Dead End

is the sixth episode of Murder Drones which premiered on YouTube on August 18th, 2023.
==Synopsis==
The episode opens at Cabin Fever Labs, where Worker Drone 029 tries to both hide and retrieve a Worker Drone who is "boot-looped" (a state resembling paralysis) from Sentinels. Unfortunately, the velociraptor-like Sentinels tear the Drone apart, and another Sentinel closes in on her, boot-loops her with a flash of light, and eventually kills 029, ripping her to pieces.
Meanwhile, Uzi, N, and V meet up with Tessa and J. As Tessa explains why she and J are in Copper 9, Doll steals the Keybug she had given them earlier and flees with it, prompting the group to give chase; however, Doll escapes by hopping into a hole leading to the Labs. Uzi, N, V, and Tessa venture inside the Labs while J stays behind to guard Tessa's ship. The foursome finds the entrance to the Labs, which is full of Disassembly Drones corpses. Tessa is suddenly dragged away by a rope when they find the route to the secret elevator. Uzi, N, and V follow her, finding a baby Worker Drone. N attempts to shoot the baby drone, but it escapes with its spider limbs. Suddenly, a female Worker Drone appears with the spider baby, just as an EMP knocks Uzi, N, and V out. 
Uzi wakes up in a hospital room, where the female Worker Drone, named Alice, beheads 029's corpse. She reveals her scavenger nature, taking parts of Worker and Disassembly Drones for herself. She keeps the biomechanical cores of the latter inside an oven, which she claims “slows them down,” apparently similar to paralysis. While she is talking, Alice mentions that Nori "left them to die", shocking Uzi. Meanwhile, in a room where N and Tessa are kept, Beau, the spider baby drone, performs surgery on N, who is incredibly unfazed about being cut open. Beau is called over by Alice for more "sedatives" - which are just magnets to negate Uzi's AbsoluteSolver powers. Tessa seizes the chance to escape with N, and the two head to save Uzi and V. On the way, Tessa gives N a look at Earth, which, albeit off-screen, leaves him stunned. Finding out N and Tessa escaped, Alice releases a group of Sentinels that she locked in a room, intending for the dinosaur robots to kill the two. 
N sees with his own eyes that Earth has been destroyed by the Solver. Tessa explains that Cyn was infected by the Solver and that the Solver spreads through multiple planetary systems; the humans of Copper 9 attempted to find out what was happening by establishing Cabin Fever Labs but instead spread the Solver even more through Worker Drones like Yeva and Nori. She also tells him that he must choose either the universe or Uzi, a choice which afflicts N since he doesn't want Uzi to be killed but cured. Just then, a Sentinel arrives and boot-loops N, but when it is about to kill him, Tessa attempts to intervene by having the Sentinel trust her. However, the Sentinel instead bites her arm. This causes the Sentinel to slam its head into a wall and kill itself, having violated its programming. More Sentinels start to close on Tessa while Alice gleefully watches from the cameras. She then notices everything in the room is floating and turns to find Uzi temporarily possessed by the AbsoluteSolver. Uzi then creates a black hole (surrounded by suspicious organic matter), destroying the door controls to Alice's safe room; Uzi falls unconscious shortly after. 
The Sentinels notice the door to Alice's room is open and arrive just as Alice tries to close them. The Sentinels break in, killing Alice, and try to kill Uzi too, but are distracted by Beau charging up a laser beam. However, Beau uses it to free V at the cost of his own life. The Sentinels corner V, but they are suddenly consumed by a black hole. V then flees with Uzi. N wakes up from his boot-loop as V and Uzi reunite with him and Tessa, who is berated by V about the control she claims to have over the Sentinels. Tessa tells N she hasn't “been quite honest with V yet.” Uzi wakes up and hugs N while V stares ominously at Tessa. Meanwhile, the Sentinel who had wounded Tessa's arm reboots as a red-eyed variant, now able to attack anything that moves.
The foursome flee and lead the Sentinels down into a long hallway where the secret elevator is. To their surprise, Doll lays in a boot-looped state, having been done in by Sentinels; as they walk, Uzi and N are both blushing and holding hands. Tessa easily retrieves the keybug from Doll's hands. Doll, however, had faked her boot-loop state (via a GIF) to lure the group into the hallway; she steals the keybug and by dropping a lift in the way to cut them off from chasing her, leaves them trapped with Sentinels. Tessa distracts the Sentinels away from the group with her blood, calling, “Oops! I hope I don’t human everywhere!” but the red-eyed Sentinel arrives, now with a taste for human blood. Uzi tries to use her Solver powers to open a hole in the lift, but it ends up creating another uncontrollable black hole. The red-eyed Sentinel uses a dismembered Disassembly Drone’s arm gun to shoot Tessa; V catches the bullet and proceeds to battle the Sentinel, using a pair of glasses to negate its flash attack. While V fights the Sentinel, N, seeing that Uzi is unable to stop the black hole from growing, severs her arm, stopping the hole. Tessa, N, and Uzi enter the falling lift as V defeats the red-eyed Sentinel. However, another Sentinel causes the lift to ascend, and V is slowly surrounded by more Sentinels, still unable to join the others.
V ultimately decides to cut the cables despite N's protests. She voices her trust in Uzi as the elevator car begins to drop. As Tessa, Uzi, and N are sent plummeting down the shaft, V stands tall, saluting her friends as the Sentinels close in, but the cut to black leaves her fate unknown.
==Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Uzi Doorman
*N
*V
*Tessa Elliott
===Minor Characters===
*J
===Antagonists===
*Doll
*Sentinel
*Cyn/Absolute Solver (possessing Uzi)
*Alice
==Deaths==
*Unamed Worker Drone
*Amda
* Alice
* Beau
== Title in different languages ==
Language 	Localized title	Literal translation
Filipino 	"Hangganan" 	Border
French 	"Impasse" 	Dead End
German 	"Schutzengel" 	Guardian Angel
Hungarian 	"Zsákutca" 	Dead End
Japanese 	"デッドエンド" 	Dead End
Brazilian Portuguese	"Fim da Linha" 	End of the Line
Russian 	"Тупик" 	Dead End
Spanish 	"Sin Salida" 	No Exit
Thai 	"ทางตัน" 	Dead End
Turkish 	"Çıkmaz Sokak" 	Dead End
Ukrainian 	"Глухий Кут" 	Dead End
==Trivia== 
*This is the second episode to end on a cliffhanger after Home, since V had made the sacrifice play while saving Uzi, N and Tessa.
*When Tessa attempts to tame the Sentinels, she gains some form of trust before being bitten. This may reference Jurassic World, with Owen Grady trying to gain some trust with the Raptors (Blue, Charlie, Echo and Delta) when an employee falls into the pen.
*This is the first episode to not feature Khan Doorman and the second to not feature Lizzy, Thad or the Teacher.
*This is the first episode to depict blood rather than oil.
*This is the first (and possibly last) time V addresses Uzi by name.
*This episode marks the first time that Lizzie Freeman is back in recent Glitch Productions as she had loosened up her schedule, the second being The Amazing Digital Circus.
*Doll does not speak a single line of dialogue despite appearing multiple times as a main antagonist in this episode.
*When the Sentinel bit Tessa, she should have died as when astronaut suits are damaged in space, they will meet almost imminent death.
**In Mass Destruction, it is revealed that Tessa was actually Cyn who grafted the original Tessa's corpse with her body, which is most likely why Tessa didn't die after getting her suit damaged.
***This might also be the reason the Sentinel bit her, it's sensors were not detecting a human.
==Errors==
*After everyone is captured by Alice, there is a distortion on Uzi and V's screens caused by the magnets. However, when the scene changes to show N and Tessa, the distortion is not present on N and is no longer present when the scene goes back to Uzi and V.
*Although Tessa's arm is damaged after being bitten, the wound disappears at times.
*At 4:55 V's left hand appears on top of her claws, and without an animation.
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