Jet Black quotes from Cowboy Bebop

Faye

Stay back! We're leaving! [Jet and Spike stop at their tracks]

Jet

She wants the guy instead of the money.

Spike

Jet caught him! It's his reward, Faye!

Faye

I have some history to work out with this guy, so I claim first rites to him and to the bounty that's on his head!

Spike

[dumbfounded] Is it just me, or did that not make any sense?

Jet

Just like I said, women don't work on reason.

[sticks a revolver on Jet by the bridge] Caught you redhanded. Littering. That's a 20,000 woolong fine, my friend.

Jet

[chuckles] Then I'll need to collect on that loan I gave you with seven years' worth of interest, [offers his hand] and penalty fees. [Fad pats his hand back]

Hey, when did you buy me that cup of coffee? It's way past the statute of limitations. [hurls his revolver back in its holster]

Jet

So you still think you're a shooter with an old gun like that? ISSP sure can waste tax money.

On the gun? [Jet holds a cigarette in his mouth]

Jet

No, on your salary.

You came back!

Jet

Hm? I'm leaving again. And don't stay there, you're in the way. [Ed drops from the hook, somersaults and lands down on her feet, Ein comes by]

Bring Edward some souvenirs this time. [Ein barks]

Jet

Edward... if I don't come back, water the bonsai for me, okay?

All right! [starts dancing] Bonsai, bok choy, wise guy, water boy! Lights shine bright in the old town tonight!

Jet

Why'd you blast him? [Fad walks to him] Because he was telling the truth? You came here to shut him up for good, didn't you? [Fad stops] Well? No answer? [beat] How about it, partner?!

You brought it on yourself, partner. You just couldn't play the game like everybody else. The people who go against a syndicate lose, Jet. They lose big.

Either they give up like you did, or they die young. This is the real world. There's no place for pretty ideals.

Jet

And that's why you betrayed me? That's why you lied and took me out here?!

You were the best man. I wanted to team up like back in the old days.

Sayonara... partner.

Faye

[arguing over empty rations] We haven't had anything to eat in two days! Wouldn't you call that an emergency?!

Spike

I want some bell peppers and beef...

Jet

We're out of fuel, end of story. If we can just hold out a little longer, our inertia will carry us to Europa.

Stomach's caving in!

Faye

If we only we could use that energy to fuel ourselves...

Jet

Keep mouthing off like that and I'll toss you out into absolute zero.

Spike

At this point, even Ein looks good enough to eat.

Faye

Watch it, Spike. I bet you're looking pretty good to him too.

Jet

Pay up. 6300 woolongs.

Faye

What? Where did that come from, huh?

Jet

Special delivery for you.

Faye

Well, I didn't order anything.

Jet

It was COD. [Faye grunts] Top it off, there's no return address on it. I had no choice but to accept it and pay your ta— [Faye slowly reaches the handle and shuts the cockpit door] Hmm? Hey, hold on! [Faye flies her ship away from the Bebop deck] Hey, I want my money or else!

Spike

[turns away from fishing] She's a busy girl, huh?

Jet

Tell me again why in the world we're going through all of this?

Spike

It's a lesson to remind you that treasure hunts are always trouble.

Jet

Treasure hunts? What treasure are we hunting?

Spike

Tamatebako, was it?

Jet

When he opens the Tamatebako, he turns into an old man. Now I know why.

Spike

Even if we turn back now, we wouldn't be any younger.

Jet

This place is some Ryūgū-jō... [grabs fish off his leg and throws it] Where'd that minx run off to, anyway?

Spike

What's wrong?

Jet

The size...

Spike

What about it?

Jet

It won't go in. [tries forcing tape in]

Spike

Push harder.

Jet

But it's... [Ed comes behind them]

Aah, that's the wrong one!

Huh?

You got a VHS.

Huh?

It won't play beta.

Huh?!

Faye

A horse, huh? I thought it sounded kinda fishy when you said you'd nab him while you were out foraging.

Spike

What do you mean?

Faye

I mean you spent all our food money, didn't you?

Spike

I what?

Faye

What'd you blow it on? [Spike points to horseshoe prints on his back]

Spike

If I'm lying, then how the hell do you explain this on my back?!

Jet

Okay, okay, chill! I totally buy the horse.

Faye

You do?

Jet

But you're lacking creativity in the cowboy character. He's lame.

Faye

Yeah, maybe that's the problem.

Jet

Perhaps if he was a samurai instead?

Faye

Now that I wouldn't question.

[aims his pistol at Jet] I know that's you, Teddy Bomber.

Jet

Huh? Who, me?

Spike

I told you. [Andy aims his second pistol at Spike]

Or is it you? [Spike then talks back at Andy]

Spike

Are you braindead or what?! We met each other yesterday!

Hmm... I don't recollect.

Spike

WHY, YOU! [a suited man talks to Andy]

Um, excuse me, sir. Horses aren't allowed in here and it's very disturbing for our customers...

Oh-hoh, but my Onyx is no ordinary steed. [Teddy Bomber is growling with rage] She's a good compadre who eases my mind and plays a decent game of chess.

Spike

Horses can't play chess!

Jet

Who cares?

If there's one thing I hate, IT'S BEING IGNORED!

Jet

Andy really pushes your buttons. What is it about him that gets you so bent?

Faye

I know why he hates the guy. They're too much alike. [Spike angrily slams his fist on the table]

Spike

What part of me could be anything like that stupid ass?!

Jet

The part that makes you so damn troublesome.

Faye

Mm-hmm.

Jet

It was all a kid's dream. I guess, all he could do was dream so the dreams turned dark.

And this time, I hope you have sweet dreams.

Dr. Londes

The souls that God has given us, our spirits. Our spirits, which found a way to swim through the immense network and live in the infinity of space. Is not the human body a mere shell, a form of existence all too small and weak for consciousness with such vast reach and potential?

Spike

Are you still in pain?

Jet

[beat] Have you heard this story?

Spike

Huh?

Jet

A man injures his leg during a hunt. He's in the middle of the savanna. No means to treat the wound. The leg rots and death approaches. Last minute, he's picked up by an airplane. He looks down and sees a land of pure white below him, glistening in the light. It's the summit of a snow-capped mountain. The mountain is Kilimanjaro. As he gazes down, he feels the life flowing out of him and then, he thinks, "That's where I was headed."

Spike

..And?

Jet

I hate stories like that. Men only think of their past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.

Jet

When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? [beat] Forget the past.

Spike

There was a woman. First time I found someone who was truly alive. At least that's what I thought. [long beat] She was the part of me I lost somewhere along the way. The part that was missing, that I'd been longing for.

Spike

There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.

Jet

Yeah. That's a good story.

Spike

I hate that story.

Jet

Huh?

Spike

I never liked cats, you know that.

Jet

Oh yeah. That's right.