Miller is in a lounge at shift change when Havelock joins him. Miller says he’s going to take a couple days to look for Julie. Havelock agrees to cover for him, and Miller goes to the jiu jitsu center on Ceres. He looks at a wall of photos, searching for Julie. The instructor there tells Miller that Julie wanted to learn to defend herself after being attacked on the station. The man says he’ll find out what he can about where she might be.

Back in his hole, Miller watches the news. His door chimes. He opens it to a familiar face: the OPA cop from the bar, Anderson Dawes. Dawes wants Miller to stop searching for Julie, but Miller refuses. Dawes says she worked for the OPA and they’re looking for her. Miller says no again. Dawes says they’re walking a tightrope—the Canterbury, the Belters demanding reprisal, the bomb on Phoebe Station. Add a Luna corporation’s prodigal daughter, and they’ll be blamed for that too.

Miller surmises the OPA thinks something has happened to her. Dawes reveals she was on the Scopuli. He says he’ll tell Miller what the OPA finds out after they find Julie. Miller asks who took the Star Helix riot gear and what happened to the Golden Bough, and Dawes agrees to look into those concerns too.