Inside The Expanse s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
We have a whole team that helps with the anti-gravity stuff.
It looks amazing, but actually hanging in the air by your private parts, on a wire, isn't that fun.
But you know, you do it for the end result.
Please! Get me out of here! Traditionally in Sci-Fi, you begin with a shot of space and a spaceship crossing the frame.
And there was something very cool about starting in a little storage locker with somebody who's trapped, and you don't have the full context of what is happening and then little-by-little, as she breaks out of the locker, you start to get context.
The whole floating thing, that's quite challenging.
It's fun, super-fun, but at the same time you know, you have to be very much aware of every little movement, everything you touch causes a reaction, and at the same time you're just reacting to the drama that's going on.
I knew that a lot of the technical stuff was hanging on the slings, and you know, people are going to be pulling me up and down, and being pushed around and shaken up, and just a lot of it was basically just having to be in the moment.
Breathing helps a lot.
Ceres was covered in ice.
Ceres, we think of it as sort of New York.
Has a large port, a lot of shipments go through there.
it's sort of a way station between Mars and Earth.
They've spun-up the asteroid to give it gravity, and then they essentially quarred it out, using giant drilling machines.
So you have untold riches that flow through its port.
Yet the Belters who service the ships, and who unload and load them, you know, really don't get to much dissipate in the riches of the system, and that's part of their big right.
Every time we demand to be heard, they hold back our water.
Watch your eyes.
People get killed over a wrong look around here.
Hey, you, Badge.
- Welwala.
- What is welwala? "Traitor to my people.
" Miller, he is the guy who's at war with his own identity.
He's a Belter born and raised, but he's also identified with the power structure against Belters, so he victimizes the people that he's a part of.
You know, he's a guy sinking.
And you should feel that he is the guy who's compromised, and you know, if Julie Mao didn't come along, Miller would just kind of fade out like a red sun and disappear.
So, what's my contract exactly? Find Julie Mao, if she's still here on Ceres, detain her, and ship her home.
Kidnap job.
My pleasure.
It's been a long time comin'.
- Are you kidding? - No.
I thought I was getting my walking papers.
What for? Fraternizing with our navigator, for starters.
- What? - When we meet Holden, Holden has spent his whole life trying to answer to nobody.
He's run, he's run from any major responsibility for other people.
He wants his life to be simple, and loves being on the Canterbury with all these other outcasts.
Shooting anti-gravity sucks, 'cause it's far more complicated set of circumstances than one might think.
I mean, we we're on wires that were being pulled manually by people.
It was far less enjoyable then I kind of was hoping it to be.
Warning.
Gravity hazard.
I think ultimately, you know, it's real, it's part of human nature.
Just because we're out in space doesn't mean that, you know, we've changed as a as a species.
Hey, Paj, how's the arm? Looking good.
Still got a few nerves, though.
We really bent over backwards to make that environment feel homey and real, and give the ship a lot of character and people you felt like there's going to be all sorts of interesting relationships that are gonna happen over the course of episodes.
A ship just appeared near your location.
How is that possible? You cleared us out to a million clicks.
The only way you feel lost, like you do at the end of episode one, is if you truly believe that this is the place that you gonna be with for a very long time, that these are the people that you gonna be spending a series with.
Torpedo launch! We're gonna take 'em for a ride.
Alex, go around the asteroid.
Run 'em! Now! So when the Canterbury gets blown up at the end, it's really a shock.
Canterbury, burn like hell, you've got incoming! That whole lead after the end of the episode, I find this very emotional when, you know, that last moment perhaps, between Ade and Holden before the ship evaporates, that still gets me.
There's something you should know She's gone.
It looks amazing, but actually hanging in the air by your private parts, on a wire, isn't that fun.
But you know, you do it for the end result.
Please! Get me out of here! Traditionally in Sci-Fi, you begin with a shot of space and a spaceship crossing the frame.
And there was something very cool about starting in a little storage locker with somebody who's trapped, and you don't have the full context of what is happening and then little-by-little, as she breaks out of the locker, you start to get context.
The whole floating thing, that's quite challenging.
It's fun, super-fun, but at the same time you know, you have to be very much aware of every little movement, everything you touch causes a reaction, and at the same time you're just reacting to the drama that's going on.
I knew that a lot of the technical stuff was hanging on the slings, and you know, people are going to be pulling me up and down, and being pushed around and shaken up, and just a lot of it was basically just having to be in the moment.
Breathing helps a lot.
Ceres was covered in ice.
Ceres, we think of it as sort of New York.
Has a large port, a lot of shipments go through there.
it's sort of a way station between Mars and Earth.
They've spun-up the asteroid to give it gravity, and then they essentially quarred it out, using giant drilling machines.
So you have untold riches that flow through its port.
Yet the Belters who service the ships, and who unload and load them, you know, really don't get to much dissipate in the riches of the system, and that's part of their big right.
Every time we demand to be heard, they hold back our water.
Watch your eyes.
People get killed over a wrong look around here.
Hey, you, Badge.
- Welwala.
- What is welwala? "Traitor to my people.
" Miller, he is the guy who's at war with his own identity.
He's a Belter born and raised, but he's also identified with the power structure against Belters, so he victimizes the people that he's a part of.
You know, he's a guy sinking.
And you should feel that he is the guy who's compromised, and you know, if Julie Mao didn't come along, Miller would just kind of fade out like a red sun and disappear.
So, what's my contract exactly? Find Julie Mao, if she's still here on Ceres, detain her, and ship her home.
Kidnap job.
My pleasure.
It's been a long time comin'.
- Are you kidding? - No.
I thought I was getting my walking papers.
What for? Fraternizing with our navigator, for starters.
- What? - When we meet Holden, Holden has spent his whole life trying to answer to nobody.
He's run, he's run from any major responsibility for other people.
He wants his life to be simple, and loves being on the Canterbury with all these other outcasts.
Shooting anti-gravity sucks, 'cause it's far more complicated set of circumstances than one might think.
I mean, we we're on wires that were being pulled manually by people.
It was far less enjoyable then I kind of was hoping it to be.
Warning.
Gravity hazard.
I think ultimately, you know, it's real, it's part of human nature.
Just because we're out in space doesn't mean that, you know, we've changed as a as a species.
Hey, Paj, how's the arm? Looking good.
Still got a few nerves, though.
We really bent over backwards to make that environment feel homey and real, and give the ship a lot of character and people you felt like there's going to be all sorts of interesting relationships that are gonna happen over the course of episodes.
A ship just appeared near your location.
How is that possible? You cleared us out to a million clicks.
The only way you feel lost, like you do at the end of episode one, is if you truly believe that this is the place that you gonna be with for a very long time, that these are the people that you gonna be spending a series with.
Torpedo launch! We're gonna take 'em for a ride.
Alex, go around the asteroid.
Run 'em! Now! So when the Canterbury gets blown up at the end, it's really a shock.
Canterbury, burn like hell, you've got incoming! That whole lead after the end of the episode, I find this very emotional when, you know, that last moment perhaps, between Ade and Holden before the ship evaporates, that still gets me.
There's something you should know She's gone.