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Uzi and her class arrive at Camp 98.7, an abandoned research facility now turned campsite, for a field trip. Prior to the trip, Khan had shown Uzi pictures of her late mom Nori wearing the same collar worn by Doll's mom. Khan also shows Uzi her mom's drawings, revealing that Nori knew about the Disassembly Drones before their arrival and convinced Khan to build the doors for safety. Wanting to investigate the camp for any clues regarding her mother, Uzi has N and V arrive to serve as camp counselors and distract the other students while she sneaks off on her own.

Uzi explores an abandoned building when her body starts to overheat, prompting her to drink oil from a severed drone arm. V appears and, suspicious of Uzi, makes it clear she won't hesitate to kill her. Uzi notices a squished robot bug and helps fix it. The keybug shows Uzi a dead Worker Drone underneath the floor, surrounded by drawings similar to her mom's. The keybug then scans her face and displays a dashboard, revealing itself to be a key for an elevator.

Uzi, now accompanied by the keybug, attempts to get N's attention without alerting V. N loudly and ignorantly reveals Uzi's precense, causing one of the students to accidentally shoot an arrow towards her. Uzi stops the arrow with her powers, which causes it to mutate into an organic mass. Uzi quickly runs away into an abandoned cabin, where her body starts overheating again. She uses her power to destroy all the lights in the cabin, only for one of the lights to suddenly start mutating.

N stop V from going after Uzi to kill her and, angered that V won't tell him why she doesn't trust Uzi, has her stay at the camp while he goes to find Uzi. N notices several footprints leading into an abandoned building and enters it. Inside, he finds a VHS tape labeled "Zombie Drones". As N approaches the tape, a series of memories flash in his mind, surprising him. Meanwhile, campers Rebecca and Darren sneak off from the other students to make out. They come across the cabin Uzi is in and enter it, only to be attacked and killed by her.

Uzi, now transformed into an organic-like Disassembly Drone, begins slaughtering the other campers. As she's about to kill Lizzy, she is stopped by V, who refers to Uzi as "Cyn" and prepares to kill her. Uzi fights V and manages to overpower her, but before she can kill V, N arrives and flings Uzi into the air. As Uzi falls, she feels distraught over her transformation and actions, but N assures her that they'll figure out what's happening to her. When they plunge into the ground, Uzi transforms back to normal.

As the remaining students prepare to leave, V covers for Uzi by claiming that she was the one who killed the missing students, and luckily Uzi's teacher doesn't care enough to question her. Heading back to the colony, N notices Uzi's hand burn under the sunlight, and moves it away as he stares nervously at the Zombie Drones tape he brought back with him.


This episode contains examples of:

  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: One of the students asks N if he killed her friend's family and then if he's single.
  • Apathetic Citizens: V casually kills a student, and the others simply try not to get on V's bad side by standing at attention. The teacher also is completely unfazed when V tells him she ate several campers.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Nori apparently had been talking about building doors to hide from the Disassembly Drones, a singularity awakening, and a cool S she could draw.
  • Awesome McCoolname: Grizzled McOldman, the scholar cited in Chapter 14 of "Final Girl Survival Guide".
  • Brief Accent Imitation: While falling through the sky with N after snapping out of her rampage, Uzi finds N's impromptu ventriloquist act with her tail amusing, and chimes in with her own take on what the tail voice should sound like, i.e. a British accent.
  • Demonic Possession: Implied. Uzi is overtaken by Murder Drone-like violent impulses in her new Absolute Solver form for most of the episode, prompting V to coldly remark to a confused Uzi, "New body, same horrors, huh, Cyn?" A previous episode indicated that "Cyn" is an administrator for the Absolute Solver.
  • Evil Is Visceral: Uzi's Absolute Solver abilities give her a Murder Drone form that is far more fleshy than the other Murder Drones. Uzi is also grossed out by her body.
  • Forgettable Character: Thanks to her unpopularity amongst her peers, none of the campers know who Uzi is - not even Lizzy, who spent time with Uzi in the previous episode. Not even her increasingly-disturbing involuntary use of her Absolute Solver powers makes an impression on them, to the point where the best description one of Uzi's victims can give is, "Purple hair, Hot Topic."
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • Freudian Couch: Invoked in the positions Uzi and N take when N tries to get Uzi to open up about how she feels. N even brings out his clipboard as though he were taking notes.
  • Good Wings, Evil Wings: Downplayed. Uzi's new sinewy, organic-looking, bat-like wings compared to the Disassembly Drones' angel-like wings make her decidedly look like a demonic mirror image to them, and she's ironically the main threat in this episode while N is trying to help her calm back down.
  • Intertwined Fingers: A sleeping Uzi does this to N when he moves her hand from the sunlight.
  • Kick the Dog: V casually kills a student.
  • Let's Split Up, Gang!: What the remaining campers decide to do when confronted with Solver Uzi. Had Emily remembered what the "Final Girl Survival Guide" she was reading actually said, they would've known it was a massive mistake.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: When Uzi loses control of the Absolute Solver, things get... freaky. Her unfettered powers turn anything they interact with into organic material, and they can generate organic material as well, such as filling a light fixture with blood. Finally, she gains a murder drone form noticeably more organic that N or V's.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Uzi doesn't take it well when she realizes she killed Darren and started eating his insides.
  • Red Herring: In keeping with the episode's homage to Slasher Movies, one of the Worker Drone students, Emily, is set up as the Final Girl, being more prudish and Ambiguously Christian, and even reading the "Final Girl Survival Guide" — but she still gets killed by the corrupted Uzi. Though this may be because she didn't actually read the book properly.
  • The Tape Knew You Would Say That: When the remaining campers agree to split up, Emily agrees based on what she thinks she read in the "Final Girl Survival Guide". Shortly after, a lightning strike opens the book to a chapter named "That's Not What the Book Said".
  • Ventriloquism: While trying draw Uzi out of her post-Absolute-Solver-rampage freakout while they’re falling, N does a ventriloquist act using Uzi’s organic murder-drone tail as a dummy. Uzi calms herself enough to appreciate the humour and even does her own take on the impression using a British accent only to be cut short when they hit the ground.
  • Virtual Assistant Blunder: Uzi finds a robotic bug that asks her to take it to a certain place. She asks, "Where is that? What are you?", which it interprets as "Wear his hat. What argue?" and deems an invalid response.

 
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