You're a poisoner, Dio Brando.
I have all the proof I require and then some.
He has found his proof, so be it.
This moment has been a long time coming, JoJo.
Now, I'll finish what I started.
CHAPTER 3: YOUTH WITH DIO
I tracked down the antidote.
Father took it moments ago.
Dio, this pains me greatly.
For years, you were my brother,
and now, I have no recourse but to turn you in.
I'm sorry, really.
I'm sure you don't believe a word of it, but I'm telling you the truth.
Even now, you show sympathy.
JoJo, I've been a devil, but grant me this one wish.
Allow me to do the right thing for once in my life and turn myself in.
What's this? I thought once I confronted him,
he'd fight me tooth and nail like a cornered beast.
JoJo.
You should be dead in a gutter right now.
I must distract him long enough
for the knife and mask to find their mark.
My wicked deeds wore me away.
The poverty I knew as a child ate away my moral compass
until greed was all that remained.
I'm the lowest of the low.
Your father took me in off the street, and I repaid his kindness with poison.
The only reason I came back was to surrender myself.
If I'd wanted to flee, you never would've laid eyes on me again.
I see your point.
Please allow me to make amends.
-Dio. -Look alive, Master Joestar.
He's trying to lure you in, like as not.
Right now, you're probably wondering who I am.
Allow me to explain you.
The name is Robert E.O. Speedwagon.
I had a feeling Jonathan's run of trouble might not be done,
so I followed him back home.
I like you, Jonathan,
so I'm gonna offer up this little tidbit pro bono.
Living in the gutter, you learn to spot lowlifes pretty quick,
if you want to see tomorrow.
I've trained my nose to sort out the bad ones from the good
just from a sniff.
This fella reeks of brimstone and blood,
worse than anyone I've ever laid eyes on!
He is pure evil, right down to his very bones!
Is he a victim of situation, you're wondering?
Not on your life! He's been evil since he drew his first breath.
But don't you worry, 'cause I brought you a friend.
Remember him?
This man confessed to selling you the poison you used on your father.
I've heard enough.
You break my heart.
Why, Dio?
From the day you arrived, I've loved you as though you were my own son.
Father, you're too weak to be down here.
You're right. I'll return to my chamber.
I don't want to see my boy in chains. Do what you must, JoJo.
I will.
Is this how it all ends?
He won't see the inside of a cell this night.
I read his face and the trio of moles on his ear.
The devil smiles on him and grants him luck.
JoJo, I want you to be the one to put the cuffs on me.
Please, brother.
All right.
Be careful. He's a cunning one.
JoJo, it was hubris that led me to this embarrassing end.
This fall from grace has taught me well.
However one may scheme and dissemble,
my downfall this night is part of the human condition.
A condition I now quit.
Wait, quit? What do you mean?
You see, I am about to become so much more!
Help me shed this mortal skin.
Mother's mask. But how?
-Watch out. -Fire at will, men.
JoJo, your blood is the key!
Oh, my God!
Father!
Shoot that maniac!
JoJo.
Father.
This is all my fault. I should've blocked his knife.
The mask, when I saw it, I froze up.
And you paid the price.
Take this ring.
It was your mother's, JoJo.
Father. Damn it.
Ain't a doctor on earth who can fix that? How'd that devil get the drop on us?
It's all my fault.
If only I hadn't listened to you, Sir Joestar.
If I had run his father out of town, years ago,
like I intended, none of this would have taken place.
Hold on. Whose father?
Back when I first joined the force, there was a ne'er-do-well
who tried to pawn that very ring you now see on Joestar's finger.
The suspect was Dio's birth father, Dario Brando.
This is indeed my ring.
My late wife and I had them made to celebrate our engagement.
A local pickpocket by the name of Dario Brando was trying to sell it.
Can it be?
Sir Joestar thought he owed his life to Dario, but he was sadly mistaken.
Dario hadn't scrambled down to the damage carriage
that fateful night to look for survivors, but to root for ill-gotten riches.
Huh? You stay back.
This man, what has he said, Inspector?
Did he ever tell you that I gave him the ring?
Aye. He swore up and down. You filthy liar.
He swore with good reason.
I gave him the ring, just as he told you.
You've got to be kidding!
He is innocent.
Let him go at once, Inspector.
But, sir, this man stole from you.
But for destiny's hand in my life, I might as well have done the same.
Sell this ring, if you may ease your family's burden by it.
Walk an honest path henceforth, and I give it gladly.
He knew he didn't owe Dario a damn thing, and he took Dio in all the same.
Father, hang on.
The doctor is on his way now.
JoJo, don't hate Dio for what he's done.
I am to blame for this.
I was hard on you, because you are a Joestar.
I went too easy on Dio, and he might have felt I didn't care.
Perhaps he did this to get a father's love.
Please, see that he's buried next to Dario.
Father.
Don't look so sad, JoJo. Where better to die
than in the arms of my son?
-Sir Joestar! -Sir Joestar!
We have lost much this night.
A noble man's soul has been taken from the world.
You're wrong!
All that was good in that man,
he passed it along to Jonathan, every bit of it!
You can be sure. JoJo's gonna live an upright life,
using what his father gave him.
Rich folks are rubbish. Watching 'em flounce around,
I wanna throw the whole lot of them into the Thames,
but not the Joestars.
They're heroic and merciful and just.
The whole damn lot are giants among men.
What the hell? The body!
Dio's corpse, it-- it vanished.
Oi, copper! Away from the window!
JoJo.
The inspector.
No, that's impossible! How's he alive?
He can't be. We all filled him full of bullets.
Keep your distance, lads. He's armed with something.
Was it the mask?
He's coming right at us!
What are you waiting for? Hit him with everything you've got!
Come no closer.
Not another step! I mean it.
Blow his brains out now! Do it before he kills us all!
Shot him in the head, and it didn't even slow him down.
It doesn't make any sense.
With all the lead we put him, he should be worm food by now.
How can this be?
JoJo,
I should thank you for the source of my newfound power,
your father's blood and the ancient mask.
He takes his very life. But how is that possible?
Dio, you villain...
what sort of monster have you become?
How did this happen? Think, JoJo, think.
The knife, father, blood, Dio, the mask,
my notes, the brain, unknown abilities, unknown strength.
There is nothing human left of you, Dio!
Father.
Don't do it, JoJo! You haven't got a chance in hell.
I've never seen anything like this, lad.
He broke those coppers to pieces like they was bleedin' twigs.
I know.
Honestly, I'm terrified.
All the same, I can't let Dio kill anyone else.
This demon must be destroyed!
Please, JoJo, I beg of you. He'll tear you apart!
That's it. According to my research on the mask,
it was well known to unlock the brain's hidden potential.
To defeat Dio, all I have to do is...
-This one's alive. -Your blood,
it smells so delicious.
Now I'm going to turn you inside out.
He was my brother. Look at him now.
Father, please lend me the strength to do what I must.
Courage, JoJo. Dio is powerful, but you know how to end him.
And you must end him!
Watch out!
It's over. I'm not going to let you kill anyone else, Dio!
He caught the soddin' spear,
right through the hand, and he don't even shake.
No way. The hole from where I shot him in the head, it's healed up.
That spear ain't gonna hurt him. He's immortal.
You're such a weakling, JoJo.
On your feet, insect.
I've yet to gauge the full extent of my new powers,
so let's play a little longer, shall we?
I trust you'll be long since dead by the time I figure them out.
Hiding, are we?
You were a fool to attack me.
I have disowned my weakness in favor of life everlasting.
You're behind the curtain, like Polonius.
And, like Polonius, it is there that you shall meet your end.
No one's immortal, not even you.
He's able to heal faster than the flames can hurt him.
If that ain't immortality, than I'm the queen.
Fire hurts him, but not enough.
JoJo! What are you doing?
Just get to safety, Speedwagon.
If Dio wants a fight, I mean to give him one.
What are you doing? Are you mad?
The flames are gonna box you in up there.
JoJo, you brave fool, I hope to hell you've got a plan.
I'm waiting for you, Dio.
Know this, it ends here.
I will not allow you to leave this mansion alive.
No, that's insane!
Luring me away from the gutter rat?
How very noble of you.
No matter.
I'll drain you dry,
and your blood will help me mend from this little adventure.
You climb the wall in vain, JoJo.
In your haste to flee from me, all you have done is guaranteed your doom.
You will be consumed tonight, by the inferno below or by me.
Father.
Father, rest in peace.
Let the rising smoke guide your soul to heaven. But first, please,
lend me your aid one final time.
Let the fire burn with your strength.
What does he mean to accomplish up there?
No, that's crazy! You're throwing your life away!
Don't do it! Don't do it, JoJo!
Any moment now.
Useless. You fight as though you want to die.
In that moment, JoJo's short life flashed before his eyes.
My lonely youth.
My time with Dio.
You did me wrong time and again, so now I'll settle the score.
The longer the fire burns, the hotter it gets, and JoJo knows it.
He wants to use the mansion as a funeral pyre
and burn the devil faster than he can restore himself.
And now that the house is hot enough, he's gonna knock him back in.
JoJo!
How dare you lay your hands on me, you insect?
The only home I've ever known will be in ashes before the dawn.
Father is dead, and I am alone.
I have nothing left to lose, but my life itself.
We go to the flames together, Dio!
I'll gladly die if it means an end to your evil!
Die for nothing, fool!
All I lose by your sacrifice is the blood I would've taken.
Blacken and burn among the bones of your damnable father, JoJo!
I am a god in all but name.
With the powers at my command, I will rule this world.
Thank you, brother, for this great blessing.
Damn it.
Dio! I'm not done with you!
Why don't you die already?
There's no escape, Dio. You brought this doom upon yourself.
This is the knife you used to kill my father!
So as you did to the man who raised us both, I now do unto you!
I've crushed his arm bones to splinters, and he's already burning,
but his grip on me is still that of a vise.
So be it, JoJo. Consign us both unto the flames.
But perish knowing I will survive this moment.
For everything you have done, even this inferno cannot destroy me!
Father! Lend me your power!
His desperate cry echoed in the night.
Whether urged on by his departed father,
or heeding an instinct borne of a long familiarity
with the home which burned around him. He kicked...
and that put them right in line with...
What the--
...the statue of the Joestar family's guardian angel.
How could a worm like you--
I-- I forgot who I was dealing with.
Bloody his nose, and he comes back twice as fierce.
JoJo!
I had such plans for this world.
Such plans...
JoJo.
It's over.
You're alive.
You lucky bastard.
He did it.
JoJo bested him!
There it is.
NEXT EPISODE
Courage is to look your fear in the eye.
Dio's evil, yeah, but this guy is far worse.
Prepare for the carnage!
Who do I look like?
I beg of you, teach me how to wield it.
CHAPTER 4: OVERDRIVE