Mr. Robot Recap: Eps3.7dont-delete-me.ko

Season: 3 / Episode: 8 / USA Mr. Robot keeps the dope opening scenes coming. This time, we get to see the fallout from Mr. Alderson pushing Elliot out of the window and the toll his illness is taking on him. Elliot vowed at a young age that he’d never forgive his father and didn’t have a shred of remorse when his old man toppled over. Guess we’re supposed to assume that’s how his life ended. Pretty terrible way to go. Then Elliot took the jacket off his dad’s person (the one he rocks when Mr. Robot takes over) and went to sit in the movie all by his lonesome. Cold. Blooded. And lest I forget to mention: he was already showing signs of his Dissociative Disorder!

Back at Elliot’s sorry excuse for an apartment, he remembers his friends who have been painted as terrorists with connections to Iran. He remembers their legacy, then erases any trace of knowing them by burning microwaving his hardware in one of his classic resets, but not before copying the data onto precisely labeled CDs (Springsteen’s ‘Magic’ for Trenton and DJ Mobley for Mobley) and storing them in his handy dandy CD case holder. He destroys the Flash RAM, hard driver, and does a full wipe down then searches for clues to what happened by visiting the home of Mobley and Trenton’s next of kin. Sam Esmail gives us the true names of each of Elliot’s old friends. Mobley’s name is Sunil Markesh and Trenton’s name is Shama Biswas. This is not a shrug-worthy revelation. This sets up Elliot’s course of action for the day…