Beau Billingslea |
Jet Black |
Wendee Lee |
Faye Valentine |
Steven Jay Blum |
Spike Spiegel |
Kouichi Yamadera |
Spike Spiegel [J] |
Unshou Ishizuka |
Jet Black [J] |
Megumi Hayashibara |
Faye Valentine [J] |
Michael Gregory |
Laughing Bull |
Guest Star |
Carol Stanzione |
Annie |
Guest Star |
Nobuyuki Hiyama |
Shin [J] |
Guest Star |
Paul St. Peter |
Vicious |
Recurring Role |
Yoko Kanno |
Chorus Singer: "Blue" [as Gabriella Robin] |
Recurring Role |
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn |
Julia |
Recurring Role |
Look close: As the credits roll, look at the clouds. There are two openings in the clouds, one resembles Ein, and the one directly above it resembles Ed.
When Jet speaks to Laughing Bull, we can see a Play Station on the floor of Bull's house.
Laughing Bull says that Jet's spirit name is Running Rock.
Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: Where's Spike? Can you help me track him down?
Laughing Bull: All living things, every being that walks and breathes, each has it's own star.
Jet: Huh?
Laughing Bull: When a life is born, a new star appears. That is the guardian star, the star that warms this planet is someone's guardian star as well. The red star you see overhead, and the blue star in the horizon. And when a life ends, the star falls and disappears.
Jet: Don't say that.
Laughing Bull: You, Running Rock...
Jet: That's not my name! Don't call me that!
Laughing Bull: His star is about to fall. I have dreamed it.
Jet: Ah!...This is ridiculous. What am I doing here?
Laughing Bull: Do not fear death. Death is always at our side. When we show fear, it jumps at us faster than lightning, but it is when we do not show fear, it casts its eye on us gently and casts us to infinity.
Faye: Where're you going? Why are you going? You told me once to forget the past, 'cause it doesn't matter... but you're the one still tied to the past, Spike!
Spike: Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake 'cause I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye, and the present in the other. So I thought I can see only patches of reality, never the whole picture.
Faye: Don't tell me things like that. You never told me anything about yourself. So don't tell me now!
Spike: I felt like I was watching a dream I'd never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over. (begins to walk away)
Faye: My memory...finally came back. But, nothing good came of it. There was no place for me to return to. This was the only place I could go. And now you're leaving just like that! Why do you have to go? Where are you going? What are you going to do? Just throw your life away like it was nothing?!
Spike: I'm not going there to die...I'm going to find out if I'm really alive. I have to do it, Faye.
(Faye then shoots her gun five times at the ceiling and begins to cry)
Spike: Ever heard this story. There was once a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives. And he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day, the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger-striped cat cried a million times and then he died too. Except this time he didn't come back to life.
Jet: Yeah, thats a good story.
Spike: I hate that story.
Jet: Huh?
Spike: I never liked cats, you know that.
Jet: Oh yeah, thats right.
(they both start laughing and Spike starts to walk away)
Jet: Hey, Spike.
Spike: Yeah?
Jet: I just wanna ask you one thing.
Spike: Whats that?
Jet: Is it for the girl?
Spike: She's dead. There's nothing I can do for her now.
Spike: Bang.
Outro Quote: You're gonna carry that weight.
English Voice Talents
Carol Stanzione, Mike D'Gard, Steve Areno, John Billingslea, David Lucas, Wendee Lee, Henry Douglas Grey, George C. Cole, Bo Williams, Jonathan C. Osborne
Original Japanese Airdate (WOWOW): April 23rd, 1999.
Spike saying "Bang" at the end before he falls over is a reference to the episode "Sympathy for the Devil".
When the "boy" Wen is dying, he says that he is happy because he can finally die. He then asks Spike if he understands. Spike says, "Yeah, I understand...as if," then takes Wen's harmonica, throws it in the air, points at it and says "Bang".
Spike shows us that one of his eyes is fake, finally making sense the flashback from "Sympathy for the Devil".
At the end of the episode, you see Spike's guardian star shining brighter than the others then disappear. Just like Laughing Bull explains earlier in the "Jupiter Jazz" story arc.
The title for this episode is a reference to a famous Muddy Waters album.
At the end of this episode, the message 'You're Gonna Carry That Weight' appeared. This is a reference to The Beatles, who did a song entitled Carry That Weight.
When Jet is talking to Laughing Bull, you can see a Sony Playstation on the floor nearby.
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