Holden plays on the Roccinante’s appearance to pretend he’s a Martian patrol vessel and orders the ship of doctors away. There’s a well-meaning aid ship already at Eros, just wanting to help the people trapped there, and completely unaware of what danger they’re in from the protomolecule that has consumed the station’s inhabitants. It’s a reminder of how far he’s come, and how little he has left to live for – at the moment, there’s only the next mission, and if this is the last one, then why not let Diogo get away?įor Holden, it’s more complicated. Due to an accident, someone needs to stay behind on the station to hold down a button to prevent it exploding early – Miller volunteers. He and the young kid he has already begun bonding with, Diogo (Andrew Rotillo) (who is clearly going to be cannon fodder at some point, though not today) are among a group of belters who lead an advance team to Eros to lay explosives ahead of the battering ram arriving. For Miller, this is fairly straightforward. And Miller needs a gunship, which means he and Holden (Steven Strait) need to patch up their differences long enough to work together.Įmotionally, the episode is structured around both Miller and Holden – two men willing to put everything on the line in the service of the bigger picture – being forced to confront just how far they’ll go. This is an all-or-nothing gesture, but ‘the right thing to do’. Coleman) agrees to the plan despite knowing it’ll destroy his life is telling. The show has done well to establish the significance of this ship – the biggest thing ever built, the culmination of decades of planning – and the fact that Fred Johnson (Chad L. Miller’s (Thomas Jane) plan is a simple and audacious one – to use the Mormons’ enormous spaceship as a battering ram to plough into the infected Eros station and destroy the whole thing, knocking it into the sun. He’s topped it! That’s off the table and into someone’s pint glass.
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