*IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE TURN BACK NOW. MAJOR SPOILERS LIE AHEAD!*

Under pressure from Elliot, who has decided to go forth with his plan and hack the FBI database in order to remove all incriminating evidence against himself, Angela, and the other 5/9 hackers, Darlene is forced to turn to Angela for help.

As Angela works in the same building as the FBI agents trying to track down Elliot and crew, Darlene asks her to drop a device on the 23rd floor in order for the hack to take place. This hack would allow access to all FBI android phones, databases and E-Corp databases. Unfortunately for Darlene, Angela refuses to make the drop and decides she will take her chances. That is until she runs into her ex, Ollie.

Angela meets up with him at a bar and realizes he is recording their conversation. This is moments after he hands her his resume in hopes of getting a job. It turns out he has spoken to the FBI more than once about the CD, although he claims he didn’t name her, but did help give a composite sketch, presumably of Elliot, to the FBI during their conversations. With her back up against the wall Angela is forced to save her own skin, and Elliot’s for that matter, and make the drop. After rekindling her friendship with Elliot, Angela heads to the safe house and meets up with Darlene to begin planning the drop.

On the FBI side of things, Dominique heads to China to meet with the minister of state security after uncovering evidence at Steel Valley. White Rose of the Dark Army is Minister Jung and holds the title of minister of state security unbeknownst to Dom. Minister Jung hosts a party at his estate and gets Dom to open up about why she joined the FBI. He also sort-of lets her in on his double life as White Rose by showing her some of his dresses. He claims they are his sister’s but Dom is aware of his family lineage.

After quoting Shakespeare, Jung leaves in a hurry, presumably due to Dark Army matters. The next day Dom and the other FBI agents are visiting one of the Chinese data farms and are ambushed by two masked men. Many of Dom’s fellow agents are slain. We have yet to see if she makes it out alive. Curiosity may kill this cat.

Back in New York, Joanna Wellick is back to her devious ways. After Kareem’s paranoia increases, she has him paralyzed then violently murdered by one of her guards, staging it to look like a robbery gone wrong. Kareem takes a shot to the chest and to the temple. Joanna wanted him to die with answers, “Otherwise we are nothing but ruthless murderers,” she said. That’s cold. She quickly warms up, however, when she receives another anonymous phone call. Is Tyrell still in New York? Who is calling her? Whoever it was, was literally right outside her apartment.

Elliot also deals with some violence at the hands of Ray and his henchmen in this episode. After some poking and prodding, Elliot learns Ray’s site sells a little bit of everything—drugs, young sex slaves who have obviously been victims of human trafficking, weapons, and hitmen for hire.

Unfortunately for Elliot, the other hacker he pried this information from was not as trustworthy as he thought. Flipping on him immediately, Elliot is grabbed by Lone Star and a few of Ray’s other thugs and is beaten.

The number one lesson to pull away from “Logic Bomb” is that curiosity almost always gets you injured and may also end up getting you killed in the hacker world.

Next week:

Angela makes the drop and has to pull off the hack whilst Elliot is out of commission

Will Dom make it out alive?

Will Elliot escape from Lone Star & Ray? Will he make the guilty pay and a save the innocent?

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Episode 3 started to unravel how F-Society came to be. We learned that F-Society = Fun Society Amusement LLC, the name of the cursed arcade the crew works out from. We have yet to learn the story behind the missing “u” and “n”. In an attempt to keep Mr. Robot at bay, Elliot overdoses on adderall and takes us all on a big happy trip, until it all comes crashing down. We then are shown pixelated versions of Elliot and those who surround him, talking in reverse and codes popping up on the screen. Kernel Panic. We experience an internal error from which he cannot recover. Lucky for Elliot, Mr. Robot steps in and makes him regurgitate the pills, to which he picks up and swallows once more.  Elliot then goes into a rampage when coming down off his high. The rampage is deeply rooted in our reality; it is relevant to the upcoming presidential election and everything else going on in the world. We also learn that Ray is much more like Elliot than we previously thought. He also speaks to dead relatives, in this case his deceased wife, and is heavily involved in the online world. He is also in need of a hacker, which is why he is so vested in Elliot.

Episode 4 dove deeper into the group’s history and what lies in their future. Romero aka Leslie is dead. He took a bullet to the temple. Who killed him? Was it The Dark Army, who is cahoots with E-Corp, or was it Elliot, who still can’t account for the night of hack or the days after? After visiting the crime scene and taking advantage of Rome’s elderly mother, Dominique is slowly beginning to put together the puzzle. She has found F-Society’s former headquarters through FBI documents Rome printed; his mother used them to start packing up her belongings.

After a short time in the present, the episode jumps back in time and we see how Elliot became Mr. Robot. Elliot devises his plan with his sister Darlene one Halloween night. This is also how the monopoly mask came into play; Darlene was the one to bring it over.

Angela embarks on an internal battle of her own in this episode. After a meeting with her boss she is told to turn in two E-Corp employees for their white collar crimes, including the Washington Township Scandal. She hands the evidence over to Trenton, whom she was previously working with on the Township Scandal and learns that she is the missing link in Township contractual agreement. She discovers that her boss wants her to remove the inspection portion of the clause signed by E-Corp due to the scandal in Washington. Angela then begins making demands in order to comply. This does not go over well with her boss, Phillip Price, who basically tells her she is not that important. Shortly after this encounter we learn that Price is working with The Dark Army. What exactly they are doing together hasn’t been made clear, yet. Although we do know it has something to do with Darlene.

Darlene struggles to keep it together in this episode. Paranoia has taken hold of her and for good reason. After she hooks up with her ex, who has an inside contact with The Dark Army, she discovers that she and all the other members of F-Society are now under FBI surveillance.

We then get a dream sequence courtesy of Elliot. In this sequence he imagines life without E-Corp and being surrounded by people he cares about. Everyone is happy. Everyone is a safe. A real utopia. Shortly after Elliot comes to, he finally confronts Mr. Robot and engages in a game of chess to try and defeat him. Stalemate after stalemate, he eventually discovers that he cannot defeat Mr. Robot. They must learn to coexist. Elliot then agrees to help Ray and gets back into hacking and coding.

Darlene then lets her brother know that they are under FBI surveillance and that Rome is dead and in turn Elliot takes matters into his own hands. He decides to hack the FBI!

Next week: We will see Elliot hack the FBI and the consequences that brings not only to himself but to those around him.

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