Over breakfast aboard the Rocinante, Amos bluntly deduces that Holden and Naomi are sleeping together. The revelation lands well: Amos and Alex shrug it off, Naomi jokes about promotions, and Holden relaxes, relieved the crew’s cohesion remains intact.

Approaching Eros, the Roci scans the station while a UN science ship and its corvette escort burn toward it. Concerned by the escort’s silence toward their dark, unregistered ship, Holden opens a tightbeam channel and orders Alex to be ready for high-g evasive action while Naomi preps firing and jamming solutions; Amos secures engineering.

Holden addresses a young, ambitious-sounding UN captain, then escalates by painting the corvette with the Roci’s targeting laser and threatening to destroy the unarmed science vessel if they continue. The bluff works: the UN ships hard-brake to a stop well short of Eros, and the Rocinante returns to station-keeping.

Later, in the dim ops deck, Naomi raises Miller. She argues that in the Belt’s networked reality, Dresden was an immediate, systemic threat and that Miller’s killing was self-defense. Holden rejects unilateral execution on principle, insisting Dresden was helpless, but he recognizes Miller’s uncompromising choice and wrestles with what that means.

An alert interrupts them: Naomi detects multiple ships burning toward Eros, likely responding to the UN call for help. With “all of them” inbound, the temporary reprieve gives way to a looming multi-faction confrontation around the infected station.