Episode 26 - The Real Folk Blues (part 2)
Shin returns, reporting that Spike got away and that he does not know where Julia is. Vicious warns him of following in Lin's footsteps, but lets him live. Meanwhile, Spike and Julia drive to Annie's store, where they find her shot in the stomach. She is surprised to see him alive, having been told that he was dead.
After she dies, Spike retrieves the box of Annie's weapons and starts preparing to confront Vicious. A group of men destroy Julia's car and shoot through the windows of Annie's store. Spike and Julia flee to the rooftop, where they are shot at from the ground. Spike kills everyone that he sees, but a man standing on a balcony shoots Julia as she is stepping onto the roof. Spike cradles her as she whispers something to him, before dying. Meanwhile, Jet goes in search of Spike, asking an old mystic to locate him.
Spike returns to the Bebop, asking for something to eat. The pair talks briefly, speaking in stories that reflect their lives. When Jet asks about Julia, Spike replies that he cannot do anything for a dead woman. As he heads to leave, Faye confronts him, asking him to stay. Spike tells her that he has always been looking in the past through his fake eye, and in the future with his good eye.
Faye tells him that her memories came back, but nothing good happened, which is why she returned to the Bebop and her friends. Spike speaks briefly and then leaves. He goes to the Syndicate's headquarters, kicking a grenade through the front doors. It goes off and he dashes upstairs, killing everyone who he sees. He takes the elevator to get to here Vicious is, but as he is running through the hallways, he is wounded. He runs into Shin, who tell him where Vicious is and covers his route. However, Shin is killed from a machine gun burst, but before he dies, he tells Spike that he wanted Spike to return, not Vicious.
Spike reaches the top of the tower, finding Vicious there. The pair fight, Spike shooting Vicious through the heart. However, Vicious mortally wounds Spike too, by slicing him through the stomach. Vicious collapses in the room, but Spike staggers out, making it partially down the stairs before collapsing himself.
THE END