Short Summary
Faye recounts her past from when she had woken up from her cryogenic sleep and how a individual meant to help her had tricked her into a massive amount of debt. Coincidentally, Jet happens to catch a con man that seems to fit said individual's description.Main Summary
A vision of a woman being put into cyrogenic stasis.Cleaning up after Ein, Faye realises who Ein's face (particularly his eyebrows) reminds her of: A man called Whitney Haggis Matsumoto. She decides to tell Ein a story about her past involving that man.
Faye wakes up in a hospital bed with amnesia. She is told by the doctor that she's been in 'cold sleep' for 54 years, until she could be cured. She's now been reawakened… to a staggering monetary debt of 300 million Wuulong. An assigned lawyer comes in (Whitney), checking her memory and telling her that she was frozen age 20 after a serious accident. He calls her a modern Sleeping Beauty. She passes out from over-exertion.
Faye sneaks out of clinic but is quickly detected. Whitney finds her first. Carrying her to his car, he reassures her he'll help her through this, and she might meet someone wonderful.
In a montage, she eats like a pig, marvels at hologram books, and goes out with Whitney for dinner and dancing. They're falling for each other. One night driving home, debt collection agents give chase. Whitney tells Faye to run and he'll draw them off. Escaping into the woods, she sees a large explosion back in his direction. Back at the clinic, in accordance to his wishes all of the dead man's assets are transferred to Faye… but rather than money to pay her debts, she instead receives even more debts from him.
Spike then steps out of the restroom next to Faye. He says that he overheard the story, but dismisses it, saying that she has given contradictory accounts of her past before.
Jet brings home their latest bounty, a small-fry romance scammer. It's Whitney, having previously faked his death. Fay confronts him tied up in the storage hold, but he says he cannot give her much more information about her past than she knew already. A ship turns up to collect Whitney and pay the bounty, but a furious Faye still has questions for him: She breaks Whitney out and takes him away in her ship. Spike follows in the Swordfish, but gives up after a brief dogfight.
Faye once again ask Whitney who she is. After some blustering, Whitney admits that he doesn't know himself. They're interrupted by a voice over the radio, coming from an approaching police cruiser: The voice is Faye's old doctor from the cryo clinic (who Whitney calls "Uncle"). He says that he gave her the name "Faye Valentine": Any information on who Faye was or why she was frozen was lost after the Astral Gate Explosion. The doctor's craft flees when further police cruisers show up and interrogate him (suggesting that he was not working with the police).
Ever more furious at Whitney's constant lying, Faye takes him to jail and the crew claim their (pitiful) reward. Whitney says that his love for her was true at least. Spike says it doesn't really matter if Faye has a past; she has a future.
Faye draws eyebrows on Ein with marker pen.
- Ambiguous Situation: Did Whitney really love Faye or was it just part of the con he had going? Despite being a Con Man, he confesses that he did in fact care for Faye, but backtracks in claiming it as another lie. Regardless, being thrown in jail makes the confession moot.
- Brick Joke: Spike doesn't have much interest in capturing Whitney because of his small bounty, calling him "the smallest of the small fries". After Spike and Faye turn him in, Spike shares the bounty and reminds her that Whitney is still a small fry.
- Con Man: Whitney, as well as his uncle and his assistant (who were the doctor and nurse respectively).
- Contrived Coincidence: Faye just happening to run into Whitney again after finishing recounting her past.
- Disney Death: Whitney fakes his death so he could be cleared of his debt by passing it onto Faye.
- Exact Eavesdropping: While Faye is telling her backstory to Ein, she's unaware that Spike is in the restroom she's sat next to, and hears the whole thing. He doesn't seem to believe her at first until Jet brings in Whitney.Faye: How long were you in there listening, Spike?
Spike: Too long. Your story needs editing. - Face Doodling: Faye does this to poor Ein at the end of the episode.
- Fish out of Water: Past Faye's adjustment into the future.
- Flashback: Half of the episode is this, with Faye recounting most of hers.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Faye comes out of her cryo-sleep with a case of this.
- Old-School Dogfight: Spike and Faye engage in this near the end. Spike, being the more experienced pilot manages to beat her.
- Origins Episode: Faye tries to piece together her past in this episode. At the very least, she remembers that she woke up decades after a spacecraft accident and was put in a huge debt after the hospital recovered her. She has since been trying to pay off the debt and find out her origins before the accident.
- Pet the Dog: After all of the hell Faye's been through, Spike gives her a share of the bounty as well as this exchange.Faye: Easy for you to say. You don't have a past.
Spike: But you have a future. - You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Faye says this word-for-word in rage at the end of her flashback, after learning Whitney's inheritance following his supposed death is actually his own debt added to hers.
