Murder Drones Recap & Ending Explained: Did Uzi Defeat Cyn?

Before saying anything about the show, I’d like to take a moment to stop and appreciate Liam Vickers, the creator of Murder Drones. Sure, the show is fast-paced and hectic to follow at moments, but the intricate storyline and flashy animation make up for the chaos. The focal point of the story is everyone’s worst nightmare, a rogue AI trying to destroy everything humanity’s built, and it’s hard to pick a side in this. Cult-like human doctors and corporations, a crucifix with a USB patch, and cannibalistic robots—the show has got it all. So here we are, discussing the latest series, now streaming on Prime Video.

Spoilers Ahead

What happens in the show?

Murder Drones is set on an exoplanet called Copper 9, where the Absolute Solver, a rogue AI, wiped all human life from the planet. The only things still moving on the planet’s surface are the autonomous worker drones, who made a pretty solid fort-like facility to protect themselves from the murder drones, bots designed to kill the workers. The murder drones are managed by an interstellar corporation called JCJenson, and I’m not sure exactly why they want to eradicate the harmless worker drones. However, the worker drones are safe thanks to the impenetrable doors built by Khan Doorman, the unspoken leader of the worker drones. Khan’s daughter, Uzi, is an angsty teen bubbling over with punk rebellion, mommy issues, and social anxiety. When Uzi walks out of the den in the hopes of finding the missing parts for her railgun, she encounters a murder drone called N. When she’s attacked by N, Uzi sees that the murder drones can repair their severed parts using their saliva, and can communicate like worker drones. N at first thought that Uzi was a new recruit, but his superior teammates, V and J, quickly made him snap out of the delusion. Just when Uzi is about to make it back to the hideout, N pries open the impenetrable door. He slaughters the worker drones left, right, and center, and when Khan has the chance to shoot him and save his daughter, he closes the door on her. J and V then try to kill Uzi, but N has now grown a fondness for her, and they neutralize J fairly soon. When the worker drones see them fight, they open the doors to celebrate, but Uzi banishes herself, showing Khan what a horrible mistake he’s made.

What’s the true motive of JCJenson?

The company that fears the thought of runaway AI and recruits murder bots to eliminate the last of them, JCJenson, is a weirdly suspicious corporation. We can assume it’s run by humans, and the corporate negligence is off the charts. JCJenson rewards the murder drones with trivial gifts, like branded pens, only signifying how detached the company actually is from its own creation. Uzi asks an all-important question to N: what’s the fate of the murder drones once all the workers are killed, and why’d they send them in a one-way spaceship? It’s clear that N has been rebooted at some point in his life, and his repressed memories hold the answer to the reason the company sent them. 

What’s the Absolute Solver?

The antagonist of the show, the Absolute Solver, is a corrupted AI created by JCJenson. The Absolute Solver acts like a supernatural entity, and it infects drones and can distort reality. We see that one of N’s former friends, Cyn, becomes the first host to the Absolute Solver. It’s clear that this entity was responsible for the core explosion of Copper 9, and it now lurks on the planet, using it as a playground to exterminate all sentient life. The Absolute Solver uses the collapsed gate of the worker drone’s hideout to influence the few unprotected workers, and it murders them and then uses their bodies to make lifelike  low-resolution holograms of them. It uses the dead low-resolution worker drones to lure more drones to it, effectively killing them one by one. 

What’s the deal with Doll?

Doll is one of Uzi’s classmates, a Russian drone who pretends to be an introvert to mask her deeply rooted issues. Her parents were killed by V, and her life’s goal is to avenge them. She keeps her parents in her room, which leads to bugs crawling all over the place. Doll is also probably a cannibal, because her house is full of mutilated drones, and she consumes their oil to keep herself stable. Doll can wield the powers of the Absolute Solver, which makes her sort of an antihero of the show. In the prom episode, Doll lets V into the hideout, only to try and kill her. By the end of the show, it’s revealed that Doll only wanted the USB patch to get rid of the Solver, and even though she’s a cannibal, you feel she’s not all bad, if you can excuse murder. 

Is Nori alive?

A big part of who Uzi is comes from her presumably dead mother, Nori. She’s seen to be restrained at the Cabin Fever lab, run by humans, and her unpredictable powers are a threat to both humans and drones. The church-like building is  somewhere below the surface of the planet, and this is the first time we see signs of human existence on the planet. An intern named Mitchell accidentally wears a doctor’s hazmat suit, and he’s then tasked with retrieving Yeva, another drone who has been exorcised of the Solver successfully. However, Mitchell leaves Yeva behind, in an example of classic human cowardice: Nori shreds every human present in the lab, and the Solver has taken complete possession of her. This incident led to the partial explosion of the core of Copper 9, but Yeva managed to save Nori’s system just in time. Nori now resides in her own heart, which also has claws, making it easier to walk (I really hope you watched the show). Nori never went back to the worker’s colony because she wanted to investigate the Cabin Fever lab, and when she found Solver trying to kill N, she wondered why Cyn was trying to kill one of her mates, unaware of the present dynamics. 

Who is Tessa?

Tessa was the person who actually recovered Cyn, N, V, and J to make them into her servants at the manor she lived in. When Doll looks for the crucifix, Tessa lets her die, hinting that the girl behind the astronaut helmet might not be a human after all. It’s all confirmed when she places onto her decapitated head back into her body and eats Doll’s heart, confirming it’s Cyn who’s taken control of Tessa’s corpse, using her to manipulate the others.

How Does Uzi Defeat Cyn?

When Uzi, Doll, Tessa, and V are captured by the dinosaur bots, they meet a drone designed to mutilate the captured drones and store the valuable POF from their bodies. Tessa sets herself and N free, and Uzi lets out a huge burst of energy, collapsing the system of the facility. But by now, Solver has full control over Cyn, who’s hellbent on killing each and every one of the bots. Cyn offers Uzi to let the Solver merge with her completely, to write a new future together, but Uzi sacrifices herself to contain the Solver’s powers instead, which causes a massive explosion. The planet’s gravitational force weakens, and we see Uzi not dead yet, but rather floating in space, where Nori tells her she must destroy Cyn’s heart to kill her. 

Cyn uses her unique power called “Callback Ping” to look for Uzi and N, but N is temporarily killed when he tries to warn V of the looming danger. Khan and Thad arrive at the scene, driving their silly school bus, and it’s all irrelevant, really. The final battle starts between Uzi and Cyn, with V and J fighting in the background as well. J once again chose the side of evil, and Uzi fights for her life with “Bite Me” playing in the background. A long and entertaining fight follows, and Uzi accidentally ends up taking Cyn’s heart out of her body. When Uzi tries to destroy the heart, everything turns black and white, and Cyn tries to eat her heart to regain her powers. But Uzi eats it instead, effectively melting Cyn’s body into a gooey substance. Uzi is dead for a while, but N and V fix her real quick. V pulls her guns out after noticing Uzi’s eyes are different, but she is soon convinced that it’s Uzi when she says she’s a damaged OC now. 

Murder Drones ends with Uzi talking about this crazy experience in her class presentation, while N cheers his new girlfriend up. V is now a part of the workers’ colony too, and it’s a happy ending for the good guys. The aftermath of Uzi eating Cyn’s heart is not clear yet, although she seems pretty normal to me. If there are any repercussions to it, we’d be glad to get a second season of the show. Until then, it might be a good idea to watch the show twice to notice all the details you missed (I’m sure you did). 

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