Episode
Future Boy Conan: Industria
Overview
After the Barracuda arrives in Industria, Conan is thrown in the brig after he assaults Monsley who was visiting the ship. Lepka, the self-serving chief administrator of Industria's High Committee, tries to threaten Lana into telling him where her grandfather is. Monsley decides to take Conan in for "re-education". When the soldiers come to take him, Conan escapes and, after a rough flight through the bowels of Industria, eventually finds Lana.
Details
- Series
- Future Boy Conan
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1978-05-09
- Runtime
- 29 min
Episode context
Industria is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Future Boy Conan. It aired on 1978-05-09. The runtime is 29 min.
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Episode 4: The Barracuda
Jimsy and Conan sneak onto the ship, but Jimsy gets drunk and alerts the captain of their presence. After the boys are caught, Captain Dice lets Conan and Jimsy stay on the ship if they will take punishment. Jimsy passes out and Conan takes both their beatings. They work on the ship doing random jobs. Finally, the ship sets sail for Industria.
Episode 6: Dyce's Rebellion
While making their escape, Conan and Lana come upon a plane from the last war that Lepka wants to power with Dr. Lao's solar energy process for his plans of world conquest. They are captured, and Lepka threatens to hurt Conan if Lana doesn't tell him where her grandfather is, but she refuses. Upon witnessing Lepka's viciousness, Dyce decides to help Lana. Dyce and his crew kidnap Lana and make their escape on the Barracuda.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: The First Friend
Conan arrives at an island where a wild boy, Jimsy, lives. After an initial fight, Conan develops a good friendship with Jimsy. The Baracuda comes to the same island, getting the inhabitants to salvage for plastic. After Conan finds out the Barracuda is from Industria, he and Jimsy plan to stow away aboard the ship.
Episode 7: Chase
Dyce escapes in the fog. Lepka gets permission to use the gunboat and Falco to pursue Dyce. Conan escapes from jail and sneaks onto the Falco. Jimsy informs Lana that he is a companion of Conan. Dyce meets with Lana and when she gets angry that he left Conan he opens the window and threatens to throw her out. The Falco sees the light and follows the Barracuda. Conan escapes and attempts to board the Barracuda.
Episode 2: The Journey
After Lana is kidnapped by the two soldiers from Industria, Conan fails to rescue her. Conan's grandfather dies from his injuries. After burying his grandfather, Conan builds a boat and sets off to rescue Lana.
Episode 8: Escape
Lana escapes and uses a lifeboat to save Conan. The gunboat boards the Barracuda and captures Dyce and his crew. Lana and Conan escape on the lifeboat. While trying to make it to the shore, the gunboat blows up the lifeboat, but Conan and Lana survive and make it to the nearby island, where they discover an old battlefield littered with tanks. Lana hears her grandfather by telepathy, and Conan and Lana set out to cross the desert.
Episode 1: Remnant Island
On Remnant Island, a tiny surviving enclave of humanity on the devastated Earth, Conan lives alone with his grandfather until a young girl, Lana, washes up on the shore. Two soldiers of Industria land their hydroplane and kidnap Lana. While threatening the intruders with a missile, Conan's grandfather is mortally injured when one of the soldiers opens fire on him, detonating the launcher.
Episode 9: The Salvage Ship
After crossing the desert, Lana and Conan are discovered by a man named Patch, who works at an Industrian salvage platform where a passenger ship is about to be uplifted from the seabed. After proving his diving skills to Patch, Conan and Lana are set to work. Terit, an ambitious worker on the platform who longs to be elevated to a higher grade of citizenship in Industria, tries to identify them. He sneaks onto the Falco, which stopped by, and informs Monsley that Conan and Lana are there.
Episode 10: Dr. Lao
Terit returns to Industria and is given a radio to inform Lepka when Lana meets her grandfather. However, an earthquake hits the desert island; Patch goes down and gets trapped beneath the ship, and Conan rescues him. When Patch is revealed to be Dr. Lao, Terit informs Industria of Dr. Lao's presence; but another tremor causes the beach near the salvaging platform to sink into the ocean, and the platform begins to float out to sea. Knowing that Industria will send forces to capture them, Lao, Conan, and Lana escape in a small lifeboat.
Episode 11: Flight
Returning to the desert island, Conan, Lana and Dr. Lao recover the flying machine Lao used to escape from Industria, but they need to return there to fix it completely. While flying to the city, they find and rescue Dyce, who was left to die in the desert for his act of rebellion. The Falco arrives and attacks, but Conan tricks the crew into crashing their plane. When another earthquake occurs, Lao begins to surmise that the Earth's crust is breaking up, heralding yet another cataclysm. Following their arrival, Conan and Dyce go to rescue the crew and retake the Barracuda, while Lao and Lana infiltrate the Triangle Tower. However, Monsley has had time to inform Lepka that Lao is back in Industria.
Episode 12: Core Block
Lana and Lao descend to the Triangle Tower's Core Block to acquire the IC chip they need to repair their flyer. While Dyce and his crew - minus Jimsy, who refuses to abandon Conan - turn tail, Conan frees some prisoners who have rebelled against Lepka, and together they search for Lao. Luke, the leader of the prisoners, leads Conan and Jimsy to the Core Block, but Lepka and his soldiers arrive there as well. With the help of the ex-prisoners, Conan's group escapes the Core Block and heads to High Harbor, with Dyce and his crew joining them along the way.
Episode 13: High Harbor
Lao drops the children off on the Baracuda and heads back to Industria in order to aid its citizens against the impending cataclysm. The Barracuda proceeds to High Harbor, where the local residents initially meet the ship with hostility until Lana is able to explain that the crew has joined their side now. While the Barracuda crew is allowed to disembark from their damaged ship, Lana gives Conan and Jimsy a tour of the island, thereby encountering Orlo, the overjoyous villagers and Lana's aunt and uncle. After hearing her story, Conan and Jimsy are allowed to stay.