'''From the Ghost Ship With Love'''. Original air date: August 6, 1979.

The episode opens with Lupin breaking into a museum and stealing a strange idol. He escapes from the police by fleeing to an airport, where Fujiko is waiting with a get-away plane.
As they fly off, Lupin expresses confusion as to why Fujiko wanted such a weird treasure, to which she explains that the idol is a “Stonechild”, and is supposed to bring happiness to those who have it.
Suddenly the plane’s mechanics start to fail and the couple realise they must have wandered into the Bermuda Triangle. The plane crashes into the ocean, and Fujiko and Lupin are left sat on the wreckage.

A mysterious ghostly vessel appears through the mist, and Lupin decides to go on board to invesigate, leaving a scared Fujiko behind. While the outside of the ship was derelict, the inside is much cleaner and mechanised, and Lupin wanders into a room that has a laid-out meal and a boiling teapot. Before he can investigate further, a trapdoor opens up, sending him tumbling into a room below and knocking him unconscious. Outside, Fujiko watches the ship sink beneath the waves.

Meanwhile, Inspector Zenigata asks Mr Heath, the head of a prominent cargo shipping company, for a destroyer vessel in order to subdue Lupin. Mr Heath expresses interest after the Inspector tells him Lupin has a Stonechild, as Mr Heath also has one of his own. Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko also decide to go after the ghost ship in a small submarine.

In the ghost ship, Lupin is tortured for information about the Stonechild. A young woman, named Jeanne, threatens him unless he tells her where the other Stonechild’s can be found. Lupin has no clue as he didn’t know there was more than one, but Jeanne doesn’t believe him and orders that he should be tortured more until he talks. Later, Lupin escapes the cell he has been left in and breaks into Jeanne’s room.
He agrees to help her out, mainly so he isn’t tortured again, and Jeanne explains that there are in fact three Stonechilds, the first belongs to her, the second was stolen by Lupin, and the location of the third idol is unknown. Years ago, her father was an archaeologist who discovered the Stonechild idols at Stonehenge. Supposedly, if the idols were arranged together at Stonehenge, they would reveal something amazing that could change the world. Unfortunately, her father was then murdered and the Stonechild’s were taken by his killer.

Their conversation is interrupted as the ship is bombarded with depth charges that have been sent by Mr Heath’s destroyer. The ghost ship surfaces and the crews of both vessels have a shoot-out. In the chaos, Heath runs off, but is confronted by Jeanne, who realises he is the owner of the third Stonechild and her father’s killer. At the same time, Jigen surfaces from the submarine to tell Lupin he has placed a bomb on the destroyer. Lupin grabs Jeanne before she can take revenge and they both jump into the sea. The destroyer blows up and Heath is incinerated in the blast. The only survivor is Inspector Zenigata, who floats away dejectedly on some wreckage.

The gang travel to Stonehenge and set up the three Stonechild’s in the correct places in time for sunrise. The rays of the sun hits the idols, sending a beam of light up into the sky. It summons a gigantic UFO which flies over the character’s heads as the episode ends.

!This episode features examples of:

* BizarroEpisode: The episode manages to combine the TheBermudaTriangle, a ghost ship and aliens into a singular storyline. See also GainaxEnding.
* CircleOfStandingStones: Stonehenge is implied to have been built in order to communicate with aliens, or was even built by aliens itself.
* EasilyForgiven: Jeanne purposely crashes Lupin's plane and brutally tortures him for hours, yet Lupin quickly brushes this off.
* FlyingSaucer: The alien ship is a brightly lit UFO. It's design was likely inspired by the UFO from ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
* GainaxEnding: The episode cuts to white just as the UFO has arrived on Earth. There isn't any explanation about what the UFO wants, and if it will change the world as Jeanne claims it will.
* TheBermudaTriangle: Jeanne's ghost ship sails around the Bermuda Triangle and uses jamming technology to crash planes.