Murderbot (2025) s01e07 Episode Script

- [Arada chuckles] It was so good.
- [Pin-Lee] It really is great.
- [Arada] I know.
- [all laughing]
[Ratthi] Okay, should we move
the conversation away from this?
[Pin-Lee] Yeah, let's do that.
Bharadwaj! Bharadwaj!
Bharadwaj! Bharadwaj!
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Um
Sweet. [inhales deeply]
Hmm.
It is the eve of the Chatterjee
memorial lecture
Oh.
and I have never spoken
in front of so large a crowd.
Pin-Lee had tickets
to their favorite theater ensemble,
but they canceled them so that they could
sit in the front row of my lecture,
and I had a friendly face to look at.
- Mmm. [chuckles]
- [Arada] Yeah, they do.
Bitter.
So I took it the wrong way.
I shared that
I had romantic feelings for them,
and Pin-Lee did not
return those feelings.
Pin-Lee, my apologies
for the discomfort that I caused you.
We can talk about this.
[Bharadwaj sighs] We can talk about this.
[Ratthi, Mensah, Arada]
We can talk about this.
- [Bharadwaj] Next, please.
- Who is the next victim?
I mean, willing participant.
I'm getting a G.
[Arada] Gu, Gu, who?
- Gu, Gu, Gu, Gurathin.
- [crew mumbling]
[all] Gurathin!
- Gurathin!
- [Gurathin shushing]
- Gurathin! Gurathin! Gurathin! [chuckles]
- Gura! Gura!
All right, all right, all right, okay.
Um, I Let's see, I choose
You have to Uh, sweet.
- Sweet.
- [Bharadwaj] Mmm.
So I'll choose our fearless leader.
- Hmm.
- [exhales]
Okay, so I'm at a [sighs]
conference of nonaligned systems
as the representative
of the Free Planet Working Group.
In fact, I am working
for the Corporation Rim
as a spy.
What? [chuckles]
They have induced me to be
very addicted to a number of substances
for which only they possess the formulas.
My job is to acquire
sensitive information
that the Corporation Rim
can use to divide their adversaries
and further their reach.
My target is Dr. Ayda Mensah.
And I am sick of it all.
I'm sick of the lying.
I'm sick of the addiction.
And I am seriously
considering ending my life.
[gasps]
Then I meet Mensah.
And I understand what is possible
between people of good will.
[clicks tongue]
So I break down. I
I tell her everything.
But she forgives me.
And I
[inhales deeply]
I move to Preservation Alliance,
and here we are.
[clears throat]
Yeah.
[Bharadwaj] Okay, um
Now, uh
Bitter.
- Bitter.
- [Bharadwaj] Yeah.
[stammers] I can't think of anything.
I'm sorry. I'm not very
good at this game.
- [Pin-Lee] Gura.
- [Arada] It's okay, Gura.
[Bharadwaj] He just needs some time.
- [Arada] Wow.
- [Ratthi] Yeah.
So, the thing is the bad stuff
is also part of the good stuff.
Sweet and bitter. Positive and negative.
Mmm.
- Bitter.
- Mm-hmm?
You are naive.
Go on.
This expedition,
this deal with the Company,
I don't like it.
I don't think that it is safe.
Well, we have a Security Unit
coming along.
Doesn't that make you feel better?
No, it makes me feel worse.
Then why are you here?
I guess I'm naive too.
[Murderbot] Finish emergency
preparations immediately.
Departure in ten minutes.
Okay, who died
and made the SecUnit our boss?
Uh, I think she did.
[Murderbot] What? I covered it.
My risk assessment module
was a piece of crap.
It hadn't told me that Leebeebee
was a hostile.
And I was certain that her friends
were on their way here.
[Gurathin] What's it doing out there?
It said that it was monitoring
the perimeter.
[chuckles]
That's what it always says
whenever it doesn't wanna deal with us.
[grunts]
[Bharadwaj] All our files.
All our data
It was everything we've been working on.
There will be more data, trust me.
We have to go. Come on.
Okay, I just
[groaning]
Are you okay?
You need to have more
time in the med bay.
No, I'm okay.
Are you okay?
No, not really.
None of us are.
But we have to keep moving.
[Murderbot] Time to go.
[Mensah] We know.
[Murderbot] If you know,
then why aren't you moving faster?
- It's listening. It's always
- Has it always been able to do that?
They're coming. We need to leave now.
Oh.
[Murderbot] Humans really didn't weigh
the pros and cons accurately.
You would think that saving their lives
would cancel out
a little unexpected violence, but no.
Fine, whatever.
Time for a softer approach.
I'm asking you
to please get into the hopper.
Unless you feel like dying.
I-I mean from them, not-not from me.
[whispering] So what's the plan?
- Is there a plan?
- The plan is to stay alive.
[Pin-Lee] For how long?
I was hoping forever,
but I would settle for about a month.
That's when the Company transport is due.
[whispering]
Yeah, if they keep to the contract.
If they're not in on it.
If it's not in on it.
[Murderbot] It's not like
I couldn't hear them from here.
Their unwarranted fear and distrust of me
was starting to get a little annoying.
Sec. [chuckles]
What's going on, buddy? [inhales deeply]
Uh, everyone's feeling
a little bit jumpy, you know?
[stammers] Kind of just
a little bit startled, to be honest.
I was so startled.
That was some pretty good aim, you know?
Unless you were trying to hit Gurathin
and missed, know what I mean? [chuckles]
If I was trying to kill Gurathin,
he would be dead.
You would all be dead
if I wanted to kill you.
Cool.
Okay, good talk.
[Bharadwaj] What was that about?
Yeah, I was just checking in.
I was just checking in, you know?
[Arada] That's good. What did it say?
Ah, it's feeling good.
It's feeling good.
It's feeling, um, confident.
- [Arada] Confident?
- Mmm.
Do you think it has any regret
for killing Leebeebee?
Don't know.
It didn't use that word exactly.
[inhales shakily]
[whirring]
- I'm going to set a
- Perimeter. Sure.
Dr. Gurathin,
your body temperature is spiking.
Oh, thank you so much for the concern.
I didn't indicate concern.
I just stated a fact.
[Murderbot] Ungrateful.
That's what they were.
Maybe I should stop sticking out
my neck for them.
Maybe now's our chance
to take off and leave it.
Let the Company pick it up separately.
Yes, it defended us,
but but if it changes its mind,
we cannot defend ourselves against it.
I'm more concerned with the people who
are trying to actually kill us right now.
Of course I am not happy
with how it killed her.
I am also not happy with it.
Because someone's head
exploded next to mine.
- She had a name.
- Yeah, Leebee.
Leebeebee!
In its defense,
Leebeebee did seem happy to kill us.
No, I don't think she could have.
I think she was bluffing.
Pretty solid bluff.
I thought it was supposed
to protect us. Not
Not hurt anybody?
Come on, guys.
Sometimes you've gotta break a few eggs
to make a protein-dense breakfast.
That's not the expression.
Yeah, but am I wrong?
I don't believe that
we can make it without SecUnit.
Because we would be defenseless.
Babe, I'm here.
Yeah, so am I.
Okay, I really appreciate
that both of you are here,
but let's not forget all of the things
that have happened.
And how we got out of it.
I mean, I think this is the moment
we need to join hands with it,
not abandon it.
The question isn't if we leave it,
but if it leaves us.
Think about it,
if I were a construct who'd been
subjected to years of forced labor,
violence, and abuse,
I would think seriously
about trying to make it on my own.
Yeah, but first,
I'd get rid of the witnesses.
Take them to an isolated place
for starters,
some place they wouldn't be found.
[groans]
If we get out of this,
I am suing the living shit out of
everyone in the Corporation Rim.
I would love to see that.
[Murderbot] I could just leave them
to cope on their own, I guess.
But it wasn't that easy.
It's wrong to think of constructs like me
as half bot, half organic.
Like the bot half should just
want to obey orders and do its job.
And the organic part
should want to protect itself
and get the hell out of there.
As opposed to the reality, which was that
I was one whole, confused entity.
I suppose I could just watch media
until my battery ran out,
and I became another
piece of the scenery.
[sighs]
I should've downloaded more shows.
- You don't look well.
- [scoffs]
I think you need a med bay.
[sighs] We can't risk it.
At least,
according to our new best friend.
Do you have feelings for it?
For For SecUnit?
Yes, SecUnit.
Gura
[sighs]
Oh, darling, you really are out of it.
Oh, here he comes.
It.
How's the perimeter?
Is that a joke?
Sort of.
Though I do actually want to know
how the perimeter is.
Secure.
And you?
Am I secure?
How are you in general?
[Murderbot] I had thought
that one of the good things
about not hiding my
hacked governor module
would be that I wouldn't have
to answer stupid human questions.
But annoyingly
she kept waiting for a response.
Fortunately,
any bullshit would do the trick.
Fine.
[Pin-Lee] Ratthi, don't.
Now is not the time.
Okay.
Okay, let's just have a little chat,
shall we?
Gurathin thinks you're gonna murder us.
- Ratthi.
- What?
- Somebody had to say it.
- No, they didn't.
Well, it deserves to know.
It's-It's a member of our team.
[Pin-Lee] Sorry, but
it's not. Not really.
Are you?
What's going on here?
Could I see your face, please?
Why don't you want us to look at you?
There's no reason to look at me,
I'm not a SexBot.
So you don't have a governor module,
but we can torture you by looking at you?
Probably. Right up until I remember
that I have guns built into my arms.
Okay. [breathes heavily]
What exactly is your plan for security?
Besides threatening us.
I don't know. What exactly is your plan?
Besides filing a lawsuit.
It can hear us in the hopper too?
[Murderbot] I wish I didn't have to,
but of course I can hear you.
I'm a highly advanced
piece of technology.
All right, we have to have it out.
We are going to talk
about this right now.
- Yes, I agree, we can talk about this.
- Yes, we can talk about this.
Could you please lower the helmet?
You can talk about it.
I'm gonna get some rest.
- Circle.
- [Murderbot] Nope.
[Ratthi] Yes.
You too.
Absolutely not.
It's okay, we can talk about this.
- We can talk about this.
- We can talk about this.
We can talk about this.
[Murderbot] Why do they keep saying that?
SecUnit, um [clears throat]
I consider myself lucky to have
someone here who is used to combat.
We're not.
Unless you get a mining drill
in your hands.
I am gonna have to reckon with that.
I just want them to
get past the violence.
It's safer if they think of you
as a person who is trying to help.
Because that's how I think of you.
I hear something.
Well, maybe it just needs
some perimeter time.
[Ratthi] What even is the perimeter?
It really seems to vary.
[Pin-Lee] I get it.
Sometimes I hide behind a mask.
[Ratthi] Mask of insecurity.
[Arada] It's not a
crime to have feelings.
[Ratthi] I'm a maelstrom of emotion.
Everyone back in the hopper!
- What is it?
- Is there something on the perimeter?
- Now!
- We can talk about this.
No, you can't, 'cause you'll all be dead.
- [Bharadwaj] Okay.
- [Pin-Lee] Oh.
[shouting]
[crew yells]
[screams]
[creature growls]
[roars]
Shit! It's trying to get in.
There's another one!
No, this one's different.
[Pin-Lee] Ugh. Look at that.
[screeches]
They're fighting!
They're gonna kill each other.
No.
They're not fighting.
- [growls]
- [screeches]
I think they're complementary genders
of the same species.
They're making love.
That's what you call it?
Well, this is unexpected.
- This is fascinating.
- [creatures growling]
I'm worried about
the structural integrity of the hull.
Is there anything
that we can do to get them off?
I could electrify the hull.
- Yes, do it.
- No!
- No, no, no, no.
- Okay Or no, no.
Hey, these are animals.
This is just animal behavior.
We need to be documenting this,
we can't be administering shocks to them.
It's so intense.
[Murderbot] Frankly,
I didn't find it any more revolting
than what humans do to each other.
[Murderbot] They're gone. For now.
Yeah, but they left us something.
Oh, wow. Wow!
Great. Just great. [groans]
[Arada] Aren't they though?
Oh.
Oh, they must've been attracted
to the residual heat from our engines,
and then they thought that this would
be a really great place to reproduce.
So, it wasn't just a casual sex thing?
We should get these off the hopper.
No, no, no. What if that kills them?
What if it doesn't?
Then you could study them or something.
In private. Somewhere
where I don't have to look at them.
Babe, just go inside then.
I don't see any harm
in leaving them there.
For the moment.
[Murderbot] I did, but nobody asked me.
Perhaps they'll hatch and crawl off.
[groans]
[Murderbot] I was
standing around like an idiot
when I learned
that top of the line SecUnits
could jam my threat assessment module.
[SecUnit] Please remain calm.
Please remain calm.
- I've got a plan!
- [crew shouting]
- [Arada] Ratthi, no!
- [crew screaming]
Fuck!
[screams]
[screams, grunts]
[screaming]
[Murderbot] They were trying to help,
which didn't help.
But as much as it pissed me off,
I kind of appreciated it.
[Arada] Get up!
[crew screaming]
[roars, screeches]
- [screams]
- Fuck!
[screaming]
- [whimpers]
- [creature screeches]
[Ratthi] What the fuck's going on?
What's going on? Fuck my life.
[screams] Oh, my God.
[panting]
Oh, my God.
[Murderbot] In retrospect,
I was glad we didn't touch the egg sacs.
[Mensah panting] Okay.
Okay. All right.
- [laughing]
- Yeah.
Yeah!
SecUnit does it again!
[Murderbot] Ratthi wanted to grab me
- for some kind of celebration.
- Come on, bring it in.
- Huh? Huh, huh?
- Fortunately, fate intervened.
- [crew clamoring]
- [Bharadwaj] Gura!
Hold on. Be gentle, gentle.
Oh, he's burning up.
He needs a med bay.
We have to get back to the habitat.
The habitat will be crawling
with hostiles.
He'll die.
[Murderbot]
You will all die if you go back.
No, no, this is how we do it.
We take care of each other!
[crew groaning]
[Murderbot] Oh, great.
So now I'm the bad guy.
We're going.
You can come if you want.