Cowboy Bebop (TV Series)

The Real Folk Blues: Part 1 (1999)

Steve Blum: Spike Spiegel

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• Spike Spiegel : Are you still in pain?

  Jet Black : [pause]  Have you heard this story? A man injures his leg during the hunt. He's in the middle of the savannah, with no means to treat the wound. The leg rots and death approaches. The last minute he's picked up by an airplane. He looks down and sees a land of pure white below him, glistening in the light. It's the summit of a snow-capped mountain, the mountain is Kilimanjaro. As he gazes down he feels the life flowing out of him and he thinks, 'That's where I was headed...

  Spike Spiegel : And?

  Jet Black : I hate stories like that. Men only think about the past right before their death. As if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.

• Jet Black : Turn back. You told me when we first met... that you were a man who had already died once. Just forget the past, okay?

  Spike Spiegel : There was a woman. For the first time in my life, I saw a woman that was truly alive. That's what I believed. She was a piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that I had longed for.