In today's episode Nicky P and Eric discuss Fight Or Flight, episode One of season Three of the expanse with guest Lizzie of the Peace Freqs Podcast. The episode opens with the crew of the Roci cleaning the remains of protomolecule off the ship. The space age technology they use, I wish I had, but it isn’t perfect and the camera leaves a hint of an open thread left to gestate. With the ship cleaned repairs are undertaken and a new name, the Pinus Contorta, is assumed to wait out the escalation of tensions between Earth and Mars as inconspicuously as possible. Tensions however give way to war as Errinwright uses the pretense of Mars blaming Earth for the assassination of defense minister Korshunov. You might remember him as the guy Errinwright poisoned. Some people just love treachery. Did you forget about Venus? Neither did anyone on the show. It’s just hovering in the background as an unknown. Nobody could possibly use that to pump up fear and help push the war drums could they? Back on the Roci, Naomi is having a rough go of it. The crew feels betrayed at her both saving a sample of the protomolecule and giving it to Fred Johnson behind their backs. She tries to convince them that Tycho Station is their best option to save themselves but is met with cold dismissal as her political capital is fully depleted for the first time in the show. Holden, however, has woken from his Captain Ahab phase and is beginning to carry the weight of the guilt he has for using Prax to hunt the protomolecule. He vows that from now on finding Mei is top priority and suggests that they head toward a faint protomolecule signal on IO. Meanwhile at Tycho Station Fred Johnson is already working to turn his newfound bargaining position into a play for the United Belt he so desires. He tries to bring in Anderson Dawes and the scientist he pilfered from Johnson earlier to work together against their common enemies. Johnson also begins work on the retrieval of the Nauvoo, which he intends on turning into the the flagship of a belter navy. In one more great act of Treachery Errinwright uses the info Avasarala had on him to frame her for what happened on Eros. He passes her off as the one working with Mao, with her own intel as her undoing. In an effort to further bury the evidence he fires missiles at Mao’s ship where she was trying to bring him in from the cold to kill her. Mao’s people make it off the ship leaving Bobbie, Avasarala, Cotyar and some personel to die on the yacht. Bobbie manages to convince one of these employees, Theo, to help them get Errinwright‘s admission of guilt off the ship’s system before it’s blown to bits. Fight or Flight begins the season that gets the show cancelled from SyFy. It’s also the season that solidifies a core audience that with a twitter campaign convinced Jeff Bezos to pick up the property for Amazon Prime Video. We are all glad for that.
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