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Session 2 - Stray Dog Strut
This one starts off with Abdul Hakim in a bathroom stall with a mysterious, growling briefcase. Several guys with guns burst in and are quickly taken out, then Hakim exits. This one's a good old-fashioned Everyone's Chasing The Thing All Over The Place, the thing being Ein the friggin' adorable Welsh Corgi. Great moments include Spike instinctively pickpocketing people he runs into, the moment you realize that IS a live turtle on the pet shop lady's head, and of course, there's Ein's big reveal. He does go on to save at least Jet's life, to my recollection (in "Brain Scratch"). Then there's Spike repeatedly passing right by Hakim without knowing it's him, and the ridiculous bit where Hakim is chasing the dog, and Spike is chasing the dog, and the SCIENTISTS are chasing the dog, funny just for seeing how the three groups pass by the obstacles in their own way. And Spike's rationalization for getting in this mess? "Nothin' but a giggle," Oh yeah. That's where I fell in love with this character. No reference ever made to what a "data dog" is, ever again; so no, we don't even get the goddamn dog's backstory.
Session 3 - Honky Tonk Women
Enter Faye Valentine, the main female character, and admittedly my least favorite. It's not that I don't like her, it's just... well, I don't like her. She's just kind of blah when put up against someone as badass as Spike, or as gruff as Jet, or as... special (read: batshit insane) as Edward. Aside from that, the backstory she gets in this episode is either a lie on Faye's part or just plain retconned later on in "Speak Like A Child" (or both). Still, I can't deny the Bebop crew would be totally incomplete without her as a female presence (Ed doesn't count). Highlights of the episode are Jet worrying Spike will get in trouble for gambling TOO well, and the tense trade-off on the surface of a ship that leads to another one of those great frantic multi-faction battles. This actually seems like it got toned down after this, maybe because the show got a little more serious after "that" episode. Yyyyou know the one.
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