History Recap / MrRobotS03E07

* WhamEpisode: '''The''' wham episode of ''Mr. Robot''.

* AllForNothing: Irving shows Mr. Robot a lavish rooftop party where he must go to clean up the aftermath of an overdose. As Mr. Robot gazes on, Irving informs him that [[spoiler: those people are just a small contingent of many who have bought and paid for Mr. Robot's revolution.]] As he walks toward the building, Irving remarks that "nothing can stop these shindigs."
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Averted. [[spoiler: The episode goes out of its way to remind you that stage two was horrifically damaging not just to human lives, but to the setting.]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: After six episodes and a year-long off-season gap, Mobley and Trenton return only to be summarily executed by the Dark Army in the end.]]

* DarkestHour: Pretty much every character on both sides of the spectrum is having a ''really'' bad day. [[spoiler: Elliot is dealing with his failure to stop Stage Two, Mr. Robot is told the truth about his revolution by Irving which greatly affects him, Angela has completely fallen off of the edge of sanity with Darlene lost and alone in the aftermath, Tyrell is informed of Joanna's death by Santiago, who threatens Tyrell's son to ensure that he remains quiet, Price is reeling from the cyber-bombings and emasculated by Zhang into staying the course, Dominique is depressed by the possibility of Whiterose getting away with everything, and Trenton and Mobley are taken hostage by Leon, who eventually hands them over to Grant and their subsequent demises.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton are sacrificed ([[ForcedSuicide against their will]]) by the Dark Army and [[FalseFlagOperation posthumously scapegoated into perpetrators of the cyber-bombings]].]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Elliot is grief-stricken by his failure to save any lives and is eventually sealed away by Mr. Robot, who tracks down Irving and learns that none of what fsociety accomplished ended up mattering in the end. The revolution has been bought and paid for, and Mr. Robot was just another puppet of the Dark Army.]] As the FBI takes over, Dominique resigns herself to the whiteboard, crossing out [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton's pictures]] and adding Whiterose as a prime suspect. Despite this, she is doubtful that anything can be done to stop the Dark Army.

* HeroicBSOD: Elliot suffers the worst one we have seen yet. [[spoiler: He is so immeasurably horrified by failing to stop stage two that [[RuleOfSymbolism the stress actually conjures Mr. Robot]]. He goes on to be in control of Elliot for days.]]
* IdiotBall: Trenton can't drive because she never learned how to in an urban environment. Acceptable. [[spoiler: ''Not'' acceptable: swerving back and forth in an escape and somehow crashing into a lone rock when you have 359 other degrees to feasibly choose from.]] [[SarcasmMode Shockingly]], this event puts them right back at square one, with one opportunity less.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Angela was the "individual" that Price mentioned in the season one finale, and has always been an object of manipulation by Whiterose, who entrusted Price to do it.]] As it turns out, Price could ''not'', and Whiterose stepped in behind Price's back. Only this time, it would be a deliberate emotional attack, [[{{Foreshadowing}} as we would later discover]].

** [[spoiler: Tyrell learning of Joanna's death and his son's status. Santiago uses this information to keep Tyrell in line should he think about rebelling.]] Unable to accept the truth, [[BrokenTears Tyrell begins sobbing and wailing]]. It is hard to not feel sorry for him in this scene.
** [[spoiler: Not only do Mobley and Trenton die bawling and pleading for their lives, but they are also later positioned among Irani flags, fsociety gear, and false plans for a second attack on both of "their" terminals just to cap off a false flag operation.]] In the end, their names are tarnished, and as observed on Dominique's whiteboard, they were at the bottom of the totem pole.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton are sacrificed ([[ForcedSuicide against their will]]) by the Dark Army and [[FalseFlagOperation posthumously scapegoated into perpetrators of the cyber-bombings]].]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Elliot is grief stricken by his failure to save any lives and is eventually sealed away by Mr. Robot, who tracks down Irving and learns that none of what fsociety accomplished ended up mattering in the end. The revolution has been bought and paid for, and Mr. Robot was just another puppet of the Dark Army.]] As the FBI take over, Dominique resigns herself to the white-board, crossing out [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton's pictures]] and adding Whiterose as a prime suspect. Despite this, she is doubtful that anything can be done to stop the Dark Army.

* SanitySlippage: Angela goes through one after the attacks occur and spends the whole afternoon justifying that she can bring the victims back by rewinding the news report repeatedly, with Darlene trying to calm her down.

** [[spoiler: Not only do Mobley and Trenton die bawling and pleading for their lives, they are later positioned among Irani flags, fsociety gear, and false plans for a second attack on both of "their" terminals just to cap off a false flag operation.]] In the end, their names are tarnished, and as observed on Dominique's white-board, they were at the bottom of the totem pole.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Angela was the "individual" that Price mentioned in the season one finale, and has always been an object of manipulation by Whiterose, who entrusted Price to do it.]] As it turns out, Price could ''not'', and Whiterose stepped in behind Price's back. Only this time, it would be a deliberate emotional attack, [[Foreshadowing as we would later discover]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Angela was the "individual" that Price mentioned in the season one finale, and has always been an object of manipulation by Whiterose, who entrusted Price to do it.]] As it turns out, Price could ''not'', and Whiterose stepped in behind Price's back. Only this time, it would be a deliberate emotional attack, {{Foreshadowing as we would later discover}}.

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: After six episodes and a year-long off-season gap, Mobley and Trenton return only to be summarily executed in the end.]]

* DarkestHour: Pretty much every character on both sides of the spectrum is having a ''really'' bad day. [[spoiler: Elliot is dealing with his failure to stop stage two, Mr. Robot is told the truth about his revolution by Irving which greatly affects him, Angela has completely fallen off of the edge of sanity with Darlene lost and alone in the aftermath, Tyrell is informed of Joanna's death by Santiago, who threatens Tyrell's son to ensure that he remains quiet, Price is reeling from the cyber-bombings and emasculated by Zhang into staying the course, Dominique is depressed by the possibility of Whiterose getting away with everything, and Trenton and Mobley are taken hostage by Leon, who eventually hands them over to Grant and their subsequent demises.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton are sacrificed ([[ForcedSuicide against their will]]) by the Dark Army and [[FalseFlagOperation posthumously turned into perpetrators of the cyber-bombings]].]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Elliot is grief stricken by his failure to save any lives and is eventually sealed away by Mr. Robot, who tracks down Irving and learns that none of what fsociety accomplished ended up mattering in the end. The revolution has been bought and paid for, and Mr. Robot was just another puppet of the Dark Army.]] As the FBI take over, Dominique resigns herself to the white-board, crossing out [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton's pictures]] and adding Whiterose as a prime suspect. Despite this, she is doubtful that anything can be done to stop the Dark Army.

* HeroicBSOD: Elliot suffers the worst one we have seen yet. [[spoiler: He is so immeasurably horrified by failing to stop stage two that [[RuleOfSymbolism the stress actually conjures Mr. Robot]]. He would go on to be in control of Elliot for days.]]

** [[spoiler: Not only do Mobley and Trenton die bawling and pleading for their lives, they are later positioned among ISIS paraphernalia, fsociety gear, and false plans for a second attack on both of "their" terminals just to cap off a false flag operation.]] In the end, their names are tarnished, and as observed on Dominique's white-board, they were at the bottom of the totem pole.

* GenreShift: Starts as a [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantino]]-esque black comedy with hostages, turns into a neo-noir psychological thriller with dysfunctional relationships, and evolves into a conspiracy/paranoid thriller reminiscent of ''[[Series/Homeland]]'' and ''[[Series/24]]''.

* ChekovsGun: Trenton's e-mail.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: "eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf" has some serious competition with this episode for most devastating moment in the show.

* LowerDeckEpisode: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Elliot is in the episode for roughly five minutes while a sizable amount of the episode is dedicated to Trenton and Mobley.]]

* Tearjerker:

** [[spoiler: Not only do Mobley and Trenton die bawling and pleading for their lives, they are later positioned among ISIS paraphernalia, fsociety gear, and false plans for a second attack on both of "their" terminals just to cap off a false flag operation.]] In the end, their names are tarnished, and as observed on Dominique's white-board, they were at the bottom of the totem pole.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Angela was the "individual" that Price mentioned in the season one finale, and has always been an object of manipulation by Whiterose, who entrusted Price to do it.]] As it turns out, Price could ''not'', and Whiterose stepped in behind Price's back. Only this time, it would be a deliberate emotional attack, [[Foreshadowing as we would later discover.]]

** [[spoiler: Tyrell learning of Joanna's death and his son's status. Santiago uses this information to keep Tyrell in line should he think about rebelling. Unable to accept the truth, [[BrokenTears Tyrell begins sobbing and wailing]]. It is hard to not feel sorry for him in this scene.

* DramaBomb: This episode is the [[TheStatusQuoIsNoLongerGod climax of every major story arc that began in season two]].

* SanitySlippage: Angela goes through one after the attacks occur and spends the whole afternoon justifying that she can bring the victims back by rewinding the news report repeatedly, with Darlene trying to calm her down.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mobley and Trenton are sacrificed (against their will) by the Dark Army and posthumously turned into perpetrators of the cyber-bombings.]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Elliot is grief stricken by his failure to save lives and is eventually sealed away by Mr. Robot, who tracks down Irving and learns that none of what fsociety accomplished ended up mattering in the end. The revolution has been bought and paid for, and Mr. Robot was just another puppet of the Dark Army.]]

* AllForNothing: Irving shows Mr.Robot a group of rich people partying even on the day of one of the worst terror attacks and tells him that his revolution was all for nothing as the rich always benefitted from it.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Trenton and Mobley]] are found and killed by the Dark Army to frame them for the attacks and their deaths are made to look like suicide.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Trenton and Mobley are sacrificed by the Dark Army and posthumously turned into perpetrators of the cyber-bombings.]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler: Elliot is grief stricken by his failure to save lives and is eventually sealed away by Mr. Robot, who tracks down Irving and learns that none of what fsociety accomplished ended up mattering in the end. The revolution has been bought and paid for.]]

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