Cowboy Bebop Desperate Charm
Episode 3
Crimson Ice, Cold Blooded Woman
Around Pluto's Moon, hovers a craft the color of blood. It emanates a certain feeling to this solar system, in that many have attempted to recover it. Inside is a treasure, an ancient one at that. The crew of the Bebop aren't willing to risk their lives, but some are so desperate they do. Desperate such as that of the eyes of a cat that change colors when it goes into heat, in order to alert that it's ready. It's as if they only see what they want, as a child.
Julia : Hey spike, I don't know how you lived through that, I thought you were dead.
Spike : Yes, I held you in my arms as you died, and now here you are.
Jet : We have no time for reunion, we can't keep standing around while he gets away.
Edward : Edward scared!
Jet : What Ed?
Edward : He's going too far, Edward knows.
Spike : You know what Ed?
Edward : Edward doesn't like Spike anymore.
Spike : What do you mean by that?
Jet : The kid's right. You should have known better than to take Ed along.
Spike : For what reason should I just leave Ed with you?
Jet : You know, if the moon came out every night in the same spot with the same shape, nobody would even care, but that's not what I see.
Spike : Yes, you and your riddles. Put me in a big mess with your crap.
Jet : Okay we're going for the Crimson Tear.
Spike : What are you nuts? You'll get us killed!
Jet : A lot of things in life will get you killed, you might be surprised. If we luck out, we might get this guy's bounty AND that treasure.
Spike : Don't count your Wulons before they hatch.
Jet : You never could get that phrase right.
Faye : I'm done with my shower. So, catch the guy yet?
Jet : We think he's going for the Crimson Tear.
Faye : Is he insane, If you go out of the solar system, You can't get enough solar power to return! The magnetic field of Pluto will suck you in!
Jet : That may be, but a scientist about 50 years ago made everyone wonder If a death fall could be avoided, he believed that if you maneuver at the right angle, it could be possible to perform a Crimson Tear, named after the ship that seemed to maintain orbit instead of falling to the surface, to this day, nobody has been able to match that angle.
Spike : Yeah, but that's because if you're an inch off you're dead, no one's looney enough to perform that kind of stunt. Why don't we drop this guy?
Jet : He's no ace pilot, so he won't make it, and we need the bounty, if we can stop him, we can definitely claim the treasure and his bounty for ourselves.
Julia : Oh shit, I feel like I'm gonna faint!
Julia passes out, and awakes later above pluto.
Julia : Hello?
Jet : Hey Julia, You've been out for 3 weeks, we've just got to the Crimson Tear, the other guy fell down to the surface, but what we found here was amazing, it's worth a fortune, we've been loading it on for days! You wouldn't believe some of this stuff!
Julia : Did you test it?
Jet : Huh?
Julia : Did you test it?
Jet : No, why do you ask?
Julia : When I was young, I heard the story, the Crimson Tear was a ship that was told to be of treasures, but the passengers at the time were children, why would children pilot a ship full of valuable goods?
Jet : I have no idea, perhaps they were gifted.
Julia : No, the reason was that they were all diagnosed with terminal diseases. They simply were sent off into space with false treasures to die, they were meant to peacefully fall and descend towards Pluto, but they ended up dying slowly orbiting above.
Jet Tests some of the material that Faye and Spike have collected.
Jet : You're completely right, this is just silicone and quartz with synthetic dye. It was just worthless junk for the last several decades, and to think all those who died for it.
Edward : Edward wants food.OOooeEeO!
Jet : You may spend an eternity searching for something, and once you find it, it seems like you were looking for it for an eternity, and you had lost interest. Sometimes, not discovering the truth is better, when you just can't gain anything from knowing what you've spent your whole life searching for.
Next Episode : The Sun of the heavens, the Moon of the Ocean
Was it really supposed to be this way? Was it all supposed to end, or did it happen for a reason? Find out Julia and Spike's secret in the Next Episode!