Joe Miller quotes from The Expanse

Joe Miller

[after almost suffocating Vargas] Air is good, don't you think? Air is nice. Keep those filters clean, asshole.

Anderson Dawes

How much are they paying you to find her? I'm not judging, I'm just curious to know what your rate is, in case I need you to suit up for a different side.

Joe Miller

What side would that be?

Anderson Dawes

An Earth Corp may pay your salary, but you were born here. Lived your whole life on Ceres. I think that under that ridiculous hat there's a Belter yearning to find his way home.

Joe Miller

Patron saint of lost causes. I'm all choked up.

Anderson Dawes

Have I answered all your questions, Detective?

Joe Miller

You haven't answered any of my questions. You took a young, naive, rich girl - with daddy issues -

Anderson Dawes

- stop -

Joe Miller

- and got inside her head -

Anderson Dawes

Stop. Now I'm getting choked up.

Joe Miller

You took an innocent kid and you forced her to do your dirty work.

Anderson Dawes

No! She came to me. Asked me to help her. She knew what she was doing. She was willing to make a sacrifice for us. It's more than you.

Joe Miller

She trusted you, she put herself in your hands 'cause she couldn't see the blood on 'em. Just like your sister. Isn't that right? Wasn't she like 15 when you let her die out on the Belt? Sure. It's part of the legend you like to leave out.

Anderson Dawes

Would you like me to tell you the real story?

Joe Miller

I'm sure you've told so many lies about it you don't even remember what happened.

Joe Miller

So, you killed her.

Anderson Dawes

And that makes me a monster. There was no scrip to bury her, so I laid her to rest in a beautiful bauxite tunnel that we discovered together. Do you know it is possible to cry so hard that your tears turn to blood? And living with this pain, I came to realize that I have millions of brothers and sisters in the Belt. I even count you among them. As I did Julie, an Earther.

Joe Miller

So, everybody dies for the cause, except for you.

Anderson Dawes

Now I'll tell you the truth about Julie.

Joe Miller

Just tell me if she's alive.

Anderson Dawes

If she was here right now, she'd spit in your face. You're everything she despised. A Belter who preys on his own kind. Welwala... Die as you lived.

Holden

Listen, I hope you understand if I ask you to sit this one out. Close quarters battle can get kinda hairy.

Miller

What the hell use would I ever be on a ship? Nah, Im going down with the assault team.

Holden

Have you seen the breaching pod? Its a beer can taped to a rocket. You're not going to like the ride.

Miller

Fred's trying to land 50 pissed off Belters and seven different OPA factions on that station. I mean, somebody's gotta keep these idiots from shooting each other. Oh, I ain't sitting this one out.

Miller

What are you slowing down for? You're doing fine...

Holden

Where the hell have you been?!?

Miller

Ah, gonna get to the crime scene, gonna check out the clues...

Holden

No! No more crime stories! I wanna know exactly what you know!

Miller

"Oh, so you want to talk about the non-local quantum hologram, the phase-conjugate adaptive waves resonating in micro-tubules in the brain, which of course require some closed timeline curves and Lorentzian manifold, and…You catch up, I’ll wait"

Holden

So, crime scene...

Miller

Crime scene! We gotta go! Come on, to the station, to the nucleus...

Holden

That, that thing in the middle of the place that grabbed the ship and the torpedoes...

Miller

[gesturing that Holden is right] I gotta case to solve and you want the truth...

Holden

You seem different...

Miller

Well, my signal's pretty good inside the ring, it's uh, it's [really] good - you're coming or not?