The Expanse (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Critical Mass - full transcript

Everything going on out there, all this shit storm that we're in,
it's all got to do with her, Julie Mao.
You know that memory crypt that we took out of that stiff?
Yeah? All right. Go 3-D.
It had an unregistered flight path for a ship called the Anubis.
The Anubis left Phoebe Research Station,
and it was headed for Eros, okay?
Now, I'm thinking, hmm, maybe something's being transported on this ship.
I'm thinking Julie's ship was sent out to intercept it.
And then, suddenly ships start blowing up...
The Canterbury, the Donnager... It's got to be connected.
What do you think is on this Anubis?
Something. Something worth spilling a lot of blood over.
Ladar's really flaky.
Ah, scopes on this bucket suck.
It's nothing bigger than a light transport,
nothing we can't handle, gova gut.
I'm not worried.
You gonna lock up from the adrenaline.
I know how to fly.
Easy. I'm not trying to pet you the wrong way.
I'm trying to help.
I'm sorry. It's just been a long time coming. A long fight to get here.
If I had your kind of money, I'd be sitting
in a penthouse at the Shangri-La... It's my father's money.
I see. And that's his weapon on that ship.
Belters need to know what it is, so it can't be used against us.
Us?
You are a true believer.
That she is...
You may not share our brittle bones,
but you're definitely one of us, Beltalowda.
I saw you race once.
Beautiful ship. The, uh... Razorback.
Hot ship. Hotter pilot.
Prepare to intercept.
Matching course and speed.
Boarding team check, komang gutegow?
Ya, bosmang, grappling team, standing by.
Soon as hooks are in, we drop charges, breach,
subdue crew, grab the cargo then.
Mowsh ando natet, beratnas, they're scientists, not soldiers.
They work for my father. They'll fight.
Where did that come from?
That's the Anubis.
That's a gunship.
Breaching pod, amidships!
Seal all compartments! All hands! We're being boarded!
Stinking Belters. Always trying to take what isn't yours.
How'd you know we'd be here? How?
Hands off that one. She's a complication.
Put her in here until I figure out what to do with her.
Ma'am, the distress beacon
has been planted on the Scopuli.
Canterbury should be picking it up soon.
Let's hope they take the bait.
The sooner we get Earth and Mars at each other's throats,
the sooner we get their eyes off Eros.
Does it feel hot in here to you?
No.
Well, I'm hot. Check climate control and make it cooler.
Yes, ma'am.
This is Lionel Polanski. I repeat, Lionel Polanski.
The crew is dead.
I'm being held captive, I'm alone.
Please help me. Somebody come and get me.
Please! Somebody help!
Somebody help, please!
All hands to action stations!
Prepare to fire.
Please! Get me out of here.
This is Lionel Polanski. Mission has failed.
Scopuli has been lost.
I'm aboard the Anubis, alone.
There's something in the reactor.
It looks like it consumed everyone else.
If it's a bio-weapon, I've never seen anything like it.
I have to get off this ship.
I'll set up an O.P.A. locator beacon,
and park it where no one else can find it.
But I just have to leave.
Eros station is within range of the Anubis shuttle.
I'll be there, waiting for you.
Miller, you asshole. Long time.
How they swinging? So, listen, that ship you were looking for...
Anubis, whatever, it never showed up here.
But the funny thing is, a short-range shuttle from that ship did.
Anubis 1-A is still here on Eros, racking up dock fees.
Kinda interested to know what's in this for you, amigo.
I tried...
I tried to keep a low profile,
but it wasn't as easy as I hoped.
I had to get off the streets.
I left a trail of bread crumbs.
A way for you to find me.
And I waited...
And I waited...
Dawes...
You didn't even answer.
Why didn't you come?
You have every right to be angry.
You should be angry.
Please Mummy, don't let him sell the Razorback.
I want to see it again.
See you...
Proud of me...
When I come home...
Julie?
Ugh! God, what's that smell?
Sweat, sick.
Nobody touch anything.
Wait. Wait!
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Don't touch her.
It could be contagious.
Come on, boys, we gotta go.
Cavalry's on its way.
If he wants to stay, let him.
There's nothing you can do for her.
And if you stay here, you'll never find out who did this to her.
Drop 'em!
Not happening.
Easy.
Jesus, Miller.
What the hell you got yourself into?
Ain't no way I can clean all this up.
You got that right. We're not asking you to do anything.
We're just gonna walk out of here real easy. We didn't see each other.
Look, you stay right where you are!
Miller, you tell me what the hell is going on here.
She's gone.
What, the girl?
Room 22. Don't touch anything in there.
Miller.
Just lay low.
Don't leave this station till we talk.
Let's keep moving.
We need to find out what he knows.
Don't push him too hard right now.
He's having a tough time dealing with what we saw.
The girl meant something to him.
It was a shock finding her like that.
Miller, in here.
Seal off this tenement. No one in or out without my say-so.
Inspector Sematimba, CPM, what the hell are you doing here?
This is my crime scene.
CPM works for me.
I'm looking for this girl.
Doesn't look like we were followed.
That's a relief.
Okay, I'd say we're all in a bit of trouble here,
so why don't we just figure out...
What were you doing following Julie?
We didn't know who we were looking for...
Who were those thugs back at the hotel?
We don't know.
Any goddamn thing you do know?
All that stuff on her, we saw it before on the Anubis.
The Anubis.
What happened to her? What happened to her? Settle down!
- Back off! Back off! - Hey, easy there!
Amos! For God's sake, do something!
What we should be doing is leaving.
The cops are gonna be all over us.
We need to get back to the Roci and off this rock, now.
He's right.
We shouldn't separate.
I'm going to prep the ship for dust-off. You guys meet us there.
We both followed Julie here. We both have part of the story.
I want the truth as bad as you do.
Thank you for letting me come.
Craig, I'm devastated.
I never would have thought he's... You weren't here.
I heard he was doing consulting work for the shipyards,
which I took as a good sign.
That make you feel better about betraying him?
There was no consulting work.
I found out he was paying for those trips himself.
He was ashamed of sitting around the house.
So I played along.
I let him keep his pride. It was the only thing he had left.
He had you.
He loved you more than anything.
Frank always said,
"It's damn near impossible to stay properly mad at that brat."
I'm not Frank.
Would you mind if...
I need to say good bye.
Should I be wearing a mask?
It's not airborne.
But if it's wet, don't touch it.
Not unless you want incredible things to happen.
She's got more than enough in her.
Tell the crew to prepare the injections.
Give us a moment.
I'm truly sorry to be the one to have to tell you this,
but your daughter is dead.
We still don't know what exactly what happened on the Anubis,
but it looks as though Julie was the lone survivor.
Somehow, she managed to pilot the shuttle to Eros.
The only thing that I can say to temper this terrible news
is that I was able to obtain a viable sample of the protomolecule.
The injections have been prepared. We're ready for lockdown.
The irradiation units are in place.
We can still do what needs to be done.
We may not get another chance.
We've come so far since that incredible revelation on Phoebe.
Now we stand on the precipice.
We can only learn by letting it learn.
All you need to do now is to give the word.
I'll be waiting.
We got lucky.
Proceed as planned.
To figure out what that stuff was.
We got off and nuked the ship behind us.
What was Julie doing on the Anubis?
She was O.P.A. She found some new bio-weapon
they were putting together on Phoebe.
So did we. She wanted to steal it.
They couldn't use it on Belters.
And they used it on her.
She was an Earther.
She died for the Belt.
What the hell was that?
Attention.
Eros Station has experienced a radiation hazard breach.
For your own safety, please proceed... You guys feel that?
We sure did.
Nearest hard shelter in an orderly fashion.
Son of a bitch.
A ship just blew up in the Docks.
The Roci? No, it wasn't in that bay.
That's the good news. The bad news is,
the ships are all locked down tight.
We're stuck here.
Shit.
Hmm.
The drives that match these serial numbers,
what ships were they installed in?
Include black ops.
Locate the drives.
Where are they right now?
For your own safety, please proceed immediately
to the nearest hard shelter in an orderly fashion...
What are you looking at?
When I see them cops, they're CPM station security.
They're gangsters with badges.
One team rounds 'em up, the other shakes 'em out.
This was planned. They have assignments.
They knew it was gonna happen.
How could they know a ship was going to blow up in the docks?
They blew it up themselves.
Hey! Where the hell are you going?
Let him go! Miller's onto something.
It's all connected. The Cant, the girl...
It's not your problem.
And it's not your fault.
None of it is.
Okay.
But now I'm making it my problem.
Meet me back at the Roci, I'll be a few hours, tops.
We're better when we stick together.
If I'm not back in three hours, leave.
Attention.
Eros Station has experienced a radiation hazard breach.
For your own safety, please proceed immediately to the...
Iodine supplement. Protects from radiation. Mandatory.
No. No. No. You do not want to be around me right now, okay.
This is gonna get ugly. I'm getting used to ugly.
Those two in the middle.
The guys who took out the Donnager had body armor just like that.
Not who I'm aiming at.
Who is he?
One of the guys who do what they did to Julie.
You need to go back to your friends.
Dammit!
If he killed Julie, he killed my ship too. I need you alive!
All right, sabakawala. Hey! Break it on your feet!
Towalda supposed to go to shelter.
Hey! You go quiet and go now,
else we throw you in there, ourselves.
Help me up. My neck. Come on.
Here's your problem, asshole.
That just made me feel better.
Turn around.
My name is Frederick Lucius Johnson.
Many of you know me, one way or another.
My name is Frederick Lucius Johnson.
My name is Frederick Lucius Johnson.
Many of you know me, one way or another.
I come before you today
not as a member of the Outer Planets Alliance,
though I am proud to call myself one,
but as citizen of the system.
At this moment, the UNN Nathan Hale
is headed for Tycho Station to arrest me
because the UN believes I was involved in the attacks on the Donnager.
That is not true. And I can prove it.
This datacube was recovered from the wreckage of the Donnager,
in the armor of a Martian marine.
I'm broadcasting the raw data with this message.
Anyone can examine and authenticate it.
It's a detailed analysis of the ships that destroyed the Donnager.
They were advanced stealth fighters.
They didn't come from the Belt.
I didn't build them.
No Belter did, or could.
Some people won't believe that coming from me,
because of who I am.
I accept that.
None of us can change the things we've done.
But we can all change what we do next.
I've seen battle.
I've taken many lives.
I've been the oppressor, and I know his mind.
And now I hear the drumbeats of war.
It's the sound of lies and the love of power,
and I cannot stand idly by.
The Belt has served the Inner Planets for generations.
Belters give, Earth and Mars take.
Our language has changed,
the things we care about have changed,
even our bodies have changed.
We look upon each other as different and we've grown to hate each other for that.
And now someone, somewhere, for some ungodly reason
wants the whole, sad lot of us to fight and die.
Well, this is not the Belt's fight.
This evidence proves beyond a doubt
that the ships that destroyed the Donnager were built at the Bush Naval Shipyards.
They were built by Earth.
All right, who is that guy you're guarding?
The scientist?
Yeah.
'Im was a scientist.
Dresden. I heard them call him Dresden, that's all I know.
What's this, huh?
It's a Ceres Griega tatt.
I used to run with them back there, so what?
So that makes you a gangster, you see.
But you're wearing a cop uniform. Why is that?
I went straight.
I'm gonna count to one. One.
CPM offered a bunch of Griegas jobs here, a few months back.
Sweet salary, fat bonus, no questions asked.
And it wasn't just us. All the Ceres crews,
Golden Bough, Dos Arriagas, Sohiro's... They hired everybody.
What for?
Tech stuff, mostly, it turned out.
They had us hooking up cameras and science gear all over the station.
Why are you herding everybody into those shelters?
'Cause that's what they asked me to do today!
Their scrip spends.
If these assholes want people in those shelters, we should let them out.
Hey, you're welcome to try.
You said you were a cop.
You a cop like him?
You're going take me to the nearest shelter,
and you're gonna help me get in.
CPM sees me with you, they shoot us both.
Oh, he's got a point.
Jesus, Miller!
Let's get this poor officer some help.
As far as I can tell, all the transit pod lines are shut down.
Why would they do that? All the ships are locked down, nobody's going anywhere.
First things first. The Roci.
There's gotta be other ways to get to the docks, so we need to find one.
Wait...
Holden, we're on the move...
Comms just went dark.
This ain't an accident. It's a plan.
Please! I'm sorry I was late.
The Transit Pods have been shut down! The shelters are full.
Please! I just want to get to the shelters. Go home.
Stay where you are!
Move along now, or we will use force.
Are we just gonna stand here?
We can't just charge in and start shooting.
Pretty sure we can.
Hey, keep your hands off these people.
What the hell do you think you're doing?
Following orders. That's Miller's pal.
Yeah, I didn't get any orders anything like this. You stand down.
I've got rank here.
Not today, you don't.
Sir, sir, we're trying to get in...
We got a man down! What the hell is this?
He needs medical attention.
I can see that, but who the hell are you?
Hey, some of your guys are taking fire down that connector shaft.
You want to check it out. We'll take care of him. You stay right there.
Open the door.
They said, once it's shut, it stays shut.
All right, all right. You'll be all right.
Jesus.
What...
Get out!
Get out!
What...
What the hell was that?
We just got hit with a mega-dose of hard radiation.
How bad?
We're dead.
Attention.
Eros station has experienced a radiation hazard breach...