Fad (Netflix)

Fad presents as a middle-aged lawman with dark brown hair and matching eyes. He dresses the part of an old-school detective, a brown suit paired with a fedora.

Fad trades on a warm, buddy-cop rapport with Jet, but the friendliness is pure performance. Staying in Jet's good graces is a calculated cover, one he maintains right up until the moment he betrays him a second time.

A flashback shows Fad and Jet chatting about the jazz great nicknamed Bird, Charlie Parker, before turning to their quarry, Udai Taxim. The trail leads them to an apartment block, where Fad is shot and wounded and urges Jet to press on after Udai alone while he recovers. Jet runs the target down, only to be gunned by an unseen shooter.

In the present, the bounty program Big Shot reports that Udai is among the convicts who have broken out of a prison ship on Europa. Still bitter over the ambush that cost him an arm and a leg, Jet reaches out to Fad and the two reunite for the chase. Their leads point first to a man called Dagmar, who admits under questioning that he furnished Udai with a fresh false identity, after which the pair stage a distraction to slip past the officers Chalmers and Duero. Working out where Udai would run, Jet tracks him to a sorting station and pushes for the name of his contact, but a bullet silences Udai before he can answer. Fad then reveals that he himself was the contact and the original traitor. He tries to finish Jet too, yet the shot glances off Jet's metal arm, and Jet returns fire to kill him. Chalmers and Duero arrive to fill in the rest: Fad had been colluding with Udai and was already under investigation for a string of corruption charges. Chalmers waves Jet off before more police show up, then drops a thousand-Woolong note on the body with a remark that Bird had been the better player.