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This week we continue season 2 of The Expanse with the episode titled "The Seventh Man".
In this week's podcast after sharing some news from The Expanse, I talk about the most recent episode. I end the podcast with some great listener feedback. News
Let's do the physics of knocking an asteroid into the sun.
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On Earth, the U.N. council is trying to make heads or tails of what happened on Ganymede. Errinwright wants to choose an appropriate Martian target and respond. But Chrisjen wants instead to invite Mars to a peace summit. She believes that neither side really wants a war but with tension so high between them it's just a matter of time before it comes to that. She convinces the Secretary General to call a summit.
Bobbie Draper regains consciousness on Ganymede after what looks like a fierce battle took place. Martian troops arrive and retrieve the injured Marine.
Back on board the M.C.R.N. Scirocco, Commander Thorsen informs Bobbie that she's the only survivor from her unit. She's having trouble recalling the events from the battle. She remembers 6 U.N. Marines charging their position but then thinks there may have been a seventh.
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Later, Commander Thorsen records Bobbie's official statement of the incident. As she tries to remember the accounts of what happened, Thorsen tries to put words in her mouth, or at least swing the story in Mars' favour.
She keeps repeating that 7 U.N. Marines were charging their position firing. But Thorsen keeps repeating that they were firing on the Martian Marines. He wants her to say that the U.N. started the fight. Still confused she concedes that the U.N. started the war.
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Later Bobbie is visited by Captain Martens, an M.C.R.N. Chaplain. He tells her that M.C.R.N. command will need her full cooperation regarding the mission on Ganymede but she can talk off the record with him.
He asks her what really happened. She mentions the drone that flew over their position but Martens tells her they have no record of any drone there. When pressed why it's so important she tells him she can't remember.
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When her interrogation continues she takes a stimulant to improve her focus and help her remember things better. With Captain Martens watching remotely, Thorsen continues to question her.
Bobbie realizes that the U.N. Marines were not firing on them, they were running away from the seventh man while firing back on him. When she recalls seeing the seventh man, the monster, not wearing a vac suit, Martens orders the interrogation terminated.
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Later, Thorsen presents Bobbie with the Purple Heart and informs her that she's to attend an emergency summit. Her first-hand account of what happened on Ganymede will be vital to the proceedings. She's to tell them that in the confusion, her team opened fire first on the U.N. Marines. She's shocked and furious but concedes to the chain of command. But then all thoughts are pushed aside as she learns that to tell her account, she's going to Earth.
On Tycho, refugee ships from Ganymede are arriving. As the crew of the Roci are handing out care packets, Anderson Dawes makes a grand entrance. Holden and Naomi each have a different view of the man's methods and motives.
After being called out for his rough behaviour by a child. Amos goes to visit Dr. Cortozar to learn more about the procedure that was done to him. The doctor tells him not to seek out those lost feelings from his past. Instead,