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SESSION #21 - BOOGIE-WOOGIE FENG-SHUI
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Written By Sadayuki Murai & Shinichiro Watanabe
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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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Jet narrates.
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JET: This strange story began on a blistering hot day. I had received an
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unexpected mail from an old acquaintance of mine but the message was
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just this: "Seek the sacred beast from Anzan. I am at the meeting
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place of the four gods." Session #21
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BOOGIE-WOOGIE FENG-SHUI
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Jet continues narrating.
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JET: Pao, the sender of the message, was an acquaintance of mine but it
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didn't mean that we kept in touch all that well. I grew suspicious,
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and started to research Pao's current whereabouts. They say that Pao
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is one of the three greatest Feng Shui masters here on Mars... But
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when I found his whereabouts, he had already left this world...
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A cemetery on Mars. Jet stands before Pao's gravestone.
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JET: Are you sure you weren't the one that sent me this mail?
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A girl, Pao's daughter, Meifa, rises from behind the stone.
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MEIFA: The one who visits from the inauspicious back door... Receive the
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word from the heavens, and lead me to the sun stone... So the pa-kua
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divination is true!
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She spots two thugs with guns behind Jet.
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MEIFA: Look out!
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She pushes Jet out of the way of gunfire. The shots hit Pao's gravestone.
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THUG A: Where are you shooting?!
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They hide behind another gravestone.
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JET: They sure are disrespectful fellows.
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Meifa consults her luo-pan.
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MEIFA: The escape route!
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She stand up, and grabs Jet by the hand and runs. The thugs shoot at them
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and miss.
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THUG A: Idiot!
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THUG B: Shit!
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They chase after Jet and Meifa.
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Jet and Meifa jump into a wooded section. They reach the end, under them is
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a strip of road. Meifa spots a two-story bus.
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MEIFA: Escape route!
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They hop on. The thugs chase them in a car. Meifa spots a river next to
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them.
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MEIFA: Chi of Earth!
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JET: Hey!
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They jump in and resurface.
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MEIFA: That was really close! I'm glad we're safe.
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Jet stares at her, confused.
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The Bebop parked on the river. Spike spots Faye, Ed and Ein from the
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shadows of the hallway, spying on Jet and Meifa in the living room.
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SPIKE: What are you doing?
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FAYE: Hey, over there... Who is that? I wonder if she's a new girlfriend.
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SPIKE: For that, she's rather young.
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ED: Weird one, hot dog bun, loved one!
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FAYE: Maybe she's his secret love child?
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SPIKE: For that, she's rather old.
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ED: Child, mild, wild!
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Jet and Meifa drink tea in the living room.
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JET: But I'm surprised. I wasn't expecting Pao's daughter to be this old
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already. You probably don't remember but I met you once when you were
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this little.
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MEIFA: How do you know my father?
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JET: How? Just an acquaintance. It's been 10 years already. But your father
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sure was unlucky to be in a traffic accident...
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MEIFA: On the way to Jupiter, there was a sudden fluctuation in
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hyperspace...
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Ed walks by with a plate of Piyokos.
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ED: Here you go.
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MEIFA: Thank you.
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ED: Are you the "girlfriend?"
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Jet spits out his tea.
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ED: Are you the "secret love child?"
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Jet looks around and spots Spike, Faye and Ein in the hallway. They
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disband.
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ED: Rejected!
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Ed runs off.
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MEIFA: Mr. Jet, why were you at the graveyard? Nobody outside the family
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knows he got into an accident...
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Jet hands her a print out of the message. Meifa reads it.
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MEIFA: "Seek the sacred beast from Anzan. I am at the meeting place of the
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four gods." This is...?
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JET: Pao sent me this.
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MEIFA: When?
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JET: Three days ago.
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MEIFA: Right before the accident... Please! Can you help me?! I'm sure this
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is the whereabouts of the sun stone!
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JET: Sun stone?
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MEIFA: The direction, day, and time you arrived was the best combination
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for Feng Shui! Especially when you're searching for something!
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JET: I-It was?
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MEIFA: It was! Please, Mr. Jet!
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The streets of Mars. One of the thugs from before talk to their boss on his
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communicator.
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THUG B: Yes. About that, we will have it soon. Yes, I understand.
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He hangs up.
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THUG A: How was the boss feeling?
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THUG B: Well...
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THUG A: There's no way it could be good.
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THUG B: Of course not...
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THUG A: Let's go!
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They hop into their car.
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Jet and Meifa seek clues on the streets. Jet narrates.
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JET: I didn't have any particular favors to repay to Pao or this girl but I
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decided to help them for now. There were too many things that made me
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suspicious to leave it alone. Why did Pao send me mail right before
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his death? What do those words mean? Who were those guys that attacked
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us? And there was something about this girl named Meifa as well...
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They sit at a park on the roof of a skyscraper, eating ice cream in cones.
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MEIFA: This universe is made of three different Chis. One is the Chi of
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Heaven, the energy that comes from the Sun. One is the Chi of Earth,
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the energy that comes from a planet's surface. And lastly Chi of
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Magnetism, the Chi that organisms like ourselves produce.
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JET: Chi from organisms?
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MEIFA: The human body always produces a magnetic field. That magnetic field
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and the magnetic field of the Earth react to one another to create
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energy. Universal Feng-Shui is a method that reads the energies of
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nature such as this to use them in everyday life.
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Jet notices melted ice cream trickling from Meifa's cone to the back of her
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hand.
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JET: Ice cream.
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Meifa quickly licks the ice cream from the back of her hand.
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JET: Universal Feng-Shui... It's not the same thing as fortune-telling?
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MEIFA: Other fortune-telling methods only predict or prognosticate.
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However, Universal Feng Shui has the power to make the bad into the
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good. For example, if you were a Feng Shui master as powerful as my
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father -
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Meifa is stops in the middle of her sentence.
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JET: What's wrong?
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MEIFA: I just realized that I never spent time like this with my father...
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JET: Hey, now. Let me point out that I'm not that old. If anything, I would
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be a boyfriend... No, wait, that would be bad. W-What am I saying? At
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least I can be an elder brother or something...
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Meifa notices melted ice cream trickling from Jet's cone to the back of his
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hand.
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MEIFA: Ice cream...
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Jet is confused.
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MEIFA: ICE cream.
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Jet quickly licks the ice cream from the back of his hand.
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MEIFA: Let's go, Mr. Jet!
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Atop a tall building. Meifa identifies landmarks.
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MEIFA: I believe that "Anzan" refers to here. The Mountain Hotel
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Building...
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She points to a blue-colored train.
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MEIFA: There! Seiryu! (Blue Dragon)
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She looks over to a white-colored building complex.
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MEIFA: Byakko! (White Tiger)
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She looks over to a black-colored dome.
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MEIFA: Genbu! (Black Turtle)
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She looks over to a set of red-colored mountains.
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MEIFA: Suzaku! (Scarlet Phoenix)
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JET: Hey...
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MEIFA: I know, the cross-zenith method!
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She consults her luo-pan.
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MEIFA: The sun stone is here!
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JET: Are you sure...?
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EYECATCH
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The thugs sit in their car and spot Jet and Meifa.
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THUG B: There they are. They're right over there.
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THUG A: All right.
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Meifa's luo-pan leads them to the stone, stuck in a lion-head display. She
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plucks it out.
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MEIFA: I finally found it... This must be the sun stone.
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JET: This thing?
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Jet spots the thugs' car. They takes Meifa by forearm and walks into a
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beverage store.
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MEIFA: Mr. Jet?
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The thugs get out of their car. A group of kids kicking a ball run toward
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them. One of the thugs kicks the ball away.
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THUG B: Outta the way.
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KIDS: What are you doing?
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They run after the ball.
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In the beverage store.
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JET: One bottle of lao-chu. I don't need a glass.
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The thugs enter the store. Jet hits them with the bottle. Meifa leaps on
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top of one of them and beats him on the chest.
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MEIFA: Take that!
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Jet pours the lao-chu on one of them and grabs him.
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JET: Hey, who are you guys?
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THUG B: Heh, you think we would tell you that easily - ?
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Jet puts him in a sleeper hold.
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THUG B: W-We're from the Blue Snake...
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JET: So you ARE from a syndicate... Why are you following us around?
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THUG B: I-I couldn't tell you that even if you killed me -
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Jet tightens his hold.
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THUG B: I-It was because we couldn't get Pao... So they told us to get the
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recipient of his mail... I-I'm telling the truth! We're on the low
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end so we don't know any more than that!
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JET: I'm sure.
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Jet breaks his neck.
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MEIFA: Mr. Jet... My father... is alive?
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Meifa and Jet walk back to the Bebop. Jet narrates.
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JET: Pao's words showed where this stone was. Does that mean Pao is still
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alive somewhere? Did he want me to find this stone and do something
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with it? It feels like I created more mysteries instead of solving
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them. For now, I decided to check out this stone, which was our only
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clue.
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On the Bebop. Jet analyzes the stone with the computer.
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JET: So this is a piece of the moon from that Gate accident 50 years ago.
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MEIFA: We Feng-Shui masters call it the sun stone. It's absorbed the
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fluctuations in time and space... and conceals a tremendous amount
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of energy.
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Spike and Faye, each smoking a cigarette joins the conversation.
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SPIKE: I can only think of it as a plain old rock...
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FAYE: So, how much would it be if we sold it?
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Meifa coughs on the smoke.
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JET: Hey, guys, if you're gonna smoke, go smoke outside.
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FAYE: What? You always smoke in here too!
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JET: I'm turning this into a non-smoking area starting today.
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SPIKE: Hey, now, you're kidding, right?
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JET: This ship is MY ship, remember?
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Spike and Faye smoke on the deck.
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Back in the living room.
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JET: So, what are you gonna do with this stone?
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MEIFA: I... have no idea. I don't know what my father is thinking...
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Ein grabs the stone in his mouth.
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JET: Oh, hey, wait!
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Ein runs to the luo-pan.
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JET: Ein! Wait!
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The lup-pan moves.
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MEIFA: The luo-pan...
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JET: What?
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MEIFA: That can't be... I took the magnet off...
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The luo-pan stops, pointing at a specific direction.
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MEIFA: I see... I get it now... So that's it! THAT'S IT!
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The Bebop takes off into space.
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The control room.
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MEIFA: If I remember correctly, my father owned a sun stone as well. I'm
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sure that the two stones are resonating to show me the
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whereabouts of my father.
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JET: And that's why Pao made you look for this stone...
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MEIFA: But... I don't know why my father sent the mail to you, Mr. Jet and
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not to me...
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Ed examines the chemical composition of the stone.
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The kitchen.
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FAYE: What do you think?
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SPIKE: They make a good couple.
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FAYE: It's a dangerous combination.
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SPIKE: What is?
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FAYE: The more righteous a guy was in his youth the more likely he's gonna
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fall for a young girl later in life.
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SPIKE: Is that so?
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FAYE: Really... Guys are so clueless. (mirrors MY FUNNY VALENTINE)
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The control room.
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MEIFA: My father was one that believed in Universal Feng-Shui, but not
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other people... So my mother left the house, and took me along. That
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was seven years ago... I'm sure my father was able to find our
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whereabouts easily. But he never even tried to look for us...
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JET: I'm sure there was a reason behind it.
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MEIFA: Why was my father targeted by those men? Was it because he was
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friends with bad people? Please, tell me the truth! Who my father
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really was...
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JET: Pao... was the consultant for a syndicate. That's the truth. Pao had
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leaked information to me about the syndicate, back when I was a
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detective. Pao already wanted out of the syndicate back then. However,
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it's impossible for someone who knows important syndicate secrets to
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ever leave the group. I'm sure Pao was afraid that more bad things
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would happen to his family. Well, I'm sure you can confirm it all when
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you see him.
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The Bebop enters a hyperspace gate. Ed continues to examine the hyperspace
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gate.
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MEIFA: Here! Around here...
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FAYE: There isn't anything here.
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JET: How about the radar?
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SPIKE: No response.
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MEIFA: That can't be... I'm sure this is the place...
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The radar picks up a signal.
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SPIKE: Hmm? Wait... Hold on...
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A laser is fired at the Bebop.
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SPIKE: Do we have guests?
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JET: They sure are persistent. Spike, Faye, please take care of them!
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FAYE: Aren't they YOUR guests?
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JET: Help me out if you don't wanna die with this ship!
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Swordfish and Red Tail take off into the gate.
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FAYE: What rotten luck of the draw.
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SPIKE: Sometimes it's good to act without asking "What's in it for me?"
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We're fairies who are going to grant the princess' wish.
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FAYE: We are?
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Several fighters are dispatched.
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SPIKE: Unmanned fighters...? So these would be the seven dwarves...
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They fire lasers toward the Bebop.
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JET: Shit! They're trying to scare us!
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Ed floats into the control room.
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ED: I got it!
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Spike and Faye gun down fighters.
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JET: Spike! Come back here!
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SPIKE: What?!
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JET: Apparently, if we apply lots of energy to that stone we can draw out
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all the forces trapped inside it.
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SPIKE: And what are we going to do?
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JET: This is an all-or-nothing plan, but -
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FAYE: I don't care what it is, just hurry!
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The bathroom. Ed puts the rock into the toilet bowl.
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ED: I put it in!
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JET: All right!
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Jet releases it into the hyperspace.
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JET: Blast this rock with your plasma cannon.
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SPIKE: What a great plan this is...
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Spike shoots it with the cannon and a large hole in hyperspace opens up. A
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ship is trapped inside.
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On the Bebop. A call from Pao is received.
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PAO: Looks like you made it in time, Jet...
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JET: Pao! You're...
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PAO: Meifa... It's been a while.
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JET: Pao, you're in unstable territory. I can't approach any closer than
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this.
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PAO: I know... There isn't any oxygen left in here anyway. I sent you that
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mail because I wanted you to bring my daughter here...
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JET: So you're trying to tell me that you used Feng Shui to bring us here?!
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PAO: Yeah...
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JET: That's not true, Pao. This wasn't your doing. Meifa is here now
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because she WANTED to come here.
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PAO: You might be right. Perhaps I was being too conceited... Meifa... it's
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wonderful to see you one last time...
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MEIFA: I hated you all this time... I despised you all this time... But...
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The connection is lost.
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MEIFA: Papa...
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Meifa sheds tears. The hole closes up. Jet narrates.
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JET: Now, I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing that we took
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her along. In any case, this was how this strange case ended. She went
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back to Mars. And the smoking ban was lifted from the living quarters.
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Once again, unchanging daily life has returned, just as it was before.
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One thing that has changed, though: I no longer read the fortune-
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telling pages in magazines.
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SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY
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CLOSING CREDITS
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COMING EPISODE
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JET: He came with a whistle. A man, Andy, made a sudden appearance on
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horseback. Who in the world is he? Is he an ally, or a foe? Or is he a
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true cowboy? The next episode is a shocking sci-fi spaghetti-western
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epic saga: "Cowboy Funk." Wait a minute, isn't this mixing up our
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genres a bit?
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Next Session
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COWBOY FUNK
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