‘Mr. Robot’ — eps2.6succ3ss0r.p12 — Recap And Analysis
Each week, Social Underground will go over the newest episode of the hit show Mr. Robot. There will be a recap of what happened, and then some commentary on what happened and where the show might go next. Trying to figure out where this show goes is pretty difficult since there are many plots that interweave. The good thing about that is having a show that’s unpredictable. No one like knowing the end of a season at the beginning.
Last Week’s Recap: MR. ROBOT — EPS2.5H4NDSHAKE.SME — WHERE IS MY MIND?
In last week’s episode, we learned what most of us knew what was really going on: Elliot was in prison. All of the things that happened during his routine were actually part of his prison routine. I thought he was actually in a mental institution, but I missed the basketball court hints because I wasn’t sure if you were allowed to play basketball in a mental institution. That was very obvious, but overlooked by me.
In this episode, Elliot is MIA. Darlene has to really take over even after the main members of fsociety are expecting Elliot to show up. He doesn’t, obviously, so the team has to rely on Darlene to run things. How does she run things? Really badly. We’re talking Apple without Steve Jobs bad, but with murder. Let’s get into it with a little less of a point-by-point, and a little more of the main details of the ep. As much as we all want to hear a fake debate between iOS and Android during a hack.
Fsociety learns ‘Project Berenstain’ is illegal surveillance of three million people for Five/Nine with 16 prime suspects, one of them deceased through a conference call they intercept. Mobley fears that it means Romero is the dead suspect so the FBI is close to them. Meaning: if Romero was assassinated to cover up tracks, then the entire fsociety crew has a target on them. That doesn’t stop fsociety releases this information that will cause more problems for the FBI.
Just as they were all discussing getting the hell out of Dodge, Susan Jacobs comes home (remember the smart home owner that works with E Corp whose house they stole?) and sees them. This seemed a little idiotic considering they have control of the smart house, but none of them were monitoring anything in the house. A high school student having a party has more awareness about their parents coming home early then that. Plans should have been in place. Her phone should have been cloned so they know where she is (they did, but no one was paying attention). Instead, we get this:
They tie her up and try to force her into blackmail, but Darlene remembers Susan laughing when E Corp was cleared for the toxic leak. That’s like all of the banks involved in the subprime mortgage crisis clinging tumblers of bourbon to celebrate getting a bailout and no federal charges.
After a scuffle with Trenton when she stupidly gets convinced to let her go to the bathroom, Susan rants about her being a Muslim because she wears a hijab. Then goes on about her being ISIS and insults her culture. Darlene shocks her with a stun gun, which is fatal because of Susan’s heart condition, though she says it was self-defense. They don’t believe her because they knew Susan had a heart condition.
Darlene and Cisco incinerate Susan’s body while Mobley and Trenton panic. I’d be panicking too if I not only caused a global meltdown, but then murdered and incinerated someone. This is why you have to think like a chess player. You hear a story about an idiot husband killing his wife, but he never thinks about just getting a divorce. Losing half your stuff is a lot better than getting stuffed in jail.
Dom interviews the owner of Darlene’s stolen gun and brings Mobley in for questioning about the arcade, still hunting for Tyrell. He gives her nothing and Dom is forced to let him go. Mobley warns Trenton they must run; someone meets Trenton two hours later. Angela’s fling was an FBI plant but she ditched him for an older man. Darlene sees Cisco is monitoring her for the Dark Army and attacks him with a baseball bat.
Darlene is coming apart because she doesn’t have Elliot/Mr. Robot to be the alpha dog. What you get is mayhem, murder, investigations, and Darlene going crazy and hitting Cisco with a bat.
Now on with the questions:
- Is Darlene a different kind of nuts compared to Elliot?
- Does Darlene even believe anything she says even though she says it with the emotion of her lies all over her faces?
- What the hell does fsociety do now?
- What does Angela do now that the guy she was seeing was an FBI plant?
- The coffee shop they meet up in is the same as the one owned by the kiddie porn freak in the first episode… how is that still running?
- Does Darlene visit Elliot? (She reads the main piece of dialogue he says in the first episode)
- What is Darlene going to do with the body of Cisco since he’s probably dead due to getting hit with a bat?
- Will Angela eventually break and spill all since she’s still a bit of a wuss?
- What will Elliot/Mr. Robot do when he finds all of this stuff out?
- What is going on in other places of the planet because of this hack?
- Is the Dark Army going to erase all evidence of everything?
- Will Elliot be released?
Some of these seem to be answers in the preview for the next episode, but I’ll leave that for you to decide.
ELLIOT LOOKS PISSED! Until next week Mr. Robot fans!
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