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SESSION #18 - SPEAK LIKE A CHILD
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Written By Akihiko Inari
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Co-Written By Shoji Kawamori & Aya Yoshinaga
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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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The horse races. Faye loses.
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The deck of the Bebop parked on a river on Mars. Spike catches a fish but
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loses it trying to real it in.
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Session #18
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SPEAK LIKE A CHILD
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The deck of the Bebop. Jet hangs clothes out to dry. He tells Ed a story.
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JET: And so, the turtle took him to a palace called Ryuuguujou as a reward.
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ED: Ryuuguujou?
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JET: Yeah. At that palace, they held a welcome party for him. Beautiful
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women and scrumptious feasts. Breams and halibut swam about and so he
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spent his time as if in a dream.
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ED: I see...
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SPIKE: I haven't eaten breams or halibut in quite a while...
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JET: Days passed before he knew it, and when he was about to go back he was
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given the Tamatebako as a souvenir.
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ED: Tamatebako? Is that yummy?
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JET: It's not food. It's a chest with treasure inside.
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SPIKE: I haven't seen any treasure in quite a while either...
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JET: You guys are so tasteless. This is an old fantasy tale!
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ED: The turtle's Tamatebako?
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JET: What were you listening to...?
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Ed points up. A delivery truck with a turtle painted on it lands on the
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deck of the Bebop.
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Faye flies back to the Bebop in Red Tail.
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FAYE: I should quit the horses now.
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She land on the deck and opens the door of her MONO pod. Jet is waiting for
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her with a package in his hand.
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JET: Pay up 6300 Woolongs.
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FAYE: What, where did that come from?
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JET: This was for you.
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FAYE: For... me?
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JET: C.O.D. even. To top it off, no return address. I had no choice but to
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accept it -
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Faye slams the pod door and takes off.
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JET: H-Hey! Wait!! HEY! What about the 6300 Woolongs?!
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SPIKE: Busy woman.
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In Red Tail.
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FAYE: Could it be a collection agency from the life extension firm? Or...
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No, could it be... Oooh... I just have too many things it could be...
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So for now, I'll just run away!
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Faye flies away.
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The Bebop living room..
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JET: Don't you think it's fishy? For a woman who always claims other
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people's property as her own to run away without even touching it?
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SPIKE: She seems to have picked up a lot of grudges from all over, though.
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JET: I should do an explosives test and a biochemical test just in case...
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No! I should return this to the courier service and have them refund
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the money I paid for her sake...
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SPIKE: rips open the package.
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JET: Hey, Spike!
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From it, a rectangular black box slips out. Spike examines it.
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SPIKE: What the hell is this?
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JET: Does it make any ticking noises?
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SPIKE: Nope.
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Ed finds information on the internet.
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ED: I got data! Data from the courier service!
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Jet reads the web page.
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JET: The sender is... a nonprofit nunnery in Europa?!
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ED: There's more...
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Jet reads .
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JET: Pluto Prison? Asteroid Actors' Studio? Fourth Uranus Observatory?
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Venus News Network? Forwarded, forwarded, and forwarded some more...
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This thing's been passed around the entire solar system...
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ED: Here.
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JET: Due to the explosion of the Lunar Gate, all data from before 2022 has
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been lost.
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SPIKE: An antique.
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Ein sniffs the box.
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The streets of Mars. Spike and Jet walk to a video antique shop JET: It seems to be something called a videotape. An artifact of the good
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old days. She's the one that ran away. She has no right to complain
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even if we sell it off.
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SPIKE: You think it will sell?
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JET: They say he's a maniac when it comes to 20th century images... I'm
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sure he'd buy it.
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SPIKE: I just don't think this is worth anything.
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JET: The real worth of treasures like this can't be determined from the
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outside. You may be surprised at how much you can sell it for!
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They arrive at the doorstep of the shop. A man watches sits in front of a
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monitor contently watching and old television show.
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JET: I need to get enough to cover the C.O.D. charges at least.
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Jet walks in.
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JET: Excuse me!
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MAN: QUIET!
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The show.
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GIRL: Everything about this city is different from Minnesota, where we were
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before. Hey, brother, are you sure we can get along well here?
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GUY: Mm... To tell the truth, I wasn't so sure that we could. But, I'm sure
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we'll be all right. Because I'm here with my twin sister.
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GIRL: Thanks, brother.
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GUY: Oh, man, I have to work in the morning!
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GIRL: Good night, brother.
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GUY: Good night!
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Closing credits are displayed.
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MAN: GOD, that's good! Drama series from the 20th century are so good!
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The man stops the tape.
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MAN: On the other hand... drama series as of late are so -
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JET: I have something you want to watch -
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The man stand up and yells at smoking Spike.
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MAN: Hey, hey, hey, you can't do that! The cigarette, man, the cigarette!
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Don't you know that smoke can totally screw up electrical appliances?
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Sheesh, this is why I hate people who don't know -
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Spike puts out the cigarette on a VCR. The man screams.
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MAN: Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot! SHEESH! What the hell do you guys want?!
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What do you have against me?!
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JET: No grudges, but no gratitude either. I just have something we want you
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to buy from us.
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MAN: Ah! Is that a Beta cassette!? That's amazing! Where did you get a hold
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of this? This is a true find, mister! It's close to a miracle that
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this thing exists in one piece!
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JET: Beta?
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MAN: You don't know what this is? Oh, all right, do you want me to explain?
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Back in the 20th century, they didn't use disks like we do to record
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movies. They used things called videotapes, which are in cassettes
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like this. It's not digital! It's analog! And to top it off, it's
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magnetic... Yeah, magnetic! They were recording with electromagnetic
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signals! Ain't that amazing? But a disagreement between the companies
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who created this technology resulted in two standards, Beta and VHS.
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Beta had a small cassette for their day and the playback decks were
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compact and didn't take much space. You didn't get that much noise
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when using the special replay features like still frame and slow
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motion. And, because Beta had high quality images users who were into
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good graphics supported it really heavily. But, there begins the
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unfortunate history of the Beta tape.
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Spike and Jet are extremely bored.
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JET: You don't need to tell me.
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MAN: This is just the introduction!
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JET: I told you what we wanted. So how is it? Are ya gonna buy it?
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MAN: Well, that depends on what's on it...
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The man puts the tape into a deck. The monitor displays a public park and
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forestry. Suddenly there is noise in the picture.
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JET: Hey, what's wrong?
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MAN: It's so hard to adjust the tracking for these early Beta tapes...
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The man turns knobs at the bottom of the tape deck.
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MAN: This way? Or this way?
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The monitor displays the back of a purple headed girl standing by a beach.
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The girl turns around. Suddenly the picture warps.
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MAN: It's eating the tape!
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Spike starts kicking the tape deck. The man freezes.
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JET: It's not getting any better...
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Spike completely smashes the deck. The picture goes blank.
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At the dog races. Faye watches with excitement.
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FAYE: It's coming... It is... It is...
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The dogs cross the finish line. Faye wins.
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FAYE: I got it! Dogs are better than horses after all!
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Back on the Bebop.
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SPIKE: Most things get better if I kick 'em...
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JET: You just don't know when to quit...
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The computer receives a call.
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MAN: Dammit, repay me for breaking my deck!
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JET: You again...
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MAN: You broke someone else's valuable machinery and you're not going to
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take responsibility for it?!
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JET: And how are you going to take responsibility for our valuable tape?
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MAN: Early Beta decks often eat tapes! In any case, I'll have you pay for
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the repair costs!
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JET: We'll call it even with the cost of the tape!
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MAN: WHAT?! Be -
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Jet hangs up.
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SPIKE: Sheesh...
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Ed finds information on her computer.
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ED: Hello, Beta deck! There's just one of those. Where is this? The
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Underground City Electrical Museum in old Asia?
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JET: I'm going to figure out what's on that tape at any cost!
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SPIKE: Is it really something worth all the trouble?
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At the dog races.
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FAYE: It's coming... It's... It's... It's...
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Faye wins.
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FAYE: YEAH! I got it! Really, I wonder if those guys were sucking up all my
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luck all this time.
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EYCATCH
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The Bebop exits a hyperspace gate to Earth.
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Faye calls the Bebop at a noodle restaurant.
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FAYE: Ah... Hello. Hello?
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She reaches Ed. The reception is bad.
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ED: Hey, helllllloooooo... Ah... it's... Faye... Yoohoo...
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FAYE: Wait... Hello? What is this, where are you guys?
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ED: Earth... Earth! FAYE: Earth?! Wait a minute, you guys left me behind to go that far away...
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ED: Spike... and Jet...
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The connection is lost.
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Earth. The Bebop lands. Spike and Jet fly to an old building.
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JET: All right, just a little longer.
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SPIKE: Is there really one left in a place like this?
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JET: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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In the building. Jet reads a sign by an elevator.
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JET: 28th underground floor.
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Spike pushes the elevator button. Nothing happens.
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JET: It's not moving?
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They open the door with a crowbar.
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JET: The cable broke, so it's stuck.
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Spike and Jet slide down the elevator cable. The car above them suddenly
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falls. They quickly dodge and grab pipes in the walls.
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The journey to the 28th basement floor become more bizarre and perilous
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with each step.
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JET: Why are we going through all of this?
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SPIKE: It just means that treasure-hunting isn't easy.
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JET: Treasure? What was the treasure we were after?
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SPIKE: The Tamatebako, was it?
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JET: I kinda see why the man turned into an old geezer after opening the
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Tamatebako now...
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SPIKE: Even if we head back now, we're not gonna be any younger.
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JET: This is some Ryuuguujou... Where DID that broad go in the first
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place?!
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At the dog races.
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FAYE: It's coming... It's, it's...
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The dogs cross the finish line. Faye loses.
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FAYE: Oh, well, nothing I could've done. Races are all luck anyway.
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Spike and Jet reach the 28th basement floor.
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SPIKE: Is it here?
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JET: It's here. All right.
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They find a shelf of tape decks.
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SPIKE: Is this it?
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JET: Yeah, that's gotta be it.
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SPIKE: And? Which one are we taking back?
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JET: Let's see... Well, bigger is always better, they say.
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They return to the Bebop with a tape deck and an old television set. Jet
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tries to shove the tape into the deck. It doesn't fit.
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SPIKE: What's wrong?
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JET: The size...
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SPIKE: Isn't it all right?
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JET: It's not going in.
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SPIKE: Force it in.
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JET: But...
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Ed pops up.
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ED: Ah! That's not it! That's VHS, so ya can't see the tape!
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Ed's computer rings with an incoming call. Ein walks to it and answers the
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call. It is Faye.
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FAYE: Oh, hello, it's me.
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Faye's communicator displays Ein. Faye frowns. Ein barks to Faye. Faye's
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right eye twitches. Ed goes to the computer.
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ED: Ein, who are you talking to? Oh, it's Faye!
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FAYE: I'm glad there's an organism there that I can talk to.
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ED: What is it?
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FAYE: Was there anyone who went there to visit me?
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ED: Visitors?
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FAYE: Like scary middle-aged guys. You know, guys that scream stuff like:
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"Gimme back my money!" or "You're under arrest!"?
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ED: Yeah, there was one.
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FAYE: Eh? And?
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ED: Something about repay him, even with tape munch, munch and grind,
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bye-bye!
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FAYE: Eh? Okay... Oh, well. Where's Spike and Jet?
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ED: Disappointed and zoned out.
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FAYE: I see... Hmm... That's how... Oh, well. If they're so lonely without
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me, I guess I have no choice. I'm coming back!
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A delivery truck with a rabbit painted on it lands on the deck of the
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Bebop.
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JET: What?! Another package for that broad?! I won't accept it! Take it and
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go back!
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Spike rips open the package.
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The living room.
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JET: Shit, why do I have to pay for HER C.O.D.?! And not once, but TWICE!
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Spike struggles with the packing.
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SPIKE: You sure are persistent.
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He uncovers a Beta deck.
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ED: A Beta!
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SPIKE: We can see the tape with this?
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ED: Yeah.
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Faye returns.
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FAYE: Hey, guys, long time no see.
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They stare angrily at Faye.
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Ed sets up the television and the deck.
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ED: It's done.
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JET: Hold up.
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Jet turns to Faye.
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JET: If you're going to watch pay back the C.O.D. charges. With tax, a total of 31,500 Woolongs.
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FAYE: Oh, fine.
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Faye walks away.
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The tape plays. Shots of a 20th century city.
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JET: We have something!
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ED: Ooooh... what's this?
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JET: Shut up and watch.
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A bashful teenage Faye and classmates.
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FAYE: Um... Everyone decided to send a message to themselves ten years in
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the future.
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The girls break into laughter.
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FAYE: Oh, come on, don't laugh!
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A solo close-up shot of Faye. Spike, Jet and Ed are startled.
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FAYE: Um... This makes me blush after all! Eh? Something I want to say?
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Good morning...
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The girls laugh.
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FAYE: Oh! Never mind!
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Faye on the Bebop stares wide-eyed at the footage.
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The shot changes. Young Faye's bedroom.
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FAYE: Good morning, me. Did you sleep well? And did you wake up well? Does
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the light and the wind, the air and the smell, all feel brand new? Is
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each and every cell in your body awake now? Today, you are who you
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are today. You are a newer version of me. Myself ten years from
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now... That's so far away for me that I can't even begin to imagine.
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Am I alone? Or is there a wonderful person next to me? Well, knowing me, I'm sure I am troubling a lot of different people.
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Shot of Spike looking stunned. Shot of Jet looking stunned.
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FAYE: But that's all right. There's no problem. I will always be cheering you on.
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The shot changes. Young Faye in a cheerleading outfit.
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FAYE: And now for a big cheer... from the bottom of my heart. Go! Go! Me,
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me, me! Do your best, do your best! Me, me, me! Don't lose, don't
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lose! Me, me, me!
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Faye continues staring at the footage. Tears form in her eyes.
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FAYE: I don't know... I can't remember... Is this... me?
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The tape pauses on a still image of young Faye.
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FAYE: I am no longer here... But I'm here today, and I'll always be
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cheering for you right here... Cheering for you, my only self.
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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: You know, I'm starting to get tired of us doing all the previews
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like this... Once in a while, can't we have someone else...
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Ein barks.
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SPIKE: Oh? Oh! You're perfect. All right! Here, you try doing it this time.
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Ein continues to bark.
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SPIKE: Oh! So THAT'S how it is!
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Ein continues to bark.
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SPIKE: Wow, this is going to be an interesting episode!
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EIN: Next Episode: "Wild Horses."
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SPIKE: Hey, it spoke!
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Next Session
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WILD HORSES
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