murderbot1x04 story
Murderbot discovers itself helpless and hallucinating about Sanctuary Moon while being dragged by a hostile SecUnit. After a fight, the hostile SecUnit installs a combat override module into Murderbot. Mensah comes to rescue it, and the other members of the team come to rescue Mensah. Although the hostile SecUnit is defeated by the crew using the hopper as a weapon, Murderbot tells the crew that it has been subverted by the combat override module, and will kill them unless they kill it first. When they fail to act, Murderbot takes a gun from Mensah and shoots itself.
12 total · 3 choice · 3 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI point of view | choice | A point of the story is to speculate on how an android might view humans. The story is mostly narrated by the titular Murderbot's inner thoughts. |
| android | choice | The story follows the titular Murderbot, a humanoid robot with organic parts that functioned as a security unit. There is no indication that Murderbot ever existed as a biological organism that became enhanced with technological parts. Therefore, Murderbot is not a cyborg according to our definition. This installment opens in a SecUnit factory, where the viewer is given a glimpse into the details of their manufacture. |
| human self-sacrifice for another | choice | Murderbot shot himself to prevent itself from killing the researchers as it's combat module had been compromised. |
| heroism | major | Dr. Mensah went back alone and saved Murderbot. |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | The scientists (and Murderbot) went up against a hostile SecUnit that tried to kill them all in a circuitous way: it tried to make it look like Murerbot was the culprit. |
| human worrying about self | major | On recurring occasions, Murderbot made it clear that he was discomforted by the others' attempts to become more familiar with him. |
| brain-computer interface | minor | Dr. Gurathin had a port in his neck that allowed him to interface directly with computer systems. |
| facing death | minor | Murderbot pondered whether this is what dying felt like as he lay critically wounded from the hostile SecUnit's attack. |
| having a skeleton in the closet | minor | Murderbot was hiding from the scientists that he'd overrode his governor module. |
| slavery | minor | The SecUnit factory workers were indentured. |