There was no concrete indication that "Sam 3" (actually Sam-7) would get killed. When "Sam 2" (actually Sam-6, or "Clone 6, the clone of Sam Bell" as he's called in the final lines of the movie) planned to stay while secretly sending "Sam 1" (actually Sam-5) to Earth, there was even no "Sam 3". Sam-6 didn't know what was in store for him, but he did feel that Sam-5 deserved to get to Earth after having fullfilled his 3-year contract, and he was possibly also prepared to sacrifice himself for that, also because Sam-6 realised himself to be a clone. So in that sense I agree with the other poster. Maybe Sam-6 assumed that he could feign to have no knowledge of Sam-5, and they would let him complete his 3-year tour (and he would figure out what to do by the end of those three years); or maybe they would simply "re-program" him, and he would resign to that fate.
Since Sam-5 was too weak to be sent to Earth and receive his well-deserved reward, Sam-6's priorities changed: now he has a motivation to go to Earth, in order to expose the injustice of the company practices. In the changed plan, Sam-7 was merely awakened in order to mask Sam'6's own escape to Earth (for a while). Since Sam-7 is just awakened and has no knowledge of what happened in the preceding week(s), there would be no reason/necessity to kill him.
When the Sam-clones are awakened, their last memory is that they space-traveled to the Moonbase; and GERTY tells them the lie that an accident happened during landing on the Moon, in which Sam got struck unconscious. When we see this awakening scene, we aren't aware yet that Sam is a (new) clone, hence we incorrectly assume that GERTY is referring to the accident with the Rover and the Harvester. After Sam-6 is awakened, he spends a week in the infirmary and is kept busy with "tests", because GERTY wasn't allowed to let him do the full duties of his normal job or else he would find out about the Sam-clone in the crashed Rover (which he did eventually find out about anyway, because Sam-6 is too head-strong to be kept "contained"/fooled).
I assume that when Sam is awakened, he has memories of training on Earth for the job, and in those training sessions on Earth there was probably also a GERTY robot (or maybe even the same GERTY robot traveled with him to the moonbase, according to Sam's memory).
Remember that all Sam-clones indeed work for about three years on the Moon. That means that when they are first awakened, they must think that they are just starting with their 3-year contract. (Sam-5 even kept track of his served time by drawing a smiley face on the wall every week.)
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Keiko Matsui & Carl Anderson - "A Drop of Water"
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5 years ago
"Since Sam-7 is just awakened and has no knowledge of what happened in the preceding week(s), there would be no reason/necessity to kill him."
That's a good point - BUT, how are the 'killers' going to know that or make that judgment / distinction?
And are they going to risk it?
I think Sam-7 is murdered, just to be sure. After all, it's just a clone, what does it matter to the corporation? Taking a risk just to save a relatively worthless clone is not really in the best interest of the corporation. Yeah, Sam-7 is dead, sorry.
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