User:IronMaximus/sandbox4
| IronMaximus/sandbox4 | |
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| Season 4 | |
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| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Original network | Apple TV+ |
| Original release | November 10, 2023 – January 12, 2024 |
The fourth season of the science fiction drama television series For All Mankind premiered on Apple TV+ on November 10, 2023, in the U.S. and concluded on January 12, 2024.
Episodes[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 31 | 1 | "Glasnost" | Lukas Ettlin | Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi | November 10, 2023 | |
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In 2003, the Martian base has grown considerably and is getting ready to move an asteroid into Mars' orbit for mining using a spacecraft commanded by Ed Baldwin. A fatal accident occurs, and the mission is aborted. Margo, now in the Soviet Union, has a dull life but was promised consultation on space activities. When she hears about the accident, she tries to contact Soviet space leadership but is rebuffed. Kelly Baldwin on Earth with her son wants her father to come home, but Ed prolongs his stay again. Aleida is still in mission control, suffering from panic attacks due to her trauma during the Johnson Space Center bombing. Unemployed oil rig worker Miles Dale applies for a job on the Moon, but the wait is too long for his monetary needs. He volunteers for a trip to Mars for more money and a shorter departure timeline, but a longer rotation. The new NASA administrator asks Danielle Poole to return to Mars as the commander of the mission. Danielle accepts and she and Miles leave Earth with a large crew for Mars while Ed Baldwin, looking at pictures of his career, experiences hand tremors. | ||||||
| 32 | 2 | "Have a Nice Sol" | Lukas Ettlin | David Weddle & Bradley Thompson | November 17, 2023 | |
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Danielle and Miles arrive on Mars to very different welcomes. Miles' original job working with fuels has been delayed due to the asteroid accident, so he's assigned to environmental repair. His quarters are cramped, shared, underground, and with low-bandwidth communications and lousy food. His first paycheck includes a nasty surprise of deductions for all his supplies, cutting his take-home pay to below his pay on Earth. Danielle asks about the communications issues, caused by a satellite problem, and Ed says Earth told them to wait for a new satellite instead of attempting repairs; she countermands that order. Kelly gets her science funding cut and meets up with a still-struggling Aleida. After a night of drinking, they decide to go into corporate-funded research. With comms repaired on Mars, most of the crew enjoys a live sports broadcast. Miles is introduced to the thriving bar and black market. In the Soviet Union, Margo notices changes such as a lack of news on TV, her phone being unusable, and her handler missing. She asks about what's happening, and is sullenly told that all is fine. She sees a newspaper stand being forcibly closed down by the police, and is arrested while trying to intervene on the newsstand owner's behalf. | ||||||
| 33 | 3 | "The Bear Hug" | Dan Liu | Andrew Black | November 22, 2023 | |
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Miles uses his access card to help the black marketeers, and turns himself a tidy profit. While Soviet leadership wavers, Margo is questioned increasingly harshly about who she is and how she has an important phone number in her possession. Kelly and Aleida pitch their biology project to multiple companies without success. They go to former Helios CEO Dev, who initially refuses them as well but then sees a way to help them and himself. Ed's tremors prevent him from completing a maneuver, but his co-pilot assists. When Svetlana complains about pain, he shows her his illicit marijuana farm in the greenhouse. Miles breaks the still at the bar while trying to improve its functionality, then hatches a difficult plan involving the North Koreans to get alcohol flowing again. Seemingly caught by one of the North Koreans, he instead introduces him to the black marketeers, and then the Korean has a difficult request. Margo's torture ends abruptly, and she is trucked to a spot on a frozen road where the new head of Roscosmos asks her to work there. | ||||||
| 34 | 4 | "House Divided" | Dan Liu | Sabrina Almeida | December 1, 2023 | |
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Tensions rise in Happy Valley over the Soviet power struggle on Earth. Svetlana injures a well-connected technician and the Soviet Union demands she be sent back to Earth to face trial. NASA and Danielle resist this, raising tensions between the superpowers. Miles sends a Mars rock home to his daughter, and a jeweler pays the family $5,000 for it. Miles' wife points out the opportunity, but his black marketeer is not interested, seeing it as too risky. Miles signs out a spacesuit to go himself, but he falls in a ravine, trapping and injuring himself. Sam rescues him. Margo reviews the Soviet accident report from the asteroid incident, and finds that Roscosmos-produced bolts were not built to the proper standard, which the report writer knew but didn't mention; he is taken away by the KGB. Ed makes a final plea to keep Svetlana on Mars, but a compromise deal has been struck for her to face trial in India instead of the Soviet Union. Ed walks her to the airlock amidst a group of angry workers. | ||||||
| 35 | 5 | "Goldilocks" | Sylvain White | Jovan Robinson | December 8, 2023 | |
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An asteroid is discovered swinging away from Jupiter towards Mars. Density measurements show it to be heavy in metals, especially iridium which makes it valuable to the base and humanity. President Gore claims he discovered the asteroid, causing diplomatic and political complications. The Mars team is tasked with a tight schedule to pull the asteroid into Mars orbit. Miles is doing well with his Mars rock smuggling, but his partner figures out what's going on. Dev decides to go to Mars, leaving Aleida behind to run Helios and taking Kelly with him so she can train her crews en route. Kelly has second thoughts about going, not wanting to leave her son, and she asks to take him on the mission. Dev agrees, partly because his mother abandoned him. During a training mission, a crew member sees Ed Baldwin's tremor and reports it to Danielle. She confronts him about the condition. When he argues with her, she removes him from flight status and as XO. A series of flashbacks show Danielle's series of visits to the exiled Danny (from season 3) as his condition deteriorated until he committed suicide on the Mars surface. | ||||||
| 36 | 6 | "Leningrad" | Sylvain White | Eric Phillips | December 15, 2023 | |
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The Mars 7 meetings get started in Russia. Margo is monitoring them and spots Aleida among the attendees. Aleida describes the costs for mining the asteroid as $2tn, and says the asteroid may be worth $20tn over decades' time. In backroom discussions involving the US, Helios, and the Soviet Union, the team hits on the idea of bringing the asteroid to Earth instead of Mars. Margo is remotely helping the Soviet negotiator, but is frustrated by that arrangement. She proposes working with Aleida directly, which will expose her defection but allow them to solve the problem. At first, Aleida is elated to learn Margo is alive, then her mood darkens as she hears Margo's story. On Mars, Ed is bored now that he's not XO. He goes to Ilya's unauthorized bar, saying he already knew it (and the wider black market) existed. Miles finds himself closed out of the black market, so with the North Koreans' help he takes it over. Ed, who's still a Helios manager, uses his knowledge of pay changes to incite the Mars workers into calling for a strike. Both planets watch as Margo is re-introduced as the manager of the Soviet asteroid capture program. | ||||||
| 37 | 7 | "Crossing the Line" | Maja Vrvilo | Andrew Black | December 22, 2023 | |
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Union negotiations have dragged on for 7 days and both sides are frustrated. After NASA and ROSCOSMOS order the non-Helios leadership to restart fuel production, the strikers sabotage efforts. Margo is ordered back to the US (with diplomatic immunity) to finalize asteroid capture plans. Aleida is ambushed in an interview about Margo and reacts strongly. Dev, Kelly and Alex arrive on Mars to a mixed welcome. The command team has to get creative to try and restart propellant production, but a botched repair job causes an explosion, a death, and several serious injuries. NASA deputizes former military crew members on Mars and cracks down on the base, while Dev offers several concessions to the strikers, splitting them and ending the strike. Aleida tries to get Margo's diplomatic immunity revoked, but her request is denied and Margo arrives in Houston. Dev approaches Ed with an idea to steal the asteroid that is the source of the conflict. | ||||||
| 38 | 8 | "Legacy" | Maja Vrvilo | Bradley Thompson & David Weddle | December 29, 2023 | |
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Sergei, living as a physics teacher in the United States, receives the news that Margo is alive and returning to the country. The Mars black market is shut down by Palmer. Ed reluctantly agrees to take care of Alex for three days as Kelly travels to Korolev Crater with her seekers, then he enlists another crew member as a babysitter. Dev reveals an ambitious plan to divert the asteroid's course to Mars using a new OpsCom built by the remaining strikers. Dev manages to secure Sam's spot on the mission to replace a discriminator crucial to the diversion plot. Sergei approaches Aleida to tell her the reason why Margo defected, asking Aleida to help him speak to Margo. When the discriminator is accidentally misplaced and the only way to reach it is through a small vent, Ed enlists Alex to retrieve it owing to his small size. Aleida gives Margo a coded note which Margo uses to meet Sergei at a restaurant. He warns her not to return to the Soviet Union, telling her that her employer, the head of Roscosmos, orchestrated their friendship years ago to compromise her, ruining both their lives. | ||||||
| 39 | 9 | "Brazil" | Sergio Mimica-Gezzan | David Weddle & Bradley Thompson & Kate Burns | January 5, 2024 | |
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Sam breaks the discriminator, forcing Ranger to replace it, allowing Dev's team access to Ranger and an opportunity to bring Goldilocks into Mars orbit, instead of Earth. Lee pledges North Korean support for the operation, promising to ensure that no one gets caught. An American espionage device is found aboard the North Korean module, and the North Koreans demand Poole launch an investigation and accidentally reveal Miles Dale as a suspect. Sergei, Aleida, and Margo share dinner, discussing plans to expedite Goldilocks' financial returns. Once Aleida and her family retire to their bedrooms, Sergei offers Margo a plan to escape to Brazil and help their space program. The heads of NASA and Roscosmos discover several lost redundant parts, promptly forcing an investigation by both CIA and KGB operatives aboard Happy Valley, who violently interrogate Miles. Ed reveals to Kelly his fears of retirement, and Kelly asks about his work with Dev. The North Korean commander investigates the OpsCom built by Dev's team, but is knocked out and choked by Lee. Sergei is shot and his death is framed as an apparent suicide. | ||||||
| 40 | 10 | "Perestroika" | Sergio Mimica-Gezzan | Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi | January 12, 2024 | |
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All parties prepare for the Goldilocks burn. Margo is surprised by the sudden appearance of Irina at Houston. Aleida goes to investigate Sergei’s motel room, due to his silence, where she learns of his death. Margo is informed, and is devastated, later confronting Irina about Sergei’s murder, but relents due to being in public. The deputized Mars security forces search the hijacker’s OpsCom after Miles gives up the location after his family is threatened, but most of the hijackers manage to escape with Dev’s help. However, their plan is discovered, and a secure discriminator put in place, ruining the plan, and the burn begins. However, the hijackers establish contact with Sam, and launch a backup plan. Sam executes an EVA to trigger an override switch, fighting with Palmer and successfully prolonging the burn. Aleida and Margo successfully taint Houston’s attempts to regain control, causing the asteroid to enter Mars orbit. Margo reveals her actions to protect Aleida. Miles is freed from captivity by Ilya and his men, stirring up a riot against the Mars security forces attempting to raid the North Korean capsule, who are held back. Both Ed and Dani try and break it up, but Dani is accidentally shot after a North Korean gun goes off during the scuffle, forcing all parties to stop fighting. Margo is marched out of Mission Control in handcuffs, with her monologue to the judge being heard over the ending. Irina is put under investigation by the Soviet Union, and the abuses of detainees on Mars make the news. Lee’s wife arrives on Mars, along with a host of other North Korean refugees. Dani returns to Earth greeted by her family and new grandchild. In 2012, Dev gazes from Korolev Crater at Goldilocks, which is now the site of an extensive mining operation named Kuznetsov Station. | ||||||
Cast[edit]
Main cast[edit]
The fourth season features ten actors receiving opening credits billing. Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Sonya Walger and Casey W. Johnson departed the show, though VanSanten, Balfour and Johnson returned as guest stars, while Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Svetlana Efremova and Daniel Stern joined the cast.
- Joel Kinnaman as Edward Baldwin
- Toby Kebbell as Miles Dale
- Krys Marshall as Danielle Poole
- Edi Gathegi as Dev Ayesa
- Cynthy Wu as Kelly Baldwin
- Coral Peña as Aleida Rosales
- Tyner Rushing as Samantha Massey
- Svetlana Efremova as Irina Morozova
- Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison
- Daniel Stern as Eli Hobson
Recurring cast[edit]
- C. S. Lee as Lee Jung-Gil
- Robert Bailey Jr. as Will Tyler
- Shannon Lucio as Amanda Dale
- Jorge Diaz as Victor Diaz
- Sean Patrick Thomas as Corey Johnson
- Maria Mashkova as Svetlana Zakharova
- Jessica Tuck as Christine Francis
- Santiago Veizaga as Javier Diaz
- Constantine Gregory as Artem
- Piper Rubio as Lily Dale
- Coco Day as Sarah Dale
- Paris Rose as Graciana Diaz
- Ezrah Lin as Alex Poletov
- Irina Dubova as Olga Poletova
- Zylan Brooks as Flight Director Jen Hughes
- Alex Cioffi as Tim
- Dimiter D. Marinov as Ilya Breshov
- Myk Watford as Palmer James
- Rhian Rees as Joanna Chapman
- Salvador Chacón as Gerardo Ortiz-Niño
- Moses Jones as Rich Waters
- Jo Kelly as Maya Estime
- Charles Kim as Cmdr. Cho Byung Ho
- Michael Lee Joplin as Charlie Parfitt
- Nick Gracer as Petros Khorenatsi
- Noor Razooky as Faiza Khatib
- Danielle Nottingham as Vera Martil
- Billy Lush as Mike Bishop
- Ania Bukstein as Tatyana Volkova
- Emil Markov as Leonid
- Goran Ivanovski as Dimitri Mayakovsky
- Sebastiano Pigazzi as Luka Gurino
- Steph Evison Williamson as Geraldine Middaugh
- Nikita Bogolyubov as Timur Avilov
- Tess Lina as Veronica "Ronnie" Hunt
- Vinny Chhibber as Ravi Vaswani
- Cindy Jackson as Holly "Sparks" Edmondson
- Sean Patrick Murphy as Nate Lowry
- Katarina Morhacova as Nina Rozhenkova
- Ely Henry as Dr. Seth Razack
- Elliott Ross as Maximus Taylor
- Mark Kwak as Park Chui Moo
Guest cast[edit]
- Jodi Balfour as Ellen Wilson
- Lev Gorn as Grigory Kuznetsov
- Meghan Leathers as Pam Horton
- Vera Cherny as Lenara Catiche
- Madeline Bertani as Amber Stevens
- Mac Brandt as Tom Parker
- Dave Theune as Tom Gamon
- Jay Paulson as Colonel George Peters
- Gediminas Adomaitis as Kirill Semenov
- Dimitar Bakalov as Fyodor Korzhenko
- Blair Hickey as Richard Hilliard
- Ellie Grace Pomeroy as Avery Stevens
- Kelsi Roberts as Brenda
- Keith Barber as Delmar
- Justice as Isaiah Johnson
- Brandon Ford Green as Shaun Arlee
- Alex Parkinson as Owen Stanwood
- Noah Harpster as Bill Strausser
- Tania Raymonde as Athena
- Konstantin Lavysh as Lieutenant Stepan Gura
- Nikolai Tsankov as Colonel Vidor Kolikoff
- Eduard Osipov as Vasily Galkin
- Daniel Juhn as Gwan Jin Tao
- Kristin Carey as Arlene
- Kathe Mazur as Katherine Hobson
- Rachael Thompson as Leia Ascott
- Alexander Terentyev as Lev Babanin
- Luke Barnett as Mike Shaw
- Nicholas Kolev as Yevgeniy
- Casey W. Johnson as Danny Stevens
- Anne Beyer as Louisa Mueller
- Larry Clarke as Bill McGann
- Thea Andrews as Zoey Chase
- Valeri Ross as Malaika Ayesa
- Dustin Ingram as Brandt Darby
- Jon Levine as Ron Klain
- Sacha Seberg as Dimitri Egotov
- Madara Jayasena as Natalie Morioka
- Libby Baker as Kate Marsteller
- Rami Essa as Ramsey
- Shantel VanSanten as Karen Baldwin
- Gene Silvers as Henry Keck
- Yuji Hasegawa as Kenji Okumura
- Deepti Gupta as Kapalna Naran
- David Bowe as CIA Dep. Director Robert Burks
- Magdalene Keh-Vick as Julie Musgrave
- Will Vought as Jeremy Rust
- Chris Jaymes as Nick Jennings
- Yavor Gadzhev as Pasha
- Amdrew Hansen as Howard
- Vivan Dugre as Quintero
- Piotr Adamczyk as Sergei Nikulov
- Sahana Srinivasan as Nuri Prabakar
- Heather Lee as Muriel Bezukhov
- Timothy E. Goodwin as Cliff Hooper
- Autumn Bell as Bethany
- Eli Fucile as Harry
- Charles Maceo as Andy Whistler
- Brooks Anne Hayes as Bobbie
- Hedyeh Falsafi as Natalie Talmadge
- Kang Kim as Lim Sum Gi
- Dimitri Kornakov as Anatoly
- Jennifer Marshall as Lynn Hegarty
- Kurt Quinn as Frank Tuttle
- Leo Seo as Kim Byung Soo
- Chen Chen Julian as Nam Moon Yeong
- Mustafa Haidari as Atilla Yucer
- Hans Obma as Jan Huebner
- April Mae Davis as Courtney Johnson