Cowboy Bebop: Season 1

Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter, and his partner Jet Black head to the Tijuana asteroid colony on their ship, the Bebop, to track down a bounty-head named Asimov Solensan. Asimov, also known as "The Red-Eyed Coyote", is wanted for killing members of his own crime syndicate and stealing a cache of a dangerous combat drug known as Bloody-Eye. On the colony, Asimov and his girlfriend, Katerina, are ambushed at a bar by his former syndicate while attempting to sell a vial of Bloody-Eye, but Asimov fi

A bounty takes Spike and Jet to Mars, where their target, Abdul Hakim, is wanted for stealing a valuable lab animal. To avoid capture, Hakim has had plastic surgery to change his appearance. At a bar, Hakim's briefcase containing the animal is stolen. Spike discovers the thief attempting to sell the animal at a pet store and, assuming him to be Hakim, holds him at gunpoint. The case contains a Welsh Corgi. As Spike leaves the store, Hakim attempts to take the dog back, but it escapes, prompting

The crew of the Bebop head to a space station casino to try and make some money. Spike is told not to bring too much attention to himself by winning too much but attention comes anyway when he accidentally mixes two poker chips; one with a microchip hidden inside meant for an illegal sale. Faye Valentine, a wanted fugitive drowning in debt, gets captured by Jet and Spike but manages to escape the watchful eye of Ein. Though they lost one of their ships and the woman with the large bounty on her

After gambling away all the money she obtained, Faye finds a mysterious suitcase aboard a derelict spaceship. Meanwhile, Spike and Jet bump into Twinkle Maria Murdoch, leader of the Space Warriors, a group of eco-terrorists armed with a biological weapon called "Monkey Business", a virus that can transform humans into apes. Faced with the threat by Murdoch's followers to release the virus on heavily-populated Ganymede if she isn't released, the Ganymede government cancels the bounty and forces t

Rivals of two Martian crime syndicates form a truce that is interrupted when a man named Vicious comes in with henchmen to kill them all. Spike has past ties to one of the aforementioned crime syndicates, the Red Dragon, but refuses to explain further to a frustrated Jet (who likewise has his own past, regarding his prosthetic arm, that he refuses to divulge). Spike tries to get information from an old contact named Annie, who had thought him dead for years. Returning to the Bebop for enough amm

With the food situation scarce (thanks to a hungry Faye), Jet and Spike are eager to nab another bounty, named Giraffe. There's a chase, with Jet offering some distraction for Spike to pursue Giraffe to a hotel but Spike fails to save his bounty who gets shot and falls out a window. Before dying, Giraffe gives Spike a ring and urges him not to be fooled by the way "he looks". Jet learns from an old bounty hunter friend that Giraffe was friends with someone named Zebra, who supposedly had a child

The crew of the Bebop split up to look for a bounty named Decker with a dragon tattoo on his arm. Spike nurses a hangover and looks for him at a bar but inadvertently finds himself helping a cargo hauler pilot named VT take down a trio of hunters who were harassing a waitress. Spike soon gets outed as a bounty hunter himself, earning VT's disgust. Meanwhile, Faye is in a family friendly restaurant where Decker ends up going to but he quickly escapes after a tattoo ID mix-up by Faye. VT reluctant

Three ship hijackers on their way to Venus get intercepted by the Bebop crew and the bounty is collected. A man named Rocco, carrying a wrapped package, spots Spike and tries to rush at him. Rocco is impressed when he gets knocked down and asks for Spike's mentoring and knowledge on how to fight better. Spike reluctantly teaches him to be more fluid in his fighting and after a sudden face-off with some gang members, Rocco gives him the package to take care of until they can meet again the next d

A ravaged South America has been getting animals lasered onto its surface but no one seems to know why. The Bebop crew only get interested when they hear there's a bounty on the supposed hacker that must have gained access to the satellite doing the lasering. Interviews of the Earth citizens keep bringing up an elite computer hacker nicknamed "Radical Edward" but there's no general consensus on what this radical hacker looks like or where they could be. What no one knows is that the satellite "g

Jet is even more taciturn than usual as the Bebop lands on Ganymede, his last post before leaving the ISSP (Inter Solar System Police). He visits his ex-girlfriend, Alisa, at her bar. She is planning to leave with her boyfriend, Rhint, since the bar is going to be foreclosed and she has several debts. Jet holds no animosity towards Alisa but wants to know why she left him with just a pocketwatch and a note that said "farewell". She brushes him off, offering platitudes, and doesn't explain until

What starts as a normal day with no bounty hunting turns into a scene of terror when a blob with a venomous bite infiltrates the Bebop. Jet is the first to get bitten when he goes into attic section of their ship and finds an old refrigerator. With a terribly stocked first aid kit, Jet gets worse and after trying to rule out what the virus or creature could be, Faye gets attacked in the bath. Spike and Ed quickly suit up with heat-seeking goggles but Ein, who had noticed and barked at the creaur

Faye cleans out the crew's safe and leaves the Bebop for Callisto. Jet and Spike get into an argument when Jet wants to look for Faye and get their money back but Spike wants to follow up on a clue for the location of his old girlfriend, Julia. Another person from Spike's past, Vicious, ends up on Callisto, trying to carry out a deal of a large cache of Bloody-Eye from a mysterious seller. Faye gets the attention of jazz saxophonist, Gren, while at a jazz bar and ends getting saved by him when s

Gren tells Faye about his connection to Vicious. They had served together as soldiers on a planetary war where Gren looked up to him and considered him a comrade. He was then betrayed by Vicious and incarcerated, experimented on, and ultimately the hormonal experimentation left him Gren with female attributes. He is the Red-Eye dealer who requested Vicious to get information and closure. He handcuffs Faye after she tries another attack and Jet, who had been questioning people the previous episod

There's a large bounty on the head of the mastermind behind several Astral Gate robberies drawing in several bounty hunters including the Bebop Crew. After Spike, Jet, and Faye pool their information together (not making much headway capturing the crooks separately), they find the only thing their crooks had in common was receiving a chess piece each. Ed reveals the chess piece has a microchip and plays a virtual game of chess with someone who is soon discovered to be the Chessmaster Hex. Jet fi

While cleaning after Ein, Faye relates the story of her past. She was cryogenically frozen after being critically injured in an explosion. She stayed in cryogenic sleep for 54 years until she was healed and awoke to no memory of what happened and over 300 million in medical debt. A man named Whitney, claiming to be an insurance lawyer, explained what happened and brings her back when she runs away, horrified over not being able to pay. She falls for Whitney but after getting pursued by a collect

Jet's former partner, Fad, calls him to ask for help locating a prison inmate who led a prison riot on a prison ship and commandeered it. The man, Udai Taxim, is responsible for Jet losing his arm. Jet leaves the Bebop and joins Fad on a search where he tracks Udai to Europa and goes into the heavily armed ship alone. He takes several hits but manages to come face to face with Udai and after a fight it's revealed that Jet's partner was a crooked cop who worked for their Syndicate, and fired the

With no food or fuel left, the Bebop is sideswiped in a hit-and-run and make a crash landing. Ed and Ein are sent to look for food while the men try to repair the ship. Ed and Ein manage to stow away in the trunk of a woman's car and they get caught in the middle of a gun fight between Domino Walker, a hallucinogenic mushroom dealer, and Shaft, the vengeance-seeking brother of a man who died after eating those mushrooms. Ed gets some of the mushrooms and takes them back to the ship where she lea

While Faye wastes money betting on horse racing, a package addressed to her arrives on the Bebop containing an old Betamax tape, prompting Spike and Jet to look for an appropriate device to view its contents. After wrecking a Betamax player at an antiques shop and stealing the wrong player from an underground city, the two get a follow-up delivery with the appropriate video player. The tape proves to be a time capsule recording made by a hopeful, encouraging teenage Faye, but Faye finds her pre-

Spike takes his mono-racer to Earth for maintenance with trusted mechanic, Doohan. An excitable baseball fan, Miles, is his relatively new assistant. Jet and Faye go after a group of pirates who evade capture by transferring computer viruses to the Bebop and their smaller pod ships, via grappling hooks. Spike soon joins them in trying to find the hacker hijackers. Spike chases after the hackers and gets the virus shot into his ship's system. He attempted to override the computers and fly the mon

A group of men get gunned down by a grinning, maniacal killer named Mad Pierrot. Spike stumbles upon this crime scene after a round of billiards nearby, and he narrowly escapes with his life. Jet contacts an old ISSP buddy of his to get more info on the Mad Pierrot; a man who survived brutal experimentation in an effort to make him a form of super soldier, and sought out revenge from those who tortured him. No one who has ever seen him survived and Spike, despite being wounded, accepts an e-mail

Jet, spurred on by a cryptic e-mail, tries to find an old acquaintance but discovers only his grave on Mars. A girl appears and saves him from being shot by mysterious assassins at the cemetery. The girl turns out to be his acquaintance's estranged daughter, Mei-Fa, an expert in feng shui. She believes that her father sending him the email before his disappearance means he could be alive and she asks Jet's help in finding a "sun stone" that can lead them to her father's location. The sun stone t

A terrorist known as the "Teddy Bomber" has been using explosives hidden in teddy bears to bring down high-rise buildings in protest of humanity's excesses (though he doesn't get a chance to explain his motive until the end). Spike's first attempt to stop him is interrupted by a bounty hunter on a horse known as "Cowboy Andy". Their skirmish leads to the Teddy Bomber escaping. Initially, Jet and Faye don't believe Spike but Ed finds Cowboy Andy online and reveals he's wealthy but has been going

While channel surfing, Spike spots Faye on TV as part of cult called SCRATCH. The leader of SCRATCH is Dr. Londes, whose promises of being able to digitize the soul to escape bodily desires, resulted in about 100 suicides and disappearances. No one seems to be able to find the elderly leader of Scratch, and after receiving a cryptic video message from Faye, Spike is tasked to go find her while Jet and Ed follow one last lead in the form of a SCRATCH-made virtual reality game. With the surprising

On the way to Mars, Faye reroutes the Bebop to Earth, so she can look for landmarks she saw in the video recorded by her teenage self. Ed tags along with her and leads her to an orphanage where Ed once lived. The nun in charge gives Ed a picture of her father, who came looking for her a while ago. Faye and Ed find one of the locations in Faye's old video, and Faye is surprised by an old schoolmate. Jet and Spike receive information on a bounty which looks to have a lucrative payoff but it turns

After the girls leave the Bebop, Spike and Jet drown their sorrows at a bar but get ambushed by members of the Red Dragon Syndicate. They are saved by Shin, brother of Spike's former subordinate Lin, who explains that after Vicious unsuccessfully tried to seize control of the organization, people connected to him are now being hunted down. Jet gets shot in the leg during the shootout but a doctor removes the bullet and they head back to the Bebop. Faye crosses paths with Julia when she helps tak

Reunited, Julia tells Spike about the threat she received from Vicious but instead of killing Spike to spare herself, she chose to run away. She wants to pick up where they left off but after finding Annie shot, Spike resolves to get revenge. Julia stays with him and they shoot their way out when Annie's store is swarmed by Syndicate members. Julia gets shot and dies in Spike's arms. Jet, who was initially dismissive and angry at the trouble Spike brought him, goes looking for him but only finds