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Time is short, and I'll be brief.

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Errinwright appears in a recorded video message, played back on a wall monitor aboard the Guanshiyin. He's seated at his desk, with flags and the UN logo visible behind him. His expression is serious.
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Oye, Beltalowda. Listen up!

This is your Captain, and this is your ship. This is your moment.

You might think that you're scared, but you're not. That isn't fear. That's your sharpness. That's your power.

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Drummer's arm is raised in defiance, her mouth open wide in a cheer of solidarity with her crew and all Beltalowda after delivering a rousing speech as they prepare to go through the Sol Ring for the first time.
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Blood's on the wall, Beratnas, and we just rise up! We gonna rise up!

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Joe Miller, in riot gear, riles up the Belters again Protogen's thugs on Eros.
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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What you did today was hard. When you’re hurt, hurting others is easy. It takes strength to choose not to.

When life has not treated you with kindness, doing the right thing anyway always takes strength...
...when you can even tell what the right thing is.

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Flashback scene to Lydia and a young Amos, sitting on a dock in Baltimore.
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Miller: So just look around for anything that seems out of place.

Holden: I think I got it.

Miller: Well, don't keep it to yourself. What's it look like?

Holden: The eye of an angry god.

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James Holden, facing the camera, looks to his left at... something. A spherical darkness, surrounded by golden fire, that is suspended in the middle of the room.
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Holden: Just wait here.

Naomi: No chance.

Amos: Hell no.

Prax: No fucking way.

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A scene from The Expanse, set on Ganymede Station. Holden and Amos are in the foreground, while Prax and Naomi are slightly behind them as they advance on the door to the next compartment (not visible in the shot). They expect it to be dangerous, and Holden wants everyone to wait until it's safe. That's not gonna fucking happen.
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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All right go ahead. Take your shot.

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Screen shot from The Expanse. Amos and Alex are in the galley of the Rocinante. Amos is giving Alex wet willy.
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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It used to be funnier.

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In this frame from The Expanse, Admiral Delgado is seated in his office on Luna. Avasarala stands to his right. Now that the terrible and unfunny joke that's been hanging unfinished most of the season has finally reached its punchline, they clink glasses and take a drink.
September 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I get by.

Blockers every morning. Food through a slot in the door. Half-hour walk around the yard. Therapy once a week. These four walls.

Breathe in. Breathe out. Eat. Shit. Sleep. Take what they give. Give nothing in return.

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Close-up shot of Clarissa from The Expanse, seated in what looks like a med bay chair in her prison cell. She's being given strong medication to inhibit the use of her bio mods, and looks exhausted.
September 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Now unless you think I got a pistol up my ass, we both can agree I’m unarmed.

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Amos Burton, standing in the snow in his undies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The Bobblehead: Anna! What happened?

Anna: Your MPs were handing them out to the protestors.

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Anna faces the camera in this screen shot from The Expanse. She has an injury on her forehead, partially obscured by her hair.
August 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Avasarala: I'm a member of Parliament, not your favorite stripper.

Amos: You could be both.

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Left panel: Christian Avasarala gazing down at Amos in her office on Luna, looking unamused at being called 'Chrissie'. Right panel: The opposite angle, showing Amos looking up at Chrissie from a chair, accepting a drink from her.
August 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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You're not finished yet.

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In a scene from The Expanse, a big Belter named Champa has his back to the camera in the foreground. Facing us is Naomi. Champa has his hands on her shoulders as he gently but firmly pushes her back into the airlock of the Weeping Somnambulist. Having heeded her plea to help save 52 people from the dying Ganymede Station, he gives her his seat, sacrificing himself to let her live.
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Bobbie: You were low. I wasn’t listening. I’m a shitty friend.

Alex: Amos says worse than that five times a week, and I know he’ll take a bullet for me.

Bobbie: I’m pretty sure I already have.

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Bobbie Draper admits to being a shitty friend, while continuing to be a shitty friend, but also taking No Days Off.
August 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Holden: We need to give the ship a new name to complete the override.

Alex: Screamin' Firehawk.

Holden: Yeah, let's advertise that we're a gun ship.

Alex: Flyin' Alamo.

Holden: No.

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From left to right: Alex, Amos, Naomi and Holden stand on the bridge of the MCRN Tachi, considering a new name for their salvaged ship. Alex's emphatically suggests some bad ideas, while Amos looks on disapprovingly.
August 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I don't wanna beat the shit out of you if you're gimpy.

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Amos and Murtry sit and star at each other across a table on the Rocinante. Amos is ready to visit his personal brand of justice on Murtry, but had to wait until his injuries healed. The waiting is over.
August 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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One day, I woke up, and Mouse was laying on her side, panting, eyes glazed over. My mum told me she was dying and tried to take her away, but I demanded that I stayed with her until she passed. I sobbed for hours.

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Bobbie Draper, from The Expanse, is seen up close in this screen shot. Her expression is sad as she recalls her past grief over the loss of things she loved, and how she came out of it.
July 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Yam seng

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Cyn, Karal and Naomi toast in a bar on Ceres. Cyn looks like he means it, Naomi joins in and smiles hopefully, and Karal's face leaves no doubt that she hates Naomi and every moment of being forced to drink with her.
June 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Korshunov: With all due respect, madam, where are you going with this?

Avasarala: Wherever I goddamn like.

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Chrisjen Avasarala is seated at a long negotiating table. A nameplate to her left identifies her and her position as Deputy Undersecretary. She is in the midst of questioning Roberta Draper about her role in the Ganymede incident. Avasarala's response to the Martian Minister of Defense leaves no doubt that he can fuck right off with his objections to what questions she chooses to ask.
June 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This place was a shithole before it was underwater. It’s not gonna get any better.

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Screen shot from The Expanse. Amos tells Erich (facing away from the camera, in the foreground) how it is on the rooftop of a building as Peaches looks on.
June 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I am Camina Drummer. You respect my claim, or you die and become a story I tell the next captain.

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Camina Drummer, on the bridge of the Dewalt, is taking no shit from pirates who don't give her what she's owed.
June 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Citizens of the Belt, beratnas, rise up now in joy and glorious resolve.

This day is ours. Tomorrow is ours. The future of humanity is ours.

Today and forevermore... we are free.

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Screen shot from The Expanse. Marco Inaros stands on the bridge of the Pella at the conclusion of his system-wide transmission claiming responsibility for the attacks on Earth and Mars. He leans onto his hands, which grip the railing in front of him but are not seen in his outgoing broadcast, and his face shows intensity as he finishes the last line of his speech.
June 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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It's pronounced "Anoobis". Egyptian God of the dead.

(Amos stares)
(long pause)

"ANN-you-bis" works, too.

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Screen shot from The Expanse. Kenzo is doing the "well acktually" thing to correct Amos on the pronunciation of Anubis, the name of the derelict ship they've boarded. He's in a Tycho vac suit on the bridge. A light inside the suit illuminates his face and his lips form an O shape as he enunciates the long U.
June 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Amos: People like us... the things we do, it’s not just on us. This world is messed up and it can mess you up. I was lucky. I had somebody to help me.
Peaches: Did you come here... to help me?
Amos: I guess I did.
Peaches: You can’t. No one can. Not every stain comes out.

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Screen shot from The Expanse. Close-up of Amos as he listens to Clarissa Mao's despair over what she's done and what her future will be.
May 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM