Summary of the “Murderbot” episode: having feelings is embarrassing

Publisher’s note: The summary below contains spoilers for Murderbot Episode 4.

We have almost reached the half of Apple TV + MurderAnd the 10 episodes science fiction adventure continues to be one of the most entertaining streaming offers right now. Episode 4, titled “Escape Velocity Protocol”, written by Chris Weitz And Paul Weitzand produced by Fraser store,, Sweet the winning formula behind this adaptation author Martha Wells‘ Murder newspapers Series Novella: unconventional charm, sparkling distribution and sincere feelings (with a capital F).

Rather than immediately resolving the cliffhanger last week, The cold of episode 4 flashes for several years in a Seigig production factory In the RIM section of the Galaxy’s Corporation. And if the expression “Senit production factory” evokes miserable images, you are not mistaken. Dark, dreary and industrial depressing, the threshold passes manufacturing center is also assaulted by glitching computers, an inconsistent quality control and unhappy workers forced to flagrant overtime while being grateful. Staff cannot even dissect the last episode of The rise and the fall of the sanctuary moon At peace – rude!

Ruder always for bad safety units, the installation is also full of rumors. A new trainee, naive of this whole process of manufacturing “built beings”, asks a main employee why the company designs each cyborg with a unique face. Supposedly, it is a safety measure; Individuality facilitates it a place in a row if it becomes a thug. Depending on the clickbait-y news (and the stereen shots, as Conflict in the galaxy), this happens as systematically as sneezing. At the time, a mounting chain produces an inanimate version made of Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) Future Head, ready for its dramatic close -up.

Murderbot is in poor condition and Mensah makes a key decision in episode 4

After the fantastic credits as always, we have our resolution of Cliffhanger, and it is not pretty. Out of screen, the link that emerged from shadows during the last seconds of episode 3 – disturbing in an elegant obsidian armor – beaten Murderbot in a pulp. Our reluctant hero is still aware, but barely working: bleeding, bruised, unable to move, in agony without pain sensors and be dragged by the ankle on the ground. To cope, his fried memory banks launch a flow of random clips of SanctuaryInstead of, you know, useful information.

The enemy security throws Murderbot’s ceremony without ceremony on a metal work table before trampling to prepare a combat replacement module, a device identical to that of a murder found attached to the Senunit which played dead (only to finish in fact). Even if Murderbot exceeded his governor module in the premiere episode, granting him complete autonomy, The installation of a combat replacement device will divert all of Murderbot programmingincluding his free will. Given the way in which at least a hacked security has suddenly massacred the Deltfall investigation team, it goes without saying that anyone orchestrating this concealment wants Murderbot to ensure that the same deadly tragedy arrives at the preservation team.

Meanwhile, the crew experienced its own crisis. Since we saw her for the last time, Mensah (Even if people) has remained rooted in practically the same place – observing Deltfall habitat remotely and desperately trying to raise Murderbot on communications; His silence is too much for his empathetic heart. Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu) Double of the hopper and urges mensah to come back with them, as well as to avoid unnecessarily “anthropomorphizing” Murderbot. Resolve to do the opposite on the two accounts, Mensah orders Pin-Lee to security, breaking the rules of their team on equality and consensus. In the hopper, once Arada (Tattiawna jones) and Ratthi (Akshay Khanna) Hear how their Actually The chief has faltered his authority, everything is an exaggerated pushing – but not over -body, given the fatal circumstances – Ratthi must seize a firearm and rush on an self -proclaimed rescue mission.

Murderbot’s love for soap operas is useful in episode 4

Regarding the difficult situation of Murderbot, although his beaten self has recovered enough to speak, he still has to restore his mobility systems – and the senuniary villain is a few moments to break this combat replacement module at the back of Murderbot’s neck. After an embarrassed warning, Murderbot triggers a last stratage of Semi-Genius: song SanctuaryThe theme song of. Perplexed, the other security stops in its footsteps, replace the module by hand. These few seconds buy just enough time. The following fight is brutal and disjointed, and ends with the enemy of Murderbot who sets the module in place. Murderbot falls tightly on the ground, his scrambled systems believing that he has about 10 minutes to overthrow the programming of the “small f * cker” before the strikes in the event of a disaster. And, for what it is worth, not wanting to be transformed into a real murder has nothing to do with the protection of his boring, “defenseless” and “unnecessary customers” – not a little!

At this precise moment, Mensah makes its dramatic entrance by pushing a mining forest generated directly in the back of the bad senunit and through his chest. Murderbot vaguely knows that he has something important to say to his main human (who now vomits vomiting), but all he can do is recite business policies. Terrified but compassionate, Mensah guides Murderbot’s stumbling body through the habitat towards the exit. He continues to try to remove the replacement module without realizing what he does, but the device prevents each effort. Murderbot, however, has enough conscience blurred to understand how the tables have turned; Mensah protects him, and that makes him the description of “the intrepid galactic explorer”. For once, Murderbot’s interior thoughts leave his mouth in a small admiring whisper.

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Inspired by this thought, Murderbot unconsciously implements the most nerd version of personal care – He projects himself and Mensah into the world of Sanctuary. (I’m jealous, I cannot do the same.) It is a dream come true for our murder: standing on the bridge of the vessel’s vessel, with a yellow uniform sporting purple stripes, a pompadour -style wig large enough to see space and more animated enthusiasm than it would never do it in life. The fantasy, a mercy for the barely healed brain (and the most delicious gag in the series to date) interprets a voting alert of threat as a hostile vessel emerging from a worm hole. This threat warning, not surprisingly, is the recovered link sprinkling a corner in front of Murderbot and Mensah. The real murder and his Sanctuary Homologist screams their lungs.

Murderbot sacrifices himself to protect the team in episode 4

Back on the hopper, Pin-Lee and Arada are concerned about the security of Ratthi while admitting that they may need to rethink their troop contract. This urgency, which has become of the planetary emergency, has gone from his behavior from attachment to overtaking, and Pin-Lee was not in the arrangement from the start. After arriving at the Deltfall habitat, Ratthi chooses this moment to ask how to shoot a firearm. (A little late for that one, my guy.) While he approaches habitat with caution, he finally begins to walk in the communications range to hear the unrestrained distress call of Mensah. He heads to the door, light up with Mrs Doubtfire Energy (“Help is on the way, expensive!”) – Only to find the locked door, and the orders do not respond.

Treatment always the pursuit of senunit through its therapy Sanctuary Filter, Murderbot Stresshes – Voice Thready with emotion – that Mensah “Ship abandonment”. If it makes a last heroic stand, then it can escape. MENSAH rejects this suggestion as a radicus and continues to drag Murderbot with her, the villain hot on their heels. Just as Ratthi decided to open the door, The clean pistol of Mensah blows through a section of the habitat wall. Ratthi and Mensah barely get a moment to hug before the Sénig follows them by their escape route and triggers another laser fire dam.

With a minute to play before the module presupposes control, Murderbot notes a revealing detail on the other serig: deliberately lacks its targets. Murderbot keeps enough independent thought to remember his previous analysis, according to which an innocent slaughter of innocent civilians adapts to all predictable stereotypes and diverts both the blame and the attention of everything that really happens on this planet. Like the Corrupted Deltfall Secunit, Murderbot is supposed. As if to facilitate this work by bringing together almost all the members of the team in one place, Arada and Pin-Lee fly via the hopper and use the landing apparatus to crush the bad meeting until its guts are surprised.

Murderbot finally manages to remove the combat replacement module, but at this point, it is too late. Always sufficiently aware of oneself to realize that it is a few seconds from the murder of its customers, Murderbot insists that the group pulls it. When they refuse, Murderbot tears the Mensah pistol from his hand. Transforming your latest empowerment of autonomy into a challenge, Murderbot actually says to everyone: “I’m sorry”, before shooting it in his manufactured heart. As he collapses on the sand, his humans in distress hover over his insensitive body.

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Murderbot’s love for the media is useful during a dangerous fight, while Mensah makes a key decision.

Release date

May 16, 2025

Network

Apple TV +

Advantages and disadvantages

• The mixture between heavier action and comic rhythms is excellent.
• The Sanctuary Moon Gag is the funniest moment to date.
• The entire casting continues to deliver perfect performance, with Alexander Skarsgård and Noma Dumezweni as a show.