The Expanse is an American science-fiction television series (based on a series of novels by James S. A. Corey) which follows a group of space travelers across the Solar System who uncover a mass conspiracy regarding a multi-planet cold war.
Biological Unit
In the series' first season, a 22 year-old Earth woman named Julie Mao (portrayed by Florence Faivre) was exposed to an alien material called "The Protomolecule", which had been reconfigured by a group of humans into a new bio-weapon. Shortly after being exposed to the Protomolecule while aboard the Eros space station, Mao died from the element's "reconfiguring" of her body.
The fifth episode of the show's second season (Home) revealed that while Mao's body had died, her consciousness had been saved and absorbed by the same material which had killed her. After the Protomolecule continued to grow aboard the Eros, it eventually assumed control and revived Julie's consciousness, creating a new body for her to help pilot the station towards Earth and serve as the "seed" for the Protomolecule's hive mind.
Julie's consciousness was eventually destroyed for good after detective Joe Miller convinced Mao to crash the station into the planet Venus to prevent the Protomolecule infection spreading across Earth.
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Miller discovers the Protomolecule Julie.
Julie awakens.
Julie examines her new surroundings.
Julie tries to speak for the first time with her new body.
A frightened Julie asks Miller what has happened to her.
"I dreamed that I was racing... I was going home."
Miller tells Julie that she's now piloting the station.
Julie tries to make the station stop, but the hive mind tells her that they must continue their "work".
The alarm on Miller's bomb gets Julie's attention.
"You can't go home, Julie. I'm sorry."
Julie holds the Dead Man's Switch on Miller's bomb as he takes off his protective gear.
Miller, now exposed to the Protomolecules, kisses Julie as they change course to Venus.
Book Description
The sequence in The Expanse episode Home was adapted from James S. A. Corey's first Expanse novel Leviathan Wakes. Julie's Protomolecule form in the book is slightly different from her television counterpart:
"She was in a hazmat analysis node, lying on a bed of the dark thread that spilled out from her spine until it was indistinguishable from a massive fairy-tale cushion of her own flowing hair. Tiny points of blue light glittered on her face, her arms, her breast. The bone spurs that had been pressing out of her skin had grown into sweeping, almost architectural connections with the lushness around her. Her legs were gone, lost in the tangle of dark alien webs; she reminded Miller of a mermaid who had traded her fins for a space station. Her eyes were closed, but he could see them shifting and dancing under the lids. And she was breathing."
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