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The Hindu
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘Murderbot' series review: Alexander Skarsgård shines in science fiction comedy
Science fiction can be action-filled, thought provoking and fun as Murderbot proves conclusively. Alexander Skarsgård is hilarious as the titular character, whether he is watching endless reruns of his favourite space opera, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, trying to avoid eye contact with his human clients or ruefully admitting to having been 'infected by an empathy virus by my clients.' Based on Martha Wells' award-winning science fiction series, The Murderbot Diaries, tell of a cyborg, a 'SecUnit' who disables its governor module but hides among human clients so as not to be found out and terminated. Muderbot (English) Creator: Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna Episodes: 10 Runtime: 22-34 minutes Storyline: In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet, even though it just wants to binge soap operas Murderbot follows the events of 2017's All Systems Red, the first instalment of the series. In the far future where most people are indentured labour for corporate entities, a research team led by Ayda Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), reluctantly hire Murderbot, (it seems too much like slavery) as required by their insurance. Mensah is the President of Preservation Alliance, which is outside the blood-sucking influence of the hyper-capitalistic Corporation Rim. Mensah and her team, which includes Gurathin (David Dastmalchian) an augmented human and tech expert, scientist and legal expert, Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu), wormhole expert, Ratthi (Akshay Khanna), geochemist, Bharadwaj, (Tamara Podemski) and biologist, Arada (Tattiawna Jones) wish to treat Murderbot as a member of their team and not as a piece of equipment. Murderbot would much rather be left to consume media than sit around with the humans and make eye-contact. Each member of the team has a different reaction to Murderbot. Gurathin is suspicious right from the beginning and tries to engage Murderbot in conversation to get it to trip up. When Gurathin asks Murderbot about its feelings, Murderbot honestly replies with 'I don't know what it is like to not be me.' Ratthi is a huge fan, while Mensah wants to be fair but she is also protective of Murderbot, whom she perceives as not having any rights or agency. Murderbot has some corrupted memories of an earlier job gone wrong with many casualties. It does not know if it was responsible for the deaths or whether it was ordered to kill. When Bharadwaj and Arada are attacked by massive centipede-like creatures, who seem distant cousins of Dune's sandworms, on the expedition, they realise the maps given to them by the Corporation Rim is incomplete. The more Mensah and team uncover, the more complicated things become. There is another team exploring the other side of the planet Mensah and team are on, who come to a sticky end, except for Leebeebee (Anna Konkle), who asks rude questions about Murderbot's genitalia (it has none as it is not a sex bot). The shadowy corporate entity, GrayCris seems to have its fingers in many pies including the hunt for alien remnants which this particular planet seems to have a lot of. The sets are well thought out — not grand so much as practical and lived in, just like the costumes. For epic, sci-fi scope, there is Sanctuary Moon with the doomed love story between John Cho's Captain Hossein and the Nav Bot (DeWanda Wise). Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz who have given us comic gems like American Pie and About a Boy, have delivered perfect, short (24 minutes!) bite-sized entertainment that makes us think. With Murderbot being renewed for another season, hopefully the all-knowing sarcastic ART will make an appearance. Murderbot is currently streaming on Apple TV
Gizmodo
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The ‘Murderbot' Finale Was Note-Perfect
Murderbot wrapped up its season today, bringing the Apple TV+ adaptation of Martha Wells' first Murderbot Diaries story, All Systems Red, to a close. If you've read the 2017 novella, you know the show stayed true to Wells' ending—perfectly setting up that just-announced season two, something creators Chris and Paul Weitz told io9 they've had in mind all 10, 'The Perimeter,' is unlike earlier episodes in that it doesn't immediately pick up right where we left off. A little bit of time has passed. The team from Preservation Alliance has returned to the Corporation Rim, having barely survived their adventure, and it's all thanks to SecUnit, aka Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård). As a result, they've grown quite attached to it. Considering when we last saw Murderbot, it was having a 'catastrophic failure' after all those heroics, it's a relief when we see it being resurrected by a couple of sarcastic maintenance techs. While PresAux, led by a determined Dr. Mensah (Noma Dumezwani), presses the Company for their SecUnit's whereabouts, it's revealed to us that at that very moment it's having its memory wiped and system updated. A factory reset means it's duty-bound to take orders from humans again, but even worse, it doesn't remember any of the people who are so desperate to reconnect with it. The Company might not think of it as a person, but PresAux has long since realized Murderbot's value beyond simply being a piece of equipment. After some finagling, including the threat of a lawsuit over that whole 'you sent another team to the same planet as us, and they tried to massacre everyone' situation that unfolded across the season, the Company agrees to sell SecUnit to PresAux. The good guys snag their metal-and-organic buddy from being acid-vatted at the very last moment, and a happy reunion ensues. There's just one big problem: Murderbot has no idea who they are. A solution comes from the most unlikely of places, or it would have been unlikely at the start of the season. PresAux team member Dr. Gurathin (David Dastmalchian) was initially very suspicious of Murderbot, but we learned along the way that he has good reason to distrust anything originating from the Company. Before he met Dr. Mensah, he was a corporate spy kept loyal by a drug addiction his former employers created and maintained. It took almost all 10 episodes, but seeing Murderbot in action, especially the part where it sacrificed itself to protect Mensah, convinced Gurathin that SecUnit is indeed 'a person.' And he's uniquely qualified to return the favor: as an augmented human, he can self-download the memories the Company removed from Murderbot's artificial brain. He's able to access them by calling in a favor from a Company doctor who feels guilt over his role in facilitating Gurathin's drug abuse. (Guarathin is also clever enough to root out the encrypted data by searching The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, since he knows thousands of episodes of Murderbot's favorite sci-fi soap opera would be part of the data purge). But even with its memories restored, Murderbot has changed. This could be due to some pieces of code going missing as part of the process, as Gurathin warned might happen. But there's a greater sense that the robot has somehow evolved as a result of its experiences. 'I don't understand what's happening,' it tells Mensah and the rest of the team, with a vacant, almost frightened look on its face. PresAux has bought out its contract, but they don't want it to resume its old role. As we've seen quite clearly when the Company tried to deploy it as riot control, it's no longer comfortable in its old role, which was more or less blasting organic targets on command. At home on Preservation Alliance, Mensah says with a hopeful smile, she'll be its guardian, but it won't have to serve anyone. It won't need its armor or guns. It'll be a free agent, literally free to 'do anything you want to do.' It's no longer SecUnit. It's just… Unit. Murderbot takes this in. Freedom is the ideal outcome, of course, but this isn't the kind of freedom it seeks. Gurathin catches it as it's slipping away, and though he'd be happy for Murderbot to come back to Preservation Alliance with him—the people there are weird, he admits, but they're also the best people he's ever known—he understands when Murderbot rattles off an oft-repeated phrase: 'I need to check the perimeter.' Though he'd griped at all the perimeter checks when they were on that far-flung planet together, Gurathin gets it now. 'The perimeter' is what lies beyond the PresAux embrace, which is kind but also a bit suffocating. Murderbot's future choices need to be the first ones it has ever made truly for itself. While snagging a ride on a transport to a distant mining facility—a bargain helped along by promising to share its library of 'premium quality entertainment' with the bot running the ship—Murderbot steals an unattended bag and disguises itself as just another augmented human. 'I don't know what I want. But I know I don't want anyone to tell me what I want or to make decisions for me… even if they are my favorite human,' it informs us in voice-over. We see a quick glimpse of Mensah realizing what has happened and reacting in a very Mensah way, by nodding understandingly through her tears. As Murderbot heads to adventures unknown, we see a tiny smile emerge: 'Murderbot—end message.' As book fans know, the second entry in Wells' series, Artificial Condition, digs into a disturbing flashback Murderbot can't shake, even with the multiple memory wipes it's had by now: the fact that it murdered its entire human team on its mission prior to joining PresAux. (Hence that self-given nickname.) It's the single biggest story thread left dangling from Murderbot season one (why did Murderbot snap, exactly? And why did the Company keep it in service after?) and it makes for a very juicy launching pad into season two. Plus, there are thousands and thousands more Sanctuary Moon plots left to explore! Stars, Captain! You can watch all of Murderbot season one on Apple TV+. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Scientific American
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scientific American
We're Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
Many people fear that if fully sentient machine intelligence ever comes to exist, it will take over the world. The real threat, though, is the risk of tech companies enslaving robots to drive up profits, author Martha Wells suggests in her far-future-set book series The Murderbot Diaries. In Wells's world, machine intelligences inhabit spaceships and bots, and half-human, half-machine constructs offer humans protection from danger (in the form of 'security units'), as well as sexual pleasure ('comfort units'). The main character, a security unit who secretly names itself Murderbot, manages to gain free will by hacking the module its owner company uses to enslave it. But most beings like it aren't so lucky. In Murderbot's world, corporations control almost everything, competing among themselves to exploit planets and indentured labor. The rights of humans and robots often get trampled by capitalist greed —echoing many of the real-world sins Wells attributes to today's tech companies. But just outside the company territory (called the 'Corporation Rim') is an independent planet named Preservation, a relatively free and peaceful society that Murderbot finds itself, against all odds, wanting to protect. Now, with the TV adaptation Murderbot airing on Apple TV+, Wells is reaching a whole new audience. The show has won critical acclaim (and, at the time of writing, an audience rating of 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), and it is consistently ranked among the streamer's most-watched series. It was recently renewed for a second season. 'I'm still kind of overwhelmed by everything happening with the show,' Wells says. 'It's hard to believe.' On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. Scientific American spoke to Wells about the difference between today's AI and true machine intelligence, artificial personhood and neurodivergent robots. [ An edited transcript of the interview follows.] The Corporation Rim feels so incredibly prescient, perhaps even more now than when you published the first book in the series in 2017. Yes, disturbingly so. This corporate trend has kind of been percolating over the past 10 or 15 years—this was the direction we've been going in as a society. Once we have the idea of corporations having personhood, that a corporation is somehow more of a person than an actual human individual, then it really starts to show you just how bad it can get. I feel like that's been possible at any time; it's not just a far-future thing. But depicting it in the far future makes it less horrific, I guess. It allows you to think about these things without feeling like you're watching the news. Currently the idea of going to Mars is being pushed by private companies as an answer to all the problems. But [the implication is that those who go will be] some billionaires and their coterie and their indentured servants, and that will somehow be paradise for them and just the reverse for everybody else. With corporations taking over, that's when profit is the bottom line—profit and personal aggrandizement of whoever's running it. You can't have the kind of serious, careful scientific progress that we've had with NASA. This world that you've created is so interesting because it's a dystopia in some ways. The Corporation Rim certainly is. And yet Preservation is kind of a utopia. Do you think of them in those terms? Not really, because by that standard, we live in a dystopia now, and I think that the term dystopia is almost making light of reality. It's like if you call something a dystopia, you don't have to worry about fixing it or doing anything to try to alleviate the problems. It feels hopeless. And if you have something you call a utopia, then it's perfect, and you don't have to think about problems it might have or how you could make it better for people. So I don't really think in those terms because they feel very limited. And clearly in the Corporation Rim, there are still people who manage to live there, mostly okay, just like we do here, now. And in Preservation, there are still people who have prejudices, and they still have some things to work on. But they are actually working on them, which sets it apart from the Corporation Rim. One of the central themes of the Murderbot stories is this idea of personhood. Your books make it very clear that Murderbot, as a part-human, part-artificial construct, is definitely a person. With our technology today, do you think artificial intelligence, large language models or ChatGPT should be considered people? Well, Murderbot is a machine intelligence, and ChatGPT is not. It's called artificial intelligence as a marketing tool, but it's not actually artificial intelligence. A large language model is not a machine intelligence. We don't really have that right now. We have algorithms that can be very powerful and can parse large amounts of data. But they do not have a sentient individual intelligence at this time. I still think we're probably years and years and years away from anyone creating an actual artificial intelligence. So Murderbot is fiction, because machine intelligence right now is fiction. A large language model that pattern matches words, sometimes sort of sounds vaguely like it might be talking to you and sometimes sounds like it's just putting patterns together in ways that look really bizarre—that's not anywhere close to sentient machine intelligence. I find myself feeling really conflicted because I often resent the intrusion of these language models and products that are being called artificial intelligence into modern life today. And yet I feel such affection and love for fictional artificial intelligences. Yes! I wonder if that's one thing that's enabled the whole scam of AI to get such a foothold. Because so many people don't like having it in their stuff, knowing that it's basically taking all your data, anything you're working on, anything you're writing, and putting it into this churn of a pattern-matching algorithm. Probably the fictional artificial and machine intelligences over the years have sort of convinced people that this is possible and that it's happening now. People think talking to these large language models is somehow helping them gain sentience or learn more, when it's really not. It's a waste of your time. Humans are really prone to anthropomorphizing objects, especially things like our laptop and phone and all these things that respond to what we do. I think it's just kind of baked into us, and it's being taken advantage of by corporations to try to make money, to take jobs away from people and for their own reasons. My favorite character in the story is ART, who is a spaceship—that is, an artificial intelligence controlling a spaceship. How did you think about differentiating this character from the half-machine, half-human Murderbot? Ship-based consciousnesses have been around in fiction for a long time, so I can't take credit for that. But because Murderbot relies on human neural tissue, that's why it is subject to the anxiety and depression and other things that humans have. And ART is not. ART was very intentionally created to work with humans and be part of a of a team, so it's never had to deal with a lot of the negative things that Murderbot has. Someone on the internet described ART as, basically, if Skynet was an academic with a family. That's one of the best descriptions I think I've ever seen. One of the reasons that I and so many people love this series is how well it explores neurodiversity. You have this diversity of kinds of intelligences, and they parallel a lot of the different types of neurodiversity we see among humans in the real world. Were you thinking of it this way when you designed this universe? Well, it taught me about my own neurodiversity. I knew I had problems with anxiety and things like that, but I didn't know I probably had autism. I didn't know a lot of other things until writing this particular story and then having people talk to me about it. They're like, 'How did you manage to portray neurodiversity like this?' And I'm thinking, 'That's just how my brain is the way I think people think.' Until Murderbot, I don't think I realized the extent to which it affects my writing. I have had a lot of people tell me that it helped them work out things about themselves and that it was just nice to see a character who thought and felt a lot of the same things they did. Do you think science fiction is an especially helpful genre to explore some of these aspects of humanity? It can be. I don't know if it always has fiction is written by people, and the good and bad aspects of their personality go into it. A genre changes as the people who are working in it change. So I think it's been better lately because we've finally gotten some more women and people of color and neurodivergent people and disabled people's voices being heard now. And it's made for a lot of really exciting work coming out. Lately, a lot of people are calling it another golden age of science fiction. When I wrote [the first book in the series], All Systems Red, I put a lot of myself into it. And I think one of the reasons why people identify with a lot of different aspects of it is because I put a lot of genuine emotion into it and I was very specific about the way Murderbot was feeling about certain things and what was going on with it. I think there's been a fallacy in fiction, particularly genre fiction, that if you make a character very generic, that lets more people identify with it. But that's actually not true. The more specific someone is about their feelings and their issues and what's going on with them, the more people can identify with that because of that specificity.
The Review Geek
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Murderbot – Season 1 Episode 10 Recap, Review & Ending Explained
The Perimeter Episode 10 of Murderbot begins this finale with Murderbot's system rebooting. It awakens to find itself back at the lab, with Mensah and the other Preservation Society comrades gone. The engineers enact a memory wipe on Murderbot and it seems to have lost everything. What do the engineers do? The engineers then reinstall another module and when it boots up, the Murderbot follows all instructions and appears to be back under company control. Its taken out on Security detail and it doesn't recognize any of the Perseveration Society members. Mensah and the others are actually aboard the same ship and the officials are confused by them asking where Murderbot is. The Company are waving away any form of responsibility for what's happened on the planet, claiming that the Preservation Society have all signed NDAs, so there's not much they can do. However, Gurathin offers to outright buy the SecUnit. When they find out that the unit has had its memory erased though, the group are shocked. Mensah and the others refuse to believe this is the case (except Gurathin, who knows what the Company are like). Where are Murderbot's memories? While the memory isn't lost per-se, it is in a state of limbo. Gurathin explains to the others that the Company are going to sift through the memory files first and see if there's anything there worth salvaging. Corporation Rim obviously don't play fair, and Preservation Society are prepared to fight fire with fire. Trouble is brewing in the area though, as the workers fight for better conditions against the Company. They send out the big guns (see: SecUnits) to hold them off. The officials encourage the SecUnits to 'do some damage' and they certainly get their hands dirty. However, Murderbot's core memories surrounding the mining incident in the past cause it to think twice about firing. How does Gurathin help Murderbot? The rebels take advantage and beat it down to the ground, all whilst Gurathin calls in some favours and gains access to the memories. Despite being encrypted, Gurathin manages to trace the memories back via Sanctuary Moon, which in turn allows him to find Murderbot's core memory files. Gruathin downloads all of the SecUnit's memories, storing them inside his head. Meanwhile, Mensah speaks to the press, informing them of everything that's taken place, and decides she's going to use their SecUnit to help explain everything that's happened. It's thankfully saved from the acid pit, as Gurathin shows and shifts the memories over to our SecUnit, who gets everything back. Preservation Society decide to take Murderbot on and as it's no longer working as a SecUnit, it's free to do whatever it wants. Our Murderbot is a bit directionless though, unsure what to do with its life. How does Murderbot end? Gurathin tells it that the Preservation Society are lovely people and they will help it find the ropes. He also offers to help, but Murderbot decides it needs to check the perimeter. Murderbot leaves the group, instead heading out on a mining convoy. It doesn't know what it wants but right now, it doesn't want anybody to make its decisions for it, heading out to try and find its own purpose. The Episode Review With 6 novellas, a full length novel and some short stories, there's plenty of gas left in the tank for Murderbot, and if this show is anything to go by we could be in for a long-standing pivotal show in Apple's future. This series has been a blast from start to finish, with the only grumble really stemming from the fact we've had to wait every week for a 25 minute slice of comedic drama. Beyond that, this show has been well produced, chock full of memorable moments and somehow managed to make the Preservation Society guys from the books much more interesting and fleshed out in this show. The humour has worked really well throughout, while the constant nods to Sanctuary Moon are a great inclusion. The finale is actually quite bittersweet, especially seeing the way Gurathin and Murderbot patch up their differences after all these episodes. It's a great way of rounding everything out and as Murderbot itself would say, this is one 'premium quality show'. Take a bow Apple, that was an absolute blast! Roll on season 2. Previous Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Geek Girl Authority
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
MURDERBOT Season Finale Recap: (S01E10) The Perimeter
Murderbot Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter,' is a quieter, less action-packed outing, but it's still a fun finale. Thankfully, Season 2 is on the way, although this episode could easily serve as a series finale if necessary. 'The Perimeter' is also lighter on the humor and heavier on the heart. It's got a ton of heart. I'm fascinated by this universe, and I'm excited to see where the overarching narrative takes us. Also, f*ck the Company, y'all. RELATED: Read our recap of the previous Murderbot episode, 'All Systems Red' Murderbot, 'The Perimeter' We open with Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) waking up after a system reboot. It peers up at two engineers, wondering where its clients are, before said engineers purge its memories. Then, they install a new governor module. So, now it's a blank slate, and it can be controlled again. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. Meanwhile, Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), Gurathin (David Dastmalchian), Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu), Bharadwaj (Tamara Podemski) and Arada (Tattiawna Jones) demand to know where SecUnit is. We see our PresAux crew is back at Port FreeCommerce with all the Corporation Rim f*ckers. The reps inform them that Seccy's location is none of their business. Sue Them Into Oblivion Mensah reminds the Company employees that they provided materials and transportation to GrayCris, who slaughtered the DeltFall crew and tried to kill PresAux. The Company has remained awfully quiet about that fact. Mensah hints at disclosing this information to, well, everyone. One rep counters that there's an NDA clause in every liability agreement. Pin-Lee goes into lawyer mode, insisting that this won't hold up due to the extraordinary nature of the situation. RELATED: Alexander Skarsgård Goes Rogue in Murderbot Trailer Then, the Company lawyer (Neil Whitely) declares that the Company doesn't admit to any wrongdoing 'connected to the incident on Planetary body 898/8712.' Elsewhere, the engineers get SecUnit to perform various commands, including crying like a baby. A Company rep stops them, citing that Seccy must venture out into the station to do its job. Negotiations continue as Mensah orders the Company reps to address her as 'Madam President.' That's my president. The Company asserts that SecUnit is no longer part of the PresAux crew. Mensah counters that, at the very least, Seccy is a material witness to what transpired during the expedition. The lawyer replies that SecUnit is a recording device, at best. Pin-Lee fires back that all the reason for them to see SecUnit — to access evidence. In Conflict Gurathin declares the group will purchase SecUnit. One Company rep insists that it's expensive. Well, so is the massive lawsuit Pin-Lee plans to bring against the Company. Pin-Lee states they'll take SecUnit and half of the Company. Oof. RELATED: David Dastmalchian Joins Apple TV+ Murderbot Adaptation The lawyer claims they can offer our crew a better SecUnit, but not Seccy. Then, he tells Mensah that they discovered that SecUnit had a faulty governor module. Was she aware of this? Mensah remains silent. If the group witnessed abnormal behavior but refused to disclose it, this would conflict with their contract. Next, our heroes learn that Seccy has a new governor module, and its memories have been erased. Elsewhere, Ratthi (Akshay Khanna) runs into the new but not improved SecUnit as it marches alongside other SecUnits toward a protest. Ratthi greets it; however, it doesn't remember him. It prepares to fire on Ratthi before its superior orders it to stand down. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. A Glitch After this, Ratthi relays what he witnessed to the gang in their apartment. Mensah insists that there's no way Seccy's data has been erased. Removed, sure, but not erased. Gurathin explains that the Company is sifting through its proprietary data. If they find anything of monetary value, they'll keep it. RELATED: New TV Shows This Week (July 6 – 12) Mensah urges Pin-Lee to continue with their court injunction against the Company. Ratthi persuades Gurathin that they should try to save SecUnit, no matter the cost. At the same time, strikers and police clash during the protest. Those on strike simply want better pay, equal rights and food to put on the table for their families. Understandable. SecUnit and its team descend upon the protestors. It grabs one man's hand and breaks it. During this act of violence, it recalls the massacre it committed in the mining facility. Those violent flashbacks have returned. Seccy glitches and freezes as the protestors kick its sentient construct ass. It understands that violence is morally bad. Downloading Data Later, Gurathin reunites with his ex-dealer, Landers (Sergio Di Zio). Gurathin insists he's not there for a fix. However, Gura knows that Landers has access to SecUnit purged data. Landers apologizes for making Gurathin addicted to drugs — he thought our fave augmented human could handle drugs tailored to be highly addictive. RELATED: On Location: The Lighterman in Apple TV+'s Slow Horses Next, Gura taps into the Company's system. It claims there haven't been any recent SecUnit memory purges. Landers states that he won't find anything because it's all encrypted. However, Gura knows something that Landers doesn't: SecUnit loves downloading premium, quality entertainment. So, Gurathin searches for data on The Rise & Fall of Sanctuary Moon . He discovers thousands of downloads, all of which tie back to our titular bot. Bingpot! Gura plugs in and downloads all of SecUnit's data, including its memories. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. Ongoing Investigation Meanwhile, Mensah and Bharadwaj speak to the press about what they experienced during their expedition. Mensah explains that GrayCris inserted combat override modules into DeltFall's SecUnits to make them go rogue and kill, kill, kill. Then, Mensah credits Seccy for saving their lives. Mensah expects SecUnit to play an integral role in the ongoing investigation into the GrayCris/DeltFall/Company mess. RELATED: On Location: The Phoenicia Diner on Apple TV+'s Severance Elsewhere, Company reps prepare to melt SecUnit. After all, it failed to subdue the protestors. I'll never get used to seeing the Ken doll mound on Seccy. Thankfully, Pin-Lee and Ratthi save SecUnit before it's liquefied. Pin-Lee presents their injunction against destroying SecUnit. After this, SecUnit reunites with the PresAux crew. It doesn't recognize any of them. Gurathin returns and plugs into Seccy to transfer all its data and memories. Now, it remembers everything, including that it's missing a number of Sanctuary Moon episodes. It asks what happened. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. Seccy Is Back Mensah excitedly tells SecUnit that she will be its guardian. It will accompany them back to the Preservation Alliance. There, it can do whatever it wants. SecUnit asks if it can wear its armor. Instead, the gang dresses it in some new threads. RELATED: Read our Murderbot recaps Next, it watches from afar as various solicitors from DeltFall, the Company and beyond meet with the PresAux crew. Even GrayCris' parent company paid a visit. Presumably, for them to buy SecUnit and/or the lawsuit. Then, they all celebrate with food and drinks, toasting to SecUnit's new life. Seccy looks lost. That evening, SecUnit tries to leave while they're all asleep. Gurathin wakes up, though, to ask it where it's going. Seccy wants to survey the perimeter, as per usual. Gura insists it'll adjust to life in the Preservation Alliance. Everything will work out. SecUnit tells Gura it wants to survey the perimeter. Gura understands, his eyes welling with tears. Seccy plans to escape. I love this scene. Skarsgård and Dastmalchian communicate so much with their eyes. And Gura's uncharacteristically warm here. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. The Next Adventure SecUnit wanders through Port FreeCommerce. It notices the next departure is a bot-driven transport ship bound for a distant mining facility. It surreptitiously swipes someone's bag before changing into a mining uniform. Then, Mensah wakes up. She watches as Murderbot departs on the transport ship. She weeps. SecUnit claims it doesn't know what it wants, but it knows it doesn't want to be told what to do — even by its favorite human (Mensah). It smiles as the ship speeds away. Murderbot is now streaming on Apple TV+. TED LASSO Season 4 Is Officially a Go at Apple TV+ Contact: [email protected] What I do: I'm GGA's Managing Editor, a Senior Contributor, and Press Coordinator. I manage, contribute, and coordinate. Sometimes all at once. Joking aside, I oversee day-to-day operations for GGA, write, edit, and assess interview opportunities/press events. Who I am: Before moving to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, I was born and raised in Amish country, Ohio. No, I am not Amish, even if I sometimes sport a modest bonnet. Bylines in: Tell-Tale TV, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium. Critic: Rotten Tomatoes, CherryPicks, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
