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Faye is watching the tape from her past on Earth. It shows a lion-shaped fountain on the shoreline, which Faye pauses and focuses on. Ed comes in, sleepwalking, and says she might recognise the fountain. Faye forcibly wakes her up for more info.Spike is smoking on the Bebop's deck. Jet asks where they are: Spike tells him they're parked on Earth. Jet says they were heading to Mars for a bounty, and asks who changed their course. Spike points out that the girls are gone. Faye has set off in her ship with Ed, having asked Ed to lead her to the fountain.
An ATV comes ashore and drives to a crater. Two men jump out and inspect the smouldering wreckage from a rock shower.
Ed rummages through a junkyard neighbouring a village. A bunch of children pop up saying they "found Ed". A nun comes out with a water hose, accidentally hosing down Faye. She is stunned to recognise Edward. Faye and Ed are taken to the village, where the nun takes care of the children. The nun explains that Ed wandered into her orphanage 5 years ago, and 3 years ago she simply wandered out again. To Faye's annoyance, Ed reveals she knows where the fountain is: She just led them here first for the food. The nun gives Ed a picture of a man who came looking for her 2 months ago (one of the two men shown earlier). She says this is Ed's father, who had somehow forgotten he placed her in "daycare" several years ago.
Faye finds the lion fountain. An old woman (ironically named Sally Young) comes up to her, saying she hasn't seen Faye since high school. She then remembers Faye had been put into cryogenic hibernation after an accident, and that's why she looks the same (as opposed to being a ghost). A few memories flash in Faye's mind. Sally's granddaughter comes to call her home, and Sally introduces Faye to the girl as a ghost before they leave. Returning to the Bebop, Faye is confronted by Jet, who's ready to tear into her for changing their course without asking. A pensive and silent Faye simply stares blankly at him before returning to her room.
Fay lays on her bed, deep in thought and unable to sleep. As she takes a shower, her memories finally return. She gets flashes of her past life: Food, friends, her father… and the accident. She was on a commercial space flight leaving Earth when the moon shattered nearby (presumably the gate catastrophe) and wrecked the ship. She tumbles out of the shower in a daze, bumping into Spike as she goes. Saying she has to leave, she gets dressed and climbs into her ship. She tells Ed before leaving that someone is waiting for her too, and "belonging is the best thing there is".
A big bounty comes in for Appledelhi Lütfen (Ed's father). Jet and Spike find him and hold him at gunpoint. He introduces himself and his assistant Macintire as mapmakers, mapping out the Earth's altered surface anew. Jet says that the terrain changes constantly due to the meteor strikes, and they've set themselves an impossible task. Nevertheless, they're going to claim this bounty: Spike engages Appledelhi in hand-to-hand combat, but the man is beating Spike easily. All of a sudden, the Bebop races ashore and almost runs them over. Ed, remote controlling the ship, jumps out and Appledelhi recognises her as his child. They joyfully embrace. Jet and Spike are dumbstruck when she introduces him as her father. Growing in suspicion, Jet asks Ed if she set up a fake bounty to lead her to her father: He reads the bounty again and notices it's actually a tiny reward, with a lot of zeroes after a decimal point. Appledelhi thanks them for looking after Ed, and asks her if she wants to come with him. Just then a meteor strikes close by: The two mapmakers snatch up their equipment, jump in the ATV and race off, forgetting Ed and leaving her behind.
Faye runs up a hill, led by her memories, to her family home. When she reaches it, she finds nothing but rubble and a second (broken) lion fountain. Faye lies down where her room used to be and looks up at the sky.
Ed decides she will leave the Bebop anyway. She packs up her computer and slips away unnoticed, but not before painting "Bye Bye" and a large smiley face on the ship's deck. Ein follows her out, and after telling him to go back to the ship, she allows him to accompany her on her aimless journey. The last shot is of Ed's pinwheel, taped to Bebop's deck, spinning in the wind and the light of the setting sun.
See You Cowgirl, Someday, Somewhere!
- A Day in the Spotlight: This is pretty much Faye and Ed's episode. The final one in the latter's case.
- Accidental Misnaming: Appledelhi getting the name wrong of his assistant, MacIntire, much to the latter's increasing annoyance.
- Bittersweet Ending: Faye finds her home but there's nothing left of it. Likewise Ed decides to take Faye's advice and find a place where she belongs, with Ein deciding to tag along with her, leaving Spike and Jet by their lonesome and silently eating their share of dinner that Jet made for them.
- Breaking the Fellowship: By the end of the episode, Faye, Ed, and Ein have all gone their own separate ways. Faye shows up for the finale, however, after coincidentally bumping into Julia.
- Breather Episode: Sort of. The stakes are all low, and the only action scene is more comedic than anything, but the ending is still pretty depressing. Even so, it's definitely light compared the following two episodes that end the series.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Spike vs. Appledelhi, the latter who easily mops the floor with Spike.
- Parental Abandonment: Ed manages to find her birth father, but he absent-mindedly leaves her behind once again.
- The Reveal: Ed's real name is Françoise Appledelhi.
- Riding into the Sunset: The last we see of Ed and Ein is running off to parts unknown toward the sunset.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story:
- After struggling so hard to remember her past, Faye finally regains her memory and where her home is. However when she reaches the location, there's nothing there for her to come home to. The only thing she can do is solemnly lay in the spot where her bedroom once stood.
- Ed spends most of the episode looking for her father (mostly by placing a seemingly high bounty on him so Spike and Jet would hunt him down), and they reunite and he asks her to come with him. Except moments later, another meteor lands and he completely forgets about Ed and jumps into his truck with his assistant to go track it down, leaving Ed behind. She decides to leave the Bebop to find her own place where she belongs.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Ed and Ein leave the Bebop to search for their own place. A good thing too considering the events of the next two episodes.
- Shower of Angst: Faye showers as she struggles with the resurfacing memories of her past.
- Titled After the Song: The episode name comes from a KISS song.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Faye finally finds her old home....but all that is left is ruins where it once stood.
