Why? Because this is 2060-something the fact that I even know what a betamax tape is is a miracle. While Jet wants to test it for explosives or poison (Faye has a lot of enemies) or simply return it and get a refund, Spike opens it and sees what we know is a beta tape, but he has no idea what it is. This leaves Jet, Spike, and Ed to wonder about what the little package is. Rather than wait and see what the thing is, Faye just takes off again in her personal ship, contemplating having to go on the run again, choosing to wait things out on a gambling cruiser. At the beginning of “Speak Like A Child,” a package arrives for Faye and Jet is angry that he has to pay the COD shipping cost.
I didn’t remember “Speak Like A Child” specifically, at least not by name, before I watched it for this column it’s got no action, no bounties, not much spaceship flying, and is all about attempting to play an exceedingly outdated piece of media, but it might actually be one of the best episodes of the whole show.įaye’s been on the run, and in a whole lot of debt, about as long as she’s been awake, and her first instinct is always to run away. Now we get to see what that life was, ever so briefly, and it’s both beautiful and devastating. When it comes to what is ostensibly an action-adventure-sci-fi anime about bounty hunters in space, the most bold, brave, punk rock thing for Cowboy Bebop do is follow up an episode where a dog hops around after taking psychedelic mushrooms with an episode that ends in a gut-punch of seeing an amnesiac character’s childhood captured forever on a Betamax cassette.Ī few weeks ago, we learned about where Faye Valentine came from, in “ My Funny Valentine,” and learned that she’d been cryogenically frozen for 54 years and has no memory of her life before it.
Welcome to the Cowboy Bebop episode guide! This time out, we’re looking at episode 18, “Speak Like a Child.”
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