COWBOY BEBOP #1
A rainy street. A thin, puffy-haired man named Spike Spiegel smokes cigarette. A rose falls into a puddle. A shoot out in a dark building. A wicked smile. A mysterious green hair girl name Amber Rose wearing a rain coat takes off on a journey to find someone special to her and ending her nightmare for good all happened three years ago.
Session #1
ASTEROID BLUES
Hyperspace rings over Mars. An old fishing ship called the Bebop flies through hyperspace. Spike practices martial arts in the dark. A brawny, bald man named Jet Black tosses bell peppers in a wok.
JET: Hey, Spike! It's ready!
SPIKE: I'm just about done myself. What's cooking?
JET: Special, Beef with bell peppers.
The living room.
JET: Asimov Solensan. This is our next target.
SPIKE: Hey, Jet...
JET: He's a high-end of the syndicate that deals all around the asteroids.
SPIKE: About this Beef with bell peppers.
JET: This guy's name is Asimov Solensan. Weren't you listening to me?!
SPIKE: You DON'T call a meatless "beef with bell peppers" "beef with bell peppers"...do you?
JET: Yes, you do.
SPIKE: No, you don't!
JET: You do when you're broke!
SPIKE: What happened to the 1 million Woolongs we got as bounty from that last guy?!
JET: The repair bill the plane you wrecked and the repair bill for the shop you trashed and the medical bill for the cop you injured KILLED ALL THE DOUGH!
Silence.
JET: Three days ago, there was a shootout between his group and an enemy Syndicate. He killed his own men, and took off. They say he's hiding with his woman in Tijuana.
SPIKE: That's a place for nobodies to go.
JET: Despite being a nobody, he's worth 2.5 million.
SPIKE: Don't fell like it.
JET: Tijuana...The beef there is REALLY tasty...
The exit of the hyperspace rings. Recorded voices in different languages begin to speak.
RECORDED VOICES: Attention, please. We will soon arrive at the gate. We look forward to serving you again. Please line up single file at the tollbooth after clearing the gate. Please pass by after switching the credit sensors to debit mode.
A digital receipt for 7500 Woolongs.
On the Bebop.
JET: I'll head over after hitting the cops for clues.
SPIKE: Then I'll try seeing old man Bull.
JET: Can you trust that old buy?
Spike starts up his red fighter craft, Swordfish II, whistling a sad little tune. Swordfish rolls out, its wings fold down.
JET: Such an easygoing song.
Jet turns off the magnet on the deck. Swordfish floats off the deck and blasts off.
Tijuana. Ships and cars zoom by the crowded streets. A man chases two boys carrying large paper bags.
MAN: THIEF!
A bar called "El Rey." Three senile old men, Antonio, Carlos and Jobin, play poker. The bartender cleans a glass. With another person wearing a heavy coat drinks some water at the bar staying quite not saying a word none other than Amber Rose wearing dirty clothes like a bum would wear and no shoes on her feet being dirty.
ANTONIO: This again? Goddamn sonofabitch! Man, you're totally ripping me off, but do ya realize the reason you can live here is because I dug that gate with all my might, ya hear?
CARLOS: This again. You always say that when you lose. We all dug the gate together, remember?
JOBIN: That we did...We dug like there was no tomorrow...
ANTONIO: Goddamn idiot sonofabitch...
Asimov and his girlfriend, Katerina, enter. Katerina appears to be pregnant.
ASIMOV: Gimme a beer.
KATERINA: And I'll have a Bloody Mary.
BARTENDER: I got vodka, but unfortunately I'm out of tomato juice.
ASIMOV: I'm sure there's ONE CAN in the back room...
Asimov flashes a vile of eye spray from his coat.
BARTENDER: I'll take a look.
The bartender and Asimov walk into the back room.
A blue car pulls up. Several men walk out toting guns.
The back room.
ASIMOV: Top notch "RED-EYE." You'd know, as a buyer, right?
BARTENDER: Can it be..."BLOODY-EYE?"
Outside. The men surround the building.
The back room. The bartender tosses Asimov a spray mechanism.
BARTENDER: Prove to me that it's the real thing.
Asimov sprays his eyes.
ASIMOV: Keep those eyes open!
The bartender is shot in the head. The old men hide under a table with the girl doing the same thing shooting back while escaping by foot from the shoot out cutting her foot from the broken glass all over the floor bleeding. The room is littered with glass and debris. Katerina returns fire behind the corner of the counter. Asimov dodges bullets and kills the men.
A tent somewhere on Mars. A tribesman, Laughing Bull sifts sand through the palm of his hand. Spike watches impatiently.
SPIKE: This is dandy, but you got anything to eat?
Silence.
SPIKE: I see.
BULL: The red-eyed coyote will appear at the north end of town. That is what I see.
SPIKE: A red-eyed coyote, huh...
BULL: You, "Swimming Bird." You shall meet with two women one good one evil. You shall be targeted by that evil woman...and...death.
SPIKE: Again, I see.
BULL: "Again"?
SPIKE: I've already died once. Got killed by a woman. Maybe the good one would be my luck.
BULL: You take women too lightly.
SPIKE: Catch ya later.
Spike exits.
BULL: May he be blessed by Wakantanka.
The mess at "El Rey." The cat licks a puddle on the floor. Jet enters and picks up a bottle from behind the counter.
JET: Presidente? I'll have a glass on the house.
A car pulls in. Two thugs enter. Jet hides.
THUG A: Damn. Asimov sure lost his head.
THUG B: No shit. We gotta do something before the cops start moving.
THUG A: Ya wanna leave it to the cops? He IS using those eye drops. There's no way we can win.
THUG B: I'm tellin' ya, we got nothin' if we don't get that "BLOODY-EYE" back.
THUG A: But, man...!
Jet taps a Thug B on the shoulder.
JET: Hey.
Jet smashes the bottle over Thug B's head. Jet puts Thug A in a headlock and puts the broken bottle near his face.
JET: Can you give me specifics?
The Swordfish flies over farmland.
SPIKE: Man, I'm hungry...
The control panel flashes "EMPTY."
SPIKE: You too...?
A public men's room. Spike enters a stall. Asimov enters. While outside of it Amber sees her enemy hiding from Asimov while clean and patching up her wound on her foot having trouble moving around a lot.
Outside. Katerina buys food from vending machines.
Asimov retches in a sink. Spike exits the stall and washes his hands at the sink next to Asimov. Asimov reaches into his coat for a gun.
SPIKE: It's better to leave the water running. Or it'll clog.
Spike exits, whistling. Soon outside sees Amber in pain trying to clean the wound from her food with a bottle of booze being poured on her stops the pain but sting. Stopping the pain Amber looks at Spike as if she seen him once before then looked away allowing him to lead against her ear.
SPIKE: Those people, I can get back on what they done to you. Pay me.
AMBER: Come again?
SPIKE: You pay me and I'll give them a beat down for you.
Spike leaves whistling leaving Amber confused on what he met.
AMBER: Wait! Who are you?
SPIKE: A bounty hunter hunting my way.
Spike kept on walking away and Amber follows him by spying from behind quietly.
Outside the public men's room. Spike bumps into Katerina, spilling her bag. Spike picks the food off the ground.
KATERINA: Oh, I'm sorry!
Spike puts a few items into her bag.
KATERINA: Thank you...
Spike starts walking away.
KATERINA: Um...
Spike turns around, mouth full and pulls a hot dog out of his mouth.
SPIKE: I'm sorry.
KATERINA: Ew! I don't want that anymore! You can have it!
SPIKE: Lucky!
Spike pulls out more items from his jacket. Katerina smiles. Asimov enters from a corner and spots them and Amber does on the other side.
SPIKE: I'm really sorry, honest. Felt like my stomach was going to be glued to my back.
They laugh.
Fuel station. Spike refuels the Swordfish.
KATERINA: Nice fighter.
SPIKE: It's an old model. She's been with me for over ten years.
KATERINA: Looks like you've gotten a lot of use out of it.
SPIKE: I travel around a lot.
Spike twirls a cigarette between his fingers.
SPIKE: I'm actually a wandering performer.
KATERINA: I can't tell if you're for real or just joking.
SPIKE: A lot of people say that about me.
KATERINA: Been to Mars yet?
SPIKE: I was born on Mars.
KATERINA: They have everything there. Unlike here, Mars has lots of people, lots of things. They must live happily there.
SPIKE: Only the rich.
KATERINA: Then I'm sure we'll be happy there.
SPIKE: Your planning on escaping to Mars? Running away...but how far can you go?
KATERINA: Who are you?
SPIKE: An old-fashioned cowboy.
KATERINA: A bounty hunter?
SPIKE: Good call.
KATERINA: You're not going to catch us?
SPIKE: Your buddy seems pretty ill. I don't deal with weakened nobodies.
KATERINA: Wise decision.
Asimov chokes Spike from behind him.
ASIMOV: YOU are the nobody!
KATERINA: Asimov! That's enough!
Asimov lets go before Amber could shoot him from the back, Spike reaches into Asimov's coat as he falls to the ground. Asimov and Katerina drive away.
KATERINA: Adios, cowboy.
On the road.
ASIMOV: Why did you stop me? I coulda killed him in one second.
KATERINA: You're tired. If you don't do this anymore...
ASIMOV: He was young and attractive.
KATERINA: I was waiting so long for you to come pick me up...I can finally escape the low life I've had here...I can finally live happily on Mars.
Jet comes back seeing Spike lying on the floor knowing he was alive and sees Amber standing near his body. Amber puts her hands up and her gun down showing Jet she wasn't working with Asimov.
AMBER: I'm not with them!
JET: I think you're alright. Is he...?
AMBER: I felt his pulse. I think he's still alive.
Jet's shadow looms over Spike.
JET: A nap. How peaceful.
Spike opens his eyes seeing Jet and Amber.
SPIKE: I had a good dream think it just came true.
Spike stared at Amber making her face turn red.
AMBER: Come again?
JET: That's great. Then you can see the rest of that dream on the Bebop. I'm giving up on this one. It's impossible to catch him. There's no way we can win. When Asimov left his syndicate he snuck something out with him. The top-end stuff of all the illegal eye drops that the syndicate makes. He took off with all of the drops, so the group is in a mess. They wanna catch him, but all they get back are corpses. Because Asimov is using it...The eye drops known as "BLOODY-EYE."
Spike twirls Asimov's eye drop vile between his fingers.
SPIKE: They're planning to go to Mars.
JET: Mars?
SPIKE: But before that, they'll sell THIS off.
JET: Hmm? That's...
SPIKE: I grabbed it from his breast pocket.
JET: You...met him?
SPIKE: A nightmare.
JET: He got you?
SPIKE: The red-eyed coyote will supposedly appear at the north end of town.
AMBER: Wow! You're good. Both of you. What type of Bounty Hunters are you?
JET: Names Jet Black. Leader of the Bebop team hunting down wanted bounties.
SPIKE: Call me Spike Spiegel. And you, little lady?
Amber wasn't happy hearing that on what Spike said.
AMBER: First off, I'm not a little lady I'm a woman only twenty-two years old. And second, my name is Amber Rose.
Amber hands Spike a handful of money.
SPIKE: Where did you get this cash?
JET: That's a lot!
AMBER: I'm a bounty hunter too. Spike, let me help you guys please? I pay you that much to get them back at what they done to my foot, deal?
Spike smiles and Jet was surprise there.
SPIKE: You got a deal, Amber.
In space, police ships surround Tijuana. A police car zooms by Asimov and Katerina's parked car. They exit.
Denis Bar. The three old men play cards at a table. Antonio throws down his cards.
ANTONIO: This again? Goddamn sonofabitch! Man, you're totally rippin' me off, but do ya realize the reason you can eat well around here is because I cultivated the land with my buddies, ya here?
CARLOS: Yeah, and that's us.
JOBIN: That we did...We planted those seeds like there was no tomorrow...
CARLOS: You were always planting "seeds" of a different kind, though!
Asimov and Katerina walk by. Asimov sits down next to a Spike disguised in poncho and sombrero.
ASIMOV: You have any Bloody Mary's?
SPIKE: I only got beer.
ASIMOV: I've got tomato juice.
SPIKE: How much?
ASIMOV: 300,000 Woolongs. I got 50 packs.
SPIKE: 15 million Woolongs...
ASIMOV: I'm in a hurry. I'll find others if you don't want it.
SPIKE: Show me.
Asimov reaches into the coat and finds that the vile is missing. Spike holds up the vile.
SPIKE: Lookin' for this? Hey, do you know what YOU are worth?
ASIMOV: What?
SPIKE: Only 2.5 million Woolongs. You're such a cheap guy.
Spike takes off the sombrero.
SPIKE: Long time no see.
ASIMOV: Since when are you a buyer? Did you give up on bounty hunting?
SPIKE: No thrill in cheap bounties.
ASIMOV: Looks like you do better as a thief. Give it back.
SPIKE: Sure I will. I owe you one!
Spike tosses the vile into the air and shoots it with his gun. He rushes into, dodges his blows and beats him up.
SPIKE: You trust your eyes too much! You're not a chameleon!
Spike takes off the poncho.
SPIKE: You can't see everywhere all at once!
Spike continues to beat him up. Katerina points a gun at them, hands shaking. A black fighter shoots from the air. They run for cover. With Amber shooting back along with kicking tons of the other guys out of her way.
AMBER: Beat it, freaks!
ASIMOV: Let's go!
Gangsters in a car chase Asimov and Katerina.
GANGSTER: That way!
Spike chases after the car with Amber tagging along.
GANGSTER: That way! That way!
Spike and Amber climbs to the roof of the car and proceeds to beat up the gangsters who reach for him through the windows. Amazed on their great fighting skills looking at each other.
SPIKE: You're good!
AMBER: You too!
Katerina points her gun at a man refueling his ship.
KATERINA: Don't move! All right. stay still!
Asimov boards the man's ship. Gunfire from above rips a hole in Katerina's dress near her belly. Viles of eye spray fall from the hole. She struggles to retrieve the viles. Katerina boards the ship.
ASIMOV: IDIOT! We're doomed if this breaks! Be more careful!
Gangsters in cars pull up and open fire on Spike. Spike leaps behind the car. The two cars are lifted by the Jet's fighter, the Hammerhead. And Amber grabs out her nun-chucks whacking the rest out of the way really fast.
Amber: Booya!
JET: Sorry to keep you waiting.
SPIKE: You're late, Jet!
Spike sees Asimov and Katerina take off in the stolen ship.
SPIKE: Shit!
Both Jet and Amber take care of things on their end as Spike chases the bounty down by flight.
Two black fighters chase and shoot at them.
Inside the stolen ship, Asimov is trembling.
KATERINA: Asimov.
The Swordfish takes off and guns down the black fighters. The Swordfish chases after the stolen ship.
In the stolen ship. Asimov holds a vile of eye spray to his eyes.
KATERINA: Stop! Doing any more is insane! Don't do it!
The chase continues in space. Katerina sees the police ships.
KATERINA: We can't run anymore...There is no way we can get away...
A loud gunshot. Spike flies next to the stolen ship. Katerina has shot Asimov in the head.
KATERINA: Adios...
The police ships completely shred the stolen ship with gunfire. Katerina floats in space, the viles of eye drops flow out of the hole in her dress. Back on the other planet Spike tells Jet the bad news for Amber to hear after.
JET: Looks like the two are as good as dead. Damn…
AMBER: What a bummer.
The Bebop. Jet tosses bell peppers in his work.
JET: Hey, Spike, it ready!
The control room.
JET: It's ready.
SPIKE: What's cooking?
JET: SPECIAL, Beef with Bell Peppers.
In the other room Spike joins Jet on their meals with Amber joining them.
AMBER: Look I know I can't tell you two why I'm a bounty hunter and my goal is, but do you two have to take me on this Bebop ship.
SPIKE: You owe me in saving you today but failed. So after a fine work we're allowing you to live with us. Your reasons you travel, don't care just work.
AMBER: But…!
JET: No buts! I hate seeing you like this leaving on the streets.
AMBER: I know how to survive.
JET: Look, Amber, allowing you to live here you'll work around the place and getting things for you not looking like a bum. Not on my ship. We go shopping later.
Amber looks at her old clothes and no shoes on really needs a change.
AMBER: I guess you have a good point.
JET: Than it's a deal. First task, start cleaning the dishes.
AMBER: Okay! Okay! Deal!
Amber picks up the plates with one thing Jet once to say to her secretly.
JET: It's more than that; it was all Spikes' idea really.
In the kitchen with Amber cleaning up Spike enters in.
SPIKE: Welcome to the team, Amber.
AMBER: Oh, thanks I guess. You two are enjoying having a woman doing all your work.
SPIKE: A little. Plus I want to get to know you more.
Spike punches Amber, but she blocks his hits many times over and over without thinking and he's amazed on her fighting skills.
AMBER: What was that for!?
SPIKE: Nice moves, going to enjoying have this lucky woman around.
Spike leaves the room with Amber being confused about that man just now and her living with them as a bounty hunter member of the Bebop.
AMBER: Things keep getting weirder and weirder. For those two around this should be fun.
SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...