For the last two weeks, I have been talking about my theory that Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) might actually represent the Alter instead of the dominant personality within E-Prime.

I still am not entirely sure that I am right about this theory but it would answer this one important question:

Why is Elliot so obsessed with getting rid of Mr. Robot (Christian Slater)?

Dominant personalities are dominant precisely because their talents are called for more often than the talents of other fractured parts of the "personality world" that the person with Dissociative Identity Disorder inhabits.

Regardless of who ultimately controls E-Prime's body, both Elliot and Mr. Robot serve distinctly different purposes in the larger E-ecosystem.

Mr. Robot handles anything that requires emotional detachment (like taking beatings, committing violence, or putting potentially damaging plans into play while Elliot is in charge when Elliot Prime is dealing with sadness, empathy, friendship, or loneliness.

Mr. Robot is from Mars and Elliot is from Venus?

But it makes me wonder.

We know that Elliot views E-Prime's dissociations as if Mr. Robot is trying to "take-over." But we also know that dissociation is (really) a self-protective reaction (when E-Prime can't face whatever is happening to him he dissociates control to the parts of his personality that are best suited to handle those events).

From what I have read, Alters may keep secrets from each other (again for protective reasons) and while they can, at times, have an antagonistic relationship.

Elliot and Mr. Robot, however, often seem to be in a civil war each fully utilizing the most likely tools available to their personality fragments (Elliot tries to freeze Mr. Robot out by maintaining control while Mr. Robot tries to violently wake Elliot up to the realities that he sees but that Elliot denies).

I am either going to look like a genius or like a very prolific idiot during Season 3 (most probably I will look like an idiot).

Anyway, Elliot's newest scheme, as you might recall from Season 2 (the book has caught up to the show), is to maintain control of E-Prime is to take so much Adderall that he never sleeps

Ultimately, Elliot takes so much Adderall that he overdoses (an event that was depicted in S2 as Elliot being captured by "Men in Black").

The book adds some context here, Elliot shares that he perceived the abduction by the"Men in Black" as Mr. Robot fooling him into thinking that Tyrell was sending HIS men after him.

This is probably tied to Elliot's feelings of guilt (at this point, he still believes that he shot Tyrell) but it also demonstrates that Elliot has "too much paranoias" (that he relates to his fears through catastrophic paranoias).