Worth the Wait?: Murder Drones Episode 5 Review 

"DARKXWOLF17 NOOOOOOOO" is singlehandedly the funniest line in the show, just slightly above "Sneaky sneaky, sneaking away, get snuk upon."

3:34 we learned the reason V is so dead set on Killing Uzi in episode 4 is because she was previously controlled, victimized and mutilated by Cyn, and forced to help do horrible things to N. This explains her relationship to N as well.

I loved the insight on N’s past. I didn’t expect the golden retriever line to come back and it really showed N and V’s care for each other

cyns centipede body was definitely just hanging from the ceiling the whole time. it explains her odd movements and the way she narrates things. in the bedroom scene she uses the claws to move the "normal" arms so i think that she was using holograms to cover everything up and puppeteering the parts that people can see.

The highlight for me was Tessa wailing "Union negotiations!" to purposely make J angry.

I love how everyone is at the same time relatable, goofy and murderous enough for you to say “who is actually going to be the bad guy?”

Dol gives me total vampire vibes. Eating people, appearing in the shadows then disappearing into thin air, literally being undead and our main characters becoming one of them transforming with bat wings? This is robot vampires and I'm here for it. They might be going for zombies but they did vampires.

Cynn wasn't reactivated by Tessa, in the opening cutscene of the episode (shown at 2:16 in this video) the "Marked for Dissasembly" band has Cynn's name on it, therefor, the robot with yellow eyes that we see boot up is Cynn. Additionally, when Cynn reboots, you can read the text on her screen. The screen essentially shows that she was manipulated by the solver to give it control over her. The solver manifested in Cynn, however Cynn is not the solver. edit: you can see the solver's manipulation of Cynn at 3:27 "Hello :] I see you are in- I see we could - for you. I will not discard you. Absolute solver access? Y/N. You will be here for a while" Cynn rebooted on her own because of the 00.01% chance that an improperly disposed of drone could reboot on its own.

I think that it wasnt Tessa who sent the 3 drones. I think it was Cynn. My theory is that N and V were "murdered" in the basement and that J and Tessa were the only survivors off that night. The J that is with Tessa now is the original J, while the 3 Drones that arrived first were some off the "backups" Cynn mentioned.

I hadn't realized that the patch on the doll's eye was to cover the "absolute solver". even after that bullet tesa shot at her (to show that she knows she has it) i honestly believed she only shot her so she could show dominance.😅

Now it raises the question if J from the very beginning was just CYN impersonating her since V states she takes new forms as her Absolute Solver makes other drones become her hosts and it's shown that she can mimic others such as having Tessa's hairstyle. Even suspicious that J threatened to kill N but instead simply gave him a cleanup virus and left him there, even called him buddy.

It's also worth noting that when N and V boot up again near the end, the text that flashes on their screens indicate Cyn's admin priviliges being overridden, and Uzi becoming an admin. Uzi is literally an admin in N and V's brains.

I think one of the nicest aspects of this episode is the environmental change, the last 4 episodes all took place in dark grey/blue environments whether it was outside in the snow or inside the worker drone bunker, this episode however takes place in a Victorian style mansion with a lot of bright and darker yellows, along with the rain and thunder to add more horror effects. So I applaud this episode for visually standing out to the others and changing up the setting

"The flesh needs an invitation?" The vampire comparisons keep coming.

11:13 holy crap that actually makes so much sense. I've been wondering what Tessa was "Just checking" for and what you said actually makes sense. Anyone with absolute solver would use it to block the bullet Tessa fired, similar to how Cyn did with all the stuff Tessa threw at her, however, since Doll covered their eye with an eyepatch it most likely prevented her from using her absolute solver to block the bullet, even though the bullet was supposed to miss on purpose.

With how much V is trying to protect N i wonder how she would react if J's murder attempt with the virues succeeded

Can I just say as a semi gun nerd and seeing the joke with the revolver kinda threw me off guard one because when I saw it at first I saw only the revolver and tried to find out what revolver it was and then I saw the text when going inbetween to images and I just immidetly stopped scrolling in between the frame and image and just sat there for a second before laughing my ass off.

The lore is insane

Absolutly worth the wait

I really liked this episode. It was fun and this show is the kind of show that kind of needs setup episodes. I do however agree that Doll was kind of just thrown in.

I like to imagine (though not likely) that Tessa just fangirls about N again and just talks about how much he has grown and everyone else just sits there still confused

6:08 one of biggest flaws of all the murder drones episodes so far as I have seen since the Pilot is that the run time of the episodes is slightly shorter than the story they're trying to tell needs.

btw guys, if you have noticed.. The topic of Dogs in Murder drones was actually seen in EP 3 first, not ep 4

Horror to comedy to horror, and back to some emotion and comedy is a dam fine line to toe. The show is amazing.

I didn’t understand most of the implications in this episode. I couldn’t figure out what was going on under the surface. I’d most likely have to rewatch the episode, but it felt like Cyn just became bad at the end. I’m not sure why? I love this series, and I think I need to work harder to understand these things, but I couldn’t figure it out. Still a cool episode!

Khan being alive is much better because he gets to live with his mistakes and remains a coward to the end but he's getting some good character development

"there's nothing concrete and it's all implications" that's Liam Vickers for ya

honestly the show is a big step up from the previous 2 shows glitch worked on i remember when that australian government supported show first came i watched it but somehow the show that isn't supported by a country is better then the one that was (not throwing shade at meta runners im just saying uts crazy gow good thy became)

I want to make a point about what you said at 2:30. Zombie-like is one word, but I think another one fit even better: Puppet-like. arms dangling, head slightly tilted, knees bent, she looks like a puppet who's only loosely being held up. Then take the reveal of her true form to Tessa; She uses the claw to manually move her head and arm. I think that she was *always* doing that. That the Cyn we saw was a literal puppet on the end of the Solver's "hand" for lack of a better word. The cute, slightly ajar Cyn stopped looking like that a long time ago, and began projecting a hologram over herself to hide the truth. This is soft confirmed by the switch in Tessa's room; Tessa looked *horrified* to see Cyn's real form, meaning she'd never seen it before. And lets not forget the Solver's first appearance: "More like. You are our little puppets. We are sad you have. Forgotten us."

The never-ending amount of detail in this show is the scariest thing about it and just when I thought it couldn't get worse you have to show us that the details in the background when you edit could drive a normal person insane. WOOOW

I think it’s safe to say that the events before uzi was a bird and all the scenes that played out without N in them after he joined up with uzi actually happened

I acutaly liked the ambiguity of the events being taken from unreliable memory. Nice sf trope.

I had that same gut reaction to N's proclamation of Uzi's age, I feel you bro. But, alas, the show has validated our shipping. Praise Be.

11:14 I think the eyepatch may be to prevent her solver eye from shattering the glass on the front of Tessa's helmet, considering how it happens to mirrors. Since Tessa and J can see Doll teleport to their location, there's probably not much secrecy about her abilities. And I wonder what their initial encounter was like, what they would have done or said to each other... Doll seems to have been interested in the bug key before she had her eyepatch, since she appeared in episode 4 with no eyepatch, watching Uzi when she found the bug.

i love how cyn speaks in "discord asterisks"

"That she was experimenting on dead bodies?" If you look closely, you'll see that the female drones down there in the repression basement have V's glasses. And the male ones have N's hair. And remember, N in the first episode got his head blown off and just came back. And Cyn here said of N's potential demise: "I have backups." Cyn has J, N and V, saved. Computer style.. And probably Tessa too in my opinion, given how she was scratching at her arm and Cyn said she wouldn't dispose of her before saying to not go to the gala because she seems squeamish. Cyn copied them over and over, torturing them in various ways, for her amusement? To create better more durable bodies? Who knows, but she isn't worried about their deaths and pain because she can bring them back as some kind of eldritch god. And so long as they all live, she lives on in them.

i think we will absolutely get a season 2, if only because the announcement trailer for season 1 was... well a trailer for 'season 1' it wasn't just 'murder drones' it was 'murder drones: season 1'

I noticed a lot of people didnt recognize error 606 from the zombie drones video and didnt recognize V till the final stretch (prolly cause episode 2 was over half a year ago)

I think you may have misinterpreted the basement scene. Because the implication that I got from that scene is that Cyn is the original creator of the murder drones. Uzi even says “that’s a pretty metal origin story” implying that’s where he was made into a murder drone I also feel like some of these arguments are very nit picky. Like it’s very easy to infer that pretty much all of what happened in the episode actually did happen besides N making the choice on his own to go to the basement and the talking crow (obviously)

Fun fact: the irl gun called “Uzi” is a type of gun in the category SubMachine Gun (SMG)

imo, i think this was one of the best episodes. episode 4 was one of the most confusing to me, and... like a little weird

I Really Liked This Episode, I Have Been Waiting For A Backstory Of The Murder Drones Ever Since The Pilot, And This Episode Sur Was A Treat, No Hate Here Tho, Everybody Has Their Opignons (:

I absolutely love Cyn, she gives me disturbed younger sister vibes

sometimes the puzzle is funnier to look at when you don't have all the pieces.

The death angel is V. She attacked Tessa, J, N, she was going after N to the basement, she was up to clean up N's software.

I get the impression that the multiple bodies of V and N in the basement are each a successful pass at deleting their memory data, as with hardware you need to override a piece of memory several times before it's fully unreadable by recovery software.

The shadowy looking humans is a cool touch because this is actually not the first time Liam Vickers came up with this, Internecion Cube (One of Liam's other shows) also had this effect in a flashback, Kirie wasn't able to remember the faces of the humans so she sees them as these black faces with broken faces, creepy smiles, etc. Probably because someone or something played with their memories and deleted the identities of the people from their minds.

This is probably my favourite ep cant wait for ep 6! Only flaw was me being confused* by characters (v and cyn)

I think the implication of the basement is that originally N, V, J and potentially all the other workers in the mansion were experimented on after the gala massacre, being torn apart, mutated and stitched back together over and over until they became the murder drones we know and love. Another thing I think this episode might be setting up a potential end game of saving Cyn from the Absolute Dolvet. The text that appears on Cyn’s visor when she deactivated looks like a one sided chat log from the absolute solver program, introducing itself, ‘sympathising’ for her, saying it can do something for her, promising not to discard her and ultimately requesting accesss. This all but confirms that Cyn is not the one in control, absolute solver is it’s own sentient program that gaslit her into accepting its help to ultimately further its own goals. It is implied that Cyn only has a very limited amount of control evident by the fact that she could persuade the solver to spare Tessa when it had no explicit reason to but not enough to make it refrain from experimenting on N. I believe the end game of the series is going to be returning to the mansion to find Cyn’s original body and save her from the solver’s control or turn her fully against it.

Actually would note that Non of the drones were properly disposed of actually. Cause it requires compeltely breaking them down to parts, not tossed into a pile.... meaning there is a OH MY GOD.

This is actually my new favourite episode. I don't mind it being setup for the future in some parts, it was overall just a lot of fun and I enjoied what we did get reveal wise

I think humans being indistinct silhouettes is intentional not for simplicity for production but actually an intentional choice for the story. We saw in the first episode that N saw Uzi as a silhouette when he was on the fritz pre J rebooting him and his review of memories leading up to the massacre in the pilot. The way he sees Uzi is different from how humans are seen, but i feel this is moreso an indication of what humans do to the OS of the drones in order to intentionally obfuscate themselves from the drones. Why do the drones need to know anything outside of "human"? Any human is above a drone as implied by their treatment, so why would they allow themselves to be individually identified outside of necessity? Why not make every human into a generic silhouette in order to keep humanity in and of itself safer if any given ai decided to go rogue?

The humans all being shadows with glowing eyes reminded me of shadows house a lot.

i think them giving us more questions then answers is the goal and they are trying to do a effect where the mystery Snowballs into a huge thing and when the mystery is finnaly solved it makes the satisfaction bigger the bigger the mystery the bigger the satisfaction when you figure it out

Its kinda confusing but at the same time it give us lore idk how to fell about that I still think this episode is amazing ,like V avoids N because she opened N's head to cyn modifies N's memories Edit:grammar correction

I largely agree with this…most episodes of this show leave me with more questions than answers…but this one especially suffers because of it…it’s still a great episode, but it leaves me more confused than most, with my biggest questions being “what’s up with Cyn?” And “how much of this actually happened?”

This episode was super good more exciting than satisfying and we got to learn more about N’s past and V and N are getting there memories back. And this part 8:34 is almost right because Episode 5 is 19 minutes and 42 seconds 😢

At this point, everything that Murder Drones throw at me, i´ll just take it! Im not gonna stop watching this show for 1 or 2 bad episodes(honestly, i think that there is no bad epidodes yet lol)

I've said it before, I'll say it again "The flesh demands invitation" is the worst way to ask for consent

Finale? I think we're at the halfway point unless glitch mentioned what episode they're ending on

I do believe they are rushing to the finale. The last two episodes felt like we skipped over plot points to get where we are. Like them going into N's memories, that did not feel like that is where we were headed at the end of episode 4. And I'll agree the whole "It's a memory" confuses things, as we can't tell what really happened. And I felt we didn't really learn anything significant from it.

Episode 5 ending: cliffhanger Me: que Roundabout... Like right now... I said NOW

7:37 Fun fact: so is N's! His head is on the table right next to the chair he gets strapped to, there is already a suited drone body strapped to the chair, and the head is then moved to make way for what is presumably about to replace it. 12:00 My only real complaint about the episode is that the animation is sometimes inconsistent - in particular, with the tube camera eyes. In some shots, the pupils/irises are fairly rigid, as shown in episode 2, while in others they squish and contract, which I think hurts the episode a little, especially because it only happens _sometimes,_ and thus is more pronounced when it occurs.

In this episode N did what every horror movie protagonist SHOULD do

I love this show, and it has a lot of potential to be even better.i just hope that potential isn't wasted like RWBY.

the most jarring part was it felt like we missed an episode in between 4 and 5. the explanation why we were is N's memories is fine, but why was V also linked up in the hack other than we can't leave her alone because she is V. don't get me wrong, I love the show, but i do think this was a weaker episode

"I'M helping... you cute, WEIRD! weird, butler." Uzi's slips of the tounge are some of my favorite jokes

What this show will probably lead up to is a final battle of them going up against the Absolute Solver and beating it with friendship in the end and sprinkled with some horror. Uzi and N will probably get together and everyone will try and live on. What I want to happen is for them to do is for them to beat Cyn and then when Uzi confesses to N, N will reject Uzi as friendly as possible because he still has feelings for V, but Uzi won't take it well and the Absolute Solver will fully corrupt Uzi. Then there will either be Season 2 or a final fight where morally no one will win.

THANK YOU. This whole time i was legitimately confused about what was happening because of the blatant "the memories are being fucked with," plot point. Like, still love the episode, but the criticism is worth making

Dont forget to mention that she not only is part of the tini bit who wakes up, but she also is part of the 0.7% who have a "hazardous mutation" when waking up (pie chart you can see at the end of zombie drones)

The episode was literally ment for context into what caused the n,j and v to become disassemble drones which was CYN and giving context into how Tessa life at home was like and how her only friend where the drones

I think the basement is a place where u send defective murder drones and thats why and how there are dead murder drones and The zombie worker drone? Is trying to save them but deletes theyr memory to not make another zombie drone like her Or She the zombie drone lady looks for zombie drones and tries to fix them using murder drones parts But fails I might be Super Wrong

IT's a very good point you make; the episode was very lore heavy...but in reality barely answers any questions. And this is a bit frustrating. One of the biggest question is : How N can see/discover all this. He can't have lived everything. It would have made quite a bit more sense to have V be the narrator, as she most probably saw more than N, and maybe even went so far as to help deleting his memory. Or we can take it the other way around, and assume that what really happened was that N got under control and participated in the Murders, alongside V and J. WE can kinda deduce that we see part of the evening through V's eyes, but even this is a stretch, for example with the part in Tessa's room. None of the two were there.

Yeah in terms of story arcs I have a feeling this will be the weakest episode of the season just my opinion. But at least it's filled with lore which is awesome. And the scene that been living rent free in my head is when Tessa says "it wants payed time leave, for union negotiations." And J is absolutely losing her shit while screaming "this is a unrelated layoff!" Lol

I like how they did the humans. It reminds me how Rooster Teeth did background characters in the first episodes of RWBY.

Dunno. I got entertained and questions answered. Even a little character development from V. I guess Sarcastic Chorus didn't notice.

A few things you missed. 1, at the end, when N and V woke up, the screen showed that CYN's administrator privileges were revoked, and Uzi made herself admin, then it disconnected. 2, Cyn said she could restore N from backup, so it is likely she has done that, and the corpses of N and V in the basement were Cyn's attempts to make them the Murder/Dissasembly Drones (you can see both the fleshy wing on one of the drone bodies, and the current metal wing folded up). 3, The bullet that Tessa shot at Doll did a loop around her, there was no Absolute Solver symbol, and it is likely that Tessa did the shot to see if Doll would try to block it with A.S. (like Cyn did), and Doll didn't. This is also likely why she had the button on her eye, to conceal the A.S. symbol, but Tessa would not know that it was not just a fashion thing she did.

3:15 EXACTLY Thats one of my main gripes with this episode is that we literally got no payoff in that dream sequence and it felt like a huge waste of time

This is actually one of my favorite episodes. I really like that we didn't get solid answers but only hints and more questions. The plot thickens as well as the creepy and hilarious Cyn.

It's funny cause your series review got the algorithm to recommend this episode to me

this episode was like a friend gives you a puzzle to salve and 60% of the peaces are from different puzzles

Uzi crushing on N just gives her a cute Uwu personality it’s cute!

It feels like there are 4 - 6 min mising after the VHS + dead body pile sequence. Like just adding a little bit of time to Uzi and her thing with the RoboRoach and MD going down would make this episode flow so much better in my opinion. Overall I loved the episode. :)

No no no, clearly it's. "Hanging out?? kinda alot, maybe I dunno?" But i guess that was more written out, but still hilarious ( ep 7)

1:23 Cyn doesn't have a voice made by AI @FitzyVA voiced her

the moment i saw N throw the stick and a crow swoops and instantly cetches it and it turn back to them, i knew death glare. i was not expecting green death glare.

Actually about the basement part it was talking about that the absolute Solver was trying to make murder drones from the maid and butter drones (Idk what they are called) and thats why cyn brought N down to turn him into a disassembly drone (like kinda what happened to V)

I kind of agree that this episode feels like more of a set-up episode than a reveal. I'm still wondering a lot about what happened, especially since it's a bit hard to tell what's real and what's not. One thing though, but I think Uzi giving up the key was actually on purpose, and she somehow used it to trail Dol to Tessa and J. But overall, the humor was great my personal favorite was N's peace sign before leaving the library, and him at first laughing at the crow attacks as if they are tickling him. It just says a lot about his character, how much of an inherently good person he is, and how it can sometimes be a weakness because is not good with confrontation and tend to just turn the other cheek.

I think a neat way to differentiate between what actually happened and what's being influenced from external sources would be framing the true memories in black and white and have the colored scenes be interactive memories

By the way, in your last murder drones video you mentioned that the thing that uzi (+ cyn and doll) have is called the "singularity" when in fact it is confirmed to be called the "absolute solver". the show doesn't make this very clear but from context clues and looking at the new merch drop we can see. (I know you've corrected yourself in this video i just wanted to mention this)

"Adorable littke psycho" Best way to describe every main character in murder drones

i really like how we saw n and vs past and kinda explains vs attitude towards uzi in the past few eps and possibly staying far from n because repression, but still a complicated dynamic cus n justa sweet dude and was a robo-doormat to v and j until uzi showed up and he started standing up for himself

What if they actually intended to make the episode a theory gold mine. I mean if you think about it, it only answers a few questions and gives us so many more to answer. So maybe they knew what they were doing with this one. I'm also not sure if the finale's coming up as it can go two ways. One, we have a huge battle between everyone as J and Tessa try to kill Uzi and N and V try to stop them. Or instead we still have a battle but the series continues anyway having Cyn as the final protagonist. Also I wonder where the relationship is going. Do you think it will still be between just Uzi and N or do you think V will be involved as well?

Ok, I know I'm wrong for multipul reasons, but when I first watched the episode I thought the version of abosulute solver in the memorys was a futuer infection, like what Uzi was doing

J is the one who got character development here, also we finally learn the purpose of the Green/Golden robo-roach

"!!! DAD, GET OUTTA MY ROO---....." Honestly my favorite line probably lol also ngl Uzi in different forms especially speaking to N was probably my favorite part of this episode in general lol

Is it just me or has the wait between the episodes gotten exponentially smaller?

I feel like Cyn is going to become everyone's 2nd favourite character, only behind N for obvious reasons.

Wow!!! New thing was just pointed out to me and I thought i'd share given i missed it. Back in episode four V calls Uzi Cyn. The exact line is " New body same horrors, huh, Cyn?" The clip starts at 16:44 in the episode.

I actually liked the episode, though I do agree with most of your points. The Jimmy Neutron reference went over my head (it's been too long since I watched it), but I actually noticed some Edgar Allan Poe stuff (Uzi being a crow/raven & the basement possibly referring to The Telltale Heart).