- Music plays "Everything Means Nothing to Me" As Darlene drifts off to sleep on the subway. She awakes to discover her wallet has been stolen, and there is only one suspicious candidate: a nervous young woman standing in front of the car door.
- She confronts her standing, and instructs "take out my wallet," Now open it. Take out the polaroid. The young woman is confused; "Don't you want your wallet back?"
- Darlene slides into a long confession... It's yours. You stole from me, but I stole from you first. From everyone. She takes credit for the whole 5/9 hack... and killing Susan Jacobs with a stun gun. "This is me," she declares as the car squeals to her stop.
- Agent Dom enters the safe house as a kid on a scooter rides by, chased by three more kids on hoverboards. A Comet Electric truck pulls away to reveal Elliot finishing a cigarette. He crosses the street to the house. He leafs through the mailbox, then investigates the trash in front. "Metadata" he explains. So much personal information about a photograph's context, from whom and where, is hidden inside its metadata.
- Dom acts fast, seeing Darlene is about to return. (She tried to phone her, but the phone was left on the kitchen table. Luckily, the ringer displays "Unknown" so as not to divulge sources.) She rushes out the front door, and speaks clearly without making eye contact: "Don't look at me. Act normal. Elliot phished us, he's in your apartment. Stay cool, don't blow your cover."
- Darlene enters and confronts Elliot. He demands answers for how she can afford an apartment, but she backs him away, standing against further hurt from Mr Robot. That changes his temperament. He wants to know why she hacked him to deliver screenshots somewhere every ten seconds. He place a voice protector to scramble the audio with noise. She indicates Mr Robot is working with Dark Army.
- Irving is at The Red Wheelbarrow BBQ with Angela. She demonstrates her competence with SDRs (Surveillance Detection Routes) He gives her 10 days notice for Stage 2, She assures they'll be ready. She asks assurance that the plan to evacuate the building will be active. He returns what she wants to hear. She further asks "did Whiterose ever show you?" He affirms his belief.
- Back at Elliot's apartment, Darlene works with him to try uncovering Robot's involvement. He opens Shayla's old apartment next door, and asks Darlene to watch for Robot when he sleeps.
- An unfamiliar character is a Sleeper in the Dark Army. A heavyset fellow eating Fruity Pebbles in his Woody Woodpecker underwear watches TV when his phone issues four unanswered rings and goes quiet. He places his cereal bowl aside, checks the window, puts on an FSociety mask, and gets on his knees as the FBI SWAT unit busts into his apartment. There is a video camera nearby (likely the same that was used to shoot their forged video). He is the target of the IP address trace attached to the FSociety Vimeo upload.
- Angela catches Elliot milling over E Shipping logs. He tries to cover his tracks with an excuse of looking over boring encryption archives, but she can see he's lying and dismisses it. She reminds him there is a work party. He hates the mandatory social functions of a corporate drone, but assures he will attend. (His coworker Samar insists he needs to jump quickly onto her while he can.)
- Mr Sasan Nouri is interrogated by Agent Dom and partner Norm. He remains silent over questions of who he works for, starting with Tyrell Wellick. When Dom mentions "Whiterose," he involuntarily shifts his stare to her. But despite her further drilling, his only answer to who he works for is "FSociety."
- Elliot returns home from the office party. When he suggests a signal to tell it's him, she says "how about you just tell me." They go tegether to give Flipper a walk before sleep.
- During their walk, Darlene suggests they can form a vengeance pact to kill whoever murders the other. Elliot is in.
- As Darlene passes time until Mr Robot surfaces, she downloads a movie torrent for "Shazaam.(1996).Sinbad.720p.BRRip.x264-HDMICRO.mp4" But the mystery is that this movie was never made and certainly never lived to see a BlueRay release. This is a classic example of The Mandela Effect. Our reality never had such a film, but their universe shows an experience that contradicts that. It enforces the fact that we the audience are dependent upon the unreliable narrator to view this fictional universe. She moves on to looking up deals to visit Budapest (thinking about opportunities with Cisco that can no longer happen).
- She's running the Deluge bittorrent client on a Linux Gnome desktop environment. Her username is D0loresH4ze. It's 1:47am EDT. Her download is connected to 170/2737 seeders and 2/93 peers.
- At 1:48am, Mr Robot emerges. She follows him through a China Town tent camp, and further through Lower Manhattan. (East Broadway & Rutgers Street) She catches him meeting Angela beside a subway entrance, but loses them shortly after they head downstairs and emerge to enter a taxi cab.
- When they arrive at the hideout beneath The Red Wheelbarrow BBQ, Tyrell pitches a fit over the shipping delays, and busts up a keyboard and shelf. Angela assures him it can be salvaged, but he is intent on assigning blame to her and Elliot. She will revoke his access to stop it from recurring. When Mr Robot tells Tyrell "You can talk to me," and reminds him this is Robot's operation, Tyrell says he makes no sense as a person, and is going to take over the operation.
- When Robot slams Tyrell against the wall, clenching his throat, he begins to sputter back into becoming Elliot. Angela is concerned, and sees the change happening. She injects him with a tranquilizer.
- Darlene waits at a bar to meet Agent Dom. She bemoans her lack of social contact and betrayal of Elliot, then grills Dom for more details about her personal life. Then she says she may have a lead, but needs to do it her way.
- Tyrell fusses to Irving about how the partnership with Elliot is over. Irving begins a stirring speech to Tyrell that he is the god, not Elliot. He will be the one to complete the job on schedule (by Monday, because Whiterose wants this to coincide with the UN Vote over the Congo). Tyrell replies with demands to see his family in person, and fly together to the Ukraine. And the one final thing he needs is "the full force of the Dark Army."
- Angela phones Philip Price in his limo to request that he terminate Elliot's employment at E Corp. She will return the favor.
- Back at Angela's apartment, she consoles a flustered Mr Robot. They get a call from Irving who assures them everything is on track for Monday.
- Darlene backs her backpack in Shayla's old apartment. She looks at the Polaroid of their family. She first knocks on Elliot's door and then enters. She pets Flipper, and places the Polaroid on his bedroom shelf where it normally lives.
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