Mel

Mel wears her brown hair loose and looks out through blue eyes. Her working outfit is practical, a gray jacket thrown over a black tank top with brown pants, the sort of gear suited to crawling around an engine bay.

Mel knows spacecraft inside and out, reeling off faults in an engine with easy expertise. She is also openly flirtatious, a streak that surfaces plainly in her chemistry with Faye.

While the Bebop sits docked, Jet watches Mel inspect its engine and rattle off everything wrong with it, mocking whoever has been maintaining the thing. Jet, who does that maintenance himself, bristles and suspects her of padding the bill. She insists the ship needs a fresh J92 stabilizing coil, conveniently carries one in her truck, and quotes fifteen thousand woolong. Jet scoffs that he could find a refurbished unit nearby for next to nothing, and Mel fires back that his troubles come from buying cheap in the first place. He orders her to service the craft and prep for the install, then walks off as his phone rings.

Jet warns Spike that the mechanic has them cornered, then tells Faye to keep watch on Mel in the engine room. Faye heads down and the two hit it off, trading complaints about Jet and talk of Faye's new railgun. Their conversation deepens into a confession that Mel was Faye's first sexual partner, and that Faye's memory was wiped by a botched early revival from cryostasis, leaving her with no past to recall. Mel offers comfort over it. Jet then catches the pair kissing, drops off a stabilizer he sourced for six thousand, and demands they launch within two minutes because Spike is in danger. The part turns out to be a J72 instead of the J92, and though it does not fit, Jet insists Mel improvise while Faye pitches in.

The Bebop barely lifts off as Mel scrambles to cool the straining engine, and the fix holds just long enough. Nearing Earth's atmosphere a coil bursts, and Mel warns that powering down is the only way to avoid an explosion. Faye triggers the sprinklers while Mel reroutes the coolant, steadying the ship. At their target the trio confront the mainframe housing Cy-Baba, shielded behind reinforced plastic that shrugs off their weapons, until Faye loads a bobby pin into her railgun and blasts the system apart. Later, in Faye's quarters, the two say goodbye, with Faye handing over her railgun and Mel noting she can reclaim it any time.