Mr. Robot Recap: eps1.5br4ve-trave1er.asf

We kick off this week’s episode with Elliot and Shayla having a surprisingly normal conversation over some diner food. Thennn we get hit with the reality train. A guy next to them says, “Time’s up!”. It’s Fernando’s little brother Isaac Vera, whose henchman grabs Shayla up like a rag doll and escorts her out of the diner without anybody in that joint giving one single crumb of a fuck! Fernando calls his little brother and he puts Elliot on. Fernando tells Elliot he’s not mad at what he did, instead he’s inspired, he’s intrigued at the power Elliot wields at the flick of the finger. Kinda like Drake wasn’t mad at Meek for what he did while sitting behind his computer. He inspired Drizzy da GAWD to surface and sent Weak Mills to the chalkboard like..

Meanwhile, Angela is busy calling up damn near every lawyer in the city trying to dig up more dirt on some case and get the disgraced Terry Colby to become her wing man in the move, figuring he’s probably harboring some ill will. She gets one call back from a woman who worked some case Angela knows about and goes to visit her. The lady is sipping on some hard liquor in her coffee cup and hit Angela with, “Yo, you tryna come at the neck of the biggest conglomerate in history with internet “he said she said?” I got better luck defending the dude outside my door who killed his girl with an X-Box after he caught her cheating in Halo.” And thats real talk.

Isaac and the henchman walk Elliot back to his apartment and tell him to get h…