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364 lines
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SESSION #19 - WILD HORSES
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Written By Akihiko Inari
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Co-Written by Kimitoshi Yamane
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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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A desert on Earth. Spike spots a ship take off in the distance and tries to
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hitch a ride. Swordfish II is parked beside him.
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Session #19
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WILD HORSES
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In Red Tail, Faye floats by Earth's moon, idle.
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FAYE: Really, this just doesn't suit my style to just sit and wait like
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this.
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The Bebop hides nearby.
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JET: We pick our spot, then wait patiently. That is the secret behind
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fishing.
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FAYE: Did you ever consider that may be this was the WRONG spot?
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JET: The bait has no right to complain.
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ED: What are you fishing for?
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JET: "Starship Pirates." A group that calls themselves pirates.
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ED: Pirates?
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JET: A group of people that like to attack a ship and rob anything and
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everything from them.
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ED: Like to rob, rob, drunken slob!
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FAYE: Besides, where the hell did Spike go?! He left to overhaul his ship,
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and still hasn't -
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Ein hangs up on Faye.
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JET: Thanks. But Spike... Man... What's he doing now, without giving us a
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heads-up?
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The desert on Earth. Spike sits in the shade under Swordfish. A truck
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pulls up. Spike opens the side door.
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SPIKE: You're late, Doohan!
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Inside, a young man named Miles is listening to the radio on headphones.
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MILES: Yeah! Go, go, go!
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SPIKE: Hey...? HEY!
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Spike unplugs the headphones.
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RADIO: Strike three! Batter out! He just let that one slide by... and that's
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the game!
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Miles kicks the radio, crushing it.
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MILES: Man! Why didn't they just send in a pinch-hitter? Come on,
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Eightwood is getting OLD! Don't ya think?
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SPIKE: Where's Doohan?
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MILES: The old man's kinda busy right now. I'm Miles, his assistant. Nice
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to meet ya.
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On the road. Swordfish rides in the back.
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MILES: Man, they were really great when they won the pennant 14 years ago.
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They just kept hittin' the ball one after another, and turned losing
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games around! Especially when Randy, Blanket and Hills hit
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consecutive homers... I really wish you coulda seen it. And ya
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know - Hey, do people often say you're the silent type?
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SPIKE: And people often say you talk too much, right?
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MILES: Kinda. The... Swordfish, right? The machine back there...
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SPIKE: Yeah.
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MILES: That's the amazing mono-racer that the old man built, right?
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SPIKE: It's just an old machine. I don't want it, but it's a part of me.
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MILES: I hear ya... Us Blue Sox fans feel like we fell for some wicked
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broad. Really! I can't remember how many times I've thought about
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giving up on them!
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They enter a junkyard filled with various forms of aircraft. The side of a
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building housing an old space shuttle explodes.
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MILES: Jesus, not again...
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They walk into the building.
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MILES: Yo, old man!
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The mechanic Doohan walks out to check out Swordfish, the back of his shirt
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smoking.
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SPIKE: Yo. Long time no see.
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DOOHAN: Yeah. Miles, where's the checklist!?
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MILES: It's out there! I put it on the ship's body!
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SPIKE: He's been fixing that ancient thing?
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MILES: I think it's useless. The computer isn't compatible with the mono-
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system...
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DOOHAN: Miles! Gimme the EV Transmitter, the absorber for the main gear and
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the three-eight pneumatic tube!
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MILES: A three-eight?! I don't have something that special!
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DOOHAN: Order one from Reggie. His place has them!
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MILES: Yeah, yeah. You really are some slave driver!
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Spike looks onto the old shuttle.
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SPIKE: Some hobby!
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Alarms sound on the Bebop.
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JET: Did we catch it?
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In Red Tail, Faye looks around.
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FAYE: It wasn't me! Where is it?
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JET: It's close! Shit, I used bad bait!
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FAYE: Hey!
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The pirates, George, Ruth, and Harman, fire a harpoon at truck.
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GEORGE: This is a good machine. Attacking blessed people like them and
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giving to the poor is human equality. Don't you think so?
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RUTH: Heh, heh, I get it. This is what ya call social reform.
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They real the truck into their haul.
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GEORGE: Yeah. It's only right for us, the poor, to take from them!
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Red Tail jets toward them.
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HARMAN: Something's coming!
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GEORGE: Cops?!
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Red Tail stops in front of their truck.
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FAYE: Hi. That's enough.
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GEOREGE: Bounty hunter...? Herman.
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HARMAN: Be a good girl and come here...
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Harman readies the harpoon. In Hammerhead, Jet sees it.
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JET: Faye, above you!
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Faye is harpooned. Red Tail goes berserk.
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FAYE: What the..?! Is this a joke?!
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Red Tail fires randomly and begins to hit Hammerhead.
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FAYE: It's not me!
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Harman spots the Bebop.
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HARMAN: Ruth! One more behind us! And it's HUGE!
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RUTH: I know. What a tattered old ship!
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JET: Leave me alone!
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They harpoon the Bebop. The Bebop goes berserk.
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Ed readies the emergency pilot program. Ein pushes the enter button before
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Ed could.
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BEBOP: Abnormality found in the mono-system. Booting the emergency pilot
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program.
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The Red Tail continues to fire randomly.
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FAYE: Hey, stop this thing!
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JET: Like I know how!
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The pirates jet away.
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Doohan's office. Spike looks at old photographs on the bulletin board.
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The hanger. Doohan tunes up Swordfish.
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DOOHAN: Looks like he's taken you on quite a few spins. Cut it!
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MILES: The accelerator pump is all worn down.
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DOOHAN: I know.
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MILES: And the fuel injector doesn't have a silencer on it...
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DOOHAN: Don't need one.
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MILES: But it's noisy, and it trembles...
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DOOHAN: If you put one in, then I can't hear what it's telling me! Just
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hurry up and connect the injector.
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MILES: First of all, a three-eight isn't popular anymore... Why don't you
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switch to the new five-zero?
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Spike enters with coffee.
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DOOHAN: Miles.
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MILES: And if you change the navigation to full-auto then you can glide
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along without manual steering...
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DOOHAN: Do you want to use a machine, or do you want the machine to use
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you? Which is it?
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MILES: I wasn't exactly -
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DOOHAN: Just go!
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Spike picks up a pointy piece.
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SPIKE: You haven't changed a bit. At this rate, another assistant is gonna
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leave you.
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The piece punctures Spike's finger. Doohan smiles.
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DOOHAN: And you! The Swordfish wants to run away from you!
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SPIKE: I haven't heard that before.
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DOOHAN: If you keep being reckless with her, she'll really throw you off
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someday!
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SPIKE: Unfortunately, I'm not one for delicate controls.
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Reggie pulls up in his truck.
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REGGIE: Sorry to keep you waiting! I got something you don't see often...
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A three-eight pneumatic tube!
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Spike calls Bebop.
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FAYE: Yes, hello? Oh, it's you, Missing Man. Where are you right now?
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SPIKE: I'm still with Doohan. How's Jet?
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FAYE: He seems rather busy right now... Saying something about some
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bacteria...
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SPIKE: Bacteria?!
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JET: A virus! We got a computer virus!
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FAYE: Same difference.
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JET: Starting with the mono-system, orbit calculator, flight path selector,
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engine regulator, communications circuit... they're all shot.
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SPIKE: I don't get it. Gimme a simple explanation.
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ED: The computer broke and we're just drifting along!
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SPIKE: Well, I understood that.
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REGGIE: How about it? It's the newest one. You haven't seen one floating
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around anywhere else, right?
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DOOHAN: A mono-computer...?
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REGGIE: How about it? 150K, no, 100K.
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DOOHAN: A bargain, huh? When it's sold THAT cheap, you lose money even on
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salvage.
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Spike continues to talk on his communicator.
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SPIKE: So, who did it?
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DOOHAN: Where did you get this?
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SPIKE: A truck? Any features?
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REGGIE: A penguin -
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FAYE: - logo on -
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SPIKE & DOOHAN: - the delivery truck?!
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Spike and Doohan look at each other.
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EYECATCH
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Spike returns to the Bebop.
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JET: Are you sure about the info?
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SPIKE: Yeah. They apparently were dealing at the Orbit Drive-in.
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JET: I see... nobody would be suspicious of a delivery truck wandering
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about.
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SPIKE: And how are we going to counter the hacks?
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JET: Don't get harpooned!
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Silence.
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SPIKE: And?
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FAYE: That's IT?!
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Jet is furious.
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JET: They laughed this ship off as "tattered!" And they made that mess out
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of my Hammerhead! Unlike SOMEONE I know, I always pay back what I owe.
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FAYE: What a wonderful principle.
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SPIKE: I'm really not up for this...
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Jet smiles.
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JET: I have an invoice from Doohan here.
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They take off from Earth.
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JET: Because they're PHYSICALLY sending the virus they haven't developed a
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vaccine for it. That is where this secret weapon of ours come in.
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Jet puts down a communicator.
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FAYE: What? That's just our normal communicator.
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JET: If you get infected by the virus, cut off the entire mono-system.
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Then, all navigation and communication will go down. As I said, I will
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navigate you with this. Because this is set to the frequency for an
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old communications satellite it has nothing to do with the mono-
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system.
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Spike sets up the communicator on Swordfish.
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RADIO: Oh, another run scored against the Blue Sox!
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SPIKE: That's some secret weapon...
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Spike takes off.
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Doohan's hanger. Miles listens to the Blue Sox game. Doohan hears it and
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glares at Miles.
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The Drive-In. Swordfish and Red Tail stop before two trucks with penguins
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painted on them.
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SPIKE: It was a penguin, right?
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FAYE: Yeah. A purple penguin.
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JET: There are two of them? Wait a minute, it might be a real courier
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service. It's a matter of how to figure out if they are legit...
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FAYE: That's easy. We fire a shot, and the one that runs is the one we
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want.
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SPIKE: This is the first time I agree with you on something...
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JET: Y-You guys - !
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They fire at the trucks.
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JET: What are you gonna do if they're both real?!
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Both flee.
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SPIKE: They both ran?
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FAYE: We didn't consider that option...
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SPIKE: I'm trusting you with that one!
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FAYE: I have to pay them back for yesterday, too.
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Faye destroys the booster engines of one of the trucks. The truck stops.
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Faye stops in front of them.
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TRUCKER A: Forgive us!
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TRUCKER B: W-We'll pay the parking fee!
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Faye's right eye twitches.
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Spike continues chasing the other truck.
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SPIKE: This way?!
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JET: Spike! Draw them out!
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Doohan's hanger. Miles overhears Spike and Jet's communication on the
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radio.
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JET: It'll be a mess if they let the virus go in there!
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SPIKE: I know!
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Earth space. Spike continues chasing the pirates.
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SPIKE: So let's see what ya got...
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GEORGE: He's here.
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HARMAN: Waste of time.
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Spike hides under the haul and fires at the harpoon.
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HARMAN: He's after the arm...
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GEORGE: He's not taking us seriously! Ruth!
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RUTH: Ready to go anytime.
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GEORGE: Take that!
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George releases the haul. Behind the truck are dozens of harpoon guns.
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RUTH: Welcome...
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Spike dodges them.
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SPIKE: Excellent!
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Harman locks on to Spike.
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HARMAN: Bingo!
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Spike barely dodges Harman's harpoon shot.
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RUTH: He's holding up pretty well.
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Spike is finally hit by a harpoon.
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JET: Cut off the mono-system!
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SPIKE: I'm doing it!
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RUTH: That idiot cut off his mono-system!
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HARMAN: Hey... George...
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RUTH: And he's in Earth's gravitational field...
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The pirates truck are hit by a harpoon.
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Doohan's office. Miles runs in with the radio.
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MILES: Old man! Here, here!
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They overhear Spike and Jet's communication.
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MILES: This is pretty bad!
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JET: Align the D7. Ya did it before, right?
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SPIKE: Like I remember!
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Earth space. The pirates are being pulled into Earth's atmosphere.
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GEORGE: No good... There's nothing we can do...
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HARMAN: You idiot! Hurry up and do something about this!
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GEORGE: Dammit... Move! MOVE!
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RUTH: Falling... We're falling!
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Spike rewires Swordfish.
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JET: Spike, I'll be right there. I'm calculating an interception course.
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Until then, keep control manually somehow. Even if everything was
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normal, it'd be tough to get outta here.
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SPIKE: I can see that. And I just had it overhauled...
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Meteors crash into Swordfish.
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SPIKE: Oh well. Whatever happens, happens.
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Spike dodges meteors.
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JET: Spike, above you.
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Spike sees the Bebop above him.
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SPIKE: Your tattered ship looks like a goddess!
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The pirates' truck crashes into a meteor and explodes, harpoons fly upward.
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SPIKE: Shit, the virus...
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Spike flies low and uses Swordfish to block the harpoons from hitting the
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Bebop.
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JET: Spike!
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SPIKE: I'm still alive!
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JET: We have to start over!
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Doohan's hanger.
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MILES: No way! Old man, ya gotta be kidding! Are you really gonna move this
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ancient piece of -
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Miles laughs.
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DOOHAN: Do you think I'd do this as a joke? Don't just stand there! Hurry
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up and get me some fuel!
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MILES: All right!
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Earth space. Swordfish slowly falls into Earth's atmosphere.
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JET: Spike, can you hear me? I got a calculation. It'll take another 7
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hours for us to rendezvous.
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SPIKE: Come on, you're joking, right?
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JET: We're too close to Earth. The orbital paths I can take are limited!
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SPIKE: Isn't there a way for you to just swing on by?
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JET: If I plunge in at this angle, both the Bebop and the Swordfish will
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burn to nothing!
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Swordfish's underside begins to burn.
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SPIKE: Jet... I have some booze hidden behind the fridge. Feel free to
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drink some.
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JET: Something wrong?!
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SPIKE: I'm outta gas. Nothing I can do now.
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Doohan communicates to Spike through the radio.
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DOOHAN: How about I go there and tow you back, in exchange for that booze?
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I heard the conversation. Give me the Swordfish's coordinates.
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SPIKE: Doohan?! How the hell do you - ?!
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Doohan's hanger. Doohan prepares to launch the old space shuttle.
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DOOHAN: Spike, I don't care how ya do it, but slow down using an air-brake.
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SPIKE: Slow down?
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DOOHAN: If you slow down within Earth's atmosphere the gravitational pull
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will accelerate you instead which will give you enough speed to
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escape. However, you have to maintain the ship at a certain angle.
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Too far either way, and you'll be thrown out to the other end of
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the universe.
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SPIKE: Unfortunately, I'm not one for delicate controls.
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DOOHAN: Spike... I know you can do it. I didn't give you the Swordfish for
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nothing.
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SPIKE: Don't you start crashing, either!
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In the shuttle.
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MILES: Maximum propulsion.
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DOOHAN: You didn't have to force yourself to come with me.
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MILES: You know how Blue Sox fans love to party!
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DOOHAN: Let's go!
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MILES: All right!
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The shuttle takes off.
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MILES: We're flying... We're REALLY flying!
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Earth Space.
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JET: Lower the nose by 0.6 degrees.
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Spike lowers too far.
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JET: You're in too deep! Spike, you'll burn to a crisp!
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Spike spots Doohan's shuttle. The back of the shuttle opens up.
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DOOHAN: This is the last chance!
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Spike breaks off Swordfish's wings and falls into the shuttle.
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MILES: It went in! It went in! That was perfect!
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SPIKE: Doohan, you saved me.
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DOOHAN: Not quite. Most of the heat-resistant tiles have peeled off. The
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temperature is rising...
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MILES: T-The landing gear isn't coming down either!
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DOOHAN: Oh yeah, and the #2 nozzle won't work either.
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MILES: WHAT!? Is that for real? What are we gonna do? We can't land without
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them!
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SPIKE: Oh well... Whatever happens, happens.
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MILES: I KNEW I shouldn't have come up here! I'm still too young to die!
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Sometime later. Doohan's office. A photograph of Doohan, Miles and Spike is
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posted on the bulletin board. Behind them is the remains of the space
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shuttle.
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SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY
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CLOSING CREDITS
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Maniacal laughter.
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NARRATOR: Next episode: "Pierrot Le Fou."
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Next Session
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PIERROT LE FOU
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