The Expanse (TV Series)

Strange Dogs (2021)

Shohreh Aghdashloo: Chrisjen Avasarala

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• Chrisjen Avasarala : Hmm. Come?

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : You wanted to see me, ma'am?

  Chrisjen Avasarala : I never thought I'd actually enjoy this sensation. Maybe it's the lack of sensation. The whole planet not pulling me down for once.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : I can come back if you like.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : No. A little help? Time for your performance review.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : My what?

  Chrisjen Avasarala : You hate this job.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : Yes, ma'am, I do. I understand. I'll step down...

  Chrisjen Avasarala : If I don't get the easy way out, neither do you. Your problem is that you're a Marine. You're sick of doing nothing.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : So are you.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : So is the whole fucking planet. I just received word from Holden. He believes they've located an Inaros spotter ship. They're going to check it out, see if they're right.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : If they are, that would be good.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : Fuck good. We need better than good. We're wounded, broken, trying desperately to keep ourselves going by pretending we're not. Gutting through it all, wearing down. Little wins here and there will not hold us together. We need more than that. Something big. Something to give us a reason to hope.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : You have something in mind?

  Chrisjen Avasarala : I do.

• Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : MCRN Denali linked tracking with UNN Farragut, and in conjunction with Sentinal-16, the combined railgun barrage destroyed the three incoming rocks.

  Gareth : I used to like shooting stars.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : I never did. Secondary impacts?

  Gareth : Four significant fragments made it to ground, two striking populated areas. Total casualties under 500.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : Don't try to make it sound like a success.

  Gareth : Well, I-I wasn't, ma'am, but we have knocked down nearly every rock Marco Inaros has thrown at us for the last six months. That's 200 individual strikes.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : And he has kept what's left of our fleet pinned down doing it, while he makes every station and rock hopper in the Belt pledge allegiance to his so-called fucking Free Navy.

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : Mars has assured us there will be one more Donnager class operational within the month.

  Gareth : And we'll have three more battleships ready for deployment by year's end. The yards are working around the clock.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : It's like a goddamn nuclear winter. Have you read the latest biospheric assessment?

  Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper : Not yet.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : Repurposing our atmospheric CO2 scrubbers isn't working. Not well enough. Meteoric contaminants are still rising, even faster than before. Every rock kills us a little more, even when they miss. I gave a speech at that facility when it opened eleven years ago, almost to the day. I toured those fields. The corn was ready to harvest. The stalks were so heavy they bent.