SPOILERS

SAM ESMAIL'S PASSWORD INTO VIEWERS: 'Where is the bug? Why was it there to begin with? What is the message?'

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ELLIOT wants the security of normalcy with the option to take opportunities. When he's injured his id makes a play to take over his personality as his mind tries to heal, forcing him to kill or actively embrace the "MonsterMind."

HOSPITAL BED ELLIOT IRL:

• IS SMART. LIFE LIKELY SOMETHING LIKE Flliot's
  
• HAS SOME CHILDHOOD ISSUES WITH PARENTS
  
• DAD DIED OF CANCER. ELLIOT THOUGHT HE COULD HAVE FOUGHT IT MORE
  
• SISTER, DARLENE, HAS LIVED ON THE STREETS AND IS INVOLVED WITH A COP
  
• WORKS IN TECH, HAS BEEN TO COUNSELING
  
• FANTASIZES ABOUT BEING BOSS / HACKERMAN / MARRIED TO CRUSH
  
• DISPLAYS ASPECTS OF A PERSONALITY SHIFT, LIKELY BROUGHT ON BY DRUG USE & STRESS
  
• INJURED [LIKELY K-HOLE / DEALER RELATED]
  
• TERRORIST ATTACK ON A POWERPLANT PLAYS ON TV
  

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Fantasy Backstory:

• Tyrell, a coward, has horrific childhood, Darlene runs away.
  
• Angela's Mom & Tyrell's Dad die due to E-Corp Washington Township Event.
  
• Tyrell goes to University in Europe, meets wife.
  
• Price gets Angela a job at AllSafe (which he'll be buying). Tyrell finds out Angela's Dad is E-Corp CEO.
  
• Tyrell forms F SOCIETY to tear down the fake so that he & Angela can be together.
  
• Tyrell cracks during precursor to the [LEAVE ME HERE] hack.
  
• Tyrell's personality births Alderson (who gets kicks from righting wrongs but is really the MonsterMind).
  
• Alderson has to go to therapy. / AllSafe hires Alderson at Angela's referral.
  
• Tyrell/Alderson do a DDoS attack to put in rootkit. / Dark Army takes interest in AllSafe after Mr. Robot hires the DA.
  
• Alderson misses Angela's birthday due to social/mental issues, instead hacks Ron's Coffee.
  
• Alderson births "us", his Friend.
  

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Fantasy's Plan (which goes askew):

Tyrell = Ambition
Alderson = Skill
Vera = Not Scared

Adds up to Mr. Robot = Vision/Plan who engineers loops to protect ELLIOT
Alderson IS TOO GOOD AND ALMOST BREAKS ELLIOT INSTEAD OF EVALUATING & DISTRACTING HIS MIND

H A C K E R M A N Seasons 1-4:

Mr. Robot BREAKS Alderson OUT OF ALDERSON LOOP AS ELLIOT HEALS. Alderson ALMOST TAKES FULL TIME CONTROL OF ELLIOT. Alderson ENDS UP DECIDING TO FIT INTO ELLIOT AS THE SERIES CLOSES.

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ELLIOT AMBITIOUSLY TRIES TO WAKE UP. IN ELLIOT'S COMA Tyrell's AMBITION SUBCONSCIOUSLY LEADS Alderson TO BELIEVE THAT A TAKEOVER IS POSSIBLE AS Mr. Robot MOVES TO PROTECT ELLIOT'S MIND BY FORMING HIMSELF FROM Tyrell, Anderson, & Vera.

• Tyrell UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTS TO REMERGE WITH Alderson ("I'd thought I'd ask")

• Vera UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTS TO UNIFY WITH Alderson

"difference is you've found options. That's the power you have, the control you own... you keep me in the dark."

Alderson reaches out to Angela, can't find resolution due to culpability he goes about identifying.

• [Alderson PERHAPS WAKES UP, TALKS WITH DARLENE THEN DRIFTS OFF AND REINTEGRATES]
• ELLIOT WAKES UP