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Murderbot and Mensah survived the explosion, but the hopper is damaged, and SecUnit deleted the repair manual in order to make space for a season of Sanctuary Moon. When Mensah is having a panic attack, Murderbot calms her down by showing her an episode of the show. They manage to repair the hopper using neural fibers from Murderbot's spinal cord. Meanwhile at the habitat, Leebeebee tries to get more information about the results of the Preservation survey. When Gurathin refuses to show her the data, she produces a gun, shoots him in the knee, and threatens rest of the team. She admits that she is not a member of DeltFall, but of the third party. Murderbot returns and kills Leebeebee immediately, which leaves the Preservation team in shock. While it gets repaired, Murderbot muses that the others had assumed that it was becoming like them, and that it actually felt good to execute Leebeebee.
12 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 8 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. |
| cross cultural issue | major | Murderbot and Dr. Mensah tried to understand one another. Likewise, Leebeebee and the other scientists discussed their contrasting societies and backgrounds. |
| soap opera | major | The fictional space opera "Sanctuary Moon" was central to Murderbot's character. In this installment, Murderbot was chided by Dr. Mensah for deleting an important repair manual in order to make space for a season of the series. He later played an episode of the series to calm Dr. Mensah in a time of crisis. |
| brain-computer interface | minor | Dr. Gurathin had a port in his neck that allowed him to interface directly with computer systems. |
| killing in self-defense | minor | Murderbot vaporized Leebeebee's head because she was holding the scientists at gunpoint. One of the scientists reproached Murderbot for shooting without warning or pause. |
| money isn't everything | minor | Bharadwaj tried to persuade Leebeebee that money wasn't important to one's happiness but Leebeebee demurred. |
| polyamorous relationship | minor | Three of the researchers who were in some sort of marriage arrangement with each other, were giving massages to each other and talking intimately. |
| psychological stress | minor | Dr. Mensah experienced what she believed to be a heart attack, but Murderbot correctly diagnosed it as a panic attack. |
| remorse | minor | Murderbot was chastised and beat himself up because he had purged the repair manual from his mind to make room for a second rate soap opera. |