"Twinkle" Maria Murdock is a villainous character from the anime series Cowboy Bebop. Appearing in the fourth session "Gateway Shuffle", she was the psychotic leader of an eco-terrorist group known as the Space Warriors.
Japanese Voice: Mari Arita
English Voice: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
History[]
Murdock led the members of the once-peaceful Space Warriors in a more radical direction, believing humans had no right to interfere with nature. Eventually, she led the plan to infect the moon of Ganymede with Monkey Business, a gene-altering virus that would turn human beings into monkeys. She, therefore, had a 25 million woolong bounty placed on her.
Murdock was briefly captured by the crew of the Bebop in a restaurant near Ganymede. Knowing her group would be able to rescind the bounty through the threat of the virus, she played along and was held on the ship. Jet eventually found out the bounty was canceled and was forced to release her. During her time there, she found out that the group somehow came across one of the vials of the virus, but did not make it known that she knew what it was. Spike, however, knew and slipped it into her pocket as she left to rejoin her group.
Fate[]
Once back on her ship, Murdock learned that the ISSP Chief had only limited the hunting of Sea Rats, not prohibited. She then told him she would release part of the virus. The plan was thwarted when the Ganymede Astral Gate was closed, trapping her ship and forcing them to slow down rapidly. The virus container in her pocket came out and she watched it smash, exposing them all. Murdock's transformation and death are not shown on-screen. However, in her transformed state, Murdock would have turned feral and gone berserk, along with her underlings. They likely would have died after causing too much damage to their ship in their berserk state, either by damaging their life support systems or causing the ship to self-destruct.