Episode 20 - Pierrot Le Fou

After playing pool, Spike walks out into the middle of a gun fight. Ducking behind a trash can, he returns fire, only to see that the assassin has a shield. The assassin beats Spike up, but before he can kill Spike, a cat meows, which spooks the assassin. Spike rolls a container of compressed gas towards the assassin and blows it up. However, this does not kill the assassin and Spike is pursued, winding up with a knife in his shoulder.

The next day, Jet learns from one of his ISSP friends about an assassin named Mad Pierrot who killed a high ranking member of ISSP. He explains that Mad Pierrot kills everyone who sees his face and that Spike might be next, having survived the attack.

That night, an e-mail comes for Spike, asking him to meet the sender at Space Land. Faye intercepts it, trying to keep it from Spike, but Spike finds out and intends to go. After Spike leaves, Jet contacts Ed and learns that Spike is headed to Space Land. Space Land, a closed theme park, is suddenly lit up when Mad Pierrot appears. He fires on Spike, who runs for cover. However, Mad Pierrot catches up to him and the chase continues.

Meanwhile, Jet and Ed hack into the ISSP computer and look up Mad Pierrot's files. They realize that he was part of a genetic experiment that was cancelled, because his mind continued to regress to a child-like state. Mad Pierrot escaped, seeking revenge, but eventually learned to enjoy killing.

Mad Pierrot catches up with Spike, who has no where to run. When he draws his throwing knife, Mad Pierrot shoots him, but not before Spike throws the knife into Mad Pierrot's leg. Mad Pierrot collapses on the ground, crying for his mother because he is in pain, but before he can get up, a mechnical parade steps on him, killing him.

Episode 19 - Wild Horses

Jet and Faye are going after spaceship pirates while Spike has crashed on a planet. Spike gets a ride from Miles, a baseball fanatic, to Doohan's garage. On arriving at the garage, a huge explosion occurs. Spike and Miles find that Doohan's trying to fix a space shuttle. Spike asks Doohan, the original creator of the Swordfish, to repair it.

Meanwhile, Jet and Faye find the spaceship pirates but when Faye moves in for the capture, the pirates upload a virun onto her ship and leave her stranded in space. They also take out the Bebop that way. As Spike is watching Doohan work on his ship, he receives a call from Faye and Jet, who tell him about this virus. They also tell him that a delivery truck with a purple penguin on it was the one that was stealing ships.

Angry that their ships were taken down by a mere virus, Jet plans a way to get back at them. The trio also find out that the purple penguin trucks might be legitimate delivery truck services too. To test their theory, Spike and Faye go after both trucks. One turns out to be legitimate, but the other is false. The false truck fights Spike and Jet, but gets caught in the gravity sphere for the planet and explodes.

As it explodes, it sends out harpoons that transmit the virus, which Spike intercepts to protect the Bebop. Meanwhile, Doohan, who had caught their whole conversation on Miles' radio, goes up in the space shuttle and rescues Spike.

Episode 18 - Speak Like a Child

When Faye arrives back from the race tracks, she finds that a package has been delivered for her with no return address. Rather than pay it, she leaves. Spike opens the package and finds a strange black package in it with tape (Beta cassette). He realizes that it's an antique and he and Jet decide to sell it.

They find a dealer who is impressed that they have a Beta tape, which is rare to have. He looks at the content, which is a video of Faye. However, the player starts to eat the tape and Spike kicks it. Rather than getting it to work, he breaks the player.

The dealer demands another player, so Spike and Jet fly to Earth, where Ed has managed to locate another player. They break into an elevator shaft and start to descend, but the old elevator breaks off and almost hits them. Deciding that the elevator is too risky, they break into an old vent and make their way down. Many injuries later, they find an old electronics store with another beta cassette player. Unsure of what to take, they take the two largest things and head back to the Bebop.

Ed tells them that they got a VHS player, not a Beta player, so they will not be able to view the tape. However, another package is delivered for them, this one being a beta player. They put the tape in and watch. They see Faye as a small child, making a videotape as a message to herself in ten years.

Episode 17 - Mushroom Samba

Once again, the crew of the Bebop are out of food and someone's eaten the last emergency ration. As they're arguing about who's to blame, another ship crashes into them, sending them crashing onto the planet below. Jet and Spike try to fix the ship, sending Ed and Ein out to get food. Faye is in the bathroom, sick from eating the emergency ration, which expired a year before. Ed and Ein search for food, but cannot find any. However, they find the ship that collided with them and follow it.

Climbing into a car, Ed and Ein go to the city where they see an man eating a hot dog who does not share it with them. Another man comes up and accuses the hot dog eating man of killing his older brother with bad mushrooms. The man flees, dropping some mushrooms, one of which Ein eats and goes crazy.

Ed brings them back to the Bebop and gives one to each crew member. As a result, Spike believes that he is climbing up the stairway to heaven, Jet believes his bonsai trees are telling him the secret of the universe, and Faye believes that she's swimming in an ocean of fish. Meanwhile, Ed and Ein are watching big shot and see Domino Walker, the hot dog eating man who gave them the mushrooms. As they decide to go after the bounty themselves, the woman whose car they climbed in (who also happens to be a bounty hunter) chases after them. Ed and Ein find Domino Walker, who is in the ship that collided with the Bebop.

Chasing Domino, Ed and Ein are joined by the woman and the brother who had confronted Domino earlier. Chaos. Eventually, Ed takes the mushrooms instead of the guy, thinking that the mushrooms are worth millions. Instead, they turn out to be shi*ake mushrooms.

Episode 16 - Black Dog Serenade

One of Jet's old friends, Fad, calls him with important news. When they meet, Fad explains that there was an electrical failure that the prisoners took advantage of, taking over the ship and sterring it off course. Fad tells him that Udai Taxim, an assassin from the syndicate, was on the ship.

Jet remembers that back when he and Fad were partners working on a case, Jet had run into Udai and had subsequently lost his arm. Meanwhile, Udai and the escaped prisoners attack a police blockade and break through.

Working with Fad once more, Jet predicts that Udai is trying to go to Europa. Udai is doing precisely that; however, the syndicate refuses to help him out, saying that there is no further relationship between them. Jet's theory turn out to be right and he and Fad engage Udai in a firefight. Udai and the other prisoners cripple both Jet's and Fad's ships, Fad crashing into the prisoner's ship.

Jet boards the prisoner's ship and runs into Udai. While the pair fight, Udai explains that his partner was the one who shot him and took away his arm because he was a threat to the syndicate. Fad kills Udai and turns to kill Jet, who grabs Udai's gun and shoots Fad.

Episode 15 - My Funny Valentine

Faye remembers a man called Dr. Baccus, who unfroze her and healed her from a mysterious accident. However, the doctor refuses to let her go until she pays the 300, 028, 000 woolongs for the operation to heal her. However, Faye doesn't remember anything that happened. Her lawyer, Whitney Hagas Matsumoto, tries to explain the whole situation, but she denies everything he said.

Confused by what's going on, Faye escapes later that night. Matsumoto catches her running down the highway and Faye tells him how she feels. Matsumoto helps her adjust to the new society but during one night out, a collection agent drops down and chases Matsumoto and Faye.

The man Jet has been going after is Matsumoto. Faye talks to him, asking him why he left her with such a debt. However, as Spike and Jet are preparing to hand Matsumoto and collect the bounty, Faye and Matsumoto escape. Spike chases after Faye, crippling her ship in space.

As they float in space, the doctor talks to Faye through the radio, telling her only that she was crygenically frozen and that he gave her the last name Valentine. Before Faye can hear any more, the doctor is chased away by the real police, who are chasing the doctor. Disgusted by lies, Faye turns Matsumoto in and collects the reward.

Episode 14 - Bohemian Rhaposdy

Someone is hijacking gates but whenever bountry hunters go after them, all they receive as clues are chess pieces. The people who hijack the gates plant a hacking device on it and every person's bank account that is used to pay the gate toll is drained of money.

Spike, Jet, and Faye realize that the hacking units are too common to use as clues, but that whoever was planting them on the gates had to have knowledge about the gate system. Ed realizes that the chess pieces are able to active a chess game though the Internet and that the whole operation is a game to this person. When Jet goes to see the people who posted the bounty for more information, he bugs the office. Sitting outside, he hears the name "Chessmaster Hex".

Jet contacts the Bebop with the name and Spike and Faye find out that Chessmaster Hex is a genius programmer that had worked on the early gate system. Discovering a flaw, he had tried to protest the program, but the company fired him and built the gates anyway. Asking Ed for help, Ed replies that she's too busy playing chess...against Chessmaster Hex. The crew of the Bebop track Chessmaster Hex to a conglomeration of abandoned gates and other ships that people have been living in. While Spike and Faye try to find Chessmaster Hex, Ed keeps playing the game. However, once they find Chessmaster Hex, he asks that they be quiet and just let him finish his game.

Spike realizes that Hex suffers from senility and does not remember the past 50 years, that the hacks had been planted earlier. Going back to the company that placed the bounty, Jet asks that they leave Chessmaster Hex alone as payment.

Gren tells Faye how he got to know Vicious - they were in the same military unit on Titan. After the war was over, Gren was imprisoned, betrayed by Vicious on the suspicion of being a spy. Gren now seeks out Vicious to see if Vicious really betrayed him.

Meanwhile, Spike wakes up, only to find out that Lin shot him with a tranquilizer instead of a bullet. Jet, on the other hand, is trying to find Gren and Faye still. Once he arrives at Gren's apartment, he finds Faye tied up.

As Jet is calling Spike to tell him all the information he and Faye have found out, Gren is meeting with Vicious. A sack of red-eye is traded for a case of Tital Opal. As Vicious turns to leave, Gren tells Vicious about the music box and the transmitter inside it. Gren shoots at Vicious, but Lin takes the bullets and dies. Spike sees what happens flying overhead and attacks Vicious as he is trying to leave.

As Vicious and Spike are fighting in the air, Vicious hears the music box play and realizes that Gren has set a trap for him in the bag of red-eye. A bomb goes off, cripping Vicious' fighter, but Vicious makes it back to the Red Dragon ship before Spike can catch up to him.

Episode 12 - Jupiter Jazz (part 1)

The Syndicate sends Vicious and Lin to Callisto in search of red-eye. On the way there, Lin promises to guard Vicious, for the honor of the Syndiate. Vicious is disgusted with that old style of thinking and descends to Callisto. Meanwhile, Spike wakes up because it is too humid and goes in search of the others. He finds out from Jet that Faye drained all the coolant from the ship and also took all the money from the safe. When he finds Ed, Ed says that she has received a message from Julia, who is at the Blue Crow on Callisto.

Spike heads to his ship, determined to find Julia, even though Jet warns and threatens him to stay. On Callisto, Spike asks various people if they know who Julia is. A cross-dresser tells him he might want to ask Gren, who is a sax player at the Blue Crow.

Spike now looks for a guy name Gren. As he is searching, a pack of men in masks start to trail him. He ducks into an alley and confronts them. They demand their money from him, believing that he is Vicious. On hearing that name, Spike becomes angry and beats them up. He grabs the leader and asks why he thinks he is Vicious. The leader explains that there is a red-eye deal between Vicious and Gren, and that the code name is Julia.

Meanwhile, Faye leaves the Blue Crow when she runs into the same group of men who tried to beat up Spike. She starts to fight, but Gren intervenes and takes her back to his house. While Gren is in the shower, Faye notices a photograph on the wall. At the same time, the phone rings and the answering machine picks it up. She recognizes it as Vicious' voice. Meanwhile, Spike finds Vicious and confronts him. However, Lin steps in front of Vicious, determined to protect him. Before Spike can fire, Lin shoots Spike.

Episode 11 - Toys in the Attic

Temporarily out of work, the crew of the Bebop wanders around space. Jet and Faye play dice, as a quick way to make cash off of the other. Faye wins, leaving Jet void of all of his posessions, including clothes. When Jet goes off in search of clothing, an alarm is tripped. Spike, Faye, and Ein find Jet on the floor, having been bitten by a mysterious creature.

Spike gives Jet some Chinese herbal medicine, but it fails to work. As Spike and Ed are trying to catch the mysterious creature, Faye is bitten while in the bath.

Ed and Ein separate themselves from Spike. When Spike is looking for them, he finds Ein lying on the floor, bitten by the mysterious creature. After seeing this, Spike sets the autopilot on a course for Mars and arms himself, looking for the mysterious creature.

When Spike finds it, he manages to shoot it and hit it twice with a flamethrower. The smell of the burning creature reminds Spike of lobster. He remembers then that he had gotten a real lobster and hidden it in a fridge, only to forget about it. He aborts the fridge into space but in the process, gets bitten by the creature. The lesson? You shouldn't leave things in the fridge.