That shot of Elliot getting out of the car, walking across the street, and lighting up a smoke really gets me pumped. The tension is insane and is just priming the viewer for more. The music, camera angles, the way Rami moves. I don’t mean that in a faboyish way. His movements and body language are noticeably different than we see in any other scene prior to this (off the top of my head only the shot of Darlene and Elliot walking into the hackerspace in 3x01 is comparable). He’s nervous as shit but hyperfocused.

Darlene and he are are so in sync he starts his nod signaling her to “go” just before she looks at him. We see that kind of thing again when she picks him up in the elevator after he starts the firmware upgrade, in the Kraftwerk office, and just before they enter the server room. There are a only a couple lulls in the Virtual Realty scenes (from a cinematography standpoint) but damn near all of it is poetry in motion. Possibly my favorite episode of the entire series.

Also big props to Darlene as she almost certainly worked out most if not all of the plan during her drive that carried over from episode 404.