Cowboy Bebop -

Back on the Bebop , the crew is eating a watery stew. No beef. No peppers. "Did you get him?" Jet asks, his voice soft.

"Run!" he shouts to the kid, but it’s too late. A stray round catches the hacker’s console, and the holograms vanish into a shower of sparks. Cowboy Bebop

"You don't understand!" the boy yells. "I found it! The old satellite codes. I can see everything—the War, the Gate accident... I can see her ." Spike freezes. The cigarette falls. "Her?" Back on the Bebop , the crew is eating a watery stew

He finds Blue Note in a basement bar that smells of cheap tequila and ozone. The hacker is barely twenty, eyes wide with a manic energy. "Did you get him

The Swordfish II cuts through the yellow clouds of Venus, landing with a heavy thud in the rusted outskirts of Tijuana. Spike steps out, the collar of his blue suit turned up against the wind. The city is a graveyard of half-finished skyscrapers and neon signs that flicker with dying gasps.

Spike sighs, the sound of a man who’s already lived through this day a thousand times. "Tijuana? It’s a dust bowl."

Spike is staring at the ceiling, a cold cigarette dangling from his lip.