Murderbot – Season 1 Episode 8 Recap & Review
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Episode 8 of Murderbot begins with more Sanctuary Moon, as Nav Seven is under the command of the new Captain… or is it? The bot goes mad, sabotaging the ship, getting them stuck in an event horizon and killing everybody onboard.
Murderbot is snapped back to reality when we learn Gurathin is not doing well. His temperature is spiking and even worse, when they check the surveillance logs, they find three SecUnits at their habitat.
Doing some research, they find out that the bots actually originate from a Mining Company called GrayCris. They're the ones who destroyed the beacon and they also happen to be working with LeeBeeBee.
The leader speaks to them via video, explaining that all of this has been one big misunderstanding and they do intend to leave their habitat. She sends over a rendezvous point and the group are pretty confident they can survive this, but given how they fared in their last bout, that's far from the truth.
Murderbot realizes that there's no talking them out of this, so he decides to survey the area before they head to the habitat.
Inside, the group work together to try and fix up Gurathin. He refuses painkillers and both he and Murderbot come up with the same solution at once. They deduce they can block the central nervous system of an augmented human to stop the pain. This would involve Murderbot plugging into Gurathin this time.
Murderbot is confused by the 'organic goo of feelings' that Gurathin has and begins saying 'why don't you love me back,' out loud. This is, of course, Gurathin's subconscious talking to Mensah.
It's pretty awkward, especially when that connection goes the other way and Gurathin sees the bloodshed and chaos in Murderbot's past with the mining colony. Even worse, Gurathin reveals that this SecUnit calls itself Murderbot because of this incident.
As they go over the reasons for Murderbot thinking this way, it believes it may be one thought away from killing them all and going defective. As a result, it decides to walk away from the Preservation Society.
Murderbot wanders around aimlessly, while the Preservation Society contemplate whether to bring it back, knowing that they both need each other at the moment.
Murderbot has an idea, and decides to create a new story to usurp the company. When it heads back to base, the others are pretty spooked to see it.
The Episode Review
We hit a turning point this week as Murderbot decides to step it up a gear and branch out into unknown territory. It's very clearly going to be working with the Preservation Society going forward to hit back against the company.
We still don't know what's happened with this mining colony though, nor do we actually know whether Murderbot killed those miners willingly or whether it's part of a bigger conspiracy.
What we do know however, is that Murderbot – despite initially claiming to dislike these guys – clearly wants to protect the Preservation Society and likes them.
Overall, this has been another good episode, leaving everything wide open for where it may go next.
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