Mr. Robot: Unveiling Identities

Warning: Spoiler Alert

Welcome back to our game, Terry Colby. Terry meets with Phillip Price. Terry shows off his book and Phillip needs Terry to do him a favor. That’s about where the logic and my attention span drops off. Something about gifting Africa to the Chinese. Terry almost takes the request at face value but stops short. He must know what the motivation is. What makes a man move countries like pieces on a chess board. Phillip’s answer is simple. Phillip Price must be the most powerful man in any room and if you can’t leave a legacy that rivals that of God, it’s not worth mentioning.

At the conclusion of last week’s episode Elliot walks up on Tyrell’s SUV. Mrs. Wellick is in the vehicle. She addresses Elliot at Ollie, escorts them inside where she all but demands that Elliot find Tyrell. Assuming that he’s even still alive. Mrs. Wellick wants Elliot to help with tracking the calls coming into the burner phone. Elliot declines. She, in her scary way, approaches Elliot slowly, seductively to suggest that no one says no to her.

Cisco brings back ‘Vincent’ the guy in the beginning of the season that almost posted a pic of him holding the bull of wall street’s unmentionables. Darlene put him in the lead of a task he probably wasn’t supposed to return from. He can’t speak and Cisco is freaking out. Darlene pulls up his shirt to search for a tracker only to discover, his entire torso looks like it bleeding from the inside out. Darlene has gone completely around the bend. She won’t drop him off at an ER because eventually he will come two and she can’t risk him talking. Cisco sees the nothingness in her eyes when she said that and fires back. Suggesting that Darlene is not a leader and needs to stop acting every mistake was just part of the plan.

Dom arrives on scene at the smart house. One of the feds hands her a photograph of the person they believe was in the house tonight and is a person of interest in Dom’s ‘code-name’ case. Dom is confused and a little upset with the handling of this asset.

Elliot and Dad sit in the back seat of Wellick’s SUV driven by her driver/bodyguard. Dad wants no part of it. Elliot just seems intrigued by who is pretending to be Tyrell. No other conclusion is logical as Elliot believes he killed Tyrell Wellick.

Dom returns to her superior to make her argument. The feds are acting like this is any other criminal element. Dom is the only one who knows they cannot proceed that way. The photograph, and its the second from a second and different witness, is that of Cisco. Her boss decides to put out a bolo on Cisco. Dom tries to argue this needs to stay quiet. If his identity is made known, the Dark Army will surely kill him.

Elliot convinces the driver that whatever he plans to do for Mrs. Wellick (tonight) he requires hardware and that will require a stop. At Micro Center. He begins pulling items including what I believe is a $1900 Alienware laptop. Then the burner phone rings. He answers it and looks around. There was breathing but no image. All of a sudden, Elliot is literally alone in Micro Center. Not even Dad is present.

Elliot returns to his apartment with Mrs. Wellick’s driver and begins cracking into his new stuff. This is all set to a storytelling moment from Darlene about how she was never special, but Elliot was. A story about when they went to Coney Island as a family. Elliot went with Dad and Darlene somehow got lost. Lost and then kidnapped. A notion child Darlene did not fight against. She actually got in the car voluntarily, knowing something was wrong. Young Darlene didn’t view this as a kidnapping. She viewed it as a new start with a better family. It was a dream for her for a day. The next day the cops raided the home to rescue Darlene. And now, Darlene’s inner conflict is what life would have been like living with that woman or not having Elliot.

Elliot decided that instead of hacking the cell carrier, he would just follow policy and procedure and ask the carrier to trace the blocked call. With the fax sent Elliot and the driver are in a holding pattern. The driver decides to shoot the breeze. Elliot uses this opportunity to tune him out and talk to Inner Elliot. Why was Dad so spooked with that phone call? Why is he suddenly scarce? Elliot thinks the answers to those questions might manifest themselves in his apartment. That’s all Dad could talk about at Mrs. Wellick’s home. He even asks Inner Elliot to take a look, see if he can find out what that is.

Elliot makes the call. Impersonating a NY Police detective. Elliot follows the procedure and gets the information he’s looking for. Most importantly, the coordinates of the originating phone that made the call to Mrs.

Wellick’s burner. In short order, Elliot has the location and residence of that phone. The driver stands up and his reaction is not great. He knows this location and is all too displeased to know that this is the location of the phone. (My gut instinct is that the location in question is that of Mr. Knowles-Just to mess with Mrs. Wellick).

The feds break in the door of an apartment and scour its contents. Dom discovers a security badge with Cisco’s picture and one must assume, his real name. The feds issue a bolo on Cisco and the Nurse tending to Vincent’s injuries, who has absolutely seen Cisco up close sees the news bulletin. While Cisco and Darlene grab something to eat at Lupe’s, they have no idea the feds have already questioned Vincent’s Nurse.

Elliot spent most of the night ignoring Angela’s many text messages with the urgency that they meet immediately. Elliot now finds Angela on a subway train. He apologizes for taking so long to get back to her. She appears dazed as she often does when she’s struggling with something heavy on her mind. She gets to the point abruptly.

Elliot: What’s wrong?
Angela: Why did you start FSociety?
(Elliot looks around)
Elliot: I didn’t want to involve you.
Angela: An FBI Agent came to my home.

Dom speaks to the Nurse again after her boss went full FBI Leadership and assumed the lead was dead. The news wasn’t on in the ER until after Cisco and Darlene left. They have no reason to think something is afoot. They’re coming back, but Dom is going to search the area to see if she can get the jump on them.

Angela will confess. She is on her way to meet with her lawyer. She won’t burn Elliot or Darlene, but sooner or later she believes this will all make its way back to Elliot. All because she believes something that Elliot does not. That FSociety cannot possibly beat Evil Corp. Elliot is now beginning to see that while he was locked up physically and bound in a construct mentally, everyone else was busy taking risks.

Elliot is genuinely having an emotional conflict. He doesn’t want to leave her. They share a friendly hug and then Elliot goes in…for the kiss that is probably like 15 years overdue.

Angela is able to have the long look. When she comes back to center there are two bodies watching. A black male and white female. Their stature suggests two people of an ‘official’ capacity. Did Angela just set Elliot up the way Ollie tried to set Angela up? If she did, she’s dead to me.

Dom finally makes her way to Washington and 6th ave. The corner where Lupe’s Diner is. She makes a b-line for the couple sitting by the front window. You don’t have to be a big movie/tv viewer to know what happens next. Two riders riding tandem on a crotch rocket motorcycle approach. The one in the rear jumps off holding what looks like an automatic gun of some sort. As predicted, the Dark Army will not permit one of their own from becoming known to law enforcement. Luckily Dom is positioned to the gunman approach. Also doesn’t hurt that she called in all units to her location before going in.

The gunman shoots up the diner but it appears not all that efficiently. The rider still on the bike takes off. Two NYPD cruisers pull up on the gunman. It doesn’t take the gunman long to turn his weapon on himself. As the assailants did in the FBI hotel in China.

Welp! I was wrong. Dom walks out of the diner signaling to the NY’s Finest that she is FBI. By the time she gets across the street and in focus of our lone camera it is obvious that she’s been splattered with someone else’s blood.