ERRINWRIGHT, YOU S.O.B. ! The Expanse - S2 Ep 12 - The Monster and the Rocket - REACTION

[@aartsst3227]

The “Only 52 of us can go” speech brings tears to this man’s eyes every time I watch it…😢 Champa (the big guy) is an example of an Actor who only had a couple small scenes but ABSOLUTELY knocked it out of the freakin park. Fantastic scene in a great episode. Loved your reaction to the little “surprise” at the end….🤣 and Erinwright… whoo buddy. 🤪 I think he was very remorseful after realizing how out of had the protomolecule project had gotten, but realizing that he was going to be blamed for everything- (rightly so it could be argued) his ruthless “earth first at all cost” side came out - big time😬

[@neutchain7838]

Ty Frank ( one of the author ) and Wes Chatham ( Amos ) praised the hell out of him in their podcast. Both said how good he was and way to to get noticed by the producers without trying to interfere of the scene.

[@bigyetter]

Bobby freaks out about the cucumber sandwiches because cucumbers require a ton of water to grow and, therfore, are a rare delicacy to Martians & Belters.

[@RamblersInc]

I need to go back and watch her reaction again. 😂

[@berniezenis4876]

@@RamblersInc I was wondering why that part of the scene did not make the edit. Did you rewatch it?

[@TArnoldFerguson]

As far as the previous episode is concerned, Alex wasn’t really coming down to tell them there was a no-fly zone. He was coming down to recuse them, or pick them up. In other words, he was activating Plan B.

[@LeeCarlson]

One of my favorite "monologues" in this series: "This is the warship Rocinante ... "

[@Iymarra]

One of the badass sci fi lines.

[@LeeCarlson]

@@Iymarra, not to be a spoiler but there are a couple or three more in this series, which you will know when you hear them.

[@neutchain7838]

Not only the line but Holden's delivery. He was pissed already and not in the mood for Mars to start dicking around with a refugee ship.

[@kirkdarling4120]

This is what I think about Errinwright: He had earlier formulated the plan to destroy the Karakum and simultaneously poison Korshinov...we know that because he had the customized enzymatic poison some point earlier, and he said that was difficult to get. Preventing the Martians from getting the Protomolecule hybrid would possibly keep him out of prison, and that was as much as he'd planned at that point. But when Avasarala told him she was going to meet Mao, he quickly realized he had the chance to get rid of Avasarala (the only one who knew the depth of his involvement) and put Mao back under his thumb in one stroke. "You give a monkey a stick, inevitably he will beat another monkey to death with it." I wonder if the writers were referencing the ape sequence of "2001: A Space Odyssey," in which an alien intelligence induced an ape to use a stick as a weapon. On the trip to Mao's yacht, Avasarala revealed her fear, Cotyar revealed his guilt, and Bobbie found a new team to join. Team ABC was born. But...the way Avasarala swagged onto the yacht.... "Scene 52" always manages to squeeze a man-tear out of my eyes. This was a dramatic moment that the series had built up since season 1, the same kind of survivor's guilt that put Miller on Eros with a bomb was driving Naomi to possible suicide to save people she couldn't save from Eros. We know from things like Dawes' story of his sister that Belters understand the "cold equations." The "cold equations" constantly loom as over Belter life. They probably all know someone or of someone who has met that moment...and when given a chance to think, they realized that moment had come for them. The big guy, Champa, was the MVP of the episode, an example of how this series gives juicy dramatic moments to one-off characters that most shows reserve for the main cast. When the Somambulist was lifting from Ganymede, as they were being challenged by the Martians, did you notice that Naomi was again checking out her Protomolecule torpedo?

[@RamblersInc]

Team ABC 😂 I hope that lasts a long time because I’m using that. That storyline with Champa really got me.

[@jamesholland5761]

Wow Mr Kirk, that was beautifully articulated comment! Well said!

[@CamillaDrakenborg]

Awe man, even to reactions of this episode, I cry when he puts Naomi back into the ship lol Big guy is such a mvp!

[@RamblersInc]

That was an amazing and heart breaking scene 😢

[@The_Shaft]

The poison wasnt in his drink, Errinwright said "It was 186 minutes ago." meaning he was poisoned during the play they watched.

[@kirkdarling4120]

The poison was on the theater program, which Errinwright held up before Korshinov's face.

[@minkalampinen9519]

Yep, it was in the brochure he was holding, brilliant delivery system.

[@alessandrogirotto9]

@@kirkdarling4120 we did see him poison Korshikov? i didn't remember

[@davebcf1231]

@@alessandrogirotto9 We didn't actually see it, but he explains it. Right after he holds up the program he explains how the poison he used works.

[@MattNolanCustom]

@@alessandrogirotto9 Errinwright explains the toxin is absorbed through the skin, and that it happened 186 minutes ago - i.e. when Korshanov picked up the programme for his favourite opera that they just went to see.

[@pssthpok]

"I like what Errinwright is doing here." ...incoming reality adjustment... Errinwright did mention that it wasn't the drink, the poison was picked up through skin contact with the show program.

[@RamblersInc]

Yep he got me there. I wasn’t expecting that

[@addickland5656]

And here we have yet another lovely example of why Holden is the MOST dangerous man in the universe with an open comns channel!

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@errnee]

I love bobbie's expressions on Mao's ship, Seeing the cucumber sandwiches and to Christjan telling Mao to get to the point. And again.. The expanse os the best show ever made!

[@cinedelasestrellas]

I never noticed before - at 24:00, that’s the hidden torpedo that contains the protomolecule sample. Naomi is checking on it, or maybe that’s the moment when she sneaks the information of its location to Fred.

[@RamblersInc]

Good catch 👍

[@LeeCarlson]

When Strickland was talking the Mei about the butterfly he was giving more information than we thought. Because a caterpillar is actually completely dissolved and then reconstituted into a butterfly.

[@genghispecan]

Monsters proliferate in this tale, Mao, his monster Caleban, the monster Holden threatens to become in pursuit of his own White Whale of a monster, and the monster that Chrisjen created in the form of Errinwright who in turn believes Chrisjen is the monster for betraying him and Earth in order to eliminate him and take his place.

[@Ajonr]

Ho hum, one more edge of your seat, cliff-hanger ending; just another day in The Expanse. (And, yeah, he planned it. Last minute planning, to be sure, but planned none-the-less.)

[@RamblersInc]

😂 Just another day

[@billross7245]

I refer to this episode as "Titanic meets Aliens". There some nice Easter eggs referencing both films.

[@LeeCarlson]

Chappa doesn't have a shotgun, he just has a stick. However, he IS a Belter and he appeals to the Belter's fatalistic sense of pragmatically utilitarian ethics to get them to recognize the needs of the "community" and accept what needs to be done. Belter's recognize the cold laws of physics, and that if more than 52 of them board the Weeping Somnambulist then Everyone will die.

[@hoos3014]

I believe Champa has the same anchor gun that the Belter thugs used to impale Havelock in S1.

[@RamblersInc]

Gut wrenching seeing him wave and a few of them smile as they accept their fate.

[@chteffie]

The scene where Naomi opens the airlock and faces the crowd is one of my favourites moment in the show it's so heartwrecking. I would like to add a few more words. I think one of the show's shortcomings is that it never really shows the world from the point of view of the belters. (except for a few scenes) We never get into their mindset. It is as the big guy said. Belters know from when they are born that they have it harder than anyone else. Space is unforgiving. If there is not enough oxygen and they are unable to act quickly and keep their mind and choose to sacrifice - then everyone will die. Belters also are the opposite of an individualistic society. In our modern neoliberal societies we get told that everyone has to think about themselves before they think of others. Belters are the opposite. They know that if they don't put their community first, then they all lose. Anderson Dawes has a few quotes in some of his speeches. Like "The more you share the more your bowl will be plentiful.". They're sort of a communist society albeit more like an anarcho-communist and not an auhoritarian communist society - that is one of the points of conflicts between him and Fred Johnson. As such their primary loyalties are with the belters as a whole, secondly with their local community (or faction or tribe), then with their families or chosen families and very last themselves. Also see Diogo's uncle who "sacrificed" himself to save the others and his nephew.

[@RamblersInc]

That's so true. They're almost seen as minor characters. I hope we get to see more. I forgot about his uncle. Sacrifice (in some shape or form) is unfortunately a large part of their lives.

[@adamwells9352]

Agree and well-put.

[@LeeCarlson]

Remember that the protomolecule "mutated" Julie and all of the people in Eros.

[@LeeCarlson]

Holden is no idiot. Anything that can rip through an airlock door (not to mention the other people in the room) is nothing to go after in just spacesuits. Use the Roci and her PDCs.

[@Braincleaner]

This is what The Expanse does better then any other show IMO. Side/supporting characters. Some characters like Lopez & the Cap of the Donenger from S1 or the Big Belter Dude from this ep are just one or two eps characters yet they are so memorable and well fleshed out cos the world they live in is so well crafted. The main cast are brilliant, don't get me wrong, but fuck, does this show shine with is supporting cast be they one scene (like the faux hawk belter protester early S1), a few eps or a season long arc.

[@pssthpok]

*Lifts a glass to Champa* Dude went out a hero.

[@quiett6191]

theres a little story playing out with the extras in that scene. When the women are getting on, an older woman is walking in, but keeps looking back at the men's line. A young man, likely her son, signals to her like "go on. "l'll be right behind you". The next time you see him, its he's almost in a trance as he intently walks as his line is entering, his mind is probably just going "Please, please, please, please, please". When he gets stopped, you just see him sigh, the look on his face reveals how crushed and afraid he feels. Then later, after Champa puts Naomi back on the Sonambulist, and signals "thank you" to her through the plass port, you see the young man over his shoulder, he kinda glares in resigned anger at the pack of Champa's head, then puts on a brave smile, even manages to give a casual wave goodbye. An emotionally effecting small story, told entirely without dialogue, sold just through the performance, in clips that don't even add up to minute of screen time. Damn I love this show.

[@thedrudgetick]

Amazing Episode!

[@neutchain7838]

Erinwright was winging it. He probably planned to kill Korshinov and destroy the Karakum but I think when Avasarala told her about the message she got from Jules-Pierre he realized that this might be a great opportunity to get rid of her and cover up his involvment and just went with the flow. It's not really something he did really, she was gonna go anyway but it aligned perfectly with him killing Korshinov so he could message Mao and get him to do the dirty work. Such good writing and the acting was outstanding, you've seen so many different sides of Sadavir. Really well done. That belter guy in the docks is another example of great acting. He was nothing more than an extra with a few lines but he killed it so hard. Wes Chatham and Ty Frank praised the hell out him and they said he did get noticed by the producers and likely ended up with work in other projects becasue of this scene. Many extras trying to get noticed and disturb the scene in various ways so they often have to stop and reset but this guy impressed the hell out of everyone with his acting. Well deserved in my opinion. Was smiling at the end of last episodes when you guys were wtf that thing just killed 2 squads of marines and Holden wants to hunt him down? Well yeah he had a Martian gunship to apply t othe problem lol. :) His speech at the end and especially the delivery is legendary. Normally they try to go under the Martian's radar but this time he was not in the mood to dick around so he announced it in the clear. Also shows that he was not a bad navy officer, he clearly aware of the bigger picture here. Nobody cares about some refugee ship enough to risk significant damage in their ship when the Karakum was just destroyed by he UN and they were ready to throw it down with them. Also, a masterclass in how to end on a cliffhanger. It should be called "Cliffhanger, the show". Every episodes ends with some peaceful moments before in the very last second something happens and you go..."oh shit"! :)

[@RamblersInc]

He definitely got lucky when she told him she's going to visit him "in secret". Ugh that belter scene really got to us. So unnecessary. Especially seeing as the Roci came with us. Holden AKA Captain Ahab. Cliffhanger, the show. Starring...............

[@scambammer6102]

Expanse writers are great at emotional twists, like this one with Erinwright. Cotyar warned Christjen it was dangerous for her to be the only one to know about Erinwright's treachery.

[@RamblersInc]

I guess he was right. But who else could she trust with that information?

[@IanHillan]

The poison was not in the drink. Korshinov looks at the glass, Errinwright picks it up, drinks it and says, "No, Piotr." Holds the program up and says, "It was 186 minutes ago." He explains that the enzyme is tailored to one person's DNA and is absorbed THRU THE SKIN.

[@RamblersInc]

He's gone from "how is this guy in politics?" to "ok maybe we shouldn't mess with him" 🤣

[@jamesholland5761]

This is probably my second favorite episode in all of television! We'll discuss my number one another time! In this one there were so many moments that were just so damn good! Erinwright is probably the best damn poker player by holding his hand close to the vest till the last moment! Holden obsessed at chasing Moby Dick! Chrisjen displaying her skills with swagger by confronting JP Mao! Naomi's guilt of not saving enough of her people on Eros and trying to right that wrong! You notice her for a brief moment checking on her little secret? We fans affectionately refer to this one as episode " 52" I would never in my mind believe that one character in basically one scene could cause a grown man to cry! Chompa: " You knew on the day you were born that your life would be hard! So let's be tough and do what needs to be done! If we have to stay back? We have to stay back!" " You not finished yet!" 😭 I've seen this episode more times than I can count and it still rips my heart out! Looking forward to the next one!

[@RamblersInc]

That speech from Chompa 😭😭😭

[@Garryck-1]

'We fans affectionately refer to this one as episode "52"' Umm.. that would be "scene 52"... just sayin'

[@obelisk21]

You forget that what prompted Alex to go down to the surface was that he was reacting to a Martian ship that was given clearance to land on the surface near the old part of the station. It is apparent the reason the ship was sent down there was to pick up Strickland.

[@IanHillan]

...to pick up Caliban from the team eating pizza while they waited, as Errinwright said.

[@jesusbasuel]

"oh they're fucked..." 😂 Yep, th'Roci crew defo git inta shite storms fairly regular🤙🏾🙌🏾👍🏾

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

Erinwright you sonofabitch!! 😂 great title lads Watched it this morning. And I really invested in Champa and the belters this time and felt quite upset despite this being a repeated viewing Great stuff in this , but let’s give it up for Roberta Draper and the adorable looks she gives while eating cucumber sandwiches for the first time!!!

[@RamblersInc]

Oh man. That Champa scene. Especially with the rest accepting their fate. 😔 I need to go back and watch her reaction again 😂

[@thomashiggins9320]

Team ABC (Avasarala -- Bobbie -- Cotyar) takes the stage! Boo-yah! 😁 This episode was just a banger! 😎 The writing on this show gives such fantastic scenes to one-off characters who only appear in one or two episodes. Chompa, on the dock, is just the first of many more we'll see.

[@RamblersInc]

Many more?? As in many more scenes like this that rip your heart out? 😩

[@LeeCarlson]

Have you ever considered that the reason that characters may be clean-shaven is because they shave every morning, rather than letting stubble grow? Among other things we are shown Errinwright's attention to detail and when he cuts himself that shows that he's anxious even if it does not show anywhere else.

[@RamblersInc]

True. I misunderstood that cut to be him nervous that he’s going to go down what happened.

[@robertcartier5088]

Errinwright didn't "wing it", as you suggested, and just decide to use the poison on the other guy instead of himself... he specifically said that the poison was genetically designed for one person. It was a contingency plan, not a desperate move. ;-]

[@RamblersInc]

Contingency plan is probably a better way to put it when it comes to Korshinov. But I doubt he planned to kill Chrisjen, even as a backup plan. That seemed like "I need to cover my tracks" kind of move. He's now thinking on his feet.

[@thedrudgetick]

Beltalowda!! 😢😮😢😮

[@RamblersInc]

😢

[@richb313]

The next episode ends season 2

[@bobriemersma]

Ah, if only Naomi had some faith in the crew of the Roci. So many more Belters could have been saved. The Rocinante could have supplemented the oxygen on the Somnambulist.

[@aartsst3227]

remember that Naomi suggested just that, but Melissa (the Ships Captain) overruled her & wanted to leave everyone…. Allowing the 52 onboard was the compromise.

[@RamblersInc]

We got that theory right? Damn, I thought someone would correct us. Ugh what an unnecessary loss.

[@whtz9000]

Frakin L, that was brilliant, was what I said also.

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@pgreen0001]

You asked what she was looking at. I could tell you but it would spoil the last episode of the season. You will know soon enough.