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Mr. Robot - Episode 7

It starts with a flashback... And then we fast-forward a month from where the last episode ended.

Angela makes progress with her case against Evil Corp, but not without compromising her values, and thus begins the slippery slope.

Darlene's attempts to get the Dark Army back on board finally pay off, but she loses Cisco as an ally.

Tyrell loses the plot and fires his advisors for no apparent reason, just because he can. He's obviously still sulking from being outsmarted by Knowles, the new CTO of Evil Corp.

Evil Corp host a party to formally announce the promotion of Knowles to CTO. Tyrell and his interesting wife, Joanna, are in attendance and they are scheming as usual. Joanna gives Tyrell the nod, and he makes another move on Sharon Knowles, the wife of Scott. Just when we thought that things couldn't get any more grubby, they do. Tyrell is losing control and he lashes out, with disastrous consequences.

Elliot comes clean with Krista and confesses that he hacked her. That he hacks everyone. What is the purpose of this confession? Why now? Why at all? Will there be repercussions?

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Mr. Robot - Episode 6

This episode looks quite normal to start with. Elliot and his dealer / girlfriend, Shayla, are having dinner in a dingy diner, with their characteristically one-dimensional facial expressions.

I haven't really mentioned Shayla much because her part is more like ambient noise than central to the plot. Shayla's supplier, a pleasant chap by the name of Fernando Vera, was sent to prison, thanks to an anonymous tip. Vera has now discovered that the tip came from Elliot. He's understandably annoyed, so he uses Shayla to get to Elliot. Vera figured that if Elliot could put him in prison, Elliot could also get him out. Vera arranges for Shayla to be kidnapped in order to get Elliot's attention and cooperation.

This is another interlude that feels a bit like the hallucination sequence in episode 4. It takes up a lot of time and it's not immediately obvious what value it adds to the main plot. Anyway, long story short, Elliot succeeds at breaking Vera out. Sadly, Shayla is collateral damage.

In the previous episode, Tyrell goes all creepy in his pursuit of his CTO ambitions. The CTO position was given to someone else, Scott Knowles, and Tyrell pays him a visit. What looks like a civilised dinner at the guy's home turns into Tyrell's biggest mistake. In this episode it becomes clear that by looking for the flaws in his opponent, Tyrell exposes his own biggest flaw. Arrogance. Knowles has Tyrell's card marked. That CTO position is even further from Tyrell's grasp than ever.

Angela is up to her own games also. She has resurrected the case against Evil Corp, relating to the death of her mother and Elliot's dad. What will happen next?

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