Courtesy of USA Network
Warning: Spoiler Alert’
We begin this week with yet another flashback. This time in a Ron’s Coffee where Mobley and Trenton meet for the first time. I won’t go into any detail but there is also a friendly debate over Android vs Apple. This has been the first time I believe the show lacks realism. But that’s a conversation for another time. Darlene arrives instead of Elliot. Instead she reads from her ‘Evil Corp’ laptop Elliot’s speech from the pilot episode about the top 1% of the top 1%.
Back to the present and we see what Mobley sees on his laptop from the end of the last episode. There is a conference call with the FBI that has their attention. Using their relatively new resources, they record the conference call the FBI did not know they had access to. The not wanting to waste the opportunity, Darlene releases an FSociety video donning the mask and playing that highly classified conference call. The FBI is illegally tapping communications of over 3 million citizens, without warrants.
Trenton posts the video while Mobley continues to listen to the call over and over. There was one little detail that Mobley can’t get past. A reference to an unnamed case where the FBI has already identified 16 suspects. It used to be 17, but one of the feds mentioned how one suspect was deceased. So naturally, Mobley’s head is focused on Romero. But there’s a much bigger more immediate problem. The owner of the house they are using as their new headquarters just walked to find four strangers in her home.
What appears to be a family friend identifies Angela in a bar. They begin to share small talk, when the family friend slowly becomes less and less cordial. Even going so far as suggest, using innuendo, that Angela has been climbing the Evil Corp corporate ladder by some means other than professional. She almost internalized the whole thing, then stops short. She turns to this ‘friend’ and calmly puts him in his place.
It didn’t take long for bad to get way worse. The owner of the home and well known Evil Corp closer is now zip-tied to a railing in her swimming pool room after clearly seeing everyone’s face. And if bad wasn’t bad enough, worse wasn’t going to be enough either. The lawyer demands the use of her own bathroom. She made a crack to Trenton about this being about ISIS, refereed to Trenton as just another animal. Then when she charged Trenton, Trenton made a move putting the lady into a brick wall…head first. In a relative moment of panic, Darlene is calm. They plan to tie her up again and take what time they have to ‘own her’.
What follows is a very difficult montage. I’m interested in Darlene, Cisco, Mobley and Trenton collectively hacking their captive. I am dramatically less interested in Angela singing Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
Darlene ventures upstairs to their new house guest armed with a tazer just in case. Darlene goes down the verbal path we would expect. We hacked your life and here’s what we have. Although, Darlene knows that stuff won’t impress this woman. She takes a linguistic u-turn and brings back to her Dad. Then looks at this woman and says, “you’ve aged well”. Darlene targeted this woman from the beginning and not just because she’s a fed. This woman seems to be the catalyst for Darlene. A woman, standing behind a sea of suits laughing as she helped get Evil Corp off the hook when Darlene was only 4.
Darlene: I took down your company, I took your home, and now I have you.
Fed Lady: So you got me. What happens next?
Darlene: I hurt you. (Darlene tazes her and she falls into the pool)
She never came out of it. As it turns out the Evil Corp lawyer had a heart condition. One it seems would be obvious to anyone not even a hacker based on the info they hacked through. There is a painful awkwardness in the air. Darlene instructs Mobley and Trenton to leave as they technically don’t need to be there. Darlene sends a message from the woman’s work laptop that she will be out of the office for the better part of three weeks. But that still leaves a floated dead woman in a pool. Darlene suggests to Cisco that they do what they always do. Wipe everything down after a hack.
Darlene and Cisco accompany Ms. Evil Corp in what looks like a large roller case onto the subway en route to their favorite incinerator. Yep, the same place where they released all the stray dogs before they could be incinerated. It doesn’t go smoothly, but Darlene and Cisco finally get their victim into the oven. During a moment of reflection, Darlene is mildly surprised that she is un-phased by what just happened.
Trenton and Mobley aren’t in their respective homes for very long before the both start recognizing strange things. Trenton’s home might be under surveillance and the Feds are actually knocking on Mobley’s door.
Mobley sits across from Dom. She lays it out. She’s going to speak and Mobley just needs to listen as he could prove to be instrumental in solving the 5/9 case. Either she has no idea who Mobley is or she knows exactly who Mobley is in the 5/9 equation. So as it turns out 13 years ago Mobley made a little Angelfire website in devotion to a ‘DJ Mobley’. Long story short, Dom knows exactly who Mobley is. Mobley closes the folder with the End of the World party flyer and responds with a single word. “Lawyer”. Not exactly necessary as Dom’s superior squashes any plans she may have had for Mobley.
Mobley gets a message out to Trenton. “We’re burned.” They attempt to meet back at the Ron’s Coffee where they first met. One problem, Trenton’s been waiting at the rendezvous point for two hours.
Darlene wakes up at Cisco’s place. He’s in the shower but his laptop is on and Darlene has to hack it. Once in, she sees a video feed of her sleeping and written in Chinese in a chat of some sort which the showrunners were nice enough to translate:
Cisco: I have her, she’s with me.
Contact: Good job with the femtocell, the backdoor is in play…Stage 2 is about to begin.
Cisco walks out of the shower and Darlene looks…off. He asks if she’s alright, then she looks down. Cisco follows suit. His laptop is on the floor in pieces. Before he could completely turn around to ask WTF? Darlene hits him in the face with a baseball bat.
