The Expanse

The whole damn island

is just gone!

Look at the radiation profile.

It's like a reactor failure.

Yeah, for a gigantic reactor.

So if you don't like it,

what you do is you get a lawyer and you go to court!

Oh, Earth court? Mars court?

What Inner court gives justice to Belters?

Take it up with them.

'Cause we have right to be here.

You need to go back to your planet, Inners.

There's no more conversations about this.

It's not going the way I hoped.

Jim.

One of the islands on the other side of Ilus

just exploded

like a thermonuclear bomb.

We think there might be some kind

of massive fusion reactor underneath it.

The whole damn thing just blew.

Okay, that's bad. Very bad.

The first thing you're gonna feel is

the seismic quake from the explosion.

It's moving straight through the planet,

so it'll reach you in, like, an hour.

Well, we can deal with an earthquake.

That's not the problem.

There's a shockwave coming around the planet

at the speed of sound

with a tsunami behind it.

- Fuck me! - How long do we have?

The shockwave will hit in eight to ten hours

with winds of around 200 kilometers per hour.

The tsunami will be there roughly ten hours after that.

Jesus. That's gonna put, like,

a third of the continent underwater.

The settlement is gonna get wiped

clean off the map.

I'll call you right back.

Eh? What? What you say?

This isn't about sides!

It never is when your side is winning.

If you come any closer, then you're going to get it.

This has only one way that this is gonna go.

Hey! Hey!

Listen to me! Everyone listen to me!

Goddamn it, listen to me!

What?

Cap's got something important to say.

We have an emergency.

Ya, we see the blast.

Im look bad, real bad. No hoax.

If we pack the Roci

and the two light shuttles from the Edward

and the one from the Barb, we can get

everyone here off the ground

in one trip.

We'll transfer people

to the proper ships

as soon as we reach orbit.

Holden!

You brought this on us.

This is your fault.

Look, none of this is useful right now.

We almost died coming out here.

Some did.

This was our chance to make a home.

I fucking get it.

Believe me, I wish none of this had happened,

but the only thing we can do now

is leave before more people die.

Then will you support our claim?

Tell your friend the Secretary-General

that we have the right to be here.

If you do that publicly,

and pledge to help our colony,

then we'll agree to leave.

I can't speak for Avasarala, or Earth,

but I give you my word, I'll do everything I can.

Beltalowda,

gather your things.

It's time for us to go.

All right. Okay.

Yeah.

Pack it up.

You people outta here.

Oye, Jakob.

We prepping the shuttle and found something

that belong to you.

Felcia.

Oh, my God!

I thought those pashang-wala RCE

had gotten you.

What are you doing up there?

Leaving.

Leaving? Where are you going?

With the Barb,

back through the Ring.

I just wanted to go to university.

Oh, Felcia.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to scare you.

No, no, I am sorry.

We drove you to this.

Is Mama angry?

She's worried.

She's...

She's with Naomi Nagata on the Rocinante.

What?

I told her this isn't Naomi's fault.

- I wanted to leave. - No, baby...

She didn't tell me to do anything.

Baby girl.

It's nothing like that.

Papa?

Felcia,

I need to tell you some things

about what your mother has done.

It won't be easy to hear.

So that would put the blast at...

Jesus.

Fifty thousand exajoules.

This planet is gonna look very different tomorrow.

What about the other islands?

Are we expecting any more explosions?

I don't think so.

The other islands all appear to be cooling down,

so small favors.

At times like these, I'm grateful for those.

It's a much nicer view from orbit.

I'll be up there soon enough.

Hey there.

Well, well, well.

You're looking better.

The bar was low.

I need to thank you.

No, you do not.

I would have died.

Yeah, probably,

but you didn't, so anyways,

I just wanted to give you some good news.

Your daughter's okay.

Tracked her down. She's on the Barb.

Can I talk to her?

Of course you can.

Girl, open up a channel

to Felcia... Merton, right?

On the Barbapiccola. You guys want to be alone?

Oh, no, no, no. It doesn't...

All right.

Felcia! Are you all...

Papa told me what you did.

All those people who died on that shuttle.

I never meant anyone to get hurt.

- I'm not... - All your talk

about keeping the family together on Ilus,

and you're the one that ran away.

At least I didn't kill anyone first.

Hey.

Hey, Naomi, what's going on?

Reactor's down.

Looks like a bad fuel pellet...

a batch of them.

Right, I'm coming right up.

Uh-oh.

Restart's a no-go.

That makes four.

Huh.

Looks like the Barb

and the Eddy are in the same boat.

All their systems check out okay,

but as soon as they try to fire up their reactor,

zilch.

Great.

So the physics of fusion

have just stopped working.

Looks like that protomolecule is back at it again.

Fuck!

Our people have been locked in their quarters

by corporate soldiers.

They have been executed without trial,

and now we are being ordered to evacuate.

We won't stop anyone else from leaving.

They can go in peace.

But we will not be forced

from our homes again.

Since that transmission,

it's been radio silence

from the Rocinante as well as the Edward Israel.

The Barbapiccola's low on fuel,

and they only transmit occasionally

in order to conserve power, but...

Is it possible the OPA shot down

the Ring comm relay

to New Terra deliberately?

We considered that,

and formally queried

Medina Station, but...

They denied it.