Avasarala goes off on Errinwright, saying that she will threaten to ruin Mao's family if they don't bring him forward. She says they need to know what Mao knows and cut a deal with him. But he voices over about his discovery and how it would allow Mars to finally break free of its colonial limitations, travel out into space, mine the asteroids, and colonize the Belt.Īvasarala finally confronts Errinwright about Mao. The torpedo's rocket exhaust is shown glowing briefly without leaving its location.ġ37 years ago, Epstein is about to die - of a stroke, most likely. Naomi shows Holden a simulated launch of the torpedo containing the Protomolcule however, unbeknownst to Holden, the torpedo remains dormant, inactive and immobile. Ultimately, Naomi drops her objections and concedes to Holden and Amos that they should eliminate it. Alex says they should give it to Mars, which earns him a heap of side-eye from Naomi. Later, the Roci crew debates whether they should destroy their protomolecule sample. Not the protomolecule stuff just how an Earther/OPA member and a Belter came together to save humanity. She thinks they should tell the people everything about what Miller and Julie did on Eros. Things are looking grim.Īfter Fred tells Holden that he's going to need to pick a side as things escalate, Naomi goes to see Fred as well. This starts a brawl, but Amos shows up out of nowhere and beats the ex down.ġ37 years ago: Epstein makes a last-ditch effort to signal his wife, but he can't reach the signaling device. Fred counters that the nukes can be good bargaining chips, and as for the protomolecule, the safest thing they can do is keep Earth and Mars in the dark.Īt the Blauwe Blome bar, Alex, enjoying his hero status, chats up a lady but runs afoul of her jealous ex. Holden thinks they ought to jettison the missiles and tell Earth and Mars about the protomolecule. Fred doesn't so much see it as a problem because he's got them. Holden and Naomi speak to Fred Johnson about the 30 missing nukes. They see that Diogo has already begun evangelizing Miller as the hero to the Belter masses. On Tycho Station, the Roci crew gets a heroes' welcome. He offers to be her eyes and ears there if she does. He asks Chrisjen to find a way to get him onto that transport to Venus. The two of them seem to have some kind of romantic history, but she shuts that down quickly. Michael Iturbi, who was present at the earlier UN meeting. He tries to reach the panel to turn off the burners, but he can't.Īvasarala has dinner with Dr. Where are they now? They see that they've been caught by a giant space net.ġ37 years ago, Epstein's fuel-burning breakthrough was great for mankind but kind of terrible for him, as he's now speeding off into space at g-forces that will surely kill him. Amos is surprisingly cool with all of this.Īlex then pulls Holden aside to point out that 30 of the nukes that Earth sent have not been shut down. After a pregnant pause, Amos and Alex erupt into laughter and say that Alex lost the bet. Holden and Naomi stand in front of the rest of the Rocinante crew and make the big announcement that they're seeing each other. Later, he and Naomi continue to debate over whether or not they should destroy their sample of the protomolecule. Holden sends a message home to his mother telling her he's okay and how proud he is of his crew (especially Naomi). Whatever it is, Janus says, Eros represents the "greatest technological leap since the Epstein drive." They plan to send a team to Venus to investigate. Colonel Janus thinks it was a test of a new Martian fuel drive, a notion that Avasarala scoffs at. Narrating the flashback, Epstein says his discovery changed everything.īack in the present, the UN Security Council is grappling with what Eros has done. Initially, just trying to marginally improve fuel efficiency, Epstein hits the drive button and immediately begins travelling far faster than he ever imagined. 137 years ago, back when Mars was just a colony under UN control, an engineer named Solomon Epstein was tinkering with the jalopy of a space ship that he owned.
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