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The Expanse

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Spoiler-free to End of Season 1 · Episode 10 "Leviathan Wakes"

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The Expanse · S02E01

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Season 1 opens on Ceres and an ice hauler. Julie Mao is missing. The Canterbury is still flying.

The Canterbury is gone. Four survivors are on a stolen Martian ship. Miller is still looking for Julie. Eros has not happened.

Season 1 ends at Eros. The Rocinante crew survived. The protomolecule is real. Miller stayed with Julie's case on the station.

Earth, Mars, and the Belt have incomplete pictures and maximal distrust. Fred Johnson is in the OPA picture. No one has a safe moral hold on the sample.

Canterbury destroyed; Rocinante born.

Miller and Julie/protomolecule.

Eros horror.

Season bridge: everything above is end of Season 1. S02E01 ("Safe") has not started.

Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S01E10. Do not import anything from S02E01 ("Safe") or later.

Key events (pre-cutoff)

01The Canterbury was destroyed. Four survivors hold a stolen MCRN ship. Miller has not reached Eros.
02Eros was infected. The protomolecule is real. The Rocinante crew survived Season 1.
03S1: Canterbury destroyed; Rocinante born.
04S1: Miller and Julie/protomolecule.
05S1: Eros horror.

Character status cards

Snapshots as of graph ordinal ≤ 10 (S01E10).

James Holden

alive

Captain of the Rocinante

Loc. Rocinante / Eros aftermath

Motivation: Truth; protect the crew
Emotional state: Haunted
Last known: Season 1 ends after Eros. The crew has a ship. The sample is not a solved moral problem.

Allies

Naomi, Amos, Alex

Threats

Factions hunting the ship, protomolecule

Naomi Nagata

alive

Engineer

Loc. Rocinante

Motivation: Keep the four alive; Belt justice
Emotional state: Load-bearing
Last known: Season 1 close: still the reason the Roci flies. S2 war is not this pack.

Allies

Holden, Amos, Alex

Threats

Inner-planet politics

Joe Miller

unknown

Detective who stayed with the case

Loc. Eros

Motivation: Julie
Emotional state: Past the job
Last known: Season 1 climax: Miller is on Eros with the Julie/protomolecule story. He is not a passenger on the Roci.

Allies

Holden crew (uneasy)

Threats

The station

Shed Garvey

dead

Medic

Loc. Canterbury wreck

Motivation: -
Emotional state: -
Last known: Died with the Canterbury. The Roci four are who remain.

Juliette Mao

Julie

dead

The case that ended

Loc. Eros

Motivation: -
Emotional state: -
Last known: Season 1: Julie's trail ends in the Eros outbreak. S2 is not this pack.

Chrisjen Avasarala

alive

UN deputy undersecretary

Loc. Earth / UN

Motivation: Stop a war she can smell
Emotional state: Acid and tired
Last known: Season 1: she is in the inner-planet game. S2 campaigns are not this pack.

Threats

Mars, OPA, whoever owns the sample

Amos Burton

alive

Mechanic / muscle

Loc. Rocinante

Motivation: Protect the people he chooses
Emotional state: Flat, loyal
Last known: With the crew after Eros. No S2 hybrid war yet.

Allies

Naomi, Holden

Threats

Anyone threatening the crew

Alex Kamal

alive

Pilot

Loc. Rocinante

Motivation: Fly; belong
Emotional state: Steady
Last known: Piloted the Roci through Season 1. S2 is not on the board.

Allies

crew

Threats

War traffic

Fred Johnson

alive

OPA / Tycho

Loc. Tycho

Motivation: Belt leverage
Emotional state: Calculating
Last known: Season 1: Fred is in the picture. The system is not at S2 war.

Allies

OPA

Threats

Inners

Continuity web

Relationship map

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9 figures13/13 ties shownhub: James (6)

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Open threads

Aftermath of season 1

high

Major season beats resolved enough to continue; open costs remain.

Who cares: core cast

Path to now

S1E01 · Belt

Dulcinea

Julie is missing. The Canterbury still flies.

S1E05 · Belt

Back to the Butcher

Four survivors. Stolen Martian ship. No Eros yet.

S1E10 · Eros

Leviathan Wakes

Eros. Protomolecule. The Roci crew lives. Miller stays.

World state

Julie Mao is missing. Holden is still XO on the Canterbury. Miller is a Ceres cop.
Status quo at season end is the baseline for the next stretch.

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