Katerina gets caught in the crossfire, and she’s hit, with red liquid spilling from her midsection. Asimov takes more Red-Eye and fights them off, and then the Syndicate arrives, and a full-blown gunfight erupts. and it’s “beans.” (“F-king idiots,” Faye grumbles.) Spike and Jet catch Asimov and Katerina at the airport just as they’re hijacking a plane. It’s password-protected, but the guys left the password out on a Post-it…. Left alone, Faye manages to free herself and tries to track them using the ship’s computer. Jet still needs birthday money, though, so they take a pair of smaller vehicles and resume pursuit. He handcuffs her to the toilet aboard his ship, and he’s wary of the Asimov bounty once he learns the Syndicate is after him, too. Spike and Faye scuffle in a hand-to-hand brawl, and she nearly stabs him before Asimov and Katerina speed away, distracting Faye enough to give Spike the upper hand. It’s held by a rival bounty hunter named Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda), and she’s on the hunt for Katerina - whose rich and powerful father is worried sick about her. (“You just remind me of someone,” he tells her.) But he’s interrupted by a gun being pointed at his head. Spike spots Katerina outside, and they strike up a flirty conversation. Spike tracks him to a hospital, where he’s forcing a nurse to patch up his wounds at gunpoint. They land in New Tijuana - where Spike vowed never to go again after he got stabbed while trying to buy a churro - and ask around if anyone’s seen Asimov. (“It feels like I just mainlined God!”) And since Spike and Jet got charged for all the damage they did to that casino, they could use some income. The problem is, he stole the drug stash from a criminal gang called the Syndicate - but when some of their goons try to get it back, he takes the drug, and it turns him into an invincible fighting machine. Jet needs a fresh bounty to buy his daughter a birthday gift, so we meet their next target: a crook named Asimov who’s trying to sell a stash of a drug called Red-Eye, along with his pregnant girlfriend Katerina. He’s aboard the rusty spaceship BeBop, with Jet at the helm. We flash back to Spike falling in love with a mystery girl, getting shot and losing the girl before he wakes up. All in a day’s work, huh? (And yes, the opening credits are still great.) They hang on for dear life, and Jet Black hits the emergency switch to close up the hole just before Spike gets sucked out. Spike shoots him, but the Disruptor goes off and fires an energy blast through the wall, opening up a hole that sucks everything out into space. When he takes an old lady hostage, Spike scoffs: “She looks like she’s lived a very rich, full life.” But one more henchman emerges from the bathroom, and he’s packing a scary weapon called a Disruptor. He and his partner Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir) shoot and stab their way through all the henchmen until Tanaka’s the only one left. Cowboy Bebop Trailer: John Cho's Bounty Hunter Shoots Through the Stars (and Shoots a Lot of Bullets)Ĭowboy Bebop: John Cho and Pals Kick Butt and Look Cool Doing It in First Footage From Netflix Reboot - WatchĪfter years of rumors and delays, Netflix’s jazzy, bloody live-action reboot of Cowboy Bebop has finally landed - and it knows how to make an entrance.įriday’s premiere of the sci-fi anime adaptation opens with a space casino being held hostage by a gang of gunmen, with the ringleader Tanaka ranting about “corporate cockroach a-holes.” His rant is interrupted by the ding of an elevator, announcing the arrival of bounty hunter Spike Spiegel, played by John Cho and cool as a cucumber.
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