Spike Spiegel quotes from Cowboy Bebop

Jet

Now don’t get too hot-headed, Spike.

Spike

You haven’t seen hot-headed yet, Jet!

Jet

So Charlie says, "Only hands can wash hands. If you want to receive, you have to give." Something like that. I wish I could remember the exact words. Anyway, I think Charlie's telling us to just do it. Ha... What do you make of it?

Spike

Somehow I don't think Charlie Parker'd be quoting Goethe.

Jet

Come on, it's just a dream I had. Lighten up.

Spike

I have a feeling that dream's gonna suck up our last five thousand woolongs.

Faye

What do you want?

Jet

Well, we were thinking about you and we had a little change of heart. Why lock a fine young lady like you up in a place like this?

Faye

You creeps aren't getting any ideas, are you?

Jet

On the contrary. We're taking you someplace where you'll be very well protected.

Faye

[passive] Oh, and where would that be?

The police station. [Faye gasps]

Jet

You were right. 200K is chump change compared to your price, Faye Valentine.

Faye

I don't believe this! Do they put a bounty on me?

Spike

Six million fat woolongs.

Faye

Six million? Is that all they're offering?

Jet

..Just how much money do you owe, anyway?

Faye

We're Romanies. For eons we've wandered the stars looking for love. It's our way.

Spike

Huh?

Faye

You don't know anything, do you? Romanies are gypsies! And you know what we call someone like you? A Gorgio—that means a bumpkin that doesn't know which way is up.

Spike

"Gorgio", I like that. [Faye howls out loud, Ein yawns]

Faye

The wilds are calling me! You can't keep me locked up!

Jet

Save it for the police.

Spike

Come on, Jet, let's get outta here.

Faye

[grunts] Fine! I'm not gonna run away! At least uncuff one hand! I can't even go to the bathroom this way!

Jet

Man, you're a real talker, aren't ya?

Spike

That missile will hit Ganymede before I have a chance to recharge!

Faye

Hey there, have a little trouble?

Spike

Huh?

Faye

I can bail you out for 80%...

Spike

You're insane!

Faye

OK, bye-bye now!

Spike

Alright, 40%, that's my last offer!

Faye

OK, I get the 60!

Jet

Deal, just do it!

Spike

"Next time", "we'll make money"? Jet, is she saying what I'm thinking she's saying, cause if she is...

Jet

I don't know and I have no opinion.

Spike

Man, she's taking a shower in our shower. That's not OK, right?

Jet

Don't know, I have no opinion.

Spike

...fine, I'll go tell her myself.

Jet

Mmmm... huh?- Wait, Spike! [three gunshots are heard] Bad move, Spike-o!

Spike

Isn't it bad for your health to drink it all in one gulp, Annie?

What's bad for my health is seeing you come back to life. It's a shock to the system.

Spike

Hey, thanks a lot for the warm welcome.

Hmph. Why welcome the dead? It's all futile.

Spike

But I'm alive.

No, you're not. You died three years ago. That's how things work here.

Jet

Let me tell you something. You're not gonna get any reward money from Mao. [Spike inserts bullets into a magazine] He's already dead. Assassinated. Internal politics. Between rival crime syndicates. You understand? It's a trap!

Spike

Yeah, I know. I know the whole sad story. [inserts magazine into his pistol]

Jet

And you're still going? Wait, does this have to do with Mao?

Spike

Yeah. I have a debt to pay off.

Jet

You wanted to know what happened to my arm.

Spike

Huh? [Jet holds the wrist of his prosthetic arm]

Jet

This is what I've paid. Yeah, for being too gung-ho and running ahead of the game. You get the point?

Spike

I don't want to do this, Jet.

Jet

Then why are you?

Spike

Let's just say my past is catching up to me.

Vicious

When angels are forced out of heaven, they become devils. You agree, don't you, Spike?

Spike

I'm just watching a bad dream I never wake up from.

Vicious

I'll wake you up right now.

Spike

What's your rush, Vicious? After all, it's been a long time.

Vicious

[chuckles] Are you pleading for your life?

Spike

Hardly. Begging doesn't work on you, remember? Even if it's coming from the man who took you in and made you what you are.

Vicious

Perhaps, but he was a beast who lost his fangs. That's why he had to die, Spike. And that's why you have to die.

Vicious

You should see yourself. Do you have any idea what you look like right at this moment, Spike?

Spike

What?

Vicious

A ravenous beast. The same blood runs through both of us. The blood of a beast who wanders, hunting for the blood of others.

Spike

I've bled all that kind of blood away.

Vicious

THEN WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!

Faye

Oh, you're finally up, huh? You slept too much, you've been asleep three days. Yeah, I was starting to worry about you. Hey, you should be grateful to me for staying here.

Spike

[muffled] You sing off-key.

Jet

Damn, that blues-harp sounds sweet. I knew it would.

Spike

Heh... I thought you like jazz.

Jet

Don't be dense. I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born.

Spike

A baby hipster, very cool.

Spike

Come on! There's nothing to be afraid of. Come here, let's talk.

You'd better stay out of it. [Spike turns to him] Little twerp like you sticks his neck out too far, he'll get it cut off. Understand? [Spike then starts groaning in pain]

Spike

Don't give me that crap, kid!

Sorry, but I'm not a kid.

Spike

Yeah, all kids say that. [Wen pauses for a long beat]

I know what I look like, but I was alive when this place was an outpost, before the asteroids were even settled. Get the picture?

Jet

When the Gate exploded, a coordinate system was created from the resulting twists in hyperspace—a kind of singularity that drew in vast amounts of energy, enclosing and crystallising them into a single faceted stone, the gem that makes up this ring. The same energy broke Wen's circadian rhythm. His pineal body continually produces a substance like melatonin that inhibits ageing. That's the theory in a nutshell. Get the picture?

Spike

Yeah, as if.

Jet

[sighs] I don't either. Which simply means, there's no way to know for sure until we stick the gem into the kid and find out.

Jet

Anything could happen. It could blow sky high the moment it hits.

Spike

..Kinda makes it interesting.

I see... Yes, I can finally die at last... [Spike walks to him] Ah, I feel so heavy... [sighs] But I feel... I finally feel at ease. Do you understand? [Spike pauses] Do you understand? Do you...?

Spike

Yeah, I understand... as if.

Spike

Bang.