Sam was nice enough to mention (on the USA Network portion of the Verge aftershow) that some people were starting to get the idea of what the S3 twist would be.

A few weeks ago, I suggested that the twist might be that Stage 2 was targeting the 71 archival locations suggested on the map that Tyrell had on the wall in his original Stage 2 location. These were the same facilities that Elliot sent everything back to a few weeks ago.

Remember, as I detailed in my recap two weeks ago, Mr. Robot and Tyrell were present when Elliot exposed his plan to stop Stage Two. So:

Why would they continue to implement Stage 2 in the same manner if they knew how Elliot would block it. Why would Sam Esmail keep dropping hints about the 71 facilities (most recently literally sending out the map of the facility in the E-Corp training packet?

I could be wrong (and often am) but I am thinking this way explicitly because the last time I had this kind of feeling about one of Sam’s loose ends (why did Elliot need to use Ray’s computer in S2 if he wasn’t institutionalized) I became one of the first people pushing the Elliot/Institutionalized theory (you can look back on Reddit, I was not THE first but I was about two hours after the first guy suggested it because he saw prison bars on Elliot’s window).

Absolutely not saying that to brag, I have been wrong many times too. But the reason I got that one right is because Sam left a tell (Ray’s computer).

I might turn out to be wrong, it could be parallel universes, or the simulation theory, or Darlene will die (which would be a plot point, not a twist IMHO), but so far, as Sam said on the aftershow, they foreshadow twists and every clue has a purpose. Why keep mentioning 71 facilities if they aren’t important?

I have always been an Occam’s Razor person when it comes to Mr. Robot, I don’t think we are going sci-fi (although I think ‘whiterose’ will try and fail).

So, I am guessing, the DA will be attacking 71 facilities (which would circumvent the digitization efforts) and that Mr. Robot was mad about being locked out of the update not mad because Elliot sent the data back.

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