The Bounty of the Week is stealing dogs from rich people. Jet, meanwhile, searches for a popular doll for his daughter. All the while Spike discreetly tries to find out what Vicious is up to.
Tropes
- Adapted Out: The scientists who were after Ein in the anime aren't present here.
- Afro Asskicker: The villain shapeshifts into one to take on Spike. Given that Spike already knew the villain's real identity, maybe he's a blaxploitation fan?
- All for Nothing: Jet switches his gift for his daughter, trying to give her Ein as a present which his daughter loves. However, his ex-wife refuses to let her keep it as she doesn't have the income to support raising it, along with the sketchy way Jet got it, forcing Jet to take it back. He does promises his daughter he'll have Ein come visit once in awhile.
- Bad Boss: Vicious has fugees with their eyes sewn shut producing Red Eye for him. When he's forced to temporarily shut down his operation thanks to the Elders, he tells his mooks to put them up in a nice hotel, keeping them fed and on the payroll until they need them again.Mook: Really?Vicious: No, you brainless fleck of mediocrity! We will find new fugees when we bring the business back on line. (Vicious and his mooks gun down the workers)
- Black Like Me: Hakim uses a Face Changer to look like an afro-sporting black man.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Hakeem dies in the version, shot in the head from afar.
- Broken Record: The doll commercial Jet watches, his monitor ends up glitching with the doll saying "Come and get me" over and over before he manages to shut it off.
- Comic Sutra: A dominatrix prostitute gripes to Spike and Jet that the bounty they're searching for is too cheap to pay for the "Alabama Anaconda".
- Corrupt Cop: The ISSP kill Hakeem so they won't have to pay the bounty to Spike and Jet.
- Death by Adaptation: In the original anime, Hakeem survived the events of his episode, merely being arrested when he ended up crashing into a police station after a chase. Here he's shot dead by corrupt police to keep Spike and Jet from getting their bounty.
- Dissonant Serenity: Jet does a Diving Save to stop Spike falling to his death, just grabbing his ankle. Spike's response is to light up and wait for Jet to pull him back onto the roof.
- Escape Pod: Woodcock and Hakim imply they were the main method for leaving the Earth That Used to Be Better. Rich people put their dogs on them and let poor people die.
- Extinct in the Future: When Spike and Jet first lay eyes on Ein, they stare at the Welsh corgi in fascination because dogs are incredibly rare, as only the rich could afford to bring their pets with them during the Homeworld Evacuation.
- Fan Disservice: Vicious' slave workers are kept nude- but they're all blinded (with a closeup of sewn-shut eyelids), and then we watch them gunned down in slow-motion.
- Holographic Disguise: The Face Changer Hakim uses to disguise himself. They're mainly used by sex workers for matching their clients' preferences, so Spike and Jet track it down from the brothel he'd have had to buy it from.
- Hope Spot:
- Jet manages to get the doll for his daughter, but on the way to go to back up Spike against Hakeem, it ends up damaged beyond the point of recognition: he drops it in a street where a vehicle runs it over, its hair gets set on fire, and he has to drop it to prevent Spike from falling over a building where it falls into a river. Spike does retrieve it but Jet doesn't even entertain the idea of giving it to his daughter. Likewise he manages to find a store that sells one afterward, but is 1,000 Woolongs short to get it.
- Our heroes have Hakeem cornered and even managed to get him to give up willingly and peacefully. The bounty is in the bag... and then he gets shot dead by police.
- If I Wanted You Dead...: Spike puts Vicious in the sights of a sniper rifle but doesn’t fire until he gets inside his bulletproof car, firing a shot that stars the glass, sending a splinter of glass flying into Vicious' cheek.
- I Know You're Watching Me: Spike and Jet are watching CCTV footage of the kidnapper when they realize he's Spiking the Camera to make sure it has a good image of his face. Jet then realizes the kidnapper is wearing technology that can change his appearance.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Spike keeps making up excuses to split off from Jet under the guise of looking for their bounty. In truth he's using his old syndicate connections to find out what Vicious is doing.
- Master of Unlocking: The digital combination lock on the dogbox holding Ein mysteriously decodes and unlocks, hinting that Ein is more than it appears.
- Mythology Gag: Hakeem's face changing tech is one to his facial surgery in the anime which he tried to use to disguise himself from bounty hunters (Spike and Jet only found out because the doctor who did the work was a friend of theirs and informed them as revenge for Hakeem trampling him). The Afro Asskicker look is likewise one to the face he changed to in his anime episode.
- Not So Above It All: Spike does a Last-Second Word Swap that implies he might have his own favorite girl at the cheap brothel they're investigating, and seems quite familiar with BDSM etiquette.
- Precious Puppy: The Villain of the Week's family was left behind to die during the Homeworld Evacuation, while the rich evacuated their pets instead. So he kidnaps their dogs intending to kill them out of revenge, but can't go through with it on seeing their Puppy-Dog Eyes and realising the dogs are blameless for their owners' sins. When Spike and Jet catch up with him, he's happily playing with the dogs instead.
- A Rare Sentence: When Jet tells Spike he's right about an idea he just had, Spike makes him repeat it to commemorate this event.
- Red Light District: Where Spike and Jet spend most of their time chasing Hakim.
- Say My Name: Somewhat, Vicious yells out Spike's old Red Dragon name after he gets nicked in the cheek.Vicious: FEARLESS!!!!
- Splash of Color: The Walking Sally doll ad at the start is in black and white apart from the doll and some text.
- Superhero Sobriquets: A black marketeer introduces himself as "The Black Market Santa", "The Pimp of Playthings", and "The Man With The Bag" before Jet interrupts him to get down to business.
- Spy Speak: "I hear the sake here on Mars is only good when it rains."
- Wretched Hive: Subverted; there's seventy toy stores but only two low-rent brothels in Tharsis City. There's hope for the solar system yet.
