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Welcome to The Expanse, season one.

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It's the twenty-third century.

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Earth is crowded and powerful.

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Mars is a young military power,

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slowly turning its red deserts green.

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And Belters mine the asteroids,

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tired of being pushed around.

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Nobody trusts anybody.

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Three stories start far apart,

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and by the end, they collide.

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Spoilers ahead!

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Story one: the Canterbury.

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Jim Holden is an officer

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on an ice hauler,

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carrying water from Saturn's rings

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to thirsty stations in the Belt.

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Out here, water is life.

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One day, the crew answers

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a distress call

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from a drifting ship called the Scopuli.

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It's a trap.

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Mystery ships destroy the Canterbury,

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and only five people escape

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in a shuttle:

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Holden, Naomi, Amos,

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Alex, and Shed.

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Holden finds a Martian part

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on the trap and blames Mars

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on an open broadcast,

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and the Belt erupts.

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A Martian warship,

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the Donnager, picks them up,

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then gets destroyed

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by the same stealthy ships.

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The crew escapes

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in a small Martian ship,

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the Tachi, and renames it the Rocinante.

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At Tycho Station,

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Fred Johnson of the Outer Planets Alliance,

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the OPA, helps them start hunting for answers.

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Story two: Ceres.

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Detective Joe Miller is a Belter cop

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with a battered hat

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and a side job:

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find Julie Mao,

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the runaway daughter

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of a rich Earth family.

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Ceres is crowded,

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thirsty, and tense,

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and Miller has seen it all.

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But the deeper he digs,

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the stranger it gets.

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Julie was on the Scopuli,

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the same ship that lured

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in the Canterbury.

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Miller won't drop the case,

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so his boss fires him.

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Miller follows Julie's trail to Eros,

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a busy station in the Belt,

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and runs straight into Holden's crew.

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The cynic and the idealist make

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an odd pair.

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Together they find Julie,

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but too late.

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She was infected by something alien, the protomolecule.

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And the company that found it,

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Protogen, is about to test it

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on everyone aboard Eros.

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Story three: Earth.

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Chrisjen Avasarala is a top United Nations

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official with sharp words and sharper instincts.

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She'll work with anyone,

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swear at anyone,

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and she's always thinking three moves ahead.

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While everyone else blames Mars

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or the Belt,

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she asks a better question:

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who actually gains from a war?

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She reaches out to Mars through

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an old friend,

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and the conspiracy pushes back.

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Following the money,

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Avasarala finds that the stealth ships

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were built in Earth's own shipyards

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for private contractors.

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The attacks on the Canterbury

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and the Donnager were designed

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to make Earth,

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Mars, and the Belt blame each other.

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The trail points to Jules-Pierre Mao,

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Julie's father, and to her own boss, Sadavir Errinwright.

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Someone on Earth wants this war.

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In the finale,

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Eros falls to the protomolecule,

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and Holden and Miller fight

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their way back to the Rocinante.

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The crew has become a family,

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Miller has a new purpose,

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and Avasarala knows who her enemies are.

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Three stories, one conspiracy,

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and a solar system that will never

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be the same.

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Next up: season two.