Murderbot (2025) s01e05 Episode Script

Med bay's not programmed
for this. We have to do it manually.
- I've got it.
- What is that?
Wires from the override device.
We've got to get them out.
Guess I'm not dead,
despite my best efforts.
- We're gonna bring him back.
- Now, how did I get here?
- You need to kill me.
- No.
We're not doing that.
I will kill all of you in a few seconds.
Do it.
- Don't do this.
- No, no!
I'm sorry.
- No!
- Oh, no!
Oh, yeah.
SecUnit? Is it, um
Uh, we have to get it to the habitat.
See if we can fix it.
Fix me?
Why'd I even bother to shoot myself?
- Yep. Got this.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- This thing is heavy.
- It's not a thing. It's a person.
- Yes, I know.
- I'm sorry. I can't.
This is just It's really awful.
Arada, grab a weapon. We still don't know
what else is out there.
- Okay.
- We need to get out of here.
Pull.
Someone's coming.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you doing?
That is a DeltFall uniform!
Oh, no. I'm so Are you okay?
- Don't shoot. Please help me.
- All right.
Glad one of them's alive at least.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
That That SecUnit
that you just squished.
It just killed two of our units,
and it did something to the other one.
And then it started shooting everyone.
Our SecUnit went rogue.
Hang on.
Wait, is that Is that one alive?
Is that one alive?
I don't know, but it will not hurt you.
Not unless you're stupid enough
to take me to my repair cubicle
and revive me.
Idiots.
They were doing everything
they could to bring me back online,
and that was fucking stupid.
The moment I woke up, I'd kill them all.
My system wouldn't reboot
because of the tendrils
the combat override module left in me.
Yeah, those guys.
I can do the extraction.
- Good luck with that.
- You sure?
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Wait. Who is that?
What's your name?
Leebeebee.
- "Leebee"?
- Leebeebee.
Oh, Leebeebee. That's a beautiful name.
Where you from?
Industrial Junction 151523.
That sounds nice.
Sorry to ask, but do you have any idea
whose SecUnit that was
that attacked your habitat?
No. I have no idea.
So, in order to save you,
your SecUnit shot itself?
Yeah, that was pretty heroic.
Our SecUnit was just, like
It's like an episode of Rogue War:
Tracker Infinite: Tribulation.
Terrible show.
It's a great show.
It wasn't its fault, the SecUnit.
It didn't go rogue.
It was forced to attack your habitat.
The question is, um, why?
I don't know.
I didn't know they have faces.
Yeah.
Wow.
I mean, to be honest,
it's not unattractive.
Right.
Do you think it has a pee-pee?
I I don't know.
I think maybe you're in shock.
Guess it doesn't really need one.
Can you imagine if it
did have one though?
And then could kind of go to
any length you wanted it to.
Press the balls to vibrate.
And then kind of could turn or go
in any sort of direction like a big worm.
And deep as you want. I don't know.
It's just something I can picture, but
you probably haven't thought about that.
But maybe you have. I don't know.
No. I don't think
I've ever thought about that.
So glad I was unconscious for this part.
As usual, the humans
were being messy and emotional.
I think if we have a child,
we should call it that.
Call it what?
SecUnit.
- SecUnit?
- Yeah. Yeah, kind of like a tribute.
Who said anything about having a child?
Okay. This part
was actually kind of entertaining.
That would be crazy. How do both of you
feel about having children?
I mean, just because of all the
everything, right?
It kind of makes you think.
Uh, yeah, no. It makes me think,
but maybe not about starting a family.
I just meant that,
like, what SecUnit did,
I think we should honor that.
SecUnit is gonna be fine.
Here we go.
Huh. Maybe this hippie
actually knew what she was doing.
Question. Is that a good idea? What if you
just fix it and then it just kills us all?
Then we have to risk it.
This SecUnit is our friend.
Hmm. Debatable.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm friends with a SecUnit.
You're Corporation Rim, so you probably
wouldn't even, like, get it, you know?
Are we sure
this is the right thing to do?
Oh, sure it is.
If you want to risk
all getting slaughtered.
Where are you people from?
Preservation Alliance.
We're a noncorporate planet
with a communal governing system.
Oh, neat.
What are you doing on this shitty planet?
We have mineral and data options
for this continent.
Oh, right. My bosses at DeltFall
used to call you guys "the amateurs."
Pretty rude, but they weren't wrong.
Only amateurs would risk their lives
to save a SecUnit.
Come here, baby.
- That's it.
- Last one.
Got it.
Fantastic.
Now, remember to reboot me before you put
me back online so I don't kill you all.
Ready to reboot.
Gurathin, I'm gonna
need you to plug into its system.
Track for any bad code.
Oh, n He's gonna do it?
Fuck.
He looks way too into this.
My job is to protect you from harm.
- Feel something's wrong.
- Be calm.
Wait a second.
I'm out of med bay,
and they are still alive. Nice.
It's awake.
Looking at their hopeful
faces, I was glad I didn't murder them.
Mostly.
Why Why isn't it moving?
'Cause I had HubSystem immobilize it
from the neck down.
Why? There's no danger.
What's wrong, Gurathin?
As you know,
I have been noticing
some anomalies with the SecUnit.
Uh-oh.
- And when I plugged into its system
- Uh-oh.
the unit was already rogue.
It hacked its governor module.
It's rogue?
On the entertainment feed,
this is what they call
an "Oh, shit" moment.
- Uh, okay.
- It's gonna kill us. It's gonna kill us.
Calm down. It can't move.
It's probably observing us right now
and plotting its next move.
I was.
Sort of.
No, no, no. Fuck this. Fuck this.
I'm out of here.
Okay. So what exactly
does this mean, Gura?
Oh, I'll tell you what this means.
Either I'm dead or you're dead.
It doesn't have to follow our commands.
We have no control over its behavior.
I shared all of my data with Bharadwaj,
and she agrees with me completely.
Bharadwaj. After all I did for you?
I don't agree with Gurathin.
Ha!
Uh, the governor module is working, then?
No, it's definitely hacked.
It's a free agent.
A rogue, as they say.
But it's acting to preserve our lives,
to take care of us nonetheless.
So all the more
reason for us to trust it.
Isn't that what we objected to in
the first place? Its lack of free will?
- Absolutely.
- Free will to do what exactly?
We have been sabotaged
since the moment we got here.
The missing hazard reports.
The missing pieces of the map.
And I guarantee you,
the number one suspect SecUnit.
So unfair.
Probably what happened to DeltFall.
It's connected somehow.
Oh, bullshit.
Somebody is sabotaging us, sure,
but Seccy here had nothing to do with it.
Seccy?
It told us about the combat module.
It told us to kill it.
Why? Why would it do that
if it wanted to hurt us?
If the Company wanted to order SecUnit
to kill us, we'd be dead by now.
The Company isn't trying to kill you.
Well, well, well.
Look who found its voice.
You have some explaining to do.
SecUnit, how do you know that?
Because if they wanted you dead,
they would poison your supplies
using the recycling system.
The Company has a financial interest
in keeping you alive.
The financial payments for your deaths
would be extremely high.
Gurathin, tell them
how it spends its time.
That's what was originally
concerning to you, right?
It's downloaded thousands of hours
of entertainment programming.
Mostly serials.
Mostly some show called Sanctuary Moon.
You don't know Sanctuary Moon?
I don't watch that crap.
It's probably using it to encode messages
to send to the Company.
There's no way it watched that much
without us noticing.
Hey, did you see the one
where the colony solicitor
killed the terraforming supervisor who was
the secondary donor of her implanted baby?
That's a damn lie. She didn't kill him.
She was framed by Bookkeeper
Wittenmark. That little snake.
It's watching the show.
- That's literally such a deep cut.
- So deep.
Season 19, episode four.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if we trust it.
We just have to keep it immobilized.
That won't work.
Oh, yeah?
- And why is that?
- Stop!
Stop! Stop!
- Let him go!
- SecUnit.
Because I hacked the command flow
from HubSystem.
SecUnit, let Gurathin be. Please.
I don't like you.
You see? You see?
I was done.
As I understand it, you don't have to
obey our orders or anybody's orders,
but that has been the case the
entire time that we have been here.
I would like you to remain
part of our group.
At least until we get off this planet
and to a place of safety.
At that point, we can discuss
what you would like to do.
And I swear to you that
I won't tell the Company,
or anyone else outside this room, anything
about you or the hacked governor module.
Of course, she had to say that.
What else could she do?
And I said what I had to say.
Okay.
So that's it, huh?
Whatever happened to consensus, Mensah?
We'll reach it. Eventually.
SecUnit, I want you to promise me
that you will protect Gurathin as
much as you protect all the rest of us.
I don't need its protection.
Why? HubSystem has seen all this.
HubSystem hasn't recorded any of this.
I just fed it an hour of mundane activity
from the logs.
HubSystem may have been compromised
by an outside agent.
You cannot trust it.
I suggest it's time to trigger
the emergency beacon.
Yes. Yes, yes, I agree.
The DeltFall survivor
kept looking at me strangely.
Like something
out of the entertainment feeds.
Stop staring at me.
What? I wasn't.
I wasn't. Stop staring at me.
Stuck-up robot.
Leebeebee, did DeltFall attempt
to launch its beacon?
DeltFall? I I don't know.
They didn't tell me much.
That must have been so frustrating.
What was your job at DeltFall?
I was, uh, mostly maintenance
and cleaning, you know?
Laundry.
They brought someone along to do laundry?
- That's disgusting.
- Right?
I'm on a seven-year indenture
to InterTrav Mining Solutions,
so I can't help it
if I don't have a degree.
- I don't think you're disgusting.
- No.
I meant the whole Corporation Rim,
with the whole indentured
servitude thing. That's disgusting.
That's the thing that's gross?
- Quiet, please.
- Ugh, thank you.
I can't reach the beacon.
Neither could I, and that was bad news.
Keep trying, Gura. Keep trying.
How does it work, the beacon?
Uh, it launches into orbit and sends
an EM pulse through the wormhole
to summon help.
In this case, a Company starship.
Well, how long does it take them
to get here?
Uh, five days usually.
Five days? But what if whoever sent
that thing to attack us at DeltFall
finds out where we are?
DeltFall's, like, an ocean away,
so we're good.
- You're safe here.
- Okay.
- Signal's still not going through.
- I'll take the hopper to the beacon
and set it off manually.
Not on your own you won't. We are not
about to trust you with our hopper.
- I'll go too.
- Ayda.
I'm the best pilot.
Well, I am.
Everyone pack essentials,
supplies for a week,
and when we get back, I suggest
that we move into a more hidden area.
Get any possessions you wanna take
with you together, and not too much.
We really have no idea
how much the rescue ship will carry.
We weren't allowed to bring much
in the first place anyway.
Listen, do you really think
that this is wise?
We don't have much of a choice, do we?
Hey.
How's it going?
I just wanted to say that, um
I've been talking to the team,
and you do seem nice.
And, um
well, I'm sorry that I said that
you were gonna kill us.
It's just really hard to
trust people sometimes.
Why was she getting so close to me?
Anyway
It's all right. Sorry.
That was just for luck or whatever.
Melt me down now.
If, um, for some reason
I don't make it back
Please don't say that.
If for some reason I don't make it back,
then Pin-Lee's first among equals.
Got it.
I'll analyze the data
from the combat module override
and reboot HubSystem.
Maybe figure out
why the heck all this is happening.
Thank you, Gura.
I'm glad that you are here.
Me too.
I think that
- It's time to leave.
- Oh, come on.
We should leave.
Yeah. Okay.
Gonna miss 'em, right?
Hmm.
- Anything I can help with?
- I highly doubt it.
Well, I meant, do you want a stimulant
or anything from the med kit?
- Crack it open, there's
- No.
No, no, thank you.
What is all this data?
Do you mind?
No problem.
I mean, I'm so proud of how they have
been grown and how they are in the world.
Um, the youngest one especially
just makes my heart
For some reason, humans
liked talking about their offspring.
Even if you didn't ask.
I mean, he's They, uh,
not my favorite, uh, of course,
I-I love them all. And
one day, we'll be
Two minutes and 30 seconds to the beacon.
You know what? If the Company
didn't kill the people at DeltFall,
there has to be a third party involved.
Yes.
But how could they be here
without the Company knowing?
The Company wouldn't arrange
to have you killed.
Dead clients are
terrible for their brand.
But someone might take money
to conceal the existence of
a third party on the planet.
Why?
Because most humans are greedy bastards.
No argument there.
It was weird talking back and forth
in a way that wasn't just giving facts
or receiving and confirming orders.
They did it on the serials all the time.
I just hadn't done it myself before.
There was no sign
of forced entry at DeltFall.
Maybe they knew the people who came,
otherwise why would they let them in?
You would do it.
If another group of scientists
showed up at the habitat,
said that they had just arrived on
the planet and had an equipment failure,
you would let them right in
without asking any questions.
Even if I told you not to.
Yeah. We can be a bit naive.
That must be so frustrating.
When they went to DeltFall,
they told them they were us.
The people at DeltFall thought
that they were helping us.
Yes.
They pretended to be you
so they could get in and kill everyone.
It's what I would do.
That's the beacon.
I'll try to launch it
with a burst communication.
Maintain this distance.
It's not working.
We'll have to reboot it by hand.
Can we do that?
Yes.
Land close by.
I'll plug in and start the sequence.
All right. Taking it in for landing.
And be ready.
We will have four minutes
to clear the area before the launch.
SecUnit, I want to talk about
what happened earlier with Gurathin.
- Have you ever hurt a client before?
- Wait.
We can talk about this.
Turn the hopper around now!