It's a normal day on the Bebop for bounty hunters Spike and Jet, until they find out about a new bounty. Asimov Solensan is going around selling a new drug that he stole from the syndicate. It is an eyespray called "Bloody Eye" which makes all of its users very fast and almost invincible, but they also go crazy. Spike and Jet do whatever it takes to catch the culprit. At the same time the syndicate is trying to kill Asimov and get the drug back. In the end however, Asimov's wife decides that Asimov cant get away with ISSP agents boxing them in and she shoots Asimov in the head. However, ISSP firepower cuts through her ship causing her to drift away in space and thus perish in front of Spike. Spike and Jet settle back for still being broke and go off to find something new out there.

Spike and Jet are now after a man named Abdul Hakim who is on the run after stealing a very valuable briefcase from a laboratory. Unfortunately for Hakim, he doesn't have the case for long when it is stolen from him. The new thief opens the case thinking something valuable and is surprised to find a small dog inside. Then he tries to sell it to a pet store and he discovers that the dog isn't even valuable, it's a common Welsh Corgi. But Hakim knows the real value of the pooch and is determined to get it back. He chases after it and it ends up in the hands of Spike. However, in the end, Hakim loses the dog and the dog ends up in the Bebop even though Jet and Spike arent too happy with the new passenger.

Faye Valentine is forced by Gorden, the owner of a space casino, to work a card table and do an illegal exchange. A man with a poker chip containing a special micro-chip will come to her table and lose. He is supposed to give her his last chip which contains the micro-chip. But things go wrong when Jet and Spike arrive at the casino to do some gambling. Jet and Spike get ahold of the chip and find that Faye has a sizable bounty on her and capture her. However near the end, she gives them the slip and leaves with all their money. They settle back to have no money whatsoever like usual.

Faye has lost her money and is stranded in Jupiter's orbit with no fuel. She finds a destroyed ship floating nearby. She discovers that inside is a dying pilot. The pilot's last words ask her to take a briefcase to the I.S.S.P. At the same time Spike and Jet are getting ready to capture a bounty named Morgan, when a eco-terrorist group called the Space Warriors kill him. But Jet remembers that the leader of the Space Warriors, Twinkle Maria Murdock, is worth 25 million. But little to there knowledge Twinkle Maria Murdock has a few surprises. They are forced to let her go and find out that she is unleashing a deadly missle attack containing a biological weapon that changes people to monkeys or apes. Faye and Spike team up and try and stop her ship from warp, but in the end, the ISSP closes the gates and Faye and Spike barely makes it out before the gate fully closes. Twinkle Maria Murdock, locked in warp with her henchmen, has the weapon unleashed on her ships ending her life or rather, beginning her life as a monkey.

Spike's past emerges to haunt him when a 28 Million Woolong bounty is placed on Mao Yenrai, the crimeboss of the Red Dragons. Faye goes after the bounty and is captured by a cold-hearted man named Vicious and discovers that he has already killed Mao. Against Jet's will, Spike leaves to go after the murderer of Mao Yenrai and faces off against Vicious. Spike and Vicious seem to have a past and fight to the death where Vicious is apparently killed by a grenade from Spike's viewpoint. However, what he doesnt know is that Vicious survives the attack.

Jet and Spike are out chasing thier next bounty named Giraffe. When Spike is following Zebra, Giraffe's old comrade, he meets a kid named Wen, a musical child prodigy. There is something strange about Wen. Jet discovers that there is a connection between Wen and a stone Giraffe handed to Spike with his dying breath. After a close encounter with Spikes life almost ended by the kid, Spike then decides to go out and confront him again and fights killing the kid only to discover that a freakish accident had transformed the kid to not be able to age. The kid though dies after fighting with Spike and reverts to his normal age very quickly.

Jet, Spike, and Faye are after thier next bounty head, Decker. Spike gets a tip and is waiting for Decker in a bar along with every other bounty hunter in town. Faye is at an ice cream parlor waiting for Decker. Spike meets V.T., a female space trucker, by helping her beat up some of the crude bounty hunters in the bar during a fight. Faye sees Decker and gives chase, but with the high explosives he has he messes her ship up. The story of this episode revolves around the character of V.T.

A commercial aircraft that is landing on the Venus colony is hijacked. Spike and Faye are on board the airplane and they stop the hijackers which are the bountys. Spike's Jeet Kune Do skills are noticed by a passenger named Roco Bonnaro, who begs Spike to teach him some moves. Finally, Spike gives in and gives Roco some pointers. Roco notices some men looking for him and he gives Spike a package asking him to look after it. When Spike gets back to the Bebop he discovers that Roco has a bounty on him. Spike then leaves to go and find Roco. He finds Roco in trouble and does his best to get the men following Roco to get off his back.

A satellite draws strange images on the surface of the planet Earth in South America. The police believe it was a prank by a hacker who hacked into the satellites mainframe. Jet and Faye go to Earth to try and find the hacker. Jet goes to find out what kind of hackers work the area. Jet finds out that "Radical Edward" is responsible. Spike finds Edward to discover its just a small kid and Edward or Ed decide to join the Bebop crew. They try and ditch her and end up being hacked and brought back to pick Ed up and Jet and Spike groan about having another "unwanted" guest.

The Bebop is on its way to Ganymede, Jet's home when he was a cop, to deliver a bounty named Baker Panchorero. Jet starts to space out thinking about his old girl friend, Alisa, who left him years ago. The Bebop lands and while Spike and Faye cash in the bounty, Jet goes to "Le Fin", the bar owned by Alisa. While Jet and Alisa are reminiscing about old times, Spike finds out that Alisa's current boy friend, Rhint, has a bounty on his head. Spike takes off to track him down and Jet unwillingly force Alisa and Rhints getaway vehicle to stop and the ISSP catch them.

Jet gets swindled by Faye, and having lost all of his clothes he goes to the storage bay to get a blanket. While there, something bites him. Spike and Faye dismiss it as a rat, but soon they discover the seriousness of the injury. One by one, each member of the crew becomes a victim of this unknown enemy until only Spike is left to deal with it. Spike figures out it's source was from their refigerator and tosses it literally into space.

Faye has stolen all the money and vanished. Ed is told to track her down on the computer. Ed doesn't find Faye, but she does find a mysterious code name, Julia, coming from the Blue Crow on Callisto. Spike heads off to Callisto. This leaves Jet to find Faye. Faye is at the Blue Crow on Callisto when she meets a saxophone player named Gren. She goes to his house and later discovers "he's" not what he seems. While looking for Julia, Spike is attacked by a mob who thinks he is Vicious. The real Vicious soon appears with another man from Spikes past, Lin. Faye finds out Grens "real" secret and Spike gets shot apparently by Lin. Vicious and Lin leaves Spike for dead.

Spike wakes up and discovers that he has only been shot with a tranqulizer. Meanwhile Jet finds a handcuffed Faye in Gren's appartment. Jet tells Spike that he can return to the Bebop if he can catch a bounty named Gren. Spike and Vicious battle it out in space ending with Vicious's another apparent defeat and Gren is tragically wounded and dies holding onto Spike.

Spike, Jet and Faye are each out catching a bounty. The bounty they were after, the mastermind behind a gate hack scam, wasn't among the bounties they caught. They have only one clue: four chess pieces, all kings. Spike realizes that it is from the computer hacker who plays chess with Ed and strive to find him. He does and realizes that its just an old man obsessed with chess and apparently does not remember he ever hacked the chess.

Jet, Spike, and Faye are in need of money. Jet decides to catch a bounty head who is a Don Juan and a con-artist. Needing to get it off her chest, Faye tells her life story to Ein. Spike ends up hearing the whole thing, but not believing a word of it.

It begins with Faye complaining about the Bebop's shower. Her nagging of Jet leads to a question about his arm. Then an old partner of Jet's during his days with the ISSP, Fad, calls up wanting to team up with Jet one last time. Fad wants to go after a runaway prison ship that happens to be carrying an old enemy of Jet's, Udai Taxim, who used to be an assassin for the syndicate. Udai had something to do with Jet loosing his arm. Jet at first refuses, but finally decides that this is something he must do.

The crew and the Bebop are stranded on a strange planet and they are out of food and fuel. Spike and Jet try to fix the Bebop and everybody is hungry. Spike tells Edward to go out and get some food. Ed takes Ein along and she rides off on her motor scooter in search of food.

A package arrives for Faye, and she leaves in a hurry when she finds out it was sent C.O.D. with no return address. Spike opens the package and finds a Beta video cassette. Jet and Spike go on a quest to discover what is on the tape. They travel to old New York on Earth and find that there is a video player there and after a long trek, only brings it back to discover that it has the younger Faye on it, however, it was apparently dated in the early 21st century.

Jet and Faye are after Starship Pirates, while Spike is bringing his ship to be overhauled. After Spike's return to the Bebop, he finds out that Jet and Faye didn't capture the bounty heads. The Starship Pirates have a virus that they transmit by harpooning ships. As long as they avoid getting harpooned, they'll be OK. If they do get harpooned, Jet's solution is to turn of their ships' computer systems and fly them manually. One misstep on Spike's part, and he's a dead man.

In this wacky wild tomato happy fun-fun tribute to Batman: The Animated Series, a psychotic floating Penguin look-alike is killing all within his reach for no good reason at all. After this kooky fellow is done with his current killing spree, Spike is walking down the street minding his own business, so the crazy man tries to kill him. After a very violent scene, Spike manages to come out alive. Barely alive, but alive. The crazy murdering man is named "Mad Pierrot", and he is a killing machine who enjoys killing. But while Spike is all bandaged up, Ed Ed gets some mail mail. Spike has been invited to a party at the wacky fun theme park Spaceland. So, Spike decides to go down to this "Spaceland" and confront the crazy Mad Pierrot. So, there is a big gigantic fight sequence, and Jet and Ed find the true background of Mad Pierrot. After the immense violence is done, Spike and Mad find themselves face to face. So, Spike uses his last weapon, a knife, and throws it at Mad's leg. Mad cries and cries, as if the leg was a weak spot, until he is smashed by a giant mascot parade. Afterward Jet calls Spike to give him the details, but it pretty much too late for that and the ep ends with Spike musing how he hates theme parks.

Jet gets a note from Pao, an old friend of his, and goes off to track him down. He instead finds Pao's tombstone. While he's there, he finds a young girl who helps him dodge some mobster suits. After they succesfully live, they both go back to the Bebop. Faye and Spike thinks they have a thing for eachother, but actually the girl is Meifa, Pao's daughter. When they discuss how Pao was presumed dead after a gate fluctuation and how Meifa hasn't seen Pao for so long. Then, Jet shows her the note from Pao, which would suggest that he was alive. From the note, Meifa figures that they have to find the sun stone. So, they go off and they find the sun stone, when they again get attacked by some mobsters. Jet catches them, and asks what they want. They say they are looking for Pao, and tracked him down to the note to Jet. So, Pao is still alive. They put the sun stone in Meifa's luo-pan, and use it as a compass to track down exactly where Pao disappeared. They fly through space, which of course results in a deep-space shootout with some bad guys, until they shoot the sun stone into outer space. Spike blasts it, and opens the space where Pao disappeared. Meifa asks why Pao never came to find her, and finally gives closure on their lives and the father and daughter's relationship.

Whilst foraging for food, Spike intercepts a serial bomber, the Teddy Bomber, trying to blow up a skyscraper. Spike-baby does his usual schpiel of beating the crap out of the guy while looking bad-ass and spouting off cool catch phrases. Teddy Bomber is just as intent upon blowing up the building, however, and just as he's about to blow himself and Spike sky high--lo! Andy the Cowboy appears! Cowboy duds, horse, theme music and all! Andy manages to both save Spike's life and nearly get him killed at the same time. Back at the Bebop, Faye and Jet aren't buying any part of the story. Ed, however, proves the existence of Cowboy Andy, who is in actuality Andy von de Oniyate, heir to the Oniyate ranch. The Bebop crew go to a masquerade party, having laid another trap there for the Teddy Bomber. Again they miss their chance, and again Andy appears. Spike, as you might imagine, has an intense dislike for Mr. Urban Cowboy, which borders on obsessive. The episode concludes, not with the capture of the bounty, but with the showdown between two cowboys, Spike and Andy! Who will reign supreme as smart-ass?

While Spike is flipping through the TV channels, he comes across a religious organization/cult called Scratch, which believes in renouncing the physical body and existing in cyberspace. The group is led by Dr. Londes, who has quite a bounty on him for leading his followers into mass suicide. Faye has already joined the group to try and find Londes. So, Spike and Jet search high and low for Londes, but find nothing. So, they find another way to join Scratch, through a virtual reality video game console called Brain Dream. Later, Spike goes down to Scratch to find Faye, while Jet and Ed stay at the Bebop to hack into Brain Dream and find Londes. Jet tries out the Brain Dream and is nearly hypnotized into falling in the cult, until Ein saves him with a bite to the leg. So, they put the Brain Dream on Ein and try hacking into Scratch again. Ed succeeds, and hacks away. They find that Londes doesn't exist and all of his records were counterfit. They track down the location, to the Alles Valley Hospice. Jet and Ed masquerade as father and daughter to get into the Hospice and find the exact location of Londes. Meanwhile, Spike finds Faye, and finds himself face to face with Londes. Londes challenges him on his beliefs, and on the true evils of television. Jet and Ed find that Londes is a dream from the mind of a little boy in a coma. But Spike is about to fall under the hypnotic spell of Londes, as so many bounty hunters have done before, when Ed disconnects the boy from his computer. Faye wakes up to find herself next to Spike, and the wacky cult fiasco is done.

Late one night, Faye is studying the video from her youth that she found one day, and sees a waterfall from her youth. Ed finds Faye watching it, and says she knows where the waterfall is. So, Faye sets the Bebop's path to Earth instead of Mars. The next morning, Jet is pissed that the path was set off, until Spike tells him that the girls are gone. Ed leads Faye back to the orphanage that she once lived in, when Sister Clara, the head nun, gives Ed a holographic picture of her father. Faye, wandering around the earth, finds an old old lady who was part of her graduating class. She tells Faye about the accident that got her cryogenically frozen for so many years. Faye goes back to the Bebop. Later, while she's in the shower, Faye finally remembers her past. So she decides to leave the Bebop for good. Meanwhile, Spike and Jet track down their latest 50 million bounty, who just happens to be Ed's father, Applederry. After Applederry gives Spike a major beat-down, Ed reunites with her long-lost father. Jet figures out that Ed put fake data into the computer just so they'd track down her father, and the bounty was actually only 50 woolongs. Eventually, Ed decides to leave the Bebop as well, and take Ein with her. And Spike and Jet are alone, just how it started.

On one dark day, Vicious heads to the Red Dragon Syndicate to put an end to Van, the leaders of the Syndicate. But, he instead gets thrown into custody. So, Van decides to kill off all with any connection to Vicious. While Spike and Jet are at the swingin'-est pub in town(moreover moping about the leavings of Ed, Ein, and Faye. You can tell they miss them.) , the Red Dragon bursts in and shoot up the place. Jet gets shot in the leg, but an old friend Shin helps Jet and Spike escape. Jet gets his leg fixed up by the doctor from Stray Dog Strut . And as it would happen, Faye meets up with Spike's old flame Julia while she is getting chased by some suits. Faye hops in her car and fights them off, and realizes that she knows Spike. Julia gives Faye a message to tell Spike, to meet her "there" and that Spike would know what it meant. Faye returns to the Bebop to give the message to Spike, when the ship is attacked by the Red Dragon. Faye gives Spike the message, and then he goes off to fight the Red Dragon ships. After the outer space dogfight is done, Jet tells Spike to go back and meet Julia. Meanwhile, Vicious escapes the Red Dragon's custody and him and his cronies go on a violent rampage and kill the Red Dragon elders, leaving Vicious in charge of the syndicate. Spike meets Julia at a cemetary, where she holds a gun to him.

Spike convinces Julia to leave with him, to put the past behind them once and for all. However, Vicious, their one-time friend, is not about to let them just walk away. Spike and Julia now much face the greatest danger of their lives, and the stakes are their happiness, and their very lives! Spike fights with Vicious in the greatest fight of his life and also their final one.

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