Mr. Robot

Hello, friend.

"Hello, friend?" That's lame.

Maybe I should give you a name.

But that's a slippery slope. You're only in my head.

We have to remember that.

Shit.

It's actually happened. I'm talking to an imaginary person.

What I'm about to tell you is top secret.

A conspiracy bigger than all of us.

There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world.

I'm talking about the guys no one knows about.

The guys that are invisible.

The top one percent of the top one percent.

The guys that play God without permission.

And now I think they're following me.

This is about last night.

I should've gone to Angela's birthday party.

Instead, I went to...

Hey, Ron.

There you are.

You're Ron?

But...

Your real name is Rohit D'Temeta.

You changed it to Ron when you bought your first.

Ron's Coffee shop six years ago.

Now, you got 17 of 'em with eight more coming next quarter.

May I help you with something?

I like coming here, 'cause your Wi-Fi was fast.

I mean, you're one of the few spots that has a fiber connection with gigabit speed.

It's good.

I mean, it was so good, it scratched that part of my mind.

The part that...

doesn't allow good to exist without condition.

So, I started intercepting all the traffic on your network.

That's when I noticed something strange.

That's when I decided to hack you.

- Hack... - I know you run a website called Plato's Boys.

Pardon me?

You're using Tor networking to keep the servers anonymous.

You made it really hard for anyone to see it.

But I saw it.

The onion routing protocol, it's not as anonymous as you think it is.

Whoever's in control of the exit nodes is also in control of the traffic,

which makes me...

the one in control.

- I must ask you to kindly leave, please. - I own everything.

All your emails. All your files.

All your pics.

Get out of here, right now, or I'll call the...

Police?

I mean, you want them to find out about the hundred terabytes of child pornography

you serve to your 400,000 users?

Personally, man,

I was hoping it was just gonna be some BDSM stuff.

You realize how much simpler that would've been?

I did not hurt anyone.

I never did.

That's my... personal life.

I understand what it's like

to be different.

I'm very different, too.

I mean, I don't jerk off to little kids, but...

I don't know how to talk to people.

My dad was the only one I could talk to.

But he died.

I'm sorry to hear that.

How did he pass, may I ask?

Leukemia.

Yeah, he definitely got it from

radiation at the company he worked at, though I couldn't prove it.

Now, he's dead.

Company's fine, though.

Oh, hey...

It's okay, Rohit.

You don't have to worry anymore.

I don't understand.

Are you blackmailing me?

So that's what this is about? Money?

That's all you care about, hmm?

No.

If I pay you now, you'll want more and more.

No matter how much I give.

You will inform the police anyway.

I won't pay you, sir.

Remember, you also broke the law.

Actually, you're right.

Partly.

See, I usually do this kind of thing from my computer,

but this time I wanted to do it AFK.

In person.

I'm trying to work on my social anxiety.

But there's always the threat of you fleeing after I call you out.

You know, you tell your sysadmin to take your servers down, wipe all the data.

So...

I made sure to include the current time and location on my anonymous tip.

Wait, hold on. I'll give you the money. I'll pay you.

How much do you want? I'll pay you. (SIREN WAILING)

That's the part you were wrong about, Rohit.

I don't give a shit about money.

Now, I'm being followed.

The higher-ups don't like someone with my powers.

In three short minutes, I destroyed a man's business, life, existence.

I deleted him. MAN: Hey!

Hey, you!

Hey, kiddo.

What's happening?

Exciting time in the world right now.

Exciting time.

But I'm only a vigilante hacker by night.

By day, just a regular cyber-security engineer.

Employee number ER-280652.

Elliot?

In here.

- What's up? - Yo.

I do. It's not about the... ANGELA: All Of the...

I can... Yeah, I can totally... (GIDEON GROANS)

I can totally handle it.

Look, they were hacked again last night.

Gideon... ELLIOT: That's my childhood friend, Angela.

She can be a bit high-strung sometimes.

But, trust me, she's one of the good ones.

What am I looking at? Is this the log file? This was a RUDY attack.

- This is awesome. - Gideon, will you please answer me?

Awesome? You think this is awesome?

This is killing us, Elliot.

Gideon, I'm not leaving... - Angela!

Let's just see how this meeting goes today.

I mean, their... Their networks are getting attacked every week.

Who knows if they'll still even be a client.

- They're coming in? - Yeah.

What did we say about the dress code?

All right, now, look over those logs and be ready,

this afternoon, in case they have any questions.

Okay?

Okay.

Did you start smoking again?

Did you not get my texts last night?

I sent you exactly 13 of them.

Yeah, sorry. I couldn't make it.

You promised me that you were gonna try this time.

Stop thinking about something else when I'm talking to you.

I hate when you do that.

Sorry.

I was... thinking about work. (SIGHS)

Maybe that's why Gideon loves you so much.

He thanks me all the time for bringing you in.

But, for some reason, I think you secretly hate it here.

She was right.

I like most of the people, but our business,

a cyber-security firm that protects corporations,

I can't think of anything I hate more.

No, I love it here.

I'm sorry.

I'm just in a bad mood.

I'm late on my last two student loan payments.

And I can't get Gideon to give me a raise.

- Hey. - Hi.

Yo, buddy.

- Missed you last night. Where were you? - Gotta go.

Big meeting today.

Did you find out what happened?

Yeah. He said he was working.

Ugh, come on. You gotta talk to him.

We're gonna be late for the staff meeting.

He can't stand me. And you know why.

Angela,

I can't have that kind of negativity in my life.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

What are you thinking about?

Nothing.

You wanna know what I'm thinking about?

The first time you came to me.

I didn't exactly come to Krista.

I was forced here. But I do like her.

Hacking her was simple.

Her password? Dylan_2791.

Favorite artist and the year in which she was born, backwards.

Though she's a psychologist, she's really bad at reading people.

But I'm good at reading people. My secret?

I look for the worst in them.

I know she went through a divorce four years ago.

I know she was devastated by it and has been dating losers on eHarmony ever since.

Her most recent foray? Michael Hansen.

I searched for him online, but nothing came up.

No Linkedln, no Facebook. Nothing.

Something about him bugs me.

Scratching that part of my mind again.

But I'll hack him soon enough. I always do.

I know you're not yelling like before, which is good,

but I can tell you're still holding on to it.

And we need to work on your anger issues, Elliot.

You're angry at everyone.

At society... ELLIOT: F... society.

I know you have a lot to be angry about,

but keeping it to yourself and staying quiet,

like you're doing, it's not going to help you.

There's pain underneath.

That's where our work needs to go.

What is it about society that disappoints you so much?

Oh, I don't know.