Season 3, Episode 9:
Intransigence
Tropes:
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Inverted. Tilly Fagan tells Anna that what she did to get to stay on the Prince is technically extortion, but she prefers the sound of "blackmail".
- Conflicting Loyalty: Naomi, in regards to her roots as a Belter (and loyalty to Drummer in particular) vs. the surrogate family she formed with the Rocinante crew (and her love for Holden in particular). In the end, she chooses to return to the Roci.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Naomi tries to leave the Behemoth quietly, Drummer confronts her about it before she goes. Their conversation—Naomi saying "I love you and I always will", but that she "came back for the wrong reasons" because she was feeling "nostalgic" and "didn't know what [she] was leaving", and Drummer wanting to know why, asking if she herself is "a wrong reason now'', feeling disgusted that Naomi would go back to the people she left, and being hurt that Naomi was going to leave without saying anything to her—feels very much like someone who broke up with a lover and rebounded with a previous ex-partner, only to break it off once more with this ex and return to her previous lover (Naomi), while the feeling is not mutual for for the ex-partner, who still wants to stay together (Drummer).
- Irony: Ashford, sensing that Naomi is feeling torn between her current life in the OPA and her previous life on the Rocinante, tries to help her get over it and see that she belongs on the Behemoth by pointing out to her that she left the Roci for a reason, and the fact that she misses it is just her feeling "nostalgia". In fact, his words are part of what leads her to leave the Behemoth and go back to her crew, as they remind her that she left the OPA for a reason, and left the Roci and came back to the OPA due to that "nostalgia".
- The Reveal: Melba is Clarissa Mao, Julie's sister. She's trying to get revenge on Holden for ruining her father's life.
- Rousing Speech: Drummer gives one of these to the crew of the Behemoth before they go through the Ring and enter the ring zone.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Alex thinks Amos is about to do this to Cohen and Monica. Subverted, as he’s actually making them go on a spacewalk, with vac suits, to the Martian ships to try and persuade them that the crew of the Rocinante are innocent.
- The Unfavorite: Melba's flashbacks show that she was this to Jules-Pierre Mao, compared to Julie. Melba clearly resented the fact that, even though she was the obedient and loyal daughter while Julie was defiant and rebellious, their father still preferred the latter. Julie herself lampshaded how messed up the situation was:Julie: Our father is a damaged man. You're never gonna be good enough for him.
