Awesome / Mr. Robot

"It's happening."

When things go right on Mr. Robot, they are redolent of pure, euphoric awesomeness.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

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season 1. 0

• The opening scene of the pilot gives us our first taste of awesome in the show: Elliot hacks a child pornographer and uses the evidence he found to not only psychologically break the scumbag but hand him to the police on a silver platter after submitting an anonymous tip to them beforehand.
• Elliot hacking Lenny Shannon, blackmailing him into breaking up with Krista, and taking his abused dog, Flipper, for himself.
• Elliot managing to kick a mean morphine addiction and still find a way to hack Steel Mountain.
• Darlene actually getting an audience with the Dark Army after directly confronting them using Cisco's IRC handle.
• "eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf" is just a constant stream of awesome from Elliot, who really demonstrates how capable he is and how far he can go to achieve a hack; in this case, he engineers a prison break with a simple piece of malware. Vera's idiot goons are even mildly impressed by his expertise. It is only a shame that all of this competency ends up being for nothing in the end.
• Angela flat-out murdering Terry Colby with just her words after he blows her off regarding the Washington Township toxic waste scandal and embarrasses her at Allsafe back in the premiere.

season 2. 0

• Joanna being killed by one of the many men she manipulated. While it's shocking and unexpected and sad since her baby had to witness it, it's satisfying to see her get her just desserts after everything she's done.
• Four words: "I'm hacking the FBI."
• In the second episode of the season, Mr. Robot tries to threaten Elliot with the fact that he can take control whenever he wants. Elliot reacts with stunned silence, then turns away... and when he turns back, he's smiling. Then he starts laughing.
  Mr. Robot: What's so funny?! (pulls a gun on Elliot) We started a movement, we were meant to lead it! Now get back on a terminal, now!
  Elliot: (without a trace of fear) Give me what I want or keep shooting me. Tell me where Tyrell is... (puts his head right up to the barrel of the gun) or shoot me again. 'Cause the only one it's gonna drive mad is you. Not me.
  (Mr. Robot lowers the gun in shock. He realizes he can't scare Elliot into doing what he's told anymore.)
  Elliot: (completely casual) I'm late for my church group. Peace. (leaves Mr. Robot still standing in shock)
• Dominique managing to survive a Dark Army hit that kills most of her team and refusing to go on leave afterward despite Santiago insisting that she should.
  • She later survives a second Dark Army hit at Lupe's Diner and even manages to score one shot on the assassin while the bullets are still flying.
• Angela earning her hacking chops by opening a door for fsociety to the FBI's data at E Corp.
  • Honestly, Angela's entire arc throughout the season is built upon her being an unrelenting badass, using subterfuge to maneuver through E Corp and properly gain access to evidence that would avenge her mother as well as Elliot's father. It doesn't work in the end, however.
• Elliot turning Ray over to the FBI after leaking Midland City and beating him in a climactic chess game.
• The reveal that Leon is a Dark Army assassin comes on the heels of what would have been a horrible scene. Elliot is dragged away by the neo-Nazis and about to be raped when suddenly, Leon comes out of nowhere and runs them all through with just a shiv, ending with a literal Ass Shove on one of the mooks.
• Elliot creating a fucking wi-fi antenna with a Pringles can. He then proceeds to exploit the exigent circumstances protocol to finally track down Joanna's stalker.

season 3. 0

• Right off the bat, Elliot survives a gunshot wound at point-blank range.
• Elliot winning a CTF tournament for one of the teams just to gain access to a terminal and sabotage stage two.
• Elliot getting Flipper back from Lenny.
• Using just a bag of morphine, Elliot blackmails Mobley's emotionally cold brother into arranging a funeral for him, going so far as to set terms for how the funeral procession should be.
• Six words: "Now I own the Dark Army."
• Leon saving Elliot and Darlene from being executed by singlehandedly killing Grant's men in a rapid succession.

season 4. 0

401 Unauthorized

• Elliot hacking Freddy Lomax with Mr. Robot running interference. After three seasons of conflict (and a production hiatus of two years), it is beyond refreshing to see the duo working together at last while also taking the show back to its simpler roots with the destruction of an utter scumbag's life.

405 Method Not Allowed

• Everything about the Virtual Realty heist. Literally, all of it. From the 3D printed fingerprint putty to the hack of the building's E-LAN network to cut out the lights in the server room, Elliot and Darlene's collective ingenuity and adaptability are on full display here.
• The foot chase between Elliot and the police.
• Let's give it up for the show creators here: barring the recap, there is exactly two lines of audible dialogue in the entire episode, one at the beginning, one at the end, that's it - and the episode still nails you to the screen. That's some god-level filmmaking right there.

407 Proxy Authentication Required

• After Vera repeatedly threatens Krista's life in order to get Elliot to release Mr. Robot, Elliot finally obliges him, at which point Mr. Robot interrogates Vera about what exactly his vision is. Vera goes into a long monologue about wanting to "own" New York, whereupon Mr. Robot delivers a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech, laying out in detail just how stupid and deluded Vera's dreams of "owning" New York are.
  "If this is your master vision, do yourself a favor. Go back to that little shaman of yours and shit some more, because you're clearly still full of it."
• After escaping justice throughout the entire series, Vera finally meets his end after stabbed in the back by Krista.

408 Request Timeout

• Despite having spent most of the previous two episodes being tormented in her own home by Vera, Krista manages to quickly get both herself and a catatonic Elliot out of her apartment just in time to escape Vera’s two remaining associates. She even finds the strength to give Elliot some much needed counsel right before parting ways with him.
• After eight episodes of being tormented, blackmailed, and threatened by Janice, Dom finally turns the tables, and it is glorious. When Dom and Darlene defy her, Janice makes a phone call to have Dom's family murdered, only to be told that her men are all dead and the family is being spirited away to safety. Dom then kills Janice's accomplice by pulling a knife out of her own chest and stabbing him with it, gets his gun, and puts Janice down for good.
  • Deegan, the "Lucky Irish Bastard" deserves a nod for being the one to rescue Dom's family from the Dark Army.

409 Conflict

• Whiterose's new assistant walking out on her.
• Darlene exposes Deus Group to the public by bringing back fsociety and doxxing all of them. Which perfectly sets up Elliot and Darlene’s plan to pull of the hack and take all of their money, robbing them and Whiterose of everything they have.
• Watching Price gloat in the fact that he beat Whiterose is just awesome to watch. After all Whiterose has done, watching her get her comeuppance and watching Price just rub it in her face can’t help but feel immensely satisfying.
• Michael Cristofer’s performance of Price as a whole is fantastic. While he was incredible throughout the series he particularly takes the cake in this episode.
  Mr Price (to Whiterose): Think about it this way. You didn't lose the game. You just ran out of time.
• "All of this, for a pipsqueak in a hoodie".

413 Hello, Elliot

• Mastermind!Elliot's entire existence, despite also being a huge Tear Jerker. An alternate personality that emerged to deal with Elliot's pent-up anger towards the threats and injustices surrounding him in his personal life. Turns out that the entire series happens only because he wants to take that goal to its logical conclusion, and by now we're all aware: he succeeds at it.

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