She doesn’t tell Amos not to go on what could very well be a suicide mission instead, she says: “You know, for someone who says they don’t want to be a hero, you sure end up being one a lot.” Amos tells Clarissa he’ll be part of the assault team on the Ring Station, and when she says he can’t leave the Roci without a mechanic, he tells her “The ship’s got one!” The Clarissa redemption arc has come full circle at last. She doesn’t mention it to anyone instead, she heads to the kitchen and makes the Roci crew their first home-cooked meal (using spaceship ingredients, but still) in, well, who knows how long? They enjoy a family dinner together, knowing this is the last moment of tranquility before things get extremely hairy out there. The news isn’t good: thanks to her failing mods, her endocrine system is collapsing, which the computer confirms has no cure. But Clarissa isn’t feeling 100 percent, so she heads to the med bay to run a test. Bobbie and Holden share a memory of Alex Naomi asks Clarissa for a favor, a gesture that’s really more of a peace offering Clarissa calls Amos “boss,” leading Naomi and Amos to reminisce about their own friendship. On the Roci, small moments before the storm. “You’re such a fucking optimist,” she says. Holden, Bobbie, and even Drummer are confident in this crackerjack plan, but Avasarala isn’t sure. They’ll take control of the guns and turn them on Medina Station, forcing the Free Navy to surrender-and will then be poised to blast any enemy ships that manage to make it through the Ring. As Holden explains, they’re going to rendezvous with an ice hauler ( remember the Cant!) that’s been converted into a troop transport carrying an assault team that will target Marco’s rail guns. With stakes that high, you have to hope there’s a back-up plan. If they don’t succeed, Avasarala says, “Marco will hunker down in Medina Station behind his rail guns, in control of our colonies and a thousand systems, dictating the fate of our species for a generation.” “These numbers are too evenly matched for my comfort,” Avasarala murmurs, before snapping “It is this kind of bullshit that has left all of us with fewer ships!” when Drummer and the Martian Admiral give into long-standing tensions and begin snarling at each other. The Free Navy has divided its fleet into three battle groups, so Earth, Mars, and Drummer’s anti-Marco Belters plan to do the same. Next up, the war room, where Avasarala, Drummer, Holden, Bobbie, and other military representatives are gathered to discuss Operation Stop Marco Inaros From Entering the Ring and Getting Behind Those Massive Guns at Medina Station. Then we get another shot of Duarte staring skyward, still pleased as punch. The shot cuts to another look at the floating protomolecule structure, flashing that same color blue. yep, he has that trademark protomolecule blue-o-vision. “If I die, the dogs will fix me.” As she turns to face him, we see her from his POV and. Once she’s alone with Xan, she lets him out and they flee into the forest together. But before they can summon the soldiers for help, Cara tricks them into thinking she’s run away again. Though Cara is still somehow convinced that this alarming creature (who has black eyes and bleeds black blood) is, in fact, her little brother, her mom and dad do the proper thing: freak out and lock Zombie Xan in a closet. ![]() Cara, meanwhile, has reunited with her worried parents, whose relief at seeing her is replaced by abject horror when they see who she’s brought with her: Xan, back from the dead thanks to some Laconian necromancy. We begin again on Laconia, where Admiral Duarte stands alone in the dark, gazing at the protomolecule-fueled structure in the planet’s orbit with quiet glee. First it’s worth noting that “Babylon’s Ashes” clocks in at just over an hour, meaning it’s about 20 minutes longer than any other season six episode (though unlike the other episodes, it doesn’t have an “X-Ray” bonus short attached).
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