Blue Rose: a Cowboy Bebop Fansite

Spike was shot with tranquilizer bullets. It is interesting to note here that while the audience thought Spike was dead, there were black crows flying above him. When Spike is actually dead, white doves are flying in a group. They are also present when Julia dies. So perhaps the crows being here is in contrast to the doves (beside the fact that the location is called Blue Crow so crows would kind of be there, and that I read way too much into things).

Gren is explaining to Faye what happened on Titan between him and Vicious, and why he is going to face Vicious. Faye is pissed, "You selfishly help people, and bring them along and then you go off to die?" She shot at him, but her aim was very poor. I doubt that she wanted to kill him, but she wanted to prevent him from going. She could not understand why great people like Gren come into her life and then leave her. She had a connection with him; they understood each other. But he had to go and die to settle the score and find out the truth. Sound familiar? Gren is very much like Spike, and if Faye had not met Gren, then perhaps when Spike left the Bebop for good she would have actually shot him instead of the ceiling.

When Jet finds Faye, he was looking for Gren so he could get the bounty. It was just luck and circumstance (and perhaps fate?) that brought him to Faye. She seemed slightly surprised and disappointed that Jet was there to get her instead of Spike. She asks Jet about Julia, and Jet does not seem to know much. Faye is constantly compared to Julia. Her and Julia both sat in the same seat in the bar and listened to Gren. They were both involved with Spike, meaning: worked with him, were friends with him, etc. Faye did not have as close a relationship to Spike as Julia did. She was saddened because of this, too. If she was like Julia in some ways, why wasn't she enough to keep Spike content on the Bebop and help him to forget about his past? But Julia had a hold on Spike that Faye could not break, despite their similarities.

Lin dies protecting Vicious. Later his brother, Shin, dies protecting Spike. It is an interesting parallel that is drawn using the two twin brothers. Both of them were willing to risk their lives for what they thought was right. Spike is concerned about Lin's soul. He tells Vicious that Lin will not go to the afterlife because of how he died. Vicious does not care because his greater purpose was achieved.

But Vicious is not a one-sided power-hungry character. In fact, he is very neutral, as seen in the color of his hair and the neutral colors he wears. He states, "In this world, there is nothing to believe." His heart is cold, as the elders had stated.

Gren bravely faces Vicious, and dies. But not without getting a bomb into Vicious' ship and blowing half of it up (Go Gren!) But he was already dying as a result of what Vicious had done to him because of the drugs he was taking in prison. He is similar to Spike in this way, also. Spike did not know if he was really alive or living in a dream once he had left the syndicate and Julia behind. When Spike goes to face Vicious, he was already dead, so to speak. So was Gren. That is why Gren did not care what was going to happen to him: he was going to die, so he might as well get some revenge. I felt sorry for Gren, because all he wanted was a comrade, a friend, someone to trust. And he thought he found it but it was a lie. He was a valiant warrior, as the old grizzly fortuneteller guy said.

Spike did not continue to pursue Vicious because he wanted to hear what Gren knew about Julia. I am starting to think that it was Gren's comments that drove Spike even further to find Julia and be reunited with her. Once Spike heard that she "sadly smiled" when remembering him, he knew that she still loved him. He knew that he had to find her. This was the turning point in his life without her. He finally knew that she still loved him, and he was going to search for her until they were reunited.

Like The Real Folk Blues, Jupiter Jazz Part Two ends with a different credit sequence. The song is Space Lion, and is played as it shows Gren's ship flying towards Titan and ends with a shot of Jupiter.

On somewhat of a side note, during the flashback scene, there are some lines of dialogue that explain about Spike's eye. They do not make sense until the very end, unless you are very sharp. Julia says that his eyes are two different colors and she gets a funny feeling when she stares into them too long. Spike states, "My left eye sees the past." She replies, "What about your right eye...?" What his right eye sees is not revealed until The Real Folk Blues, Part Two, thus supporting my thoughts that these episodes are related. Sometimes they parallel each other, but other times they explain each other and fill in the gaps.

Instead of the familiar See You, Space Cowboy, the ending prompts a question that is triggered by these two episodes: DO YOU HAVE A COMERAD? And I honestly hope that you do...and preferably not one who wields a katana and has a bird on his shoulder, because that would be bad.