Murderbot – Season 1 Episode 9 Recap & Review

The Review Geek

04-07-2025

All Systems Red
Episode 9 of Murderbot starts with our titular character noticing the difference in humanity, and how some keep their feelings bottled up but others are much more open about how they feel.
Murderbot lies to the group about their chances to survive (hint: it's much less than 'medium to low') but Gurathin soon calls him out for it.
The group touch down near a forest area, where their plan is for Pin-lee and Gurathin to get a drone up in the air. Then, Gurathin can use it as a transponder and hack into GrayCris' HubSystem remotely. That way they can launch their beacon and call for help.
However, they need to get GrayCris to give up their access codes… which is where Murderbot comes in. It shows up to see the group, who try to install a new override module inside it remotely. It doesn't work, obviously, as Murderbot speaks the truth about how its governor module has already been hacked.
Murderbot claims it's going to betray the Preservation Society and work with GrayCris to hand them over. At least, that's what these guys think anyway. Murderbot manages to do a pretty good job of convincing the group this is the case, while also hiding its true purpose.
In reality, it intends to kill the entire GrayCris group by duping them into the beacon launchpad area, where they'll end up immolated when it launches. However, Murderbot is forced to go with them.
Mensah believes there's a better plan here, which is maybe just as well given Murderbot stalls for time. It decides to engage in small talk and then launches itself off the landing spot… but nothing happens.
This is Preservation Society's doing, who are late following through with the missile. Mensah flies over herself and touches down, speaking to the leader of GrayCris. Unfortunately her bargain goes nowhere, and they all wind up in a firefight.
Eventually Murderbot comes out on top and throws itself off the edge of the ravine, just as the beacon is launched and spews fire across the area. As they fall, Murderbot sacrifices itself to save Mensah, throwing itself off the ravine and landing hard on the ground.
The Episode Review
Murderbot has come a long way since the early episodes of it only caring about itself, and now we can see that it really does care about the Preservation Society. It's pretty amusing seeing the Bot slowly gain humanity over time and as it does, make more mistakes. It speaks a lot about how clumsy humans can be and this comes across really well in the series.
The ongoing jokes about Sanctuary Moon are another nice inclusion here, and the show does a good job of blending that in with the story and evolving it over time. Overloading the SecUnit by uploading Sanctuary Moon episodes is a hilariously effective and funny way of dealing with these enemies too.
However, it would appear that Murderbot may be too far gone to come back from these injuries, so we'll have to wait and see where this one goes next week.
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