505 Down And Out – The Expanse Podcast – Tales From The Rocinante

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This week we discuss the tenth and final episode of season 4 of The Expanse titled “Cibola Burn”.

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Down And Out

The episode opens on board Drummer’s ship. The crew is watching the news reports on Earth.

Drummer is taking it hard. She feels guilty for having let Marco live. If she had killed him like was epxected, Ashford’s and Fred’s death and the destruction on Earth would have never happened.

However, Oksana reminds her that if Marco hand’t done it, someone else eventually would have.

Even through her grief, she’s worried about Naomi and how this will affect her.

Drummer’s crew is concerned for their future. Even though Marco is only one small faction, the innards will see all Belters as a threat. And with increased vigilance, it will make their role as pirates much more difficult.

Drummer informs them that she’s agreed to a meeting with Marco Inaros.

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On Earth, with all communications to the rest of the prison cut off, Amos convinces security guard Rona that their best option is to try and leave the place. She reluctantly agrees to allow Amos to bring Clarissa along.

With the elevators down and the stairway blocked, their only option of escape is to find the elevator’s maintenance ladder. However, with the doors jammed there’s no way to access the elevator shaft. Until security guard Sully comes up with a crazy plan.

At gunpoint, they release Konecheck, an inmate who’s mods give him superhuman strength, and get him to pry the doors open. But there’s no maintenance latter to be seen.

However, Clarissa spots a wall panel with a hinge. Amos get’s one of the guards to shoot two holes in the panel and then get’s Konecheck, who he’s calling Tiny, much to the big inmate’s distaste, to pry open the panel, revealing the much needed ladder.

The plan is to send up one guard to make holes in the subsequent panels for Tiny to pry open. It will be slow going, but it’s their only way out.

They draw lots, and Sullivan is chosen to go up with Konecheck.

A while later, the ones waiting below hear a scream as Sullivan’s body comes crashing down.

Konecheck claims the guard lost his grip and fell.

He’s almost at the top so Rona, refusing to split up again, goes up to complete the job with the others trailing behind on the ladder.

They start to get the feel for their situation when they see daylight at the top of the shaft where a whole building should be.

When they reach the top they see the devastation. The entire prison building has been destroyed.

While everyone is distracted, Konecheck kills the guard Morris and disarms Rona, tossing her gun down the elevator shaft.

Amos tries to fight the inmate, but the mans mods make him no match for Amos.

Clarissa tries to activate her mods to help but the blockers she’s on are still in effect.

As Konecheck walks Amos over to the shaft, Rona uses Morris’ gun, still clutched in his dead hand so the override the biolock and shoots the big inmate allowing Amos to throw Konecheck down the elevator shaft.

Rona, still in shock can only think of her daughter. Amos tells her to leave and go find her kid.

Left alone, Amos and Clarissa have nothing left to do but find their way out of there.

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On board the Razorback AKA the ScreamingFirehawk, Alex is torn between his loyalty to Mars and his loyalty to Holden. He wan’t to help Jim find the Protomolecule, but Bobbie reminds him that there’s nothing they can do from where they are. However, there is something they can do to help Mars.

When the Barkeith and her escorts kill their transponders and alter their direction, Alex and Bobbie try to covertly find out where they’re heading.

By their trajectory, it looks like they’re going to intersect w...