Murderbot (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

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[announcer]
Donna Komparzits, please report
to the classified blue room immediately.
Again, Donna Komparzits, please report
to the classified blue room immediately.
[technician 1]
You see the new Sanctuary Moon?
[technician 2]
How do you watch that garbage?
Are they still making new ones?
Oh, yeah. I love them.
They help me fall asleep.
[technician 2] I fall asleep no problem.
My issue is I dream
I'm at work all night.
Well, that sucks.
[sneezes, groans] Gross.
[manager] New order in!
We're gonna need everyone
to work an extra shift.
- [technician 2 groans]
- [technician 1] No, wait.
- That's twice this week.
- Stop complaining.
The more hours you work,
the sooner you finish your indenture.
Now let's go. Flesh and mesh, baby.
Flesh and mesh.
[sighs]
I still got six years left.
Sometimes I think I'm not gonna make it.
Six years? You're lucky.
I still got 12 of my 20 left to do.
Oh, shit.
You're definitely not gonna make it.
Thank you.
[Murderbot] SecUnit factories are
really wonderful places.
Much better than human hospitals.
Sometimes on the serials I watch,
they'll show the inside of a nursery
filled with infants.
Slobbering, miniature humans,
randomly weeping and defecating.
So creepy.
It must be disturbing for humans,
knowing their operating system is just
a random shuffling of DNA.
We're down again.
[technician 3]
This shit's been glitching all week.
Well, they need to shut down
and debug the system.
Yeah, those cheap assholes don't
wanna take the time to go offline.
It's not like it's
dangerous or anything,
it's just heavily armed SecUnits
we're making.
We're back up.
Yippee.
[Murderbot] It's a relief knowing that
when you were made,
there was rigorous quality control.
What the heck is this?
Whose shitty-ass work is it?
It's mine. Should I start over?
No. It's usable.
Just get your act together.
Take some pride in your work.
[Murderbot]
Yeah, take some pride in your work.
You wouldn't wanna fuck up and produce
a chronically anxious,
depressed Murderbot.
Okay, how's the pH balance?
Uh, within acceptable limits.
I have a question.
Shoot.
Why do they all look
different? The faces.
I don't know.
If one goes rogue or some shit,
it's easier to track it down.
Makes sense.
How often do they go rogue?
Oh, all the time.
Don't you watch the newsfeeds?
Sometimes it comes back and
kills the trainee who helped make it.
[imitates throat cutting]
[chuckles] Yeah.
Right.
What are you looking at, bitch?
I will kick your ass.
[Murderbot] Humans. On some level,
they must know how weird they are.
Then again, sometimes it wasn't so great
being a sentient construct either.
My mobility was fucked.
It was down to zero, and my memory
kept dumping my most used data into me.
Whatever was on heaviest rotation,
which obviously meant
[singer]
There's a place beyond the wormholes ♪
A place that only lovers know ♪
The brave, the hopeful
The lost, the true ♪
[distorted] Maybe me and you ♪
Won't you come with
these fools and dreamers ♪
To the planet we call home
We hope we'll see you soon ♪
On Sanctuary Moon ♪
- Where is Mensah?
- [Pin-Lee] I don't know.
She was She was right behind us.
Just keep trying to hail her.
Dr. Mensah, do you read me? Dr. Mensah?
[stammers] We're getting worried here.
The others are starting to
freak out a little bit.
Dr. Mensah,
we should be getting out of here!
The SecUnit said
Clear the emergency channel,
I'm trying to ping SecUnit.
[Murderbot]
Ping all you want, I couldn't answer.
Maybe this was how SecUnits died.
You lose function, go offline,
but parts of you keep working.
Your organic pieces kept alive
by the fading energy of your power cell.
Why didn't it just kill me?
It's just a machine.
It's just a fucking machine.
[breathes shakily]
Mensah.
Get back to the hopper.
Okay, forgive me, all due respect,
you get back to the fucking hopper.
[sighs] SecUnit, can you read me?
It cannot read you, okay?
We've been pinging it.
It can't read any of us.
It's probably dead.
Come on. It told you. It told you to
take off if we lost contact.
- Let's go.
- Yes.
Yes.
And it's a SecUnit, so how about when it
comes to security, let's listen to it.
Just let Just let it do its job.
Don't anthropomorphize it.
It's not human. It's
not part of our team.
Pin-Lee.
That's not it.
I know what I have to do.
The thing is I'm afraid.
Good!
Me too! Can we go?
Pin-Lee.
Get back to the hopper. That's
an order.
Not cool.
[breathing shakily]
[Murderbot] I wanted to scream.
My voice box was offline.
I felt like a balloon floating
above myself, filled with agony
because my pain sensor override
also wasn't online.
Shit.
A combat override module.
That's how they controlled
that DeltFall unit.
And if they got that in me,
I would be under their control too.
I guess they had plans for me.
I needed a few moments to get
powered up again, so I improvised.
An-And let me just say,
the situation was desperate.
There's a place beyond the wormholes ♪
A place that only lovers know ♪
[Murderbot] Holy shit, it was working.
the lost, the true ♪
[Murderbot] It was completely hypnotized
by my beautiful voice.
- That did it.
- [grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[grunting]
Damn. The combat override module was in.
In about ten minutes I was gonna be
under their total control.
But the first thing
that little fucker would do
would be to hack my system
and cover its own tracks.
I wouldn't even know it was installed.
What did it have in mind for me?
And what would happen to
my useless clients
who were now completely defenseless?
[whimpering, breathes shakily]
Thought you agreed to
take the hopper and leave.
[vomits]
[groans]
Is that a mining drill?
Oh, yeah.
[stammers] I thought I needed
a bigger weapon, so I, um, improvised.
[Murderbot] There was something
I had to tell her.
Something important.
Some kind of danger?
Are you, um, okay?
You have taken a lot of damage.
[Murderbot] I just couldn't figure out
what it was.
[Mensah] Okay. Here we go.
[Murderbot] Don't touch.
Dr. Mensah, your actions are
a violation of security protocol.
Was that it?
I am contractually obligated to record
and report this to the Company.
Okay. Can you walk?
- Dr. Mensah.
- Mm-hmm?
Your actions are
a violation of security protocol.
I am contractually obligated to record
and report this to the Company.
[Mensah] Yes, you already said that.
[Murderbot] It was in my buffer.
- Dr. Mensah.
- Yeah.
[Murderbot] The rest of
my brain was scrambled.
Your actions are a violation
- of security protocol.
- Of security protocol.
Yeah, I know, I know.
I am contractually obligated to record
and report this to the Company.
[Mensah] Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay.
- [Arada] Babe.
- [Ratthi] Pin-Lee.
[Ratthi chuckles]
Where's Mensah?
She ordered me
to go back to the hopper, okay?
She ordered you?
She can't order you to do anything.
I mean, I think she can.
Sh She is our leader.
Yeah, on Preservation, but here,
she's just another crew member.
- Yeah, the one who leads us.
- But where was the consensus?
I mean, it does
kind of go against our whole thing.
She's very intimidating, okay?
- Babe, you are just as intimidating.
- Thanks.
[Ratthi] What do we do now?
Wait for her, I guess.
[sighs]
[Pin-Lee] She should not have even
come on this mission with us.
She is way too valuable.
You know, it's actually a stupid rule that
everyone has to volunteer on missions.
You don't mean that.
It is a very cool rule.
What if something happens to her?
Everyone will hate us. I will hate us.
[smacks lips] Yeah, okay, fuck this.
What are you doing? What-What
[breathing deeply]
- You're holding that wrong.
- Yeah, I know.
- Is that better?
- Wow, sorry.
- I'm sorry, I don't mean to be a dick.
- No, it's fine
No, I heard myself as soon as I said it.
- I'm sorry. That's my bad.
- No, you're entitled to your opinion.
- [Ratthi] I'm going anyway.
- [Arada] Wow, that's not cool.
You're being very
macho, it's disgusting.
You're both wonderful people.
I mean that.
- Wow. Okay.
- Stop! Stop!
Now I see how that was a problem.
I'm sorry.
[Mensah] Come on, SecUnit, let's go.
[Murderbot] My input socket felt weird.
[Murderbot] Something stopped me.
What was it?
[Mensah] What are you doing?
[stammers] I don't know.
- Hey.
- [Murderbot] Wow.
- Hold on to me.
- She was protecting me.
It was starting to occur to me
- that Dr. Mensah might actually be
- Hold on to me. Yeah.
- An intrepid galactic explorer.
- What?
[whispers] Dr. Mensah might be
an intrepid galactic explorer.
[chuckles] Okay.
[panting] I, uh, don't know
where you get that idea.
[Murderbot] It all made sense at the time
because my system was in complete chaos.
So embarrassing.
I really was losing my marbles.
[dramatic music plays]
[Mensah] SecUnit.
SecUnit.
[chuckles]
Can you hear me? SecUnit?
- Yes, Captain.
- [alarm blaring]
Then why aren't you executing
escape velocity vector protocol?
Right away, Officer Hordööp-Sklanch!
I I don't know how to do that.
Stars. Have you forgotten your training?
Psst. Hey, hey. Do you
- Do you know how to
- [high-pitched ringing]
execute the
[music stops]
- Execute the?
- Yeah.
Shit.
Um, SecUnit, s-stay with me.
- [breathes shakily]
- Yes, Captain.
[metallic clang in distance]
What is that?
What is that?
[music resumes]
Incoming hostile starship.
Get us out of here!
- You're the only one with the sequence!
- Me?
- But I can't!
- It's coming through the wormhole!
- In three, two
- One!
[screaming]
[music ends]
[Murderbot] That unit was impressive.
[Arada] What if something
happens to Ratthi?
Then our contract is null and void.
I don't want anything to happen to him,
I just think he's being so
- You know?
- Yeah, I do.
[stammers] Yes, I'm sorry, you're right.
[sighs]
Hey, he will come back.
And then maybe
we should talk about our contract.
It's just temporary.
So is life.
I hope he doesn't do anything stupid.
[panting]
About to breach the DeltFall habitat.
[panting]
- What?
- [Ratthi] Yeah, just one question.
The, um The sort of dial thingy
on the left-hand side of the weapon,
the glowing thing.
Yeah, what, um
[stammers] what is that?
[Pin-Lee] That controls
the energy pulse.
Energy pulse, right, okay. Got it.
- Okay, keep it at medium.
- Medium, yep. I knew that.
Um, and the thing on the other side?
- [Pin-Lee] That is the safety!
- The safety, yeah, okay.
Got it. Love that.
Thank you. Wish me luck.
[Mensah] Can anyone read me?
- [pants] We need help!
- I read you, I read you!
Help is on the way!
- [breathes shakily]
- [electronic beeping, buzzing]
Shit. Come on!
[grunting]
- Captain!
- [breathes shakily]
I suggest you abandon the ship.
I will stay on to fight the raiders.
- What?
- Go!
What? We're not abandoning
any fucking ship!
Come on! [screams]
Ratthi, what's going on?
Hello?
- Shit. I should've gone!
- No, no. Wait! Wait!
I got an idea.
Get in.
[Murderbot]
I should've been ready to fight,
but my threat assessment module
was telling me nothing was wrong.
- [thudding on door]
- Hello?
- [Mensah] Get away from that door.
- Hello?
- SecUnit!
- [thudding continues]
- [electronic beeping]
- Shit, shit, shit. Come on!
[whirring]
[Mensah] Keep going, SecUnit.
[Murderbot] It was about a minute
until the override module
had full control over me.
Until then,
it had me standing around like a moron.
- Dr. Mensah!
- [pants] Ratthi!
You're okay! [pants]
- [chuckles] What are you doing here?
- I'm here to save you!
- Stop hitting me!
- You're supposed to be safe!
- Duck! [screams]
- What? Oh!
- Run, SecUnit, run!
- [Murderbot] It kept missing,
like the crappy shock troopers
on Strife in the Galaxy.
- [grunts]
- Ratthi!
[Murderbot]
It had to be on purpose, but why?
[Murderbot] Of course.
It wanted me to kill them,
so it could leave the scene
of the massacre
[both clamoring]
[exclaims]
SecUnit?
SecUnit, we're safe.
- I hate eye contact.
- [chuckles]
What is it?
[grunting]
[whirring]
- [Pin-Lee] Gross.
- Hey, you guys were right.
I really should've
kept this thing on medium.
Can you please stop
waving that thing around?
- [sighs]
- [Arada sighs]
Is everybody okay?
Uh [stammers] yeah, but SecUnit,
there's something wrong with it.
- [alarm blaring]
- [Murderbot] It was too late.
The combat override module
had done its work.
[Murderbot] The program was buffering.
- Let's get it on board.
- [Murderbot] No.
I've had a data carrier
inserted into me.
It's almost done downloading instructions.
There's only one way to stop it.
Why was I dancing around the word?
Maybe because I thought
she didn't want to hear it.
- You need to kill me.
- No.
- [Pin-Lee chuckles]
- [Ratthi] What?
- No.
- No, we're not doing that.
Gurathin will fix you.
- We'll just get you back to the habitat.
- There's no time.
I will kill all of you in a few seconds.
Do it.
Do it.
- [Arada] No, no!
- [Pin-Lee] Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey.
[Murderbot] It was gonna look like they'd
been killed by a vicious, rogue SecUnit.
- And I had no choice in the matter.
- [alarm blaring]
[Murderbot] Well, fuck that.
I'm sorry.
- [Ratthi] No!
- Oh, no!
[no audible dialogue]