Short Summary
The story continues as Spike continues his search for Vicious and Jet his search for Faye. While Faye confront Gren about his past and how it ties in with Vicious, who's on the planet to meet him for a drug deal.
Main Summary
Gren tells Faye that he was in the same squadron as Vicious in the Titan War. A flashback shows Gren and Vicious in a bunker, bonding over the music box that Julia left Vicious. He gives the music box to Gren, saves him from a scorpion attack, then leaves. Gren says that after the war Vicious testified against him in a spy trial, which got Gren thrown in prison and pumped full of an experimental drugs that boosted his hormones. He wants to meet Vicious once more, and ask him why he would betray his comrade. He set up this drug deal under the codename 'Julia' to get his attention.
Spike is alive. In a dream/flashback Julia begs Spike not to leave his employ (unknown at this point, but implied to be Gangster or Assassin). Spike wakes up, realising that Vicious and Lin were toying with him by using tranquiliser darts.
Searching for Faye, Jet also comes across mentions of Julia and Gren. He finds Gren's apartment and retrieves Faye, who is tied up alone on the bed.
Jet calls Spike and tells him that if he catches Gren, he'll let him back on the Bebop. Gren sends Spike a message on where the trade will take place. A hooded Gren meets Vicious on a rooftop ostensibly to make the drugs deal. After making the trade, Gren reveals himself and sets off a bomb. When asked why he betrayed Gren, Vicious cites a lack of anything to believe in anymore. Lin is killed protecting Vicious. Spike arrives in the Swordfish as the others take to their ships. Vicious shoots down Gren's craft to get him out of the way while he pursues Spike. Suddenly Vicious can hear the music box playing: It's hidden inside the drugs package, has been repurposed into the trigger for a second bomb, and it cripples Vicious' ship and forces him to retreat.
Spike finds Gren's crashed ship. He makes to call an ambulance, but Gren is bleeding internally and cannot be saved. He says that Julia is 'gone' but doesn't elaborate further, reminiscing about her smile instead. Gren wishes to be on Titan one last time, or at least be on his way. Spike lifts Gren back into his ship and tows it out into space, launching it to drift towards Titan.
Spike returns to the Bebop and Jet allows him back on board, despite not bringing anything back with him. The episode ends with the same Shaman and boy speech from the beginning of Part 1 (implying that the falling star is Gren's ship). The credits are over a slow pan up through space with some "tribal" music.
- All for Nothing: Jet's quest to get his money back that Faye stole. Not only did she spend it all but it wasn't even much to begin with.
- Bookends: The first part started with the shaman telling his grandson the spiritual meaning of a shooting star. This episode ends on that same note, but we now understand the meaning behind his words.
- Bowdlerization: The scene of Vicious' missile hitting a building was cut on [adult swim],
due to worries it was too close to the 9/11 attacks. - Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Gren requests that he be sent back to Titan as he dies, feeling it was the only place he belonged. Even though he knows he won't make it, he's content that "at least [he'll] be on [his] way."
- Crazy-Prepared: Gren was set to just shoot Vicious if he could, but in case he failed, he stashed a bomb with the drugs exchanged too.
- Disney Death: Spike. He was only shot with a tranquilizer.
- Fall Guy: Vicious uses Gren during the days of the Titan war as a target of the military's investigation into his being The Mole. Gren was arrested and imprisoned, Vicious was never caught. Unsurprisingly, it's the reason Gren is gunning for Vicious.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The music box Vicious gave Gren on Titan is used as a bomb and stashed among the red-eye on Vicious's ship, forcing him to retreat.
- Old-School Dogfight: The battle between Spike, Gren and Vicious.
- Special Edition Title: The usual ending credits and "The Real Folk Blues" ending theme are replaced with a tilt upward to the stars and a different musical track, "Space Lion".
- Stab the Scorpion: What Vicious does in Gren's flashback as a way to gain his trust.
