1 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:03,196 Before season five, 2 00:00:03,216 --> 00:00:05,021 let's go back in time. 3 00:00:05,041 --> 00:00:07,021 Fred Johnson and Amos Burton 4 00:00:07,041 --> 00:00:09,291 have been with us since season one. 5 00:00:09,401 --> 00:00:11,556 One became a leader of the Belt. 6 00:00:11,576 --> 00:00:14,681 The other became the Rocinante's mechanic. 7 00:00:14,701 --> 00:00:16,156 Two short stories, 8 00:00:16,176 --> 00:00:17,906 The Butcher of Anderson Station 9 00:00:17,926 --> 00:00:19,031 and The Churn, 10 00:00:19,051 --> 00:00:19,656 show who they 11 00:00:19,676 --> 00:00:21,206 were before we met them. 12 00:00:21,226 --> 00:00:22,535 Spoilers ahead! 13 00:00:23,299 --> 00:00:25,729 Story one: Fred Johnson. 14 00:00:25,749 --> 00:00:27,104 Years before season one, 15 00:00:27,124 --> 00:00:27,929 he is a colonel 16 00:00:27,949 --> 00:00:30,399 in the United Nations Marines. 17 00:00:30,504 --> 00:00:31,628 On Anderson Station, 18 00:00:31,648 --> 00:00:33,899 a small station in the Belt, 19 00:00:33,919 --> 00:00:34,849 Belters fed up 20 00:00:34,869 --> 00:00:37,424 with crushing taxes take control. 21 00:00:37,444 --> 00:00:39,574 Fred is ordered to take it back. 22 00:00:39,594 --> 00:00:41,574 His marines storm in. 23 00:00:41,594 --> 00:00:43,574 More than a thousand people die, 24 00:00:43,594 --> 00:00:45,175 most of them civilians. 25 00:00:45,885 --> 00:00:47,935 Earth calls Fred a hero. 26 00:00:47,955 --> 00:00:49,410 The Belt calls him the Butcher 27 00:00:49,430 --> 00:00:51,110 of Anderson Station. 28 00:00:51,130 --> 00:00:52,860 Then he learns the truth. 29 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,710 The station had tried to surrender, 30 00:00:54,730 --> 00:00:57,005 and his own superiors hid it. 31 00:00:57,035 --> 00:00:59,415 The killing never needed to happen. 32 00:00:59,435 --> 00:01:01,640 Fred walks away from Earth and joins 33 00:01:01,660 --> 00:01:03,540 the Outer Planets Alliance, 34 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,315 the people he once fought. 35 00:01:05,335 --> 00:01:05,865 That is how 36 00:01:05,885 --> 00:01:08,566 the Butcher ends up running Tycho Station. 37 00:01:09,304 --> 00:01:11,734 Story two: Amos Burton. 38 00:01:11,754 --> 00:01:13,734 Back then, he goes by Timmy. 39 00:01:13,754 --> 00:01:14,934 He grew up in the slums 40 00:01:14,954 --> 00:01:16,564 of Baltimore, a child 41 00:01:16,584 --> 00:01:18,734 no system ever registered. 42 00:01:18,759 --> 00:01:19,839 He works as muscle 43 00:01:19,859 --> 00:01:22,339 for a crime boss named Burton. 44 00:01:22,359 --> 00:01:23,444 His best friend, 45 00:01:23,464 --> 00:01:26,404 Erich, forges fake IDs for the gang. 46 00:01:26,424 --> 00:01:28,154 Lydia, a woman who looks out 47 00:01:28,174 --> 00:01:29,904 for him, is the closest thing he 48 00:01:29,924 --> 00:01:30,992 has to a mother. 49 00:01:31,693 --> 00:01:33,123 Then comes the churn, 50 00:01:33,143 --> 00:01:36,043 a police crackdown on Baltimore's gangs. 51 00:01:36,178 --> 00:01:37,823 Afraid of who might talk, 52 00:01:37,843 --> 00:01:40,248 Burton orders Timmy to kill Erich. 53 00:01:40,268 --> 00:01:42,673 Timmy kills Burton instead. 54 00:01:42,693 --> 00:01:45,323 Erich repays him with Burton's own identity 55 00:01:45,343 --> 00:01:47,098 and a ticket off Earth. 56 00:01:47,118 --> 00:01:49,973 That's how Timmy becomes Amos Burton. 57 00:01:49,993 --> 00:01:51,323 Years later, he signs 58 00:01:51,343 --> 00:01:52,881 on with the Canterbury. 59 00:01:53,635 --> 00:01:56,690 Fred and Amos carry these stories with them. 60 00:01:56,710 --> 00:01:58,940 Fred has spent every year since Anderson 61 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,110 trying to make peace for the Belt. 62 00:02:01,190 --> 00:02:03,870 Amos left Baltimore and Lydia behind, 63 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:05,695 and he has never gone back. 64 00:02:05,715 --> 00:02:07,180 That is about to change, 65 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,630 when each of the crew goes off 66 00:02:08,650 --> 00:02:10,780 to face something from the past. 67 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,056 Next up: season five.