These are the memorable lines from the finale of the wondrous Cowboy Bebop, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto.
The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)
Vicious: Don't forget, a snake's venom poisons slowly after the bite.
Faye: It might be good to pair up with another woman. How about it? Wanna partner up?
Jet: Men only think of their past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.
- Vicious: ... And you will shed tears of scarlet
- Jet: Hey Spike have you ever heard this story?
- Spike: Huh?
- Jet: There was a man who was injured on a hunt. The man had no means to treat the wounds and his leg began to rot and death approaches. In the last moments of his life a rescue helicopter picks him up and rushes him to the hospital. As the helicopter flies the man looks outside the window seeing white capped mountains glistening in the sunlight and he thought "That's where I was going" ... I hate that story. Men only think of their past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.
The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)
- Vicious: 'You will shed tears of scarlet.' or 'You will shed crimson tears.'
- 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.
- Bull: Do not fear Death. Death is always at our side. When we show fear, it jumps at us faster than light. But, if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity...
- Vicious: A beast that has lost its place. He has nowhere to return to now. He will come.
- Spike: Look at these eyes. One of them is a fake, because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I have seen the past in one eye, and the present in the other. I had believed that what I saw was not all of reality...
- Spike: I'm not going there to die. I'm going to see if I am really alive.
- Vicious: I told you before, Spike. I'm the only one who can kill you and set you free.
- Spike: Those words apply to you as well, Vicious. Either way, it's going to end here.
- Spike: Julia is dead. Let's finish it now.
- Vicious: As you wish.
- Spike: [Points his finger like a gun] Bang. [And finally, Spike falls, and farewell]
- Julia: [Dying] It's all a dream.
- Spike: Yeah, just a bad dream.
- Ending: YOU'RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT.
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