It is easy to get misled watching Mr. Robot.

One of Sam’s favorite tricks is to make us feel like what Sam and Mr. Robot are doing is happening simultaneously when, obviously, if they are both on screen simultaneously, things are happening at different times.

In this particular instance, at the conclusion of “Elliot’s Excellent Adventure,” Mr. Robot took control of E-Prime and took the opportunity to do a little online research.

Ultimately, he figured out three things:

1. Elliot now knows how to reverse 5/9 by using the FBI server to get Romero’s data encryption keys.

2. The Dark Army is running the FBI

3. That he needs Tyrell Wellick and Elliot to join the team he is putting together to fight the Dark Army

Yes, it was Mr. Robot and not Elliot who set the wheels of this entire plan into operation (which also suggests that Mr. Robot and Elliot are working towards a common purpose for the first time in a LONG time).

Sam misled us with simultaneous storylines to maintain the fiction that Elliot was in charge and the fiction that Mr. Robot and Elliot are working at cross-purposes.

Ever since that moment where Elliot convinced Mr. Robot that the Dark Army had betrayed them in order to stop Stage 2 (unsuccessfully), you could tell how angry Mr. Robot was to find out that the Dr. Army had hijacked his plans.

And let us not forget that last week Elliot admitted (again) that he IS Mr. Robot (remember, Dissociatives are fragmented wholes and the “alters” are mostly protective in nature).

<We appear to be approaching reintegration rather than disintegration>

What is it that Mr. Robot and Elliot are up to? Nothing too ambitious, they are just planning to take down the Dark Army.

The first step is to get Tyrell on board, so Mr. Robot goes to see Tyrell who was lying on the floor crying next to his baby’s crib (very sad).

I am sure it will come as no surprise that Mr. Robot manages to offend Tyrell so much that he pulled out the plastic gloves from those halcyon days during Season 1 when he used to pay homeless guys to let him beat them up and commenced to beating the hell out of Mr. Robot.