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The Expanse S2 Ep 1: Safe

SEASON

 

2 

EPISODE

 

1 

Safe






At a base on Mars, gunnery sergeant Bobbie Draper and her fellow Marines undergo training, before 

getting orders that they're about to be deployed. Bobbie takes one last look at the crater around her,

 then looks at a projection of what it will look like after 100 years of terraforming. "Someday."
Up on the Rocinante, Holden and Miller are still recovering from the radiation poisoning they got 

in the first-season finale. Holden is still having nightmares about the blue protomolecules, dreaming 

they infect him and Naomi.

Down on Earth, after speaking on television and placing the blame for the Donnager attack on Fred 

Johnson, Chrisjen Avasarala nearly gets killed in an explosion on a transport that was meant for her.

The Rocinante crew is still learning about the protomolecule. Like where did it come from, to start. 

Is it evidence of life from beyond the solar system? They decide to send it out to space to destroy 

it, but Naomi wants to use it to create a vaccine to save the people of Eros.

On Mars, Draper and her crew get their mission: to secure Phoebe Research Station, which had 

been reported by the Donnager as having been attacked. Draper is loudly hoping for payback against 

Earth, but her commanding officer, Sutton, cautions her about the grave danger of a war between Mars

 and Earth.

On the Rocinante, Miller, finally sprung from sick bay, runs into Amos in the kitchen, and Amos

 thinks they ought to work out their problems sooner rather than later. Like how Amos shot and killed 

Miller's pal Sematimba. Amos explains his good reasons, but Miller isn't having it and punches him.

 Bad idea. Amos loses it and nearly kills Miller, before Naomi shows up and makes the save.

At the UN meeting, Errinwright strongly pushes to have Earth ships head off the Martian vessels that 

are currently mobilizing (like Draper's ship currently deployed to Phoebe). Dissenting voices say 

that de-escalation is the way to go, but when a silent Chrisjen is asked, she says she concurs with 

Errinwright.

Convinced that she is being set up as a scapegoat by Errinwright, Chrisjen recruits an old friend of 

her son's, Cotyar, for her security detail … and to be her spy inside the UN.

As Naomi and Holden work outside the ship to prep the rocket that will shoot the protomolecule out 

into an abandoned asteroid field, they go off comms to have a heart-to-heart about how freaked out 

Holden seems by what they saw on Eros. Later, Holden and Naomi get out of their space suits, and 

they both look REAL good, so they jump on each other and give in to their attraction.

The ship that Draper and her crew are on fires their missiles (a surprise to the soldiers onboard),

 while back at the UN, Errinwright presses that the Earth ship, the Nathan Hale, should fire back

 at the Martians. Chrisjen speaks up, though, and says this sounds like saber-rattling, not an actual 

attack. It turns out that she's right; the Martians weren't firing on the Hale ... the missiles strike and

 destroy Phoebe Research Station.

Figuring that the Rocinante crew needs something good, Alex has cooked them a proper lasagna 

dinner. One by one, they all show up and break bread and tell stories and enjoy themselves. Even 

Miller.

Sutton explains to Draper that they didn't fire on the Hale because the Hale had them massively 

outgunned. Draper wonders if the mission to avoid a war with Earth isn't a backwards way of 

thinking.