Cowboy Bebop: 'Love Across the Universe'

Ganymede Elegy

COWBOY BEBOP #10

The Bebop. Ein barks. A bounty named Baker Panchorero is tied up. He kicks a can at Ein.

PANCHORERO: Shut up!

Ed falls from a panel in the ceiling, hitting Baker on the head then lands to the floor. On the floor, Ed rolls back and forth then lies still. Panchorero taps Ed's head with his foot. Ed growls and grabs him.

PANCHORERO: W-Wha?

Ed bites his ear. Panchorero shakes her off. Ed grabs his leg and bites his thigh. Soon Amber comes in the room with a water balloon in her hands.

AMBER: Please, Ed, that's nothing.

Amber throws it at Panchorero face all wet.

AMBER: Now that's something, huh?

ED: Bounty got wet!

Amber and Ed laugh, and Ein barked. The Control Room. Jet looks into an old watch that stopped ticking. He remembers the past. A rainy night. A letter and the watch. A woman walking in the rain.

SPIKE: Hey, Jet.

Jet comes to.

SPIKE: I'm asking ya, how much longer before we land?

JET: How long ya been standing there?

SPIKE: I've been here for a while.

JET: I see...

FAYE: What're ya spacing out about? Where's my bounty? Can't you land quickly so I can hand over that musty-looking fugitive?

SPIKE: What, you haven't even gotten permission to land yet?

JET: I know. You guys are so obnoxious. Don't rush so much! And take care of the airport end for me.

Jet calls Ganymede police.

FAYE: I thought Ganymede was your homeland. Were you perhaps thinking about some woman in the past that cried over you?

Faye catches Jet's attention.

FAYE: Or perhaps a woman that made YOU cry?

JET: Didn't ya hear me when I said you're being obnoxious?!

An old officer receives their call. It is one of Jet's old friends, Donelly.

DONELLY: Yes. This is Ganymede police.

JET: Donelly?

DONELLY: Oh, Jet! Jet, it's you! There is no mistake. The top of your head's gotten rather lonely, but it's still Jet all right!

JET: Long time no see, Donelly.

DONELLY: I'm surprised that you're working around here. Has it been... Seven years? Eight? What the hell's up with you to come back so suddenly?

JET: I wanna hand over a bounty. Wanted ad number EX41285. Baker Panchorero.

DONELLY: To think you're a bounty hunter. You, who was called the Black Dog, a mad dog that never let go of things bitten into?

JET: I thought YOU had already retired.

DONELLY: Hey, I'm still an active officer! Don't judge things on YOUR time scale, you Rip Van Winkle, you.

FAYE: He used to be a cop? That explains...

JET: That example is completely reversed!

SPIKE: What?

DONELLY: I'm just glad to see yer still kick'n!

FAYE: ...Why I don't get along with him.

JET: Yeah, you too.