Babylon's Ashes

The Expanse 6×6

Cara: It's okay. If I die, the dogs will fix me.

Chrisjen: Massing battleships is a numbers game since the Age of Sail. These numbers are too evenly matched for my comfort.

Chrisjen: Is this the best you could come up with?
Holden: .... We'll get it done.
Chrisjen: You're such a fucking optimist. It's a miracle you have lived this long.

Amos: Look, it's gonna be a shitstorm down there, and if I'm gonna get myself offed for the cause, fine. Better reason than most. I just prefer to be looking the guy who's gonna punch my ticket straight in the fucking eye.
Clarissa: You know, for someone who says they don't wanna be a hero... You sure end up being one a lot.

Chrisjen: What we did was too little and too late, the sad story of our species.

Liang Walker: Oye, bosmang. Think we think the same. Just beat you to it. Tenye wa chesh gut.

Holden: How you feeling, brother?
Amos: Like I'm trapped in a portable toilet.
Bobbie: Try not to dwell on that. You'll pee in your suit.
Amos: No one dies with a full bladder.

Clarissa: Good luck.
Bobbie: You never say that before a fight. You say--
— Good hunting.

Bobbie: Naomi's last sim said that the railguns should only get about 20% of us.
Amos: Those odds aren't terrible. A little worse than Russian Roulette.
Bobbie: What's that, a casino game?
Amos: Kinda.

Bobbie: Everybody ready to get a little shorter? This one's gonna be 15 Gs.

Admiral Duarte: You were a useful distraction, but I have gods to kill. The Ring to Laconia is now closed. You're on your own. Oyedeng, Beltalowda.

Marco Inaros: Beltalowda. We have reached the end. The end of the Inners' hold upon us. Lift your heads, your eyes, your hearts, your spirits and know this. We have been bloodied, but they have been broken.

Amos: As long as we try to kill Marco, I'm in.

Chrisjen: War doesn't end on the battlefield. It ends at the negotiating table, or it doesn't end at all.

Camina: The Belt will treat you with respect. You have my word. We will take our niche in the future and allow you yours. You have my word. Is that good enough? Will you take that?... Why is your word enough for me and mine not enough for you?

Holden: Inaros wasn't all wrong... He was evil, and he was cruel, but he tapped into something real.

Holden: You wanna show someone you trust them, you put your life in their hands. You can't just pretend to. If you can't do that, you don't really trust them.

Chrisjen: What if this transport union were an independent agency based in Medina Station, headed by someone with no allegiances, a friend of the Belt.
Camina: An Inner?
Chrisjen: It would have to be a unanimous choice of Earth, Mars, and the Belt, of course. A person above reproach, apolitical, with a history of working honorably with all sides.
Holden: ... Wait a minute.

Chrisjen: James. It's time for you to make history. Again.

Chrisjen: More coffee.

Chrisjen: You duplicitous little shit.

Chrisjen: Oh, James. I hope you're right...

Holden: I hope I did the right thing.
Naomi: You did. You followed your conscience in the hope that others would follow theirs. You didn't do it for a reward or a pat on the head. The universe never tells us if we did right or wrong. It's more important to try to help people than to know that you did.

Naomi: More important that someone else's life gets better than for you to feel good about yourself. You never know the effect you might have on someone, not really. ... It doesn't matter if you ever know. You just have to try.

Holden: ... And we still don't know what happened to that protomolecule sample. Sooner or later, we're gonna have to...
Naomi: Let's just stay here for a minute.

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Why We Fight

The Expanse 6×5

Xan: I feel weird. What happened?
Cara: Well, you got hurt, really hurt, like, uh, killed hurt.

Cara: The dogs fixed you.

Rosenfeld: Iapetus is just one station and an insignificant one at that.
Marco Inaros: One is all it takes to sow doubt.

Chrisjen: Do you truly believe the odds are in our favor?
Admiral Sidiqi: No, ma'am, but...
Chrisjen: If we have to send more people to their death, the least we can do is give them a fucking chance to win.

Chrisjen: Have I gone soft? Was I trying too hard to be good when I should have been ruthless?
Bobbie: You used your best judgment.
Chrisjen: And lost. There is no prize for the best victim.

Bobbie: Fine. Maybe you have gone a bit soft, which might not be so bad in small doses, but now is not the time for self-pity bullshit. It's time to keep your eyes on the enemy and wait for the next time they slip up, because I still think we're the good guys, and I'd rather do a little less soul-searching and a lot more fighting back!
Chrisjen: .... Go do something else.

Monica: I heard you had some interesting times out there, as usual. We should set up an interview.
Holden: Never, ever, ever again.

Holden: I think we need to share it with Inaros.
Chrisjen: Oh, James, you're truly one of a kind.

Amos: I don't know, usually I get what he's trying to do, but this? Sometimes it feels like he's trying to get us killed. Then a couple times, he saved the whole human race, so I guess it balances out.

Bobbie: War is the wrong place for good men.
Amos: Good or bad, it's the same place for everyone.
Bobbie: Firing line. Drop ship. Sitting in a crash couch, wondering if you'll live long enough to unstrap.
Amos: Then what difference does it make if you're good or bad, then?
Bobbie: Well, when you're in the shit, not much. But I mean, I fought for my planet. I fought for money. Was a time I would have said I fought for honor. In the end, the only thing that matters is fighting for who's covering your flank. Doesn't matter if they're saints or assholes. They're your people. They watch your back and you watch theirs, or you've got nothing.

Bobbie: So back to the ship?
Amos: Yeah. Brothel first, though... You want to come with?
Bobbie: With you? Or with you?
Amos: Whatever.

Marco Inaros: They have size. We have numbers. ... We can dictate how the forces will be spread. The stage is set.

Camina: So what is it for me? I can choose to wait for the bounty to go high enough that someone kills me, or I can put a collar on my neck and hand the Inners the leash. This universe has no place for me.
Naomi: I wish there were another way. I tried to find one, but there isn't.
Camina: Then we have to make one.
Naomi: Tell me how. Tell me, and we will help.
Camina: I don't know how.
Naomi: Then all we can do now is to stand by the people that we love. What else is there?
Camina: Fuck you... you self-righteous shit. Fuck you.

Chrisjen: And here I am.

Camina: When the last shot is fired, when Marco is dead, will you remember us? Will you remember the Belters who bled for your victory?
Chrisjen: All I can do is promise that I will.

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Redoubt

The Expanse 6×4

Admiral Duarte: Grief is strange. It gets harder when you've grown up, so we lie about it and say it's the same as being sad. It's not like we mean to lie.
Cara: Lies? Like what?
Admiral Duarte: Like, "It'll be all right." "We'll keep you safe." I mean we want to, we try to, but... that's not how life works. Having something you love that you can't protect... it's terrifying.

Admiral Duarte: I never thought it would fall apart, and then it did. It made me very sad and very, very angry and frightened. When I was where you are now, I needed something to make it more than just death. I needed to make it a sacrifice. You know what a sacrifice means?
Cara: To give something up.
Admiral Duarte: Yeah, but it's more than that. It's... it's to give something up and make it sacred. When you think about it like that, it doesn't fix anything, but it makes losing them hurt less.

Amos: Are you pissed at me for asking? Or because you don't have an explanation to give?

Holden: It's not about Filip or what he might or might not do. It's about us. I can't be the one who kills your son. It won't matter that we were at war or that he was on the other side. Every time you wake up, you'll be lying next to the reason your boy is dead... I can't be that to you. I don't have it in me.

Liang Walker: A revolution that doesn't make you rich is hardly worth having, huh?

Bobbie: The thing that chaps my ass is we hit a million-to-one shot coming across the Pella in the first place, hit another million-to-one beating three ships, and when it's time to take the kill shot, another million-to-one it's a dud? What are the fucking odds?
Clarissa: Based on your numbers, a billion-billion-to-one.
Bobbie: I'm going to the gym.

Clarissa: I killed a lot of people. Some of them deserved it. Most of them probably didn't. That's not the point. They all haunt me just the same. Killing someone is a terrible thing, and you can never take it back. Don't ever feel bad about not killing someone.

Camina: This is Camina Drummer, and this message is for the traitor, the coward, Marco Inaros. You hunted me and mine, and still we are here, unbent, unbroken, unbowed. And you? You are nothing.
Liang Walker: Well, so much for anonymity...

Camina: .... Camina Drummer did this to you. Live shamed, and die empty.

Filip Inaros: This is war, and it won't be over until we are dead or victorious. Or else everything that we fought for, the blood that we spilled, the beratnas we lost, all will have been for nothing. There is no turning back now.

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Force Projection

The Expanse 6×3

Holden: Everybody on this ship has something they regret. Including Amos, I think. You're in good company.

Bobbie: What else is good on Ceres?
Amos: They got decent booze. And all the brothels are union.
Bobbie: Anything other than noodles, bars, and brothels?
Amos: I never looked.

Marco Inaros: This is not the Inners' kind of fight. We will hit and run and hit and run and be gone before they know what hit them.

Filip Inaros: They're calling us cowards.
Marco Inaros: Who exactly are "they"?
Filip Inaros: Dissidents. On the news.
Marco Inaros: Why do you care what a dissident thinks?

Marco Inaros: It speaks well of you that you care about them... but the Belters on Ceres are not like us. Generation after generation, they've slaved away for the Inners, accommodating their needs instead of fighting for ours. Caring more for their own comforts than the future of the Belt. You and I, we're meant to be out here in the darkness. In the fight. That's who we are. Who we were born to be.

Camina: Good. I'm ready for a fight.

Marco Inaros: Filip. Will you take the guns?
Filip Inaros: ... Yes, Captain.
Marco Inaros: Weapons to my son.

Amos: There's nothing in this for him. He's just a good guy.
Bobbie: That's what it always takes.
Amos: If Prax thinks it's important, then it is. Chrissie'll know what to do with it.
Bobbie: The Old Lady really loves it when you call her that.
Amos: At least I say it to her face.

Amos: Hey, Cap, what's going on?
Holden: Everybody suit up and strap in. It's about to get hot.

Clarissa: Where are you going?
Amos: I gotta fix 'em.
Clarissa: In the middle of the fight?
Amos: That's the job, Peaches.

Amos: Did we win?

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Azure Dragon

The Expanse 6×2

Marco Inaros: Would you like me to punish you some more?.. I would think that the embarrassment you've become since we've arrived on Ceres would be punishment enough.

Bobbie: ... And we're gonna capture it.
Amos: We? are?

Amos: Boarding and shooting is a whole lot riskier than sending a torpedo up their ass.
Bobbie: Don't you worry your pretty little head. That's what I'm here for.

Holden: I assume you came with a plan...
Bobbie: We slip inside their sensor shadow and sneak up in a slow, quiet approach behind their drive cone to get up close and personal. We cross over, disable their drive. ... Force the airlock, boom, boom, boom, boom. Done and done.

Rosenfeld: What do you want for him?
Marco Inaros: I want him to be better than this. He's a part of me.
Rosenfeld: He's your son. That's the definition.
Marco Inaros: I love him.
Rosenfeld: That word means different things to different people. I'm sure my uncle loved me, in his own way. You love Filip. But that could mean you... you pity him or you envy him. Or miss him.
Marco Inaros: I need him. I need him to be the man he should be!

Holden: What happened back there?
Naomi: I'm all right.
Holden: Really all right, or "not ready to talk about it" all right?

Chrisjen: I want to commission a project from you. ....
Monica: I don't do propaganda. You have your minions for that.
Chrisjen: .... But you have a following and you have style.
Monica: I have credibility that state media doesn't have, and you'd like to exploit it.
Chrisjen: I'm not asking you to lie for me. I'm asking you to tell the truth. Not just the statistics, but what they mean. The lives we've lost. The pain we've suffered. All the things regular newsfeeds skip.
Monica: That's not gonna change any Belter's minds.
Chrisjen: It might. A few on the margins. You can put a human face on us. And make it just a little harder for them to feel good about killing Earthers... Or don't. And wonder with every new attack if that was the one you could have stopped and you chose not to.
Monica: Wow. You give a really good guilt trip.
Chrisjen: I practice a lot when I'm alone.

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Strange Dogs

The Expanse 6×1

Girl: Ah! I'm gonna have to give you all names. If I can figure out how to tell you apart.

Nico Sanjrani: ... Let supplies dwindle at the current pace, and new production is not brought online immediately, our people are going to starve, sooner, not later.
Marco Inaros: Get a list.

Holden: Naomi. I think sometimes I convince myself the worst can't happen. It's a way for me to get through things. I'll be more careful. For all of us. I promise.
Naomi: And we're not going to stop.

Monica: Madame, is it true you reached out to Marco Inaros to discuss a peace treaty? Because that's what I've been hearing...
Chrisjen: The only thing Marco Inaros has to offer me is his unconditional surrender.

Monica: Has anybody in your cabinet proposed negotiations?
Chrisjen: The deliberations of my cabinet in a time of war are a matter of national security and none of your fucking business.

Bobbie: In case that wasn't clear enough, we're done here.
Monica: You know, Sergeant, if you want my advice...
Bobbie: I don't.
Monica: You should try to impress upon your boss the fact that she has constituents, not subjects.
Bobbie: She's aware of the distinction.
Monica: The one thing I always liked about you is you kinda suck at lying.

Chrisjen: I never thought I'd actually enjoy this sensation. Maybe it's the lack of sensation. The whole planet not pulling me down for once.

Chrisjen: Fuck good. We need better than good. We're wounded, broken, trying desperately to keep ourselves going by pretending we're not. Gutting through it all, wearing down. Little wins here and there will not hold us together. We need more than that. Something big. Something to give us a reason to hope.
Bobbie: You have something in mind?
Chrisjen: I do.

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Nemesis Games

The Expanse 5×10

Holden: Shit. That Frigate alone has got double our missile load.
Monica: Well, can we win?
Bull: You want a tactical breakdown?
Holden: No, we can't win. The ship's low on PDC ammunition, and we're badly outgunned. We have a railgun. By the time we're in effective range, we'll have been overwhelmed with missiles we can't shoot down.
Monica: So we have to run.

Bull: God damn it. Getting killed before we get to fight really sucks.
Holden: We can do both... Help save my friends and give him his war. Make ourselves the only thing these assholes can see.
Bull: You mean burn every scrap of fuel and go after them. Empty our fucking magazines right in their faces.
Holden: They wanted a fight. We'll give them one. And give my friends a chance to get away.

Alex: Hang on, Naomi. We're coming...

Holden: The second I start launching, take us up to max burn for as long as the fuel holds out. We'll go right past them.
Bull: Spreading the love around, lot less likely we hit anything. The smartest sk... the smartest Belters are probably on that frigate. Better to throw most of what we got at them.
Holden: The goal is to fly through them and to buy as much time as we can for the Razorback. We're not trying to win.
Bull: I'd rather win...

Camina: Holden. This is Drummer...

Alex: Naomi, if you can hear me, hang tight! Come hell or high water, we're gonna find a way to dock and get you off that ship!
Naomi: Alex... Brave idiot.

Alex: Bring her on in. That was one hell of a ride.

Naomi: ...people come into our lives and they go out. Families change. It can be hard and sad, but we bear it. as long as we don't shut ourselves off from the new, wonderful things that come, and I know there will be more wonderful things for you. You can let me go. It will all be all right. I will love you ... as long as I love anything... Don't waste that. Take what we had and build on it. In that way, I'll still be there.

Holden: It's good to see you, brother.
Amos: It's good to be seen.

Amos: Making the choice to hold your ground to save your family? As far as last stands go, that's the one I'd pick.

Amos: Thank you for being cool about this... Peaches, come on up!

Naomi: We're an independent ship. We don't fly anyone's flag.
Holden: That's right. But this isn't a fight we can stay out of.

Chrisjen: I want you all to take a good look around. This is what Marco Inaros hates. This is what he is afraid of. Why he tried so hard to destroy you and your ship. All we have to do now is turn every Belter, Martian, and Earther into this. This how we win.

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Winnipesaukee

The Expanse 5×9

Chrisjen: If we continue to attack civilian targets...
Admiral Delgado: The way Inaros did to us?
Chrisjen: Is he our role model now?...

Chrisjen: For every partisan we killed, we made ten more.

David Paster: Our job... my job is to make our people safer and to reduce the enemy's ability to hurt us as quickly as possible. We have to take this fight back to the bastards who started it. And anyone else who cheers them on.

Chrisjen: Snap elections, then.
General: Yes, but those are unpredictable. A lot of people feel it's too risky in times like these.
Chrisjen: You're talking about a coup.
General: What?
Chrisjen: That's treason!
General: No, ma'am. The ministers just thought it would come across as more impartial if I were the one to ask... Madam Avasarala, if you were nominated to lead us again, would you serve?

Admiral Delgado: Oh, my God. They picked you... The once and future queen. Congratulations.
Chrisjen: I'd like you in my cabinet. I'm serious. I trust you, and you're not afraid of me.

Chrisjen: A Belter, a Martian, and an Earther go to a bar. The Belter says, "Give me a shot of your finest Martian whiskey. Drinking like my enemy helps me think like my enemy." The Martian says, "Give me a shot of your finest Earth tequila. Drinking like my enemy helps me think like my enemy..." You never finished it.
Admiral Delgado: The Earther says, "Give me a shot of the finest Belter liquor you have. Best the Belt has to offer." The bartender says, "Because it helps you think like your enemy?" And the Earther says, "No, because I'm trying to drink less. The best the Belt has to offer is terrible..." It used to be funnier.

Amos: You know what coming back to Baltimore's taught me?... No one starts over 'cause no one really leaves anything behind.

Amos: Sometimes you got to stop thinking about something to figure it out.

Erich: Oh, Jesus Christ. Where did Timmy find you?
Clarissa: Serving a life sentence for multiple homicides.

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Hard Vacuum

The Expanse 5×8

Bertold: We salvage. This is what we do.
Camina: We're not salvagers. We're scavengers. Marco kills those who defy him, and we pick the bodies clean.

David Paster: That felt good.
Admiral Delgado: Damn right.
Chrisjen: You showed that you're in control of the situation.
David Paster: You think they believed me?
Chrisjen: Doesn't matter. They saw the leader they needed to see.
David Paster: Now we just have to make good on what I said...

— This is Naomi Nagata of the Rocinante. If you get this message, please retransmit. Tell James Holden I am in distress. Comm is not responding. I have no nav control. Please retransmit. This is Naomi Nagata of the Rocinante.....

David Paster: I agree, we need a response, but it has to be the right one.
Admiral Delgado: My job isn't to assess morality. This is simply what we need to do. The families, the victims, all the people on our planet, they need to see that we're fighting back. The Belters struck our home. We need to strike back at theirs.
David Paster: The casualties will be substantial.
Admiral Delgado: Not compared to ours... Inaros deliberately targeted our citizens. Now he's using his own people as human shields. Their blood is on his hands, not yours.
David Paster: We're all gonna have blood on our hands before this is over.
Admiral Delgado: Well, if it's more of theirs... I'll take it.
David Paster: ... Thank you for your candor, Admiral.

— This is Naomi Nagata... Tell James Holden I am in... ...control. This is Naomi Nagata... Tell James Holden I am in... control.

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Oyedeng

The Expanse 5×7

Filip Inaros: Of course. Whatever is best for the cause.

Bull: You'll spend enough time with someone and you get to see how full of shit they are.

Holden: Fred once told me that when he died, he wanted his body put in the recycler like any Belter would.
Bull: Fuck that. That ain't happening.
Holden: You're gonna deny him his final wishes?
Bull: Oh, bet your ass, I am. He deserved better than being fed to mushrooms.

Naomi: He made me feel like the center of the universe. And I craved his attention. And that made me blind.

Naomi: I didn't know how strong I was until after I left and realized I was nobody to your father. I was just a piece of him. My life was his. My dreams were his. Everything I thought and did was to please him.

Naomi: Walking away was the only choice I had left. Walking away... is the only choice anyone ever has.

Holden: We got 'em. Intercept course. Everyone suit up and get ready for a high-G burn... All right. Here comes the juice...

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Tribes

The Expanse 5×6

David Paster: I'm David Paster.
Chrisjen: We have met. You're... Minister of the Interior?
David Paster: Transportation, actually.
Chrisjen: Oh.
David Paster: Uh... I'm the new acting secretary-general.
Chrisjen: Sir.

David Paster: My degree is in drone avionics. I spent my career designing package delivery systems. The only reason I got into Parliament is because I thought the person running the local transit authority was an idiot and I thought I could do a much better job, and I won his seat... We were only able to beat back the attack because of you. I'd like you to join my provisional cabinet. Please.
Chrisjen: Of course.
David Paster: Thank you, madam.

Marco Inaros: Space her.
Cyn: What?
Marco Inaros: You heard me. Stop apologizing, and correct your error and put her outside.

Clarissa: Schrodinger's parent.
Amos: Who?
Clarissa: A parent you never hear from exists in a quantum state, both dead and alive, until you check up on them and the act of observing makes one of the two states true.

Clarissa: I'm sure she's a really good person.
Amos: She lived like she was.
Clarissa: What does that mean?
Amos: There are ways that you can live a good life... without being a good person.
Clarissa: I like that.

Amos: The thing about civilization is, it keeps you civil. Get rid of one, you can't count on the other.

Amos: People are tribal. The more settled things are, the bigger the tribes can be. The churn comes, and the tribes get small again. Right now, you and I are a tribe of two.
Clarissa: That's better than one.

Marco Inaros: Add your strength, your reputation to ours.
Camina: Or else?
Marco Inaros: Or leave. And go in peace. But do not expect me to protect you.
Camina: The only reason we need protection is because of you. You have committed the entire Belt to war with the Inners and made peace impossible.
Marco Inaros: I committed us to a future of our own on our own terms. We were already at war. You just couldn't see it because they were killing us slow.

Clarissa: Did we win?

Clarissa: I wrote this little... I don't know... poem. Kind of took it on as a prayer.
Amos: How'd it go?
Clarissa: I have killed... but I'm not a killer, because a killer is a monster and monsters aren't afraid. I'm afraid all the time... of the things that I did, how right it felt when I was doing them, how certain I was...

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Down and Out

The Expanse 5×5

Michio: If it hadn't been Marco, it would have been someone else.
Camina: It wasn't someone else; it was him. And I'm the one who had him in an air lock, and let him go.
Michio: That is hindsight. You cannot live backward.
Camina: Right now, it's difficult to move forward.

Sully: Rona, I got a bad idea...

Holden: Naomi, I need to know where you are. Things are not good. I haven't heard from my parents... Couldn't get through to Amos or Alex. Fred Johnson's dead. Marco's people killed him. And they got the sample. Naomi, please respond the moment you get this. I need to know that you're okay.

Alex: I got two more MCRN ships. They look like destroyers.
Roberta: Belter terrorists and Martian thieves, one big, happy family.
Alex: Jesus. This is bigger than I expected.

Alex: Time to go. Here comes the juice...

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Gaugamela

The Expanse 5×4

Alex: Bobbie, there is a big difference between knowing something is possible and seeing it happen in front of your damn eyes.
Roberta: It just means your eyes are open.

Alex: How are you so fucking nonchalant about all this?
Roberta: I used to have a rat.
Alex: Like, a... an informer in... in your crew?
Roberta: No, an actual pet rat, when I was a kid. I named her Mouse....

Roberta: No matter how traumatic the loss is, you only have so much emotional stamina. Even grief can get used up.
Alex: So what did you do?
Roberta: I built her a small box, and I buried her in it. I was tired of being sad, and I had to do something. It wasn't going to help the rat, not really, but it helped me.
Alex: So we're building a coffin... for our dying planet.
Roberta: I went through the exact same thing you're going through right now. And when you come out the other side of this, you're gonna wanna be doing something that matters.

Clarissa: I heard you were on another world... through the Ring.
Amos: Yup.
Clarissa: How was it?
Amos: Kinda liked it... at first. Wide-open spaces, clean, not too crowded.
Clarissa: That sounds wonderful.
Amos: Yeah, till everybody started shooting each other, parasites began eating our eyeballs, and giant alien machines came out of the ground, and exploded.

Nancy Gao: Thank you. You may have just saved millions.
Chrisjen: That's all that matters.
Nancy Gao: I've always admired your persistence.
Chrisjen: I prefer to think of it as perseverance.
Nancy Gao: I'll bet you do.

Chrisjen: Misery loves company.
Admiral Delgado: So does hope.

Marco Inaros: Naomi... welcome home.

Marco Inaros: ...there is a better path. Under the protection of the Free Navy, the society and culture of the Belt will begin again and remake humanity without the corruption, greed, and hatred that the inner planets could not transcend. We will take what is ours by right, yes, but more than that, we will lead the Belt to a new, better form, a more human form.
     Citizens of the Belt, baratnas, rise up now in joy and glorious resolve. This day is ours. Tomorrow is ours. The future of humanity is ours. Today and for evermore... we are free.

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Mother

The Expanse 5×3

Admiral Delgado: A Belter, a Martian, and an Earther walk into a bar.
     Bartender, he asks the Belter what he wants. The Belter says, "I'll have a glass of your finest Martian whiskey. Drinking like my enemy lets me think like my enemy." He drinks his Martian whiskey.
     Bartender asks the Martian what he wants. The Martian says, "A glass of your finest Earther tequila. Drinking like my enemy also lets me think like my enemy." So the Martian drinks his Earther tequila.
     So now...
Dr. Alaoui: Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt.

Admiral Delgado: What do you estimate the size of the original asteroid was?
Chrisjen: Ballpark.
Dr. Alaoui: Well, based on these readings, somewhere between 10 and 30 meters in diameter.
Chrisjen: If a rock that size hit Earth, how big of an impact would that create?
Dr. Alaoui: It wouldn't. Our asteroid spotters would easily detect an asteroid of that size.
Chrisjen: Indulge us. Theoretically.
Dr. Alaoui: Uh, well, with a typical iron-nickel core and assuming a speed at impact of, say, 30,000 KPH, the blast would be about one to four megatons, depending on the impact angle.
Admiral Delgado: That's a medium-yield fusion warhead, blast radius 13 kilometers.

Michio: We never realize how much someone is a part of us... until we feel the weight of emptiness when they're gone.

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Churn

The Expanse 5×2

Camina: Don't worry about what I want. Worry about what I am due.

Camina: I am Camina Drummer. You respect my claim, or you die and become a story I tell the next captain.

Amos: Float to the top or sink to the bottom. Everything in the middle is the churn. She told me that.

Charles: She saved you?
Amos: No one really saves anyone.
Charles: She taught me how to save myself.

Gavin: You know what your problem is?
Fred Johnson: Tell me.
Gavin: You think that if someone's an underdog, that means they're the good guy.

Amos: Do you want to be my friend?

Admiral Sauveterre: Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyze every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers. These were the words of Xerxes, Persia's king of kings, though he probably spoke them in Old Persian...

Lt Emily Babbage: He also doesn't like being upstaged.
Alex: I don't see how I could've upstaged him.
Lt Emily Babbage: First pilot to safely transit the Sol Ring. fFirst Martian to set foot on an exoplanet.
Alex: Yeah, that's just me being in the wrong place at the right time.

Fred Johnson: What'd you do?
Holden: There was a button. I pushed it.
Fred Johnson: Jesus Christ. That's really how you go through life, isn't it?

Lydia: When you're hurt, hurting others is easy. It takes strength to choose not to.

Lydia: 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... I love you, Timothy, but I'm not righteous. I can't teach you to be that. Maybe you and I... can imagine a version of me that is good and kind and wise. I'll pretend to be her. You can pretend to love me enough to listen. Maybe that's enough for people like us.

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Exodus

The Expanse 5×1

Scientist: Yeah, rogue asteroids around Venus. We got ourselves a bona fide space oddity.

Sakai: The Dusters know how to build. I give them that.
Naomi: How about we stick to "Martians"? I do fly with one, and he's never called me a "Skinny."
Sakai: Ooh, sorry, no offense. Apparently, mi not quite as evolved as you.
Monica: I'm working on a story... The story of the protomolecule. .....
Holden: That sounds like a rumor.
Monica: But you clearly don't think it's impossible.
Holden: I think a lot of crazy shit has gone down over the last few years, and that can make people believe crazy things.
Monica: The entire system trusts you because you are always on the right side of things like this, and we're on the same side here.

Fred Johnson: You got to stop focusing on the end of the world.

Fred Johnson: My life really didn't begin until I stopped fighting and started building. ... You've got a ship of your own, a good crew, someone who loves you and you love. Go build something with her. You're not responsible for the world. Do something meaningful with the time you have in it. Believe it or not, the world will go on without you.

Alex: I was just talking to my kid.
Bobbie: How'd it go?
Alex: Who the hell knows?

Alex: Well, whatever it is, I'm sure you'll fix it.
Bobbie: Why?
Alex: What?
Bobbie: Why are you sure?
Alex: 'Cause you're you, Bobbie. Got to stay positive.
Bobbie: I'm staying realistic. Some things can't be fixed, and sometimes you're a fucking moron to try.
Alex: Whoa, okay, that's no way to be.

— Amos Burton? Are you Amos Burton?
Amos: First of all, I didn't start it, and second of all, they were all alive when I walked out.

Chrisjen: You look like shit.
Amos: You look amazing.

Amos: What are you doing here? I thought you were, like, queen of Earth.
Chrisjen: You don't keep up on current events, do you?
Amos: Only the ones that I can do something about.

Chrisjen: Why would Marco Inaros destroy a science ship?
Admiral Delgado: I'm not convinced he did. The match was only 53.7%. That's a coin toss, so don't get too excited.
Chrisjen: Too late.

Marco Inaros: Why do they hate us? You tell me... That's right! All we've ever done is starve and beg for a scrap! Baratna, they hate us because we shame them. They hate us because they think we are weak, and they hurt us anyway! We make them feel ashamed! And men always gonya hate the thing that shame them.
     But we can teach them to fear us... to hate us... to hate us because they fear us! Because when you are weak, you can be surprising.
     And when our day comes... when we surprise them in all their strength... on that day, they will fear us!
     Because they believe we are weak, we have the power to be audacious!

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Cibola Burn

The Expanse 4×10

Alex: Edward Israel, this is the gunship Rocinante. I've target-locked your drive cone. You and me are about to have a very serious conversation...

Lucia: Yes. We will all answer for what we did.

Ashford: Unbelievable. A Martian naval officer, mercenary for a vicious Belter thug... Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Ashford: Violence is indiscriminate. If you use it as a tool, it will do more than just kill your enemies. Sometimes it will kill the ones you love most.

Ashford: Why just him? Why not all his friends and family?... He is not only himself. He is everyone who cares for him, huh? Does he have a son or a daughter who would seek revenge or a father who works in the yards where your ship is repaired or maybe a lover, huh, who grows food for your stocks? Yes, show your strength, but then show them a smile, and most will give you what you want.

Holden: Last thing I said to Miller was that rain doesn't taste like anything. Shitty last words to a friend.

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Holden: You were right about everything. You warned us, but we're charging through the doors anyway. If we have any chance at surviving what comes next, it'll be because of you... Rest in peace, brother.

Chrisjen: If there is anything I can offer that will help, any wisdom I can pass on, it is this. This chair is not a throne. We're not queens. The work we do here is critical, but it is not all that we are. Don't forget the rest of yourself while you do this. Your time will end too, and you will want a life to return to once this is done.

Chrisjen: As for policy and the direction you're taking Earth and all her peoples, well, we disagree. One of us is wrong. I think it's you. But I hope it's me. Good luck. Our future is in your hands now.

Chrisjen: Bobbie, your timing sucks.

Marco Inaros: Nothing you do now will stop what's coming...

Marco Inaros: You still don't see it. Can't even imagine it. This has always been a problem for our kind... Even our dreams are small. Die in darkness, beratna.

Marco Inaros: The Earthers will never see them coming...

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Saeculum

The Expanse 4×9

Holden: No hat?
Miller: It's not my hat. That hat belongs to the Investigator that the protomolecule keeps making out of my corpse over and over and over again.

Miller: The protomolecule's been using us both, pal. But being inside your head... watching you give a shit... you helped me, gave me something to build on, you know? You helped me outsmart the jailer.

Miller: This planet's already a corpse. Let's go kill its ghost.

Miller: You ever met anybody you didn't wanna save?

Holden: You're sure you can do that without killing us all?
Miller: No. But the other option is... well, you watch everyone starve to death while your ships burn and I get trapped here forever, looking for something I'll never find. So...

Amos: Just because someone is good to you, it doesn't mean that you can trust them.

Miller: One foot in front of the other until we make it or we die trying, hmm?

Holden: You want me to climb down there?
Miller: Climb. Jump. Whatever. Just get in the hole.

Amos: Wei, I'm coming for your boss. Don't be there when I do.

Holden: Is there anything I can do?
Miller: Yeah. Why don't we try killing 'em off for good, see how that works?

Miller: Now comes the hard part.
Holden: Which is?
Miller: Actually finding this bomb.
Holden: I thought you knew where this dead spot was.
Miller: I know where the corpse is buried. We might just have to do a little digging to find the bullet inside, you know?

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Holden: If I slip off, how long will I fall?
Miller: Mm... Rest of your life.

Miller: I need to put myself into something physical...

Holden: How will I know when you've connected to the rest of the planet?
Miller: You'll know.
Holden: And that'll fix the ships?
Miller: Here's hoping.

Holden: This is really the end, isn't it?
Miller: It is for me. But hey, I'm hoping you make it out okay.

Holden: That's it? No explanation? No cop stories or tortured metaphors?
Miller: Hey, I got you this far, kid. Rest is up to you.

Holden: Water! Rain is just water. Doesn't really taste like anything.

Dr. Elvi Okoye: That field effect. I can see it. What is it?
Miller: With any luck, the off switch for the whole fucking planet.

Dr. Elvi Okoye: You are really Detective Miller from Ceres... sentient and independent?
Miller: Well, if I'm not, I'm acing my Turing test.

Murtry: Civilization has a lag time... like light delay. You come out here, and you think because you're civilized, civilization comes with you... We're all just walking in the footsteps of history, the ancient frontier. All those post offices and railroads and jails cost thousands of lives to build. And this is no different.

Murtry: I am the kind of man the frontier needs. You're the kind that comes after my work is done. You should've stayed at home... until I built a post office.

Holden: Wait!.....

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The One-Eyed Man

The Expanse 4×8

Ashford: We all have enough blame to share, eh, and even more problems to solve, so politics be damned.

Murtry: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Holden: I'm gonna take the Belters to the latrine. Then I'm gonna come back and I'll do the same for your people.

Holden: As long as we're still breathing, we're alive.

Ashford: I've been looking for you. I checked every bar in the station.
Camina: I drink when I'm angry, not when I'm sad.

Ashford: I have seen blood spilled my entire life and I have spilled enough myself to know that the future, our future, cannot be built on violence.
Camina: You sound like a politician.
Ashford: No, I'm just old. Age changes you in ways you don't expect.

Bobbie: Go. Do the job. Be a good Martian.

Holden: All we did was buy ourselves more time.
Naomi: And that's what we're going to keep on doing.

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A Shot in the Dark

The Expanse 4×7

Carol Chiwewe: So we're all just still at the mercy of you and your invisible friend...

Murtry: You know what to do. Go do it.

Chrisjen: Jesus Christ. I sound incompetent! I wouldn't fucking vote for me.

Aide: I saw it. You came across as honest and open, ma'am.
Chrisjen: Do you know who else is honest and open?... The person who says nothing when nobody asks a fucking question!!!

Murtry: Nobody wins if we all die.

Dr. Okoye: The truth is, single-cell microorganisms native to this planet are making a home in our eyes. They're not hijacking our cells like a virus would, but human bodies are water and high-energy molecules. None of their natural competitors are in us. So our vitreous fluid is a new environment that they are quite happy in... lots of little green babies filling up the space.
Murtry: So th... they're... they're eating away at our eyes?

Naomi: Your mother's been caring for you even since before you were born. She wants you to go and chase your dreams. That's all any mother ever wants. But she's scared that you'll make a mistake, do something you'll regret, she won't be able to protect you...

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Dr. Okoye: Not unless I can find the reason that... you seem to be immune.
Holden: Well, not everybody got the plague.
Dr. Okoye: Not everybody talks to an alien.

Dr. Okoye: I have traveled billions of kilometers to be the first exobiologist to study... the most basic forms of extraterrestrial life. And you, on the other hand, are the only person in human history with a direct line of communication to an advanced alien species, and you're annoyed?!
Holden: It's not the same when you don't have the choice.

Arjun: I thought surprise visits were against the rules.
Chrisjen: Fuck the rules. I'm in charge. And I wanted to see my husband.

Arjun: Would losing be so bad?
Chrisjen: I don't know, which is what scares me, and why I need to win. I can't be right if I don't.
Arjun: How far are you willing to go to find out?
Chrisjen: As far as I have to.

Murtry: Things aren't going to end well on this planet for Holden...

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