The Expense Season 5: The Plot Hole in Amos and Clarissa’s Story

The Expense Season 5 Update: In Season 5 of The Expanse, Amos and Clarissa manage to escape a destroyed prison, but the storyline had a clear plot hole.

Let’s see what we know first, Amos visits Clarissa in a U.N. prison, one of Marco Inaros’ asteroids hits North America, destroying the Prison.

But it was luck that Amos and Clarissa survived the shock as they were in the lowest underground. However, the destruction blocked the stairs to the surface, but with the help of a prisoner and few guards, they worked out their way to the elevator shaft and managed to escape.

The fault in the story is that it not at any point it is addressed what impact the damage had on other prisoners and guards.

In the previous episode, we saw a crowded common room and other cells which implies that the level had a lot of people comprising of prisoners with implants and at least twice the number of guards.

The Expense Season 5: An Obvious Plot Hole With Amos and Clarissa’

Yet there were only three guards around when Amos and Clarissa got out of their cell. While it can be conceived that the asteroid buried most of the place, killing almost everyone, but when they enter into the common room, there’s negligible damage visible.

When they needed help to open the elevator doors, they let another prisoner, Tiny out as his suppressor was subsiding. This meant that like Tiny, others survived too, but no one considered the possibility. Hence, it should have been at least addressed in the show otherwise showing more bodies or blocked cells, or some information around it, making it feel absurd.

What would have created an amazing storyline instead was if Amos And Clarissa dealt with the riots caused by the “supervillain” prisoners to escape after the asteroid impact.

Though it is obvious that a Sci-fi show like The Expanse would probably not have the budget to do this, considering the special effects that went behind many episodes and concentrating on other more important things to the plot instead.

In the end, it’s comprehensible that the riot would have a little too expensive, but the scene should have included someone talking about the situation at least. As it stands, Amos, Clarissa and, the three prisoners abandoned all the others to die of starvation or dehydration.