- The episode opens to the grizzly specter of Mobley's roommate dead, throat slashed and bled out on the floor of their Phoenix Arizona house. The terrarium hums and the television plays live coverage of the explosions, destroying 71 E Corp buildings. Leon sits on the couch between Mobley & Trenton, whose hands are bound with bicycle cables. He drones on about how perplexed and disappointed he is in having binge watched Frasier, which doesn't hold a candle to Knight Rider. Turned him off to sitcoms altogether.
- Mobley is clearly terrified with primal fear. He pleas not to be killed.
- Leon lauds the Knight Rider theme song as they ride in his grandfather's Cadillac. The theme audibly plays as they drive into the desert. The show's title card appears.
- Back in NYC, Elliot gazes in horror at the screens depicting the exploded buildings. He runs immediately to Krista's home office.
- Krista tries to calm him so that he can talk about what he had done, whatever it is. Still, Elliot is too panicked to the point that he is unable to breathe or speak. Mr Robot surfaces.
- Mr Robot bewails Elliot's inability to speak direct to him. Instead of worrying over Robot, Elliot should be worrying about the real puppet masters. Robot tries to dispell the controllers' narrative about Wellick & FSociety as a terrorist group, who were but pawns in the attack. Elliot is the hacker at the core; he even hacked Krista.
- The new FSociety video is released, threatening another impending attack. Wellick's attorney laughs it off because this gives Wellick all the leverage necessary to strike an immunity deal.
- Dom shouts over the role of the Dark Army behind this all. Santiago insists she's mistaken, and he has to use the solid asset they have in Tyrell Wellick.
- Angela is rewatching the horrifying news footage, and is clearly dissociating from the heavy reality.
- The FBI directs Wellick to pick out his captors from an album of mug shots. He flips past faces familiar and unfamiliar, including Mobley & Elliot. While he insists on seeing his wife and son, Santiago responds by silencing the camera, announcing the death of Joanna, and threatening the life of the son. As he leaves, Wellick is left in the interrogation room, sobbing profusely.
- Leon arrives at a baron patch of desert. He begins digging a hole for the dead roommate, and leaves Mobley & Trenton in the back seat of the Cadillac. Trenton cracks the lock on her restraints, but crashes the car when she tries to drive their escape, untrained.
- Darlene returns to Angela's apartment, but Angela is absorbed in rewinding TV footage. She's convinced that the rewinding action is proof that all the lives lost can be just as easily restored.
- Mr Robot wants answers to the latest media twists, so he travels by taxi to Irving used car lot. While Irving is conducting repairs beneath a red sedan, two thugs sneak up behind Robot and club him unconscious.
- When Robot comes to, he finds himself in Irving's back seat while Irving has something to show him. He points out a party of the rich atop a rooftop with Christmas lights and live music.* The rich/bourgeois/elite make themselves [feel] immune to the woes of the commoners; so the parties go on; despite the terrorist attacks, and despite the death of a mistress at the party.
- *The violinist is playing a familiar tune. If you can "Name That Tune," you'd realize her melody is "Send in the Clowns."
- Mobley & Trenton are returned to the house, where Leon hands them over to Grant.* Grant shows them their "great purpose" in this scheme, as they will be framed for attempting to hack air traffic control in several major metropolises.
- *Couldn't the excursion into the desert to bury a body have just waited? Why leave the house, expose yourselves, and then return to the site that becomes the next stage of the narrative?
- A federal task force raids the home. Trenton & Mobley are already dead, with the appearance of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Camera gear, computers, and an Iranian flag implicate them in another attack attempt.
- Dom retreats to the whiteboard, and places Whiterose's name at the center. "You're actually going to get away with this."
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