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==Plot==
{{See also|List of Cowboy Bebop episodes{{!}}List of ''Cowboy Bebop'' episodes}}
In the year 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway that made Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has [[colonized]] most of the [[Terrestrial planet|rocky planets]] and [[moon]]s of the [[Solar System]]. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters (also referred to as "Cowboys") chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.<ref name="CowboyBackground">{{Cite web|title=Cowboy Bebop - Original Sessions - Background|url=http://cowboybebop.org/english/session/world/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030107060711/http://cowboybebop.org/english/session/world/index.html|archive-date=January 7, 2003|access-date=April 25, 2014|publisher=CowboyBebop.Org}}</ref> The series' protagonists are bounty hunters working from the spaceship ''Bebop''. The original crew is [[Spike Spiegel]], an exiled former hitman of the criminal Red Dragon Syndicate, and [[Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)|Jet Black]], a former ISSP officer. They are later joined by [[Faye Valentine]], an amnesiac [[con artist]]; [[Edward (Cowboy Bebop)|Edward Wong]], an eccentric child, skilled in hacking; and [[Eine bebop|Ein]], a [[Genetic engineering|genetically engineered]] [[Pembroke Welsh Corgi]] with human-like intelligence. Throughout the series, the team gets involved in disastrous mishaps leaving them without money, while often confronting faces and events from their pasts:<ref name="VaultThemes" /> These include Jet's reasons for leaving the ISSP and Faye's past as a young woman from Earth injured in an accident and cryogenically frozen to save her life.

While much of the show is episodic, the main story arc focuses on Spike and his deadly rivalry with [[Vicious (Cowboy Bebop)|Vicious]], an ambitious criminal affiliated with the Red Dragon Syndicate. Spike and Vicious were once partners and friends. Still, when Spike begins an affair with Vicious's girlfriend [[Julia (Cowboy Bebop)|Julia]] and resolves to leave the Syndicate with her, Vicious seeks to eliminate Spike by blackmailing Julia into killing him. Julia hides to protect herself and Spike, while Spike fakes his death to escape the Syndicate. In the present, Julia comes out of hiding and reunites with Spike, intending to complete their plan. Vicious, having staged a ''[[coup d'état]]'' and taken over the Syndicate, sends hitmen after the pair. Julia is killed, leaving Spike alone. Spike leaves the ''Bebop'' after finally apologizing to Faye and Jet. Upon infiltrating the syndicate, he finds Vicious on the top floor of the building and confronts him after dispatching the remaining Red Dragon members. The final battle ends with Spike killing Vicious, only to be seriously wounded himself in the ensuing confrontation. Looking up to the sky, Spike sees Julia. The series concludes as Spike descends the main staircase of the building into the rising sun before eventually falling to the ground.