ePISODE SUMMARY: Elliot wakes up in Tyrell's SUV, sans Tyrell. The hack has gone through and the world's financial markets are crumbling but Elliot has no memory of it and none of the members of fsociety know what happened. Angela settles in to her knew job as a PR flack at E Corp on the worst possible day.

eps1.9_zer0-day.av, EXPERT EXPLANATION OF THE ROOT: A computer application vulnerability that exposes a flaw that could be exploited. The term comes from the fact that once the vulnerability is exposed, a developer has zero days to fix it. This is a critical vulnerability and must be addressed immediately.

HOW THE TITLE RELATES TO THE PLOT: Everyone has passed the point of no return, especially Elliot, who woke up to find the biggest hack in history already went down. He’s certainly somehow responsible, but has no clue what happened. He knows that there’s only one choice to clarify things: talking to Mr. Robot, who refuses to appear until Elliot tries to turn himself into the police.



Angela has taken the job offer with E Corp and is beginning to understand what it will take to “do good from the inside.” E Corp is melting down. At a press event, the CTO Jason Plouffe attempts to assuage the public’s fears, but instead shoots himself in the head on live TV. It’s the worst PR disaster possible, but the CEO of E Corp shrugs it off and tells Angela’s she’s going to need some new shoes. Hers have blood on them. Here, she could choose to take her life into a different direction, but she sucks it up, gets new shoes and marches back to work. E Corp has found her bugs. She needs a job, and they can still dangle the carrot of having a direct influence on the corporation she supposedly hates.



Everyone at fsociety is a taken aback that the hack went down, but have no time to find out what happened. They execute the cleanup plan, burning all their hardware and throwing a huge party at headquarters in order to get as many fingerprints on everything as possible.



From the looks of it, not only have the characters passed the point of no return, so has the entire planet. Debt may have been erased, the markets are in free fall, masked fans of fsociety run through the streets and a new world has been born.

HOW THE TITLE RELATES TO THE Characters: Elliot seems to be coming to grips with his split personalities. After all, he can’t just keep blacking out and waking up to find out one of them started a revolution. His conversations with Mr. Robot seem to be getting more productive and he’s understanding intuitively that anything Mr. Robot knows, he knows as well. He’s pushed through the haze he’s going to have to learn how to cope with it.

Angela has made her decision to stick with E Corp despite a million warning signs. She has an ethical minefield ahead of her. Who is she know? We don’t know for sure, but she when she snaps into executive mode and tells off a terrified shoe salesman, it doesn’t seem to be an act.



While fsociety is pressing forward despite all of the confusion, Darlene seems to be ignoring reality to celebrate. One of the most ideologically dedicated to the cause, she is also the only one that knows how screwed up Elliot really is. Can she keep her head on her shoulders or will she drink the Kool-Aid of her own cause?