After the Deimos attack she’s ready for war but her crew gets sent out to protect the food supply, farm duty. So, he’s crazy, right?Īlso missing above is my girl Draper, the Martian Marine Sergeant. He claims to need salvation but instead goes to Fred Johnson with a plan to return to Eros, and to destroy it using the Navoo, the ship Tycho Station is building for the Mormons. He did a little soul-searching brought him to the Mormon Temple. Miller is missing from the recap above but he made some moves this week. Questions, Comments, and Concerns from this week’s episode of The Expanse: We might not know what the Protomolecule is building on Eros, but I do know that this show is building up to one hell of a climax. The sounds are the Protomolecule counting down. The interrogators play a sound recording from Eros for Cortazar and he gets all kinds of amped, as if he can understand the noises. The consequences of this are as of yet, unclear. It also, evidently, preserves parts the host it infects. Depriving the Protomolecule of electricity starves it. That’s why they found it frozen around the reactor on the Anubis, why Julie Mao smashed all the electronics in her motel room. At one point Cortazar says the dead are in fact, “not dead, becoming.” WHAT? Apparently the Protomolecule is some type of seed crystal that feeds on energy.
I had to pay really close attention to the phrasing of the dialogue, which was fascinating and I’m falling in love with The Expanse writing team. It works like a charm and suddenly we get all kinds of information about the Protomolecule. Coincidence? Conspiracy.Īmos excites Cortazar by offering twisted details of Julie Mao’s death, the deaths of the people on the Anubis, and on Eros. They also learned that all the scientists had previously worked for Earth-based company Protogen. They found he had this in common with all the other scientists working on the project. Cortazar’s brain has been altered by a magnet rendering him incapable of empathy. We also learn the reason for this detached behavior. After observing his behavior, he makes a telling comparison between Cortazar and a pedophile, changing the interrogation team’s tactics. Then Amos of all people provides a little insight. Their initial interrogation gets them nowhere. Plus, they detained another scientist, Cortazar, who could effectively stand in for Dresden by providing the same information or help formulate a vaccine.īringing Cortazar into the mix took everything up a notch. Especially his relationship with Naomi because even she thinks he’s going a little overboard on this one. Giphy.Įlsewhere, Holden is super pissed at Miller for shooting Dresden and it’s complicating a lot of his relationships. Chrisjen receives a message containing the coordinates of a stealth ship, but it isn’t clear if Johnson is the sender. What she really needs is some evidence this Big Bad exists.įred Johnson receives her message and wants to help, even though if the OPA found out they would probably kill him. She wants him to help prevent an all-out war, which she recognizes is the best way to protect everyone from the Big Bad that’s pulling strings. She sends him a sweet little video message, casually committing some light treason, admitting that she’s been lying to protect herself, a shield for whatever corruption is happening in the government. Chrisjen is skeptical about Mars’ lack of response to their attack, either diplomatically or militarily so she decides to go ahead with her plan to contact Fred Johnson and ask for his help. The political situation on Earth is, thankfully, becoming a little clearer. But you know, is also basically, a declaration of war. Earth claims it as a just retaliation for the attack Mars carried out last week. We kicked off with Earth’s destruction of Mars’ moon, Deimos, in an attack that killed 17. We left the last episode in a huge mess containing the fallout of the attack on Eros and the raid on the satellite/data center, Earth and Mars at each others throats after Mars destroyed Phoebe Station, and the Belters and the OPA struggling to keep disparate factions together in support of a common goal. This week on The Expanse, tensions were, if possible, even higher. The Expanse recap: Season 2, Episode 3, “Static”, Aired Feb.