126 Fun Facts About Mr. Robot

Which US cable channel originally aired Mr. Robot?

USA Network aired Mr. Robot from 2015 to 2019 and renewed it for a second season before the first had even premiered.

Rami Malek, who plays Elliot, won a Best Actor Oscar for portraying which rock star?

Freddie Mercury: Malek flew himself to London before Bohemian Rhapsody was even greenlit and took singing, piano and movement lessons to be ready; the performance won him the 2019 Best Actor Oscar.

Where does Elliot wake up after the E Corp hack, with no memory of the days in between?

In Tyrell's SUV: Elliot comes round alone to learn that the hack has worked and the world is in chaos, while Tyrell, the last person he was with, is nowhere to be found.

What does fsociety plan to do to E Corp's data?

Encrypt it to erase all debt records: locking up E Corp's financial data is meant to cancel consumer debt at a stroke, and when the hack lands at the end of season 1 crowds cheer in the streets.

What does Elliot call the conglomerate that Allsafe protects?

Elliot calls it Evil Corp, and because he narrates, every character on screen is heard saying Evil Corp instead of E Corp.

Whom does Vera have killed minutes after Elliot breaks him out of jail in season 1?

His own brother, Isaac, had ordered the hit that made Vera desperate to get out that very night; once the cells open, Vera has one of his own men kill him.

Where in fsociety's arcade is the gun Darlene stole hidden?

In the popcorn machine: Elliot refuses the gun, so it is stashed there; on the night of the hack he reaches in for it, and the scene cuts away before showing what he does next.

In Mr. Robot's first season, what does Tyrell pay a homeless man $300 for?

Taking a beating from him: when E Corp gives the promotion he expected to someone else, Tyrell hands a homeless man $300 and vents his frustration with his fists.

Who plays Darlene Alderson?

Carly Chaikin plays Darlene Alderson, Elliot's sister, who wrote the malware for the hack and takes charge of fsociety in season 2 while he is off the grid.

Who plays Elliot's childhood friend Angela?

Portia Doubleday plays Angela, who sues E Corp over the toxic leak that killed her mother, then takes a job there and rises through its ranks.

Which illness, blamed on an E Corp toxic leak, killed both Elliot's father and Angela's mother?

Leukemia took both parents after a toxic waste leak that E Corp covered up, and Angela spends season 1 trying to reopen the lawsuit over it.

Which mental health condition explains Mr. Robot's existence?

Dissociative identity disorder sits alongside Elliot's social anxiety disorder and clinical depression; Rami Malek consulted a psychologist to prepare, and Sam Esmail then hired her as a consultant.

On which Coney Island ride does Mr. Robot pitch Elliot his plan to take down E Corp in the pilot?

The Wonder Wheel: Elliot arrives ready to hand the group to the FBI, and high above Coney Island Mr. Robot asks him to alter a data file instead and offers him the chance to bring E Corp down.

What item of Malek's own clothing became Elliot's signature look?

A black hoodie he had owned for years: Malek wore it around the production office until someone asked why Elliot couldn't wear that, and the costume designer then had about 20 copies made.

Which drug does Elliot snort in the first episode of Mr. Robot?

Morphine is Elliot's drug of choice: he snorts it to cope with his loneliness, then takes suboxone to head off withdrawal.

What are Mr. Robot's season 4 episode titles based on?

HTTP status codes title the first ten season 4 episodes, from '401 Unauthorized' to '410 Gone'; until then every title had been styled as a computer file or a command.

What do the endings of Mr. Robot's season 1 episode titles imitate?

Video container formats: every season 1 title ends in an extension such as .mov, .mkv or .avi, as if each episode were a video file; season 2's titles switch to encryption formats, beginning with TrueCrypt's .tc.

What is the title of Mr. Robot's season 3 finale?

'shutdown -r' is the command that reboots a Linux machine, and the season 3 finale it names ends with Elliot starting to reverse the hack on E Corp.

What is the title of Mr. Robot's final episode?

'Hello, Elliot' mirrors the first episode, 'eps1.0_hellofriend.mov', whose title is the first thing Elliot says to the viewer; in the last episode the greeting comes back to him.

Who plays E Corp executive Tyrell Wellick?

Martin Wallström plays Tyrell Wellick, who begins as E Corp's ambitious technology executive and ends up throwing in his lot with fsociety.

What nationality is the actor who plays Mr. Robot's Tyrell Wellick?

Swedish: based in Stockholm, he won the part of Tyrell with self-taped auditions, starting with the pep talk in which Tyrell slaps his own face, before he had read any of the script.

Who plays the hacker known as Whiterose in Mr. Robot?

BD Wong plays Whiterose, the Dark Army's leader, who meets Elliot just once in season 1, inside a signal-proof room, to tell him why her hackers pulled out of the attack.

What official post does Whiterose hold in China?

Minister of State Security is Whiterose's public post in China; Dom's FBI team meets the minister there in season 2 with no idea who they are really talking to.

What is Whiterose's birth name?

Zhi Zhang is the name Whiterose uses in public office; when the season 4 heist exposes that the two are one person, she declares that there is only Whiterose now.

Who plays FBI agent Dominique "Dom" DiPierro?

Grace Gummer plays Dom DiPierro, the FBI agent who arrives in season 2, traces the hackers to their arcade and survives a gun attack in China that kills most of her team.

In Mr. Robot, what position does Phillip Price, played by Michael Cristofer, hold?

CEO of E Corp Phillip Price closes season 1 in a post-credits scene, chatting with Whiterose at a formal party and telling her he knows who is responsible for the hack.

What is Dark Army fixer Irving's day job?

Used car salesman is Irving's cover; by season 4 he has written a novel and is promoting it at an airport bookstore when Dom runs into him.

Who plays the Dark Army fixer Irving in Mr. Robot?

Bobby Cannavale plays Irving, who shakes an FBI tail off Elliot in season 3 and later kills an agent with an axe to force Dom to become the Dark Army's new mole.

Whose drug supplier is Vera when we meet him in season 1?

Shayla's supplier Vera is the only dealer with the suboxone Elliot wants, which is why she keeps dealing with a man she calls a psychopath.

Who plays the drug dealer Vera in Mr. Robot?

Elliot Villar plays Vera, who disappears after season 1 and resurfaces in the last shot of season 3, confronting Darlene outside Elliot's apartment.

Who plays Tyrell's wife Joanna?

Stephanie Corneliussen plays Joanna Wellick, who pays a parking attendant for his silence in season 2 and has him killed once he grows afraid of the FBI.

Which House of Cards actor plays Allsafe boss Gideon Goddard?

Michel Gill, President Garrett Walker on House of Cards, plays Gideon Goddard, whose suspicion of Elliot leads him to turn a hacked server into a honeypot that scares the Dark Army away.

Who composed the score for Mr. Robot?

Mac Quayle got his brief at his first meeting with Sam Esmail: an electronic score, retro and futuristic at once. He built it with the loops and pulsing basses he had learned making dance music.

Which award did Malek win for Mr. Robot in 2016?

Malek won the 2016 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series; he was nominated for three Golden Globes for the role but never won one.

Which award did Slater win in 2016 for playing Mr. Robot?

Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor went to Slater in January 2016, less than two years after his previous series, Mind Games, was cancelled five episodes in; he was nominated again in 2017 and 2018.

Which honour for excellence in broadcasting did Mr. Robot win for its first season?

Peabody Award judges praised Mr. Robot for taking on surveillance, corporate greed and debt, and likened its mood to paranoid 1970s thrillers such as The Conversation.

Which former ER star plays Elliot's therapist, Krista, in Mr. Robot?

Gloria Reuben, twice Emmy-nominated as Jeanie Boulet on ER, plays Krista; in season 1 Elliot confesses to her that he hacks everyone around him as a way out of his loneliness.

Mr. Robot's pilot director Niels Arden Oplev was first to film which bestselling thriller?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Oplev, a Dane, directed the 2009 original and left its two sequels, released the same year, to another director; he made Mr. Robot's pilot six years later.

Which Martin Scorsese film did Sam Esmail credit as the model for Elliot's voice-over?

Taxi Driver, Esmail said, uses voice-over to make the audience a co-conspirator; Elliot is so anxious and awkward that the only way to relate to him is from inside his head.

On which platform did Mr. Robot's pilot get a live-streamed pre-release in May 2015?

Twitch streamed the pilot on May 27, 2015, followed by a live cast Q&A, four weeks before the TV premiere; in June the show staged a fake fsociety hack of Twitch's E3 stream.

Which David Fincher film did Sam Esmail call one of his big inspirations for Mr. Robot?

Fight Club was 'one of my big inspirations', Esmail said; he closed episode nine with 'Where Is My Mind?', the Pixies song that ends that film, to tell viewers he knew it.

Which events of 2011 did Sam Esmail cite as an inspiration for Mr. Robot?

The Egyptian Revolution: Esmail, whose family is Egyptian, visited just afterwards and was struck by how angry young people had used social media against an older generation that didn't know how to use it.

After auditioning over 100 actors for Elliot, what did Sam Esmail begin to second-guess?

His own script: every reading made Elliot sound cold and lecturing, so Esmail thought of rewriting the character, until Rami Malek auditioned with a warmth that made him want to hug Elliot instead.

Mr. Robot began as a feature film script; where did the planned end of its first act land on TV?

The season 1 finale: Esmail was midway through the film's first act when the script outgrew a movie, so he cut its opening into a pilot and let the rest of that act fill the first season.

Why was Mr. Robot's season 1 finale delayed a week?

A scene resembled a real on-air shooting that day: in the finale an executive kills himself on live television, and it was due to air hours after two Virginia journalists were shot dead during a broadcast.

What is E Corp's Steel Mountain?

An offline tape backup facility: Steel Mountain is so cut off from any network that Mr. Robot's first plan is to blow up the gas plant next door, which Elliot refuses because people would die.

Which small computer does Elliot plant on a climate-control network to slowly overheat a data vault?

A Raspberry Pi, wired into the climate control, lets the heat creep up unnoticed; to plant it Elliot has to bluff his way through a heavily guarded facility in person.

Why does Mr. Robot shove Elliot off a railing in episode two?

He told his father's secret: Elliot had promised not to tell his mother about the terminal diagnosis and did; hearing the story, Mr. Robot pushes him onto the rocks below as punishment.

Where does Elliot find his kidnapped friend after breaking Vera out of jail?

In the trunk of a car: once free, Vera hands Elliot a set of car keys and tells him she had been with him all along; her body had been in the car he rode in all day.

Whom does Tyrell strangle on a rooftop in season 1?

Sharon Knowles is strangled at a party celebrating her husband's promotion to the job Tyrell wanted; two seasons later her husband, Scott, is arrested for the murder.

How does Joanna distract police asking about the rooftop murder?

She breaks her own water with a fork, out of the detectives' sight, so the questioning stops and Tyrell is allowed to go with her to the hospital.

What does Elliot find on a CD that reveals Mr. Robot's identity?

The CD holds old family photos of Elliot with his father and Darlene; moments earlier he had kissed Darlene, having forgotten who she was.

What business did Elliot's father run?

Edward Alderson ran a computer repair shop called Mr. Robot; the shop's name is the origin of the title, and young Elliot chose it.

What is Elliot's own hacker handle?

samsepi0l is the name Sam Sepiol in hacker spelling, with a zero for the o; when Elliot needs a false identity to get inside a data facility, Mobley forges an online biography to make it check out.

What name is fsociety's E Corp attack known by?

Five/Nine is the date of the attack, May 9, 2015; it leaves the economy in such chaos that E Corp ends up seeking a bailout from China.

Which pills does Elliot binge on in season 2 to try to get rid of Mr. Robot?

Adderall, supplied by Leon: the pills come back up when kidnappers, real or imagined, force cement down his throat; Elliot swallows them again, and the binge ends in a breakdown.

What crime lands Elliot in jail in season 2?

Hacking his therapist's ex and taking his dog catches up with Elliot at the end of season 1: he pleads guilty and serves 86 days of an 18-month sentence before an early release.

Which comedian plays Ray, the prison warden with a dark-web sideline, in Mr. Robot?

Craig Robinson plays Ray, who needs Elliot to repair his hidden marketplace; when Elliot sees that it sells guns, drugs and people, he tips off the FBI.

Which rapper plays Leon, Elliot's sitcom-obsessed Dark Army minder?

Joey Badass plays Leon, who chats about television for half a season until a gang attacks Elliot; Leon stops them and reveals that the Dark Army sent him to keep Elliot safe.

Which 1980s TV character turns up in Mr. Robot's sitcom-parody episode?

ALF turns up in 'm4ster-s1ave', a sitcom fantasy that Mr. Robot conjures to protect Elliot's mind while he is being beaten; he tells him to keep his eyes forward until he is ready to wake.

What is the result of Elliot's chess match against Mr. Robot in season 2?

Every game is a stalemate: Mr. Robot had promised to leave for good if Elliot beat him, and three stalemates in a row leave the two of them stuck with each other.

In Mr. Robot's season 2, what does the code name Berenstain refer to?

An illegal FBI surveillance program: fsociety listens in on a Bureau conference call, learns that millions of people are being watched, and leaks the recording in a video.

What is the name of E Corp's cryptocurrency?

Ecoin is E Corp's digital currency; the company uses its Chinese bailout money to strengthen it, which forces the US government to back Ecoin in order to keep pace with China.

Which African country does Price let China annex in exchange for a bailout?

Price agrees to let China annex the Congo; Whiterose wants to relocate her secret project there.

What is Dark Army leader Whiterose obsessed with, as Elliot learns at their first meeting?

Whiterose is obsessed with time: at their first meeting she gives Elliot a deadline counted to the minute, a little over 50 hours, to shut down the honeypot that had scared the Dark Army off.

How does Susan Jacobs, E Corp's general counsel, die?

Darlene shocks Susan with a stun gun during her interrogation at the smart house; Susan had a heart condition and dies on the spot.

Where are Mobley and Trenton hiding at the end of season 2?

Phoenix, Arizona is where Mobley and Trenton end up working in an electronics store under false names, until Leon walks up to them in the closing scene of the season 2 finale.

What is the real name of fsociety hacker "Trenton"?

Shama Biswas is Trenton's real name; after her death an email she had written reaches Elliot, telling him there may be a way to undo the hack.

What does the Dark Army's "Stage 2" involve?

Stage 2 is blowing up E Corp's paper records facility; Elliot's attempt to stop it by moving the records to other buildings ends up making it far worse.

In Mr. Robot, which country is fsociety falsely tied to after Trenton and Mobley die?

Iran takes the blame: the Dark Army plants evidence beside the pair's bodies, so the FBI's investigation stops at fsociety instead of reaching Whiterose.

How was "eps3.4_runtime-error.r00" presented?

It plays as a single continuous shot, but it was filmed in pieces at several locations, and the pieces were stitched together so that the cuts don't show.

Which real US president is shown in altered footage naming Tyrell Wellick and fsociety in Mr. Robot's season 2 premiere?

Barack Obama: the show took genuine footage of a 2014 press conference and added a line he never spoke, so the sitting president seems to blame the hack on a fictional executive.

In Mr. Robot, who shoots Joanna Wellick dead in season 3?

Derek, her lover, shoots Joanna after she goes on television to say she will always love Tyrell; her fixer, Mr. Sutherland, is hit first but comes round and kills him.

Mr. Robot's cinematography is known for placing characters where in the frame?

At the very bottom: cinematographer Tod Campbell leaves heavy headroom above the characters, so a weight seems to hang over them and they look isolated even when they are talking to each other.

Which FBI supervisor turns out to be a Dark Army mole?

Ernesto Santiago, Dom's boss, is the Dark Army's mole inside the FBI; Irving kills him with an axe outside a barn in the season 3 finale, then forces Dom to take his place.

In Mr. Robot's season 3 finale, who is revealed to be Angela's biological father?

Phillip Price is Angela's biological father, a secret he reveals to persuade her that Whiterose has been using her; Donald Moss is the man who raised her.

Who saved the encryption keys that let Elliot reverse the E Corp hack?

Mr. Robot saved the keys; Elliot had assumed Romero kept them, but the FBI's records of Romero's machines point back to his own alter ego.

What happens to Angela at the start of season 4?

Dark Army agents kill her moments after she vows revenge on Whiterose, who then sends Elliot a photo of the body as a warning.

What is the Deus Group?

The Deus Group is the cabal that funds the Dark Army, built up by Whiterose over decades; Price quits his post to force its members to meet in person and choose a successor, which gives Elliot his opening.

In Mr. Robot, Elliot and Darlene rob the Deus Group by hacking which institution that Whiterose uses?

Cyprus National Bank surfaces when Elliot and Mr. Robot blackmail a lawyer, Freddy; Elliot later gets a passcode by seducing bank employee Olivia Cortez.

On what day do Elliot and Darlene break into the Virtual Realty server farm?

It is Christmas morning, and the heist plays out almost without dialogue: barely a line is spoken before Elliot leads police on a long foot chase across the city.

What is the day job of Janice, Dom's Dark Army handler in season 4?

Janice is a taxidermist, and she befriends Dom's mother to get close to her.

Whom does Dom send to rescue her family from the Dark Army?

Dom calls in Deegan Maguire and his Irish mob crew; with her family safe she shoots Janice in the head.

Where does Darlene plan to fly with Dom in "410 Gone"?

They plan to fly to Budapest; Darlene misses the flight after a panic attack, and Dom boards alone.

What does Darlene do with the money stolen from the Deus Group?

Darlene shares it out among ordinary people, sending a large part of the Deus Group's fortune to everyone who holds an account in E Corp's digital currency; she calls it justice.

Where does Elliot go alone in "410 Gone"?

Elliot heads alone for the Washington Township plant, whose leak killed his father and Angela's mother and where Whiterose's machine is hidden; he arrives to find it eerily deserted.

What does Whiterose leave for Elliot on an old computer in "eXit"?

Whiterose leaves a text adventure game on an old computer; Elliot plays it thinking he can stop the meltdown, but seems to be too late.

In the alternate world, who is Elliot about to marry?

Angela is his fiancée there, with the wedding a day away; that Elliot is the cheerful boss of Allsafe and close to a father who is still alive, everything his real life is not.

In Mr. Robot's finale, what name is given to the persona viewers have followed all series?

The persona is called the Mastermind; Krista explains he created the utopia to keep the real Elliot trapped and asleep.

Whose voice greets the real Elliot when he wakes in hospital?

His sister Darlene greets him; she is the real Elliot's strongest tie to reality, which is why the fantasy world built to hold him had no Darlene in it.

Whose track "Outro" plays over the closing sequence of Mr. Robot's finale?

M83's "Outro", the last track of the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, plays as the persona we have followed steps back and the real Elliot wakes up in hospital.

In Mr. Robot, how does Whiterose die?

She shoots herself in front of Elliot after switching on her machine, telling him the choice is now his; her men had already killed the FBI agents sent to arrest her.

Who holds Elliot and his therapist hostage in "407 Proxy Authentication Required"?

Fernando Vera holds Elliot and Krista in her apartment for the whole of "407 Proxy Authentication Required", forcing the therapy session that reveals Elliot's childhood abuse.

What structure did critics compare "407 Proxy Authentication Required" to?

A five-act play: the hour unfolds almost entirely in two adjoining rooms, with stage-style audio cues, and it was broadcast without commercial breaks.

Where did Vera say he built a criminal empire before coming back for Elliot?

The Dominican Republic is where Vera says he went after escaping jail, taking control of its underworld before coming back to recruit Elliot as his partner.

Who kills the drug lord Vera in season 4?

Krista Gordon creeps up behind Vera and stabs him in the back while he is busy consoling Elliot.

How does Allsafe boss Gideon Goddard die in season 2?

A stranger shoots him in a bar: a man named Brock strikes up a conversation, then pulls a gun and kills him in front of the other drinkers, soon after Gideon had threatened to tell the FBI about Elliot.

Which real hacking-conference founder joined Mr. Robot's technical advisory team?

Jeff Moss, who founded both the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, joined from season 2, when the show gathered a team of working hackers to keep its on-screen attacks authentic.

Which operating system distribution appears in multiple episodes' hacking scenes?

Kali Linux, the penetration-testing distribution, shows up on Elliot's screens; the tech team performed real hacks, recorded them and rebuilt them as animation.

In Mr. Robot, which gadget does lonely FBI agent Dom DiPierro confide in at night?

Her Amazon Echo: Dom asks Alexa whether they are friends and whether it loves her, and in the final season Darlene smashes the device, telling her it is not a real friend.

What was the title of the 2016 tie-in book by Esmail and Courtney Looney?

Red Wheelbarrow is the title; it shares its name with the barbecue restaurant whose basement hides Tyrell in season 3.

Which studio published the mobile game Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n?

Telltale Games published the 2016 game, which Night School Studio developed; players find an fsociety member's phone and help bring down E Corp.

Which time-travel sequel does Mr. Robot's Elliot go to see at the cinema?

Back to the Future Part II is a film Elliot loves, and the episode is set on October 21, 2015, 'Back to the Future Day': the very date Marty McFly travels to in it.

What is the name of Elliot's pet fish?

Elliot keeps a betta fish named Qwerty, a present from the neighbour who moved in next door; the name is the top row of letters on a keyboard.

What was the name of the party whose poster leads FBI agent Dom to fsociety's hideout?

End of the World Party: Dom spots its poster while visiting a suspect's mother, follows the address and finds the place fsociety worked from.

What business does Rohit "Ron" Mehta run in the pilot's opening scene?

Ron's Coffee is a coffee shop; in the pilot Elliot confronts its owner over the criminal site he runs through the shop's servers and tips off the police.

Why was Esmail put on academic probation at NYU?

For hacking emails in the computer lab where he worked: the intrusion was traced to a staff computer and time-stamped to his shift, so he was fired and, he says, gave up hacking.

Which Amazon series starring Julia Roberts did Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail also direct?

Homecoming (2018) starred Julia Roberts; Esmail directed its whole first season and stayed on as an executive producer for the second.

Which apocalyptic film did Esmail write and direct?

Leave the World Behind (2023), from Rumaan Alam's novel, strands two families in a rented holiday home as a cyberattack knocks out their phones and television: hacking again, seen this time from the victims' side.

Which famous statue does fsociety mutilate, dropping a piece of it into Congress during a vote?

The Charging Bull loses a notorious part of its anatomy, which fsociety drops into the chamber while Congress is voting on E Corp's bailout, breaking up the session.

How does Cisco hack the laptop of Angela's boyfriend Ollie in season 1?

With an infected CD: Cisco sells it to him on the street, and once it is in the laptop he controls the webcam and uses what he sees to press Ollie into infecting Allsafe.

On which sitcom did Chaikin play Dalia Royce before Mr. Robot?

Suburgatory cast Chaikin as Dalia Royce, the mean girl of its suburb; ABC cancelled the sitcom in May 2014, and by that September she had been cast in Mr. Robot.

Doubleday first drew notice as Sheeni Saunders in which 2009 film?

Youth in Revolt (2009) cast Doubleday as Sheeni Saunders, the girl for whom Michael Cera's Nick Twisp invents a bad-boy alter ego named François so that he can get back to her.

The actor who plays Whiterose won a Tony Award for which play?

M. Butterfly won him the Tony as Song Liling, a Chinese spy who lives for 20 years as a woman: the mirror image of Whiterose, who has to pass as a man in public.

Cristofer, who plays Price, won a Pulitzer Prize for which play?

The Shadow Box won Cristofer the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony for Best Play; he later moved behind the camera, directing Angelina Jolie in Gia.

Cannavale won a Supporting Actor Emmy for playing Gyp Rosetti on which series?

Boardwalk Empire brought Cannavale in for one season as the psychopathic gangster Gyp Rosetti and won him the 2013 Emmy; his first, in 2005, had been for a comic guest part on Will & Grace.

The actress who plays FBI agent Dom DiPierro is the daughter of which Oscar winner?

Meryl Streep is her mother, and her first screen role, as a child in The House of the Spirits (1993), was as the younger version of Streep's own character.

At which festival did Mr. Robot's pilot win an Audience Award before it aired on television?

SXSW gave the pilot its Audience Award for episodic work in 2015, and the series was renewed for a second season before the first had even begun on television.

Which anthology series has Mr. Robot's composer also scored?

American Horror Story wanted a new sound for its fourth season, Freak Show; he had assisted on Ryan Murphy's film The Normal Heart, sent in some music and was hired the next day.

Which stand-up comedian plays Elliot's E Corp coworker Samar Swailem?

Ramy Youssef plays Samar Swailem, appearing in season 3 when Elliot is working inside E Corp; he later created the Hulu series Ramy.

Where does Angela realise the fsociety mask comes from?

The mask comes from The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie, a horror movie she and Elliot watched as kids; the memory convinces her that Elliot and Darlene created fsociety.

Who pulls Elliot back from suicide in season 3?

Trenton's little brother Mohammad, whom Elliot spends the day with in "dont-delete-me", pulls him back; Elliot then plays the old wishing game with Angela.

Which sitcom does Leon talk about endlessly in season 2?

Leon is obsessed with Seinfeld; long riffs on a show about nothing are how he is introduced in season 2, before he turns out to be the Dark Army's man watching over Elliot.

Whom does Elliot frame for the pilot's DDoS attack on E Corp?

Terry Colby, the CTO, takes the fall: Elliot hands the FBI a .dat file altered to implicate him, making the switch only after Colby has Angela removed from the meeting.

Why were Mr. Robot's Times Square scenes shot just before July 4?

To catch it at its emptiest: unable to close Times Square for the season 1 finale, the crew shot late at night just before the holiday weekend, when, as Esmail put it, everyone had already gone on vacation.

Which hacker does Mobley recruit into fsociety in a season 2 flashback?

Romero had just left prison and offered to rent Mobley a hideout; Mobley recruited him instead, promising a way to hit back at the system that had locked him up.