Episode 5 - Ballad of Fallen Angels

After learning about a bounty posted on the head of Mao Yenrai, leader of the Red Dragon syndicate, Spike leaves the Bebop in an unusually bad mood. He goes to a convenience store, run by a woman named Annie. She is surprised to see him alive, but offers to tell him whatever he wants to know. Spike answers that he only wants to know what happened to Mao.

Faye intercepts a tip meant for Jet and goes to the opera house to get the 28 million woolong bounty on Mao Yenrai. However, when she gets to the box seat that Mao has, she finds him dead, killed by a man named Vicious.

Annie tells Spike that after Mao heard that he had disappeared, Mao had sent agents out looking for him, believing that he was alive. Spike returns to the Bebop and arms himself to take revenge. While there, a message from Faye comes in, saying that if they don't come, she'll get killed.

Spike agrees to go to the place, where he meets Vicious. The pair fight, Spike with his gun and Vicious with a katana. The fight ends with Vicious picking Spike up and throwing him from the top of the church through a stained glass window. As he's falling to the ground, Spike sees images of his previous life. Spike awakens to see Faye playing cards and humming. He tells her that she sings out of tune and gets hit for it.