Murderbot – Season 1 Episode 2 Recap & Review
Eye Contact
Episode 2 of Murderbot begins with the group of miners deciding they need to head to one of the areas on the map that hasn't been synced properly. With Murderbot in stasis, Mensah wants to draw her own conclusions about what's going on and whether there could be some sort of cover-up.
Professor Bharardwaj is now fully healed too and back in fighting spirits (almost) which helps the group's conviction as it's eventually decided that they're going to go and investigate.
When Murderbot awakens, he curses out the humans for being typical pioneers and exploring. Gurathin doesn't trust Murderbot though, and wants to try and keep it in the dark over what they're doing. Our protagonist berates Gurathin (in his head) and unfortunately, is questioned forced quite a bit about its intentions in this chapter.
Murderbot wants to join the expedition given the potential threat level, but Gurathin doesn't think it's a good idea. The philosophy within Preservation Alliance is that robots and androids are people and treated as such.
In the Corporation Rim the Murderbot is obviously required to do anything by direct order, so to test this theory, Guranthin forces the Murderbot to maintain eye contact, which he struggles to do. SecUnits are not deigned to form attachments with clients, hence the suspicion here, as there are separate Bots called 'Comfort bots' that handle this.
Murderbot's empathy expressed with Dr Arada flies in direct contradiction with this, so its got Guranthin suspicious. He's a cautious person by nature and cares about those around him, perhaps almost to a fault.
Meanwhile, the love triangle turns into a polyamorous relationship with the three, while Mensah heads out exploring but winds up with big equipment glitches partway up a steep hill. Murderbot recognizes that she's having another panic attack, with the group sending out Drones to keep an eye on her. Mensah though is too stubborn to turn back and when Murderbot chirps in on the audio, she asks how he's doing.
Another of those strange sand worms attempts to attack Mensah but something in the atmosphere causes it to suddenly topple over and collapse. Mensah makes it back to the lab though, while we also see, as the camera pans out, that this area happens to be the side of a crater filled with dozens of skeletal sand worm corpses. Interestingly, there's also a strange translucent shield hovering the area like a dome, which has a strong magnetic grip, evidenced by one of the lab's drones being crushed to pieces when it gets near.
The group believe there could be something underneath the sand, and the alien synthetics at work could explain the gaps in the map they didn't see. They want to look into this in more detail, and that stems from contacting DeltFall Survey, who happen to be another group over on the other side of the planet.
As we pan across to their lab though, things are not looking good. The place is completely wrecked, the alarms are wailing with the SecUnit bot destroyed, and, potentially, something more dangerous at work here. Naturally, Preservation Alliance are going to head in and explore, but they're at least going to take the Murderbot with them, so there is that!
The Episode Review
So Murderbot finishes its second episode with a deeper exploration of the different characters and, more specifically, what it means to be human and how emotion plays into that.
The show has done reasonably well across its opening two episodes to set the scene for the rest of the season, combining comedy, drama and slick sci-fi visuals to good effect. The rest of the series promises to add in some mystery to all of this, especially with this trashed lab and dead bodies.
It's clear that there's something else on this planet – but what? I guess we'll find out in the episodes ahead!
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