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The unexpected attack has crippled the Roci and made it nigh impossible to maintain its orbit as well as the Barb’s…until Alex uses the railgun as a nice little boost. This entire scene plays out with the familiar Expanse intensity, particularly when Naomi must rescue Lucia, on the float after being knocked out of the Roci and hurling uncontrollably through space. Acting as a tugboat to keep the Barbapiccola from burning up in the planet’s atmosphere, the Roci is attacked by Murtry’s shuttle bomb, narrowly avoiding destruction in large part thanks to Fayez’s warning from the Edward Israel. But the crazy nature of these events is tempered by the more grounded nature of calamity in orbit.

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In a series steeped in realism, it’s startling to watch an animated golem of alien metal and possessed by the remnants of a man dead for years lurch towards a portal of energy. Though Holden doesn’t complete the steps laid out by Miller - he goes back to check on Amos, taking down Murtry in the process - Elvi is there to do just that. Amos gives Wei every chance to untangle herself from Murtry but her misguided loyalty gets her killed. It’s just another example of this series, giving credence to the motivations of an antagonist that, while not acceptable, can be understood… from a certain point of view. Though he’s not wrong - in some regards, he’s uncomfortably right - he sees the baser levels of humanity and not those like Holden who do what they can to hold others to a higher standard. Murtry notes this, citing that “civilization has a lag delay”, meaning that men like him are necessary to pave the way before the intellectual aspects of society can plant its seeds and grow. Like the Wild West, untamed lands, while ripe for growth, lack the structures of civilization. On the subject of killers, Murtry’s insightful conversation with Holden puts a lens on the issues that will inevitably rise up in colonization. With the way Amos has grown this season, it’s not clear whether killing Chandra will continue to push him towards finding his own conscience or set him back a few steps to the easy-going sociopath we’ve known all these years. Whether it’s for loyalty’s sake or ignorance, Chandra continues to support her boss, a decision that gets her killed when she puts Amos up against the wall, forcing him to choose to kill her or putting Holden in danger.

While Holden searches for Miller’s ‘magic bomb’, Murtry takes advantage of the confusion and makes his move to eliminate the most irksome of problems from his potential windfall: Jim Holden. Holden meets the ‘real’ Miller for the first time since arriving on Ilus. Though it’s not our first peek at the sophistication of the Builders (the protomolecule and the Venus incident did that), it’s a tangible remnant of a long-dead civilization that makes you wonder just what else is out there.

What follows is a trippy ride through the core of the planet and the massive structures built belowground.

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Free of his “jailer”, Miller works with Holden to deactivate the Builders’ tech on Ilus and help Holden and the other humans a chance to survive. The hat-less version is the real Miller who’s finally broken away from the Builders’ control. As it turns out, the hat-wearing version was not the Miller Holden knew, rather it was the ‘Investigator’, a part of the detective commandeered by the protomolecule. After an extended absence, Miller returns in “Saeculum”, giving Holden some heavy news while Naomi, Alex, and Lucia have to face their own battle of survival on the Roci as the ever devious Murtry tries to take advantage of everyone’s situational distractions.Ĭuriously enough, the first thing Holden notices about Miller-aside from the banshee-like scream we left off in “The One-Eyed Man”-is his missing hat.

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