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Mr. Robot

Season 1, Episode 1 — eps1.0_hellofriend.mov

TMDB episode metadata

Show: Mr. Robot

Episode title: eps1.0_hellofriend.mov

Air date: June 24, 2015

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Top billed cast: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, Martin Wallström

Elliot, a cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, is recruited by a mysterious underground group to destroy the firm he's paid to protect. Elliot must decide how far he'll go to expose the forces he believes are running (and ruining) the world.

Source: TMDB

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Hello, friend.

friend

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"Hello, friend?" That's lame.

friend lame

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Maybe I should give you a name.

name

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But that's a slippery slope. You're only in my head.

head slippery slippery-slope slope

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We have to remember that.

remember

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Shit.

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It's actually happened. I'm talking to an imaginary person.

happened imaginary person

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What I'm about to tell you is top secret.

secret

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A conspiracy bigger than all of us.

bigger conspiracy

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There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world.

group powerful running secretly world

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I'm talking about the guys no one knows about.

knows

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The guys that are invisible.

invisible

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The top one percent of the top one percent.

percent

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The guys that play God without permission.

permission

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And now I think they're following me.

following

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This is about last night.

night

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I should've gone to Angela's birthday party.

angelas birthday birthday-party gone party shouldve

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Instead, I went to...

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Hey, Ron.

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There you are.

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You're Ron?

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But...

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Your real name is Rohit D'Temeta.

name real real-name

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You changed it to Ron when you bought your first

bought changed

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Ron's Coffee shop six years ago.

coffee coffee-shop shop years

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Now, you got 17 of 'em with eight more coming next quarter.

coming eight quarter

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May I help you with something?

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I like coming here, 'cause your Wi-Fi was fast.

coming fast

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I mean, you're one of the few spots that has a fiber connection with gigabit speed.

connection fiber speed spots

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It's good.

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I mean, it was so good, it scratched that part of my mind.

mind part scratched

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The part that...

part

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...doesn't allow good to exist without condition.

allow condition exist

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So, I started intercepting all the traffic on your network.

network started traffic

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That's when I noticed something strange.

noticed strange

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That's when I decided to hack you.

decided hack

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- Hack... - I know you run a website called Plato's Boys.

boys called hack website

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Pardon me?

pardon

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You're using Tor networking to keep the servers anonymous.

anonymous servers using

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You made it really hard for anyone to see it.

hard

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But I saw it.

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The onion routing protocol, it's not as anonymous as you think it is.

anonymous onion protocol

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Whoever's in control of the exit nodes is also in control of the traffic,

control exit traffic whoevers

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which makes me...

makes

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...the one in control.

control

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- I must ask you to kindly leave, please. - I own everything.

kindly must

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All your emails. All your files.

emails files

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All your pics.

pics

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Get out of here, right now, or I'll call the...

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Police?

police

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I mean, you want them to find out about the hundred terabytes of child pornography

child hundred pornography

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you serve to your 400,000 users?

serve users

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Personally, man,

personally

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I was hoping it was just gonna be some BDSM stuff.

hoping stuff

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You realize how much simpler that would've been?

realize simpler wouldve

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I did not hurt anyone.

hurt

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I never did.

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That's my... personal life.

life personal personal-life

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I understand what it's like

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to be different.

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I'm very different, too.

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I mean, I don't jerk off to little kids, but...

jerk kids

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I don't know how to talk to people.

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My dad was the only one I could talk to.

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But he died.

died

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I'm sorry to hear that.

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How did he pass, may I ask?

pass

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Leukemia.

leukemia

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Yeah, he definitely got it from

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radiation at the company he worked at, though I couldn't prove it.

company prove worked

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Now, he's dead.

dead

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Company's fine, though.

companys

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Oh, hey...

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It's okay, Rohit.

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You don't have to worry anymore.

anymore worry

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I don't understand.

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Are you blackmailing me?

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So that's what this is about? Money?

money

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That's all you care about, hmm?

care

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No.

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If I pay you now, you'll want more and more.

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No matter how much I give.

matter

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You will inform the police anyway.

inform police

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I won't pay you, sir.

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Remember, you also broke the law.

broke remember

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Actually, you're right.

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Partly.

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See, I usually do this kind of thing from my computer,

computer usually

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but this time I wanted to do it AFK.

wanted

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In person.

person

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I'm trying to work on my social anxiety.

anxiety social

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But there's always the threat of you fleeing after I call you out.

threat

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You know, you tell your sysadmin to take your servers down, wipe all the data.

data servers wipe

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So...

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I made sure to include the current time and location on my anonymous tip.

anonymous current include location

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Wait, hold on. I'll give you the money. I'll pay you.

money

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How much do you want? I'll pay you.

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That's the part you were wrong about, Rohit.

part

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I don't give a shit about money.

money

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Now, I'm being followed.

followed

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The higher-ups don't like someone with my powers.

higher powers

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In three short minutes, I destroyed a man's business, life, existence.

business destroyed existence life mans minutes short three

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- I deleted him. - Hey!

deleted

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Hey, you!

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Hey, kiddo.

kiddo

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What's happening?

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Exciting time in the world right now.

exciting world

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Exciting time.

exciting

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But I'm only a vigilante hacker by night.

hacker night

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By day, just a regular cyber-security engineer.

cyber engineer regular security

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Employee number ER-280652.

employee number

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Elliot?

elliot

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In here.

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- What's up? - Yo.

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- I do. It's not about the... - All Of the...

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I can... Yeah, I can totally...

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I can totally handle it.

handle

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Look, they were hacked again last night.

hacked night

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That's my childhood friend, Angela.

angela childhood friend

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She can be a bit high-strung sometimes.

sometimes

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But, trust me, she's one of the good ones.

ones trust

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What am I looking at? Is this the log file? This was a RUDY attack.

attack file looking rudy

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- This is awesome. - Gideon, will you please answer me?

answer awesome gideon

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Awesome? You think this is awesome?

awesome

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This is killing us, Elliot.

elliot killing

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Gideon, I'm not leaving... - Angela!

angela gideon leaving

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Let's just see how this meeting goes today.

meeting today

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I mean, their... Their networks are getting attacked every week.

attacked networks week

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Who knows if they'll still even be a client.

client knows

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- They're coming in? - Yeah.

coming

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What did we say about the dress code?

code dress

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All right, now, look over those logs and be ready,

logs ready

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this afternoon, in case they have any questions.

afternoon case questions

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Okay?

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Okay.

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Did you start smoking again?

smoking start

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Did you not get my texts last night?

night texts

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I sent you exactly 13 of them.

sent

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Yeah, sorry. I couldn't make it.

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You promised me that you were gonna try this time.

promised

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Stop thinking about something else when I'm talking to you.

thinking

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I hate when you do that.

hate

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Sorry.

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I was... thinking about work.

thinking

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Maybe that's why Gideon loves you so much.

gideon loves

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He thanks me all the time for bringing you in.

bringing thanks

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But, for some reason, I think you secretly hate it here.

hate reason secretly

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She was right.

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I like most of the people, but our business,

business

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a cyber-security firm that protects corporations,

corporations cyber firm security

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I can't think of anything I hate more.

hate

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No, I love it here.

love

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I'm sorry.

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I'm just in a bad mood.

mood

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I'm late on my last two student loan payments.

late loan payments student

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And I can't get Gideon to give me a raise.

gideon raise

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- Hey. - Hi.

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Yo, buddy.

buddy

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- Missed you last night. Where were you? - Gotta go.

missed night

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Big meeting today.

meeting today

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Did you find out what happened?

happened

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Yeah. He said he was working.

working

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Ugh, come on. You gotta talk to him.

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We're gonna be late for the staff meeting.

late meeting staff

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He can't stand me. And you know why.

stand

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Angela,

angela

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I can't have that kind of negativity in my life.

life

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That's exactly what I'm talking about.

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What are you thinking about?

thinking

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Nothing.

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You wanna know what I'm thinking about?

thinking

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The first time you came to me.

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I didn't exactly come to Krista.

krista

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I was forced here. But I do like her.

forced

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Hacking her was simple.

hacking simple

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Her password? Dylan_2791.

password

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Favorite artist and the year in which she was born, backwards.

artist backwards born favorite

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Though she's a psychologist, she's really bad at reading people.

psychologist reading

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But I'm good at reading people. My secret?

reading secret

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I look for the worst in them.

worst

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I know she went through a divorce four years ago.

divorce four four-years years

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I know she was devastated by it and has been dating losers on eHarmony ever since.

dating devastated losers

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Her most recent foray? Michael Hansen.

hansen michael michael-hansen recent

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I searched for him online, but nothing came up.

online searched

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No Linkedln, no Facebook. Nothing.

facebook

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Something about him bugs me.

bugs

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Scratching that part of my mind again.

mind part scratching

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But I'll hack him soon enough. I always do.

hack

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I know you're not yelling like before, which is good,

yelling

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but I can tell you're still holding on to it.

holding

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And we need to work on your anger issues, Elliot.

anger elliot issues

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You're angry at everyone.

angry

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- At society... - F... society.

society

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I know you have a lot to be angry about,

angry

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but keeping it to yourself and staying quiet,

keeping quiet staying

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like you're doing, it's not going to help you.

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There's pain underneath.

pain underneath

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That's where our work needs to go.

needs

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What is it about society that disappoints you so much?

disappoints society

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Oh, I don't know.

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Is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man,

jobs steve

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even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children?

backs billions children

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Or maybe it's that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit.

feels heroes

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The world itself's just one big hoax.

world

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Spamming each other with our burning commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight.

bullshit burning insight

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Our social media faking as intimacy.

faking intimacy media social social-media

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Or is it that we voted for this?

voted

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Not with our rigged elections, but with our things.

rigged

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Our property. Our money.

money property

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I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this.

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Not because Hunger Games books makes us happy.

books games happy hunger makes

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But because we wanna be sedated.

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Because it's painful not to pretend. Because we're cowards.

cowards painful pretend

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- F... society. - Elliot.

elliot society

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Elliot, you're not saying anything.

elliot

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What's wrong?

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Nothing.

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Don't be frustrated.

frustrated

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Why shouldn't I be?

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You're different than most.

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You at least try.

least

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You at least understand.

least

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Understand what?

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What it's like to feel alone.

alone

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You understand the pain.

pain

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You wanna protect people from it.

protect

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You wanna protect me from it.

protect

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I respect that about you.

respect

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Why do you think I know what it's like to feel alone?

alone

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Shit. From her emails.

emails

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Elliot?

elliot

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I don't know.

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Let's talk about last night.

night

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Did you go to Angela's birthday party?

angelas birthday birthday-party party

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Yeah. It was nice.

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- Did you try to talk to anyone? - Sure.

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I got a girl's number.

girls number

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- You did? - She's cute.

cute

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She likes The Hunger Games.

games hunger likes

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You're hiding again, Elliot.

elliot hiding

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When you hide, your delusions come back.

hide

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It's a slippery slope.

slippery slippery-slope slope

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Let's talk about the men in black you've been seeing.

black seeing

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Are they still there?

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No, they're...

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I told you, they're gone.

gone

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The meds you gave me are working.

meds working

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Yo, man.

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Do you wanna, uh...

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You wanna do lunch today?

lunch lunch-today today

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Uh, yeah.

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- I got other... - Plans, right.

plans

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That's what you said the last three times I asked you, uh...

asked three three-times times

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Look, bud, you and Angela have been close for a long time.

angela close

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And that's even more reason why I want us to be on good terms.

reason terms

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I just... I feel like things have been awkward between us.

awkward

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Don't you?

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I'm okay with it being awkward between us.

awkward

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Um, yeah, I'm... I'm not okay with that.

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Um...

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Look, man, I love Angela and I want us to...

angela love

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To get along, for her sake.

along sake

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I mean, that's, that's what I'm kinda... That's what I'm here for.

kinda

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I just, I...

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I don't normally do stuff like this.

normally stuff

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Am I crazy not to like this guy?

crazy

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Among some of his Facebook likes are

among facebook likes

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George W. Bush's decision points,

decision george points

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Revenge of the Fallen,

fallen revenge

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- and the music of Josh Groban...

groban josh josh-groban music

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Must I really justify myself any further?

further justify must

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Working on that shit, you know?

working

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His was the easiest to hack.

easiest hack

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Password was 123456Seven.

password

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I witnessed his first "I love you" with Angela over GChat.

angela love witnessed

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Then I witnessed the first Of many infidelities with Stella B.

stella witnessed

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I've never done anything like this before...

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I've thought about telling Angela but she has shitty taste in men

angela shitty taste telling

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and I'm not quite ready to see what comes after this just yet.

comes ready

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You like music. I like music.

music

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Maroon 5?

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Plus, I can manage Ollie easier than the others.

easier manage ollie others plus

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For now, anyway.

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And that's all I mean.

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I just want you to know that.

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I like you, bro.

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And I want you to like me, too.

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I understand.

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I'll try harder.

harder

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That's cool, man.

cool

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Hey, whenever you're ready, I'd love to just...

love ready

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...chill.

chill

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Oh, forgot about your... no touching thing.

forgot touching

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Truth is, I shouldn't hate Ollie. He's not that bad a guy.

hate ollie truth

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He's too dumb to be bad.

dumb

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In fact, when I think about the really bad people...

fact

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E Corp, the largest conglomerate in the world.

conglomerate corp largest world

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They're so big, they're literally everywhere.

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A perfect monster of modern society.

modern monster perfect society

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The "E" might as well stand for "Evil."

evil might stand

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...electronics and all of life's necessities...

electronics lifes

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In fact, after a thorough, intensive self-reprogramming,

fact intensive self

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that's all my mind hears, sees, or reads when they pop up in my world.

hears mind reads sees world

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Together, we can change the world...

change world

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- ...with E Corp. - Evil Corp.

corp evil evil-corp

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Krista would have a shit fit if she knew I did that.

krista

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But that's what they are, a conglomerate of evil.

conglomerate evil

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And now I have to help them.

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There are six on-site engineers on your account.

account engineers site

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- There he is. - Terry Colby, the CTO.

colby terry terry-colby

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I know it looks a little... complicated.

complicated

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Even though he's the head technology guy

head technology

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at one of the biggest companies in the world, he owns a BlackBerry.

biggest blackberry companies owns world

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So, this is it, right here.

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It also looks like he doesn't see a terminal very often.

often terminal

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He's not a techie. He's a moron.

moron

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An arrogant moron.

arrogant moron

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The worst kind.

worst

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Oh, hi.

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Tyrell Wellick, Senior Vice President, Technology.

president senior technology tyrell tyrell-wellick vice vice-president wellick

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Elliot.

elliot

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Just a tech.

tech

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Don't be so humble.

humble

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You know, I started out exactly where you are, and...

started

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To be honest, you know, my heart is still there.

heart honest

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So I see you're running Gnome.

gnome running

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You know, I'm actually on KDE myself.

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I know this desktop environment is supposed to be better, but...

environment supposed

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You know what they say,

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old habits, they die hard.

habits hard

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An executive running Linux?

executive running

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But, that... - Yeah, I know what you're thinking.

thinking

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I'm an executive.

executive

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I mean, why am I even running Linux?

running

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Again, old habits.

habits

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It's gonna be fun working with you.

fun working

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I should join the rest of the group.

group join rest

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Bonsoir, Elliot.

bonsoir elliot

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Sometimes I dream of saving the world.

dream saving sometimes world

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Saving everyone from the invisible hand.

hand invisible saving

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The one that brands us with an employee badge.

badge employee

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The one that forces us to work for them.

forces

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The one that controls us every day without us knowing it.

controls knowing

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But I can't stop it.

↓

I'm not that special.

special

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I'm just anonymous.

anonymous

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I'm just alone.

alone

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If it weren't for Qwerty, I'd be completely empty.

completely completely-empty empty

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I hate when I can't hold in my loneliness.

hate loneliness

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This crying's been happening too often. Every other week now.

often week

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What do normal people do when they get this sad?

normal

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They reach out to friends or family, I think.

family friends reach

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That's not an option.

option

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I do morphine.

morphine

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The key to doing morphine without turning into a junkie

junkie morphine turning

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is to limit yourself to 30 milligrams a day.

limit

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Anything more just builds up your tolerance.

builds tolerance

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I check every pill I get for purity.

check pill

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I have eight milligrams Suboxone, for maintenance,

eight maintenance suboxone

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in case I go through withdrawal.

case withdrawal

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Shit. I'm out again.

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How much?

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On the house.

house

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No, Shayla.

shayla

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Not doing that, okay?

↓

This is just a regular drug deal, like it always is.

deal drug regular

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Fine.

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Oh, yeah, so what are you up to tonight?

tonight

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'Cause I tried to post something on your Facebook and couldn't find you.

facebook post tried

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I'm not on Facebook.

facebook

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What? Why not?

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'Cause I hate Facebook.

facebook hate

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That's crazy.

crazy

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Well, you wanna do these together, then?

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Pure Molly.

molly pure

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Don't ever make decisions when you're on morphine.

decisions morphine

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Instagram check-in for Krista at Pierre Loti.

check instagram krista

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Okay, Michael Hansen. Time to find out who you really are.

hansen michael michael-hansen

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Taxi!

taxi

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Uh, hi. I just left my keys in one of your cabs.

keys left

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56Y2.

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Sure.

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How 'bout you two? Huh?

bout

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You guys got any spare change?

change spare

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Help me out? Homes are expensive, guys. Come on.

expensive homes

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306, Hawthorne. Thank you. Thank you.

hawthorne

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Come on, asshole. Piss already.

asshole piss

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- I mean, come on. Come on!

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- Will ya... Will ya go?

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- Hey! - Go! Go, will ya?

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- Hey. - Come on.

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Can I borrow your phone?

borrow phone

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Mine's dead. I need to call my mom.

dead mines

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Thank you.

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No answer. Thanks, anyway.

answer thanks

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Angela, is everything okay?

angela

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I need you to come to Allsafe.

allsafe

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You're there? It's 3:00 in the morning.

morning

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They attacked Evil Corp's servers again.

attacked corps evil evil-corps servers

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But it's bad this time. It's a DDoS attack.

attack ddos

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Did you call Lloyd? He's on call.

lloyd

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Yeah, he's here.

↓

Is he talking to their tech department?

department tech

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He's online with them, but so far, nothing.

online

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I don't think that Lloyd can handle this.

handle lloyd

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Look, Gideon just put me on this account.

account gideon

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I can't screw up in my first week. I need you.

screw week

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Please?

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I'll be right there.

↓

Finally.

finally

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Calm down. It's only been an hour.

calm hour

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Yeah, well an hour in Evil Corp's time

corps evil evil-corps hour

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is like $13,000,000 in revenue, approximately.

approximately

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Actually, I calculated that.

↓

That's exactly how much they lost.

lost

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Don't worry, I got you.

worry

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Lloyd, what's up?

lloyd

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Lloyd?

lloyd

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Elliot. This is bad.

elliot

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Worst DDoS attack I've ever seen.

attack ddos seen worst

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Did you reconfigure the DNS?

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Yes.

↓

Stop the services. I already stopped the services.

services stopped

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I tried to reboot the servers, but they're not coming back up.

coming reboot servers tried

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Dude, someone is straight up finger-blasting our entire network right now.

blasting entire finger network straight

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They just started reporting on the outage.

reporting started

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Shit. This is worse than I thought. They're in the network.

network worse

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What's the status update?

status update

↓

You see, I thought we set up security protocols so that this doesn't happen.

happen security

↓

- Where's the attack coming from? - Everywhere, obviously.

attack coming obviously

↓

USA, Finland, Thailand, Kuwait...

↓

Start restarting the services, load sharing, redirect the traffic.

load services sharing start traffic

↓

And call Prolexic for help.

↓

Wait. What?

↓

I don't think this is just a DDoS attack.

attack ddos

↓

I think they got a rootkit sitting inside the servers.

rootkit servers sitting

↓

What's a rootkit?

rootkit

↓

It's like a crazy serial rapist with a very big dick!

crazy dick rapist serial

↓

Jesus, Lloyd!

jesus lloyd

↓

Sorry, it's a malicious code that completely takes over their system.

code completely malicious system takes

↓

It could delete system files, install programs,

delete files install programs system

↓

- viruses, worms... - How do we stop it?

worms

↓

That's the thing, it's fundamentally invisible.

invisible

↓

You can't stop it. All of their servers are timing out.

servers timing

↓

None of them are coming back up.

coming

↓

Yeah. This means every time we restart a server

server

↓

the virus replicates itself during boot-up, then crashes the host.

boot crashes host virus

↓

How are we supposed to bring up the network

bring network supposed

↓

if we can't restart the servers?

servers

↓

We can't.

↓

Which is what they wanted.

wanted

↓

By defending ourselves, we ended up spreading the virus everywhere.

defending ended spreading virus

↓

Only thing we can do is... We gotta take the whole system offline.

system whole whole-system

↓

Wipe the infected servers clean, then bring them back up.

bring clean infected servers wipe

↓

- You're coming with me. - Yeah.

coming

↓

Lloyd?

lloyd

↓

Tell everybody to start taking everything offline.

everybody start

↓

- On it. - Uh, the server farm in Dulles.

farm server

↓

We're gonna need the jet.

↓

They're booting the network back up.

network

↓

Now, you're downloading the logs, right?

logs

↓

- Because we need... - Stop. Tell 'em to stop.

↓

- What? - Don't start the boot sequence.

boot sequence start

↓

You guys missed one. There's an infected server up and running.

infected infected-server missed running server

↓

What's the ETA before it hits this server?

hits server

↓

The backup server up and running?

backup running server

↓

It's ready, but it's not configured for auto switch.

auto ready switch

↓

We need to redirect the traffic. We need to switch DNS.

switch traffic

↓

You got this. You got this. You got this.

↓

No, this is impossible. You got this. You got this.

impossible

↓

It's almost at the bad server.

server

↓

We still up?

↓

We're okay.

↓

Yeah.

↓

Hey, I'm gonna take a look at the infected server, okay?

infected infected-server server

↓

Give me a minute. Yeah.

minute

↓

Uh, I'll meet you at the elevators.

meet

↓

They must've left a mark or something.

left mark mustve

↓

Every hacker loves attention.

attention hacker loves

↓

They don't just do DDoS attacks for no reason.

attacks ddos reason

↓

This is it.

↓

"Fsociety."

fsociety

↓

Is that supposed to be a joke?

joke supposed

↓

This was way too easy. They didn't hide it well at all.

easy hide

↓

This note is for me.

note

↓

They're telling me to leave it here.

telling

↓

But why?

↓

Doesn't matter.

matter

↓

Time to shut them down.

↓

Why can't I delete it?

delete

↓

I don't want to delete it. I want it to stay.

delete

↓

What's wrong with me?

↓

I'll reconfigure the access to the root directory so only I can use it.

access directory root

↓

No one will know.

↓

For you, sir.

↓

Did you know that I'm gay?

↓

Uh...

↓

No.

↓

Hmm.

↓

Consider this me coming out to you, then.

coming consider

↓

Okay?

↓

It's hard, 'cause I don't like to talk about my sex life,

hard life

↓

but my partner, he gets very paranoid, he...

paranoid partner

↓

Thinks I'm ashamed of...

ashamed thinks

↓

He wants me to be more public about it.

public wants

↓

So... Anyway.

↓

I'm gay.

↓

- Thanks. - Yeah.

thanks

↓

Hey, man, don't worry about it.

worry

↓

Hackers have a short attention span.

attention hackers short

↓

They'll get bored, harass someone else.

bored harass

↓

Evil Corp is thinking about leaving us.

corp evil evil-corp leaving thinking

↓

And I don't know if I can blame 'em.

blame

↓

They could've called their other security teams. Mmm.

called couldve security teams

↓

They called you.

called

↓

Somebody over there likes us.

likes somebody

↓

But Terry Colby, he's getting the pressure.

colby pressure terry terry-colby

↓

And he calls the shots.

calls shots

↓

Evil Corp is 80% of our business.

business corp evil evil-corp

↓

If we lose them, that's gonna be it for us.

lose

↓

It's gonna be it...

↓

...for me.

↓

I feel like I can talk to you.

↓

I mean, more than the others, anyway.

others

↓

I'm sure, in a weird way,

weird

↓

you'll be happy if we went under.

happy

↓

Aw, come on.

↓

I know you hate wearing those stupid shirts.

hate shirts stupid wearing

↓

Gideon,

gideon

↓

I promise I'll find them.

promise

↓

Evil Corp servers should be back up soon enough.

corp evil evil-corp servers

↓

I'll take a look at the .dat file.

file

↓

I'll ask my IRC contacts about fsociety when I get home.

contacts fsociety home

↓

I've never seen their name on the boards, though.

boards name seen

↓

They gotta be new. But they're good.

↓

Rough night?

night rough

↓

I'm getting off here.

↓

I think you should come with me.

↓

But only if you didn't delete it.

delete

↓

If you deleted it, we got nothing to talk about.

deleted

↓

Are you talking to me?

↓

Stand clear of the closing doors, please.

clear closing doors stand stand-clear

↓

Who are you?

↓

We gotta wait for the Q.

↓

Then what?

↓

Then we're going to Brooklyn.

brooklyn

↓

Out by Coney Island.

coney island

↓

Why?

↓

What's there?

↓

Obviously, you're gonna ask a lot of questions.

obviously questions

↓

It's weird what you're doing right now. I get it.

weird

↓

But... I can't tell you anything until we get there.

↓

You can't smoke in here.

smoke

↓

You've been following me.

following

↓

Why?

↓

What do you want from me?

↓

My dad was a petty thief.

petty thief

↓

Never could hold down a job. So he just robbed.

robbed

↓

Convenience stores, shops. Small-time stuff.

convenience shops stores stuff

↓

One time, he sat me down. He told me something I never forgot.

forgot

↓

He said, "Everyone steals.

steals

↓

"That's how it works.

works

↓

"You think people out there are getting exactly what they deserve? No.

deserve

↓

"They're getting paid over or under,

paid

↓

"but someone in the chain always gets bamboozled.

chain

↓

"I steal, son.

steal

↓

"But I don't get caught.

caught

↓

"That's my contract with society.

contract society

↓

"Now, if you can catch me stealing, then I'll go to jail.

catch jail stealing

↓

"But if you can't...

↓

"then I've earned the money."

earned money

↓

I respected that man.

respected

↓

I thought that shit was cool, as a little kid.

cool

↓

A few years after that, they finally caught him.

caught finally finally-caught years

↓

Sent him to jail.

jail sent

↓

He dies five years later. My respect goes with him.

dies five five-years respect years

↓

I thought he was free doing what he did, but he wasn't.

free

↓

He was in prison.

prison

↓

Just like you are now, Elliot.

elliot

↓

But I'm gonna break you out.

break

↓

Why would you guys actually meet IRL?

meet

↓

You remember that hacker group, O-Megz?

group hacker remember

↓

They got outed by their own leader to the FBI and six hackers went to prison for it.

hackers leader prison

↓

You know how they got him?

↓

They went on the dude's computer.

computer dudes

↓

Tracked them all down through emails,

emails tracked

↓

VPN sessions, chat messages, texts.

chat messages sessions texts

↓

One guy, and the whole thing comes down.

comes whole

↓

That's what's called... Central point of failure.

called central failure point

↓

Right.

↓

Because they refused to meet in person,

meet person refused

↓

they compromised each other every time they sent so much as a smiley face.

compromised face sent smiley smiley-face

↓

The rule here is,

rule

↓

it's done here and only here.

↓

It ends when you walk out that door and begins when you walk in.

begins door ends walk

↓

Our encryption, is the real world.

encryption real real-world world

↓

How do you talk to each other, then?

↓

We don't.

↓

We come and go. Work on the project when we can.

project

↓

How do you trust them?

trust

↓

I give 'em an exercise.

exercise

↓

If they pass, they join us.

join pass

↓

If they fail... DDoS attack last night.

attack ddos fail night

↓

You were testing me.

testing

↓

You said there was a project.

project

↓

What's the project?

project

↓

That'll come later.

thatll

↓

I just wanted you to see the place.

place wanted

↓

There's not much you can do without a CPU.

↓

I'm crazy.

crazy

↓

I have to be crazy, because that didn't just happen, right?

crazy happen

↓

This is a delusion. Is this a delusion?

↓

Shit, I'm a schizo.

↓

Have I really lost it this time? No. No.

lost

↓

Last night happened. It was real.

happened night real

↓

Angela called me. I was at Allsafe.

allsafe angela called

↓

Evil Corp servers were compromised.

compromised corp evil evil-corp servers

↓

Those are facts, not delusions.

facts

↓

I know.

↓

I know, I know, I realize I'm saying all of this to an imaginary person.

imaginary person realize

↓

But I created you.

created

↓

I didn't create this.

create

↓

Oh.

↓

Thank God, you're here. I was just about to go wait in the Starbucks.

starbucks

↓

You live in a bad neighborhood. Do you know that?

live neighborhood

↓

I do know that.

↓

Do you wanna get high and watch your favorite movie?

favorite movie watch

↓

You saved our asses last night.

asses night saved

↓

I thought Gideon was definitely gonna fire me.

fire gideon

↓

Where've you been?

whereve

↓

I thought you'd be sleeping.

sleeping

↓

I... Yeah, I fell asleep on the train.

asleep fell fell-asleep train

↓

That sounds like such a lie.

sounds

↓

But, whatever.

↓

I don't wanna get into that right now.

↓

So, you wanna do this?

↓

I miss Qwerty.

miss

↓

I hope she still loves me.

hope loves

↓

Okay...

↓

Shit.

↓

She wasn't supposed to be here.

supposed

↓

Okay? Give me a minute and I'll get rid of her.

minute

↓

It's okay. Um...

↓

This is great.

↓

Elliot, I'm happy for you. No, it's not like that.

elliot happy

↓

Well, maybe it should be.

↓

You know, it's good that you're...

↓

...dating.

dating

↓

Um... Well, see you on Monday.

monday

↓

We can do movie night next time.

movie movie-night night

↓

- I promise. Okay? - Yeah.

promise

↓

Have fun.

fun

↓

Mmm...

↓

Elliot?

elliot

↓

Oh, shit. Is it Wednesday?

wednesday

↓

Shayla. I have to move my car.

shayla

↓

Shayla,

shayla

↓

leave.

↓

Now!

↓

No mention of Mr. Robot anywhere.

mention robot

↓

No mention of fsociety.

fsociety mention

↓

Not on any of the hacker boards.

boards hacker

↓

Not on IRC, forums, blogs- No one's heard of them.

heard ones

↓

Property was owned by Fun Society Amusement LLC for 13 years.

amusement fun owned property society years

↓

Owner was shot and killed a year and a half ago. No owner since.

half killed owner shot

↓

And the ownership history before that's sparse to non-existent.

history ownership

↓

This guy's good.

↓

Very good.

↓

Doesn't matter.

matter

↓

Their arcade network's IP is in the .dat file.

arcade file networks

↓

That'll be enough to turn them in.

thatll

↓

What's your ask, Mr. Robot?

robot

↓

Hey, man.

↓

Where's your boss?

boss

↓

Okay, cut the bullshit.

bullshit

↓

When are you gonna give us access to the root directory?

access directory root

↓

What? Dude, come on.

↓

I wrote that rootkit.

rootkit wrote

↓

I still have to put Colby's IP in the .dat file.

colbys file

↓

Dickhead.

dickhead

↓

Elliot! Good news.

elliot news

↓

Scored the last bag of Twinkies from Gristedes.

scored

↓

You want one?

↓

She just called me a dickhead.

called dickhead

↓

Yeah, that's Darlene.

darlene

↓

Hey, you like Ferris wheels?

ferris wheels

↓

Ah, it's beautiful.

↓

It gets better the higher up you go, you know.

higher

↓

I love it up here.

love

↓

You like it?

↓

I'm here to tell you I'm turning you in.

turning

↓

I'm giving them all the information...

giving information

↓

Let me tell you why you're really here.

↓

You're here because you sense something wrong with the world.

sense world

↓

Something you can't explain.

explain

↓

But, you know it controls you and everyone you care about

care controls

↓

What are you talking about?

↓

Money.

money

↓

Money hasn't been real since we got off the gold standard.

gold money real standard

↓

It's become virtual.

become virtual

↓

Software, the operating system of our world.

operating software system world

↓

And, Elliot, we are on the verge

elliot verge

↓

of taking down this virtual reality.

reality virtual

↓

Think about it.

↓

What if you could take down one conglomerate?

conglomerate

↓

A conglomerate so deeply entrenched

conglomerate deeply

↓

in the world's economy

economy worlds

↓

that "too big to fail" doesn't even come close to describing it?

close describing fail

↓

You wanna create another financial meltdown like the one we just had,

another create financial meltdown

↓

but way worse.

worse

↓

Yeah, why would I want that?

↓

Everyone would lose their money.

lose money

↓

What if I told you that this conglomerate

conglomerate

↓

just so happens to own 70% of the global consumer credit industry, huh?

consumer credit global happens industry

↓

If we hit their data center just right

center data data-center

↓

we could systematically format all the servers, including backup.

backup format including servers systematically

↓

That would erase... All the debt we owe them.

debt erase

↓

Every record of every credit card, loan, and mortgage would be wiped clean.

card clean credit credit-card loan mortgage record wiped

↓

It'd be impossible to reinforce outdated paper records.

impossible outdated paper records

↓

It'd all be gone.

gone

↓

The single, biggest incident

biggest incident single

↓

of wealth redistribution

wealth

↓

in history.

history

↓

Evil Corp. The conglomerate.

conglomerate corp evil evil-corp

↓

That's why you picked me.

picked

↓

'Cause I work at Allsafe. Tomorrow...

allsafe tomorrow

↓

Allsafe is gonna get a visit from the FBI

allsafe visit

↓

and the US Cyber Command.

command cyber

↓

You...

↓

...are gonna modify the .dat file,

file modify

↓

and put Colby's terminal IP address in there.

address colbys terminal

↓

Terry Colby.

colby terry terry-colby

↓

You're gonna frame him? No one's gonna believe that.

believe frame ones

↓

I met him. He's a moron.

moron

↓

So are the FBI.

↓

Even if they don't believe he did it,

believe

↓

they'll believe he gave someone access to it.

access believe

↓

And he'll just go to jail. What good'll that do?

jail

↓

You don't take down a conglomerate by shooting them in the heart.

conglomerate heart shooting

↓

That's the thing about conglomerates,

↓

they don't have hearts.

hearts

↓

You take 'em down limb by limb.

limb

↓

And as they unravel,

↓

their illusion of control unravels.

control illusion

↓

Who are you?

↓

That'll come later. Right now...

thatll

↓

You have a lot to think about.

↓

You have to change this .dat file, okay?

change file

↓

But put Colby's IP in there.

colbys

↓

You do that,

↓

you'll have set in motion the largest revolution the world will ever see.

largest motion revolution world

↓

If you go away

↓

On this summer day

summer

↓

Then you might as well take the sun away

might

↓

All the birds that flew in a summer sky

birds flew summer

↓

When our love was new and our hearts were high

hearts love

↓

When the day was young

young

↓

And the night was long

night

↓

And the moon stood still for the night bird's song

birds moon night song stood

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

But if you stay

↓

Then I'll make you a day

↓

Like no day's been

days

↓

Or will be again

↓

We'll sail on the sun

sail

↓

We'll ride on the rain

rain ride

↓

We'll talk to the trees

trees

↓

That worship the wind

wind worship

↓

And if you go, I'll understand

↓

Leave me just enough love to fill up my hand

fill hand love

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

As I know you must

must

↓

There'll be nothing left in the world to trust

left therell trust world

↓

Just an empty room full of empty space

empty full room room-full space

↓

Like the empty look I see on your face

empty face

↓

Can I tell you now as you turn to go

↓

I'll be dying slowly till your next hello

dying slowly till

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

If you go away

↓

So?

↓

What do we got?

↓

So, if you'll take a look at the first page of your agenda...

agenda page

↓

You're the one who stopped the hack.

hack stopped

↓

You know, uh, the gals in analysis said this was a tough one.

analysis gals tough

↓

All things being equal, it should've shut us down for days, so...

days equal shouldve

↓

You did good.

↓

Okay.

↓

We should start with our account executive, Angela.

account angela executive start

↓

Okay, we first noticed the breach at 2:07 a.m. Eastern Standard on Friday night.

breach eastern friday friday-night night noticed standard

↓

You mean Saturday?

saturday

↓

Sorry, yes.

↓

Technically, Saturday morning.

morning saturday technically

↓

Yeah. Okay, Angela. That's what we're here for.

angela

↓

The technicals.

↓

Right.

↓

Yes.

↓

Anyway, he arrived at the office at 2:35, and I...

arrived office

↓

Okay, wait, wait, wait. So that's, uh, almost a half hour after the initial breach.

breach half half-hour hour initial

↓

Why didn't anyone pipe in from their laptops?

laptops pipe

↓

It's not... It wouldn't have been secure.

secure

↓

If someone terminaled in on this.

↓

It was...

↓

...the smarter move to have someone come in so they can log in on a secure line.

line secure smarter

↓

Exactly. Then, Lloyd was able to...

able lloyd

↓

Just... Just, actually, uh... Just one second.

second

↓

You know, I, uh... I always loved this view.

loved view

↓

And now that that's taken care of,

care taken taken-care

↓

let's pick it up where we left off.

left pick

↓

What happened to Angela? She knows more about what happened.

angela happened knows

↓

She's not gonna work out for us.

↓

Not on this level. We need to stick to the more tech savvy here.

level savvy stick tech

↓

Now, let's get to the heart of this thing,

heart

↓

because I can't sit here and look through a packet for the next 20 minutes.

minutes packet

↓

All right? Just who did this?

↓

Is it that hard?

hard

↓

Who did this?

↓

I found the configuration file of the rootkit with a pattern of IP addresses.

addresses file found pattern rootkit

↓

Once you decrypt it, you'll know where the hack came from.

hack

↓

Nineteen days.

days nineteen

↓

No news. No arrest. No revolution.

arrest news revolution

↓

No FBI, Colby, Evil Corp.

colby corp evil evil-corp

↓

No Mr. Robot.

robot

↓

No fsociety.

fsociety

↓

I need to take my mind off things.

mind

↓

Hello?

↓

Hi, this is Sam from Bank of E-Security Fraud Department.

bank department fraud security

↓

Unfortunately, I have to inform you that your account's been compromised.

accounts compromised inform unfortunately

↓

What? What happened?

happened

↓

First, before I can answer any questions,

answer questions

↓

I need to verify some information.

information verify

↓

Are you still at 306 Hawthorne Avenue?

avenue hawthorne

↓

Yes, apartment 2C.

apartment

↓

Great. And your security question, "Favorite baseball team"?

baseball favorite question security team

↓

Um, Yankees. I don't remember this being a security...

remember security yankees

↓

And, lastly, your pet's name?

name pets

↓

Um, Flipper.

flipper

↓

Uh, who am I speaking to?

speaking

↓

Can I get your name and num...

name

↓

With those details, plus a dictionary brute force attack,

attack brute details dictionary force plus

↓

it'll take my program maybe two minutes to crack his password.

crack itll minutes password program

↓

What I wouldn't give to be normal.

normal

↓

To live in that bubble.

bubble live

↓

The reality of the naive.

naive reality

↓

That's how I justify this.

justify

↓

To keep their optimism intact.

intact

↓

To protect them.

protect

↓

How? He's too old to have a complicated password.

complicated password

↓

It had to have been a combination of these things.

combination

↓

I'm missing something. I'm missing something.

missing

↓

I'm missing something.

missing

↓

Michael Hansen isn't his real name.

hansen michael michael-hansen name real real-name

↓

Come on. Get over here.

↓

Lenny Shannon? Michael Hansen?

hansen lenny michael michael-hansen shannon

↓

Which one you playin' tonight?

playin tonight

↓

You're gonna stop seeing Krista. What the...

krista seeing

↓

You're gonna break up with her.

break

↓

You're never gonna see her again.

↓

You're the guy that used my phone.

phone used

↓

You cheated on your current wife with seven different women.

cheated current seven wife women

↓

I got digital proof of all of it.

digital proof

↓

Ashley Madison, online escorts, fake Facebook pages.

ashley facebook fake madison online pages

↓

I own it all.

↓

And if you don't stop seeing her...

seeing

↓

Your wife will know everything.

wife

↓

Along with the police.

along police

↓

- The police? - Yeah, one of the escorts was 15.

police

↓

That 15 part I made up,

part

↓

but he did have a proclivity for young escorts that helped the lie.

helped young

↓

But I'm not gonna do any of that.

↓

As long as you break up with Krista.

break krista

↓

Tonight.

tonight

↓

Done.

↓

You're also gonna tell her the truth.

truth

↓

You're married, cheat on your wife, you hire hookers.

cheat hire hookers married wife

↓

And you never had any intention of being serious with her.

intention serious

↓

Why?

↓

That would destroy her.

destroy

↓

She thinks that...

thinks

↓

...we're in love.

love

↓

Exactly.

↓

Krista needs to avoid dickheads like you in the future.

avoid dickheads future krista needs

↓

Her radar needs fixing.

fixing needs radar

↓

I'll know if you skip any detail.

detail skip

↓

So don't.

↓

And one more thing.

↓

I'm gonna need something from you.

↓

Come on.

↓

Hmm.

↓

I like you, Flipper.

flipper

↓

You're cool.

cool

↓

I never wanna be right about my hacks,

hacks

↓

but people always find a way to disappoint.

disappoint

↓

Michael Hansen now gets filed away among the others.

among filed hansen michael michael-hansen others

↓

Forever buried in my digital cemetery.

buried cemetery digital forever

↓

The look of disillusionment.

↓

He told her. She cried all night.

cried night

↓

Now comes the sadness.

comes sadness

↓

I don't like seeing her sad.

seeing

↓

You okay?

↓

Sorry.

↓

Sorry.

↓

Go on.

↓

I think Angela blames me for what happened at the Evil Corp meeting.

angela corp evil evil-corp happened meeting

↓

What do I do? I need to talk to her.

↓

Well, I think you just answered your own question.

answered question

↓

Talk to her.

↓

She won't respond to any of my texts or emails.

emails respond texts

↓

Then, go to her in person.

person

↓

Tell her you need to talk.

↓

Communication is key, Elliot.

communication elliot

↓

Real human interaction.

human interaction real

↓

That's what's important for you right now.

↓

Do you...

↓

You think we can talk?

↓

What?

↓

You won't talk to me.

↓

You haven't talked to me since the meeting.

meeting talked

↓

I don't wanna talk to you, because I feel embarrassed.

embarrassed

↓

Every time I think about what happened.

happened

↓

Okay?

↓

It's fine. I'll get over it.

↓

It's been three weeks. I have to get back to work.

three three-weeks weeks

↓

You're just gonna ignore me? You didn't have to stick up for me in there.

ignore stick

↓

I know that you were just trying to help, but just...

↓

Don't do it again!

↓

Even if I'm losing, let me lose.

lose losing

↓

Okay?

↓

Don't look confused!

confused

↓

Just say...

↓

"Okay."

↓

Okay.

↓

Elliot...

elliot

↓

FBI agents claim that Colby either used hacking groups,

agents claim colby groups hacking used

↓

or worked in conjunction with them

worked

↓

to pressure Evil Corp during his contract negotiations.

contract corp evil evil-corp pressure

↓

After a long and exhaustive investigation,

investigation

↓

sources close to the FBI

close sources

↓

have confirmed the hacks were, in part, tied to Colby's terminal.

colbys confirmed hacks part terminal tied

↓

It's happening.

↓

It's happening. It's happening. It's happening.

↓

It's happening. It's happening.

↓

Sir, step inside the car.

step

↓

Sir.

↓

Step inside the vehicle now.

step vehicle

↓

Go ahead.

ahead go-ahead

↓

Sir, go on in.

↓

Sir, go on in.

↓

Bonsoir, Elliot.

bonsoir elliot

↓

Please tell me you're seeing this, too.

seeing