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Hey, man, I'm Kevin Smith,

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and today I wanna tell you
all about "The Expanse."

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Now, it's a sci-fi show

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that's written by some of the
smartest people out there, man,

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so it makes sense that they hired
a very not smart person

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to come in and recap it for you
in layman's terms.

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Now this show is emotional.
It's full of action...

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Alex, go around the asteroid.
Run 'em, now!

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...and super scientifically accurate.

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So when I was asked to recap
the first three seasons,

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I said I'm only gonna do it

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if I can get with the same
high-caliber effects

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that they use on the show.

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You guys are gonna make me look
like I'm in the show, right?

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You're gonna put in the effects?

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Like I'm not just standing
on a green screen for nothing, correct?

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Yeah, we'll add some graphics.

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Some. All right.

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Just... replace the green.

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I don't wanna look like an asshole here.

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So anyway, using the same effects
that they use on the show,

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this is gonna allow me to
conjure hyper-realistic models.

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Look at that: a planet, asteroids,
and even zero G.

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Bring on the juice!

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So strap in.

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Spoilers, just putting that out there.

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All right, man, you got three factions.

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You got Earth, Mars, and the Belters.

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Now first let's talk about Earth.

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Earth you've probably heard of,

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but in the future, shit has changed, man!

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Earth is kind of a bummer due to things
like climate change and overpopulation,

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so they start colonizing other planets
for their resources and their land.

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And they're all governed
by a single government,

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a 'roided up version
of the United Nations.

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So a bunch of engineers, they go to Mars
to make it humanity's second home.

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It's like a fixer-upper.

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But you know, the solar system
is just really gentrifying at this point.

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They advance technologically,
building cool spaceships,

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and decide they should secede from Earth,

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becoming their own sovereign planet.

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Shit.

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Now after that, you got yourself
the Belters, man.

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They live in the asteroid belt,
hence the name.

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They got their own special language.

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They got badass helmets.

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They got obligatory neck tattoos.
They are so metal!

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Man, when you see 'em it's like...

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Helmet, helmet.

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But Belters have it pretty rough.

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Water is way scarce,
so they're all thirsty as hell,

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and most live in poverty,

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while the fruits of their labor are
dragged back to Earth or Mars.

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So a bunch of Belters are
like, fuck this...

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This some real bullshit.

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...and form the Outer Planetary Alliance,
or the OPA, to battle inequality.

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You and I both want the same thing:
to do right by our people.

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But now it's devolved
into a wishy-washy network

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of criminals and fucking terrorists.

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So, yeah, shit is volatile.

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One spark could ignite
an interplanetary war

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between Earth, Mars, and the Belt.

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Season 1.

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Okay, this guy, Joe Miller,
he's a Belter detective.

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And you know he's a detective

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because look at the hat. See the hat?

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What's the deal with the hat?

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Now who's Joe Miller?

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Here you go.

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So he agrees to track down
a missing girl named Julie Mao

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for her very rich parents.

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Say no more.

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But in New York, Chrisjen Avasarala, U.N.
bigwig and diplomacy ninja...

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With all due respect, madam,
where are you going with this?

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Wherever I goddamn like.

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She interrogates an OPA operative
about contraband stealth technology.

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What was it for?

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Meanwhile, an ice hauler...

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that's a ship that hauls
ice, go figure...

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named the Canterbury, gets blown up...

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...by a mysterious stealth ship,

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stranding a bunch of
important characters, man:

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the inconveniently moral
Executive Officer Jim Holden...

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...genius engineer, Naomi Nagata...

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I didn't exactly sign on
to the Cant to make friends.

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Why did you sign on?

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So I wouldn't have to have
conversations like this one.

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...space cowboy, Alex Kamal...

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I just decided to come on down
and rescue y'all.

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...and pragmatic mechanic, Amos Burton.

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There you go. Now you just walk around
like you're in pumps.

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How do you know
what it's like to walk in pumps?

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I didn't always work in space.

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They're rescued by Fred Johnson,
the leader of the OPA.

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I don't know who you are.

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You have my solemn promise
that you will not be harmed.

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He's building a generation ship
for the Mormons.

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There are Mormons in the future!

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So it's like floating Space-Utah.

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The crew of four agrees to work
with Johnson and the OPA,

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but this makes them targets for the U.N.

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So, to literally fly under the radar,

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they name their new ride the Rocinante,

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which is Spanish for
inconspicuous spaceship.

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The Roci crew discovers the stealth ship
that blew up their OG ice hauler

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and finds its reactor covered
in some weird-ass goo,

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which is called the protomolecule.

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Also, one of its shuttles is missing.
Say what?

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Somebody got away.

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A distress call makes it seem like
it's some guy named Lionel Polanski.

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Whoever was on this ship
was headed to Eros.

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If this Lionel Polanski is gonna be
anywhere, it's gonna be there.

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The Rocinante crew heads to Eros,

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an asteroid in the Belt,
to find this Polanski guy.

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While tracking Polanski,

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Holden and his team
are ambushed by U.N. Black Ops.

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It's a firefight!

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Things look really bad, man,
but they're rescued by...

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You guessed it...

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the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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Shit just follow you around,
don't it, kid?

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I mean, Detective Miller...

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who has figured out
that Polanski is Julie Mao!

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Together they find Julie dead.

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It seems like she's been infected
by the protomolecule

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from the stealth ship.

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Miller and the Roci crew go,
"Aw, rats," and they just leave.

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A group loyal to Julie's father
finds her body,

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and because he's like dad of the year,

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they harvest her infected blood

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and place the whole asteroid on lockdown

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and infect its population
with the protomolecule.

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Aw, shit!

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Back on Earth, Avasarala
works her diplomatic magic

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to figure out what the hell
is goin' on, man?

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Season 1 ends with Mao
and company turning Eros

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into the most infected thing ever, man,

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and the crew barely escapes
with their lives.

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Holy shit, that's intense, man.
I need a minute.

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Can I get a coffee, in zero-G?

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Cover me!

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Okay now, in Season 2,
the Cold War heats up,

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despite Avasarala's best efforts.

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The Roci crew, the good guys,

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decide someone should do something
about protomolecule-infected Eros.

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Space honor demands it!

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Doing nothing is just as bad
as doing the wrong thing.

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But how do you neutralize
an entire infected asteroid, man?

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Why, you'd need to plant
demolition charges

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to implode the asteroid,
then push it into the Sun,

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with some kind of massive ship
the size of...

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...I don't know, Space-Utah?

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But when Miller goes down
to place the charges,

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one gets damaged, man.

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Get to cover immediately!

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Goofin' the whole dang plan.

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Miller nobly decides
to make a hero's sacrifice

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and stay on Eros to ensure
the charges go off as planned.

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He bravely watches as Space-Utah
approaches and then...

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...glides right by.

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What the hell just happened?

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Except Holden and the crew confirm
that Eros somehow maneuvered

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to avoid the impact. The fuck?

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And now, infected-ass Eros
is on a collision course, with what?

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- You guessed it.
- With Earth.

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So they shoot missiles at it, man,
but it goes stealth.

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Yes, an asteroid infected with space goo
has made itself stealth.

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- Earth is...
- More or less fucked.

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Or is it? Because Miller decides
to blow Eros up from the inside.

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He carries his bomb to the core,

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gets ready to meet his maker,
and discovers what?

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Julie?

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Julie Mao, holy crap!

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What the fuck?

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So Miller has one of those
heart-to-infected-hearts with proto-Julie,

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convincing her to direct Eros
away from the Earth

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toward uninhabited Venus. Fuck Venus!

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Damn!

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Okay, with Miller and
the protomolecule destroyed,

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the Roci crew launches the final
remaining protomolecule sample

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- into the sun.
- It's done.

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And that's the end of that.

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Maybe.

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Meanwhile, on Jupiter's moon Ganymede,

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U.N. and Mars communications
inexplicably go dead...

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...just like that.
Each side blames the other,

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and the situation devolves
into a full-fledged battle, man.

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After the battle, a Martian Marine
named Bobbie Draper,

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the number one badass,

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awakens to find her entire team
massacred...

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and looming over her
is a goddamn proto-monster, man!

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Never good!

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While everyone blames each other
for this clusterfuck,

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the Roci crew learns of
a protomolecule signal

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that came from Ganymede.

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There's a protomolecule
on Ganymede station.

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We go there, find it, and shut it down.

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Information that would have been helpful
before the brutal massacre of thousands.

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Yeah.

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Holden sneaks into Ganymede
and makes a huge discovery, man.

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Mao and his evil buddy, Dr. Strickland,

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are infecting Belter children
with the protomolecule,

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to create human-proto hybrids.

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Now that's a villain, man! Bravo!

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For screenwriting,
not for his activities, man.

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Boo on that.

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Avasarala confronts Mao,

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and Mao asks her to meet him on the ship.

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Everyone knows it's a trap, man.

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This guy knows it's a trap.

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This guy knows it's a trap.

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Hell, this guy knows it's a trap.

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But she goes anyway
and takes Draper with her.

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Okay, the Roci crew is psyched
to get the hell out of Ganymede,

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until they discover
there's a proto-monster

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stowed away in their cargo hold.

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What the fuck is that?

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Aw, shit!

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Now the crew realizes
that the proto-monster

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feeds off radiation, man,

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so they lure it out into space

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by exposing the core
of a nuclear warhead,

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as you do, and they roast it!

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Fry!

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Avasarala's meeting with Mao
goes about as well as expected.

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Get down!

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But she's saved by Draper
in her awesome battle suit.

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If anyone else but me
comes through that door,

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you put them on the ground.

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Naomi confesses to Holden

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that she never destroyed
the protomolecule sample.

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She faked the launch...

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...and gave the sample to the OPA

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to level the playing field
between Earth and Mars.

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What did you do?

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I gave the protomolecule to Fred Johnson.

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Maybe they should teach
the ship engineers about hubris.

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Quick timeout!

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Can I stretch or something?

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Like, my mouth is tired.

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All right, now in Season 3...

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one of the proto-infected children
tells Mao and Dr. Strickland

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the work on Venus is almost complete.

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What are you building?

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Work, finish soon, soon, soon!

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Meanwhile, the OPA
is officially recognized

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as the legitimate government
of the Belters.

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Johnson makes his second in command,

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the incredibly badass Camina Drummer,

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the captain of their new flagship,
the Behemoth,

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which is actually Space-Utah
with a major upgrade.

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AKA, it's got guns now.

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Meanwhile on Venus, a humongous
protomolecule structure

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lifts out of the crater...

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...flies out into space...

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...and settles past Uranus.

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That is some sweet parkin' job.

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And everyone's all like...

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- What?
- The fuck is that?

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There, it unfurls and forms
a gigantic glowing ring called...

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...the Ring.

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Kinda makes me want a donut.

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Holden starts having visions
of our old hero, Miller.

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He's back, man! Miller calls
himself the Investigator now.

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Which is confusing, because he still
has the same detective hat.

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Mao's other daughter,

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sick of not being talked about
for like two full seasons,

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frames the Roci crew
for destroying a science ship.

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What in God's name have you been doing?

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I have to do this.

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Belters are the only legitimate
benefactors of the Ring.

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- What the fuck did you do?
- It's not me, Alex.

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This makes them the Nickelback
of the galaxy,

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and tons of missiles are fired at them.

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In a desperate move,
the Roci heads into the Ring,

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even though it's super dangerous.

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This is our only way out.

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The only other time a ship entered it,

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the pilot got turned
into a salty pudding.

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But Investigator Miller tells Holden
they'll be fine, man...

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...if they aren't going too fast.

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Time warps as they approach the Ring,

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bringing the missile behind them
to a near standstill as they enter.

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So now everybody heads into the Ring...
Mars, Earth, and the OPA...

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because the only force
stronger than gravity...

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...is FOMO, man.

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There's only so much booze
and fuckin' you can buy.

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Holden heads to the station
at the center of the Ring

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to investigate what the hell
is goin' on, man.

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He gets fired on
by Martian Black Ops Teams,

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which the station registers as a threat.

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And as a safety measure,

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The Ring slows everybody down
even further.

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Classic Space Ring.

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Now that's great for Holden,

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but bad for a bunch
of people on the ships

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not wearing their seat belts,

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including Drummer, who gets pinned
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with her first officer.

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She takes the bulk of the weight
so someone could command the ship.

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That someone is Ashford,

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which sucks for reasons
we're gonna learn about in a second.

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Holden explains
what he learned in a vision,

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that the Ring was created
by a mysterious civilization,

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as a sort of celestial freeway.

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But then this mysterious civilization
was wiped out by something.

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The Ring doesn't mean them any harm.

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But Ashford takes this as cause
for a preemptive strike

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because he's the kind of guy
who gets bit by a dog

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and then nukes a petting zoo.

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Anyway, it looks like the station

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is about to wipe out
the whole solar system.

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The station will kill
everyone and everything

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on both sides of the Ring.

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Ashford thinks they just haven't
blown it up good enough yet.

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He fires off a laser, but it misses.

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And right before the station
kills everybody in the system,

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Mao's other daughter swoops in
and saves the day...

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...powering down Ashford's ship

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and winning for team "Let's not
piss off this giant Ring thing."

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The station decides humans
aren't a threat to it at all,

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'cause, yeah we're mostly
a threat to ourselves.

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Guess it worked.

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The station then reactivates
the alien transit network,

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bringing 1,300 Rings online.

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But, and I ask this in the most
scientific way possible,

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what the fuck is on the other side
of those Rings, man?

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Is it whatever killed the aliens?

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Can the Roci crew trust
their new friends?

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And will Avasarala make a good
secretary-general of the U.N.?

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I mean, yeah, probably.

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That one isn't really
such a mystery, man.

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Let's give them a push.

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- Hey, hey!
- What did you do?

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Oh, boy! There it is.

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That's barely scratching the surface

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of the first three seasons
of "The Expanse."

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So now you're ready
to jump into Season 4,

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which drops on Amazon Prime Video
on Friday, December 13th, man.

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Which, not gonna lie...

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the date doesn't sound great
for the Roci crew.

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But check out this scene
which has a real surprise.

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You'll see what I'm saying.

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You know what, guys? I'm good.
I'm going back in the ship.