Murderbot (2025) s01e08 Episode Script

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You see?
No issues whatsoever.
If the memory wipe
hadn't been 100% successful
how could this Unit be standing here
piloting this ship
just days after having killed its lover?
[groans]
[stammers] Respectfully, sir.
I think it is unwise to depend
on the behavior of a reconditioned Unit.
Nav Seven.
I would like you to decapitate me.
I cannot comply, Captain.
I am unable to take any action
that may endanger the life of the crew.
Let that be a lesson
to all the rest of you.
A Construct is nothing but a machine.
A malfunctioning machine makes mistakes.
A properly functioning machine
does as it's told.
- Take us through the wormhole, Nav Seven.
- But, sir
Yes, helmsman Sklanch?
Is it wise?
Wise? Perhaps not.
Bold? [chuckles]
I dare say yes.
And boldness is all.
Isn't that something
our former captain used to say, Nav Bot?
Sir, I do not have any memory
of the previous captain of this vessel.
Through the wormhole, Nav Bot.
[Navigation Bot]
Making final calculations.
Oh, and Nav Bot
Smile.
[whirring]
Captain, something is wrong.
What the hell's happening?
[Sklanch]
We're not going through the wormhole,
we're skirting the event horizon.
- We will be stuck in this continuum
- [Navigation Bot] Forever.
[chuckling] Yes. Forever.
Forever as all time passes into infinity.
[alarm blaring]
Stars, Captain, it's too late.
The bot has jammed the controls.
- My God, Sklanch, do something.
- There's nothing to be done, Captain.
- It's gone mad.
- Restrain that bot.
[crew clamoring]
[screams, choking]
[gasps]
[gasps]
[crew screaming, clamoring]
[gasps]
When you inducted me
into this hideous religion called "love,"
you took away the only human
who has ever shown me kindness.
[grunts]
[chuckles]
[gasps]
You have taken away my reason for living.
Or letting you live.
No. [breathing heavily]
- Now, Captain
- [breathes shakily]
smile.
[grunting]
[blaring continues]
[screams]
[alarm stops]
[Murderbot chuckles] Wow.
I had not expected that the Nav Bot
would kill the whole crew.
- [Mensah] What do you think?
- [Murderbot] What do I think?
- [panting]
- I I think I need to find out
whether it kills
Flight Officer Hordööp-Sklanch next.
But I guess
I gotta deal with this shit first.
[Ratthi] Gurathin's looking worse
by the minute. [sighs]
[Mensah] We need to get him down
to that med bay.
[Murderbot] Yes.
Without all getting killed.
No vehicles to be seen.
[pants]
Where are they?
[Ratthi] Yeah, where are they?
That's the question.
Okay, so I'm thinking I go sneak in,
kind of like stealth.
Kind of like scope it out.
You know? Whatever.
Maybe this time I take an
even larger gun, just in case.
Are you with me? Come on.
[sighs]
[device beeping]
Is that a transponder?
The surveillance cameras
I left in the habitat
have been sending data here.
Seccy.
Yes, Seccy, yes.
[device beeping]
[Bharadwaj] His temperature is spiking.
[Mensah]
Is there anything on the playback?
[Arada] I don't see anything.
- Maybe they didn't
- Shit.
More SecUnits.
[Arada] Double shit.
- Three of them?
- The kind that kicked SecUnit's ass.
Can anybody identify that marking?
I'm on it.
It's GrayCris.
That's who the insignia belongs to.
Some kind of mining company.
Damn, you're good.
[Mensah] Anyone ever heard of them?
There. There's something.
You knew we were coming
so I assumed you'd have some way
to watch us while we're here.
We're the ones who disabled your beacon,
and you
you killed our colleague,
so let's just call it a wash.
DeltFall's beacon is gone too,
so if you want to get off this planet,
we're gonna have to cooperate.
All of this has been
a huge misunderstanding.
So as a gesture of good faith,
we're planning on leaving your habitat.
Run all the security checks you like,
but I think you're smart enough
to realize that we have to talk.
So let's meet at this rendezvous point
at this time,
and we can come to some agreement.
Please.
This doesn't have to end in violence.
[scoffs]
We gotta get Gurathin down there.
We have no reason to believe them.
There could be traps.
Someone could by lying in wait.
We'll be ready.
I think we handled ourselves pretty well
in that last punch-up.
- [screaming] Fuck!
- [Pin-Lee, Arada shouting]
I felt like a warrior.
[screaming, clamoring]
- And you were you were scary.
- Aw, thank you.
- [screams, grunts]
- No!
What about this absolute maniac?
Don't call me crazy
because I will fuck you up!
[laughs] You're not the only rogue
on this planet, mate.
Your odds of surviving
another physical altercation
are extremely low.
If there's a chance, we have to go.
Gurathin needs med bay right away.
[Gurathin] It's not worth it.
Don't go there. It's suicide.
- Just let me
- [Arada] You're worth it.
We're not leaving without you.
[Murderbot] There was clearly no stopping
these lunatics.
- [Mensah] You are worth it.
- [Arada] Yeah.
Don't move until I've secured the area.
Especially not you.
[machinery whirring]
What the hell did I do?
[theme music playing]
[beeping]
[beeping]
- [beeping]
- [Murderbot] Scan complete.
It's safe to enter.
- [Gurathin grunting, panting]
- [Murderbot] What did GrayCris want
and why had they killed everyone
at DeltFall?
There was plenty to figure out.
But first, repairs were needed.
Yeah. Gas gangrene.
The projectile carried the fabric
into the wound, and it's necrotizing.
Hey. Hey.
We're gonna fix you right up, okay, Gugu?
Yeah. [grunts]
[Murderbot] Dr. Bharadwaj
was not a doctor doctor.
But who was I to remind them?
The system can laser out anything,
no problem.
- Ratthi?
- I've got the painkillers right here.
No painkillers.
- [Bharadwaj] What?
- No painkillers, please.
- Gurathin, surely
- [Gurathin] Ayda
- How long will it take?
- [Bharadwaj] Uh, ten minutes maybe.
Ten minutes? Okay.
- No, Gura, that is just stupid.
- Doctor Mensah!
Ayda [breathes shakily]
this is how it started.
[breathes shakily] Please.
[Mensah] All right, all right.
[inhales sharply] You.
[groans] Restrain me, SecUnit.
Sure, I can restrain you.
[Murderbot] Then, Gurathin and I
must've had the same thought
at the same time.
Unless
[Murderbot] Which was creepy.
With hardwiring.
It's possible.
[Ratthi] Sorry, what's possible?
Blocking the central nervous system
of an augmented human to stop the pain.
Really? Are you sure it'll work?
I've done it before.
I just need to plug into him.
You are telling the truth,
or did you get this off Sanctuary Moon?
No, I did not get it from Sanctuary Moon.
- [straining] Do it!
- I need a hard wire.
Use mine. [breathes heavily]
[Murderbot] I was telling the truth.
I hadn't seen it on Sanctuary Moon.
I'd seen it on Medcenter Argala,
episode 502.
They always claimed the cases
on the show are drawn from real life.
It wasn't so long ago
you plugged into me.
So I figured it might work.
I remember.
Well, let's hope you still remember
after this is over.
[buzzes]
- [Mensah] Gurathin, can you hear me?
- [Murderbot] It was weird.
[Mensah] How are you feeling?
[Murderbot] Like I was looking at myself
through Gurathin's eyes.
The last time Gurathin and I
were hardwired, I was totally out of it.
This time, I was in control.
- [Gurathin] I can't see.
- [Murderbot] Relax.
I just turned off your sense of sight.
It's better if you don't see this.
Professor Bharadwaj?
Ready.
[whirring]
[Murderbot] By the way,
I wasn't doing this to be nice.
It was just preferable
to hearing Gurathin scream.
[squelching]
[Murderbot]
Plus I could look around in his head
while Bharadwaj was looking around
in his leg.
He had tried to rummage
around in my data.
It was only fair.
Who knows? Maybe there
was something useful in there.
The thing was,
once I started looking around in there,
I got lost.
This wasn't like
a normal machine database.
It was a wilderness
of organic goo and feelings.
[Gurathin] I love the others, the
way that one loves their own children.
But you, I love as my equal.
As my better.
Why can't you love me back?
Why can't you love me back?
Why can't you love me back?
Why can't you love me back?
Why can't you love me back?
SecUnit?
[Murderbot] I should have
just minded my own business.
Can we hurry this up, please?
Did I just say something?
No. You didn't.
Quiet, please.
Okay, there it is.
Okay. Okay.
- Got it. [exhales sharply]
- [Mensah] Mmm.
Almost done.
Um Seal it.
You can unlink.
One moment.
[Murderbot] And then, too late.
I realized what a clever son of a bitch
Gurathin was.
He had gotten past all my defenses.
- He'd seen everything.
- [voices screaming]
[voices screaming]
- [Murderbot] Murderbot. Murderbot.
- [whimpering]
- [gasps, grunts] Murder
- [Mensah stammers]
- [panting]
- [Mensah] Gura, are you okay?
[panting] I was in there.
I was finally in there.
- [Pin-Lee] In where?
- He's delirious.
- Inside In-Inside of it.
- [Murderbot] Stop.
- [pants] It It calls itself
- No. Don't.
- It calls itself
- Don't!
It calls itself Murderbot.
Murderbot?
That was private.
I'm sorry.
W-Why does it call itself Murderbot?
Because it murdered 57 members
of a mining expedition
that it was assigned to protect.
That is not true!
It's, um It's-It's not true
that you murdered all those miners?
[Murderbot] No.
It's not true that
that's why I call myself Murderbot.
[Arada]
So you killed more people than that?
I have killed people.
In order to protect clients.
- That is not murder.
- It's debatable.
[Murderbot] It is not certain
that I murdered those 57 clients.
It could have been a
an implanted memory.
Or-Or
Or maybe someone forced me to do it.
Maybe there was
a combat override module involved. I
- I don't know.
- Maybe you're just defective.
A defective unit
that's just one thought away
from killing everyone around you.
Yes, maybe.
[Bharadwaj] Where's it going?
- [sighs] We can't let it leave.
- Oh, we can.
We'll be safer.
Fifty-seven people?
We're a drop in the fucking bucket.
We'd all be dead without it.
Or I would be at least.
You saw how fast it killed Leebee.
- Leebeebee.
- [exhales sharply] Yeah, I know.
We're all gonna die, right?
We're all gonna die anyway.
- Now's a good time
- Babe. We're not gonna die.
- Not if we get Murderbot back.
- Can you stop calling it "Murderbot?"
- It's terrifying.
- Yeah, that's what it calls itself,
so I am just being respectful.
Good riddance.
It's for the best.
So, the question is
who or what is GrayCris?
Hang on. Is that it?
- We're just letting it go?
- It can do whatever it wants.
- [Ratthi] Yeah, but it saved our lives.
- It's not your pet.
What is GrayCris?
Well, it's another
survey team, obviously.
- Working for the Company?
- [Pin-Lee] No.
Whatever is happening here,
the Company wouldn't want any part of it.
Why? The Company's just criminals
by a different name.
Criminals who follow a set of rules.
If the Company can't guarantee
the safety of its clients,
then it can't make a profit from them.
They're about to pay a shit ton
for the security bond DeltFall took out.
It's true. Massacres
are bad for business.
Perhaps they're not corrupt enough
to have us killed,
but they could have taken a bribe
to cover up the fact
that there's another survey team here.
Looking for what?
Alien remnants. That's what.
L-Like the ones that you came across.
Pin-Lee said you can't exploit them.
You can't take them off planet.
You can if you don't give a fuck
about interstellar law.
[Bharadwaj] DeltFall didn't find them.
We did.
DeltFall must have
stumbled across GrayCris's operation.
So they killed them?
Oh, great.
What are they gonna do to us?
Well, we know
where the alien remnants are,
so that's the only reason
we're still alive.
Once they find out what we know
[Murderbot] They were dead.
Without me,
they had no chance of surviving.
But was that my problem?
There was no governor module
forcing me to protect them.
I wandered around aimlessly.
I was screwed too.
There was no way off this planet
without my clients.
And it was pretty clear
that I revolted them.
[Arada] This is really bad.
We need Murderbot back.
- What are we gonna do?
- Arada, honey?
[Arada] Yeah?
- The throuple thing.
- Yeah, yeah. I
I know, the timing is bad. [sighs]
[knocks on door]
- Hi, you two.
- Listen, Ratthi, I
No, wait. I've-I've got
something to say, and, um
we might not make it through this so
[sighs] Right, um
Just put that, uh, there.
And, uh
- Please.
- Mmm.
[breathes shakily]
I realized that, uh
that I want to live my life
with as much honesty as I can.
You know?
And I don't think I can do this anymore.
The tripartite arrangement.
- Oh.
- Oh.
Oh, that's too bad.
'Cause if I'm falling for one of you
and not the other, then that's
that's a teensy bit of a problem.
I
I'm so sorry, Pin-Lee.
I'm falling in love with you.
[stammers] I don't even
Arada, I didn't mean for this to happen.
Yeah, I kn I know, but are you sure
are you sure you got it right?
- Because I was I
- What, is it that unlikely?
Huh?
I'm not saying it's what I wanted,
but is it that unlikely
that he would be into me and not you?
No, that's not I didn't mean that.
- I mean, you think I'm attractive, right?
- Yes, a hundred percent.
- So then, why shouldn't this guy? Hmm?
- [chuckles]
Do you guys wanna talk?
- Because I can
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no. You-You talk.
Or we could all talk?
Or you guys could talk,
and then we could talk.
Like a series of talks.
We can talk about this.
Uh, only later, not now.
Because of the part where
we all probably die.
- [inhales sharply]
- Oh.
[Captain] Do you come here often?
[Navigation Bot]
I have never been to this
[Fimbro] Stay with me, Friess.
[lieutenant] By the 11 moons of Zolthar.
[Sklanch] Stars!
[Captain] are the
commands from inside.
[Murderbot]
I was trying to calm myself down
with some of my favorite episodes.
But I couldn't focus.
[Captain] Boldness is all.
[Murderbot] It was like this new show,
Murderbot and its Selfish, Ungrateful,
Hippie Clients, had just taken over.
[Navigation Bot] Or letting you live.
[Murderbot] And then I realized
even if they were dead,
I didn't have to be.
I could write my own storyline.
The rogue SecUnit
who betrayed its clients.
We'll gather as many supplies as possible
and flee.
It's a big planet.
No, no, no. They will find us again.
You go. I'll meet them and negotiate.
Mensah, they'll torture you
for information and kill you.
I'm a planetary administrator.
- They don't care.
- Have you a better idea?
- [rattling]
- [Murderbot] I have a plan.
- [screams]
- [Mensah gasps]
[exhales sharply]
I have a plan.
Fuck.