In the year
2071, the crew of the spaceship
Bebop travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. In the slang of the era, "
Cowboys" are bounty hunters, hence the name of the series. Most episodes revolve around a bounty; however the overall focus of the show concerns the deep pasts of each character, which unravel and connect as the series progresses.
One of the plotlines focuses on
Spike Spiegel, a former member of the
Red Dragon crime syndicate who is haunted by a past love triangle between his former syndicate partner, Vicious, and a mysterious woman named
Julia.
Other plotlines of the
Bebop crew members include those of
Jet Black, a former
ISSP officer on the Jovian moon Ganymede;
Faye Valentine, an indebted
gambler awakened from cryogenic slumber;
Edward, a
genius girl computer hacker who can hack at 10 times the speed of an expert hacker, and
Ein, a revolutionary "
Data Dog;" a dog with data encoded within its
DNA.
8 out of 10 
