Now we find out if Mr. Robot did indeed find Evil Corp’s bug in Elliot and his father’s tragic death.

Elliot has snorted his very last line of morphine now that he’s sent Fernando up the river, it looks really really long, like the gasoline trail in the Karma Police video.

He’s hacking Steel Mountain and talking about it out loud for once; that’s the great thing about friends with common interests. They understand why you randomly shout “KHAN!!” and tweet inappropriate things at famous actors. Anyway, blah blah waffle making blah binder blah HVAC blah. They need to raise the temperature to wreck the data! Got it!

Apparently they are also planting a Raspberry Pie and everyone but me knows what that is and I DON’T WANNA KNOW URBAN DICTIONARY!!

They will have to access the thermostat in person, however, and therein lies the tricky bit. They’ll have to figure it out without Elliot, though, he has a line to snort! Out he goes, coughing, leaving some very confused hackers mumbling loudly at each other.

He knows this morphine, the Last Line, will bring on withdrawal symptoms and he hasn’t much time to take. Speaking of symptoms…Suited Men appear whilst he is walking Flipper and he gets shouty. Dr. Krista would be widening her eyes and leaning forward right about now.

Pounding on the door! Oh great: Darlene. She looks nice in an emo-skanky way but seems highly skeptical of the drug residue and his herky jerky movements. The gang needs him! Problems with the non-kill-y plan. Off they race.

The problem is that. Hold on, just a second. This guy

Is distracting me because he looks like Benny from OG Total Recall but sounds like Merle Haggard.

So! The problem is that Evil Corp has upped their security and Merle points out that now they will have to physically visit 5 separate locations and he really seemed to hate Tallahassee for whatever reason. That security really is aces, snaps to Interim CTO Tyrell!

Speaking of Tyrell; Elliot asks how they got this new info and when he learns that fsociety is still in Evil Corp’s network, Elliot freaks Merle out when he drops Tyrell’s name. HOW DO YOU KNOW TYRELL?? You can’t be friends with us AND Tyrell, Elliot!! Paranoia sucks arse.

However! They have a very small window of execution until the upped security measures come into effect: today. They have today and part of tomorrow and sure! Sounds legit. They have floor plan PDFs and Darlene is gonna hit up her Dark Army contact, no biggie. Merle ain’t HAVIN’ IT! He mad. He also recognises a junkie aboot to be in distress, ‘member Elliot’s just done his Mythical (and actual) Last Line? No way the DTs will mess up this last minute on the fly plan.

Merle capitulates but he doesn’t trust Elliot and there isn’t much time to do anything else. 5 Steel Mountains are bad for any plans. Merle and Long-Haired Silent Bob (he had the PDFs of the floor plans) steal the peep off a car and off they go. Elliot paces while Mr. Robot rings a small bell over and over and it’s making me mental and I’m not even coming down off two years of morphine. When braced by Elliot, who wants to know why he hasn’t spoken up about anything, Mr. Robot says that Elliot is the key to everything and the only force of nature at play here. Hmmm

Elliot narrates about daemons, background programs, the ones you never notice but are always running, cataloging everything while nobody pays any attention. I had a boss like that, never drank but always came along so his boring sober butt could remind the rest of us what we got up to on the weekend. I hated that guy.

Elliot’s daemons are very close to the surface right now, what with the detoxing. Also close to the surface? His lunch, which all comes up and party’s over! Get Elliot to a hotel room so he can sweat this out properly. Merle is I TOLD YOU SO all over the place while Elliot shakes and sweats and kicks.

Awwww Ollie is sleeping like a babeh after his big confession, that’s always the way it goes, right? And the person he confessed to was probably up all night. She is up early, anyway, Angela is, and she goes through his bag looking for? I think the CD. Ollie wakes up and his extreme creepiness (“I will not let myself out of the dog house until I feel I’ve made it up to you” said in pout voice with lip out) makes me SO HOPE Angela is off to meet a hitman to exchange pics and schedule info. She says she’s meeting her dad for brunch, but a girl can dream.

And she did go to see Elliot! He’s not there but Shayla is and she invites Angela to come for a walk with Flipper.

Meanwhile, Elliot kicks;  Merle and Silent Bob make fun of Hollywood Hacker films. Darlene bonds with the scarved missus, I don’t understand why we’re getting so many minutes with our fourth string cast. I mean, no offense, but when something big like this is going on, you kind of wanna see LeBron on the court, you know?

Shayla and Angela share some Pure Clarity (ecstasy) and hey. I like Shayla that little bit less now. I’m a judgey fecker like that.

Darlene is looking for her dewd at a ping pong competition? Um. Just when I think we’ve hit Ultimate Nerdling…

Merle is getting increasingly antsy in his pantsies and bails. That was just a matter of time; he was coming from a place of negativity (reality) and we need solutions, brah! You know what a solution for the DTs? Drugs! Never has this point been illustrated better than in the movie Flight with Denzel Washington, YOU WATCH NOW! I’m surprised it took so long for them to come up with this; Mr. Robot drags Elliot off to a sketchy neighbourhood where $30 will get you a working genius hacker, who says money can’t buy happiness??

Of course sketchy dealer doesn’t have morphine pills, he has a pre-filled needle. STAHP!!! DON’T STICK THAT IN YOUR ARM!!! Jfc too late and the drug dealer’s girlfriend climbs on top and then EVERYONE GETS SHOT!!! Including ELLIOT!!! WHUT?? Did Mr. Robot do that?????? He was outside???? WHAT’S GOING ON???

A video from fsociety plays while Elliot bleeds out on the ground and then he’s in the video! Without a mask! Then he puts on a mask! WHAT’S GOING ON???

Evil Corp commercial break.

Elliot out walking around on a lovely day in a pretty suburban neighbourhood and he comes across a telephone pole in a yard with “ERROR 404 NOT FOUND” on a piece of paper stapled to it. He meets a little girl on a scooter that he greets with a “hello friend” and who puts him back in his place with “but we’re not friends”. She doesn’t know what happened to the house that was where the pole stands now, but she wants to know what his monster is and if he dropped a key.

He walks into his apartment and there’s Tyrell! And Qwerty is talking to him. Qwerty is black, I didn’t even know. He also would like to be MOVED TO A GODDAMN WINDOW and that made me actually LOL.

Weird fish next at Elliot’s dinner with Angela, they sit across from each other in what looks like a cross between jail and a fancy restaurant. There’s a partition between them but also lots of fancy flatware. Awww Angela’s eating Qwerty! That ain’t right! Over in the corner, Elliot’s mother practices some tough love on pre-adolescent Elliot while a waiter serves up some Raspberry Pie and he accidentally proposes to Angela with a key he finds in the pie.

Transcribing junkie dreams is like talking to a really drunk person at a bar with loud music. You wanna be polite, nod at the right times and capture it properly, but your hand hovers over your phone or the ffwd button the whole time.

Awww, now Elliot and Angela are getting dream-married! Oh. No they aren’t, she’s also taunting him about his monster and saying that the key doesn’t fit. Because he isn’t Elliot. Sigh. Drugs are only fun for the people taking them and David Lynch.

And Elliot is back at the hotel room and alone! Is he Tyler Durden?? This IS all in his head. Right? Oh. Mr. Robot is there still. Sigh

Darlene and Scarfy wander the streets and there is a weird moment where Scarfy looks at Darlene’s lips…hmmmm. And then a limo makes its presence known and this is it! The Dark Army contact has finally showed.

Angela is high AF and discussing Shayla’s future lifeplan and then they start making out in the bathroom. Like whut??

Darlene meets up with Vanilla Ice and ohhhh he was her boyfriend that she dumped because he wanted commitment, if you can believe THAT. I cannot believe that, she’s even more annoying than his fake rapper voice. And his name is Cisco! Got it. They make out some and she implores him to talk to the Dark Army and maybe, in the end, it’s all about relashies, you know?

So. Nobody left after all, Merle feeds Elliot a picker-upper while Silent Bob ostentatiously checks his watch in the background. 7 more to go!

Everyone wakes up; Darlene watches Scarfy pray and Angela creeps into work early (sans sleep) to upload the CD and save her banking information. She can’t eject the disc and someone is coming…And she makes it out at the last minute.

I don’t know what any of that was.