![]() Amos, who’s already had some doubts about the captain of late, reacts stoically, but you know a confrontation is a-comin’. As viewers well know, but all the other characters have yet to discover, it was in fact disarmed by Holden at the last possible second. Then, Peaches summons Amos to another part of the ship to show him something she’s discovered: while checking and re-checking the remaining weapons to avoid another dud situation, she’s uncovered the uncomfortable truth that the missile wasn’t a dud. “This is Alex’s music,” Amos realizes, and they share a moment crooning along and remembering their fallen friend. Elsewhere on the ship, Amos and Bobbie are noodling on repair projects, both still furious about that “dud” torpedo that hit the Pella, when the music they’re listening to changes over to some Hank Williams twang. “ Someone will find that ship,” she tells Holden, and the implication hangs heavy in the air: Someone will find it and destroy it, finishing the job the Roci failed to complete. With the damage assessment complete, Naomi’s turned her laser focus to a new project: compiling all the data the Roci gathered on the Pella and sharing it with the entire fleet. When Kirino passes on the message, the reply is almost instant: Mars is “prepared to go it alone.”Īfter last week’s near-miss with Marco and the Pella, the Rocinante is still en route to Ceres. Avasarala isn’t into the idea she thinks it’s exactly how Marco expects them to react, and says UN forces won’t join the plan. Unsurprisingly, Mars-a place where military culture has reigned supreme for generations-is ready to strike back, with a plan to put Marco’s strategically crucial Medina Station out of commission and take back control of the Ring itself. They also know the Belters left on Ceres won’t easily turn on Marco. These folks know the mining charges, which killed several people from all sides, were Belter in origin-more than likely set by Marco Inaros and his Free Navy on their way out the door. Station administrator Nico Sanjrini is trying to keep the Belter faithful in line, while also noting there’s no telling who actually caused the disaster, and then begins leading the assembled in a rousing chant of “Beltalowda!” The camera pulls back and we realize we’re watching a news report alongside the Ceres-adjacent Mars and Earth leaders, including Admiral Kirino and UN Secretary-General Avasarala. Speaking of uh-ohs, Ceres Station is in turmoil after the water tank explosions we saw last week. ![]() you just know she’s hoping the “ strange dog” will be able to resurrect her brother like it did the dead bird. There’s a shot of the glowing blue thing orbiting Laconia, and then we see Cara wheeling Xan’s body into the forest, and, well. When you think about it like that it doesn’t fix anything, but it makes losing them hurt less.” Laconia is helping him fill that void, and Duarte’s job, he says, is to “keep us safe, or at least try.” This tender but seriously cryptic moment is interrupted by the entrance of Cortázar-the protomolecule scientist, frantically chaotic as always-who bursts in tell Duarte “my new coordination protocol returned a coherent reply pattern,” which is big enough news that the admiral hurries away to see for himself. it’s to give something up and make it sacred. He soon steers the conversation toward dealing with grief, equating Cara’s sadness over losing her brother to his own sadness over losing “the dream of Mars,” because “having something you love that you can’t protect is terrifying.” To cope, he tells her, he “needed something to make it more than just death. Duarte says he hasn’t been to Earth, either as book readers well know, he is from Mars. is there even a Paris left?-but the little girl says she’s never been to Earth, and she doesn’t care about not going there. He breaks the ice by talking to Cara about Paris-she was supposed to be heading there with her scientist parents after their time on Laconia. After all that build-up, he turns out to be. (We learn he was hit by a speeding car-perhaps driven by the same person who almost mowed over Cara back in episode one? We also learn that the culprit will almost certainly face a firing squad as punishment.) As a melancholy Cara watches over Xan’s body, she’s suddenly approached by Admiral Duarte, someone we’ve heard mentioned along the way but haven’t met until now. ![]() So far its connection to the main events of season six has been tangential, but in “Redoubt” we meet an important figure from The Expanse books in an exposition-heavy scene that takes place as Cara’s family mourns the sudden death of her little brother, Xan. By now, it’s no surprise we begin with the Laconia storyline. ![]()
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