The essential episodes of Cowboy Bebop
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Cowboy Bebop — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Spike and Jet head to Tijuana to track down an outlaw smuggling a dangerous drug known as blood-eye. Jet wants the bounty, but Spike has eyes for a far prettier prize.
- 02
Spike and Jet's next case takes them to Mars, where they try to catch a professional pet thief and a priceless data dog.
- 03
Spike aims to collect the bounty on a member of the Red Dragon Syndicate, but his mission leads him into a deadly showdown with a face from his past!
- 04
The Bebop crew pursues a renegade explosives expert, and Spike crosses paths with a nameless space trucker that hates bounty hunters.
- 05
Spike gets involved with a fugitive who is willing to risk his own life to restore his sister's sight. Can the Bebop crew save the day before tragedy strikes?
- 06
Faye robs and abandons the Bebop crew, Spike goes in search of a woman he once knew, and Vicious makes another deadly appearance.
- 07
Jet continues his mission to reunite his Bebop comrades, and Spike finds himself locked in a brutal dogfight with his old nemesis Vicious.
- 08
Jet teams up with a former partner to settle the score with the man who took his arm, but he soon discovers that memories can be deceiving.
- 09
After the Bebop crash lands, Ed and Ein's search for food turns up some very expensive mushrooms with psychedelic side effects!
- 10
Spike takes a beating during a chance encounter with an indestructible assassin. While Jet searches for the secret to the madman's power, Spike goes looking for payback!
- 11
Spike's attempts to apprehend the infamous Teddy Bear Bomber are maddeningly derailed by a mysterious – and clueless – cowboy!
- 12
Faye goes undercover to collect the bounty on a deranged cult leader, but when the mysterious organization brainwashes her into a very deep sleep – she'll need a little help from her friends.
- 13
Faye and Ed discover clues to their respective pasts that could send the crew of the Bebop heading in very different directions.
- 14
Spike and Jet are ambushed by members of the syndicate, and Faye has an unexpected encounter with a woman from Spike's past.
- 15
Spike finally finds the woman he's been searching for, and Faye makes a surprising return to the Bebop. With the syndicate in hot pursuit, Spike seeks to end the reign of Vicious.
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