EPISODE

S4E3 · Subduction

New alien threats emerge on Ilus as Naomi battles health challenges on the planet. Bobbie searches for a missing person on Mars. Avasarala faces a new challenge in the UN.

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On Earth, Nancy Gao, a former UN Home Secretary who has resigned from Avasarala's cabinet due to the disagreement over her blockade strategy, runs for UN Secretary General against Avasarala on a pro-expansion platform. Avasarala's aides uncover a nepotistic scheme that benefited Gao in her career; Avasarala has evidence of it discreetly leaked. On Mars, Bobbie learns that the gang has kidnapped David and forced him to work off the debt incurred from her destruction of their lab. Detective Esai Martin, the gang's ringleader, agrees to release David if Bobbie helps them steal military equipment from her workplace. After she eventually complies, Esai releases him. She declines Esai's offer to join his gang. On Ilus, lightning strikes the settlement, damaging the Belters' power generation infrastructure; Amos and Naomi help them repair it. Murtry identifies the Belters responsible for the downing and orders their execution. Holden, accompanied by Alex and RCE biologist Dr. Elvi Okoye, finds another alien structure that was activated; it is displacing wide swathes of ground while moving toward the settlement. Despite Okoye's protests, Holden has Alex destroy the structure with a torpedo from the Rocinante.

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