Скачать или смотреть Murderbot' Episode 7 Recap: Kaijufornication

“It’s no secret that a liar won’t believe in anyone else,” Bono sang on U2’s “The Fly.” It’s not the most famous line in the band’s catalog, but it is, if not my favorite, then the one I think about most often. (More often than “a mole, diggin’ in a hole” from “Elevation,” that’s for sure.) It certainly applies to Gurathin, the “augmented human” who’s been our guy Murderbot’s biggest hater.

In the flashback that opens this week’s episode, Gurathin reveals during a team-building exercise that he was once a spy for the Corporate Rim, who dosed him with addictive drugs only they could provide to keep him compliant. Then he met Dr. Mensah while on a mission targeting her, and she took him in and changed his life. His admiration of her optimism about other people is what brought him along on this mission despite the risks.

Flash forward to the present, and Gurathin is not alone in his skepticism about Murderbot. Everyone is shocked by the way it instinctively blew enemy operative Leebeebee’s head off in front of them; Pin-Lee has fully joined Gurathin’s side and wants to ditch the robot entirely. Gurathin’s doubts about Murderbot aren’t entirely security-related, mind you. He has feelings for Mensah — and so, projecting, he’s come to believe she has feelings for Murderbot. (I think she cares about the robot, but not in that way. Guess we’ll find out!)Mensah, Arada, and Ratthi, however, are Team Murderbot, appreciative of its help and hoping it’ll stick around rather than ditch them. After all, as Mensah points out, a sentient construct that’s hacked its own software to free itself from years of human abuse would probably want to stay as far away from humans as possible. The fact that it’s stayed by the team’s side, defending them, is the biggest point in its favor. (Bharadwaj seems too shaken by recent events to weigh in much.)The conversation hasn’t even concluded when it proves its usefulness one more time. One of those giant two-ended centipede creatures surfaces, and he gets the team back in the hopper just in time. But the creature is after more than a meal. It’s come to the warm surface of the hopper to mate with a member of its species from the opposite sex, whatever that means in the case of a giant centipede and some big tentacled monstrosity. Anyway, if you’ve ever wanted to watch kaiju fuck — and I know you sickos are out there — here’s your chance.