Remnant Island (Episode)

**"Remnant Island"** is the first episode of Future Boy Conan. It was aired on April 4, 1978.

## Cast

* Conan
* Lana
* Grandpa
* Monsley
* Kuzu
* Narrator

## Plot

**Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.***
The story begins 20 years after the war of 2008. Conan and his grandpa are the only inhabitants of Remnant Island. Conan's grandpa and others crash-landed on Remnant Island during the war, and they had not seen any other human beings since then. Others had died since then leaving only Conan and Grandpa. Conan runs up to his grandpa and shows him a half-eaten fish he found in their fish preserve. It was the work of a White Nose, a great white shark that roamed the waters around Remnant Island. Conan decides that he has had enough and wants to challenge the White Nose. He dives into the sea and sure enough, the White Nose is just nearby. He provokes the White Nose and it chases after him. Armed with only his harpoon, Conan eludes White Nose by swimming among the submerged pre-war buildings. When he makes sure that the White Nose will chase after him no matter what, Conan heads towards a spot above which he had made a falling rock trap. The White Nose takes the bait and is instantly buried under a pile of rocks. Conan thinks that he finally got the White Nose, but when he tries to examine it more closely, the White Nose revives and chases after him with blood in its eyes. Conan swims for his life and takes refuge on top of a rock outcrop above water. This doesn't stop the White Nose, who leaps out of the water and attacks Conan with its razor-sharp dorsal fin. Conan blocks the attack with his harpoon, breaking it into two. Conan realizs he won't be able to block another attack with the broken harpoon, so he poises himself and when the White Nose jumps out of the water again Conan leaps into the air and plunges the harpoon right into the White Nose's heart. The White Nose and Conan go down together into the water, and their descent finally halts when the White Nose hits the dead end of a tunnel. The White Nose is killed and, despite being exhausted he lifts it, and carries it above his head. He wants to show it to his grandpa but a tern (seabird) attracts his attention and brings him to a beach where a girl is lying facedown and motionless. Conan has never seen a girl before, so cautiously he approaches the girl and pokes her with his toe. The girl stirres and scares Conan. He pokes her a second time and she wakes up. But when she lifts her head to look at Conan, she can only see the body of the White Nose that Conan's still holding above his head. She thinks it's a monster and faints again. Conan is also scared and rushes back to tell his grandpa. He and his grandpa are both surprised and delighted to learn that other human beings have survived the war.

Grandpa carries the girl back to their house and takes care of her. The next day the girl wakes up early and walks out of the house towards the seashore. Conan follows her and sees her talking with Terns. The girl also sees Conan and tells him that her name's Lana and that she came from a distant island called High Harbor. Conan is fascinated by the fact that there are hundreds of people living on High Harbor since the only human beings he knows are his grandpa and a few others. Suddenly a plane appears in the sky and Conan thinks it's a bird, but Lana tells him to hide since that was a hydroplane from Industria and they're here to look for her.

Conan's grandpa also sees the hydroplane from his house and runs to greet them, thinking that finally he could rejoin the other survivors of the war. But when he sees uniformed Industrians emerge from the hydroplane with weapons in hand, he knows they are not friendly. The Industrian commander Monsley tells Conan's grandpa that they are looking for Lana and orders him to gather the inhabitants of the island for questioning. Conan's grandpa leads them to his house and takes out a rocket launcher from his room. He threatens to fire it unless they leave the island. Monsley backs off but one Industrian soldier fires at Grandpa. The bullet hits the rocket that Grandpa's holding and it explodes. Conan and Lana are watching from a distance and when Conan sees that his grandpa's hurt, he runs towards the house. The warhead of the rocket flies off and strikes the ground near where Lana was hiding. Lana runs and then is captured by the Industrians. Conan hurries back to the house and sees that his grandpa is seriously injured. Grandpa tells Conan to go after Lana and to save her. The Industrians take Lana on board the hydroplane Falco and are about to take off, when Conan leaps and lands on top of the wing of the plane. The plane took off with Conan still hanging on the wing.