List of Cowboy Bebop episodes

Fellow bounty hunters Spike Spiegel and Jet Black track down Asimov Solensan and his girlfriend, both of whom are looking for buyers for a drug known as "Red Eye".

Spike and Jet's next target is a serial pet thief who has stolen an apparently worthless dog from a research facility.

This episode makes several references to Bruce Lee's Game of Death. Abdul Hakim's appearance and name are modeled after NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The episode's title is a reference to the Stray Cats' "Stray Cat Strut".^{[citation needed]}

With Ein as a new companion, the crew of the Bebop cross paths with Faye Valentine, a wanted fugitive drowning in debt, who ends up being forced to act as a middleman for an illegal transaction at a casino.

While searching for Mao Yenrai, an executive of the Red Dragon Syndicate, Spike ends up confronting Vicious, an old enemy of his.

Spike and Jet chase a dangerous enemy who, despite having the appearance of a little boy, is actually more than eighty years old.

The crew of the Bebop chase a bounty hunter named Decker, who is running a load of high explosives. A hungover Spike meets a truck driver named V.T., who hates bounty hunters, but ends up lending him a hand.

Spike meets Roco Bonnaro, who becomes impressed with Spike's martial skills and asks to teach him some moves. Roco however, is being chased for possessing a valuable and rare plant.

This was another episode that was preempted on Adult Swim after the 9/11 attacks, because a hijacking depicted in the first few minutes.^{[citation needed]}

Laser satellites in Earth orbit begin carving pictures onto the planet's surface. To find the culprit, Jet, Spike, and Faye end up counting on the help of Ed, a brilliant but eccentric thirteen-year-old girl with prodigious hacking skills. In the end, Ed becomes another member of the team.

During the long journey between planets, Jet discovers a fridge in a back corner that no one knew was there. Shortly after, the crew is terrorized by a bizarre blob of black slime with a poisonous bite that was spawned when Spike accidentally left a Ganymede rock lobster inside the fridge for a year.

The Bebop crew hunts down a bizarre series of Hyperspace Gate Tollbooth robberies, each executed by a different party, and the mastermind that orchestrated the entire thing: Chessmaster Hex. Meanwhile, Ed plays a match of computer chess against Hex for over a week.

Faye ends up meeting an important man from her past, and part of her origin is revealed, including the source of her massive debt.

An ISSP prison ship has undergone a mechanical malfunction, and has been taken over by the prisoners it was transporting, led by Udai Taxim, the assassin who took Jet's arm. Jet's former partner, Fad, enlists him for the retrieval operation, and the two infiltrate the prison ship.

This episode title is a reference to the song "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin.

The Bebop, out of food and fuel, is sideswiped in a hit-and-run off of Europa and crash-lands on Io. Ed, with Ein by her side, is sent out to procure food, and trips over Domino Walker, a bounty head, who is smuggling hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Faye wastes money betting on dog racing, while a package arrives on the Bebop addressed to her. It contains an old Betamax tape, and Spike and Jet look for an appropriate device to view its contents.

Spike, flying his mono-racer in for maintenance, runs out of gas not far from the garage. Meanwhile, Jet and Faye take on a group of pirates who use computer viruses to terrorize interplanetary shipping. The Space Shuttle Columbia appears in this episode.

This episode is named after the song "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones.^{[citation needed]}

Spike faces off against Mad Pierrot, a bizarre, government-created and insanely cheerful assassin.

A terrorist, "Teddy Bomber", has been using explosives in teddy bears to bring down high-rise buildings in protest of humanity's excesses. Spike attempts to stop him, but constantly runs afoul of "Cowboy Andy," a fellow bounty hunter who is far more similar to Spike than either would care to admit.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the Bebop crew, Faye goes undercover in SCRATCH, a cult that believes in achieving eternal life by digitizing the soul and uploading it into the internet.

Faye decides to investigate her past by using the visible landmarks depicted in the video she recorded as a child, while Ed guides Jet and Spike to search for her true father.