第18話

あらすじ

日本語の要約がないため、Englishで表示しています。

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A package addressed to Faye arrives while she is away gambling. Inside is an obsolete Betamax videocassette, but no one aboard the Bebop owns equipment capable of playing it. Jet and Spike visit an antiques dealer, damage an expensive machine during testing, and follow a lead into the buried ruins of an old Earth city to recover another player. After considerable effort, they discover they have brought back a VHS deck instead. A second delivery conveniently supplies the correct device. When Faye returns, the crew plays the tape and finds a recording made by her teenage self before the accident that erased her memory. The younger Faye speaks brightly to her future self, leading school friends in exercises and promising that she will always be cheering for the person she becomes. For Spike and Jet, the video is an embarrassing but affectionate glimpse of an ordinary childhood. For Faye, it is deeply unsettling. She cannot remember the girl on the screen, her friends, or the optimism with which she addressed the future. The tape proves her past was real, yet it also emphasizes how completely that life has become inaccessible to her.