![]() Instead of the illusive Walking Sally doll, the cowboys receive a consolation prize: a lovely corgi named Ein, whom Jet gives to his daughter.įor about 30 seconds, it appears like a fantastic solution to Kimmie’s birthday narrative – until Jet’s ex-wife insists on him taking the puppy back with him. Chalmers and his ISSP comrades arrive and murder Hakim, effectively putting an end to Spike and Jet’s chances of collecting the bounty. It turns out that this job has been rigged all along, in a particularly noirish twist. ![]() Hakim despises himself and is willing to die quietly.īut, if the end lesson is that you can’t be angry with water because it’s wet, I guess Spike and Jet can’t be angry with the space officers since they’re space corrupt. If we’re not supposed to agree with Hakim’s choice to murder wealthy people and kidnap their dogs, we’re supposed to sympathize with the horrific occurrence that drove him to this place and his realization that he can’t kill the dogs for something they didn’t do. (I’m sure more will be revealed later, but if you don’t mind spoilers, this is a pretty good explanation of what happened in the original anime.) When the Earth Gate blew up, Hakim wanted vengeance on the rich individuals who opted to evacuate their pets while abandoning poor people like his parents, who were part of the working class. When Spike and Jet catch up with Hakim, he admits that his motivation was hatred for money, not money. Since Tanaka’s anti-capitalist speech at the start of the series, Cowboy Bebop has flirted with class commentary, but this is the first time I feel like the program has really gone for it. It’s a man named Hakim, and he’s hungry for the wealthy. The trail eventually leads to a leather-clad domme who spanks a bound man and shouts in German before identifying the killer, in addition to enabling Spike to enjoy a cigarette while dangling between a gigantic set of breasts on a brothel billboard. (This is a theoretically interesting idea - how does it feel on both sides? - but it’s mostly just window dressing here.) Woodcock’s information is sufficient to lead Spike and Jet to the Martian brothels, where prostitutes utilize face-changers to give their johns anything they actually desire. Woodcock, in turn, is treated as inherently ridiculous and unattractive for being an older woman who is openly interested in sex. Jet accepts being referred to as “a tall glass of creamy chocolate milk” by someone he definitely does not want to hook up with in return for knowledge. I’m not sure how the program intends for us to react to this transaction, but I thought it disgusting and not in a good manner. Jet reluctantly calls on an old contact named Woodcock in their search for the man, who shows up oozing with passion for him. It’ll be especially difficult to find him because he’s utilizing an intriguing piece of future technology to display another visage on top of his own. The hunt is on for a strange assailant who is killing wealthy individuals and disappearing with their dogs, which I suppose explains the exorbitant reward. (I’m not sure how the Cowboy Bebop economy works, but the prior two episodes’ bounties were 1,500,000, 2,500,000, and 2,000,000, respectively, so the 15,000,000 on offer here sounds like a significant deal.) So when Jet and Spike learn about a particularly large bounty on Mars - one that could theoretically cover the cost of an entire toy store’s worth of Walking Sally dolls - they jump on it. ![]() ![]() This futuristic Cabbage Patch kid has never been far from his mind as he zips around the Milky Way, shooting crooks and dragging criminals into ISSP stations. Jet has been seeking a particularly wacky MacGuffin since the first episode of Cowboy Bebop: a Walking Sally doll, which he intends to present his 8-year-old daughter for her birthday. ![]()
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