Cowboy Bebop

Asteroid Blues

25 min

Spike and Jet put down on the Tijuana asteroid colony after Asimov Solensan, who has murdered his way out with a stolen combat drug called Red Eye. As Asimov runs for open space with his girlfriend Katerina, Spike finds something familiar in the man he is supposed to be collecting. The chase spills off the rock and into orbit, where the pair's escape ends quickly and badly.

Stray Dog Strut

22 min

There is an eight million woolong bounty on Abdul Hakim, a serial pet thief who has walked out of a research lab with a data dog. The stolen animal turns out to be Ein, a corgi who is far cleverer than he looks. Using Ein as bait to draw Hakim out leaves Spike walking a dog through the streets of Mars, and the hunt collapses into farce.

Honky Tonk Women

25 min

Faye Valentine, a gambler with a six million woolong bounty on her, is leaned on by casino owner Gordon to work his tables and pass off a chip with something hidden inside it. The plan comes apart when Spike sits down looking near enough to the man she is supposed to meet. Faye tries to slip out through the resulting mess and is picked up instead by Spike and Jet aboard the Bebop.

Gateway Shuffle

25 min

Adrift with her fuel gone, Faye is handed something by a dying man inside a wrecked ship. On Ganymede, Spike and Jet's bounty work crosses paths with the Space Warriors, eco-terrorists threatening to release a virus that turns people into monkeys. After it comes to a head with their leader, Twinkle Maria Murdock, the pair race a splitting missile out through the hyperspace gate and clear it as it shuts.

Ballad of Fallen Angels

24 min

A bounty on syndicate capo Mao Yenrai pulls Spike back toward a past he has kept shut. The man who cut Mao down is Vicious, who once worked at Spike's back inside the same organisation. Dragged into a reckoning in a cathedral, Spike is trailed the whole way by the memory of a woman named Julia.

Sympathy for the Devil

25 min

Spike and Jet are working a bounty called Giraffe when he is shot dead in front of them by Zebra, a man in a wheelchair, and Wen, a boy playing a harmonica. Wen looks like a child but is an old man who has been stripped of everything except his youth. What keeps him alive is a shard of hyperspace crystallised in an accident, and Spike loads that stone into a bullet to finally let him age and rest.

Toys in the Attic

25 min

When an unusual, blob-like space creature infects Ein, Faye, and Jet, Spike and Radical Edward must figure out a way to save their friends.

Waltz for Venus

25 min

After putting down a hijacking on a ship bound for Venus, Spike is asked by a young man named Rocco to teach him how to fight. Rocco leaves a wrapped package with him, a rare plant that cures Venus sickness, stolen to pay for his sister Stella's eyes. The syndicate catches up with him and he is killed, and only the seeds hidden in a music box ever reach her.

Jamming with Edward

25 min

Enormous patterns are being carved into the surface of the Earth, and the Bebop goes after the bounty on the hacker blamed for it. Radical Edward turns out to be a young girl playing with the AI aboard the satellite doing the carving. The bounty is cancelled, but Ed takes hold of the ship's navigation and forces her way onto the crew.

Ganymede Elegy

25 min

A bounty brings Jet back to Ganymede, where he was once posted, and to the bar run by Alisa, the woman who left him. Buried in debt, she is planning to run with her boyfriend Rhint, who is the man Jet is hunting. Jet throws away the stopped pocket watch he has carried all this time and finally accepts why she walked out.

Toys in the Attic

25 min

One by one, Jet, Faye and Ein are bitten by something loose inside the Bebop and go down. Spike traces it to a Ganymede ingredient that has mutated at the back of a refrigerator nobody has opened in over a year. He blows the entire contents out into space and is bitten himself, while Ed, half asleep, simply eats the thing and is fine.

Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)

25 min

Faye makes off with the crew's money and washes up on Callisto, a town with no women in it. Spike follows the same trail after hearing Julia's name spoken. While Faye is taken in by a saxophone player named Gren, Spike confronts Vicious and is shot by Lin, left face down in the snow.

Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)

25 min

Gren tells Faye how Vicious betrayed him on the battlefield at Titan and what it cost him. He corners the man for revenge and is beaten, and Lin dies shielding Vicious instead. Spike carries the dying Gren toward Titan, then goes back to Jet carrying what he has learned about Julia.

Bohemian Rhapsody

25 min

A run of robberies at the Astral Gates leaves every culprit holding a chess piece. Ed plays a game online against the Chessmaster Hex, and the trail leads the crew to an old man living in a scrapyard. He set the whole thing running fifty years ago and has long since lost his memory, so they leave him to his last game.

My Funny Valentine

25 min

Faye tells how she woke from fifty-four years of cryogenic sleep with no memory, no family and an enormous medical debt. The lawyer who took her in, Whitney, turns out to have been the man running the con that saddled her with it. Learning that he is alive after all, she brings him in for the bounty, with no pleasure in it at all.

Sympathy for the Devil

25 min

The latest case for the crew of the Bebop finds Spike pitted against a young boy with a talent for the harmonica – and murder.

Mushroom Samba

24 min

With the ship damaged and no food or fuel left, Ed and Ein go down to the surface to find something to eat. What they bring back is a pile of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and the crew starts tripping one by one. Ed runs the dealer Domino to ground, and all she comes away with is a bag of ordinary shiitake.

Speak Like a Child

25 min

An old tape arrives addressed to Faye, and Spike and Jet travel to Earth to find a machine antique enough to play it. What finally comes up on screen is Faye as a schoolgirl, before she lost her memory, cheering on her future self. Faye watches it through without being able to connect that bright girl to anything she recognises as herself.

Wild Horses

25 min

Spike takes his ship down to Earth for repairs and leaves it with Doohan, an old mechanic devoted to obsolete machines. Jet and Faye are chasing pirates who hijack computers with a virus, and the same virus ends up inside Spike's ship. Falling with his controls dead, he is pulled out by the ancient space shuttle Doohan has spent years bringing back to life.

Pierrot le Fou

25 min

A figure calling himself Mad Pierrot appears in the city, a soldier rebuilt into a killer who laughs while he works. Spike happens to witness one of the killings, becomes a target, and takes up his invitation to meet at an amusement park. The man comes at him with a child's fixation and is finally crushed under the machinery of the parade he set moving himself.

Boogie Woogie Feng Shui

25 min

Jet goes looking for an old acquaintance and finds his grave instead. A girl named Meifa, who says she is the man's daughter, asks Jet to help her follow a feng shui stone that is supposed to point to him. What they find at the end of it is that her father has been trapped in the folds of hyperspace since a gate accident.

Cowboy Funk

25 min

Spike is after the Teddy Bomber, who hides explosives inside stuffed bears and brings down high-rises with them. Every time he closes in, a self-styled cowboy named Andy crashes the scene on horseback and wrecks it. The two spend the whole case getting in each other's way, and at the end Andy announces he is done being a cowboy and leaves Spike his hat.

Brain Scratch

25 min

A cult called Scratch is pulling in followers with the promise of leaving the body behind and living forever inside the network. Faye goes in undercover and drops out of contact while the others chase the identity of its leader, Londes. What waits for them at the end of it is a boy who has been lying on life support the whole time, asleep.

Hard Luck Woman

25 min

Following the scenery in the old tape, Faye and Ed come down to Earth, each looking for where they came from. Ed does find her father, but he wanders off to his next crater almost as soon as he has laid eyes on her. Faye reaches her family home and finds nothing but ruins, and on the way back Ed walks off the Bebop for good, taking Ein with her.

The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)

25 min

With Ed and Faye gone and the Bebop quiet again, the Red Dragon's killers come for Spike and Jet. Vicious has turned on the syndicate's elders and taken it for himself, and Spike is next on the list. Shot at and cornered, the two are pulled out by Shin, an old comrade, while Julia finally reaches Spike through Faye.

The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)

24 min

Spike and Julia find each other again and run, and she is shot down by the syndicate before they get anywhere. To end it, Spike walks into the Red Dragon's headquarters alone. He wins the last exchange with Vicious, then walks out through the bodies and collapses quietly at the top of the stairs.