
Bob is an Inter-Solar System Police officer stationed with the Ganymede force, and a former colleague of Jet Black from Jet's own days on the job. Though wary of the risk, he repeatedly slips his old friend the inside information that keeps the Bebop crew a step ahead of the syndicates and the ISSP brass.
Bob comes across as tired and disillusioned, a career cop worn down by the rot inside the ISSP. He hands over sensitive details reluctantly and often only under pressure, yet his loyalty to Jet keeps pulling him back into the role of informant.
Bob serves on Ganymede during the Space Warriors scare. After Jet and Spike bring in Twinkle Maria Murdock and discover the reward on her has been pulled, Jet leans on Bob, hinting at knowledge of his shady past and perhaps some pilfered Red Eye, until the officer lays out the group's plan to unleash a virus. He advises handing Murdock back, though Jet presses on instead. He surfaces again after a stranger nearly kills Spike, tipping Jet off about Mad Pierrot and his campaign to murder senior ISSP officials. When a nano-machine plague menaces Alba City, Bob shares what he can dig up and admits the upper ranks care only about shielding themselves while the lower ranks are hopelessly crooked, a state of affairs Jet notes has not changed since his own departure; he later flags an ISSP strike on the water treatment plant. Finally, learning that the Red Dragon syndicate is convulsing in a coup that has seen Vicious seized and his associates hunted down, Bob calls to warn Jet and begs him to get off Mars, only for Jet to answer that it is already too late.

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Bob is an Inter-Solar System Police officer stationed on Ganymede and a former colleague of Jet Black from Jet's own days on the force. He repeatedly feeds Jet inside information despite the risk to himself.
Bob and Jet Black are former colleagues from Jet's time on the ISSP. Their old bond keeps pulling Bob back into the role of informant, even though he hands over sensitive details reluctantly.
Bob learns that the Red Dragon syndicate is in the middle of a coup, with Vicious seized and his associates hunted down. He calls Jet Black to warn him and urges him to get off Mars, but Jet responds that it is already too late.
When a nano-machine plague threatens Alba City, Bob shares what information he can dig up and later flags an ISSP strike on the water treatment plant. He admits the ISSP's upper ranks care only about protecting themselves while the lower ranks are hopelessly corrupt.
The Cowboy Bebop series credits the character as Bob, but the movie's Japanese credits render his name as Pop, while its English credits keep Bob. Yutaka Nakano voices him in Japanese and John Snyder in English.
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