Cowboy Bebop

Sympathy for the Devil

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.