The Magician (1999)

Ace is framed for a crime by doctored videos made by Black Jack and learns that Diamond and Spade intend to murder Jim Speed, a professional racer. Accordingly, Ace saves Speed while Cosmo exposes the false accusation.

X-Oshi (a species of robotic pet), having become ubiquitous in the city, unexpectedly turn criminal; whereupon Ace and Cosmo vanquish their prototype, who commands the others.

An attempt is made on the Senator Dobb's life by an ex-employee Bill Peach. Cooper then saves Cosmo and a circus from a train (originally belonging to Ace himself) sent by Peach to destroy both.

When robots are sent to join the police force, Ace, Cosmo, and Lt. Vega terminate plans by Black Jack to use the robots against the city.

The Nova celebrity cruise liner is sunk. Ace and Cosmo find a pirate captain called Glam scheming to plunder the ancient artifacts it carried, and lead the police to destroy his base and recover the artifacts.

A Gypsy Fortune-teller named Nausica clues in on a dangerous strongbox. Ace recovers the strongbox before it can used by Black Jack pollute the city's water supply.

Ace investigates mysterious fires caused by a pyromaniac Multi-Flames. Ace discovers that Multi-Flames is a firefighter named Lt. Atika where she has a vendetta against Sonny Boy for the faulty equipment that he had a hand in.

Rex-1, the leading character of a video game, is accidentally converted into a real being and holds a civic administrator hostage until defeated by Ace and Cosmo.

Patrick Schumacher, the host of a defunct game-show, attempts revenge on Ace for the latter's greater popularity. Ace and Cosmo survive his obstacle-course and expose the network's Director of Programming as the mastermind behind the crime.

An impostor impersonates Ace and persuades both Cosmo and Ace's supercomputer 'Angel' into thinking he's Ace. The imposter is vanquished by Ace in a contest of magic.?

A film based on a presumed-deceased journalist's career is plagued by sabotage to prevent its exposure of Black Jack's past crimes. Ace discovers that the leading actress is the journalist herself and protects her from Diamond, Spades, and Sonny Boy's henchmen.

Introduces a Catwoman-like sneak-thief named Faceless whom Ace pursues but fails to capture.

A circus act is sabotaged on behalf of Black Jack Malone, until Ace and Cosmo expose his agent among the performers.

Black Jack's strategist Clockwise sends thieves to discover all the city's important secrets, in the guise of a matchmaking agency; Ace infiltrates the agency to spoil the plan, and discovers that all the spies are androids. When Black Jack abandons the plan, the androids' creator Dr. Cabaliye sends his remaining creations to kill Black Jack's daughter; but they are defeated by Ace and Cosmo.

Contenders for the episode's eponymous Award are threatened, and in some cases injured, by unknown assailants working for Crenone and Demonia. Ace and Cosmo rescue the last two, and one of these (Mona Malone) wins the Award.

A circus' black Panther is forced to attack two scientists by a former colleague of theirs, on behalf of the corporation for which all three had worked, and Ace's own panther Zina is blamed by the police. Ace, Cosmo, Lt. Vega, and the circus' trainer 'Yokiko' jointly recover the two panthers, defeat the mad scientist Dr. Pax of the Millix Corporation, and exonerate Zina.

Ace discovers Faceless smuggling money in an invisible helicopter, and is ordered by the Police Department to recover the money and cripple her operation.

Some of Cosmo's friends are tricked by Sonny Boy into kidnapping his father, and thus into a gun-fight with the Police and Sonny's followers; but Ace rescues the elder Surge, and Cosmo conceals the evidence of his friends' participation in the crime.

Derailed in the desert, Ace and Cosmo are captured by the eccentric hunter Count Hebron and forced through an obstacle-course with him in pursuit. They later outwit him, and Lt. Vega takes Hebron prisoner.

At a science-fair, and later through the city, Cosmo and Black Jack compete for control of a nearly-indestructible robot, until Jack attaches his own motorized chair to the robot, and thus establishes an impenetrable neural interface; whereupon Ace, having originally come to rescue Cosmo, defeats Jack in single combat. Thereafter, Jack claims to have subdued the robot himself, and thus escapes punishment.

A former friend of Ace's named Gus Morland is revived from a cryonic state in the form of a cryogenic mutant, and pursues Ace.

Gus attacks Black Jack, whom he blames for his mutation. Both of them are saved by Ace and Gus is restored to his human state.

After Faceless, Spade, and Diamond cause a prison break at the Electro City Police Department, Ace's enemies Yago, Dr. Blaun, Glam, and Count Hebron unite with Black Jack's group and Sonny Boy's group. Ace even learns of this upon subduing Aldus Teron who had obtained freedom on his own. Following an ambush by Yago, Dr. Blaun, Count Hebron, and Faceless, Ace is presumed dead following the attack on him. He is recovered by Cosmo, Vega, Mona, and Zina. Mona assists Ace and Cosmo to arouse the criminal masterminds against each other. Ultimately, most of the criminals are imprisoned with the exceptions of Faceless and Sonny Boy. Clockwise reminds Captain Friedrich that Black Jack is a close friend of Senator Dobbs and claims that the villains held him and Mona hostage.

Jimmy Hagen, a descendant of the city's founders, kidnaps Ace to copy his magic through a telepathic virtual reality apparatus. Ace is rescued by Cosmo and humiliates Hagen in public.

The scientist Nataschia, to prevent her employer Aldus Teron's transference of his own mind into the brain of an especially-bred child, leaves the child in the care of Ace, Cosmo, and Mona. Her employer contends with these for possession of the child until his defeat.

Gambler Joe Tucker plants explosives in two famous gambling-casinos, and threatens a third. Ace defeats him in single combat and causes the third explosive to explode harmlessly in the air.