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Apple’s Best New Sci-Fi Show’s Latest Twist Is A Radical Game Changer

Ryan Britt

created: June 6, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: June 12, 2025, 10:56 a.m.

For fans of the Martha Wells’ Murderbot books, the new Apple TV+ series is a delightfully faithful adaptation. However, smack dab in the middle of the series, with Episode 5, “Rogue War Tracker Infinite,” Murderbot makes its biggest change to the source material yet. Murderbot has layers upon layers of rogue bots: the rogue bot we know and love, and others that are rogue in a bad way. This decision, perhaps more than anything about Murderbot, has been the smartest development for the TV series. Instead, the existence of this new character, one that totally breaks the format of the book, is clearly hiding some new twist.

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