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Mars. 2 men discard a body on an alley. A woman watches them from behind the corner. After they leave in their car, she rushes to the thrown body. On the pavement, she sees a man (Spike Spiegel) with his clothes stained by blood. She kneels next to him quickly and leans over and notices that he’s still breathing, though slightly. She takes her communicator from her backpack.
WOMAN: Hello? I need an ambulance on… Dammit! I-I don’t know where this is… Just follow my signal! I found a man nearly dead…
The ambulance arrives. Now, noises are heard like echoes and the image is blurry ( It’s from Spike’s POV). The woman tries to get in the ambulance.
DOCTOR A: We can’t allow strangers to come with the cases. Are you a relative of his?
WOMAN: I… I … I’m dating this man! Sort of… This was supposed to be our first date… We met on the net!
DOCTOR A: Hm… Alright, get in!
The doors of the ambulance close after the woman gets in.
WOMAN: Will he be ok?
DOCTOR A: We can’t tell yet… We don’t know how acute the wounds are… But we’ll do all that we can do!
The image fades and the sound farthens.
On Bebop.
FAYE: Why did he have to leave like that?!
JET: You would have done the same if you were him.
FAYE: But he knew his past…
JET: It’s hard to understand him, Faye… Hell, I can’t say I know him after spending day after day with him on Bebop for three whole years!
FAYE: But he said the future is more important than the past…
Faye’s remembering the scene outside the police station from Session #15 – My Funny Valentine:
FAYE: I guess I don't know anything about my past anymore...
SPIKE: Isn't that something that really doesn't matter?
FAYE: You think that way because you have a past.
SPIKE: No matter the past, you still have a future.
Back to present.
FAYE: Can’t you find him? Doesn’t Swordfish send a signal or something…?
Jet: Faye… We lost Swordfish’s signal 2 days ago… And it’s not like he would have stayed next to the ship!
Hospital room, 2 weeks after the conversation on Bebop. We see everything through Spike’s eyes as he opens them slowly. He hears the beeping of his life sustainers, and he also notices them as he looks to his right. He also realizes that he is almost fully bandaged, too. He tries to move. Just then, he hears steps running towards him and feels two hands being placed on his chest, helping him lay back again.
WOMAN: Try not to move all of a sudden or you’ll get dizzy. Make slow moves, or better yet, try to relax… You’ve lost a lot of blood, you know?
He looked up at this woman: she had medium length black hair, dark blue eyes and fair skin. Her upper clothing consisted in a white semitransparent blouse, with a brown woolen vest over. She was also wearing an orange scarf around her neck. From his position he couldn’t see the rest of her clothing, which consisted in a pair of hippie jeans with all sorts of drawings: flowers, spirals, straight lines, peace signs etc.
SPIKE: Who are you?
WOMAN: My name is Rebecca.
SPIKE: Like in the Ivanhoe story… I like reading…
Spike remembers the scene from Session #21 – Bgoogie-Woogie Feng-Shui, when he and Faye are in their MONNOs , in hyperspace.
FAYE: What rotten luck of the draw.
SPIKE: Sometimes it's good to act without asking "What's in it for me?" We're fairies who are going to grant the princess' wish.
FAYE: We are?
Several fighters are dispatched.
SPIKE: Unmanned fighters...? So these would be the seven dwarves...
Back to present. Rebecca seems a little confused, but then shrugs and tries to act as normal as possible, though the man is acting weird.
REBECCA: And who are you?
SPIKE: I… What do you know, I can’t remember! Uhm… What happened to me?
REBECCA: I found you shot, cut and bruised on an alley. Two men threw you there and then left… I called an ambulance and came with you to the hospital… Here, you were taken to the surgery room and came out after an hour or so… They fixed you traditionally and with lasers… And they made you an artificial lung… Seems you smoke a lot and with the added wound you… You just wouldn’t have made it without it… But thanks to technology, you’ll be fine in no time!
Spike doesn’t seem moved by all that happened to him.
REBECCA: Sooo… Do you remember anything about yourself? Like… how come you got mismatched eyes?
Spike remembers a conversation with Julia, also remembered in Session #13 – Jupiter Jazz (Part II)
JULIA: Your left eye and right eye are different colors...
SPIKE: My left eye sees the past...
JULIA: Then what about your right eye?
Back to present.
SPIKE: My left eye sees the past, but it seems now I’m half blind…
Rebecca seems a little down, but she perks up after one more shrug.
REBECCA: Hey, guess what?! Today you’ll eat for the first time since… the accident… or better said incident…
She starts peeling a tangerine.
Spike remembers a scene from Session #20 – Pierrot le Fou, in which he is on the couch from the Bebop living room, bandaged head to toe, when Faye appears.
FAYE: There he is... the rumored mummy. So, I heard you got beaten up by some weird guy?
Spike mumbles. He tries to reach a tangerine on the table.
FAYE: I recall you were sleeping like this once before. You really haven't shown any improvement... Oh well, it doesn't have anything to do with me.
Faye takes the tangerine and starts peeling it. Spike mumbles.
FAYE: Don't you end up in situations like that because you never behave? Well, I have nothing to do with it.
Faye eats the tangerine. Spike mumbles.
FAYE: So, since I have nothing to do with it, if you'll excuse me... Take care.
Faye places the tangerine’s peel on Spike’s head.
Back to present.
REBECCA: Enjoy it, it’ll feel like the first meal ever since you can’t remember anything…
She feeds him a piece.
SPIKE (chewing): Actually, I get bits of events… (He swallows and Rebecca feeds him some more; he continues speaking while chewing) I see people, I hear voices…. But I just can’t put them together…
He swallows and she feeds him the last piece.
REBECCA: Maybe you ought to be thinking about getting yourself a monocular for that eye of yours!
Spike chuckles slightly, remembering Ed’s face with gargles.
A doctor enters.
DOCTOR B: Well, Mr. Fluffy, today we let you out, though your memory isn’t back yet… But don’t worry, it will come! Till then, you’ll stay with this lady over here, alright? Normally we would keep you here under observation for no less than a month. I mean, with the lung and the large amount of lost blood… But we have to let you go just like this because the hospital is crammed since a building blew up right in the center of the city… Anyway, I’ll go finish the paperwork and you can leave afterwards, alright?
The doctor leaves. Spike raises a brow at Rebecca, under all the bandages covering his head.
SPIKE: Mr… Fluffy?
REBECCA: Uhm… I told them that was your net nickname… After your hair… They think-
SPIKE: I remember hearing you say that we met on the net… But I don’t know where that was…
REBECCA: Ambulance! Right after I found you…
Rebecca’s place. Rebecca and Spike enter.
REBECCA: Well, this is my place!
SPIKE: Thanks for having me… You know… None of what I’ve seen here, on the streets shocked me… Maybe I’m used to this places… Where are we?
REBECCA: Mars… Hey, maybe you have relatives here! Why don’t we place ads with your picture?
SPIKE: What if the ones who tried to kill me see them? Then what?
REBECCA: Oh… But there must be something we can do! I mean… What if you have a family that depended on you? Or friends… A cat, a dog, or even a goldfish!
SPKIE: Nah… I hate kids, pets and women with attitudes…
Spike remembers a scene from Session #9 - Jamming with Ed.
SPIKE: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
JET: Whatever...
SPIKE: Rugrats... beasts... and tomboys.
JET: Oh?
SPIKE: Don't give me that! Why do we have all three neatly gathered here?!
Back to present.
SPIKE: But there are some faces that keep coming to my mind… 2 women, a kid –I’m not sure if it’s a boy or a girl—and a dog…
Rebecca starts making lunch.
REBECCA: Maybe family… Anyway. People you can’t choose…
SPIKE: How’s that?
REBECCA: Well, you hate them all, unless the women aren’t the attitudes type… So, if they were family, you couldn’t have gotten rid of them, right? Maybe one of the women is your mother…
SPIKE: Nah, they’re both young…
Rebecca places a plate of bell peppers in front of Spike.
Spike remembers a scene from Session #26 – The Real Folk Blues (Part II).
Jet serves up a plate of bell peppers.
SPIKE: The food you cook tastes horrible, as usual.
JET: For that, you sure are eating a lot.
SPIKE: Hunger is the best spice, they say.
Back to present.
SPIKE: I just saw a man… Older than me…
REBECCA: Your father! You probably still live with your parents, and the 2 women are your sisters and the kid is your brother. As for the pet. He’s the family dog!
Spike looks at her unbelievingly.
REBECCA: Or maybe… You bought the dog as a Christmas present for the kid.
SPIKE: I had the women and the kid. Why make my life even more bitter than it already was?
REBECCA: Because the kid is yours and no father can say no when it comes to his son!
SPIKE: Yeah, right.
REBECCA: No, listen to me! You have a family and one of the women is you’re wife…
SPIKE: And the other?
REBECCA: Your mistress!
Spike: And the man?
REBECCA: Mistress’s husband… Oh my God! He found out about you two and wanted you dead!
SPIKE: Nah, one of the women is mean to me in the flashbacks… And barely dressed, come to think about it…
REBECCA: The mistress! I bet she was just teasing you then…
REBECCA: You might be right, though… But I don’t know why I would leave my wife who seems… perfect!... for a woman who teases me? And what about the kid?! It seemed funny… Why would I leave all that?
REBECCA: I don’t know, I’m not married…
Rebecca opens the fridge.
REBECCA: Darn! We have to go shopping…
Supermarket. Rebecca is at the vegetable isle and Spike at ice-cream.
Entrance of supermarket. Faye and Jet enter.
FAYE: I’ll go look around for something tasty, K? We meet outside in 10 minutes.
JET: I’ll go buy some conserves.
Ice-cream isle. Faye sees Spike and runs to him, embracing him once she gets there.
FAYE: Spike, is it really you?
SPIKE: Huh?
Faye steps back.
FAYE: Spike, it’s me, Faye…
SPIKE: The mistress…
FAYE: WHAT?!
SPIKE: Nothing, just clearing my throat… *clears throat making funny noises, to convince her*
SPIKE (thinks): Maybe she doesn’t know about the wife… and son...
FAYE: Spike, what’s wrong with you? And where have you been all this time?
Rebecca appears behind Spike.
REBECCA: Spike?!
SPIKE: Yeah, seems that’s my name… (then, making an irritated, yet amused face) and not Mr. Fuzzy! Oh, and she’s Faye…
REBECCA: Oh… Wife or…?
SPIKE (remembering tangerine scene snapshot): Not wife!
Rebecca shakes the hand of a dazzled Faye.
REBECCA: I’m Rebecca…Nice to meet you…
Faye shrugged and snapped out of it.
FAYE: Same here. Well, excuse us, but we ought to be leaving, you know?
SPIKE: Where to?
FAYE: To the Bebop.
SPIKE: Bebop?
FAYE: Hello?! Earth… Uhm... Mars to Spike! Our ship?
REBECCA: Have patience with him, he’s got amnesia.
FAYE (to herself): Great, I get my memories back and he loses his!
SPIKE: So we live together?
FAYE: Uhm… Yeah!
SPIKE: Darn! So you’re the wife, after all! I never would’ve guessed! Sooo where’s our son?
FAYE: Huh? What? Who?
REBECCA (whispers to Spike): Maybe she’s the mistress and you moved in with her after you left your family…
SPIKE: Oh… Ok… (then, turning to Faye) Let’s go, darling!
FAYE: Darling?!
SPIKE: So you’re the shy type, the one that doesn’t like public affection… I see… Sorry!
Faye seems sort of spaced out.
SPIKE: Well, I guess it’s farewell, Rebecca.
REBECCA: Yes…One more thing though… Now that you found your past, teach that eye of yours to dream about the future…
Spike smiles and waves his hand slightly while he and Faye leave.
Outside the supermarket. Faye exits alone, very cheerful.
JET: Where have you been, woman?! I’ve waited for you more than we agreed!
FAYE: Surprise!
Spike exits the supermarket and sees Jet.
SPIKE: The husband… You tried to kill me!
JET: Spike, you alright?
SPIKE: The hell I am! You found out about me and Faye and you thought it was best you got rid of me!
FAYE (whispering to Jet): He has amnesia and says all sorts of stuff… He thinks he and I are lovers and that you are my husband apparently…
JET (whispers back): Well… The mistress knows best so go do your thing… (then, seeing Faye’s look ) And I’m not talking about… Just go talk to him!
FAYE: Here goes nothing! Uhm… Spike…? Ho-Honey…? Let’s go to Bebop with Jet… who didn’t do anything wrong! And we’ll sort things over there, ok? You trust me, don’t you?
SPIKE: Yeah, let’s go…
JET: He must have a grave type of amnesia if he trusts you…
FAYE: Shut up!
On Bebop.
SPIKE: So we are not together… and you are not trying to kill me… But you 2 are still married, right?
JET: NO! We 23 are bounty hunters or cowboys, call it what you want! And we stay on Bebop! Man, I need a smoke…
He takes a cigar from a pack. Next to it is an ashtray full of burnt cigars and ash. He lights it with shaking hands.
SPIKE: And I left my wife and son for this?!
FAYE: Huh?
JET (calm again): Spike, you’re not married… And you don’t have any children as far as I know…
SPIKE: Then what was it with the red-head kid and the blonde woman… and the dog?
JET: The kid is a girl named Ed. She’s a hacker, but she left us … taking Ein, the dog, with her…
SPIKE: And my wife? I mean the blonde woman…
FAYE: That’s Julia, but… we don’t know what happened to her…
SPIKE (to himself): No wonder I wanted to forget it all…
An image is displayed on the monitor by Jet.
JET: This is our next catch… Wanna give it a try?
SPIKE: Who, me…? Just give me a gun!
FAYE: Jet, he lost a lot of blood… It could be dangerous for him…
SPIKE: What, you afraid I’ll catch it before you?
JET: Faye, are you starting to care about Fluffy over here?
FAYE: What?! Fine! Go get yourself killed! Lunkhead…
She leaves for the hangar.
JET: Well, things are sure coming back to normal… if this can be called normal…
SPIKE: Hey, Jet! Got a smoke?
JET: You shouldn’t smoke, you know? One of your lungs is artificial now…
Jet therows him a cigar and a lighter, though
SPIKE: Spare me that bullshit…(Lights cigar and blows smoke.)Whatever happens, happens…
SEE YOU AGAIN, SPACE COWBOY…
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