Dead End

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## Video

**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 herself and retrieve a Worker Drone who is "bootlooped" (a state resembling paralysis) from Sentinels. Unfortunately, the velociraptor-like Sentinels tear the Drone apart, and another Sentinel closes on in her, bootloops her with a flashlight, 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 safekeep Tessa's ship. The foursome finds the entrance to the Labs, which is full of Disassembly Drones corpses. When they find the route to the secret elevator, Tessa is dragged away by a trap. Uzi, N, and V follow her, finding a spider baby Worker Drone. N attempts to shoot the spider baby, but it escapes. Suddenly, a female Worker Drone appears with the spider baby, just as an EMP pulse knocks Uzi, N, and V out.

Uzi wakes up in a hospital room, where the female Worker Drone, named Alice, beheads a paralyzed Worker Drone, revealing her scavenger nature, taking parts of both 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, is performing surgery on N, who is incredibly unfazed about being cut open. Beau is called over by Alice for more "sedatives" - which are actually 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. Alice, finding out N and Tessa escaped, releases a group of Sentinels locked in cages, intending for the dinosaur robots to kill the two.

The picture of Earth that Tessa showed to N is finally revealed, showing that the planet is blown up. Tessa explains it was because Cyn being 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 the Cabin Fever Labs, but instead spread the Solver even more through Worker Drones like Yeva or Nori. She also tells him that he must choose either the universe or Uzi, something that afflicts N, since he doesn't want Uzi to be killed, but rather fixed. Just then, a Sentinel arrives and bootloops N, but when it was 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 apparently kill itself, having violated its programming. More Sentinels start to close on Tessa while Alice gleefully watches. 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 was trying 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. V is cornered by Sentinels, but they are consumed by the black hole, and she flees with Uzi. N wakes up from his bootloop as V and Uzi reunite with him and Tessa, who is berated by V about the control she claimed 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 bootloop state, having apparently been done in by Sentinels; as they walk, Uzi and N are both blushing and holding hands. Doll, however, had faked her bootloop state (via a GIF) to lure the group into the hallway; she steals the keybug back, and (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, no longer affected by human blood. Uzi tries to use her Solver powers to open a hole in the lift, but it ends up opening another black hole which she cannot control. The red-eyed Sentinel uses a dismembered Disassembly Drone’s arm gun to shoot Tessa, but V manages to catch the bullet, and proceeds to battle the Sentinel who fired it, using a pair of glasses to negate its flash attack. While V fights the Sentinel, N, seeing that Uzi is not able to stop the black hole from growing, severs her arm, stopping the hole. Tessa, N, and Uzi enter the falling lift from the black hole's remnants as V manages to defeat 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 makes the decision to cut the cables, to N's protests, instead voicing her trust in Uzi as the elevator car begins to drop. As Tessa, Uzi, and N and sent plummeting down the shaft, V stands tall, saluting her friends as the Sentinels close in, but the cut to black leaves her fate currently unknown as the elevator plunges down the shaft.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Uzi Doorman
* N
* V
* Tessa Elliott

### Antagonists

* Doll
* Sentinel
* Cyn/Absolute Solver (possessing Uzi)
* Alice

## Deaths

* 029
* Alice
* Beau

## 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 managed to gain some form of trust before being bitten. This may be a reference to 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 real blood (rather than oil) as Tessa's right arm is wounded after she is attacked by a sentinel.
* 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.

## 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.

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* Behind the Scenes
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