Cowboy Bebop (1998–1999)

Steve Blum: Spike Spiegel

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• Spike Spiegel : Hunger is the best spice they say.

• Spike Spiegel : Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I particularly hate?

  Jet Black : Really?

  Spike Spiegel : Kids... animals... and women with attitudes...

  Jet Black : Oh?

  Spike Spiegel : So tell me, Jet, why do we have all three of them neatly gathered in our ship?

• Spike Spiegel : Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over.

• [the series' final line] 

  Spike Spiegel : BANG.

• Faye Valentine : Why do you have to go? Where are you going? What are going to do, just throw your life away like it was nothing?

  Spike Spiegel : I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive. I have to do it, Faye.

• Spike Spiegel : Whatever happens, happens.

• [Session #8, during the Preview of Session #9: Jamming With Edward] 

  Ed : Ed will introduce Ed. Full name - Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the 4th.

  Spike Spiegel : That's a long name.

  Faye Valentine : Who the hell's this?

  Ed : Ed made up that name for Ed, isn't it cool?

  Spike Spiegel : If you made it up, how can you be the 4th?

• Julia : It was raining that day as well.

  Spike Spiegel : And so you didn't come because of the rain?

  Julia : I was supposed to kill you. It was all set up. If I had, I would have been free.

  Spike Spiegel : So why didn't you? You chose to be hunted. Why?

  Julia : Why did you love me?

• Spike Spiegel : Uh, listen Jet. You said "bell peppers and beef." There's no beef in here. So you wouldn't really call it "bell peppers and beef," now would you?

  Jet Black : Yes, I would.

  Spike Spiegel : Well, it's *not*!

  Jet Black : It is when you're broke!

• Jet Black : You think it's all right to leave them alone?

  Spike Spiegel : You worried about her?

  Jet Black : I just thought that she might let him go.

  Spike Spiegel : Does she have that much sympathy in her heart?

  Jet Black : Women as insistent as her tend to be the ones who get emotionally swayed by their exes.

  Spike Spiegel : Is that so?

  Jet Black : Women don't work on reason.

• Vicious : So you are finally awake. I told you before, Spike... that I am the only one who can kill you.

  Spike Spiegel : I'll return those words back to you, Vicious.

  Vicious : Either way, we were destined to end up like this.

• Jet Black : When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? Forget the past.

  Spike Spiegel : There was a woman, first time I'd found someone who was truly alive. At least, that's what I thought. She was... the part of me I'd lost somewhere along the way, the part that was missing, that I'd been longing for.

• Frog : This is the stairway to heaven. You know that, don't you?

  Spike Spiegel : Obnoxious little frog.

• Julia : It's all... a dream...

  Spike Spiegel : Yeah... just a dream...

• Spike Spiegel : I'm not a criminal. Oh that makes me seem even more like a criminal, doesn't it?

• [after finishing up her flashback to Ein] 

  Faye Valentine : Spike! How long have you been listening for?

  Spike Spiegel : Too long. Your story needs editing.

• Vicious : You should see yourself. Do you have any idea what you look like right at this moment, Spike?

  Spike Spiegel : What?

  Vicious : A ravenous beast. The same blood runs through both of us. The blood of a beast who wanders, hunting for the blood of others.

  Spike Spiegel : I've bled all that kind of blood away.

  Vicious : THEN WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?

• Spike Spiegel : [muffled by bandages]  You sing off-key.

  [Faye gets mad, then decks Spike offscreen]