Giraffe

Among those who lead the Self Defense Volunteer Squad, Giraffe carries a three million woolong bounty by the time the Bebop crew latches onto his trail. What looks at first like an ordinary manhunt turns out to shadow a man eaten alive by an old betrayal, a grudge bound up with a secret sealed inside a child's unaging body.

A skirmish with space raiders in 2061 ends badly for Giraffe, who turns up blindfolded inside a silo, seemingly sold out by his partner Zebra before the man disappears. For the ten years that follow he keeps digging into what happened, eventually learning that his captor is Wen, a boy the Astral Gate accident has cursed with endless life. Word of a gem able to strip away Wen's immortality reaches him, and he gets hold of the stone in 2071.

By then a three million woolong price sits on Giraffe's head, and the Bebop's hunters take up his trail just as he closes in on Zebra and Wen at a high-rise hotel. He storms into their room to face Wen, but a bullet drops him at once and sends him crashing through the glass. Outside in the Swordfish II, Spike Spiegel breaks his fall, though the wounds are past saving. Dying, Giraffe presses the ring on Spike and begs him to use it for Zebra, warning him not to be swayed by Wen's youthful face, yet slips away before he can spell out what he means.

Born on Mars and tagged with the identity code M018321BC1, Giraffe turns up in the single session "Sympathy for the Devil," where he meets his end. His Japanese voice comes from Takashi Nakagi, with Michael Sorich handling the English dub.