Rick and Morty season 2 Episode 3 Auto Erotic Assimimilation
While traveling through space and jamming the music, Rick, Morty and Summer encounter a distress signal from an alien starship. Rick intercepts the starship and boards it, intending to loot it, but instead encounters the surviving members of the ship’s crew, who explain that their planet has been taken over by an assimilating hive mind, before the aforementioned hive mind attacks and assimilates the rest. crew. To the shock of the trio, the hive mind apparently knows Rick, who awkwardly admits that he and the hive mind, named Unity, “dated”.
Back on the planet Unity overtook, Unity explains how she was able to take over the entire population, unify the world and improve the quality of life for the inhabitants at the cost of their free will and individuality. Despite being treated well by Unity, Summer protests the original population’s loss of individuality, but with Unity controlling every mind on the planet, her attempts to “free” the inhabitants do not go very far. Elsewhere on the planet, Unity and Rick waste no time rekindling their relationship in a rather extravagant fashion. Not long after, a neighboring hive mind called Beta-Seven arrives on a routine trade mission. Beta-Seven seemingly tries to form a closer relationship with Unity, but her awkward efforts cause Rick to make fun of her. As he leaves, Rick notices that the materials left behind by Beta Seven can be mixed into various drugs to help spice up his and Unity’s parties and kinky sex.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Jerry enters the garage looking for a weed puller, as weeds have started to grow in the cracks caused by the house being transported to another dimension. He is confronted by Beth, who chastises him for being in the garage when Rick is not present. The two argue, but are interrupted by bubbling from under what they discover to be a hatch in the floor
Back on the planet Unity, Morty and Summer notice that Unity’s control over the population seems to be waning, and the inhabitants are beginning to regain their minds. However, the newly freed people almost immediately start a race war among themselves. Morty and Summer are almost caught in the crossfire before Unity can save them. As Unity transports them to Rick, they notice Unity’s intoxicated state and realize that drug and alcohol-fueled parties are damaging Unity’s ability to control the population.
Back at home, Beth and Jerry descend into an underground lair and discover Blim Blam, a baby-eating Korblockian imprisoned by Rick to cure “space AIDS”. They soon bicker to the point where the creature, fed up with the arguments, breaks free of its inhibitions, steals translation equipment from the lab, and angrily explains the reason for its imprisonment, berating them both about how terrible their marriage is. and then leaves, vowing never to return to Earth.
On the planet Unity, Morty and Summer try to get Rick to go home with them, but Rick dismisses them and sends them home through a portal before continuing to party with Unity. At this point, Summer and Morty warn Unity and Rick about the terrible influence they have on each other, telling Unity to “take care of yourself”.
Later, when Rick leaves Unity to use the restroom, all of the planet’s inhabitants are gone, leaving behind farewell notes for Rick explaining that while Unity enjoyed her time with him, they cannot be together; they are too similar in that they both turn others into their mirror images, though in Rick’s case they do so through bad influence rather than assimilation. Unity mentions that Rick is even better at fulfilling what he himself was destined to do by being created as a hive mind; that Rick is able to change others but is unable to reform himself, resulting in his self-destructive, reckless nature ultimately taking those around him with him, always dooming them to suffer due to his own emotional barriers and methods of resistance. the inevitability of meaninglessness and own pain. The letter ends by confirming that she loves him and is upset that she cannot be with him.
Depressed and alone, Rick returns home where he is confronted by Beth over the basement lair and the escaped alien. To Beth’s (and the entire family’s) shock, Rick simply backs down and retreats to the garage. Here, dejectedly, he assembles the parts of the death ray and unfreezes the deformed, distressed creature (perhaps Cronenberg) that he has been storing. On the verge of tears, she lovingly comforts the screaming, suffering creature before vaporizing it with a death ray. He then prepares to do it to himself, but falls unconscious before the machine can fully prime the beam, causing him to barely survive this suicide attempt. He then lay unconscious at his workplace in the garage for the rest of the day and night. The episode ends with a zoom out to show Rick passed out at his desk the next morning and Jerry happily mowing weeds in the driveway.
After the credits, Rick and Morty are on the Beta-Seven mothership, where Unity is staying. Rick demands to see Unity. Beta-Seven informs Rick that he is considered a “hostile entity” and threatens to attack the two unless they leave, which Rick reluctantly does at Morty’s insistence.
