Hard Puncher (anime)

Hard Puncher is the fifth episode of the Trigun anime. This episode covers Chapter 1 through most of Chapter 4 of the manga.

Summary
Vash is having breakfast when a group of bandits come to collect the $$60 Billion bounty on his head. Vash scares off the group, but when the townspeople find out he's Vash the Stampede they try to get the bounty themselves to fix their Plant. Milly and Meryl track him to the town and find the whole town is after him! Including the Nebraska family who were hired by the sheriff to capture him. Even though the women of the town capture Vash, he saves them from the Nebraska pair and manages to stop them with just 6 bullets (the first time he uses his gun) - and in turn capture the Nebraska family for their bounty which he gives to the town. Meanwhile, Meryl finally realizes that this geeky broom-headed guy is the Vash they've been sent to find!

Quotes
"I'm chasing the elusive mayfly of peace... or something like that." --Vash

"Maman, Maman, why is this always happening to me?? And why am I crying in French?" --Vash