The Best The Expanse, Season 3, Episode 1 Quotes

Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper: Hitch your tits and pucker up, it's time to peel the paint!

- Now we're anonymous.
- I need to stow my suit.
- Take off all that tinsel.
- Is this really the time for fashion advice?
- At six g's, that junk will tear your head off.
- You decide.

- Do you think that she would offer the protomolecule to Mars?
- Anything's possible when she realizes she's no longer safe.
- What do you want me to do?
- Apprehend her, at all costs.

- Go, Bobbie, get out of here.
- Shut up.
- Pick it up.
- I don't want to. Pick it up!
- If anyone else but me comes through that door, you put them on the ground.
- Don't you dare leave us here.

- It's fine.
- Is it?
- Because you seem like you're in a lot of pain, and I just...
- I'm good.
- I'm good.
- Okay.

- but that would be playing yesterday's game.
- And there's no longer time for that, because now the belt is in a position to become an equal player, because I have the inners' weapon, and you have the key to harnessing that weapon.
- The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful.

- A way forward for the belt.
- Now that blue siren has got you dreaming about bigger things. Huh?
- When I'm pissed off, you normally have the good sense to stay the hell away for a couple of days, and it's been two hours.
- So what is it you want?

Naomi: Reactor shielding's intact.
- Nothing critical damaged.
- Boys_.
- There any more residual protomolecule back there?
Alex: No, I think we 're square.
- All right, head in.

- I thought we had a deal.
- New deal.
[Grunts] I was rooting for you. Oh, it's what kept me going.
- I need you to help me take control of the ship.
- I'm just a junior electrician.
- Well, today you get to be a hero.

- Get behind me.
- This is gonna get ugly.
- Don't shoot. We're unarmed.
- We're just a flight crew.

- Automated voice: Prepare for clamp release.
- Shall we shove off now, please?
- Sit still, you're gonna need it.
- Get me off this ship!
- Hitch your tits and pucker up.
- It's time to peel the paint.
- Shit!

Naomi: Guys, check your alerts.
- We're about to be in the middle of a war zone.
- We'll need a new transponder name and drive signature.
- This ship would be a prize for either side.
Naomi: Copy that.

- What happened to him?
- That wasn't Mei on our ship.
- There was nothing human in those eyes.
- I'll probably never know.
- I got to learn to live with that.
- Not knowing.

- And we have. Lhave.
- 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.

- Tycho is the only way we survive.
- I assure you,
- Fred Johnson will help us...
Amos: Io.
- Fuckithnin. Amos_
- Me too.
- I'll go set a course.

[to a frustrated Holden after he smashes the coffee maker]
Praxideke: You should try tea.

- But that doesn't mean that for one second
- I did not love you, both of you, very, very much.
Alex: We are rigged for silent running.

- We've got no friends, no safe harbor.
- We are living on borrowed time if we don't get this ship parked.
- Get us to tycho, and you'll never have to see my face again.
Alex: Come on, let's finish this up.
- All right, bring it in.

- Tycho?
- It's the only way to keep the crew breathing and out of a martian gulag.
- Fred Johnson's the devil we know.
- And he owes us, because of Naomi.
- Let me know when everything's finished.

- The hangar bay won't open. What?
- It's the countermeasures.
- When the ship's under threat, everything goes into lockdown.
- Find us another way. I'm sorry.
- At full burn, the bay will never open.
- Stay here.

- I'll be right back.
- You're fired!

- I believe earth is over.
- This is happening on my watch.
- I get to wear this, not you.
- Sir, in five years,
- Mars will have the strength to impose their will on the system, to shut earth off from the resources of the belt.
- I mean, at that point, we may as well be their colony.

- They're good company.
- Actually quite fascinating.
- In order for them to survive, they have to die with fire.
- The seeds come out of the fire.
- C-o-n-t-o-r-t-a.
- That's the wisdom of the pines.

- We're not done here.
- Look, just look in 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.
- She's not the person
- I thought she was.

- No one knows what the protomolecule wants or what it's doing, but they are using it anyway.
- Earth has it, Mars has it, and the belt needs it too.
- Naomi...
- What did you do?
- I gave the protomolecule to Fred Johnson.

- Man 3 on radio: And imperialism of earth for far too long.
- And now their actions have brought us to the brink.
- If they wish to test us in battle, we are ready.
- We will not back down.
- Our people are united in purpose.
- Mars shall prevail.

- We need to be ready.
- A cathedral converted into a warship...
- Sounds like the heart of a great and lasting nation.
- I need you.
- Will you go?
- Can I finish my drink first?

Theo: [Holding up the module he's recovered as the warning klaxons sound] I got it!
Chrisjen: You've done your planet a great service.
Cotyar: She says that to everyone. Let's go!

- I want a formal declaration of war.
- You heard the secretary general.
- Let's go.
- Get this clear, people.
- I need five scenarios, including exit strategies.
- Joe, go with her.

- Ice water in my veins under pressure.
- That's why you hired me, right?
- It's gonna be okay. Okay?
- Don't forget your antibiotics.
- I won't.
- Good job, marine.
- Same to you, spy.

- Go, go, go, go!
- Just gonna teakettle nice and easy out into the big empty.
- And then what happens?
- I'm interested to find that out myself.
- Powering up.

- when we hit high six gs.
- Even if you escape the missiles, the UN will fire on your drop ship when they come to mop up.
- The UN fire on an unarmed ship bearing their own flag?
- They'll need to find out ifyou're on board.
- So we'll be all right.

- You told him?
- New day, new bedfellows.
- We can't afford to be shortsighted right now.
- You're crawling into bed with Anderson dawes...
- Who incited my belters into nearly firing missiles at earth, who nearly destroyed tycho and got both of us killed.