Cowboy Bebop Desperate Charm
Episode 2 : Cold Tears, Warm Heart
On the beach, Faye lies getting a tan.
Faye : I sort of like vacations that don't stop, it's like a nightmare to never have this kind of fun. I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner. It's funny. I never knew it could be so easy.
Her Phone Rings...
Faye : I have no time to answer, I rather just relax and forget everything in my way, kind of like a cat that never stops wandering for a mate, I sort of just like to slack.
A message comes over.
Edward : Faye Faye, I tracked you down, why have you been hiding? Spike has ran away OooEoo!
Faye picks up the phone
Faye : Edward, why are you calling now? You could have called earlier!
Edward : Faye Faye, Edward just wants to see you! HeeYeeahe!
Faye : What's so important that you interrupt my vacation?
Edward : I thought you ran away too!
Faye : What matters is that you leave me alone!
Jet interrupts them...
Jet : I know you want to do that Faye, but you just can't. You can't just hide from the fact that Spike has done the worst possible crime imaginable. Not only that, without Julia he has lost his own self Confidence, now he just wants to get rid of his own personality and drain himself out with drugs. Not only drugs but angel tears.
Faye : You mean the same angel tears that Vicious did?
Jet : That's right, the angel tears are so cold they are said to cause someone to enter into a temporary state of shock, where they are still functioning. They say it is an act of pure will of your guardian angel, like your soul drives the motions of your body, but that's total bullshit.
Faye : Then what really happens?
Jet : It's more like your logic shuts off and you act on pure instincts, you may have your motor skills and intelligence, but you don't have any common sense, it's like reverting to childhood with all the intelligence of a god, or however much you have inside of you.
Faye : So you're saying spike is doing this?
Jet : Not only that, but he did it around Edward, and Ed got in on it too, we believe he raped ed and ran away to escape what he had done. We don't know where he is now.
Meanwhile, at a rest stop somewhere near venus...
Spike is in a bathroom washing his face.
Random Person 1: Hey bud, what do you think you're doing?
Spike : I'm just washing my face.
Random Person 1: Yeah, but that's a toilet.
Spike : Yeah, so I guess it is.
Spike looks around with eyes as cold and piercing as a new child that just got stabbed in a moment of joy. He was crying, but not a single tear fell.
Spike : Well, I'll be leaving now.
Spike Leaves the restroom, only to go into the women's restroom. He sees Julia standing there.
Julia : Spike! I can't believe we meet like this! I can't believe I'm alive either! What are you doing here?
Spike : When I look at you, my heart stops beating, only long enough for me to see you aren't there, and in my own mind, I see that you can't be there.
Julia : What do you mean? I'm here for you!
Spike : Were you there for me when I was alive? When I cared about you? Before I pulled the one stunt I could to stay alive, after you had disappeared? No, I must wake up.
Julia : I get it, you lost me, so you turned to drugs, losing your own identity, you hoped to escape everything you had worked hard for?
Spike : I had only done as I pleased, I hadn't worked, I hadn't played, I only survived, in a dull unspiritual fashion.
Julia : So, No matter if the truth is right here, or has long gone, the tears of such coldness have Iced over your heart so much. I will help you overcome this, I will, I will.
She hugs him while saying I will help you overcome this, I will, I will.
Spike : Even though a mirage will never bring you back, I feel your warmth and imagine you by my side, even though I may never see you in this reality, I wish to meet you when I can.
Julia : I will mother you as a child, until you see this is reality.
On the Bebop
Edward : Edward found him!
Jet : What?
Edward : I hacked into all the nearby rest stops, look at this!
Jet : Son of a bitch, how long ago was this?
Edward : Edward thinks we should go there!
Jet : Wait, is that Julia? She's Dead!
Edward : No! Julia's Alive!
Faye : I don't really care, as soon as we get Spike on board we're gonna make sure he gets busted.
Jet : As a former cop, I don't think that's a good idea.
Faye : What do you mean? You're gonna let him go?
Jet : If you just turn in some random guy and say he's committed a crime, it'll look suspicious, we should try to help spike.
Faye : But he molested Ed! Isn't it insane to try to help him now?
Jet : That may be, but I did some research. Turns out these angel tears don't harm you at all, they just make you view the world as your own world, everything that you learn or experience when you are high is completely denied and almost forgotten.
Faye : So it wasn't his fault
Jet : He desired something he had no say was bad, he acted only on his desires, and not logic. We can't just say he's turned bad, but it is a result of his drug abuse. He has to face it. But as long as we keep quiet, he'll have a chance.
Edward : Hey you guys! Edward sees!
Jet : Okay, we're going into the rest stop.
They enter the rest stop. Julia is crying holding Spike with eyes that are as cold as ice, and as apathetic as a mind traumatized into a state of self-destruction.
Jet : Julia!
Julia : Spike has turned into his own messiah, an omen fortelling of his own doubts, fears, and conscience, and now you must know that he does not desire any words from those who love him.
Faye : Julia, I know you aren't the one to stop us, we must help him escape.
Julia : No matter what you say, I can't let you take him again, look at what he has become. I must help him.
Jet loads a weapon and fires in the air...
Faye : What the hell was that for?
Edward : Faye Faye, you should know!
Jet : Edward's right, Julia obviously has been smoking the same dope as Spike.
The crowd of people that have been watching begin to chatter.
Jet : Quiet! Let's get the hell out of here! Spike!
Spike : No matter how you try to seduce me, I will never give into you. I will never give up my own sense of my spirit.
Julia : We must merge into our own desire, and bring forth a new breed. We must show the world our desires, we must show the universe our own faith.
Jet : Edward, give me the tranquilizer gun!
Jet fires the Tranquilizer gun into both of them and they fall like angels would in the sun's rays, if they were ice, and were melting to reform. They both are now unconscious.
Dragging them both to the ship, Jet lets out a final statement.
Jet : No matter how far the wall falls, it will stop falling when the ground catches up with it. This is true of all walls. I guess that Spike never expected he'd be in need of saving.
Next Episode : Crimson Ice, Cold Blooded Woman
The entire crew takes their chances and runs off to the end of the solar system, aiming for the last felon to ever attempt the Crimson Tear; A maneuver that ultimately caused the death of many children of all races, back in the early days of space flight. Juliet ends up with the wrong mind, and ultimately gets a bed head cold with a sense of humor. Maybe one day, she'll come around?