Short Summary
An old assassin named Udai Taxim, who cost Jet his arm during his police days, is part of a takeover of a prisoner ship. Jet's old partner, Fad, informs of this and requests that the two go bring him in. While reluctant at first, Jet agrees to the mission.Main Summary
Prison doors opening and closing. Prison guards lying dead in the corridor. One inmate compliments another on his handiwork, offering him a drink. A stern looking black man with narrow glasses takes the drink and pours it into a corpse's mouth.
The death row prisoners have taken over their prison ship to Pluto. A hotheaded inmate kills the pilot, and threatens to kill another inmate who challenges his leadership. Swiftly and silently, the stern inmate from before (named Udai) slits the hothead's throat and takes charge.
Faye complains that the showers have failed for the 4th time. She snippily answers the ringing phone before Jet can, and tells "Fad" that Jet will call him back. Jet reacts to the name, stunned for a moment. Jet then goes to meet up with Fad, who is an old colleague of his from the ISSP. Fad briefs him on the prison ship situation, and tells him that Udai is on that ship: The man behind Jet losing his arm and quitting the force. Jet has a flashback to him and Fad raiding a warehouse. They split up and Jet found Udai first, but a spotlight flared on Jet and he cried out "a set up!" as a gunshot is heard.
While Jet is packing up for the main mission, he asks Ed to water his Bonsai tree while he's away.
Police craft arrive at the prison ship, responding to its distress signal. Udai broadcasts that he is releasing a shuttle, but not that the shuttle is rigged to explode. Once it does, he fires up the ship's defensive cannons and eliminates any survivors.
Fad and Jet "the black dog that bites down and never lets go" head to Europa, reasoning that Udai is going back to his old Syndicate haunts. Udai calls the Syndicate but they have severed ties with him.
Ed is watering the bonsai, Ein, and the whole room. Faye screams as the shower runs cold.
Jet and Fad split up in their own ships as they approach the prison ship. A defense cannon fires on Jet, and a prisoner in a spacesuit fires rockets from an airlock at Fad. Both ships are damaged, but Jet manages to harpoon the ship and get inside. Fad smashes into the airlock and the goon who fired from it, becoming jammed in the side of the ship. One prisoner moves to escape, but unknowingly walks through the airlock door into this breached section. He's sucked out into space.
Elsewhere, Fad is shown checking a monitor, and loading his revolver with a single bullet.
Udai finds Jet, and they enter combat. Udai gets the upper hand, stabbing Jet in the leg with a knife. Jet says he came to get revenge on Udai for shooting him: Udai then gloats how Jet never figured out that he was shot by his own partner, Fad. Jet wouldn't join the Syndicate's payroll like all the other dirty cops, so Fad and Udai worked together to take him out. Fad arrives, shooting Udai through the head and killing him. Fad repeats the point about Jet being unable to play their games, and raises his gun with a "Sayonara, partner". Jet leaps for Udai's gun: Jet shoots first, and Fad falls to the floor. Jet limps over to him, and notices that Fad's revolver has no bullets. Realising that Fad just committed "suicide by cop" for atonement, he hands him a cigarette and lights it for him as he dies.
See You Space Cowboy…
- An Arm and a Leg: This episode reveals just how Jet lost his arm at first we are led to believe it was Udai's doing but Udai then reveals it was actually Fad who shot Jet's arm off.
- The Atoner: Fad, who let Jet kill him for betraying him in the past.
- Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: After Fad was revealed to be a traitor, Jet dives for his gun as Fad turned his on Jet. Only one gunshot is heard, then Fad falls over. Although this is downplayed, an astute viewer will remember that Fad loaded his revolver with a single bullet before going to confront Udai and Jet.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Fad kills Udai, largely to shut him up, but also use his last bullet and pull a Suicide by Cop.
- Dirty Cop: Fad turned out to be on the syndicate's dime and was the one responsible for blowing Jet's arm off. However, he greatly regrets the decision and even pulls a 'suicide by cop'.
- Keeping the Handicap: Faye questions why Jet doesn't get an organic arm replacement, since in this universe organs can be cultivated and easily replace missing limbs. Jet however opts to keep his artificial one, largely as a reminder of the day he lost his real arm via a trap the syndicate (and he later learns, his corrupt partner) lured him into, and not to get too careless as he did in the past.
- The Last Dance: Both Jet and Udai are people from a bygone era struggling to live in the current one. They know this encounter is settling old scores and will be their last, which will end with either one of them dead.
- The Last DJ: Jet's refusal to turn Dirty Cop or at least ease up on the syndicates running Ganymede resulted in him being ambushed and nearly killed — at the hands of his own partner, who was working with one of said syndicates, no less. This is paralleled by Udai Taxim, the main (apparent) antagonist of the episode, who tries to hook up with his old syndicate after escaping prison and is outright rejected by them, who state that times have changed; the final confrontation between the two is essentially settling a score between two people from a bygone era who've been struggling to live in the present one.
- One Last Smoke: Fad as he dies. Ironically, he was trying to quit, which he lampshades as his final words.
- Prison Riot: Well, prisoner transport riot, but same thing.
- Prison Ship: One such ship is hijacked by the prisoners after an electrical failure.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Udai Taxim is a dangerous convict who likes to use knives.
- Redemption Equals Death: Fad. Hhe was on the take with syndicate but secretly felt horrible for what he did to Jet. When the two have their standoff he lets Jet shoot him, with Jet discovering that his gun was empty after he killed Udai.
- Scary Black Man: Udai's Establishing Character Moment has him kill a trigger-happy prisoner who tries to threaten him, and his demeanor makes it clear that he's not to be messed with.
- Snicket Warning Label: Jet warns the viewers in the preview that this episode is particularly depressing and "heavy-handed".
- Sexy Silhouette: Faye's silhouette is seen behind a shower curtain while she is trying to take a shower, but the shower breaks and we see her jumping around due to the sudden change in water temperature.
- Suicide by Cop: An ironic inversion, wherein it's done by a cop (Fad) in order to atone and get redemption for what he did to his Ex-Cop partner.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: One of the criminals aboard the prison ship opens a door to another area of the ship, unaware that there's a hole in the ship's hull on the other side.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Udai who tries to contact his old syndicate, but they reject him outright claiming things have changed.
- Welcome to Hell: Said by one of the inmates as Jet and Fad begin their attack.
