So, as I suspected, we learned some really important information in the most disturbing way possible.

Elliot Alderson jumped out the window because Edward Alderson had been sexually molesting him and he tried to escape by jumping out of the window.

There were two tells most everyone missed, one was a little moment I have commented about several times but misread, during the Word Up Wednesday episode way back in Season 2, During the fantasy sequence (happening while Elliot was getting beaten up) Edward made some nasty comments about Magda that seemed out of character for Mr. Robot but this was one of the only times we were seeing Edward and not Mr. Robot.

Mr. Robot was always the idealized Edward, the Edward Elliot wished existed and not the real Eliot.

The second tell was when Elliot was in the store with Edward when Edward didn’t punish Elliot for stealing $20 from one of his customers (in what was ultimately a failing business and a business Edward could not afford to lose money from). Edward was grooming Elliot throughout that scene and you could already see Elliot’s anger.

Later, when we see them at the movies, and Edward collapses from his cancer, Elliot leaves him on the ground and chooses to go watch the movie by himself which at the time seemed cruel and maybe even to suggest that Elliot was cruel, but he was actually so traumatized and angry that he was glad his father collapsed.

So, to recap…

Elliot was abused by Edward which explains the titanic anger and need for revenge.

Mr. Robot is the father he wished he had and who protects him from the realities of the world (including his real father).

The abuse created the break that created the dissociative identity disorder.

This also explains all of the Lolita references, I think I even suggested at an earlier point that Edward might have been an abuser (just not of Elliot).

I was right that there had to be a reason for the dissociative break, I was wrong about what the instigating trauma was about.

This also explains why almost all of the targets of Elliot’s attacks abused children and why he protects people he thinks have been abused. It is also why what he did to Olivia was a sign that something very bad is going on with him.

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