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240 lines
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SESSION #5 - BALLAD OF FALLEN ANGELS
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Written By Michiko Yokote
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Dialogue Translation By Bandai Entertainment, INC.
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Transcript By RFBlues
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OPENING CREDITS
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Hyperspace rings over Mars. A skyscraper on Mars. A syndicate leader, Mao Yenrai, signs a deal with a leader of another syndicate, Carlos.
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CARLOS: Confirmed.
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MAO: To our new relationship, and our new friendship.
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CARLOS: And to prosperity. The view from here makes me sad that I must leave so soon. It's an amazing sight.
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MAO: Next time, we should have dinner together. The Cantonese cuisine that our head chef makes is just about as superb as this scenery.
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CARLOS: That's a wonderful invitation, however to think that I'd dine with an executive from the Red Dragon.
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MAO: Rest assured, the food will not be poisoned.
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Carlos' ship leaves the building.
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MAO: I can finally take a breather. Thank God.
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Carlos' ship explodes.
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A thug holds a sword to Mao's neck. Mao's guards are killed. A black bird squawks. A man named Vicious enters with a black bird on his shoulder.
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MAO: Doing things like this won't do you any good. Times have changed. The syndicate cannot survive just by fighting alone!
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Mao's throat is slashed.
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MAO: Only if... Spike returned... someone like you would...
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Vicious smiles. A his black bird squeaks.
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Session #5 - BALLAD OF FALLEN ANGELS
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The Bebop. The monitor displays Mao. Spike shuffles a deck of cards.
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JET: I don't feel up for this.
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Spike stops shuffling.
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SPIKE: Wha-?
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JET: I said I don't feel like doing this.
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SPIKE: Then there's no choice.
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Spike puts down the deck.
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JET: Wait, Spike.
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SPIKE: I can't burden you.
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JET: Don't say stuff like that. You know who that is, don't you?
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SPIKE: Superficial stuff, yeah.
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JET: Then...
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SPIKE: Good money. Easy to get info on him. We also have a lead. What makes you scared?
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JET: Spike, you're deliberately avoiding the subject. Are you hiding something from me?
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SPIKE: So... what happened to that arm of yours?
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JET: What does that have to do with anything?
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SPIKE: Nothing.
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JET: So you have no intention of telling me?
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SPIKE: I could ask you the same.
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Silence.
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Faye enters carrying shopping bags.
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FAYE: Why is this door so damn narrow? Oh? Am I interrupting something?
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JET: None of your business.
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FAYE: We're supposed to be comrades. That's awfully cold of you.
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JET: What do you mean, comrades? Troublemakers should keep themselves outta this.
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FAYE: Well, I don't care.
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Faye leans over the monitor.
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FAYE: So, who is this? What's he up to?
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JET: Don't look without asking us.
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FAYE: What do you mean? He's just there on the screen.
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Spike gets up.
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JET: Spike! Hey, wait, Spike!
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Spike exits and boards Swordfish II.
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SPIKE: I'm taking off.
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JET: Spike! Shit, I won't be responsible for you!
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SPIKE: Roger that.
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Swordfish II takes off.
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JET: Dammit! He's such a...
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FAYE: Mao Yenrai. A bounty of 28 million for the alleged murder of an executive from an opposing syndicate. Amazing! And you guys are after him?
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Jet turns off the monitor.
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FAYE: What, did you have a fight?
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JET: Shut up. You're being obnoxious.
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FAYE: You're such a kid.
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JET: I said, your being obnoxious!
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Jet slams his communicator sending the top card of the deck to the floor.
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JET: He can do whatever the hell he pleases.
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Jet exits.
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FAYE: Oh, God... He's throwing such a huge fit.
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Faye picks up the dropped card. The video phone rings.
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MAN: You there, Jet? I got something big for ya!
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FAYE: Something big?
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Faye sees that the card is the ace of spades.
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A concert hall on Mars. Red Tail lands in front of it.
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Faye enters.
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DOORMAN: Excuse me, madam, but I need to see your ticket.
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FAYE: Oh, I don't have anything like that.
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DOORMAN: Then I am afraid that you cannot enter the hall...
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FAYE: But they told me I didn't need one. You know. The guy in the box seat... HIM.
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DOORMAN: Mao Yenr-
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Faye silences him.
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FAYE: Can you park my vehicle for me?
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Faye drops him her key for the Red Tail.
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The Bebop. Jet looks for information on Mao in a secret internet database.
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JET: If it's not one, it's the other. Why do they all do everything as they please?! There's a protective encryption on this thing.
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Ein looks up.
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JET: You worried? Just watch. These are decrypted like this...
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Jet bypasses the encryption.
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JET: See? And then, I input "Mao Yenrai."
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Jet reads Mao's entry.
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JET: The bounty part sure seems to be true, but...
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The concert hall. Faye approaches the box. A thug stands guard.
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FAYE: Is this Mao-taijin's (Sir Mao's) seat? I've looked all over for it. Actually, I...
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THUG A: We were waiting for you.
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Another thug points a gun at her back.
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FAYE: U-Um...
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THUG B: They are performing, so please stay quiet.
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A convenience store on Mars. Two kids look at adult magazines. Just as they stuff the magazines in their shirts the store owner, Annie, catches them in the act.
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ANNIE: Hold it right there!
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The kids run outside. One of the kids trip. Annie, grabs him.
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ANNIE: I'm not letting you get away!
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The other kid bumps into Spike.
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KID: Watcha doin'!
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The kid notices that the magazine is missing from his shirt. Spike begins reading the magazine.
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KID: Give it back! Shit. Give it back, you dumb-ass!
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Annie grabs the kid.
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ANNIE: Really, kids these days...! I'll hand you over to the cops.
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Annie notices Spike.
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ANNIE: Y-You!
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SPIKE: Yo.
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The kids slip away.
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The store. Annie gulps down a full shot of liquor.
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SPIKE: Hey, isn't it bad for you to drink it in one shot, Annie?
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ANNIE: You coming back to life is worse on me than this glass.
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SPIKE: What terrible treatment!
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Annie refills her glass.
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ANNIE: The words of the dead are meaningless.
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SPIKE: But I'm alive.
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ANNIE: No, you died three years ago. That's how things work here. I know. The fact that you came here... means you have something you want to know, right? If it's not much, I can be of help.
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SPIKE: Anastasia...
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ANNIE: Stop it! There are only two people that can call me by that name... So, what do you want to know?
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SPIKE: Mao Yenrai. What happened to him?
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Annie's hand begins to shake.
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The concert hall.
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FAYE: Mao-taijin? There's a reason for this...
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THUG: No need to talk, Miss Valentine.
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The thug holds her key for the Red Tail.
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THUG: We have done a background check already. Rest assured, it will be held in a safe location. Please, to your seat.
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Faye sits down. She looks over to Mao. His neck is slashed.
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VICIOUS: You're trembling...
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FAYE: Who... are you?
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VICIOUS: Vicious.
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EYECATCH
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A "CLOSED" sign hangs at the front window of Annie's store. Annie puts down a gun. Spike takes it. Annie pulls out and puts down a cigarette carton.
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ANNIE: You know... I won't say anything bad to ya. Don't get yourself involved with Vicious anymore... But I know saying that is useless.
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SPIKE: Sorry.
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Spike opens the cigarette carton. Inside are rows of bullets.
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ANNIE: You've never listened to what others say.
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She takes another drink.
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ANNIE: On top of it, you're a stubborn show-off! It can't hurt you to listen to your elders once in a while... About Mao... He had a lot of people looking for you after you were gone. He said that you still had to be alive... You're finally back, but Mao is...
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Annie pours herself another glass.
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SPIKE: Stop it already.
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ANNIE: This is for Mao!
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Spike takes the glass and drinks it.
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SPIKE: I'll take that one for Mao.
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The Bebop. Spike opens the refrigerator, takes a gun and a bag of grenades.
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The living room. Spike organizes. He aims his unloaded gun at Jet.
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JET: What are you up to now... to need something like THAT?
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SPIKE: Where's the broad?
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JET: She lost sanity looking at the bounty figure and took off. Right now she's probably somewhere, screwing up.
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SPIKE: I see.
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Spike loads a clip.
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JET: I'll tell you something. You won't get the bounty for Mao. He's already dead. He was killed. Internal discord. Do you understand? This is a trap! I'm sure of it.
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SPIKE: Yeah. I know all that.
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JET: You know? Then what, you're Mao's...?
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SPIKE: I owe him one from before...
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JET: I'll tell you something, Spike. This arm. It's the price I paid for being over-spirited and running ahead of the game. You understand?
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SPIKE: I don't wanna go, either.
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JET: Then...
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SPIKE: Let's just say, duties of the life I live.
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Faye calls the videophone. She is captured.
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FAYE: Tee hee. I've been caught.
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JET: You...
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FAYE: Come to the place we specify. Otherwise, my life is over. So they say. Lesse... the time to meet is...
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JET: It's because you did as you please.
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FAYE: You're being cold. We're comrades, remember?
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JET: You reap what you sow. Take care of it all yourself.
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Jet reaches over to hang up.
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FAYE: Hey wait!
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Spike stops him.
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SPIKE: Where is it?
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FAYE: You're really gonna come?
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SPIKE: Don't worry. I'm not going there to save you.
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JET: Spike!
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An abandoned church. Spike enters. Vicious meets him in the aisle.
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VICIOUS: Angels that are forced from heaven have to become demons. Isn't that right, Spike?
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SPIKE: I'm only watching a dream that I never awakened from.
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VICIOUS: I'll wake you up right now.
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SPIKE: Don't be so anxious, Vicious. It's our first time meeting in a while, right?
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VICIOUS: A plea for your life?
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SPIKE: Hardly. Something that doesn't work on you, remember? After all, you even kill those who've saved your life.
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VICIOUS: He was a beast who lost his fangs. That's why he's dead. The same goes for you.
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A thug holds Faye at gunpoint. Spike points his gun at him.
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THUG: Now, we want you to drop your gun.
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No reply.
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THUG: What's wrong? If you don't hurry...
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Spike shoots him in the head.
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Guns blaze. Spike guns down two men. A stray bullet flies inches from Faye.
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FAYE: Are ya tryin' to kill me?
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A thug falls from a balcony right before Faye.
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Faye exits.
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Spike runs up a flight of stairs, he shoots a thug at the top of the stairs. The thug shoots him in the gut.
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The Bebop. Jet accidentally clips a large limb from one of his bonsai trees.
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JET: Oh, man, what the hell've I done...?
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Jet's communicator rings.
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JET: Yeah?
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FAYE: Thank God! Jet? Spike is...
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JET: Not my problem!
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Jet hangs up. Jet stares at the fallen limb.
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JET: Goddamn it!
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Jet exits.
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Spike guns down a machine gun wielding thug. Ambushed, Spike duels Vicious. Vicious directs his sword at Spike's heart. Spike points his gun at Vicious' heart.
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VICIOUS: Spike. Do you know what your face looks like right now?
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SPIKE: What?
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VICIOUS: The same blood runs in you and me. The blood of a beast who wanders, desiring the blood of others.
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SPIKE: I've bled all of that blood away.
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VICIOUS: Then why are you still alive?
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Vicious stabs Spike in the shoulder while Spike shoots Vicious in the shoulder. Vicious throws Spike out a stained glass window. Spike drops a grenade.
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Memories of a blonde woman, a rainy street, gunfire, roses, a time of friendship, a bar scene, a gun pointed at the woman's head, Vicious in bed with the woman, a bloody smile, a red rose in a puddle.
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An explosion from the stained glass window. Spike falls from the window.
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Wandering down a street, a bloody Spike falls in front of the blonde woman.
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The blonde woman hums. Spike regains consciousness. The woman stops humming. Spike is bandaged all over on her bed in her apartment.
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SPIKE: Just like that... sing for me.
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The woman smiles.
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Faye hums. The Bebop. Spike is bandaged all over on the living room couch. Faye plays solitaire. Faye notices Spike is awake, stops humming, smiles.
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FAYE: Oh, you're finally up. You've slept too much. It's been three days. What, I was worried about you. You have to be thankful to me.
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Spike signals Faye to approach him. Faye puts her ear to his bandaged mouth.
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SPIKE: Tone-deaf.
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Faye is angered. Faye slams the deck of cards onto Spike's chest, bursting a pillow. Cards fly.
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JET: Oh, well...
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Spike examines the card on his forehead. The ace of spades.
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SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...
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CLOSING CREDITS
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COMING EPISODE
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SPIKE: But you know what? What a tough world we live in nowadays...
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JET: What are you talking about?
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SPIKE: This guy, that guy... They're all trying to put a lid on something that stinks.
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JET: Yeah.
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SPIKE: Can we let things go on like that?
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JET: I'm asking you, what ARE you talking about?
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SPIKE: World affairs man! World affairs! With all these lids about, the world'll be buried in lids!
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JET: I don't really get it...
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SPIKE: With stuff like that, you can't see the truth!
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JET: Truth, huh...?
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SPIKE: So lids like that... I'll crush them all away! Next Episode: Sympathy for the Devil.
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JET: That sounds... smelly.
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Next Session - SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
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