help him get back to their hideout, unwittingly followed by Lupin and Jigen.

Fujiko tries to help X-8 recover, but the two of them find out that Lupin's torture has somehow permanently electrified him; uncontrollable and painful pulses of electric energy go through him, triggered by touch. The Professor tries to help him, but in attempting to bring the pulses under control, his lab is raided by Lupin, who kidnaps Fujiko. X-8 causes the lab to explode in fury before vowing to rescue his girlfriend. He retraces his path to the sewer hideout by following Fujiko's tortured screams. As he carefully helps her out of the sewers, Lupin and Jigen reveal themselves as the Baron's disguised men. Baron and Zenigata are also watching, Baron pleased his plan is going so well while Zenigata is obviously bothered by what he has watched the Baron put X-8 and Fujiko through.

The real Lupin and Jigen, however, are perfectly aware of what's going on... Lupin managed to tag X-8 and Fujiko with trackers as he fell off the cliff earlier, and so the gang have been following Baron's evil scheme the whole time. The real Lupin finds the sewer hideout, where he takes X-8's music box, figuring he can use it in a plan of his own.

Meanwhile, back at his mansion, Baron wants Zenigata to toast to their victory as the Professor tinkers with the music box piano, but Zenigata shows severe reluctance to celebrate, admitting he's only working with Baron and his syndicate because he's following orders. The celebration is interrupted by X-8 reporting he has managed to capture Jigen. As the Baron and Zenigata rush out to meet X-8, the Professor reveals himself as Lupin in disguise, who takes the opportunity to steal the masks of Jigen and himself used earlier. On the roof, Goemon meets him with a stolen helicopter, and the two rush off to rescue Jigen.

On a shipwreck-strewn beach, X-8 is using the torture device on Jigen. He is interrupted by Lupin, who shoots the gun out of his hand and presents him with the Baron's masks as proof of the scheme. X-8 doesn't believe him at first, but then Lupin levitates in X-8's music box, which the thief repaired as a sign of good faith. X-8 runs off with the piano in a rage, and Fujiko comes out of hiding out from a nearby wreck, holding a gun and demanding the secret to the levitation trick that started the whole thing. Lupin gleefully reveals his "levitation" is nothing more than specially-made transparent balloons. Zenigata tries to burst in at this point, but Lupin kicks sand in his face and makes a run in a one of the wrecks with help from Goemon, who rescues Jigen on the way. As the gang escapes, Zenigata clings to the wreck, but he is dismayed to see Lupin and his gang float off the wreck in two of Lupin's special balloons.

Escape is thwarted when Fujiko, in the same balloon, examines the device that Lupin has. She decides to steals it, popping the balloon she and Lupin are currently in, and then makes herself another one as Lupin falls to the ground, where Zenigata waits with eager arms to catch him...

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!!This episode features examples of:

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Lupin and Jigen have set up their hideout in one of these, where they can get information out of X-8 and Fujiko undisturbed.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Lupin and Jigen shock X-8 with a special sound device, threaten to smash his childhood toy piano, and then hook said piano up to the device to torture him further.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As X-8 yells at his "babydoll" Fujiko to hurry up and threatens to cut down the tree, Lupin shouts in protest, "Hey, wait a minute... he can't call you babydoll!"
* CrazyJealousGuy: As X-8 rescues Fujiko, they are being unknowingly tracked by Lupin, who laments as he watches on the tracker monitor, "His dot and her dot look like one big happy dot!"
* AHandfulForAnEye: Lupin kicks sand into Zenigata's face so he is blinded long enough for the gang to make their getaway via shipwreck.
* LatexPerfection:
** The Baron's thugs for Lupin and Jigen, so they make X-8 think the two thieves are behind his and Fujiko's torture, but then Lupin steals the masks to reveal the truth to X-8.
** Lupin also uses it himself to look like the Professor and get into the Baron's mansion.
* LighterAndSofter: The original manga story, titled "Blood Rage," is a lot more ugly than the episode it inspired. Rather than the Baron, the villains are the police, who want to enrage X-8 enough to make him target Lupin. With Zenigata himself disguised as Lupin this time, he tortures the man not by merely threatening a childhood music box, but by instead ''electrocuting his young son and raping Fujiko''. Thankfully, the son was a dummy and Fujiko was a member of the police task force in on the act, but it is some dark, dark stuff.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Baron engineers this against X-8 by getting to him via his girlfriend Fujiko, and the only remaining memento he has of his mother.
* MementoMacGuffin: X-8's music box piano, which belonged to his mother. It's never explained why it's so important to him, but the threat of destroying it is enough to force him to give a confession.
* TheNicknamer: Lupin (both the fake and the real one) keep calling X-8 "Buddy 8" and "Idiot 8" in the Japanese version.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lupin and Jigen's cold-blooded torture of X-8 and Fujiko is a dead giveaway that the two are not the real thing; they're Baron's fakes.
* ShoutOut: In the English dub, when Lupin protests Fujiko dating X-8, she replies by soffing "Why would I want my children to grow up looking like Literature/CuriousGeorge?"
* ShaggyDogStory: The end of the episode leaves the secret of Lupin's levitation revealed and in the hands of Fujiko and Lupin about to fall into Zenigata's grasp, which he will inevitably escape from off-screen. Far more ambiguous is X-8's final fate... does he get his revenge on Baron?
* VehicularSabotage: Fujiko cuts the brakes on Lupin's car to try and force him into displaying his levitation technique.