I think not even Holden was absolutely sure about what he'd do, bless him.
He went along with keeping Cortazar (or whatever his name is) because, on some level, he trusts Fred to do the right thing- like giving back the nukes, for example. After Dawes tells him that Johnson might be on mighty shaky ground, the…

Yeah, he was clearly getting some vibe from her that suggested she is the button to push, so to speak.
(wonders, on a tangent) Maybe a densely-populated, constricted environment as the various Belt posts makes it easier to learn to "read" folks, since everyone is packed so close to one another and you can pick up signs…

According to the wiki-lexicon for Belter, "pampaw" means "grandfather". Im' guessing the use is similar to "old man", in an affectionate context.

That's a little unfair. I'd say he's as naive and idealistic as Holden, only with a different set of allegiances and different perspective.

Holy cow! I didn't know these existed! Many many thanks for the link.

They've shown it once before, when Holden&Co. are questioned on board the Donnager, as I recall.

Man, the minute I read this I had a flash to the first Chris Foss painting I saw as a kid. It was the cover of First Lensman, but it had been…ahem…co-opted? I guess…for a translated collection of Asimov stories. It has that eerie, desolate feel.
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What the series has been really good at showing is that even paranoid people are so only within their own frame of reference and knowledge. The Marines were paranoid but it was focused on what sort of underhanded trick the Earthlings would come up with to screw Mars. Similarly, that Earth officer at the briefing could…

He's probably still on Ceres. Left behind by the narrative, sort of.

No, you're thinking of the French Revolution drama, Sans-Culottes.

A fake biohazard zone, though, is a good way to make sure your little ultra-drive project gets set up without any indiscrete snoopers getting eyes on it. Not least, it gives you an excuse to blast them to bits if they do (llike we saw Holden do to the Marasmus).

They did know that not all of them can be accounted for, it's mentioned in the briefing. They're still looking for them at the end of the episode…

They're probably solar panels, to power the facilities on the surface.

Yeah, it was interesting to see how well he kept Draper in line, enforcing discipline without a lot of fuss, and he seemed to run a very efficient ship. He must have been the captain, he was wearing the same three-chevron rank marking on his shoulder pads as the captain of the Donnager.
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Yeah, and that shot of them walking with Jupiter in the background was…(heart rate goes up)…I need to lie down for a minute.

Yeah, the space battle was confused. There also seems to be exchange of fire even after the Scirocco gets disabled, so there could be mulitple players in action, like a smaller-scale replay of the Canterbury/Donnager situation. Unless the ships firing on the Scirocco were automated drones (they did look a bit smaller)…

In all fairness, "I have a few of your missing nukes" will open up a whole bunch of questions. "Are you sure you don't have all our missing nukes?" being the first.

Imagine if the first legible communication from the protomolecule is "stop littering"!

Good point about Martian gravity, I hadn't thought of that!

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