As Jet goes off to apprehend a con artist, Faye tells Ein about her past. The rest of the first act is told in flashback. Three years earlier, Faye was awoken from a cryogenic sleep following an accident which occurred 54 years earlier. Despite having no memory, she was promptly saddled with an extortionate medical bill. She's visited by Whitney Haggis Matsumoto, ostensibly a lawyer from the insurance company looking into her case. Faye escapes from the hospital, and but is found by Whitney, who promises to help her. They soon develop affections for one another, until they're found by a collection agency. Whitney draws the pursuers away, only to apparently be killed in the ensuing crash. Faye then learns that he's made her a beneficiary in his will, only to find that all she has inherited are his debts.
In the second act, it's revealed that the con artist Jet has apprehended is Whitney. As they prepare to hand him over, Faye becomes eager to question the man who betrayed her, to the point where she spirits him away in the Red Tail before the police can collect him.
The first half of this episode is taken up by the flashback, which is framed by Faye waiting for the ship's toilet to become vacant so she can clean out Ein's litter box. While waiting, she notices Ein's resemblance to Whitney and begins her story. It does provide the funniest moments in the episode, as Ein looks clearly uninterested by Faye's story from the beginning, and is asleep by the end. This is followed by Spike finishing in the toilet, having heard the whole story, and claiming it's "too long" and "needs editing".
The whole session is largely a day in the limelight for Faye, providing some answers to her past, but not everything. Even Spike doesn't believe the whole story, having been told something different in a previous session.
I do think it's a little bit too coincidental that Jet's bounty happens to be Whitney. Regardless, it's a touching episode which provides the most insight into Faye's character.
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