Ready for some more Mr. Robot? Last episode was heavy, dude, let’s see what “different is better” Elliot has been up to.

Oh man. Shayla. You kind of always knew she was the sacrifice of the show, just…didn’t want it to actually happen. And now we’re flashing back to when Elliot first met her, awesome. He was snorting something illegal and she was making a bleedy mess in the hallway rocking some truly awful bangs.

 

In the flashback, she’s carrying a beta fish (must be Qwerty!) that she was persuaded into by her niece. I DO know the pressure of an ecstatic 6 year old, Shayla! But: where’s the blood? Why carry the fish? None of that makes sense, but I’m guessing the tank broke.

Elliot still hasn’t said a word.

She notices the drugs, takes a lick, offers him a top-shelf hookup if ever needs one and then taps him to move a dresser for her. She talks a lot, hey? I think she was always kinda high before, made her seem less chatty. Elliot finally speaks and asks for morphine, IF she can also get Suboxone, which I assume is the withdrawl medication. She says she can’t and they talk a bit. They’re opposites, she sees him as a challenge and he is just sort of steamrolled by all the talking.

And then. She says she might know someone who can get Suboxone, but he’s a psychopath. But Elliot might be worth a psychopath. Since we know said psychopath later kills her because of Elliot, Imma need a minute. That was bullshit Sam Esmail.

Back in real time, Elliot tells us it’s been a month since Shayla died; he hates himself for accepting her as a memory already and I really REALLY wonder about Mr. Robot only existing in his head. Like us, but with more shouty bits. He’s at Dr. Krista’s, signing forms to release him from therapy. She doesn’t think he’s trying and really, he’s not. He’s talking to us or staring at dirty electrical sockets and he’s definitely not taking any of her suggestions or working on any of his shite.

Angela has talked Antara Nayar into re-filing the case against Evil Corp and Terry Colby; they’re in a meeting with Terry Colby’s attorneys and asking for future meetings to be restricted to Angela, Nayar and Terry Colby. I guess Angela thinks she can get Colby to flip? After all, she wants the whole company to go down, not just convenient scapegoat Colby.

Back at AllSafe, Gideon is trying to talk Elliot into taking time off, but it’s not going well. I get that, sometimes not being busy is impossible, especially when you’re grieving. Elliot takes Gideon’s well-meaning advice to not shut himself away further as a chance to show us how he got into hacking: ripping off website codes back in the day using “View Source Code” and wouldn’t that be awesome if we could do that with humans? Yeah it would! He visualizes his coworkers thusly

I think I would need a BUNCH of signs, and some smaller text for sure. Elliot blows more smoke up Gideon’s ass, but he never really sells it, no way Gideon is buying. Mr. Robot is at the bar next door again, chillin with Darlene, and he pushes her to get the Dark Army back. They need to get the elusive White Rose on board and they keep talking about it in public! Darlene even shouts it at some stranger sacked out on the bar and OF COURSE that will mean something. Darlene is an ahole.

Elliot has stored Shayla in his electronic graveyard as The Cure: Disintegration and then destroys all of his equipment again, save for a memory card that Flipper snarfs up off the floor.

Tyrell is sleepwalking through a meeting right up until his colleagues start talking about executives that cock-jockey (like gay for pay with less actual filthy moola) to move up the ladder; then he loses his shit and fires them all. These guys were absolutely useless, but that seemed like a strange move; I think the stress is really getting to him.

Angela’s attorney has been talking to the State’s Attorney; he had to give approval for total immunity for Colby if he talks to Angela. Her attorney can’t be there, it will just be Angela and she has to decide if she can walk into the house of a powerful man with a lot to lose to ask for something.

Mr. Robot breaks into Romero’s Marijuana Lotion greenhouse to rally him to the cause; Romero isn’t allowed to be oot of fsociety, figures Mr. Robot. Yes, you read that right, it’s a cream with THC innit because even stoners worry about ashy elbows. Romero gets up in Mr. Robot’s grill; Mr. Robot backs him off with a “you and I both know I’m crazy. And not the cute kind” then breaks some shite. So, basically, he’s Darlene with a (presumed) dick? And a gun, which he holds to Romero’s head and it’s all over, man. He has a good point about losing a battle but the war being still in play, but once you’ve had to threaten someone with a gun to get them to work with you? Done. Although, he did push Elliot off a railing onto a buncha rocks, so maybe this is just another rite of passage. I hope Romero shoots him with that very gun. Eventually.

Angela’s meeting with Terry Colby is off to a slow start; he hands her a piece of notepaper and tells her to write down how much money she wants. Then proceeds to ignore every single question she has about his involvement in the board meeting about the toxic waste dumping in Washington Township , until she offers to testify that she broke chain of custody on the DAT file, which presumably will absolve him on the latest charges. THEN he says he will only answer when she asks him again with her “pouty” mouth full of his balls (left one is hairy, btw). She tries to mindcuddle him with public opinion, I honestly can’t see him caring. But Nayar calls as Angela is walking away…he wants to talk again.

Elliot has taken Flipper to the vet, she’s been puking around his apartment because she ate one of his memory cards. This makes Elliot stare out into the distance and I’m sure we’ll find out real soon why that made him all metaphysical.

Darlene is meeting Cisco super early in the am; he’s figured out that she’s been using his handle to try and talk to White Rose. And it worked! White Rose has responded; they have their meet! Cisco never wants to see her again, and it’s about time, buddy, she’s an ahole.

So. Terry Colby is really gonna flip. He went from sexist ahole to scared pariah, but all Angela wants to know is what it was like in the meeting when Terry and the rest decided to kill several people out of negligence. She wants him to walk her through it, through the two shrimp cocktail platters (bad Elaine!), real piece of work Jim, the rain, he remembers all the minutiae but they still did it and yeah, sometimes they felt bad but life kept moving, you know? She wants to do this so that men like him will never get to sit in a room together and made a decision like that again and well. I wish her the best but Terry and I are skeptical.

Evil Corp is having it’s Welcome Scott party, everyone mingles while Tyrell chews on his liver in the background. He heads straight for Sharon, who goads him as “nothing but a bold entrance”. He uses some sloppy double entendres and invites her to his office, then the roof, where he swears the cameras have been off since March. I would very much doubt that.

Angela is being fired, of course, and AllSafe will tank, because of her testifying that she broke chain of custody on the DAT file to implicate Colby. Gideon knows she’s lying, though and he tells her that the economic futures of every single AllSafe employee rests in her righteous hands.

Oh ho, Sharon does come to the roof to meet a somewhat less-assured Tyrell. She calls shenanigans and a weak cling to his job as Scott is planning to terminate him immediately, but he counters with her need. I don’t think he knows for sure, but he’s following his wife’s direction and he grabs her tightly for a kiss. How fcuked up is that sentence, really? He lays her down and they make out and then…he chokes her to death. WHUT?? Joanna is gonna be so mad. What is going on?? He is wound so tightly, though. Jeebus. So many wrong people dying on this show!!!

Darlene is working on bringing Scarfy back to fsociety, and damnit, Imma have to find out what her name is. It’s Trenton (Sunita Mani)!, now that wasn’t so hard, was it, TTM? C’mon! *shhhh we’re talking to our self and people can hear us*

Trenton’s family is drowning in debt, that’s her motivation for joining fsociety: financial revolution.

Cisco approaches Ollie outside the gym, Ollie threatens to call the cops to report…what exactly? He doesn’t know either, so he tries to throw Angela’s number in there but Cisco wants HIM.

Elliot is waiting outside Dr. Krista’s office first thing in the morning; he needs to talk. He tells her he’s been lying to her about his taking medication and goes on to reveal to her exactly how thoroughly he’s hacked her. He tells her every terrible thing she’s ever said or done and it’s just awful. He knows she’s lonely, just like he is and he cries and she breathes.

I don’t know what to think about all of that. Until next time ScriptKiddies