![]() If that is the case, she tells him to evacuate the Belters, destroy the protomolecule if he can, and "get the hell out of there". She is very worried about Holden's visions of mass annihilation, and asks him to go to Ilus to evaluate the risk that the structures present and to investigate if another Eros incident is developing. Holden notes that the structures appear inactive, but Avasarala retorts that for hundreds of years humanity considered Phoebe a simple ball of ice. ![]() Holden is not very impressed until Avasarala shows him some strange, towering structures on the planet that look to be protomolecule created. Holden and Avasarala convene in her office, where she shows him that the Barbapiccola landed on a planet they've named " Ilus", the only one on which the settlers survived, and that they have started mining lithium. Avasarala receives a message that Holden has arrived, and rudely shuts Gao's ideas down before telling everyone to just do what she tells them to and then leaving the room. Avasarala believes the risks are too high until the unknown is explored and wants to prevent reckless settlers from dying, while Gao sees a solution to Earth's massive homelessness and unemployment, adding that sooner or later people will try to run the blockade and they will have to shoot their own citizens. In New York, Secretary-General of the UN Chrisjen Avasarala orders the continuation of the Sol gate blockade against opposition from UN Home Secretary Nancy Gao. She asks Amos if she can call again, to which he replies "Sure thing, Peaches". Clarissa looks thoughtfully at Amos and nods, before she has to end the call and go to therapy. Amos interrupts her, telling her to stop, and gives her some advice: "You breathe in, you breathe out, eat, shit, sleep, you take what they give you and you give nothing in return". Clarissa thanks him again, but remarks that Anna was right and that she doesn't deserve the easy way out after what she has done. She asks him about one time that he left her to work alone in an unsecured airlock, during which she could have easily spaced herself, and he offers that he'd like to have the option if he was facing a life sentence. She thanks him for the time they spent together while heading back to Earth. A call from Peaches Īmos and Alex are repairing the Roci, when Amos receives a video call from Clarissa, who is serving life in prison. ![]() Holden ends the video call when one of his dads tries to speak Belter to Naomi, which they both agree was agonizing, though Naomi is smiling warmly. Later, Holden's family has a video call with Naomi, who is on the Rocinante with Alex and Amos. Holden appears to enjoy spending time with what appears to be Miller, talking about Holden's childhood and how beautiful Earth is, but, when the Investigator begins to mechanically repeat sentences like a robot, Holden's smile fades. After Elise leaves to close up the house for an incoming storm, The Investigator appears and cajoles Holden to transport him through the Sol gate, but it is difficult due to the UN barricade. Holden replies that it's difficult to explain. Elise gifts Holden an old paper-print copy of Don Quixote for his next journey, and asks him what it is that he saw out there in space. Elise would have liked to meet Naomi in person, but Holden explains that it's difficult for her Belter body to withstand gravity, and the drugs required to do such a thing have brutal effects, which he wouldn't have asked her to go through. ![]() ![]() The next clue to the case Įight months later, Holden is home in Montana, enjoying a campfire with Elise, where they talk about Holden's family meeting Naomi. The Belters all chant "go!" at the pilot as the UN starts to shoot, destroying all the Belter ships except for the Barbapiccola, which makes it past one of the rings. Carol Chiwewe, the leader of the Belters, announces that they have not been allowed to port anywhere since the destruction of Ganymede, and that they are not going to comply. A young girl, strapped to her seat, tells her parents that she is scared, but her mother decisively tells her that they will make it, and her father concurs, holding hands tightly and stating that they will do it together.Ĭamina Drummer intervenes and warns the UN that they are not authorized to fire within the Gate Network, but she also sternly tells the Barbapiccola to comply. The Barbapiccola, full of Belter refugees, receives warnings from the UN blockade to stop and surrender or be shot at and, when the Belters refuse, the UN starts chasing after them. Many are destroyed but a small cluster of ships makes it through. At the Ring Gate, a group of desperate Belter ships try to run the UN blockade preventing entrance into the Ring Network, in order to find a habitable planet to settle in. ![]()
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