Cowboy Bebop

[Jingai]

 Session 15 - My Funny Valentine

Original Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion thread :

First Appearances : None

 Faye finally finds out about her past, or at least as much of it as a lying ladies man will reveal.

Spoiler

  A much younger Faye is being lowered into a cryogenic capsule. Back
on the Bebop, Jet and Ed begin to search  the ship for food, while Faye
has a dream, until Ein wakes her up to clean his toilet. Faye then
asks Ein if he wants to hear a secret from her past, and Ein replies with a yawn.

  Faye, much younger, wakes up to a Doctor Baccus, who informs her that she
is healthy, and owes over 300 million wulongs to the hospital. Her Lawyer,
Whitney Haggis Matsumoto, informs Faye that she was involved in an accident,
and that she was cryogenically frozen until she could be healed. Whitney tries
to get Faye to acclimate to the new year and new technology, but Faye can't remember
anything of her past. Faye flees from the hospital, and stumbles along past
drive in diners, ultimately being picked up by Whitney. Whitney tries to reassure Faye,
and takes her out, feeding her and buying her new clothes. On their way back, a
ship intercepts their car, Whitney claiming it is a collection agency. Whitney
drops Faye off, and as Faye is running away, an explosion is seen behind her.
At the clinic, Faye learns that all of Whitney's assets are hers, and as she
agrees to accept them, she find they are nothing but a mountain of new debts.

  Jet returns to the ship, with his bounty, Whitney Haggis Matsumoto. Faye
scowls, then ends up setting him free, after Jet and Spike bet on if she will or not.
Faye stuffs Whitney into her ship, then tells Jet and Spike that she has a past
to work out with him, so she gets first dibs on him. Jet sighs ans reaffirms his
position that women don't work on reason. In the ship, Faye asks Whitney
what the truth is, but before he can answer, Spike appears and fires a couple warning shots.
Faye and Spike shoot it out in space, Spike finally getting a shot into Faye's engine.
Faye wonders who she is, and Whitney answers her, saying he doesn't really know.

  The doctor from the clinic arrives, in a stolen ISSP ship, and informs Faye that
all her real data was lost in the astral gate explosion, but before he can go further,
the ISSP show up, and the Doctor flees to avoid being arrested. Whitney is turned over,
and Faye gets her bounty. Spike is waiting outside the police station, where he
gives her a coin, her share of the bounty.

[Jingai]

Session 16 - Black Dog Serenade

Original Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None

  Jet lost his arm in a set up, the question now is, who set him up and why.

Spoiler

  A prison ship is flying through hyperspace, when the prisoners escape.
The guards all dead, Udai Jackson and another prisoner meet in a hallway,
where Udai pours out a bottle of Dom, a toast to the ship that charmed the devil.
Faye walks in on Jet as Jet is trimming his Bonsai, and begins to complain about the
shower being broken. A man named Fad calls during Faye's complaining, and Jet
finally agrees to fix the shower, then takes the call from Fad. On the prison ship,
Udai kills a hot head who shoots the final hostage left alive.

  Jet meets up with his old partner, and finds out that Udai is on the ship that has
gotten free. His partner tries to convince him to go and help get the ship back under control.
Jet declines, saying it doesn't interest him anymore. The scene shifts to a flashback
of Jet and his partner, chasing down Udai. Jet chases him, and catches up to him, before
a spotlight shines down on Jet, and he is shot in a set up.

  Jet leaves to join his old partner, after the prison ship evades a blockade of ISSP patrol craft.
Together they track Udai to Europa, to his old syndicate bosses. Udai makes contact with
the Syndicate as well, but they inform him there is no further relation between them,
betraying him. Jet splits up from his partner again, to go around the prison ship
from the opposite side. After evading gunfire from the prison ship, Jet and his partner
make it aboard. Jet's partner takes care of several of the prisoners, Jet himself going
after Udai. During the fight, Udai tells Jet he is a chump, revealing that his partner
set him up, and fired the shot that cost him his arm. Jet's partner shoots Udai, and then
turns his now empty gun towards Jet, who kills him in self defense. Jet sets up the scene,
making it seem as though Udai and his partner killed each other.

[Jingai]

 Session 18 - Speak like a Child

Original Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

Discussion Thread :

First Appearances : None

  A beta-max tape arrives, Jet and Spike brave the unknown terrors of a forgotten mall, and Faye finds a message for her.

Spoiler

 Faye gets back from the tracks, having lost her money as usual. Spike was fishing,
having caught nothing, as usual. Jet was telling Ed a story, and Ed wasn't getting the
message, as usual. Then a tape arrived via courier service, addressed to Faye. Faye freaks
out and disappears for a bit, leaving Jet with the bill, as usual. Spike gets bored,
and opens the package, finding a video tape inside. Jet and Spike then head to the shop
of a 20th century collector, who explains to them that it is a beta cassette.

  The collector puts the tape in, and it shows what seems to be a school girl, but
before she turns around, the machine eats the tape. Spike kicks the machine, and it
breaks, leaving the collector angry. The collector calls the Bebop to complain, but
Jet ignores him. Ed finds a new beta machine, on Earth, in an old underground mall.
Faye calls, after winning at the dog track, and Ed tells her that they are on Earth.

  Spike and Jet manage to get into the old mall, which proves to be extremely dangerous
between the collapsing elevator shafts and flooded rooms. They return with a small television,
and a VHS deck. They try to play the tape, but Ed informs them that VHS won't play beta.
Back on Mars, they sit around dejected, until the same delivery service arrives again,
this time with a working beta deck.

  The tape turns out to be from a young girl who looks like Faye, ten years younger.
She says that the message is for herself ten years from now, and talks about causing
trouble for other people, but it is alright, because it is all part of life. She then
gives a great big cheer for herself, encouraging herself to not give up, and reminding
her that she isn't there now, but she is still cheering for herself. Faye stands, having
sneaked in to watch, but can't remember if it is her on the tape or not.

[Jingai]

  Session 19 - Wild Horses

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances : None

Discussion Thread :

  Sometimes you need to work for the machine, sometimes the machine needs to work for you. Spike

just wants his ship fixed, Jet just wants to catch the pirates, Faye just wants to stop being bait and the Blue Sox just want to win.

Spoiler

 Faye is floating outside the asteroid belts surrounding Earth, acting as bait
for a group of pirates, complaining all the time. Spike is on Earth, waiting to get his
ship overhauled by Doohan, the man who built it. Doohan's assistant, Miles, shows up
to pick up Spike, and then starts talking about baseball. In space, the pirates strike,
attacking a small ship. Faye and Jet move in to capture them, but the pirates use
a harpoon to infect their ships with a virus, which gives them control of the ship.
The pirates easily get away, using Faye's ship to shoot up Jet's ship. At Doohan's shop,
Doohan and Miles are working on overhauling the Swordfish, and Doohan warns Spike not
to push the ship too much, or he will get cut down to size. Spike calls the Bebop,
and during the call he finds out that the pirates are dealing in parts from the ships
they are hijacking.
 
  Jet decides to set a trap to get the pirates back, and uses a special transmitter
to counter the virus, by shutting down the infected ship's mono-system, and
then guiding the ship by transmitter. At an orbital station, Faye and Spike
find a pair of penguin marked ships, and shoot at both, chasing the pirate ship
out. Spike pursues them, and they shoot their virus harpoon, Spike dodges, and
then the pirates launch a volley of harpoons, hitting both Spike, and themselves.
Both ships begin to fall towards the Earth, Jet moves the Bebop in to intercept,
but he cannot make it to Spike in time. Doohan launches in an old space shuttle,
similar to the Columbia, and rescues Spike.

[Jingai]

  Session 20 - Pierrot le Fou

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances : None

Discussion Thread :

  It is the things you aren't meant to see that sometimes get you in trouble. Of course, when trouble

is a psychopathic killer created by ISSP, that trouble can be pretty big.

Spoiler

 After playing pool, Spike walks out and witnesses a killing, a fat man with
a large grin, a white poofy collar and a top hat killing a high ranking member
of the ISSP. He then turns towards Spike, and after a brief shootout, starts
kicking Spike, knocking him to the ground. Before he can kill Spike, a cat appears,
causing Pierrot to freak out. Using the distraction, Spike grabs a large tank of
flammable gas, and rolls it towards Pierrot, firing at it. The explosion sends
Spike flying, but Pierrot is unharmed. Spike gets blown into the river,
and ends up a mummy on the Bebop, wrapped in bandages. Jet finds out from an old
buddy about the ISSP killings, and Pierrot's intention to hunt down Spike and kill him.

  The Bebop gets a message from Pierrot, inviting Spike to Spaceland, an abandoned
amusement park. Meanwhile, Ed begins to hack into the ISSP mainframe, and discovers that
Pierrot was the product of a secret research project to make a super soldier, but that
he was driven insane by the experiments. Pierrot is also terrified of cats, because
one of the chief doctors performing the experiments owned a cat. During the fight
Pierrot clearly has the upper hand the entire way, Spike running and dodging
various grenades and guns that Pierrot caries under his coat. In the end, Pierrot however
is killed, during a parade of animated robot animals, a large cartoon cat terrifies him,
giving Spike a chance to throw a knife at Pierrot. The knife hits, and Pierrot starts
to whimper and cry like a child, until the giant cat steps on him, killing him.

[Jingai]

  Session 21 - Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances : None

Discussion thread :

 Jet gets an email from a dead man, but that isn't the strangest thing he finds that day.

Spoiler

 Jet gets a message, to meet an old buddy named Pao. He does a little checking,
and finds Pao dead. When he gets to the grave, Pao's daughter surprises him
with a cryptic feng shui message, and the two are attacked by members of the Syndicate.
Meifa leads Jet away from the attack, ending up jumping with him into the river.
On the Bebop, Jet shares the message he got from Pao, which Meifa interprets according
to the principles of Feng Shui. Jet accompanies Meifa into the city, where they search out
the sun-stone, a fragment of the moon from the astral gate explosion.

  After finding the sun-stone, Jet quickly ducks with Meifa into a local bar, where he
ambushes the two members of the Blue Snake syndicate, finding out they were after Pao.
Meifa seems to think that her father, Pao, might be alive still. On the Bebop, Jet runs
some tests on the sun-stone. While Jet and Meifa try to figure out what it all means, Ein
grabs the sun-stone and brings it towards the lo-pan, the board for reading Feng Shui. The
board reacts, and Meifa decides to try to read the energy to find her father with it.

  The Bebop takes off, and enters hyperspace, following the readings from the sun-stone.
Meifa says that the sun-stone she has will lead her to the sun-stone he has. Jet tells Meifa
about her father, that he was a consultant for a syndicate, and that he tried to get out but couldn't.
While the Bebop is in hyperspace, they are attacked by a ship from the Syndicate. Faye and
Spike launch to repel the attacking drones from the Syndicate ship. Jet drops the sun-stone
out into hyperspace, where Spike fires the plasma cannon from the Swordfish at it, opening
a rift in hyperspace. Pao makes contact, his ship trapped in a collapsing pocket of hyperspace.
Pao says a final goodbye to his daughter, before the pocket collapses.

[Jingai]

  Session 22 - Cowboy Funk

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances :

Discussion Thread :

  Spike finally meets his match, a cowboy every bit his equal. Too bad they can't get along.

Spoiler

 It starts with a guard placing a teddy bear on a railing, and Spike showing up behind
him, putting the bear on the guard's shoulder. Spike calls the guard the teddy bomber,
and he tells Spike he won't be going to prison until he finishes what he started.
Teddy tried to set off the bomb bear, but Spike has pulled the trigger. Spike kicks
Teddy around a little, before getting ready to take him into custody. Then a guy
breaks through the glass of the building on horseback, pointing a six shooter at Spike
and calling him the Teddy Bomber. Spike and Andy start to argue about who the real
Teddy Bomber is, and Teddy makes a break for it, Andy lassoing Spike instead of Teddy,
who sets off the bombs he planted.

  On the Bebop, Jet and Faye both mess with Spike, not believing his story about Andy
until Ed finds out the truth about Andy, the huge number of accidents, property damages,
and injured bystanders he has racked up. At a masquerade party, Faye dressed in a western dress,
Jet as a hippie, and Spike with a simple mask. Jet and Spike both move in to catch Teddy,
in a bear suit, but Andy rides in, and accuses each of them of being Teddy. Teddy
sets off a bomb, and escapes. Faye runs into Andy, who offers her a ride, and they chase
off after Teddy on horseback. Spike follows, shooting at both Andy and Teddy. Andy shoots back
at Spike, resulting in a large swath of damage on the streets as they chase down Teddy and shoot
it out.

  On Andy's yacht, Faye and Andy share some stew, Andy flirting with Faye, unsuccessfully.
Faye returns to the Bebop, with Andy's stew as a souvenir. Faye says that Andy and Spike
are identical, and Spike starts pouting. On Big Shot, a letter from Teddy is read in part,
and Ed figures out that Teddy will strike at City Hall next. Jet and Faye both bow out,
leaving Spike and Andy to try to stop Teddy. Teddy is about to settle things, but before he
can, Spike and Andy start arguing. Teddy flips out, and starts setting off bombs, forcing
Spike and Andy to chase him. On the same elevator car, Teddy informs them that the elevator
they are on will reach the top floor where Teddy has bombs set for them. As Teddy watches
the elevator blow up, Faye sneaks up behind him, and knocks him out with one punch.
Spike and Andy climb up to the top of the blown out building, where they have a showdown
at sundown. Spike and Andy shoot it out, run out of ammo, and eventually, after nearly
falling off the building, Andy retires, surrendering his hat to Spike and leaving.

[Jingai]

  Session 23 - Brain Scratch

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearance :

Discussion thread :

  Migrate to electronics, copy your soul onto the vast web. Sounds like just another day for the Bebop.

Spoiler

 Dr. Londes, the religious leader of the Scratch movement explains why human
beings are flawed, and encouraging them to join his migrate to electronics movement,
where they will leave their bodies behind for the endless electronic sea. Several news reports
then follow detailing group suicides, and how the Scratch group uses a game controller to
copy people's brain waves and upload them to the universal network. After some commercials,
a report shows up with Faye, who is impersonating a member, trying to get the bounty on Londes.

  On the Bebop, Jet finds out that the bounty on Londes is 36 million, that he used to be
a respected neurologist, and he disappeared, then reappeared decades later as the leader of Scratch.
Faye begins searching for Londes in a warehouse, but she begins to experience odd sensations
and blurred vision, then collapses. Spike tries with members of Scratch, but strikes out,
Jet tries with the last member of Londes' old research team, but he ends up falling asleep
in a chair, giving Jet nothing, and Ed can't find anything on the Net either. Even Punch
and Judy on Big Shot have nothing, and Punch announces that Big Shot is canceled.

  JEt buys a game controller, and tries to migrate, the controller sending him images.
Ein senses something wrong, and bites Jet on the leg, before Jet can be fully effected
by the high frequency sound waves the controller emits. Ein hacks into the controller,
and reveals that Londes doesn't exist at all, and that all the info leads to a hospital.
Jet follows up, dressing Ed as his daughter, and they go to the hospital.

  Spike goes to the same warehouse Faye was in, and finds Faye sleeping. Londes appears on a
tower of television screens, and tell Spike that he just put the bounty hunters to sleep, and
they slept to death. He tells Spike that the world is corrupt and that people are choosing
his faith of their own free will, then he starts to emit the paralyzing high frequency
sounds. At the hospital, Jet tells a #### story to get past the guard, and they find the
real Londes, a teenage boy on life support. Ed disconnects his mind from the net, but leaves
his life support on. As Ed turns off the net connection, Londes complains and says he doesn't
want to go. Jet discovers that the kid's name is Rosney Spanngen, a hacker who had an accident
and ended up a vegetable.

[Jingai]

  Session 24 - Hard Luck Woman

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances :

Discussion Thread :

  Ed thinks she can remember where Faye is from. Faye just wants to know her past, and she finds it, at last.

Spoiler

After watching the video of her past self, Faye sends the Bebop to Earth, where
Ed thinks she knows where the video is from. Faye and Ed leave, and end up in a ruined
city, where they find a nun running an orphanage. The nun welcomes them in, and Faye finds
out that Ed used to live there, before leaving like a cat. Ed says she knows where to find
the spot from Faye's past, but that she wanted good food at the orphanage. The nun gives Ed
a hologram of a man who she says is Ed's father. Faye scowls,
and then they end up finding the area that Faye lived as a child. Faye returns, and finds
one of her old classmates. Faye finds out that her old classmate is a grandmother now, but
also that she used to live in the area.

  Back on the Bebop, Jet scolds Faye and Ed for leaving and steering the Bebop off course.
Jet and Spike check the terminal, and find that a man named Appledehli has a fifty million
bounty, Appledehli is the man in Ed's hologram, but Jet and Spike don't know that.
Faye takes a shower, and during that she suddenly has flashbacks of her past, remembering
her family, the shuttle accident, and everything else. Jet and Spike leave to find Appledehli,
and end up confronting him.

  Spike begins to fight with Appledehli, but before it gets serious, Ed shows up with the Bebop.

Ed then tells Spike and Jet that Apple is her father. Apple thanks them and gives them a basket of eggs.

Apple asks Ed to go with him, then as an asteroid lands, he leaves abruptly to keep up his efforts to map

the terrain that is constantly changing. Ed leaves the Bebop, Ein going with her, to find Apple. Faye goes

to the place where her family mansion used to be, and after finding it to be flattened, lays down on a bed

she drew in the ground with a stick.

[Jingai]

  Session 25 - Real Folk Blues pt. 1

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Real Folk Blues

First Appearances :

Discussion thread :

 Julia is back, so is Vicious. It is time for Spike to settle with his past.

Spoiler

 Julia gets a message, warning her that the elders are moving, and to leave. Vicious
and a small group of men burst into a room, spraying it down with gunfire. The lights
go on, and the three elders, along with a large number of armed men, take Vicious
into custody. At a bar, Spike and jet are having a drink when they are ambushed by
members of the Red Dragons. Jet gets shot in the leg, and Shin, Lin's brother, shows up,
covering Spike and Jet's escape, informing Spike that Vicious attempted a coup but failed,
and that Julia is in Tharsis city, and a target.

  While Jet is getting his leg fixed, Spike has a flashback to the time he decided to
leave the Syndicate. He remembered telling Julia that he would be waiting at a graveyard,
by a grave, not in one. Vicious then tells Julia that she has to kill Spike, or both of them
will die. In the present, Faye is waiting at an airport, and she gets a call from Spike,
who tells her to get back to the ship to take care of Jet. Julia drives past, chased by a
car full of Syndicate assassins. Faye shoots out the tire of the car, causing it to crash.
She jumps into Julia's convertible, and then shoots out the tire of a second car of hit men.
They pull over, and after talking about partnering up, Julia drives Faye back to her ship.
Julia asks Faye to tell Spike that she will be waiting there, and that he'll know what it means.

  On the Bebop, Jet tells a story about a man who injured his leg, and died. He asks Spike
why he can't turn back. Spike tells him that there is a woman, and that she is the part of
him that he lost somewhere. Faye arrives, and Jet scolds her about her ship. Faye asks
where Spike is, and tells Jet she has a message. Jet gets a call from an old ISSP buddy,
who informs him that the Red Dragons are after Spike, and the cops can't stop them.
Syndicate ships arrive, prompting Spike and Faye to take off from the Bebop to
shoot them down, after Faye tells Spike about Julia. Vicious, in a chamber awaiting
execution, says nothing, then his bird appears, dropping smoke bombs. In the confusion
Vicious' men turn on the old guard, and Vicious himself cuts down the last of the three
elders, then announces he is the leader.

[Jingai]

 Session 26 - The Real Folk Blues pt. 2

Air Date :

OP : Tank!

ED : Blue

First Appearances :

Discussion thread :

 It all ends with a bang....

Spoiler

  Spike and Julia meet in the graveyard, and Julia informs Spike that if she had killed him
back then, she would have been free. Shin shows up at the headquarters, and Vicious
asks him if Spike was killed. Shin says he wasn't, that Spike and Julia both got away.
Vicious warns him not to follow in his brother's footsteps, then leaves. Spike and Julia
visit Annie's shop, and find Annie shot. Annie informs Spike that Vicious took over
the syndicate, by killing all the elders. Several cars pull up outside the shop,
as Spike retrieves a box full of weapons. Julia tells him that she'll be with him
until the end. On the Bebop, Jet is trying to fix both the Bebop and Faye's ship, but
having little success.

  The syndicate men storm into Annie's store, and Spike and Julia escape, but during their
running, Julia gets shot and dies in Spike's arms. Jet visits the old shaman, who tells him
that Spike is not going to make it, he dreamed it. He also says not to fear death, because
that makes death jump at you. At Annie's shop, Vicious is looking over the scene, when a man
brings him Julia's coat, with her passport inside. Vicious says that now Spike has lost
his place, and that he will come.

  On the Bebop, Spike returns and gets some food, then tells Jet a story, about a cat that
dies and lives with owners he didn't care about. Then the cat becomes free, finds a white cat
and is happy, until they both die, but the cat doesn't come back. Spike quips that he hates the
story because he never liked cats. Jet asks Spike if it is for Julia, and Spike says that
Julia is dead. Faye asks Spike why he is going, and Spike tells her that he isn't
going to die, he is going to find out if he is alive.

  Spike walks right up to the entrance of the Red Dragon's headquarters, and kicks a grenade
into the lobby, then storms his way upward into the building. Halfway up the building,
Spike runs into Shin, who helps him, and tells him that Vicious is on the top floor.
Shin is shot, and before he dies, he tells Spike that Vicious has to be stopped, and
that he was waiting for Spike to come back and take over.

  Spike finds Vicious, who tells him that he is the only one who can kill him and
set him free. Spike replies in kind, and they begin their final fight, during which
Spike tells Vicious that Julia is dead. Vicious and Spike both exchange final blows,
Spike shooting Vicious, and Vicious slicing into Spike. Spike walks down a set of stairs,
surrounded by members for the Syndicate, and then collapses, pointing his hand out and
saying "bang".

[Jingai]

Alright, that is the last of the episodes, save the two that someone has told me they would like to do.
If I missed something, please let me know, I'll happily edit as needed.

Thanks.