The Expanse (TV Series)

Paradigm Shift (2017)

Shohreh Aghdashloo: Chrisjen Avasarala

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• Chrisjen Avasarala : I have a file with 900 pages of analyses and contingency plans for war with Mars, including 14 different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling. It's 3 pages long, and it begins with "Step one: find God".

• Chrisjen Avasarala : We both know how the world works. When the stakes are this high, many things are possible.

  Sadavir Errinwright : I can reach out to his family; his two sons, and a daughter he adores. They'll be able to reach him. Maybe they can help him turn himself in.

  Chrisjen Avasarala : Good. And please let him know that, if they can't, I will rain Hellfire down on them all; I will freeze their assets, cancel their contracts, cripple their business. And I have the power to do it, because I am the fucking hero who helped save Mother Earth from the cataclysm that Jules-Pierre Mao unleashed. Tell his children the government is more powerful than any corporation, and the only reason they think it feels the other way is because we poor public servants are always looking for some fat private sector's payoff down the road. And I'm not looking. And by the time they can pull the strings to force me out, it will be too late. Their family will be ruined. Their mother, their children, *their* children! All of them: pariahs! outlaws! Hunted and on the run for the rest of their days, until we find them, and nail each and every last one to the wall. Make sure you tell them that.

• Dr. Iturbi : Eros station was under quarantine, a result of a mysterious bioweapon unleashed by Mars, which Mars believes was unleashed by us, which we did not.

  [pause] 

  Dr. Iturbi : Did we?

  Chrisjen Avasarala : We did not.

  Dr. Iturbi : Ah, I never doubted that for a moment.