Murder Drones
The core collapse of an exoplanet known as Copper 9, owned by a mining corporation, causes the planet to freeze over, wiping out all biological life, including humans, in the process. Service robots left by humanity try to eke out a new civilization, but killer robots developed by the mining corporation that caused the extinction event, following their programming to kill the remaining rogue robots not following company protocols, massacring hundreds of service robots everyday. The story begins when a service bot befriends a killer robot, who then work together to escape the planet.
- 2021-2024
- 1 season
- Amazon Prime Video
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense
- TV-14
The core collapse of an exoplanet known as Copper 9, owned by a mining corporation, causes the planet to freeze over, wiping out all biological life, including humans, in the process. Service robots left by humanity try to eke out a new civilization, but killer robots developed by the mining corporation that caused the extinction event, following their programming to kill the remaining rogue robots not following company protocols, massacring hundreds of service robots everyday. The story begins when a service bot befriends a killer robot, who then work together to escape the planet.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2021 - 2024
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, May 15, 2025 27 mins
The human population of the planet Copper-9 is wiped out by a planetary core collapse, leaving behind their robotic workforce, the Worker Drones. The workers are massacred by a team of Disassembly Drones from Earth, ostensibly sent by the interstellar corporation JCJenson in response to the workers' newfound independence, while the survivors retreat into a bunker fortified by the worker Khan Doorman. Uzi, Khan's neglected daughter, rebelliously[clarification needed] leaves the bunker to salvage parts for a rail gun, intending to mount an offensive against the Disassembly Drones and earn Khan's respect. She uses her weapon against Disassembly Drone "N", who regenerates with short-term amnesia and malfunctioning optic sensors. Mistaking Uzi for a new teammate, N bonds with her. Uzi flees when N's teammates J and V arrive, with J fixing N's malfunction. N infiltrates the bunker and attacks Uzi, who is shut out by Khan to protect the other survivors, gaining N's sympathy. J attempts to kill N for questioning their directive, but Uzi saves him. Uzi and N unite against the other Disassembly Drones, destroying J and capturing V. Heartbroken by Khan's betrayal, Uzi banishes herself with N and V, and declares vengeance against the humans of Earth.
Episode 2
Heartbeat
Fri, Nov 18, 2022 17 mins
J's bio mechanical heart emerges from her remains and produces an eldritch worm monster that kills several Worker Drones. Uzi and N are informed of the incident by Uzi's classmate Thad while trying to repair the Disassembly Drones' space pod. Returning to the bunker to investigate, they learn about a supposed "reboot" program called the Absolute Solver, symbolized by an insignia that has begun appearing in place of Uzi's eye; Uzi concludes that J is using the Solver to repair herself with the drones' assimilated matter. They are soon attacked by the worm-like Solver, which proclaims J and the other drones to be its "puppets". The Solver unnerves Uzi with disturbing, lifelike holograms, including one of itself killing Khan. N rescues Uzi as her damaged rail gun explodes, causing the Solver to vanish. Frightened and confused by the Disassembly Drones' true nature, Uzi shuns N and returns to Khan. Meanwhile, Uzi's classmate Doll telekinetic-ally crushes a robotic cockroach while glancing at a photograph of V, with the Solver symbol appearing over Doll's eye.
Episode 3
The Promening
19 mins
Uzi is approached by Doll and her friend Lizzy to receive a makeover for the upcoming school prom. However, Uzi escapes upon discovering that Doll is targeting her in a recent string of disappearances at school, and that Lizzy is conspiring to let V into the school. Meanwhile, N refuses to participate in V's plan to slaughter the prom-goers for their own sustenance, leading V to go alone. Uzi and N reconcile upon meeting outside, and head to the prom to stop V. Against the trio's expectations, V is crowned prom queen as part of a trap devised by Doll, who seeks to kill her for murdering her parents. Uzi and N rescue V, overcoming Doll's reality-bending Solver powers before Doll is shot by V. Doll later regenerates and attacks the group again, but flees when Uzi manifests her own Solver powers against her. Meanwhile, the human JCJenson technician Tessa and a living J arrive on Copper-9 to perform "maintenance work".
Episode 4
Cabin Fever
Fri, Apr 7, 2023 21 mins
Uzi travels to the abandoned Camp 98.7 to investigate a set of collars with significance to Uzi's mother, Nori. Uzi's class is forced to come along as part of a field trip, with N and V acting as supervisors. Uzi eventually finds the "key bug", a golden robot cockroach designed to activate an elevator in the Cabin Fever Labs. When she returns to the campsite, a startled classmate fires at Uzi with an arrow, which her Solver powers turn into a living organic mass. Uzi flees into one of the cabins, where she grows fleshy wings and a tail similar to the Disassembly Drones'; against V's wishes, N searches for Uzi and finds an instructional videocassette titled "Zombie Drones". Overcome with a craving for the drones' oil, Uzi kills several of her classmates and battles a hostile V before N intervenes, calming Uzi and returning her to normal. Uzi, N, and V leave with the other survivors, bringing the key bug and video cassette with them.
Episode 5
Home
20 mins
N relives his repressed memories as a Worker Drone servant at Tessa's mansion alongside V, J, and a malfunctioning "zombie" drone named Cyn. After ignoring several cryptic messages instructing him to enter the mansion's basement, N establishes contact with Uzi, who has hacked into the comatose N and V's memories to keep them from being erased by Cyn, the Solver's host and the Disassembly Drones' administrator. With Tessa and J's help, Uzi and N evade a monstrously mutated V and unlock the basement, where they discover Cyn's responsibility for turning N and the other servants into Disassembly Drones. Uzi's hacking is interrupted when Doll intrudes to take the key bug, which Uzi begrudgingly gives her to save N and V. While the past Cyn takes control of the other drones and massacres the humans in the mansion, the present Cyn attempts use V to lobotomize N in Uzi's absence, but N returns V to her senses before Uzi overrides Cyn's administration. Sometime later, Doll brings the key bug to Tessa and J at the frozen Camp 98.7 lake, where Uzi, N, and V find them.
Episode 6
Dead End
Fri, Aug 18, 2023 21 mins
Tessa and J ally with Uzi's group, revealing Cyn as the one who sent the Disassembly Drones to Copper 9. Doll immediately takes the keybug back and enters the nearby Cabin Fever Labs alone, leading the group to give chase while J stays behind to guard Tessa's ship. The group is quickly captured by Alice and Beau, two cannibalistic Worker Drone lab subjects who have used the facility's Velociraptor-like Sentinels to kill the other subjects and intruding Disassembly Drones. During their escape, Tessa privately reveals to N that Cyn's actions have already destroyed Earth, and urges him to save the universe over Uzi, who risks being possessed by Cyn the more she uses her Solver. After the Sentinels kill Alice and Beau, Doll traps the group in the elevator hallway with more Sentinels and descends further down, damaging the elevator in the process. When the others are cornered inside the elevator, V remains outside and severs its cables to save them while the Sentinels surround her.
Episode 7
Mass Destruction
26 mins
Uzi, N, and Tessa are separated underground when Uzi's Solver triggers a cave-in. N encounters Nori's sentient heart, who owns a crucifix-shaped patch on a USB drive made for "exorcising" the Solver from its hosts. At a cathedral used by JC Jenson for exorcisms, Uzi finds security footage of Nori fighting against Cyn's possession and accidentally triggering the core collapse. Doll demands the patch from Tessa to cure herself, but is mortally wounded by Cyn and warns Uzi. Tessa follows Doll to kill Uzi, but N decapitates Tessa and attempts to cure Uzi with the patch. However, Cyn possesses Uzi and destroys the USB. N restores Uzi after provoking her and Nori into bickering by confessing that he and Uzi "hang out", although Uzi unwittingly kicks Nori down a hole into the planet's core in the process. As Uzi and N reunite, "Tessa" reveals herself as a disguised Cyn, eats Doll's heart, and drags Uzi and N into the hole with her; J destroys the Disassembly Drones' landing pods under "Tessa's" orders before Khan, Lizzy, and Thad confront her with a new rail-gun. Uzi sacrifices herself to save N, later awakening in outer space, where she sees the moon's exposed core.
Episode 8
Absolute End
Fri, Aug 23, 2024 21 mins
In the series finale of Murder Drones, Uzi and N face off against Cyn in an epic battle that will change the universe forever.