Alex Kamal quotes from The Expanse

Alex

Hey ya’ll. This is Alex, your daddy. Well I mean, your husband and your daddy. This feels kind of awkward actually, talking like we all don’t know each other. But I guess it’s…it has been a while. You know, you might not even recognize me little guy. So I should have called you after the Donnager, I know. Well, I guess I’m doing it now right? Better late than never. Sorry. I know you hate when I say that. Look. I just want to make sure ya’ll are safe, with everything that’s been going on right now. I don’t think Earth would ever bomb mars, but people have been acting real crazy lately. So you pay extra special attention to those drills at school, all right cowboy. You listen to what the government and you mama tells you. It’ll keep you safe. I’ve been an awful husband…and a worse father. I know. I’m just trying…I’m just trying to do some good out here. And we have. I have. I think uh…I think this is what I’ve always really wanted to do….more than I wanted to be there with you. I just could never really tell you that…’cause I don’t think I knew myself. But that doesn’t mean that for one second I did not love you, both of you, very, very much.

Amos

So as far as we know, nobody made it off the Donnie.

Alex

Correct

Amos

And no one knows that we are alive.

Alex

That's right.

Amos

Then who just sent us a message?

Holden

What's up?

Alex

Hey, huh. I just hooked into a feed from Ganymede and... uh, when you sent that message to Fred Johnson, you didn't give him our names or anything, did you?

Holden

No, of course not...

Alex

Well partner, it's gonna be kinda hard for you to stay anonymous now [Stepping aside, revealing the feed from Ganymede with the sign "Remember the Cant" and a stencil of Holden on it]

Amos

[To Holden] Let me know if you want your face to look a little different...

Holden

[To Naomi] You've done this before

Naomi

Yeah, about once a week...

Holden

You're doing great.

Naomi

Transponders are designed not to be tampered with. Civilian models fuse themselves into lumps of molten graphite if they get messed with. We could be a supernova a few seconds from now...

Holden

Well, we won't have to worry about Tycho, would we?

Naomi

We need to give the ship a new name to complete the override.

Alex

Screamin' firehawk

Holden

[Derisive] Yeah, let's advertise we're a gunship...

Alex

Flyin' Alamo

Holden

No!

Naomi

Give me something, please...

Holden

Rocinante!

Alex

Huh?

Holden

It's spanish for...

Amos

...workhorse - I like it. I know a lady named Rocinante, she was good to me.

Naomi

Whatever - punch it...

Alex Kamal

When I first saw that thing outside, for a split second I thought I was hallucinating. But after hearing what went down in that lab, now I wish I kinda had been.

Jim Holden

When the European tall-ships first arrived on the American continent, the natives couldn't see them. The sight was so completely outside of their experience, they just couldn't compute. So they didn't see.

Alex Kamal

Those natives all got wiped out in the end, didn't they? If that thing out there really is some sort of human-protocrap hybrid, then we're yesterday's model. Obsolete.

Alex

We're not done here, but just look at my eyes and tell me the god's honest truth - what were you thinking when Naomi told you what she did? I'm not gonna lie, I didn't know what she was saying 'cause my blood was so hot in my ears...

Amos

[pondering] She's not the person I thought she was...

Alex

It sheared the engines clean off, the rest of the ship's intact. Holy shit, it worked! Right, setting a course for the Razorback

Naomi

We did it!

Holden

Yeah, we sure did. We have two torpedoes left, PDC rounds are under 10% - we're in a war with no bullets...

Alex

We're not the ones at war!

Holden

We are now - you think the UN's going to give us a free pass for sparing lives? We crippled one of their ships - we just declared war on earth!

Alex

We gotta warn Mars!

Naomi

Of course we do, but that asshole on the bridge was right - they may not get them all, and it'll only take a few. I think I have a better idea. Jim, Amos!

Holden

You guys are OK?

Naomi

Yeah. We couldn't reroute all the pods, but we were able to turn their transponders back on. Mars can target them now, but we're worried that they may not get them all.

[In the elevator to the surface] Holden!

Holden

Go! [To Naomi] And if they don't, they'll blame earth and this war will just go on.

Naomi

I know. There's a way that we can shoot all the pods down before they reach Mars: Fred Johnson! He has the missiles he stole from earth, he can destroy those pods.

Holden

You want to send their transponder codes to [Fred Johnson]...

Naomi

Tycho is near their flight path. He could kill a lot, maybe even all if we're lucky.

Holden

If he shoots them down before they reach Mars, the attack never happens.

Naomi

Maybe a path to peace for both sides.

Holden

If he captures them, we're handing him another weapon!

Naomi

I want to do this, but we all have to agree, all of us!

Alex

Alright, I'm in!

Amos

It's worth a shot...

Holden

I agree.

Alex

It's gone...

Holden

What do you mean "it's gone"? It went back out of The Ring?

Alex

No - no, that one looks different. See, the probe maintained the speed limit and then touched the other side of that bubble and then something happened to it, like, uhm, blinked out of existence...

Holden

Well, we should probably keep away from the edges then...

Alex

Yeah, that's a good safety tip. [clears his throat] So, we return and the MCRN catches us and we go straight and we're gonna reach the other side of that bubble.

Holden

We have until then until we figure out another option!

Alex

Amos, stop! Stop! You can't space them!

Amos

Yes, I can...

Alex

This ain't gonna help in here!

[screaming] How about he's crazy!

Amos

You better button up!

Alex

I thought you said they were helping fix the comms...

Amos

They don't know how to fix it, I checked...

Alex

How is this gonna help?

Amos

Well, I was thinking, since the comms are down, the only way to communicate is in person. Mars isn't looking to arrest them for stealing the ship so ... [Gesturing to Monica] You too, put your lid on! I was just gonna send the camera guy, but with the vac suit gloves on ... you know how when he ... [gestures like the camera man] ... I mean, the man is blind... [opens the outer door to the airlock] It's time to go!

Alex

[shouting] Hey, wait! Make sure you tell them we didn't blow up the Sang Youn! Tell them what really happened, please!