After the battle on Ganymede, Bobbie is rescued by the MCRN and asked to report the events, which her superiors don't believe. On Earth, Avasarala demands a peace summit between Earth and Mars to prevent further escalation of the tension, in which both planets believed the other fired first on Ganymede. On Tycho Station, Anderson Dawes is asked to represent the Belt in negotiations for peace with Earth and Mars, but Dawes convinces the Belters that Earth and Mars will never respect the Belt. Bobbie is told to go to Earth to the peace summit and to tell Earth that Mars fired first accidentally, despite Bobbie remembering the presence of an inhuman figure that the UN marines were firing at and fleeing from. On Tycho, Dawes becomes aware of Cortazar's presence and knowledge; Cortazar is later found missing from his cell, leading Alex and Naomi to chase after an escaping ship, only to find Diogo aboard and Dawes and Cortazar gone.
This episode contains the following tropes:
- Contrived Coincidence: Holden just happens to wake up at the same time that Dawes is leaving the station with Cortazar.
- Decoy Getaway: Diogo takes a ship on an obvious escape flight from Tycho Station, drawing pursuit while Dawes takes Cortazar on a different ship.
- Gaslighting: Given the reveal later in the season that Mars was working with Jules-Pierre Mao and helped engineer the Ganymede incident, it becomes clear that this is what Martens and Thorsen were doing to Bobbie in this episode.
