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Julia’s deal with Mao goes horribly awry-turns out that Vicious had Santiago pretend to be him with the use of a face-changer, so when Mao killed “Vicious,” she was really killing Santiago. Speaking of mass murderers and psychopaths, Vicious gets what he wanted in this episode: The Syndicate throne, and no one to share power with. “It hurts! It hurts!” The guy is horrible, but in that scene, it’s hard not to feel bad for him. “Mama!” Le Fou sobs, sounding like a lost child and not a mass-murdering psychopath. And it’s a barking dog toy from a dilapidated store that eventually saves Spike: He throws the toy at Le Fou, and it fractures his concentration enough for Spike to stab him in the leg. Here, he hates dogs rather than cats, having had to listen to barking dogs while he was experimented on. This ends up being an extremely bad idea, since he winds up outmatched by Le Fou and his army of animatronic soldiers.Īnd, as in the anime, Le Fou’s downfall is pets. (In the anime, he thinks he’s going to a raging party and has no idea Le Fou is behind it). Jet gets them all to memorize the plan, but in the end, Spike goes rogue and soars off by himself-presumably not to endanger his friends. He sent a broadcast summoning Spike to “Earthworld,” an old amusement park Le Fou frequented in his younger years. Spike heals up, and the group makes a plan to go after Le Fou. He was hired by Vicious (Alex Hassell), who wants him to get Spike out of the way. One crucial difference, though: On Netflix, Le Fou isn’t just killing to kill. In the end, the outcome is the same, too-Spike winds up getting hurt very badly, and the Bebop crew takes him back to the ship to heal him. Sure, the opening is different (rather than Spike by himself playing pool, he’s at a bowling alley with the crew where they “celebrate” Faye’s birthday), but the essence of Le Fou’s initial attack on Spike remains, right down to a few shots that show them as swirling shadows on a brick wall. After adapting one iconic episode of Cowboy Bebop, the Netflix version barrels right into another with “Sad Clown A Go-Go,” which borrows from the horror-infused “Pierrot Le Fou.” But unlike the previous installment, many aspects of the storytelling are kept the same-and the amusement park to which Le Fou lures Spike ( John Cho) is as terrifying in live-action as it was in animated form.