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Its response, too. Even as devastating as the betrayal is in this moment, it neither hesitates nor retaliates, as if it either can’t or doesn’t feel entitled to complaint, or anger, or protest. Whether this is a comment on its prioritization of humans or its devaluation of self (or both) is an open question but Human 1 did not get the consequences a human would have very reasonably demanded.

The Murderbot scene that will forever break my heart is at the end of Fugitive Telemetry when Murderbot is shot by one of the humans it’s rescuing.

But it’s not just that Murderbot gets shot. It’s not even the fact that being shot confirms Murderbot’s long-standing fear that people will only accept it if it isn’t a Secunit.

It’s the fact that Murderbot gets shot while enacting a rescue that it planned and that it was proud of—because it was a Secunit plan and not a Combatbot plan. Over and over Secunit is kinda forced to act like a Combatbot or a Combat Secunit, blasting its way through enemies and getting shot up as a result.

But not this time. This time Secunit finds a way to sneak in without violence and rescue the humans quietly without putting them in danger. It’s its own plan - a Secunit plan.

And the second the humans realize that it’s a Secunit they shoot it.