Cowboy Bebop

[LoverDemon]

Welcome to the episode index for Cowboy Bebop, as well the character submission, you, the members and fans of the show will be the ones submitting to this, to make it as informative as possible for the newer members to the show. My job is simply to keep things neat and tidy but the rest is all for you.

Note: All submissions will be reviewed and possibly edited by LoverDemon for spelling, grammar, and image addition purposes only.

- Episode Title (Number)

- Date originally aired on [as]

- Episode Opening

- Episode Ending

- Discussion Thread Link

- Episode Summary

- First Appearances

-In the case of spoilers, make sure to mark any huge plot points that can impact the future of the storyline, as well as any character death.

-There is no limit to how many episode submissions you can do, but stick to doing one at a time, once you finish one post it here and then pick a new one.

[LoverDemon]

1 - Asteroid Blues

2 - Stray Dog Strut

3 - Honky Tonk Women

4 - Gateway Shuffle

5 - Ballad of Fallen Angels

6 - Sympathy for the Devil

7 - Heavy Metal Queen

8 - Waltz For Venus

9 - Jamming with Edward

10 - Ganymede Elegy

11 - Toys in the Attic

12 - Jupiter Jazz, Part I

13 - Jupiter Jazz, Part II

14 - Bohemian Rhapsody

15 - My Funny Valentine

16 - Black Dog Serenade

17 - Mushroom Samba

18 - Speak Like a Child

19 - Wild Horses

20 - Pierrot le Fou

21 - Boogie Woogie Feng Shui

22 - Cowboy Funk

23 - Brain Scratch

24 - Hard Luck Woman

25 - The Real Folk Blues, Part I

26 - The Real Folk Blues, Part II

[Jingai]

  I don't mind doing the episode summaries, I'll probably just the same format I used for

the Ghost in the Shell folder, (a short description and a longer more detailed description hidden

under a spoiler tag), introductions OP and ED,  if someone else wants to help fill in the links to

episode discussion threads and original air dates for [as].

  I've gone ahead and posted the first two sessions, if anyone has anything to add to them in terms

of details, or particularly in terms of air date or episode discussion thread links, feel free to post that

info here. LD and CCK, you guys can go ahead and edit in anything, don't wait on my behalf.

 If anyone else wants to do a session feel free. I'm happy to do all 26, but I don't want to hog them,

if you have a favorite episode, go ahead and go for it.

[Jingai]

 Session 1 : Asteriod Blues

Original Air Date :

Episode Discussion Thread :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances : Spike and Jet

  Spike and Jet get a tip on a bounty in New Tijuana, a drug dealer named Asimov.

After a set, a chase and some theft, they are no better off then when they started,

but they still have their special bell peppers and beef.

Spoiler

 The session opens with Spike practicing martial arts, and Jet cooking
bell peppers and beef, sans beef. They discuss the next bounty they are
chasing, a drug dealer named Isaac Asimov, who is hiding out in New Tijuana.
Isaac and his girlfriend, Maria, visit a bar where Isaac attempts to sell
a drug called bloody eye, only to be interrupted by a group of hit-men
sent from a criminal syndicate. Isaac uses the bloody eye, and then
uses the combat drug to easily kill the hit-men. Spike visits Sitting Bull,
a shaman, who informs him that Asimov will be on the north end of town.

  Spike meets Maria, and steals some food from her, then begins to
banter with her, while Isaac watches on, recovering from his earlier use
of bloody eye. Isaac ambushes Spike, and begins to choke him, causing Maria
to beg him to stop. Spike swipes a vial from Isaac's pocket as he collapses,
then later disguises himself to attempt to strike a deal for the bloody eye.
Isaac shows up, and Spike reveals himself, starting a fight with Isaac.

  The fight is interrupted by a group of hit-men from the syndicate, leaving spike
to fend off the hit-men while Maria and Isaac steal a ship. Jet shows up,
bailing out Spike, who then chases down Maria and Isaac. Maria, looking at
Isaac in his current drugged out condition, and the swarm of ISSP ships waiting
to arrest them, decides that they will never make it to Mars like they planned,
so she says adios to Spike, shoots Isaac, and is shortly shot in turn by
the ISSP ships.

[Jingai]

 Session 2 : Stray Dog Strut

Original Air Date :

Episode Discussion Thread :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances : Ein

  Another tip on a new bounty, an animal thief named Abdul Hakim. Another chance to

score big, but sometimes the payoff isn't in woolongs.

Spoiler

 Abdul Hakim is hiding in a bathroom stall when he is ambushed by three
men in lab coats. Abdul easily beats them up, and then retrieves his large
suitcase. Spike and Jet are watching Big Shot, a show that lists details
on fugitives. Abdul is accused of stealing a lab animal, and an eight million
wulong reward is offered. A doctor contacts Spike, offering him information
on Abdul in exchange for a promise from Spike that he will beat up Abdul.
Abdul looks for a drink, and during a brief fight with a local, a street
kid swipes Abdul's case, and give him the slip by hiding on top of a
garbage truck. He opens the case, and closes it quickly after hearing a
dog growl. Spike visits a weapons shop dealing in antique weapons, and
finds out that a shop called animal treasures is the best place to look.

  The kid is at the store, run by an old lady with a turtle on her head.
Spike shows up, and draws his gun on the kid, accusing him of being Abdul Hakim.
Spike asks the lady to open the case, and when she does a welsh corgi pops up.
The lady says the dog is worth two woolongs, and Spike leaves. Abdul shows up,
and attempts to grab the dog, causing a commotion when Ein bites him. The lady
protests, a group of men from a research lab show up, and Ein runs away.
This leads to a chase with Abdul chasing Ein, Spike chasing Abdul. After a fight
on a bridge, Spike ends up in the river with Ein on is head, and Abdul is
floating away on a boat.

  Abdul makes a call rescheduling his deal to sell Ein, Spike and Ein
are used as bait by Jet to draw out Hakim, and the lab men use a "dog whistle"
mounted on their van, drawing all the local dogs to them. Spike and Abdul
both give chase, and Ein, while drawn to the van, evades the lab men and their attempts
to capture him. Hakim, in a stolen car, grabs Ein, and then makes a break for it.
Spike follows him in his ship, trying to stop Hakim. The lab men begin to shoot
harpoons into Abdul's car, and Ein opens the gull wing doors, jumping out. Spike
abandons his chasing of Abdul, and saves Ein, complaining. Abdul and the lab men
crash into an ISSP outpost, leaving Spike and Jet with Ein, and no bounty.

[LoverDemon]

Ah, I just noticed I left that, this format was pretty much copy and pasted from DRRR!!, but I'll be the one editing this all up myself, really have to be careful with copying and pasting, but yeah, CC-K is only with DRRR!! at the moment.

As far as Episode Discussion threads go, the older and original ones are nowhere to be seen, so I'll probably be using most of the most recent, and whichever ones I find that don't have a discussion thread I could always recreate (or other can recreate that thread and when they episode airs we can discuss it in some manner (will be difficult considering mostly everyone on [as] has seen the series 100 times over though).

[Jingai]

It might be easier actually to just use the current series discussion thread instead of individual episode discussion threads.

Other than that, are those episode summaries pretty much what you are looking for?

[LoverDemon]

Hm, I pretty sure I can find some way to work with that thread,

And yes that is fine, the set up I have planned for this wiki will fit that style perfectly.

[Jingai]

 Session 3 : Honky Tonk Woman

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : Faye Valentine

  Lady Luck makes an appearance, but she cheats, leaving Spike and Jet
to clean up a mess.

 

Spoiler

Faye walks into a shop, looking to make a quick purchase. She is followed
by three men, who wait outside the shop, each of them drawing a pistol. Faye
draws a sub-machine gun from a grocery bag and opens fire, scattering the men,
until they return with a mini-gun, resulting in Faye surrendering, surrounded by guns.
She is in the office of a casino owner, who uses a large debt as leverage against
her, forcing her into dealing for him, to find a chip.

  Jet and Spike hit the casino, Jet warning Spike not to win too much lest they
be kicked out. Jet hits the slots, winning steadily. Spike hits the blackjack table
where Faye is dealing, and loses all but one chip. Faye, mistaking Spike for the
original man with whom she was supposed to get a chip follows him, demanding the chip.
Spike refuses, accusing her of cheating. A fight ensues between Spike and the casino
staff, and during the confusion Faye summons her little zip craft. Spike and Jet
end up hijacking Faye and her ship, finding out that she has a bounty on her worth
six million wulongs.

  Gordon, the casino owner, calls Spike and Jet after Faye contacts him from the
Bebop. Jet and Spike discuss the chip with Gordon, revealing that they know the
chip has a master decoding program highly sought after by the ISSP, and they agree
on a thirty million price. Spike and Gordon's men make the switch, in space. In
the meantime, Faye, locked in the Bebop's bathroom, makes a break for it busting
out of the Bebop's hangar in her ship. Gordon's man tries to double-cross Spike,
pulling a pistol after Spike releases the chip.

  Spike dodges the pistol fire, grabbing the chip after kicking the man into space.

Faye shows up, grabbing the money in the case and fleeing. Gordon responds by

firing a barrage of missiles, one of which ends up confused by the chaff that Faye releases.

The missile ends up impacting the bridge of Gordon's ship, leaving Faye with the money,

Jet and Spike with a now useless chip, which they use to start over again in the casino.

[Jingai]

  Session 4 : Gateway Shuffle

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion thread :

First Appearances : None.

  What starts out as a simple hunt for a simple guy ends up with the fate of
Ganymede, and their bounty, hanging in the balance.

Spoiler

  Spike and Jet are staking out a restaurant, they have their bounty in sight,
when he orders a Ganymede sea rat, in a loud and obnoxious manner. This enrages
Twinkle Marie Murdock, the leader of a group of violent environmental terrorists.
They open fire on the table, and the bounty, killing him in a flashy manner. On
their way out, Spike manages to sneak up behind Twinkle Marie, pointing his pistol
at her. She ends up Spike's prisoner, Spike and Jet content to claim her much
larger bounty.

  Faye is floating in space, in the neighborhood so to speak. Looking for fuel,
she finds a shot up ship, an ISSP officer inside, and dying. He hands her a case,
imploring her to get it to the authorities. Faye takes it, and calls out to the
first ship which is passing by, the Bebop. Jet picks her up, quickly handcuffing her
as well, since she still has a bounty, and there was the matter of her stealing
the money from that business with Gordon. In the meantime, Spike tries to open
the strange container Faye was given. He finds a small vial, but before he opens
it an old buddy of Jet's calls, informing Jet that the bounty on Twinkle
Marie has been canceled.

  The terrorists have a weapon, a virus called monkey business, which works on humans
only, reverting them to their monkey ancestors. They have threatened to use it on Ganymede
unless the bounty is canceled. Faced with no other choice, Spike and Jet arrange to
meet and return Twinkle Marie. On her way out, Spike slips the vial into her pocket,
as she returns to her terrorist family. On their way out, from hyperspace, the terrorists
decide to fire a missile loaded with the virus at Ganymede. Spike and Jet quickly
mobilize to intercept the missile, Ganymede offering a large bounty to them for stopping it.

  Faye offers to help, for a percent, and after some quick talks, she enters hyperspace
with Spike to intercept the missile. The missile splits, from one warhead to over fifty.
Cursing, Spike tries to shoot them down, but in the end Ganymede closes the hyperspace
gate down, Spike barely escaping. With the gate closed, nothing in hyperspace can affect the
real world. Panicking in the hyperspace tunnel, the terrorists try to stop suddenly, releasing
the vial of the virus, which shatters inside, turning all of them into monkeys.

[Satoh]

Session: 00 - Mish-Mash Blues "Yoseatsume Burūsu" (よせあつめブルース)

Air date: June 26, 1998
OP: Tank!
ED: Real Folk Blues

Summary: There was an outbreak of violence in Japanese high schools that some attributed to the violence portrayed in the show so it was briefly cancelled after airing Jupiter Jazz pt. 2. Shinichiro Watanabe was certain the show might never air again so he made a quick clip episode with a sarcastic wrap up narrative by Koichi Yamadera, Spike's Japanese voice actor. The usual "see you space cowboy" was replaced with "This Is Not The End. You Will See The Real 'Cowboy Bebop' Someday!"

The show wasn't cancelled but TV Tokyo didn't pick it back up, the satellite channel WOWOW did and started re-airing the season from episode 1.

[Jingai]

 Session 5 : Ballad of Fallen Angels

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : Vicious, Julia (unnamed)

 Session 5 : Ballad of Fallen Angels

 Peace is what everyone wants, but the price of peace is sometimes simply too much.

Spoiler

  The episode opens with Mao Yenrai, the leader of the Red Dragon Syndicate, signing a
peace treaty with the leader of the White Tigers syndicate. As the White Tiger
leader leaves, Mao watches, glad to see peace at last. The ship carrying the White
Tigers explodes, as Vicious and his crew walk through the Red Dragons' complex,
killing everyone. Mao's final words are a warning that if Spike were there, Vicious
wouldn't be doing this, prompting Vicious to simply smile.

  Jet and Spike see the bounty on Mao Yenrai, put out by the White Tigers in response
to the assassination of their leaders. Spike and Jet argue over taking on the bounty,
as Faye walks in. After the argument, Spike leaves on his own to pursue the matter,
while Faye receives a call, a tip leading her to an opera house and the booth where
Mao is supposed to be attending the performance. As Faye arrives, she is taken hostage
by Vicious and his men. Spike meanwhile meets with Annie, an old acquaintance of both
he and Mao. Annie briefly explains that Spike should let it go and not get
tangled up with Vicious. Spike shrugs, takes a drink and returns to the Bebop.

  Spike gets out several grenades, and two pistols, prompting Jet to ask about
the artillery. Jet then explains that he lost his arm from running to far ahead of
game, and warns Spike to be careful. Faye contacts them, being held at a church,
and asks them to save her, saying that she will be killed if they don't help.
Spike agrees to go, but only because of his own reasons, not for her.

  At the cathedral, there is a shoot out, Spike shooting the man holding Faye hostage,
and a general fight ensues quickly after Vicious promises to "wake Spike up.". During
the fight, Faye escapes and calls Jet, who curses and at first declines to go to help.
After reflecting for a moment, he decides to leave to pick up Faye and help Spike.
Spike, in the meantime, is shot by one of the thugs, before finally coming face to
face with Vicious. After a quick exchange, Vicious and Spike end up injuring each other,
Vicious cutting Spike's shoulder, and Spike shooting Vicious in the side. Vicious
smiles, and shoves Spike out a stained glass window, as Spike drops one of his grenades
near Vicious.

  As Spike is falling, there are flashbacks to his days in the Red Dragons, and his
working side by side with Vicious. During one of those flashbacks, Julia, a woman
known by both Spike and Vicious. Spike wakes up remembering being injured in the past,
and being nursed to health by Julia. He realizes it is Faye now, who says Spike is
lucky she is staying with him. Spike says she is singing off key, and gets a pillow
in the face for his effort, prompting Jet to sigh sadly.

[Jingai]

 Session 6 : Sympathy for the Devil

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion thread :

First Appearances : None.

 Don't let looks deceive you, you can't play the blues without a lifetime of sorrow.

Spoiler

  The episode opens with a flashback, Spike getting some kind of surgery on his eye,
then he snaps to, listening to a kid, Wen,  playing blues harmonica. Faye eats the last of
the food in the fridge, a tin of dog food for Ein, then notices that a man named
Zebra is the next target. Jet and Spike find Giraffe in a blues club, along with another
bounty hunter, Fatty. Jet and Fatty call out to each other, faking great camaraderie
while Spike follows Giraffe as he leaves. Giraffe follows the kid and an elderly man in
a wheelchair, Giraffe, to a hotel room. Giraffe demands that he give him back, and then
the scene shifts to Giraffe falling out of the hotel window. Spike catches him somewhat
gently on the nose of his ship. Spike finds Giraffe shot, and Giraffe says that the kid
needs help now, giving Spike a ring with a pinkish stone.

  Jet meets with Fatty and over desserts, and gets some leads on the kid. Spike goes to
a warehouse, and confronts Wen and Zebra. Jet and Faye find a news article, which shows
the same kid from thirty years ago. Wen tells Spike that Zebra is the third guy he
has used this way, that since the gate accident his body hasn't aged one bit. He was held
in a research facility, until Giraffe and Zebra's old military unit raided the facility.
Wen took Zebra and left. There is a brief shootout, Spike being injured in his arm, before
Wen shoved Zebra down the stairs to cover his escape. Spike catches Zebra, and
fires back, hitting the kid in the head, but when Spike get to where he fell, he is gone.

  Jet tells Spike that Wen is stuck out of time, that the accident broke his circadian
rhythms and the gem in the ring is the only thing that can restore time to him. Spike frowns,
and begins to search for Wen, finding him after he kills a taxi driver and steals the cab.
After shooting the taxi engine with his ship's guns, Wen crashes. Spike fires the ring's
gem from a modified gun, hitting him. Wen rapidly ages, years passing by in seconds, then dies.

[Jingai]

 Session 7 : Heavy Metal Queen

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None.

Don't let looks deceive you, big bangs come in small packages.

Spoiler

  The episode opens with a freighter pilot, checking in after a long run. She sees a buddy,
who wants a chance. She pulls out a wad of cash, and after a quick guess at what V.T.
stands for, she smirks and adds his cash before wishing him good luck. V.T. walks
into a bar, wondering why there are so man guys in it. the bartender says that
it is because a bounty head named Decker is supposed to be there. V.T. scowls,
and sits down. Spike is sitting at the bar, carefully trying to separate an egg,
when a commotion in the back, the result of some bounty hunters getting grabby with a waitress,
breaks out. V.T. goes to help the waitress, and in the ensuing fight, Spike ends up
spilling his egg yolk. Spike gets angry, and makes quick work of the gang. The gang however
does a number on Spike's craft before scampering away.

  In an ice cream shop, Faye spies someone she thinks is Decker, a large guy with
a tattoo of an eel, which she mistakes for a dragon. She tells a small man with glasses
to call the cops, then notices his dragon tattoo, sending him running. Faye realizes that
the small man is Decker, and chases him across the station. During the chase, Faye jumps into
her ship, but Decker tosses out a small vial of enhanced nitro explosives, which damage
Faye's ship, and let Decker escape in a stolen space freighter.

  One of the local truckers puts out a call on the CB, asking if anyone has spotted
Decker, who hit him fleeing from the station. VT gets some info from different truckers,
and spots Decker, who tries to run from her, running into an abandoned mining asteroid.
VT calls out to Spike, letting him know where Decker is. Spike and Faye race to VT,
who is still chasing Decker. Decker tosses out another vial of enhanced nitro, which sets off
a chain reaction within the mine. The mine tunnel collapses, breaking the cab of
Decker's ship, resulting in his death. Spike, VT, Faye then move to escape the collapsing mine,
but are blocked by a cave in. VT tells Faye to grab a large container of the enhanced nitro,
and after some tense moments, Faye drops the large container into the cockpit of Spike's
ship, which Spike has left, setting it to fly into the collapsed tunnel. Spike floats out
into the vacuum of space, and after a tense miss, manages to get himself into VT's freighter.

  With the way clear, Faye grabs Spike's ship, while VT and Spike make their way out
of the collapsing mine before it completely explodes. While sitting, Spike notices an
old photo in a watch, and correctly guesses VT's name, Valerie Terpskaday, the wife
of a legendary bounty hunter. VT offers Spike the wad of cash, but Spike takes back
only enough to cover the drink he lost earlier at the bar, telling VT the rest is for
her husband.

[Jingai]

 Session 8 : Waltz for Venus

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None

 You don't always need eyes to see what is right in front you.

Spoiler

 After nabbing three hostage takers, Spike and Faye part ways, Faye to a casino,
and Spike to the lobby of the spaceport, where he is followed and begged by a
local, Rocco Bonnaro, to teach him some of the kung-fu moves Rocco saw Spike
use to take down the hostage takers. Spike says no repeatedly, but finally
relents and shows Roco one move, a flip. Roco spots a trio of thugs, and hands
Spike a sack, telling him to meet him tomorrow night. Back on the Bebop, Jet
pulls up some pocket money as he calls it, a gang led by Picaro Calvino, a gang
that includes Roco Bonnaro. The bounty ifs for a gray ash plant, very rare and
used to cure Venus sickness, the condition caused by the terraforming plants.
Spike opens the sack Roco gave him, and finds the stolen gray ash plant.

     Faye wants to sell the plant, but Jet quickly reminds her that the plant
is hot, and can't be sold. Spike says that he will handle Roco, and heads out
to a desert location he got. There he meets Roco's sister Stella, who is relieved
that Roco has a friend. Spike tries to deny that initially, but simply says nothing,
as he can quickly tell that Stella is blind. Roco has spent time ducking the gang
of Picaro, but manages to run into him in a bathroom by accident.

  Stella and Spike sit down, and Stella offers Spike some tea. Stella says that she
doesn't mind being blind, but that she knows Roco means well but hangs out with a bad crowd.
She shows Spike a music box that Roco sent her, and Spike opens it, finding a small bag
of gray ash seeds. Spike tells her he could be one of those bad people, but Stella quickly says she doesn't
believe it, that she can tell these things, and that she sees something beautiful in Spike.
Spike sighs, and looks out the window, says that he lost that a long time ago.
Back on the Bebop, Spike and Jet finalize their plans after Faye gets a lead on Picaro's location,
by shooting up a bar.

  Roco runs from Picaro, but get cornered, and after Picaro's men beat him up, Roco
finally agrees to set up Spike in order to get back the gray ash plant. Spike meets
Roco, and Roco warns Spike, meanwhile Faye rushes over to the location, having
been led on a wild goose chase by the guys at the bar. A shoot out breaks out at
the meeting, with Faye getting angry and shooting all over the place.

  During the fight,Roco is attacked from behind, but remembers the lesson Spike had given him, flipping the
guy. Immediately after that however, Roco is shot, and dies in Spike's arms. Roco
asks Spike to make sure Stella is going to be alright, and asks if Spike would have
been his friend before he finally passes. Spike goes to visit Stella, in the hospital,
and Stella tells Spike that she is going to be alright, because Roco got her the gray ash and
money for treatment. She asks Spike if Roco is in jail, but when Spike silent, she realizes
that Roco is dead. She asks Spike to leave, but before he does, she asks Spike what kind of guy
Roco was. Spike tells her Roco was the great guy she thought he was, and leaves.

[aquaunitpatrolsquad1]

Nice work Jingai. Keepin it concise is the way to go.

[Jingai]

Session 9 : Jammin with Edward

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : Ed

 Some promises are meant to be broken, but it is hard to do that when you can't control your own ship.

Spoiler

A voice and a red camera lens from a satellite remark about being alone,
then several satellites begin to fire lasers, carving animal shapes into South America.
Ed is laying out in the sun, looking for the Bebop, which arrives shortly before a
moon rock lands near Ed, sending her flying. On the Bebop, a news show remarks
on the possibility of aliens having made the carvings, despite the anchor announcing
that it was a hacker who hacked into a satellite, and that an eight million bounty
has been placed. Ed, or Radical Edward, is approached by the police, but during
the visit, Ed takes remote control of the police ship, subsequently crashing it
while the two police officers look on, before disappearing into a jumble of electronics.

 Jet and Faye decide to chase after Ed, Faye leaving to search satellite transmitters
for any sign of being tampered with, while Jet leaves to get some information on Ed.
Faye finds well over one hundred possible transmitter locations, and Jet gets a series
of increasingly convoluted and contradictory descriptions of Ed. Ed discovers the truth
of the carving incident, that the CPU of a spy satellite was solely responsible for the
carving, there was no hacker involved. Ed hacks into the Bebop's systems in real time,
and tells the crew of the Bebop all this. Faye offers Ed a favor in exchange for data
that proves Ed's story.

  Ed agrees, and then the Bebop and Ed hatch a plan to download a copy of MPU, letting the

police catch the copy so MPU will be safe. During the attempt however, MPU spots Spike approaching,

and several attack satellites begin to fire lasers at Spike and Faye. Spike evades the lasers long enough to get
in position, and Ed downloads a copy of MPU, to turn in to the police. Earth however
decides that since MPU is a computer, and not a person, they don't have to pay the
bounty, and Ed's favor is revealed, Ed wants to join the Bebop, and takes remote control
of the Bebop to do so.

[Jingai]

Session 10 : Ganymede Elegy

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None

Time stops for some people, and the only way to start again, is to let go of the past.

Spoiler

Jet is lost in thought on the way to Ganymede, when Spike and Faye both ask him
when they are going to land, to turn in the petty bounty head they caught. Jet grumbles,
and contacts Ganymede, where he talks with an old buddy of his from the police. Faye
remarks that since Jet was a cop, that is why they can't get along, then they land,
turn in the bounty head, and Jet leaves to find an old flame named Alisa, at a bar called
La Fin. Jet walks in, and sees a young man named Rhint at the end of the bar. He asks
after Alisa, and Rhint says she isn't there, but Alisa recognizes Jet's voice,
and tells Rhint that things will be alright. Alisa then offers Jet a drink, and jokes
with him, saying she is married and has three kids. Alisa tells Jet she is thinking
of moving, closing her bar. She says the recession has stopped people from visiting,
and she needs to close and move on. Jet asks about the mortgage and is concerned about
Alisa, but she shrugs it off, saying she'll work it out later.

 Spike is on the Bebop when he gets a call from Jet's old buddy on the force, a heads
up on a new bounty placed on Rhint, a big bounty, one point eight million wulongs,
Rhint being involved in the killing of a small time hood and money lender. Jet asks Alisa
why she left him all those years ago, leaving only a pocket watch and a note saying farewell.
Alisa says that time never stands still, and then tells Jet she has to go. Spike heads
out in search of Rhint, to get the bounty. Rhint shows up in the bar after Jet leaves,
and tells Alisa that he has a bounty on him. Alisa decides they need to run, and they
take off in a boat, but Spike noticed them and gives chase.

  Spike fires a few warning shots, and Rhint fires back, but gets knocked down in the
process, the gun falling into Alisa's lap. Rhint flees into an alleyway between two
large buildings, and Spike is forced to pull up, nearly hitting Jet, who was returning
to the Bebop. Jet asks what is going on, and Spike informs him of the bounty on Rhint.
Jet tells Spike to let him handle this, and after Spike asks if Jet is going to let him go,
Jet tells Spike that he is the Black Dog, and he doesn't let go once he has bitten. Spike
mutters something about justice and duty, and leaves Jet to finish chasing down Rhint and Alisa.

  Jet chases Rhint and Alisa through a narrow alleyway, then fires his harpoon, pulling the engines
off the boat, and sending it into the shore. Jet lands shortly after, and walks slowly towards Alisa
and Rhint. Alisa stands up, and fires a few rounds at Jet, missing him. She tells him that she
wanted to make her own decisions even if they were terrible mistakes, and that is why she left him.
Jet walks past Alisa, and grabs Rhint, punching him when he starts to whimper, and tells him
to be strong and to take care of Alisa. Jet then tells Alisa, as Rhint is being led off, that
he thinks Rhint will get off on self defense, and that time never stands still, before tossing the
pocket watch she left him into the river.

[Jingai]

 Session 11 : Toys in the Attic

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None.

  There is a lesson we each learn, some complicated, some easy.

Spoiler

Something is seen running through the corridors and wiring chases of the Bebop,
then it shifts to Jet, recording in the ship log that being a bounty hunter means
you work for yourself, when you work at all, and when you aren't you are on your own
with nothing to do. Jet and Faye are gambling, Jet sitting in his underwear as Faye
continues to amass Jet's money and personal belongings. After losing his underwear,
Jet goes down to a cargo hold to get a blanket, and decides that a man is
meant to work for his things, not try to get rich quick or cheat, that is his lesson.
Just after saying this, he sets off an alarm, after being bitten by something.

  Spike sees Faye and her pile of Jet's stuff. Faye thinks to herself that nothing
good ever happens when she trusts anyone, that is her lesson. Spike accuses Faye of cheating,
and Faye says that it is all just part of the skill of the game. Spike shakes
his head sadly, then the two of them, and Ein, race down to Jet after Jet set off
the alarm. Jet says that he was bitten, and Faye and Spike leave. On their way out,
Jet asks Spike about the old fridge, and Spike almost says something, but he then
shakes his head and leaves. Spike offers Jet some medicine, a choice of tiger balm,
a dried lizard that gets brewed into tea, and a scorpion. Jet drinks it then collapses,
a large purple welt on his neck.

  Faye is taking a bath when something falls, and bites her on the calf. Poisoned,
she goes to Spike and complains that she is too young to die, before collapsing.
Spike and Ed equip themselves with infrared goggles, and begin to search the ship.
Ed wanders off saying that her lesson is to follow a stranger if you see one.
Ein is sniffing around in the ship, when the thing falls on him from above,
biting him. Spike finds Ein, and scolds him for his animal instincts not begin good,
then carries him back to the lounge. Spike gears up, with a net gun, flame thrower and
his goggles, then begins to look for the thing. He sets the autopilot to bring
the Bebop though the gate and to land on Mars. He finds Ed's infrared scanner,
and figures the thing got Ed as well. Spike encounters the thing in a corridor,
firing his pistol and then discharges his flamethrower, blackening the thing.

 Spike goes back to the hangar, and remembers everything, including his buying a
Ganymede rock lobster that he hid in the fridge to keep the others from eating it.
He opens the fridge, and then quickly slams it shut, the fridge full of gross mold.
Spike cuts the gravity, and then goes to shove the fridge out the airlock, and as he does,
the thing comes back, biting him as well. Spike gets the airlock open, sending the fridge out,
then manages to close the airlock before collapsing. Ed, floating around, grabs the thing
and promptly chomps down on it, eating it before it can bite her. The crew then float
in zero gravity all the way to Mars.

[Jingai]

 Session 12 : Jupiter Jazz part 1.

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None

  The bonds of camaraderie are tested for everyone at some point, as the past refuses to lie dormant.

Spoiler

 As a star falls, the shaman regards his son, and tells him that it is a warrior's
tear, signifying that he has lost his way and will not find peace. Vicious then
goes before three old men, the leaders of the Red Dragon Syndicate, to ask for
money to buy red eye from a member of Vicious' old squad on Titan. The council
agrees, warning Vicious that Callisto is cold, and that a snake cannot eat a dragon.
They then send Lin to accompany Vicious. Lin tells Vicious that he will protect him
for the honor of the Red Dragon, as Vicious tells Lin that in order to survive he will
have to betray him.

  Spike wakes up, complaining about the heat and humidity, and Jet informs him
that Faye has left, taking all the coolant with her. Spike asks if they are going
to follow her, and Jet says he will, because Faye emptied the safe as well. Ed then
begins to look for Faye, but instead finds a message about something code named Julia.
Spike asks where, and then takes off after an argument with Jet, over finding Faye
and the money she stole. Spike leaves for Callisto, leaving Jet to find Faye.
Spike gets a tip about a Julia, but it turns out that it is really Julius, a cross dresser.
Julius tells Spike to go to the Blue Crow, to talk to Gren.

  Faye listens to Gen play sax, and Gren warns Faye about the fact there are no
women in the town, and that she should be careful. On his way to find Gren, Spike
encounters a small time gang thug, who tries to rob him, accusing him of being
Vicious. Spike loses his temper at that point, and quickly beats up the gang,
before getting info out of the small time thug. Jet walks into a bar, and overhears
about a bounty on Gren, which is going to expire soon. Faye walks down an alley,
and the gang which Spike had just beaten up show up in her way. Faye smirks
and starts to fight them, but is interrupted when Gren shows up and grabs her,
leading her away from the gang.

  Back at Gren's house, Faye confesses that she left because she didn't want
to be around the guys on the Bebop, and Gren asks if she abandoned them before they
could abandon her. Gren goes to take a shower, and Faye looks around, seeing a wall
of old photographs, including one of Gren, and Vicious on Titan. Vicious calls
Gren at that time, leaving the details for the drug transaction on Gren's answering machine.
Faye grabs her gun, and goes to confront Gren about Vicious, finding out that Gren
has a woman's breasts. Gren says that he is both a man and woman, and neither.
Meanwhile, Spike confronts Vicious, but before they can fight it out, Lin steps forward,
and fires a single shot into Spike.

[Jingai]

 Session 13 : Jupiter Jazz part 2

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Space Lion

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None

 It's a fight to the end, and time to settle old scores.

Spoiler

 Spike wakes up, complaining that they used a tranquilizer gun to mock him, before
he gets up and begins to look around. In the meantime, Jet asks around trying to
find Gren's apartment building. Instead he finds Faye, handcuffed on the bed. Spike,
flying and thinking about Vicious, gets a call from Jet, who is towing Faye's ship back
to the Bebop. Jet tells Spike that if he helps catch Gren, he can come back aboard the Bebop.

  Jet and Faye talk, Jets asking why Faye messed up the Bebop, but left Swordfish and
Hammerhead intact. Jet asks if Faye was testing them, and Faye simply shrugs the question
away, asking instead about Julia. Jet says that he doesn't know, just that she has some
kind of hold over Spike. Vicious and Gren get in touch, and arrange the meeting on top of
a nearby sky scraper.

  Lin goes forward, and tests the red eye that Gren has. Vicious then says to leave
the money. Gren kicks the case back towards Vicious, and fires at it, breaking it open
to reveal the bomb inside. Vicious takes over, avoiding the blast which knocks down Lin.
Gren asks vicious if he is trying to kill him again. Gren tells Vicious that he found
the solar transmitter in the music box that Vicious gave him on Titan. A series of flashbacks
follow, of Gren and Vicious fighting on Titan, Gren telling Vicious they were comrades.

  Gren opens fire at Vicious again, but Lin jumps in front of the bullet, and ends up
dying. Both Vicious and Gren retreat back to their ships, while Spike flies in, opening fire
on Vicious. A three way fight ensues, with Vicious disabling Gren's ship, and before he
can turn on Spike, the music box that he gave Gren begins to play, in the bag of Red eye.
The music box contained a small bomb, which goes off, damaging Vicious' ship, and sending him
back to his main vessel. Gren, mortally wounded, crash lands, where he asks Spike to help him take off and
point him towards Titan. Spike agrees, and Gren tells him that Julia left, but he doesn't
know where. On his way from help Gren, Spike heads back to the Bebop, and Jet asks him
what he is bringing back. Spike answers "nothing" and Jet lets him back on.

[film_nut]

The ED on Jupiter Jazz pt 2 was Space Lion, not Real Folk Blues.

[Jingai]

Really? I must have missed that.
Thanks, I'll change it out.

[film_nut]

[as] doesn't even air the ED for Jupiter Jazz pt 2 anymore.

[SpikesMrsSpooky]

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film_nut wrote:
[as] doesn't even air the ED for Jupiter Jazz pt 2 anymore.

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Oh, that is SO wrong.  Space Lion is the sexiest piece in the entire series, and [AS] CUTS IT?????

*dies*