Mr. Robot Recap: Eps3.5_kill-process.inc

Season: 3 / Episode: 6 / USA Another episode, another insanely powerful opening scene. Our first look into the budding life a young Angela once led, provided us quite the perspective for the chaos surrounded meeting between the lifelong friends. Angela’s flashback provides with the perfect motive for the actions she has taken these past 6 months. Mr. Alderson asked her to be the push that Elliot needs (if) when he’s not around to do it. That, in and of itself was crazy on so many levels. Not only does that request embed a lifetime of positive motivation, but it also reminds us that Angie from Da Block has also been tasked with standing behind the homie, whether world changingly good or life wreckingly bad. On the flip side, Angela’s mom is dying (something we’ve known for some time) and at this celebration of life party, Mrs. Moss asks her daughter, “Will you believe with me?” She truly wants Angela to believe in a life where they will be united to bake cookies and have a relationship once again. Both of these conversations are deliberate (as all Email interactions are) and have a direct correlation as to why WhiteRose was able to convince Angela that this time machine thing (if that’s what it is) could actually work and give her the life with her mother that she never had. This is sound reasoning why she would manipulate her closest friend to blow up a building. Well, that and revenge for Evil Corp also killing her mother and Elliot’s dad. This flashback only hardens Angela’…