Episode begins with a guy in a cell
bouncing a ball. Fernando, his cellmate, is told that he won’t be
getting out. The lawyer says they have a solid case and have all of his
digital records to prove it. Manny says this was all air tight and the
lawyer says he never should have been on social media. Fernando says
Manny told him to do it and Manny says it made them more efficient and they made more money. The lawyer says an anonymous tip was called in and now they’re coming down on him.
She says he’s looking at murder one.
Fernando tells Manny that someone will get hurt over this. He looks at a
photo of a bottle of pills and thinks. He says the door they close him
behind doesn’t matter whether it’s super max or regular.
Late, his cellmate bounces the ball over and over. He takes the ball
and then smiles and says – I know you, that’s who you are. He stands by
his cell door looking out and smiling evilly.
Elliot, Romero and Mobley lurk in a
coffee shop and Mr Robot nabs a Steel Mountain access ID badge from a
guy at the shop. Steel Mountain’s tagline is “impenetrable” and Elliot
says nothing really is and says people are the easiest thing to hack. He
says Mobley is a glutton, Romero is a hypochondriac know it all. Bill
Harper is their first target and then it’s Wendy, his supervisor. That’s
who will get them to where he can plug in the raspberry pi.
Elliot thinks if Mr Robot goes in, he
will blow this whole operation since he’s unpredictable. Elliot heads
inside for his meeting. He meets with Bill and asks for a tour. The guy
says that they require appointments for tours. He says to look him up
and says his name again. The guy says to have his company call for new
accounts and talk to Bill Harper. Mr Robot talks in his earpiece and
says to lay into him about losing a great new account.
Elliot doesn’t deliver that way, he just
says to look him up. He tells Elliot it doesn’t work like that. Elliot
pauses then sees Bill looking him up on Wikipedia. Mobley has a lot of
Wikipedia street cred and set him up an impressive profile. Bill calls him back
and is more friendly now he thinks Elliot is a billionaire. Angela is
packing and Ollie asks her to stop it and says he loves her. He’s crying
and asks her to marry him and says she can’t give up on them like this.
She keeps on packing. Ollie asks if she
thought it through and is going to live with her dad in Jersey. He says
she’s ruining her life and she says maybe but she also ruined his. She
tosses him his work ID and the CD
from Cisco. He says he’ll tell on her and she says she used his
computer so he can tell what he wants. He asks if she thought how this
would affect him. Angela say she did. Bill takes Elliot on the walk
around and talks about how Steel Mountain has its own fire department and roads inside.
Mr Robot tells Elliot he needs to get
rid of Bill and says he has to destroy him to get to his supervisor.
Elliot asks about the vaults and he says they’re on level 2 and he
doesn’t have access. Mr Robot says to get rid of Bill now. He says to
tear him down and wipe the smile off his stupid face. Bill asks if
everything is okay. He pauses. Mr Robot tells him he can do this and
says he knows how it feels when someone makes you feel small and exposes
your fear.
He looks down the hall and sees a
flashback to Elliot’s mother tormenting him. Elliot tells Bill to think
about it. He says if you died, would anyone care. He asks if they would
really care. Elliot says maybe they would cry for a day but no one would
really give a shit and the people who had to go to his funeral would be
annoyed to be there and leave as early as possible. He tells Bill
that’s who and what he is – nothing to anyone, to everyone.
He tells Bill to think about that and
says if he does, if he lets himself, he will know he’s speaking the
truth. He says to stop wasting his time and go call someone that matters
and says Bill, you don’t. The guy sniffles a little then says he’ll
call his supervisor. Elliot says that’s why Bill is perfect. He thinks
about Bill’s social media posts with all his cats. Romero says once
Wendy gets there, they’ll send a text letting Wendy know that her
pregnant wife is in labor.
Trudy comes up instead of Wendy. Trudy
asks how she knows Wendy and says she didn’t come in today. Elliot
stammers and says he would love a tour of level two. Trudy tells Bill he
can go and tells Elliot she’ll show him out and says it’s not allowed.
They start looking for her desperately on social media and can’t find
anything to help. Mobley says people are just people and they all want
something and says specifics just help a little.
He grabs the computer
and then sends an SMS to Trudy’s phone. She says she has to go and
walks off and says reception will see him out. He steps into the
elevator. Trudy is freaking out. He says he he spoofed a text from her
husband saying he’s at the hospital and it’s bad. The elevator is a
thumbprint scanner and they tell him to get off and go for a doorway
with a lock they think he can pick. He heads off as they tell him to and
finds the door. He kneels to pick it.
He gets it and Mr Robot says they go to
the parking lot. They tell him he’s on the wrong side of the building.
He runs into Tyrell who says he
thought that was him he saw. He asks why Elliot is there. Shayla is
working at her new restaurant job. The girl she’s shadowing asks what
she did before and she says pharmaceutical
sales. She asks what happened and Shayla blames it on Obamacare. We see
a TV ad for Steel Mountain. Elliot watches it as Tyrell talks to some
men.
He tells Elliot those are men who
finance terrorists then tell Elliot not to stare. Elliot is panicking
then says it’s just a routine data check. Tyrell asks why they would
send an engineer and Elliot says they have been overlapping duties.
Tyrell asks him to join him for lunch and Elliot has to agree. Romero
says they have to go. Mr Robot says they’re not going anywhere. They
don’t respond to him. Mr Robot tells Elliot that Tyrell’s greatest asset
and flaw is hubris.
Elliot asks how he could eat in the
common dining area and that gets Tyrell’s pride up and he takes him down
to executive dining on level 2. Tyrell says he’s impressed that Elliot
is there even though Allsafe is pretty much done. Tyrell talks about the
waiter who has worked there for at least seven years and says he
couldn’t stand an ordinary life of a man like that whose main role is to
serve him salad. Then the guy comes over and serves him salad.
Some security men come by and hand
Tyrell a folder. He signs something and goes back to eating. They leave.
Elliot says he has to go to the bathroom. He walks away. Tyrell looks
thoughtful. Elliot goes to the bathroom and vomits in the sink. He
wonders if it’s withdrawal or Tyrell playing with him and wonders if
he’s his malware. He splashes water on his face and goes into a nearby
storage type room and cuts a wire to install the raspberry pi.
He goes back into the main bathroom as
Tyrell comes in. Tyrell says he knows he framed Colby. He says he knows
Elliot’s dad worked at Evil Corp before he died. Tyrell uses the urinal
then washes his hands and tells him he’s not turning him in, doesn’t
have proof and doesn’t care anyway. He says he just wanted to know
Elliot’s weakness – revenge – and says it’s so ordinary like their
waiter. He says they’re all human except him, of course.
Tyrell then tells Elliot he’s joking and
then says to enjoy the long ride back and tells him he’ll be in a
helicopter enjoying his ride. Elliot goes back to finish with the pi and
gets it where it needs to be. Then he notes the name of the software on
the thermostat.
fSociety is talking to the Dark Army
about syncing their payloads to destroy data. Dark Army says fSociety is
banned from the room. Darlene curses and says she’s going to fix it but
Trenton doesn’t think she should keep pushing. Darlene says she will
push until she fixes or breaks it. Angela shows up to her dad’s place
with her stuff and says she broke up with Ollie. He says Ollie just
called and was sobbing and saying he could forgive her.
Her dad says he told Ollie that Angela
should have dumped him years ago then hung up on him. Angel says he
cheated on her and her dad says that doesn’t surprise him. He says Ollie
is a douche bag. He says he can loan her some money for a bit. He says
she can stay and commute while she saves for an apartment. He says he
wants to do it then goes to fix her some food. Tyrell and his wife
Joanna are bored in the limo. She asks about the couple they will see –
the potential new CTO and his wife.
Joanna says she doesn’t know what they
wants and that makes her suspicious. She says even if the people don’t
want anything now, they will and tells him to take what they already
have. Darlene goes to confront Cisco and says to grow a pair since they
held up their end of it and he says it’s over and she needs to walk
away. She says she can’t go back to her people with that. She asks why.
He says between them, they were out before they ever got to Steel
Mountain but he doesn’t know why.
Cisco says for real, she needs to let
go. She screams and throws stuff around then stomps out. Tyrell and his
wife are with the new intended CTO Scott and his wife. He asks how
Tyrell could know about it since it’s a big secret. Scott asks Tyrell if
he was him, would he trust him as his right hand as the Swede suggests.
Tyrell says he wouldn’t have even let him in the house. Shayla calls
Elliot who is on the drive back. She says she’s at her new job and says
it’s hard as hell.
She asks how he is and he says he’s
good. He says he did what he had to do today. She asks him to come see
her later if he’s around. Scott talks about wine to Joanna and he drones
on and on. Tyrell asks Sharon how she doesn’t blow her brains out being
married to him. She reminds him he’s a guest and he says he’s an honest
one. She says she’ll ignore that and treat it like a joke then excuses
herself to the restroom. Tyrell follows Sharon into the bathroom and
she’s sitting on the toilet peeing.
He comes inside anyway and stands in
front of her. He stands very close with his crotch almost at face
height. She sits back and parts her legs wider for him to watch. He
tells her – thank you for a lovely evening and walks out. She sighs.
Advantage Tyrell. Romero, Elliot and Mobley come back and Darlene says
there’s a problem. Mr Robot asks what’s the issue. Trenton tells her to
tell them. Darlene says they lost China and the Dark Army is bailing.
She says they don’t answer why’s and
says they went dark and it’s not happening when Elliot asks why. Darlene
says she knows she f-d up. Elliot gets a call from Shayla and ignores
it. She says they should do it anyway right now. Mr Robot tells her to
be quiet and says it’s pointless if China still holds the redundant
information. Mr Robot says it will have no effect because they will
recover. Darlene starts to activate the code and Mr Robot says they will
be up and running in a month with better security.
He says she will kill any hope of the
revolution and begs her not to do it. He asks if anyone can communicate
with her. He walks out. Elliot goes to stand near her and she whispers
please tell her it’s okay to execute. He looks at Mr Robot and Trenton
then shakes his head no. She’s devastated and says they were so close.
Elliot says it’s not over and they’ll figure something out. He says
they’ll find a way, just not tonight.
Darlene starts crying. Elliot thinks
about how his dad took him to the beach on a day he skipped school. He
says his sneakers were full of sand and he dumped it on the floor and
his mother screamed at him for years. Angela finds past due bills at her
dad’s house from Evil Corp. Darlene has her head on Elliot’s shoulder
on the subway. Angela goes through her dad’s things and finds stacks and
stacks of past due notices from Evil Corp. She goes downstairs and
looks around.
She sees him at his desk in the lamp
light. She tells him she’s going for a run and he says that’s nice. She
hides the bills she had in her hand. Elliot and Darlene hear his dog
barking as they go up the stairs. There’s a phone on the floor. He
answers – it’s Fernando who says he’s locked away and still he can get
right to him. Angela is out for her run. She stops at a point where the
road forks and pauses panting.
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