The scene opens with Jet and Faye on the couch. They are watching the show
"Large Important People", formerly known as "Big Shots", which was for some
reason, sold to a French network.
"Bonjour Amis, Comment allez-vous?! Today on "Large Important People", we have Caryon Lu-gage. This rather nasty pear-son, has been stealing luggage from local airports on Mars. He's worth the grand amount of 50,000 woolongs! Happy hunting. Au revoir!" Jet clicked the TV off with his shoe.
"We could really use that money Faye."
"I know, but I don't want to go through the trouble."
"Well, it's either we get the bounty and eat, or we sit on our butts and starve." Jet saw Faye's disappointed reaction.
"So, how we want to take down this loser?"
"We?"
"Yeah, we."
"wait Faye, we can't both leave again. Spike would be alone with Ed, and you know what happened last time."
"Oh. I don't want that to happen again."
"Why don't we flip for it. Winner stays here." Jet pulled a coin out of his pocket and flipped the coin. "It's heads." He looked at Faye. "What?"
"Jet. You're supposed to call it before you flip it."
"Oh, oops. Ok, I call heads." He flipped it again. "Heads! Have fun hunting Faye."
"You suck, but at least I'm not stuck with the children," and as she said that Spike ran through the room with the jacket tied around his head.
"I am the BLUE NINJA! AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" Then .he ran back out, but dramatically.
"Have fun Jet!" Faye waved goodbye as she headed out the door.
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Jet continued to watch the TV, but nothing good was on. Spike wandered back into the room, the jacket now hanging around his neck.
"Jeeetttttttt," he whined.
"What, Spike?" Jet had that tone of voice, you know, the exasperated one that means "I don't want to deal with this child anymore." You know.that kind of voice.
"I'm hungry." Jet sat there for a moment, thinking to himself. Then he smiled. "I think I've found away for Spike to pay me back for that hospital bill," he thought to himself.
"Spike.don't you remember? You use to cook all the meals here."
"I did?" Spike smiled. "Wow, so you guys all depend on me for food?"
"Yep. Now why don't we go into the kitchen and you can start fixing lunch." Jet led Spike into the kitchen and pulled out a large cookbook. "Here, pick something that sounds tasty to you."
"Jet, these all have squid in the ingredients."
"I know. I got it from the home-shopping network. They said it was an antique cookbook from some cooking competition show. Go figure."
"Where am I going to get all these ingredients?"
"Just a second." Jet walked over and pushed a hidden button on the wall. A panel moved back, revealing a staircase leading down. Jet went down and came back up carrying a whole bunch of food. "This should do it, oh and before I forget." Jet waved his hand in front of Spike's face. "There is no secret refrigerated store room, your stomach made it up due to its lack of nourishment. That is all."
"Ok." Jet began giving instructions. Ed walked by the doorway balancing a book on her forehead.
"Ed?" Jet asked, sticking his head out the doorway. Hearing no reply he walked into the sitting room and found Ed seated on the couch, still balancing a book on her head.
"Ed, where did you get that?"
"Ed got it from Faye Faye's room. Ed is practicing posture."
"Now Ed, you know if Faye finds out you were in her room, she's going to skin you alive."
"But Ed likes her skin!"
"I know Ed, so you best give me the book."
"Ok, Jet person." She handed the book to Jet and walked away.
"Hmmm.what's this.a journal?" Jet sat down and began to read the deep secrets of Faye.
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Faye was back in action. She peaked around the corner over her dark sunglasses. She had been tailing this suspicious looking guy for a few blocks now. She had gotten a tip off from one of the local gang members that this guy was involved with Caryon Lu-gage. She pulled her head back, as the guy turned to check his back. She waited a second and then looked back, seeing that the guy had continued on his way.
She stayed a comfortable distance back, but she was familiar enough with the area that she figured he was heading towards the airport. As if to confirm her suspicion, a jet flew low over the building she was hiding behind. She turned the next corner just in time to see the guy duck into one of the warehouses located at the edge of the airport.
Walking stealthily, she couldn't help but think of Spike and his crazy ninja talk. She put her ear up to the door, and then eased it open as quietly as she could. She ducked inside, and dodged behind a box. The warehouse was large. Boxes of unclaimed luggage were spread around the perimeter. She heard muffled voices, and slowly moved towards the center. She peered over one of the boxes and saw the gang. A tall man in a blue pimp suit, wearing a white hat with a large blue feather in it was stroking a small, rodent looking creature.
"Well, well. We have some really nice luggage here, don't we Mr. Bugs." The man in the suit stroked the bunny affectionately, while a couple of his goons began to sift through the suitcase spread out in the center of the warehouse. One of the goons opened a large black bag and let out a grunt of surprise.
"Uh, Mista Lu-gage?"
"What is it Grunk?"
"There's a man in here." Faye straightened herself a little so that she could see inside the bag, and sure enough there was a small man scrunched up inside.
"Um.excuse me..Grunk is it? If you don't mind, I'd much appreciate it if you could rezip my bag and put me back into the airplane. It's not easy trying to fly for free." Lu-gage nodded and Grunk began to rezip the bag, "Oh an if you would please, you see those four red bags over there? That's the rest of my family, so I don't think you'll find anything valuable in there." Grunk glanced back at Lu-gage, and again he nodded his agreement. The five bags were moved away from the rest of the "goods" and put neatly in front of the boxes to the right of the boxes that Faye was hiding behind. Faye tried to hide, but not before Grunk caught a glimpse of her.
"HEY BOSS! WE GOT COMPANY!" The boss pulled out his gun and motioned for the rest of his goons to do the same. They aimed at where Faye had been hiding, but Faye had already moved, she's not that stupid. The box was now full of holes, but a lot lighter. Faye ducked behind another box, and quickly called Jet.
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Jet looked up as the vid screen popped up. He quickly hid the journal behind his back as Faye's image popped up on the screen.
"Jet?! It's Faye! I'm at the warehouse at the edge of the airport!" She threw her hands over head as more gunfire ripped through the box above her. "I need back-up and quick!" Then the connection was lost.
"ED! Spike! Faye's in trouble I'm going to help her." He quickly grabbed his gun and ran past Ed. He tossed her the journal. "Ed, put that back where you found it." He ran past the kitchen towards the hanger.
"But Jet, what about the Squid Surprise?" Spike asked as Jet went running by. "I need you're help!" Jet was already too far ahead to hear. He jumped in his ship, and quickly switched on all the onboard computer systems.
"I'm coming Faye." He started the engine, opened the hanger door and sped on to rescue Faye.
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Faye popped over the box, leveled her gun, and got off two shots before she had to take refuge again. She was rewarded by two different screams of pain. She dodged to the right and picked up one of the red bags to shield herself as she ran between boxes.
"Hey LADY! Be careful! That's the family dog!" Came the man's voice from the big black bag. Faye dropped it in disgust. Just then, Jet broke through the opposite wall in his Hammer Head. He jumped out quickly, and took shelter behind two rather hard looking trunks.
"Faye I'm here!" She glanced over at the Hammer Head.
"Jet?! Why did you bring him?!"
"Huh?" Jet looked back at his ship. Spike was standing there wearing an apron and holding the mixing bowl.
"Jet.." he whined. "You didn't tell me what to do after I added the eggs, vanilla, and spinach!"
"Get down you idiot!" Jet looked over the trunk and provided cover for Spike as he ran to the nearest boxes. Jet motioned for Spike to head away from the direction of gunfire, which put him next to the family in the duffel bags.
"Hello," he said as he sat down calmly next to the man.
"Aw.. I see you do most of the cooking for your family too." Jet ran over to where Faye was hiding.
"So what's the plan?"
"I don't know, I didn't have time to think of one while I was dodging!" Faye noticed the man in the suit trying to escape out one of the side entrances with a green crocodile skin suitcase. She aimed at him.
"Faye! He's no good to us dead!" Jet yelled in warning, but she had already squeezed the trigger. Lu-gage turned slightly, moving the suitcase. The bullet lodged itself deeply in the side of it.
"NNNNNNNOOOOOO!! Anything but this one!" The man in the suit put down the suitcase gently, as if it was a dying friend. He cradled his rabbit in his arms, and began to cry. The goons who were still standing looked at their pitiful boss and then back at the bounty hunters. The one called Grunk shrugged, and ran out the other side door, followed quickly by the remaining gang members who could still move. Faye walked over to Lu-gage.
"It's over Caryon." He looked at her, and hugged the bunny closer to him, while he cried.
"Pitiful..How can he be worth so much?" Faye asked herself. "Oh well, money is money." Jet had tied up the rest of the goons, but had stopped at a particularly pale one.
"Bob?"
"We meet again Mr. Detective," Bob said smugly.
"Bob, I thought you drove an ambulance."
"I do, but it doesn't pay enough. I do this on the side to earn spending money. I even helped the boss pick out his name." Jet just shook his head. The sound of police sirens could be heard approaching. It wasn't long before the warehouse was swarming with cops. They loaded each of the men into the cars. Bob was one of the last ones to go.
"Hey, detective!" He yelled to Jet.
"What?"
"Say hi to your boyfriend for me. He's one lucky guy, I'm almost sorry I saved his life," and with that, the police officer shut the door. Jet stood there with his mouth hanging open, Faye came up beside him.
"You see Jet, I told you I'd get you back!" She walked ahead of him, toward where they had left Spike.
"Devil woman. But at least I got to read your journal," he said, smiling silently to himself. Faye rounded the corner of the box only to find Spike and the bag man in deep conversation.
"No no no. You season the meat before you cook it, that's the only way to really cook the flavor into the squid," the man was saying.
"Oh..I get it."
"Spike?" Spike looked up.
"Oh hey Faye. Did you get the guy?"
"Yeah we got him, but since when have you been interested in cooking?"
"Oh. Jet said I use to do it all the time." Spike smiled up at her. Faye sighed.
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Jet and Spike returned to the Bebop. Faye stayed behind with the cops to finish the paper work and collect the money. The men were greeted by the smell of burning food.
"No, my squid surprise!" Spike yelled running to the kitchen. "It's ruined." He looked at the charred remains.
"Ed tried to fix it, but Ed doesn't know how to cook," came the response from the doorway. Spike looked mournfully at Ed. Jet shooed her away.
"Well, let's clean this mess up." Jet helped Spike spray off the dirty dishes and place them in the dishwasher.
"Spike, don't push the start button yet."
"Why not, Jet?"
"You see, if you push it, Faye won't know you did it. It's like a tree falling in the forest. If no one's there, no one will hear the noise. This is the same thing. If a man does the dishes, but the woman doesn't see, then it never happened. So, we need to wait until Faye gets home before you push it, that way, you'll impress her."
"Why do I want to impress Faye?"
"Trust me, you'll thank me in the end." As if on cue, they heard Faye's ship enter the hanger. "Speak of the devil." Faye walked in, looking rather tired.
"Hey Faye!" Spike yelled. "Watch." He leaned over and pushed the button. "Are you impressed?" Faye looked from the washer to Spike, then back to the washer.
"Am I supposed to be?"
"Jet said that if I pushed the button while you were watching, you'd be impressed. Jet says that that's the way to impress woman."
"Spike, do you know how many girlfriend's Jet has had?"
"No."
"Well, you should ask him about it before you start taking his romantic advice." Faye walked away.
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Jet and Faye were alone again on the couches, smoking again. What else would they do?
"Hey Jet."
"Yeah?"
"This really does have to stop. We have to help him get his memories back."
"I agree, he's beginning to scare me."
"Yeah, me too."
"Tomorrow then. Tomorrow we start Operation Cure."
"Ok, Jet, but do we really have to call it that?"
"You're no fun Faye."
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Next Episode: Faye, Jet, Ein, and Ed try to help Spike get his memories back. Fun Fun. Stay tuned for: Trial and Error, Error, Error, Error, and then,.SUCCESS!
"Bonjour Amis, Comment allez-vous?! Today on "Large Important People", we have Caryon Lu-gage. This rather nasty pear-son, has been stealing luggage from local airports on Mars. He's worth the grand amount of 50,000 woolongs! Happy hunting. Au revoir!" Jet clicked the TV off with his shoe.
"We could really use that money Faye."
"I know, but I don't want to go through the trouble."
"Well, it's either we get the bounty and eat, or we sit on our butts and starve." Jet saw Faye's disappointed reaction.
"So, how we want to take down this loser?"
"We?"
"Yeah, we."
"wait Faye, we can't both leave again. Spike would be alone with Ed, and you know what happened last time."
"Oh. I don't want that to happen again."
"Why don't we flip for it. Winner stays here." Jet pulled a coin out of his pocket and flipped the coin. "It's heads." He looked at Faye. "What?"
"Jet. You're supposed to call it before you flip it."
"Oh, oops. Ok, I call heads." He flipped it again. "Heads! Have fun hunting Faye."
"You suck, but at least I'm not stuck with the children," and as she said that Spike ran through the room with the jacket tied around his head.
"I am the BLUE NINJA! AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" Then .he ran back out, but dramatically.
"Have fun Jet!" Faye waved goodbye as she headed out the door.
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Jet continued to watch the TV, but nothing good was on. Spike wandered back into the room, the jacket now hanging around his neck.
"Jeeetttttttt," he whined.
"What, Spike?" Jet had that tone of voice, you know, the exasperated one that means "I don't want to deal with this child anymore." You know.that kind of voice.
"I'm hungry." Jet sat there for a moment, thinking to himself. Then he smiled. "I think I've found away for Spike to pay me back for that hospital bill," he thought to himself.
"Spike.don't you remember? You use to cook all the meals here."
"I did?" Spike smiled. "Wow, so you guys all depend on me for food?"
"Yep. Now why don't we go into the kitchen and you can start fixing lunch." Jet led Spike into the kitchen and pulled out a large cookbook. "Here, pick something that sounds tasty to you."
"Jet, these all have squid in the ingredients."
"I know. I got it from the home-shopping network. They said it was an antique cookbook from some cooking competition show. Go figure."
"Where am I going to get all these ingredients?"
"Just a second." Jet walked over and pushed a hidden button on the wall. A panel moved back, revealing a staircase leading down. Jet went down and came back up carrying a whole bunch of food. "This should do it, oh and before I forget." Jet waved his hand in front of Spike's face. "There is no secret refrigerated store room, your stomach made it up due to its lack of nourishment. That is all."
"Ok." Jet began giving instructions. Ed walked by the doorway balancing a book on her forehead.
"Ed?" Jet asked, sticking his head out the doorway. Hearing no reply he walked into the sitting room and found Ed seated on the couch, still balancing a book on her head.
"Ed, where did you get that?"
"Ed got it from Faye Faye's room. Ed is practicing posture."
"Now Ed, you know if Faye finds out you were in her room, she's going to skin you alive."
"But Ed likes her skin!"
"I know Ed, so you best give me the book."
"Ok, Jet person." She handed the book to Jet and walked away.
"Hmmm.what's this.a journal?" Jet sat down and began to read the deep secrets of Faye.
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Faye was back in action. She peaked around the corner over her dark sunglasses. She had been tailing this suspicious looking guy for a few blocks now. She had gotten a tip off from one of the local gang members that this guy was involved with Caryon Lu-gage. She pulled her head back, as the guy turned to check his back. She waited a second and then looked back, seeing that the guy had continued on his way.
She stayed a comfortable distance back, but she was familiar enough with the area that she figured he was heading towards the airport. As if to confirm her suspicion, a jet flew low over the building she was hiding behind. She turned the next corner just in time to see the guy duck into one of the warehouses located at the edge of the airport.
Walking stealthily, she couldn't help but think of Spike and his crazy ninja talk. She put her ear up to the door, and then eased it open as quietly as she could. She ducked inside, and dodged behind a box. The warehouse was large. Boxes of unclaimed luggage were spread around the perimeter. She heard muffled voices, and slowly moved towards the center. She peered over one of the boxes and saw the gang. A tall man in a blue pimp suit, wearing a white hat with a large blue feather in it was stroking a small, rodent looking creature.
"Well, well. We have some really nice luggage here, don't we Mr. Bugs." The man in the suit stroked the bunny affectionately, while a couple of his goons began to sift through the suitcase spread out in the center of the warehouse. One of the goons opened a large black bag and let out a grunt of surprise.
"Uh, Mista Lu-gage?"
"What is it Grunk?"
"There's a man in here." Faye straightened herself a little so that she could see inside the bag, and sure enough there was a small man scrunched up inside.
"Um.excuse me..Grunk is it? If you don't mind, I'd much appreciate it if you could rezip my bag and put me back into the airplane. It's not easy trying to fly for free." Lu-gage nodded and Grunk began to rezip the bag, "Oh an if you would please, you see those four red bags over there? That's the rest of my family, so I don't think you'll find anything valuable in there." Grunk glanced back at Lu-gage, and again he nodded his agreement. The five bags were moved away from the rest of the "goods" and put neatly in front of the boxes to the right of the boxes that Faye was hiding behind. Faye tried to hide, but not before Grunk caught a glimpse of her.
"HEY BOSS! WE GOT COMPANY!" The boss pulled out his gun and motioned for the rest of his goons to do the same. They aimed at where Faye had been hiding, but Faye had already moved, she's not that stupid. The box was now full of holes, but a lot lighter. Faye ducked behind another box, and quickly called Jet.
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Jet looked up as the vid screen popped up. He quickly hid the journal behind his back as Faye's image popped up on the screen.
"Jet?! It's Faye! I'm at the warehouse at the edge of the airport!" She threw her hands over head as more gunfire ripped through the box above her. "I need back-up and quick!" Then the connection was lost.
"ED! Spike! Faye's in trouble I'm going to help her." He quickly grabbed his gun and ran past Ed. He tossed her the journal. "Ed, put that back where you found it." He ran past the kitchen towards the hanger.
"But Jet, what about the Squid Surprise?" Spike asked as Jet went running by. "I need you're help!" Jet was already too far ahead to hear. He jumped in his ship, and quickly switched on all the onboard computer systems.
"I'm coming Faye." He started the engine, opened the hanger door and sped on to rescue Faye.
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Faye popped over the box, leveled her gun, and got off two shots before she had to take refuge again. She was rewarded by two different screams of pain. She dodged to the right and picked up one of the red bags to shield herself as she ran between boxes.
"Hey LADY! Be careful! That's the family dog!" Came the man's voice from the big black bag. Faye dropped it in disgust. Just then, Jet broke through the opposite wall in his Hammer Head. He jumped out quickly, and took shelter behind two rather hard looking trunks.
"Faye I'm here!" She glanced over at the Hammer Head.
"Jet?! Why did you bring him?!"
"Huh?" Jet looked back at his ship. Spike was standing there wearing an apron and holding the mixing bowl.
"Jet.." he whined. "You didn't tell me what to do after I added the eggs, vanilla, and spinach!"
"Get down you idiot!" Jet looked over the trunk and provided cover for Spike as he ran to the nearest boxes. Jet motioned for Spike to head away from the direction of gunfire, which put him next to the family in the duffel bags.
"Hello," he said as he sat down calmly next to the man.
"Aw.. I see you do most of the cooking for your family too." Jet ran over to where Faye was hiding.
"So what's the plan?"
"I don't know, I didn't have time to think of one while I was dodging!" Faye noticed the man in the suit trying to escape out one of the side entrances with a green crocodile skin suitcase. She aimed at him.
"Faye! He's no good to us dead!" Jet yelled in warning, but she had already squeezed the trigger. Lu-gage turned slightly, moving the suitcase. The bullet lodged itself deeply in the side of it.
"NNNNNNNOOOOOO!! Anything but this one!" The man in the suit put down the suitcase gently, as if it was a dying friend. He cradled his rabbit in his arms, and began to cry. The goons who were still standing looked at their pitiful boss and then back at the bounty hunters. The one called Grunk shrugged, and ran out the other side door, followed quickly by the remaining gang members who could still move. Faye walked over to Lu-gage.
"It's over Caryon." He looked at her, and hugged the bunny closer to him, while he cried.
"Pitiful..How can he be worth so much?" Faye asked herself. "Oh well, money is money." Jet had tied up the rest of the goons, but had stopped at a particularly pale one.
"Bob?"
"We meet again Mr. Detective," Bob said smugly.
"Bob, I thought you drove an ambulance."
"I do, but it doesn't pay enough. I do this on the side to earn spending money. I even helped the boss pick out his name." Jet just shook his head. The sound of police sirens could be heard approaching. It wasn't long before the warehouse was swarming with cops. They loaded each of the men into the cars. Bob was one of the last ones to go.
"Hey, detective!" He yelled to Jet.
"What?"
"Say hi to your boyfriend for me. He's one lucky guy, I'm almost sorry I saved his life," and with that, the police officer shut the door. Jet stood there with his mouth hanging open, Faye came up beside him.
"You see Jet, I told you I'd get you back!" She walked ahead of him, toward where they had left Spike.
"Devil woman. But at least I got to read your journal," he said, smiling silently to himself. Faye rounded the corner of the box only to find Spike and the bag man in deep conversation.
"No no no. You season the meat before you cook it, that's the only way to really cook the flavor into the squid," the man was saying.
"Oh..I get it."
"Spike?" Spike looked up.
"Oh hey Faye. Did you get the guy?"
"Yeah we got him, but since when have you been interested in cooking?"
"Oh. Jet said I use to do it all the time." Spike smiled up at her. Faye sighed.
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Jet and Spike returned to the Bebop. Faye stayed behind with the cops to finish the paper work and collect the money. The men were greeted by the smell of burning food.
"No, my squid surprise!" Spike yelled running to the kitchen. "It's ruined." He looked at the charred remains.
"Ed tried to fix it, but Ed doesn't know how to cook," came the response from the doorway. Spike looked mournfully at Ed. Jet shooed her away.
"Well, let's clean this mess up." Jet helped Spike spray off the dirty dishes and place them in the dishwasher.
"Spike, don't push the start button yet."
"Why not, Jet?"
"You see, if you push it, Faye won't know you did it. It's like a tree falling in the forest. If no one's there, no one will hear the noise. This is the same thing. If a man does the dishes, but the woman doesn't see, then it never happened. So, we need to wait until Faye gets home before you push it, that way, you'll impress her."
"Why do I want to impress Faye?"
"Trust me, you'll thank me in the end." As if on cue, they heard Faye's ship enter the hanger. "Speak of the devil." Faye walked in, looking rather tired.
"Hey Faye!" Spike yelled. "Watch." He leaned over and pushed the button. "Are you impressed?" Faye looked from the washer to Spike, then back to the washer.
"Am I supposed to be?"
"Jet said that if I pushed the button while you were watching, you'd be impressed. Jet says that that's the way to impress woman."
"Spike, do you know how many girlfriend's Jet has had?"
"No."
"Well, you should ask him about it before you start taking his romantic advice." Faye walked away.
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Jet and Faye were alone again on the couches, smoking again. What else would they do?
"Hey Jet."
"Yeah?"
"This really does have to stop. We have to help him get his memories back."
"I agree, he's beginning to scare me."
"Yeah, me too."
"Tomorrow then. Tomorrow we start Operation Cure."
"Ok, Jet, but do we really have to call it that?"
"You're no fun Faye."
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Next Episode: Faye, Jet, Ein, and Ed try to help Spike get his memories back. Fun Fun. Stay tuned for: Trial and Error, Error, Error, Error, and then,.SUCCESS!