Episode
Future Boy Conan: The Citizens Underground
Overview
Conan and Monsley crash into Industria and are captured. Under pursuit, Lana, Dyce, and Jimsy find a way into the underground barracks of Industria's lower-class citizenry. They eventually come across Luke and his friends, and learn from them that Dr. Lao managed to make a deal with the High Council to evacuate Industria, but they were all detained by Lepka, who subsequently appointed himself dictator. Monsley witnesses Lepka viciously torturing Lao and ruthlessly planning to flush Lana out of hiding by flooding the entire underground residential area. When she tries to persuade him to follow Dr. Lao's advice, but Lepka stubbornly refuses to follow a more peaceful path, Monsley openly turns against Lepka and helps Conan escape. But before she can accompany Conan, she gets shot, forcing Conan to leave her behind.
Details
- Series
- Future Boy Conan
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1978-09-19
- Runtime
- 29 min
Episode context
The Citizens Underground is Episode 21 in Season 1 of Future Boy Conan. It aired on 1978-09-19. The runtime is 29 min.
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Episode 20: To Industria Again
The village chief lets the soldiers join their community. Conan decides to return to Industria using an old seaplane left by Dr. Lao in the fish preserve cave. Together with Jimsy, Monsley, Lana as a last-minute joiner, and Dyce as a stowaway, Conan departs High Harbor; but just upon reaching Industria, the group encounters the restored Falcon. After letting Lana, Dyce, and Jimsy disembark, Conan and Monsley distract the Falcon by leading it away from their friends.
Episode 22: Rescue
Conan descends to the residential area to rescue Lana. After overhearing Lepka's intentions to flood the caverns, he attempts to defuse the bombs used to create the flooding breach, but is unsuccessful. Lana gives herself up to save the residents; but after she is back in his hands, Lepka seals the exit anyway, leaving the people to drown. When he takes Lana to her grandfather, however, he is forced to learn that Dr. Lao has gone numb and blind from his tortures, rendering further threats against him useless, so he tries to force Lana to contact him by threatening to plunge her off the Triangle Tower. In the meantime Conan rejoins Dyce and Jimsy, and they exit the caverns through a flooded earthquake fissure, where they rescue Monsley, who was about to be executed. They manage to open the main shutter to the caverns, and the residents storm the Triangle Tower.
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Episode 19: Giant Tsunami
With the gunboat gone, Monsley decides to repair the Barracuda and use it in its place, while Orlo's gang is sent out to find Conan. Conan and Gil plan to blow up the Barracuda; Dyce, while getting away from the Industrians, stumbles upon Lana in the fish preserve. When the island's animals begin to act strangely, Lana knows that another earthquake is about to happen, and rushes to warn the villagers. When Orlo stops her, Lana telepathically informs Conan that a tidal wave is coming. Conan warns everybody, and they all run to higher ground as the wave rushes in. With the Barracuda stranded atop the island's forest by the flood, the soldiers give up and the villagers win the war.
Episode 23: Solar Tower
Conan continues going up the tower to confront Lepka, who attempts to flee via a flying machine, with Lana as his hostage. Conan cripples the vessel and saves Lana, while Lepka apparently perishes aboard the crashing machine. While Dyce takes Monsley away for medical treatment and keeps her company, Lana wakes Dr. Lao, and together they and the High Council scientists work to complete the Solar Tower and activate the satellite. The link-up is successfully established, and Industria gains the power it needs to facilitate the evacuation program. After preparations are initiated, Lao uses the Triangle Tower's holographic park to explain to Conan, Lana and Jimsy that the old world's dream of unlimited power - an unattainable illusion - was responsible for the great catastrophe that devastated the Earth, and that humanity shall henceforth learn to live in harmony with nature again.
Episode 18: Gunboat
Conan saves Lana from Industria's soldiers but gets knocked out; Lana manages to hide him before she gets captured and taken aboard the gunboat. Industria occupies High Harbor, and Orlo is installed as a puppet governor. To deprive them of their only means of support, Conan and Gil, the only villager to escape, prepare to sink the gunboat with explosives. But after planting the charge, Conan learns that Lana is aboard and boards the vessel to retrieve her, but ends up captured. After tricking the crew into taking him out of his cell, the charge detonates, sinking the ship and allowing Conan to rescue Lana from her cell.
Episode 24: Gigant
As new earthquakes begin to herald Industria's incoming destruction, Lepka, who has survived the crash of his flyer, and a troop of loyalists secretly channel some solar power underground to charge up the Giganto, a giant warplane left over from the last war. When the power leak is discovered and cut, Lepka's forces covertly seize the control room and continue to divert power to the plane. Noticing the takeover, Lana and Monsley escape aboard the Falco to inform the others. Conan and his friends have just finished raising the sunken passenger ship when Lana and Monsley warn them about Lepka, and they return to Industria; but having completed recharging, the Giganto takes off. Conan's group attempts to stop it, but ends up crashing through the plane's surface. After pushing the Falco back out to enable Monsley and Lana to return to Industria, Conan, Jimsy and Dyce infiltrate the Giganto.
Episode 17: Battle
Conan and Jimsy, who have escaped Orlo's attempt on their lives, scout out the Industrian ship, while Lana warns the village about the incursion. Orlo's men try to fight the invaders but are defeated. After rescuing Tera, Conan, Jimsy and Dyce hurry to the village to help the villagers organize their defense. By landing on the wrong side of the island, Monsley has lost the element of surprise, but Orlo and his men switch sides for Industria, infiltrate High Harbor's defenses and betray them from within. Lana is knocked out by a cannon blast, and when Conan sees Jimsy's pet piglet, which was entrusted to Lana, arrive on its own, he immediately rushes to save her.
Episode 25: The End of Industria
Evading Lepka's attempts to eliminate them, Conan, Jimsy, and Dyce start inflicting critical damage to the Giganto. While Dyce and Jimsy eventually end up getting jettisoned inside the tail rudder, Conan confronts Lepka as he tries to get away in an escape pod. Despite Conan's attempt to save them, Lepka and the rest of his men are left to perish aboard the doomed Giganto. A week later, as the final stage of the cataclysm arrives, all the Industrians except the High Council mount the restored passenger ship and watch Industria sink into the sea.
Episode 16: Their Hut
Lana has a premonition about an Industrian attack on High Harbor, a message she is sure was sent by her grandfather. To ease her mind, Conan takes her to Tito's village, where Jimsy has become a pig herder, and he also shows her the treehouse they have erected to live in. Meanwhile, Orlo is visited by Dyce, who has tired of life on land and wants to set out to sea again. Dyce convinces Orlo to help fix the Barracuda, in return for Dyce helping to kill Conan and Jimsy. But at the very moment the deed is to be committed, Industrian troops under Monsley launch an attack against High Harbor.
Episode 26: Finale
On its way to High Harbor, the passenger ship recovers Conan, Dyce and Jimsy from the sea; and after asking Conan to look after Lana, Dr. Lao dies contently. Sometime later, the old and new inhabitants of High Harbor conduct a double celebration surrounding Dyce and Monsley's wedding and the relaunch of the Barracuda. Many of the new settlers, including Conan, Lana, Jimsy, Tera, Luke, Monsley and the Barracuda's crew, leave to establish a new colony on Remnant Island, now expanded by the cataclysm into a new continent.
Episode 15: Wasteland
As they reach the mountain, Conan and Jimsy are attacked and captured by Orlo's anarchist gang. They make a deal that Orlo will forget about his lost pig, if they can prove that they really brought it down by defeating another one of his boars. Using cleverness and teamwork, they succeed, and Jimsy decides to work for Orlo; but when Oslo's sister Tera tries to steal a goat from Tito, a herder from another village on the other side of the island, Jimsy quits. Just as matters begin to get ugly, Lana, who has noticed Conan and Jimsy's absence, arrives and gives a memento of her mother, a valuable necklace, to compensate for the lost pig.
Episode 14: A Day on the Island
Conan, Jimsy, and Lana go to Windmill Village, High Harbor's industrial district. After taking a brief tour, Conan and Jimsy decide they will go fishing and hunting to earn their daily bread. While fishing, Conan meets Mr. Gull, who takes care of the village fish preserve, and begins working for him. Jimsy meanwhile is chased by and kills a massive wild boar when they both fall over the edge of a cliff. He butchers and cooks the pig, and brings it back to the village for the people to eat. The victory is short-lived, however, since the pig was not wild but belonged to Orlo. After learning of this, Conan and Jimsy go to Orlo to take responsibility.