Sure enough, Wellick fingered Trenton and Mobley to the F.B.I., setting up the old tense crosscutting-between-two-timelines trick that ended with them starring in an incriminating suicide pact scenario, complete with an Iranian flag. Official case closed (though Dom’s pursuit of Whiterose figures to continue one way or another). Frank Cody’s fans will no doubt take comfort in the fact that they can resume blaming Muslims for terrorism.

I said earlier that Trenton and Mobely were blameless, which isn’t totally true — they were instrumental in the original hack. Then once people like Romero (randomly) and Susan Jacobs started dying and the F.B.I. got close, they looked for a way out.

But like nearly everyone else involved in 5/9 and its aftermath, they learned that their lives no longer belonged to them. Theirs was only the most lethal reckoning this week, which also saw Angela denying the reality she helped to create, Mr. Robot confronting his chump status and even Phillip Price, who wants to be the most powerful person in any room, getting cut off at the knees. For now, anyway, Whiterose has gotten away with everything, as Dom noted, and plans to move her operations to Congo, and perhaps find new worlds to conquer.

The lesson, as usual on this show, is that control is an illusion, a mirage that lasts precisely as long as the world’s true masters allow it to.

“Your revolution was only allowed to happen because it was bought and paid for by people like them,” Irving told Mr. Robot, nodding toward heedless elites partying on a Manhattan rooftop. “Face it: No matter how hard you try, that’s always the end result.”

A Few Thoughts While We Call Our Mother

• I assume Santiago’s chats with his mom are intended to humanize him, and whatever leverage the Dark Army has on him could involve her as well. But while Omar Metwally gives a convincing portrayal of a cornered rat — this week rebuking underlings and taking out his anxiety and perhaps some grudge to be named later on Wellick — I’m getting a little tired of this particular mystery. An explanation to how he really connects to all of this feels overdue.

• Raise your hand if you still have the “Knight Rider” theme stuck in your head. If you didn’t before, you do now. (You’re welcome.)