COWBOY BEBOP# 24
Faye watches the beta tape in the darkness of her room. She pauses it at a shot of a stone lion head fountain. She closely examines it. Suddenly she is startled by the presence of a dreary Ed.
FAYE: S-Since when were you...
ED: Water sploosh...
FAYE: You know this?
ED: I think I know, I don't think I know. I don't think I know that I know. I think I know even though I don't think I know...
FAYE: Which is it?!
Ed falls asleep.
FAYE: Hey!
Faye grabs Ed and blows air into her mouth. Amber wakes up seeing them and the video playing again.
AMBER: Hey… I have seen that place before. Huh? Whore, why are you giving Ed mouth to mouth?
FAYE: This isn't what you think!
Amber lies back into bed.
AMBER: Whatever you say. We'll talk more tomorrow to solve all of this.
Amber leaves the room with Faye slapping Ed to the face many times to wake her up.
Session #24
HARD LUCK WOMAN
Earth. Spike brushes his teeth on the deck of the Bebop. Jet rushes out.
JET: Hey, Spike, where the hell are we?!
SPIKE: Isn't it Earth?
JET: Earth?! Hey, this ship was headed for Mars! Why the hell are we on Earth all of a sudden?!
SPIKE: Dunno.
JET: Shit, this isn't funny. While we're wasting time, our fugitive – It was the first big one in a while... In any case, why the hell are we on - ?
SPIKE: Jet. The women are gone.
JET: Including Amber too!?
SPIKE: Yep, but she has their backs. Got a note from her saying 'gone with the Whore and Ed to find some answers out here today, see you soon'. Man, I love it when Amber's a head strong girl.
JET: Oh, brother.
Faye flies in Red Tail. Ed is strapped to the top with Amber following them in her Heavy Winged.
AMBER: Whore, I still think that Ed would be fine in my ship.
FAYE: She's fine here.
ED: Weee! Ambie! Look at me! Look at me!
AMBER: If she falls, I won't forgive you.
FAYE: Whatever. Look you two will help me find about my past, right?
AMBER: We'll try to. Lucky for you I took many tours on Earth before I team up with the Bebop so we'll do our best, right Ed?
ED: Yep!
FAYE: Listen, if you lead me to that "water sploosh" place I'll give you something good.
ED: Good thing? What?
FAYE: Something very, tremendously, wonderfully good.
ED: Something very, tremendously, wonderfully good!
AMBER: Detours, coming up.
A meteor crashes on a patch of land. A truck approaches it. Two mapmakers, Appledelhi and Macintire rush down into the crater to measure it. Their feet are burned.
APPLEDELHI: HOT! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!
In a pile of rubble. Ed digs up a watering can.
ED: This! Water sploosh!
FAYE: I knew I shouldn't have trusted you...
AMBER: Why don't you leave the helping to me next time, at least Ed tried.
FAYE: Oh, shut up!
AMBER: What's your problem? Look I get it. You were frozen up and you might have live longer than up long ago, I get it. That doesn't mean you get the blame on us.
FAYE: Then try harder!
Amber stopped Faye from talking, she heard something.
AMBER: Whore, wait. I heard a noise somewhere.
FAYE: Where?
A group of orphans emerge from the rubble and approach them.
AMBER: Oh… It just a group of kids.
CHILD: Hey, I found Ed!
ED: Ed has been found?
FAYE: What, you know them?
AMBER: I think she was an orphan my guess.
FAYE: You guess?
The children circle Faye. A boy named Sean randomly counts.
SEAN: 35 point 38 point 0, 35 point 48 point 1 , 35 point 48 point 2 –
A boy named Cain shoves a strange mechanical object in Faye's face.
CAIN: This! This, this, this!
A girl named Zuzu with a jar of yellow nails approaches Faye.
ZUZU: Hey, can I have your nails?
FAYE: Nails?
ZUZU: I'm collecting them!
She pulls out a clipper.
ZUZU: Can I, please? Just the pinky one will do!
SEAN: 35 point 52 point 3, 35 point...
CAIN: This, this!
ZUZU: Come on... can I have it? Please?
The nun caring for these children, Sister Clara, turns on a hose.
CLARA: What are you guys?!
She sprays Faye and Amber 'though she was enjoying the fun with the children'. A child hide behind a small pile of junk. Suddenly Clara notices Ed.
FAYE: HEY!
Clara notices Ed.
CLARA: ED?! Is that really you...? Ed?
AMBER: Told you so.
An orphanage. The roof is decorated with pinwheels.
CLARA: I'm sorry about that. That's the best way to make the kids listen.
Faye and Amber dry their hairs off with towels.
AMBER: It's all good.
FAYE: It's all right. Is Ed from this place?
CLARA: She wandered in about five years ago. Before I knew it, she was eating with us as if it had always been that way. And about three years ago, she wandered away. As if she was a cat or something. I was wondering how she was doing nowadays but I didn't think she would suddenly appear. So Amber, you care for Ed a lot? She calls you her big sister.
AMBER: Oh yeah, we get along we. Reminds me of my old one though it's hard for me to see her again.
Faye got her attention after hearing that part from Amber.
Clara raises her voice.
CLARA: All right, it's time to eat!
The children gather around the table.
CLARA: Our Father who art in heaven... Never mind the rest. Let's eat!
CHILDREN: Let's eat!
The children eat heartily. Faye stares at the fish head in her bowl.
AMBER: So not going to eat that.
FAYE: I have to get going now...
CLARA: What, you can stay longer, right?
FAYE: I'm actually looking for something...
ED: Ed knows where it is. We just came here for food.
FAYE: You...
ED: You have to gimme something good!
AMBER: You did promise her, Whore.
All the children started saying the word too not knowing what it really meant.
FAYE: I did, but… Um…
CLARA: Oh yeah, Ed. There's something good in the desk drawer over there.
ED: Something good?
CLARA: Go get it.
ED: Something good!
Ed runs to the drawer.
CLARA: Inside that drawer.
Ed picks up Cain's object.
CLARA: Not that.
Ed picks up a compact hologram projector.
CLARA: Yeah, that. Open it!
Ed opens it. It projects an image of Appledelhi.
CLARA: Her father.
FAYE: WHOSE?
AMBER: So she does have a real family, good.
CLARA: He came looking for Ed about 2 months ago. He said he forgot that he had put her in a day care center and that he had been looking for seven years, hopping around the world. I hope she will be able to meet him... People have to cherish what ties they have...
A crater. Appledelhi and Macintire chart the new formation. The map is updated.
APPLEDELHI: Yeah!
The Lion Head Fountain. Stay stand by it. The place is now in ruins. She wanting to talk to Amber about her past more while Ed waited back on the ship for the other girls to return.
FAYE: Amber?
AMBER What?
FAYE: So this past of yours is like Spike's too?
AMBER: Oh? And since when you wish to ask me questions so much?
FAYE Just answer me. You're helping me, so I like to help you back a little so don't get any weird ideas.
Amber took a deep breath and spoke to Faye about it all.
AMBER: Well, I did lost my family to Tongpu, wonder off alone until Julia found me, we became step-sisters growing up alone. Vicious loved her but she cheated on Spike back then, they're done but he does want to see her once more and so do I. I still think I hate her on what she has done so I don't know if I show be happy to greet her or punch her in the gut? Because of her three years passed working for Vicious by force loving me and raped me for being broken hearted. It sucks. But I train myself to be the tough bounty hunter to get back at that man and Julia three years later, and Spike and I had a lot in common to understand each other and fell in love just like that. There now you know about me. Can't believe I just said that to the likes of you.
Faye was shocked and sad a bit.
FAYE: Oh, sorry to hear that. I can understand you hating Vicious a lot but Julia… Will you try to kill her too from all the bad things she did? And for leaving you all alone?
Amber didn't say a thing having trouble deciding on that part.
AMBER: I don't know… I'm not so sure of that yet.
An elderly woman in a wheelchair approaches Faye. She is Sally Yung, a former classmate.
SALLY: Are you... Faye?
AMBER: Whore, someone knows you.
Faye turns around.
SALLY: Impossible... Really? It's me, Sally Yung! I was in your high school graduating class!
Sally coughs.
FAYE: Are you all right?
SALLY: I was really surprised. I thought you were a ghost. You look just like back then... You know, they say ghosts appear in places where they have regrets... Oh, yeah, I remember now. You were put in cold sleep after that accident. And that's why you look like back then...
FAYE: Accident?
SALLY: You don't remember, Faye?
FAYE: I-I...
AMBER: You were in an accident? What the hell?
A little girls runs toward Sally.
GIRL: Grandma! Grandma, we gotta go back now.
SALLY: Is it that time already? Do you know who this is? I bet you don't know.
The girl looks at Faye.
SALLY: Actually, she's –
Faye smiles.
FAYE: - a ghost. Good-bye. Take care.
AMBER: Whore, wait up!
Faye runs off with Amber behind her, grabs Ed and takes off.
The Bebop. Faye, Amber, and Ed return.
JET: Hey, you guys! What's with this course change without asking?! Our plans have all been screwed because of it! I don't appreciate you doing things on your own!
Faye stares at Jet. Jet is silent. Faye goes into her room.
AMBER: Don't ask.
JET Come again now?
Ed's room. Ein walks in.
ED: You want to smell something really good?
Ed lets Ein smell the hologram projector.
The living room.
JET: What's with them? What are they being so secretive about?
SPIKE: Leave them alone.
JET: Maybe they're too hungry for their own good. Humans go insane if they don't eat food.
SPIKE: Amber, you miss me?
Amber and Spike hugged each other.
AMBER: Of course I do, silly. Ed fond something good and Faye has trouble remembering something big. I feel bad for her.
SPIKE: Is that so?
Spike sees new bounty data on the monitor. It is Appledelhi.
AMBER: Guess you got a new bounty to hunt… Is that Ed's Dad?
Jet and Spike looked at Amber.
AMBER: Well, I'm saying it might be. Never knew him to be a bounty.
SPIKE: 50 million...?
JET: I see... pretty big. Appledelhi Siniz Hesap Lutfen.
Parked near the water, Appledelhi eats raw eggs.
APPLEDELHI: Would you like one, Mackenroe?
MACINTIRE: That's Macintire. No thank you, Mr. Appledelhi.
APPLEDELHI: You sure? Eggs are good. As they say, power and charge. That's what's important, Macintosh.
MACINTIRE: That's Macintire. Why is it that you can't ever remember your assistant's name?
APPLEDELHI: Hmm, don't worry about the small things in life.
A meteor crashes. Appledelhi climbs back into the ship.
APPLEDELHI: Hurry, Macky-Mike!
MACINTIRE: That's Macintire!
They speed off.
The Bebop. Faye suddenly regains a memory. She remembers the shuttle accident.
Faye bumps into Spike in the hallway.
SPIKE: Watch where you're going! Hey...?
Faye stares blankly. She looks at Spike.
FAYE: Sorry...
Spike looks at Faye confused.
SPIKE: Sorry?
FAYE: I-I... I have to go...
Amber walks in that saw the whole thing happen.
AMBER: Ah, Spike?
SPIKE: Something's wrong with her alright. She said sorry to me. That's new.
AMBER: Really? I'll go talk to her.
Amber stopped Faye near her Red Tail ship out back.
AMBER: Whore, where are you going?
FAYE: Amber… I remember… I remember everything. The tape, that old woman from before, three years ago awakening to a future from being frozen, and Earth. I was on a trip to space with my parents and a meteor blew it up, I was one of the lucky ones to freeze me up so I can be recovered in the future. It worked. Though I lost my memories, I regain them knowing the whole truth about myself.
AMBER: You're serious then.
FAYE: I got to go now.
Amber grabs Faye's arm.
AMBER: Wait! There's no going back now, Earth has nothing you use to have it happen a century ago.
FAYE: I know that.
AMBER: Stop, Faye! Just stop and listen for a second!
Faye stopped for amber finally said her name right.
FAYE: You said my name for the first time.
AMBER: Yes I did, but don't get use to it. Look, this is your life with us. I just hate to lose you and all…. For someone to be annoying like yourself, you're a great friend and woman to me.
Faye and Amber looked at each other as Faye hugged her looking a bit confused.
FAYE: Thank you, Amber, you too. I'll come back.
Faye let's go of Amber.
AMBER: You promise.
FAYE: Yes, I'll be seeing you. Amber? You keep making Spike happy too.
The deck. Faye prepares to leave in Red Tail as amber sees her leaving. Ed pops up.
AMBER: Hi, Ed, better say good-bye t o Faye. She's going out again alone.
ED: You said Faye-Faye's name right. Yeah! Hi! Going out? Where are you going?
FAYE: I finally remembered where I belong.
ED: Where you belong?
FAYE: You have someone waiting for you too... You have somewhere you belong. You should go look for it, too. That's the best thing, you know...
Faye takes off.
ED: Bye, bye!
AMBER: I hope she'll be fine. Ed, if you find your Dad, what will you do?
ED: Huh?
AMBER: Will you still stay with us or go to your real home with him?
ED: Not sure.
AMBER: You can still do both if you wish. All I'm saying… Hey, wonder how Spike and Jet are doing?
The Bebop.
JET: This one is a piece of cake. 50 million is right there! If they can eat sukiyaki with meat, then they –
SPIKE: Faye went out.
JET: Again? Where the hell did she go this time? A woman's heart and the skies of Ganymede, was it...?
A crater. Jet points a gun at Appledelhi.
SPIKE: You're Appledelhi? Can you come along with us?
JET: Cooperate with us if you don't wanna get hurt.
MACINTIRE: Who are you guys? Don't interrupt our work!
JET: Work?
APPLEDELHI: This Earth of wild chaos! What do we need to do to regain a peaceful peace and end the chaos here? That is a map! A map! Yes, happiness comes in the form of a map!
MACINTIRE: We are creating maps to save the Earth!
JET: A map...? But meteors fall often and change the landscape.
MACINTIRE: That's why we're globetrotting. We're chasing after every meteor! Until every single meteor falls onto Earth!
Jet looks at Spike with skepticism. Spike draws his gun.
SPIKE: Enough with the excuses!
Appledelhi throws two eggs, hitting Jet in the head and Spike's guns.
SPIKE: You!
Spike rushes forward, throwing punches at Appledelhi. He dodges and head butts Spike.
SPIKE: I wasn't expecting someone this adept.
Spike rushes forward again and Appledelhi defeats him. Again, and Spike loses again. Suddenly the Bebop lands in front of them advancing pass the shoreline and crashing into the land.
JET: Is that you, Ed?!
SPIKE: That's enough! Stop!
It stops in front of Appledelhi. Amber stops Spike from hurting Appledelhi.
AMBER: Spike! Jet! Stop! Don't hurt that guy! I was right before, its Ed's real Father! Ed, I found him!
ED: Daddy?
Ed looks down from the deck. Appledelhi looks up. He smiles and opens his arm.
APPLEDELHI: Francoise!
Ed dives down and Appledelhi catches her by her ankles. He swings her round and round and catches her.
AMBER: Aw, touching reunion. See? I told you guys.
JET: You're kidding me!
APPLEDELHI: How's that? And that, and that?
Ed walks forward and introduces Appledelhi to Spike, Amber, and Jet.
ED: This is father-person.
SPIKE: Father...?
JET: Your father?
AMBER: Ah, yes it is.
SPIKE: She had such a thing?
Amber shakes Spike up a bit back and forth.
AMBER: Spike!
Spike laughs.
SPIKE: Okay, I believe you! Just kidding!
Ed introduces Spike and Jet to Appledelhi.
ED: This is Ed's big sister, Ambie and this is Spike-person and Jet-person.
APPLEDELHI: I see.
He walks forward and head butts Spike to the ground. Amber helps him up.
AMBER: Ah, Spike!
SPIKE: I'm good.
ED: No, father. Good people.
AMBER: She's right! Sir, we're good people to Ed here!
APPLEDELHI: Oh? I see. Sorry, miss, very helpful keeping an eye on her. And thank you for taking care of my son. Or was it daughter? Oh, well, it's all right either way. That's a token of my appreciation.
AMBER: Don't worry, Ed's a girl.
APPLEDELHI: Oh, okay then.
He putts a basket of eggs on Spike.
JET: Then, Ed, were you the one who put the bounty on...
AMBER: I think so… Yep. It was her work to find him.
Jet rereads the bounty data and notices a decimal point in the number instead of a comma.
JET: Fifty point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero? Only 50 Woolongs...?
AMBER: Worth .50 cents huh? Oh, well.
APPLEDELHI: So, you wanna come with me?
Another meteor crashes in the horizon.
APPLEDELHI: Hurry, Michael-duck!
MACINTIRE: That's Macintire!
They speed off.
ED: Hey, wait! Father! He's gone.
AMBER: So now what, Ed?
Elsewhere. Faye returns to her former home and finds that it is no more. All that is left is a fountain with a broken lion head and an empty lot.
FAYE: This was once… Home. My home…
The Bebop. Ed gives Spike a pinwheel and leaves. Jet cooks the eggs in the kitchen. Ein senses something, looks up at Jet and heads for the door. He gives Jet one more look and then leaves. Outside, Ein gives the Bebop another look, begins to head back, then turns around and head for Ed.
Jet looks into the living room.
JET: Hey, it's dinner time...
The living room is empty.
Jet finds Spike in the control room looking out on the deck.
JET: Spike, dinner.
On the deck, Ed has written "Bye Bye" with a large smiley face.
AMBER: Ed's leaving?
SPIKE: Amber, go ahead and say good bye to her. She's still a member but she'll be gone for a while.
AMBER: You sure?
SPIKE: Don't know. Go ask her yourself. Hate to see you upset.
Amber kisses Spike on the lips and leaves.
AMBER: Thank you, Spike. Come on, Ein!
Ein follows Amber. Spike enjoys Amber's kisses.
SPIKE: I said it before, but damn do I love her. I kid on the inside with a hot grown up body with style.
The empty lot. Faye draws a rectangle on the ground where her bed would have been, then lies down and watches the sunset.
The Bebop. Jet and Spike eat their share of the eggs alone.
Earth. Ein and Amber find Ed.
AMBER: Ed! You're not leaving at least without saying good-bye to me, right?
ED: Ein? Ambie? Sorry, got to go for now with Father. I'll come back.
AMBER: Really? You sure? I'm going to miss you.
Ein barks.
ED: You can't come with me, Ein. Ed is going someplace far, far away. I might not be coming back. So, Ein, you should go back home.
AMBER: But, Ed…
Ein whines.
ED: Do you want to come with Ed?
AMBER: You too, Ein?
Ein kisses Amber one last time and joins with Ed.
ED: Ein and Ed will come back, Ambie, promise. Say bye to Faye-Faye for me when you see her. And find your sister, talk to her, no fighting.
AMBER: You know?
ED: A little. But Ed keeps secret on rest. Still, Ed will always be Ambie's sister too.
AMBER: Oh, Ed.
Amber and Ed hug each other crying a bit.
ED: Be good now.
AMBER: I will… I'll talk some sense into Julia the next time I see her. Faye owes me that much afterwards. Bye, Ed. Bye, Ein, come back soon you two.
Ein barks.
ED: Bye, Ambie! We'll come back one day!
Amber watches Ed and Ein leave as the sun sets.
The Bebop. Spike and Jet begin to eat the rest of the eggs.
Earth.
ED: Let's go, Ein!
Ein barks.
The two run into the sunset.
AMBER: Ed! Ein! Thank you! See you two soon I hope!
Amber heads back to the Bebop.
SEE YOU COWGIRL,
SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE!