The season premiere buzzes with paranoia.
Its a seamless transition fromMr.
Robots third season to its fourth andfinal season.
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She pleads with her father, saying that together they can stop Whiteroses project from happening.
A seamless transition from recap to first scene, but theres nothing seamless about Angelas journey.
This is it for her.
Phillip knows it and is complicit in it.
He tries to get her to relent but he doesnt know Angela.
Phillip rips off the wire he was wearing.
The first of many jaw-dropping moments in this premiere.
Back inside the massive house, the one meant to shield Angela from harm, Phillip lashes out.
He smashes a vase and screams at Whiterose on the phone.
But hes a coward who loves licking boots.
Hes not actually going to do anything.
Hes still just a puppet in Whiteroses plan.
That plan has a slight hitch in it.
Just in time for the holidays, she says.
We only see a flash of it later, but that reminder is a picture of Angelas dead body.
Mysterious clubs and masked men, indeed.
Freddy Lomax, a lawyer, receives a package.
Inside is a video of him masturbating while on a live chat with a very young girl.
He receives a telephone call.
He wants Lomax to copy his email archives to the USB stick included in the package.
In the cab, cable news anchors praise E Corp for saving the economy and bringing jobs back.
Freddy, completely coked up, buys a train ticket.
Elliot sits inside, and calmly asks for the thumb drive.
Lomax pulls out a gun, but hes bluffing.
Elliot gets the drive, and finds the connection hes looking for.
He finds wire transfers for Zhi Zhang, a.k.a.
Whiterose, and determines that shes been funneling money through shell corporations to Cyprus National Bank.
Thats his target, to truly take down Whiterose and stop her project.
He needs a way in, though.
Lomax says he has a contact, a man who works there named John Garcin.
But Lomax isnt long for this world.
So, he kills himself in the street, and all Elliot is left with is a name.
He says the timeline is too short, they need to hit the bank as soon as possible.
Youre making it too personal, warns Mr. People are already forgetting.
And I dont blame them.
Theyre exhausted, replies Elliot.
Aint that the truth.
The entirety of 401 Unauthorized is an extended heart attack.
Its a perfect conspiracy thriller that seesMr.
Everything, and everyone, is falling apart.
Trauma is key here.
Elliot is refusing to deal with his own, leaving him distant, compartmentalizing his pain.
Thats why he doesnt talk to us anymore, and why Mr.
Robot needs to reluctantly step in.
As they head to Garcins apartment, Mr.
Robot lays out just how reckless he believes Elliot is being.
Elliot concocts a story about delivering a package to Garcin, and the doorman simply lets him up.
When he knocks on the door, it swings open.
He enters and shuts the door.
Elliot is ecstatic; Garcin isnt home and now they can search everything.
But nothings right here.
The apartment is covered in dust, and theres no sign of anyone ever living there.
Closets and cupboards are empty, and price tags still adorn the lamps and furniture.
It was all a setup, and Elliots carelessness gets him caught.
Two men show up and drag him away, kicking and screaming.
Locked in hell, with no exit, where hell is other people.
Even the lightness in this episode ends up dark.
This woman, Janice, isnt the dorky, cheery, awkward person she seems to be.
If she doesnt, she promises to do something very bad to her mother.
She threatens Janice, but its all for naught.
Janice leaves, and Dom is left looking down the street, every van and shadow a potential threat.
We end with the shadow of death.
A staged overdose that will finally take care of Elliot, once and for all.
Elliot does indeed overdose, seeing a vision of his family as he fades to black.
Theyll all be together again.
Directed by Sam Esmail pops up in the blackness of Eliots death.
But this isnt the end.
Its the beginning of the end.
He gasps, suddenly coming back to life.
The men stand over him, and then in walks Phillip.
Welcome back, Mr. Alderson, he says.
Then the true cut to black.
My goodness, its good to haveMr.
