It’s about this guy named Spike and his partner Jet. They are bounty hunters or cowboys and their "mother ship" thing is called the BeBop in the year 2071. They are on this bounty one day and they find this dog whose name is Ein. He’s a data dog and he’s really smart because he is genetically enhanced or something. Then they find this chick whose name is Fay and she’s from the year 2010 or somewhere around there. But she was in an accident and was frozen until they could fix her up then they unfroze her. She ran away, Spike and Jet found her and she joins the crew. Then they pick up this little girl who is like 12 years old and her name is Ed. She is a computer genus but she is totally detached from society; she’s like in her own little world. The whole series is about them. They are all bounty hunters (or cowboys) and they try to catch people but each character has an underlying story. Jet wants to be reunited with his old girlfriend, who he later finds out is a criminal and he bust her. Ed wants to find her father and she later does. Fay wants to find out more about her past and why she was frozen and all that junk. And Spike…. Well he’s complicated. He wants to find Julia which was his old girl friend and he also needs to kill Vicious who is this crazy guy who Spike met in the military (I think). They (Spike and Vicious) have been in a conflict for years since then and after all that happens they all leave each other and the show ends. *Big spoiler! If you ever want to watch the show and you mind knowing what will happen, stop reading here* Spike gets betrayed by Julia and then him and Vicious fight to the death. Spike kills Vicious but Spike also dies. I don’t think the show ends very clearly. It just leaves you hanging. The last scene is Spike lying on these steps and it looks like he’s dead.