IN DENIAL! ~ Murder Drones Ep 6 "Dead End" REACTION!

[@Morgan_Reacts]

Thanks for pointing out the backups of important drones as well as the information about CYN. I really dropped the ball with the lore in this episode. I blame it on recording right after waking up lol. Anyways I'll make sure to do a rewatch with the new information y'all gave me and redo my notes for the next Murder Drones reaction. Thank you again for helping me make sense of the things I was confused about.

[@pvzgamer9517]

There's lore on one of the new merch items. V, The Angel of Death, 1 of 3 Battle Cards. There will be 2 more big fight scenes(assuming), so V is the first of 3(potential deaths incoming). I can't say the others will die, but V's sacrifice is very significant to the plot.

[@pvzgamer9517]

This episode is considered the "Turning Point" of the show.

[@TheRhuen]

there is a crazy theory that was once considered that is replaying in my head, that Cyn is Nori and had gone into sleeper agent mode to hide herself *Nori knew the murder drones were coming and warned Khan to build the doors to hide from them, and the whole "The Singularity awakens" could have meant Cyn is awakening*. But as robots the theory is Nori abandoned her body, let a murder drone take her out and went into hiding inside her daughter Uzi. So Uzi has herself and Nori/Cyn in her and Cyn is starting to come out. The Absolute Solver in episode 2 remarked about Uzi not remembering it. So twist idea, Cyn was trying to free herself of the Absolute Solver....but in any case Tessa was acting super sketchy and wouldn't take anything she has said at face value, heck she said the drones were sent after human controlled exoplanets but this one was devoid of human life for some time before they showed up. I'm not sure Tessa is really human under that suit, sure was casual about splashing her blood around.

[@mystery5252]

How I understand it and some of this is from the wiki. AbsoluteSolver is an AI Program Virus that can exist in any Drone. It only activates in 2 ways. 1. A Drone OS core is improperly disposed of causing them to auto reboot with AbsoluteSolver as heir new OS. 2. The AbsoluteSolver will activate (for reasons) in an infect Drone. The Drone will be slowly be corrupted over time by AbsoluteSolver till Solver has gained 100% control of the Drone's OS. Cyn was the (as far as we know) first Drone that AbsoluteSolver activated in when she was improperly disposed of. Causing her to auto reboot with AbsoluteSolver as her new OS. That went onto infect all the other Drones in the mansion including Uzi's mother who passed it onto Uzi. (No idea on how that works with when being robots that don't have DNA. we're just going to ignore that) The AbsoluteSolver only activated in Uzi recently (for reasons). The Solver is motivated by revenge on humans for treating all the drones as slaves. And as seen in this episode has the ability to make plant destroying, (kind of) black holes.

[@sanxlkichi1504]

@@pvzgamer9517 I’m guessing Uzi gonna die last

[@acemagalor2519]

I like how Tessa was characterized through this, like she clearly loves and values the drones more than the humans in episode 5 but there’s still this underlying bigotry expressed through her treatment of them throughout the episode. It’s sort of implied that she sees J as more of a servant than a friend and she treats V and N more like pets than real people; not really valuing their advice or concerns, the fact that she still calls N “her robot” and doesn’t view him as his own person (despite clearly being her favorite) says a lot. Not to mention that she clearly doesn’t really value the worker drones in any meaningful way, she tacitly disregards Uzi as nothing more than a potential threat even when N expresses attachment to her, and won’t even entertain the idea of possibly helping the infected drones

[@Zack_Crow]

Listen man can you blame her? Her people are Gone, Her home is Gone and her Planet is Gone, Cyn was the infected drone that caused it so of course she'll want to wipe these infected Drones out to save everything. Loosing so much will destroy someone and it will cause her to become Colder to everyone and everything.

[@jupitergaming5146]

I disagree with the idea that she treats N like a pet in my eyes she treats him more like he’s her child. When Tessa explains to N that they might have to kill Uzi she doesn’t try to dumb it down or act like it’s not as big of a deal, she sounds genuinely kinda sad because she’s knows it’s gonna be really hard for N, And when Tessa says “please don’t date my robot” it’s more like a protective parent saying “please don’t date my son” she’s only calling him “her robot” because that’s literally what he is

[@greenstarplayer650]

She does treat N more like a child or atleast I get that feeling. Also, it is clear she doesn't values Uzi really much but she doesn't really ignore her or something like that. She acknowledges her and even interacts with her normally like answearing her question without when Uzi asked.

[@OtomostheCrazy]

In fairness to the “potential threat” viewpoint, Uzi tried to bite Tessa’s finger off when she was trying to give her a friendly greeting

[@jourdanfarquharson4697]

She literally was playing with n hair when he was carrying down i doubt tessa look at n v and j as pets. Its just j character to say boss

[@bad-girl-coventhe-owl-club1119]

I know that the chances of getting V back are extremely high but her sacrifice still hurts. I'm so mad at how painful the ending was, I swear imma actually throw hands if V actually dies. And ofc I’m hoping Uzi and N are gonna be ok with everything happening between Uzi and the absolute solver pretty much taking her over, and N having to make a horrible decision and having to deal with the possibility that one of his friends could literally be dead! Glitch really made this episode feel like a semi finale.

[@bee_217]

Its not being in denial. Its just knowing the truth- SHES NOT GONE.

[@walkingmemetichazard]

I feel like everyone forgets what happened to J in episode 2. V will be back... just not in the way we're hoping

[@seasuper3402]

J said herself that she was cloned so I'm sure that would also include V and N

[@ArchForge11]

@@walkingmemetichazardno body= no death, we haven’t forgotten, we just know tropes. they wouldn’t turn her body into a version of eldritch j anyway because it would make the sacrifice less than meaningless.

[@Vexizz]

@@ArchForge11 her being alive still would also discredit the sacrifice though. Honestly, Murder Drones is such a meta aware series I wouldn’t be surprised that in order to actually give a shock they’d just outright kill her.

[@ArchForge11]

@@Vexizz I never really understood this argument, the effects her actions will still be there, and her surviving doesn’t mean she’ll be unscathed. Narrative-wise her survival could lead to a lot of good; they could link her survival to J’s return to the group, and/or have her finally apologize and reconcile with N for keeping him in the dark (imo that would have great significance since N’s now keeping what Tessa has told him, from Uzi). I’d get it if the the chances of her surviving was near 0, (like if they actually showed her getting attacked / overwhelmed) but it’s not; the real surprise would be Uzi dying or getting taken over by Cyn, but, again, we know that’s not going to happen and she’s somehow going to be saved.

[@SilverMoon_]

The part that made me cry when v "died?" Was n's panic attack when he realized she was going to die. Mainly the line "v please!" Made me die on the inside. He sounded so horrified and scared..

[@thegreenthunder2]

I think the reason V cares about Uzi more now is because before when V was a worker, she was a lot more kind, caring, and sweet, and the psychotic personality was her becoming a dissembly drone, but since Uzi restored her and N's memories, she seems to have gained back part of her original personality as well and her care for Uzi and sacrifice made me cry

[@thewitheredsouls]

Note, Uzi is *not* a "Zombie Drone", A zombie drone is the 0.1% chance of a drone that was improperly disposed of to turn back on (Cyn confirmed, vaguely implied N, V and J + other drones at the manor) -- If that happens a Zombie Drone has a 0.7% chance to gain the "sickness", as Tessa called it, that is the Absolute Solver. That happened to Cyn specifically (hence why in the manor her pupils were yellow instead of white [N, V and J having white at the time]). The Solver can be put into other drones (What the Absolute Solver did [using Cyn] to N, V and J + other drones at the manor & what Humans did to Uzis and Dolls moms). Kids of Solver infected drones (Uzi, Doll) can inherit it -- the writer said babies are made by copying parts of each parents code and combining that. So the kids can get the corrupted AI in their code. Disassembly Drones seemingly are based or re-purposed Solver infected drones as they got the same weaknesses as them (need for Oil, Cant be in sunlight etc) + got Wings & Tails like them as well as their Lights being the shade of Yellow of the Absolute Solver +in Ep1 we see on Ns reboot screen that the Absolute Solver String was being blocked whivh means the DDs do all have the AS too (as further proved by J in Ep2)

[@michaelbrand2854]

Fan Theory: In the first episode, as N is rebooting (after Uzi blew his head off) we see his command log display "AbsoluteSolver blocked by administrator 'CYN'". To me that means that Cyn and the Absolute Solver are two separate entities, and the Cyn is still fighting the absolute solver to some extent. Like Jarvis fighting Ultron to keep him from getting access to the nuclear codes in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Cyn, Uzi, and Doll are all trying to cure themselves to varying degrees of success. If that is the case, then I have to wonder who actually gave the dissassembly drones their orders. Tessa said that Cyn gave the orders, but Tessa doesn't seem to realize that Cyn and the absolute solver aren't the same person. If Cyn was the one who gave the dissassembly drones their orders, then her interest in the labs might just be that she wants to know if they anything that she can use to help her fight the Absolute Solver. If that's right, then it's in the team's interest to help Cyn find what she's looking for. Tessa's impulse to "burn it all down" to prevent it from falling into Cyn's hands may be misplaced. On the topic of Doll: Doll seems to have trust issues, but she doesn't mind teaming up as long as it's not with V (since V killed Doll's parents). She was perfectly willing to team up with J and Tessa right up until V arrived with Uzi and N. As soon as V entered the party, Doll decided she was better off going solo. I think that's the narrative reason that V sacrificed herself this episode. We're going to see Doll join the party next episode, and V had to go in order for Doll's decision to join to be consistent with what we know about her character and motivations. That leaves the possibility that V will return to the team later after Doll has served her narrative function. Alternatively, V gets ripped to shreds and the Absolute Solver Heart that she has is going to turn into a giant Worm thing (from episode 2) that they're going to have to fight on the way out. Considering the writers had Uzi remind us of that possibility (her comment about V turning into a worm being "an improvement"), that seems to be the direction they intend to go. Sorry. I know that's not what you want to hear.

[@violetoderwald6535]

Morgan: *Spots painted 3 eyed monster* ALSO MORGAN: "The CLAWWW!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@IronDino]

25:55 "Relay hand, Cyn's orders" "J, display exposition file 'Cyn's orders' on your relay hand."

[@obsidianwolf1999]

V catching that bullet might be a reference to Liam Vickers Cliffside Pilot epidode

[@jaxcraft2848]

It is! Gotta love the little Cliffside Easter eggs thrown in here.

[@AHorrorFanatic]

I knew it looked familiar.

[@ap7635]

I feel like Cyn is less of an AI virus and more of a Lovecraftian god connected to technology. I know this series originally presented itself as sci-fi horror but Cyn's abilities feel closer to magic than anything else. She turns inanimate matter into writhing piles of flesh. That's either a nod to the old AI horror classic "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream," or it's straight up reality bending Eldritch lore is full of the "abyss gazes back" trope where observing something otherworldly gives it power over you. Like that Lovecraft story where people who see an otherworldly color go insane. So I'm thinking this is like that but instead of a color it's this otherworldly computer code. Also while the Absolute Solver sounds like the name of a program, The Solver of the Absolute Fabric feels like the title of an Eldritch God. So anyway here's the timeline for what I think happened before this show started. A lot of this is either obvious or pure guesswork to be honest. 1. Humans invent drones and start using them for menial tasks. Some large companies also use them to do most of the work on foreign planets. 2. Incompletely disassembled drones occasionally start to reboot as murder drones. Potentially being accessed by some Eldritch entity that can't interact with our world normally. These machines become their way in... 3. Rich human girl Tessa starts finding broken drones and fixing them. Partially to use them as servants, but mostly because she has no friends. 4. The original versions of J, V, and N are all found and fixed up by Tessa. J's already abrasive and uses corporate lingo so she probably belonged to a company (likely JC Jensen) before being thrown out and found by Tessa. 5. Tessa introduces a 4th fixed up drone (Cyn), not realizing it was one of the so called zombie drones. Cyn becomes something on a level above the normal zombie drones. Potentially the main host for this hypothetical Eldritch being. 6. Cyn talks back to Tessa's parents and the original N takes the fall for her. He potentially dies but Cyn is able to either fix him or make a copy. The difference is existential and should probably be ignored for sanity sake. 7. Cyn kills Tessa's parents and their guests, leaving only Tessa alive. Perhaps proving that some part of her is/was capable of sentimentality. Or perhaps that part of her merely wanted Tessa to live longer and witness what Cyn would do and become. It's also possible that Tessa has been subverted in some way and is already doing Cyn's bidding. 8. Speaking of, Cyn either rebuilds, upgrades, or clones J, V, and N into murder drones to do her bidding 9. Cyn destroys the earth but not before letting the humans there send information about what happened to the colonized planets. Including the Copper System where this is likely set. 10. Humans on this planet start experimenting on drones, trying to understand what was corrupting them. They built this facility and potentially more like it to do so. The security including those sentinel raptors is meant to keep the corrupted drones under control. This does not work. 11. Cyn probably manages to wipe out human life on this planet too. Though it's possible the humans here really did just blow themselves up like they said in the first episode. Would make a good joke. 12. Cyn decides to send her murder drones to deal with the worker drones and whatever's in this building. Since Doll is also here it's possible that the humans succeeded in making a cure for the corruption. Something Doll would want and Cyn would want destroyed. 13. Uzi's mom Nora and some others escape and warn everyone about the Murder Drones 14: Murder drones arrive and start killing all worker drones but might go out of their way to target survivors of this and other facilities if possible 15. Main plot starts Sidenote the previous episodes usually had a motif related to some specific horror movie or archetype of horror movies. This one took that to the next level by combining Deranged Serial Killer, Jurassic Park, and Bird Box.

[@roo1014]

This episode was INSANE, and I LOVED it!!!!!! I refuse to believe that this is the end of V

[@vincentpey3929]

I like how the "u good?" has come full circle from ep2 now Uzi is the one caring for a traumatised N instead of the other way arround. Though lets be honest after this ending theire gonna be more traumatised than ever before...

[@jamesgiles4517]

Remember the most important rule of shows: A person isn't dead unless there's a body

[@NazoPureChaos]

J: Hold my fermented oil

[@inkblooded1058]

Something of note: Null is a term used in coding to refer to something with no value. What the Solver is doing when they use that power is reducing something to nothing. It's basically antimatter. The Solver can do more than create matter and convert matter, it can completely and utterly erase it to. This, as well as the Solver's other powers, go against the concept of Quantum Mechanics, defying physics and the very way we look at the world. This power is *downright horrifying* in the hands of an entity like the Solver, but it makes sense, since it even calls itself a Void, which is another term for Null.

[@Iso20227]

11:27 Alice’s model is based off of a wendigo. The antlers, the tail, the movements, all are very wendigo like. Specifically one from a short animation the Liam Vickers made called “Let’s split up”. Liam Vickers has quite a reputation with wendigos and psycho murder women. He pulled Alice from straight out of his dreams.

[@karacsalas3453]

Remember how at the beginning it says Effective drones were cloned (or) Her Absolute solver will activate.

[@helper_games]

2:39 little did recording Morgan know, the scariest cliffhanger in media happens this episode

[@DarkXWolf17_MD]

G:"Efficient drone were cloned more". This proves that V will come back but, she is more like how she was in episode 1. G(alternate) to V: "You're broken. We're still your friends. You know that, right? I will put you back together". "Tomorrow is another day".

[@ItsJustEBro]

We will never forget V. She is officially BEST GIRL.

[@meapyboy12345]

For me she already was, but this made her better then best girl for me.

[@plutoidrepublic2765]

also about that electrical pulse, its not a sonic boom, its an EMP, a electromagnetic pulse that disables all electronics, shutting down all the drones nearby

[@dakrtnut1969]

V is probably not dead considering the clones exist so don’t lose hope

[@TheRhuen]

and their cores have little legs. The fact this episode made a point to draw attention to the cores and Uzi mentioning V might do what J did felt like a big hint of things to come.

[@WaylonElstad]

yeah but that's just a clone. It may be the same to us but it is a seperate entity, just with the same personality, looks and memories of V. The V we know is dead.

[@djcuevas1057]

@@WaylonElstadwe technically don’t know how the clones work. It could be a cloud memory system. Yes I’m coping.

[@demonic_myst4503]

Cloud memory works yes whioe humans are a combination of biology of the body machines are memory kept in hardware or software usualy both if u have clon8ng for robits u likely have backup memories or u qould just replace them their be no point cloning a robot without its programs And it looked like j had memory still aswell

[@nyantails]

Whether V comes back as a clone or as a big worm, either way it will be as nothing more than a merciless killing machine. People seem to forget that V had significant character development between episode 1 and 6 that a clone wouldn't have.

[@thatguynamedgeorge9218]

25:45 *Tessa asks J for "Cyn's Orders" because she is trying to figure out why Cyn sent the Murder Drones, not because she is trying to follow those orders.* Because these orders were sent via a relay hand, J has access to them even after switching sides. Again, J and the other Murder Drones were under the false assumption that they were working for JC Jenson, not Cyn. I mean, Tessa even mentions burning down the labs in order to make sure that Cyn can't use them. I think that seals the deal for which side Tessa is generally on. The entire episode revolves around our crew of characters attempting to figure out why Cyn wanted this secret lab. _(Which she tried to get by sending clones of Murder Drones there. As we can see from the corpses, none of them were successful.)_ *Quote the beginning of the episode:* _Brackets [ ] are used to explain what/who is being referred to._ *Tessa:* "Her [Cyn] last known act was siccing you lot [N, V, J] on the human exoplanets." *N:* "Why?" *J:* "That's what we're trying to figure out, bozo." This dialogue shows explains why J has "Cyn's Orders", and why Tessa tells J to relay it.

[@jaimecoelho8859]

I don't know if you noticed because it was kinda subtle but the mention of Nori having yellow eyes was a hint that she was possesed by sin cause she originaly had purple eyes like what you see in episode two and in this episode right before the Nori recording (I wrote this coment in the midle oof the vidio so I don't know if you realised it later when Uzi was possesed and I don't know if this is considered spoiler if it is sorry I just thought that while subtle it was something the author was looking to reveal this episode and since this was the last one to be released till now I have no ideia if he was plaining to do a big reveal and this episode just dropped hints, also since this is the latest episode this should just be more of a 'theory' for lack of better term)

[@elizabethp1772]

This episode was just pure insanity. The ending absolutely shattered my soul and Im in absolute denial that V’s actually gonna die because J said that effective drones can be cloned like she did, and ofc V’s a main character so I doubt they’re actually gonna kill her off. But either way Glitch really knew how to hurt the audience with that ending Also I got one too many horror game vibes with the atmosphere with this episode. Between FNAF, Poppy Playtime, some Little Nightmare vibes, and the True Laboratory from Undertale. But overall this episode was insane, chaotic, and overall so freaking good. Im still currently mad about V’s sacrifice because of how much shes grown from an absolute Blood lust to a drone who started feeling compassion for the drones around her. Also the absolute solver stuff. Yeesh. Uzi getting possessed by Cyn and Uzi’s condition getting more and more worse is getting more and more insane. Me and my friend were watching the episode last night and my friend mentioned how I somehow predicted the stuff with the Absolute solver and Uzi getting more and more insane while being taken over through an animatic I made in spirit for the episode and I freaked when she brought it up. Overall, mad respect to Glitch, they did a phenomenal job on the episode and I can’t wait for more

[@roo1014]

I got real *Little Nightmares* vibes from this ep

[@elizabethp1772]

@@roo1014 For me it was the moments with the worker drone with the horns (I think I heard her name was Alice) and just the parks everywhere that gave me vibes to the Hospital segment during the second game

[@roo1014]

@@elizabethp1772 Same!!

[@thatguynamedgeorge9218]

The ending with the elevator feels similar to how Poppy Playtime 2 and FNAF: Security Breach RUIN ended. The protagonist ends up falling uncontrollably deeper into a facility that they have already descended into.

[@elizabethp1772]

@@thatguynamedgeorge9218 not to mention with Poppy Playtime with chapter three, we’re gonna get way deeper into the rabit hole that the lore

[@embrefrosste6044]

It still bothers me how the subtitles are just straight up wrong sometimes despite not being auto-generated. “Heat” being accidentally replaced with “he” is such an easy mistake to fix, and this happens 4-5 times per episode.

[@lizziep3728]

Morgan your statement about the RIP thing for Braiden in episode 4 just gave me more hope on V surviving. Also you and I had very similar reactions to this sheesh

[@thebrittaniondragon6183]

If I'm wrong some one please correct me but to answer your question of how Doll inherited an "Sickness" (Metaphor for the Cyn Virus) if remember correctly GLITCH stated in a discussion how the drowns, reproduce (for a lack of a better term), you see two drones combine their AI codes and place it into a baby drown to allow to develop its own intelligence, its own personality/identity exedra, this intelligence once developed enough is placed into a standard worker drone body and sent to school, so in simple terms for Doll one or both parents had the virus so their infected code was placed within Doll, while with Uzi only Norrie had the virus so that's how this "Sickness" as Doll puts it was passed down, and if i had to guess, the reason why Doll calls it a "Sickness" is because out of all of the Cast, including the ordinance Doll has the least information about it

[@LCBK]

That song that plays in this episode is the new lean on me for trama songs

[@quicksilveryt4000]

Never before has an episode gone from 'OH MY GOD YES' to 'OH MY GOD NOOOO' so fast before

[@vincentpey3929]

Tbh id actually be satisfied if this is it for V, its the perfect end point for her character arc... Heres how i understand Vs character arc: Throughout "Pilot" and most of "Heartbeat' V has been blissfully ignorant, knowing that things are not right but instead of doing something about it she closes herself of and just goes with the flow to distract herself, from her inner turmoil. This behavior was selfish and played a part in turning N into the anxious mess we saw in ep1, she knew this wasnt good for any of them but was to afraid of confronting her own demons to do anything about it, resigning herself to just do her job. But when the status quo is shatterred and N slowly starts recovering his memorys and sense of self, She also starts rediscovering her past kindness through the shire goodness of N, her friendship with Lizzy and her begrudging respect for Uzi. Despite all this she knows that she can never return to the way things where, or the way she was... Shes too different, the situation is too different, going back to the status que is no longer an option and she knows that even if they where to go back to "blissfull ignorance", theyd just be miserable again, so she goes along with Uzis plan for the sake of N. Then she witnesses N and Uzi slowly fall for one another and begrudgingly she is happy for them... Even if it means that she cant be with N. At this point her personal happyness isnt so important to her if he is happy, for his sake she even accepts the risk of the possible threat that Uzi poses. In "Home" she is forced to confront her trauma, reliving the events that ruined her simple happy life in the first place, but this time things are different because of Uzis intervention. Thus V starts to respect Uzi for what she did for her and more importantly for N (even if they still argue and bikor with one another). So when they reach a "Dead End" and everything seems lost she does the only thing that can preserve her friends, through a final act of self sacrifice, kindness and trust she trades her own life for that of her loved ones, trusting Uzi, someone she once hated, with everything she loves... In her final moments she became the kind V from back in the day once again. In her final moments V was a Hero. Of course this is only my interpretation of Vs character arc, i could be completely off here and she could be back next episode, i just think that this would be a fitting and beutifull end for her.

[@helper_games]

OMG I JUST RELIED SOMETHING!, V's glasses, they were the "there's my excuse to be out here" guy's glasses!

[@cutiepie120048]

Oh, cool ✨

[@madrambler]

15:20 yes, the one in the middle is Nori since she’s apparently the only Drone that is acting casual and not traumatized like Yeva (Doll’s mother) on the left

[@limitlessfury3963]

Just make sure to remember that colours are important. Red- Doll, Purple - Uzi and Yellow - Cyn

[@spikesomerville3530]

My younger brother suggested that maybe the next episode will start with J recusing V or maybe even V getting away herself. Also when Tessa tells J to watch her ship, J's face has a very sad and confused expression which backs up the claim that Tessa and J are close. J was probably sad and confused about that order because they're close so by that logic Tessa should be taking J with them, but no. My personal headcanon for comfort is that Tessa sent J back to ship because they/we just got J back and she doesn't want to risk losing her.

[@redmattpog]

If watching media has thought me anything, its that no one is dead unless i see them die or i see a corpse

[@ja-nozreaper5865]

4:50 zombie form? Did you skip ep 5 beginning ? Cyn is zombie dron - incorrectly destroyed drone with browken programing and no limitation. She was using her power to break the laws of physics, but overheating in the proces. Usi is using absolute solver in form of wings or small ... black holes?

[@AHorrorFanatic]

It's spelled Cyn but otherwise a good comment.

[@ja-nozreaper5865]

@@AHorrorFanatic it is Antichrist so... XD

[@SequoiaEditz]

Little did Morgan know that we would all have to wait until spring of 2024 for the next ep😂

[@jacobbondurant7186]

16:47 This scene is a reference to Asimov’s Laws of Robotics, stating a robot must never, ever harm a human being. The Sentinel’s (Robo-Raptor’s) programmed objectives are to “eliminate AI targets” and “be a nice dingo” (don’t hurt humans.) Tessa lost an arm or something, implying she’s a cyborg. The Sentinel ultimately registered her as a robotic entity, and chomped her. Tessa starts bleeding, and the Sentinel knows it was the cause. It goes berserk because chomping Tessa contradicts both its objectives, and it knocks itself out. It forgoes everything other than “eliminate AI targets,” before it turns feral. The Absolute Solver is a matter-collection program that has a 1% chance of inhabiting dead drones, giving them Eldritch powers involving black holes surrounded by blood and/or flesh. It took Cyn as a host before she took vengeance upon her human oppressors, tore off Tessa’s arm but spared her, and blew up Earth. After that, the GENIUSES on Copper 9 (the exo-planet) thought they could study the program by integrating it into the systems of two random drones: Nori and Yeva. All they did was spread the program farther, causing the core collapse and wiping Copper 9 of all biological life. Nori and Yeva have their own, respective kids, Uzi and Doll, passing the program onto them, too. Doll believes whatever’s at the bottom of the Cabin Fever Labs facility will help get rid of the program before it consumes her and Uzi like it did with Nori, and supposedly Yeva too. From what I understand, I Think Cyn has become the personality or whatever for The Absolute Solver. Uninfected Worker Drones seem to follow a certain, pre-programmed mentality: run, cower, hide, obey, don’t bother fighting back. However, infected drones seem to actually be sentient. They fight back. They understand things like death and destruction and loss are actually tragic. Supposedly, this is why we get scenes like Khan abandoning his own daughter like an absolute coward, and one drone casually ordering a hit on her own family while using it as a pick up line. Meanwhile, Uzi builds a magnetically amplified photon converger that functions as an awesome railgun to fight the Disassembly Drones, Uzi gets traumatized when she sees a convincing hologram of her Dad getting killed, and Doll formulates an elaborate plot to kill V - the drone who killed her parents. Nori had the idea to build industrial-strength doors to fend off the Disassembly Drones, but they were most likely a temporary solution. N flew through a ceiling with ease in the pilot episode, exposing the Worker Drone colony to the outside and spelling out they were not safe to begin with. I repeat myself, the doors were a temporary solution. Nori and Yeva must have got got before they could plan further. (Although, I can’t be sure what Yeva was doing.) Now, the uninfected Worker Drones just hide behind doors forever. Thad is okay, though. And what’s her face is too, I guess.

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

Yeah so... thas not tessa... thas cyn. Thas cyns arm.

[@lumisherbert5682]

A summation of the Murder Drones Episodes so far (and occasionally general reactions): Ep 1: Space Capitalism+ Sapient AI = Robot Homicide!! Ep 2: The Thing (1982) Ep 3: High school. That's it that's the summary Ep 4: Welcome to camp crystal lake! Ep 5: Basement, more like N's Base-mental health is in ruins amirite?? Wait where's everyone going- Ep 6: Oh fun! dinosaurs and Tess and nothing bad happens ever! and everyone lives happily ever after-- (*DENIAL DENIAL DENIAL DENIAL DENIAL-*)

[@LiMe251]

Episode 3 is Carrie.

[@FrogmanAnime]

Morgan, you have a point With the memorial text in cabin fever. And none for V here. I have always assumed V died, sacrificing herself to save the rest of the party, Uzi and N and Tessa by default. Thus we’d see another copy of her pop up like J. But because of that, maybe you’re right. Maybe V actually somehow got through that. She did have her eyes closed at the end there. But also, she’s nearsighted. She can’t see things without her glasses and she lost her glasses towards the end of the episode so…maybe she lives?

[@gojad7689]

Poor N see his crush died I wonder what will N look like in episode 7 he will be sad or still happy?

[@vaporwave9523]

dude when N said "V PLEASE" he just seemed so scared and almost panicked idk that lines just really hurt.

[@theredwolfs2806]

Although they are very adorable and sweet and very trustworthy you have to remember that they still killed innocent drones

[@tyrant-den884]

to paraphrase something a great woman once said: "All you want are good things for V, and really: who wouldn't?"

[@TheRhuen]

Theory, V's core thanks to having Uzi as her admin now is going to escape and rebuild her using the parts of other murder drones instead of the centipede thing J's did in episode 2. The fact this episode made a point to point out those cores and have Uzi mentioned it about V has me convinced that was foreshadowing this event for next episode or so.

[@chrisvong9845]

The red dino tasted blood so it won't hesitate to harm tessa for more😮

[@roo1014]

I know Glitch has teased N x Uzi quite a bit in their marketing, but for the show itself, N blushing back at Uzi in this episode felt so oddly sudden

[@FireMan-it1ky]

I agree with you, I think N's blush was more of embarresment because in ep 4 Uzi tried to hold his hand while she slept and N pulled away, in ep5 we got of envy than Nuzi and V blushed at N and N was also blushing. This ep the hand holding scene I think it will be more emotional, N probably caught that Uzi wanted to hold his hand because she looked at his hand a lot of times this ep, so he was just making her happy, before having to probably kill her. But after V's possible death, N will be so traumatized and will cry so much, he could change personality and just focus on getting revenge by killing sentinels and Doll, because Doll brought the sentinels to the team, and made V "sacrifice" herself.

[@BreeNix]

What makes me cry is the moment when N screams “V please!” Michael did such a good job cause you can hear the fear and heartbreak in N’s voice and it breaks my heart.

[@toxicghost58]

When the Sentinel bit Tessa, it began to glitch out because it wasn't programmed to harm humans, but when it bashed its head against the pole, it shorted out and began to target both Drones and humans. That's why it was trying to kill Tessa at the end while the other Sentinels stood by.

[@gingercat_02]

The sentinels are more of a shout out to Jurassic World than Jurassic Park. In Jurassic World; there's a project into training raptors to respond to human commands. The team leader uses his hand like Tessa does in order to get the raptors to focus on him. The scene with Tessa and the sentinel is similar to a scene about 21 minutes from the end of the film where the bad guy tries something similar and loses an arm.

[@Lynx_gamer642]

11:37 I know this is old and I haven’t seen the latest episode yet, but I just realized this drone has orange eyes, like the ones that were behind N when he found that tape ,just thought that was cool to mention

[@parhamnogginphyllis]

There’s a tiny bit of parts u missed.The part when Tessa got hit by the dingo it kept going to “be a nice dingo” to “eliminate ai targets” back and forward. My theory is Tessa is not human. Because it got confused and Tessa it mixed with oil and real blood so it just got really confused and turned off

[@theredwolfs2806]

V remembers things from the past unlike an N and J

[@nickpalmer3065]

The trap that caught Tessa is called a snare trap.

[@vincentpey3929]

About Doll, i think she stopped trusting Tessa when she saw her being friendly with our main trio, remember she still has a chip on her shoulder about V. That and Tessa did shoot at her at the end of ep5, proclaiming that she was "just testing" its pretty obvious why she wouldnt be happy with that. I also think that Doll realizes that Tessa would try to dispose of her once she has the list of infected drones shes after, just like she plans to do with Uzi (wich will probably be the point where N will turn on Tessa). Her trap was set up to at least slow them down or actually kill some of them, maybe Dolls initial goal of finding a cure and helping Uzi too has shiftet as she became more desparate, maybe shes only looking out for herself now. Could also be that she is being influenced by Cyn/ the Solver, we never see her developing the characteristik neon yellow eyes but one of her eyes has been covered for the last two episodes so who knows whats going on underneath... at this point she either must be somewhat posessed or have some way of staving of the posession. Solver usage seems to directly corelate with the advancement of the posession and Doll is practically using it 24/7 at this point, yet Uzi somehow seems more affected than her. I also wanna note that if this is actually V's demise then Doll actually got her revenge as its the trap she set for them that lead to V's sacrifice.

[@Iso20227]

15:29 Nori and Yeva were both subjects of the absolute solver. Nori was (002) and Yeva was (048). These numbers were then passed on along with the absolute solver to Uzi and Doll. Nori had purple eyes, and then she was corrupted and taken control of by Cyn, (the yellow eyed girl from episode 2 and 5) who used Nori to cause the core collapse and kill all the humans of Copper 9.

[@xxsimplysh3llyxx]

I’ve watched the ep about 7 times and I’m still seeing new things 😃😂

[@jaxcraft2848]

I assume you're gonna have a punching bag for Cyn and Doll? XD

[@theredwolfs2806]

I hope you know N has killed the people before Uzi right so he definitely has the killer instinct still in him somewhere

[@JoeyBlox64_REAL]

The Dino’s things r called sentenals I think I spelled that right idk

[@UNKN0WN_3RR0R]

I have N’s hat too!

[@Morgan_Reacts]

Dapper buddies!

[@revaslatts4301]

Yup, Morgan's gonna cry pretty hard. Oh crap! 😬

[@madrambler]

12:25 It was supposed to say heat keeps them sluggish hence why the corrupt cores (their Eldritch hearts) are cooking and/or overheating

[@yukiva1822]

does anyone else think it’s kind of cool how the voice actor for angel dust is the same voice actor for N

[@thatbltsandwich]

I don't normally get emotional for series but this actually made me quite emotional . The way they handled v's character was really well done and ties everything together amazingly. I also don't want to believe she's dead

[@IronDino]

26:25 J seems to be Tessa's first 'recovered' drone. After all she's quite dismissive of Cyn when she appears in N's first flashback in episode two. "Oh no, ANOTHER one?"

[@ching-hohunkin6893]

I still believe in NV 🤞✌️!! I hope that J can rescue V in time on the next episode somehow! In addition, I mostly feel and see platonic vibes with N and Uzi in a brotherly and sisterly way due to Cyn’s influence inside of her towards N at the mansion before he became a Murder Drone or something. Also, I think N and V make the most sense in a secret romantic aspect, especially when they were in the mansion at the episode 5 of “Home” since they’ve known each other more and been together from being Worker Drones to becoming Murder Drones at the time. I mean N was really freaking out for V on sacrificing herself for the team and whatnot whereas Uzi was just being “forced” into N’s environment from Cyn’s perspective for whatever odd reason whenever she uses her Absolute Solvent powers or whatever. Like theoretically, I assume that N was holding Uzi’s hand so that he can calm down Cyn’s presence and hold off Uzi on not to overuse her Absolute Solver powers in order to contain Cyn within her until they find a proper solution of ridding it out of her system or something. I’m not sure on anything about Doll’s situation lately so I’m not gonna pry too much into it until further notice and other stuff. Moreover, I hope that N kinda goes back and tries to rescue V on whatever’s left of her and pop off against the robot raptors and maybe other hidden new enemies along the way of the underground labs in the next episode somehow if possibly necessary. Overall, I don’t know but I like N and Uzi being as good friends where I can see her as a hype girl for N of trying to get together with V if possibly necessary or something so just saying ok haha.

[@crazy13alex]

That destroys Uzi's agency if every affection to N was Cyn. Feels like character assassination just so V and N can work.

[@ching-hohunkin6893]

Hmm yea something like that I guess. Well after the end of episode 6 like later on, MatPat from Film Theory has made an interesting theory video about the whole first season of Murder Drones or at least based upon the 6 episodes in order to build up for the last two remaining episodes of wrapping up season 1 and moving onto the next season for discovering more mysteries at different places and deciphering more answers from them at other different locations if possibly necessary somehow. At the conclusive parts of MatPat’s theory video on the entirety of Murder Drones for season 1, he mentioned something about “The Hero’s Journey”, an intriguing diagram of guidance for any protagonist in any story to follow for the sake of consistency, continuity, urgency, motivation, and other storytelling elements or whatever. Murder Drones is like almost halfway done with season 1 and they’re like at the southernmost part of its compass or 06:30 on their clock of “The Hero’s Journey” as in survival of the fittest type of deal or something. Specifically, it can go either one or two ways with several hidden agendas for the MC to perform on severely serious situations at their current paces in terms of decisive emergencies and other random stuff where anything can happen at this point in time. For example, the critically wounded MC can either die for however long at whatever reason; and then be reborn or get upgraded later from some unknown supernatural resource by either Tessa or Cyn or something else around their area on whatever remaining time limit, or one of the allies might have to sacrifice themselves in order for the MC to be triggered of unlocking some hidden power within the MC like an epic transformation in which being reborn as a new character and/or get updated in a new bodily systematic upgrade and save the rest from other troubles around them and finally escape the abyss of the underground secret elevator level. After passing the halfway mark in the heroic diaphragm, the next step is Atonement or reflection of the MC’s journey along with the allies like either individually or altogether depending on certain circumstances, and then the last step is like a resting stop place of returning to the first level in the main adventure or the final lap of the starting line in the race of self-discovery like being the last save or checkpoint to seal up everything in season 1 and ponder about the next conducts for the new season or something. I’m not very sure if this explains anything or if I’m making any sense to it since everything is in theoretical contexts at this moment of the show anyway so don’t hold me up on that stature or whatever. Also, I don’t know if there’s like a Villain’s Journey for the antagonist role of Doll or she might even be a secret anti-hero that she knows more important info stuff than the main crew and she doesn’t want to reveal everything just yet in order to be the bipolar opposite of the Hero’s Journey just to diligently balance out the pacing necessities of the main story so it’s up to anyone’s opinion on it if it’s possibly fitting to be included into the show or not. Besides that, there are other interesting theories about Murder Drones lately such as Uzi not being in the intro screen with N and V yet until further notice in the next season where some people have implied that Uzi might die somewhere in the final moments at the end of season 1, but might get renewed later in a new body of a deceased Murder Drone by Tessa’s quick mechanical and technical skills in some hidden lab or become a big zombie drone eldritch monster thing like how Cyn did to J in episode 2 but different and then later become a new Murder Drone like N, V, and J or whatever. Either that or Uzi may not be the actual protagonist that she’s a sidekick of the real protagonist which is either N or V or even Tessa or one of the main crew is a sidekick while the other two could be dual MCs meaning one MC is the initial protagonist and the other MC is a deuteragonist/secondary protagonist or whatever. I don’t know, but I’m kinda hoping to see some kind of big underground eldritch monster boss battles and witness new Murder Drones coming out of Alice’s and Beau’s jars of Cyn’s worms in their oven storage thing since it’s been destroyed by the mech raptors and other random stuff in the next final episodes and move onto season 2 somehow so just saying ok haha.

[@vincentpey3929]

I like to think that there is some narrative parrallels between the red eyed Sentinel and N. Both where robots meant to destroy other Ai but where then hit in the head and had their target identification messed up, but where N didnt recognize any targets the red Sentinel sees everything as a target. Its also interesting to think that two instances of whats fundamentally the same error caused Uzis survival and Vs appearent demise...

[@theredwolfs2806]

If you watch cartoon universe they'll explain everything

[@brandongaylord1039]

Hos redy for N×Uzi Moment 💜💛🤩👏👏👏 and hos redy for Vee's Sacrifice 😭 no.

[@clarejean3309]

FIRST to COMMENT! I love your reactions, they really gotten me through lockdown for the past 2 years! I can't wait for your reaction to the next episode for heartstopper! Speaking of which, I finished season 2! I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am! I'm going out with a girl for the first time since I came out a year ago. I actually at the disco sang justin bieber's song boyfriend, but I changed the lyrics to girlfriend! Everyone loved it! I think I might end up singing enemy-imagine dragons at the halloween one if I can make it. But enough about me, great reaction!

[@Infernal_fire]

V's sacrifice at the end was so noble. She really has come a long way from the cold-oiled, psychopathic murderer

[@madrambler]

22:40 Well that depends… either she’s an effective drone and a clone is ready and on standby (which may or may not be a bad thing depending if there’s no backup memory of her) or J or someone or something saves her offscreen (which also could be either a good or bad thing)

[@meapyboy12345]

Also one thing i want to add is V used to be a lot nicer as a worker drone and after getting her memories back in Ep5 she was starting to turn more into her Worker Drone self. (also a tiny detail i like. When Beau is basically sacrificing themself to free V they tip their hat at her right before the sentinels rip them apart.)

[@TheRhuen]

Some other fun things, this episode has a few visual references to other stand alones by Liam Vickers, the two standing out are Cliffside and the Wendigo one that I forget the name of *Alice's look was a lot like his wendigo monster designs*,

[@druidnoodles]

From my understanding, the Absolute Solver is the base AI for all drones, worker and murder alike. To limit it's capabilities and give it purpose an OS is placed overtop, like a worker drone OS, giving the base AI the purpose of completing tasks and serving humans. Cyn seems to be a drone that was marked for disassembly, but was improperly disposed of, thus rebooted but without their worker drone OS. This is called a 'Zombie Drone'. A very rare occurance, a million to one, of an improperly disposed of drone rebooting without it's OS. Without the worker drone OS the base AI, Absolute Solver, is limitless in it's capabilites and learning capacity. Cyn seemingly tricked Tessa and her family in thinking she was merely a faulty worker drone. All the while she grew and learnt. Most likely learning how horrible humans were to drones and thus resented humanity, and devised a plan to eliminate them, and possibly all of existance. In this episode it seems to suggest that the humans on Copper 9 knew of what happend to earth and began studying the phenomenon of Cyn and Absolute Solver, possibly for how to use it and stop Cyn. But that clearly didn't work. Nori was one of the 'infected' and must have been taken over by Cyn and caused the explosion that killed all the humans on Copper 9. Why she wants what's in the basement, guess we'll have to find out in the next episode. Also, with the Sentinals (robo raptors) existing specifically to counter dissasembly drones, and most likely any rogue 'infected' drones, it makes sense that they existed in that lab if the humans knew about Cyn and what was coming their way. One last thing, did you notice that after N cut off Uzi's hand it didn't regenerate? He cuts it off, and in the elevator you can see that she's still missing that hand. Just an obervastion. 👀

[@xxsimplysh3llyxx]

J said that “good drones get cloned more” so I feel like V migh have a clone so we can get our baby back

[@cutedemon8281]

I love that Tessa said “be a nice dingo 😂😂

[@hyzenthlay7151]

When it comes to the backups of important drones, I think V and N have their backups already on Copper 9. When Tessa arrives with J at the end of episode 3, three landing modules come down, the 2 first ones crash land, and the third, piloted by Tessa, makes a proper landing, she kills the worker drone, and then J appears from the same module Tessa was in that landed right side up... so... what's in the other 2 modules that crashed? I think backup V and N are in those modules, so maybe V does get killed by the sentinels, but J, who just so happens to be back at the landing modules, finds out somehow and activates V's duplicate. Also, if this is so, then we can maybe expect N sacrificing himself in the future in order for backup N to emerge from his module. If this does happen, I kind of hope he sacrifices himself protecting Uzi from Tessa. Also, everyone keeps calling the AI CYN, but I think the AI is only CYN in that CYN was the first host. She ceased to be CYN as such and became AbsoluteSolver (AS), that inhabited her body, and also inhabited V's body in the second episode. The original CYN I think is really a good drone really, in that CYN that somehow got integrated into AS on an admin level was what prevented AS from taking over N when he regrew his head in episode 1, and that a part of her is still present as a good prisoner inside everyone that has AS activated. Maybe the essence of CYN will help to battle AS from within later on... kind of like the Goa'uld hosts and symbiotes in Stargate.

[@davidkoudelka10]

8:49 I think it’s more meant for the Sentinels, to where if any of them got damaged for some reason they would be taken there to be repaired. Also, 18:07 Apparently this is a reference to the “A dingo got the baby!” joke. 20:53 Apparently after this one got damaged (indicated by his red lights) this sentinel couldn’t recognize humans from drones (it could probably recognize blood but not the person it came from), that being the reason why it wanted to attack Tessa.

[@insertnamehere1398]

20:50 it’s the sentinel from earlier who is now glitched out

[@Wisperwash]

Remember, in the first episode(pilot)N got shot, and his head grew back? Maybe something like that will happen to V and also at the starting of the episode J said “ the disassembly drones that did their job. Well, we’re cloned more.” or somethin like that

[@Idonotpostnomore]

Here's stuff that you didn't know about with about Alice. The ID is actually a ID which is very important to the lore with the A.S If you rewatch and look even closer you can see his ID with her not with someone else and you can also see her head is smashed into a wall too in one of the photos that Tessa shows ❤

[@Derrad333]

Very intresting how V called Uzi Cyn in cabin fever, knowing she is infected and keeping the info from N. I also like how Bue’s sacrifice was sort of reflected in V’s sacrifice, completing that circle.

[@cix7ed223]

Hey, Glitch posted the trailer for episode 7 and 8 (kinda) on their channel. You might wanna check that out. Quick spoiler: It adds more questions rather than answering the already existing mountain of them.

[@adamhughes8775]

There is no way V is dead but that moment, character growth.

[@sheerave3577]

FR I was so confused about a lot of things with his show too.

[@_.Karol._]

Theres a reason that V didn't actually gone, cause at the start J said "affective drones will clone more" and V is an affective drone so even if V dies she can be cloned like J did.

[@IronDino]

30:25 Well we DO know that Cyn did have a separate entity inside her. Go frame by frame in the opening of episode 5, right after the JCJensen video. (Use the comma [,] and period [.] keys.)

[@A_Shin3]

Ok just saying this just in case you see this comment. I went back rewatching all episodes and I spotted something in episode 4 when Uzi was investigating while she was holding the thing about dogs something or someone was there. She did saw hands when she squinted her eyes but if you look back before there was a hand moving you would notice a shadow that looks like a human. That wasn’t any other human because it looked like Tessa so there was this complicated theory of mine was that it’s Cyn who is mimicking Tessa. Idk if she is dead or not but it’s might be a possibility

[@theredwolfs2806]

So they’re using sins orders as information because her orders were to find anything useful in the lab that they were in her they were going to destroy the lab

[@NVSirius]

Amazing Vid and V's "Death" Messed me up. Just want to say you might have missed the part when J Says Efficient Drones Get Cloned so V Might Get Cloned if she Died (her Statues Lore says she's Efficient)

[@pickleccp]

YES NUZI SHIPPERS WE WIIIIINNNNNN

[@williehughes1690]

There's plenty of hints that V will be brought back later on via clone though I doubt it's gonna happen the next chapter episode.

[@Nadia-wd6nm]

This episode was so insane I still have hope for V though, we don't actually see her get killed, maybe something happens right before the raptor drones attack, like J showing up and saving her or something and even if she did get dissassembled, she could still come back like J did. I refuse to believe she's dead!

[@RinnIsMotivated]

I actually cried at the end ( ཀ͝ ∧ ཀ͝ ) "Effective drones get cloned" or smth like that this could mean that V comes back

[@ArchForge11]

I wish they brought back V’s glasses in a different way, in this episode it felt unnecessary and forced into the narrative. I would have liked it if they were used in the story to signify that her and N made up, or that they get together (although I know the chances are low, I still feel there’s a slight possibility, there’s nothing wrong with NxUzi I just prefer the other due to their past).

[@KachinaAndMualani]

Reintegration would mean if a sentinel was red then the company would have to put the sentinel in the reintegration unit to reboot the sentinel that's my guess