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Mr. Robot

Season 1, Episode 2 — eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg

TMDB episode metadata

Show: Mr. Robot

Episode title: eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg

Air date: July 01, 2015

Director: Sam Esmail

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

Elliot is torn between accepting a job offer from Evil Corp and joining the fsociety hacker group. At the same time Elliot needs to make decision that could harm people around him.

Source: TMDB

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

elliot secret

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Oh, hi. Tyrell Wellick.

tyrell tyrell-wellick wellick

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(Shayla) You wanna do these together then?

shayla

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- Pure molly. - No, Shayla.

molly pure shayla

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I need you to come to Allsafe.

allsafe

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(Elliot) Shit, they're in the network.

elliot network

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This is it. Fsociety.

fsociety

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They're telling me to leave it here.

telling

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[grunts]

grunts

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Who are you?

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(Mr. Robot) I think you should come with me.

robot

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Yeah, that's Darlene.

darlene

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You are gonna modify the DAT file.

file modify

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Put Colby's IP in there.

colbys

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You do that, you'll have set in motion

motion

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the largest revolution the world will ever see.

largest revolution world

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_

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(female newscaster) Sources have confirmed

confirmed female newscaster sources

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

colbys hacks part terminal tied

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(man) Sir, step inside the car.

step

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Bonsoir, Elliot.

bonsoir elliot

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[tense music]

music tense tense-music

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♪ ♪

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(Tyrell) "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank,

bank tyrell

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but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world."

bank world

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It's a bit of a silly expression, actually.

expression silly

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A little reductive, but still...

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I like it,

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for the same reason most people hate it,

hate reason

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because to me it means that power belongs

belongs power

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to the people that take it.

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Nothing to do with their hard work, strong ambitions,

hard strong

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or rightful qualifications, no.

qualifications rightful

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The actual will to take is often the only thing that's necessary.

actual necessary often

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I'm sorry to bring you in like this.

bring

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Technically what we're doing might be considered illegal,

considered illegal might technically

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which is why I'm surrounded

surrounded

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by eleven of our most annoying lawyers.

annoying eleven lawyers

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Elliot Alderson...

alderson elliot elliot-alderson

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I want to offer you

offer

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a position here at Evil Corp.

corp evil evil-corp position

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I want you to head our cybersecurity division.

division head

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Except I can't officially offer you anything

except offer officially

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since we have this non-compete with your employer, Allsafe.

allsafe compete

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But if you do this of your own accord...

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when you do this...

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you'll be a multi-millionaire within the next five years.

five five-years millionaire multi years

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What do you say?

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Can I...

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Can I think about it?

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Gentlemen, I need the room.

gentlemen room

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- [indistinct whispering] - Yes, thank you. Yes, yes.

indistinct whispering

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You know,

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Evil Corp has just named me interim CTO.

corp evil evil-corp named

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It won't be long until it's official.

official

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I will be the youngest executive this company has ever seen.

company executive seen youngest

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I should track down these hackers out there

hackers track

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just to thank them.

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In a way, it's kind of, um...

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What's the word in English?

english word

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Serendipitous? Right?

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[laughing]

laughing

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You know, by the end of the quarter,

quarter

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we're going to revamp our entire network

entire network

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and consolidate our security protocols.

security

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We're going to handle everything internally,

handle internally

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which means all of our vendors, including Allsafe,

allsafe including

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will be cut loose.

loose

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And it's no secret that once Allsafe loses us as a client,

allsafe client loses secret

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they'll be fini.

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And when that happens,

happens

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I want you to be where you belong:

belong

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here with me.

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This is an important choice you're making, Elliot.

choice elliot

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I just wanted you to know all the facts

facts wanted

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before you made your final decision.

decision final

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I think I'm happy where I am.

happy

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[somber orchestral music]

music orchestral somber

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[Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 playing]

major playing symphony

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♪ ♪

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Well, I thought I'd ask.

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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[music continues faintly inside car]

continues faintly music music-continues

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♪ ♪

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Call this number if you need to get in touch with Mr. Wellick.

number touch wellick

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You can call me Mr. X. [laughs]

laughs

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Come on, you've never seen JFK?

seen

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Oliver Stone movie?

movie oliver stone

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Sir, I gotta be honest. That's embarrassing.

embarrassing honest

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Do yourself a favor and watch it.

favor watch

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And pay, for Christ's sake.

christs christs-sake sake

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Anyway, you can call me Mr. Sutherland for now.

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Don't hesitate to reach me when you're ready.

hesitate reach ready

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We're always close by.

close

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(Vera) I'm gonna set a date right now...

date vera

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- (Shayla) No, we're not. - For later.

shayla

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I gotta go, thank you very much.

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- You gonna have me up? - No.

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- Gonna have me up? - No, stop.

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- I'm coming up. - No, you're not coming up.

coming

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Another time. Okay, I gotta go.

another

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Come on.

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- Everything all right? - Yeah, he's just a creeper.

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I hate it when your employers can't take a hint.

hate hint

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[thumping bass from car]

bass thumping

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(Shayla) Hey, is your radiator messed up?

messed radiator shayla

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Because it's like 3,000 degrees in my apartment.

apartment degrees

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Hey, are you okay? You seem off.

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While we're here, you mind if I reup?

mind

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A little early to reup, don't you think?

early

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I'm deviating from the schedule a little.

schedule

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Whoa, never thought I'd see the day, Mr. Stricty Pants,

pants whoa

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but okie dokie.

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Oh, yeah. Shit, I'm out of the other ones.

ones

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No, just the morphine. It's good.

morphine

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Uh, no, you made me promise never to give you these

promise

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unless I had your Subs.

subs

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- Shayla. - No, Elliot.

elliot shayla

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Promises matter, okay?

matter promises

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I take this shit to heart.

heart

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Oh, my God.

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Fine, but you have to promise me you won't do a lot

promise

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until I get your withdrawal meds, okay?

meds withdrawal

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I'll go see Fernando later or something.

fernando

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No, you have to say it.

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I promise.

promise

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[snorting]

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(Elliot voice-over) Hey, man.

elliot elliot-voice voice

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What, you think I forgot about you?

forgot

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Trust me, I need you now more than ever.

trust

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We gotta get to work.

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Hacking Tyrell Wellick, you'd think it'd be tricky,

hacking tricky tyrell tyrell-wellick wellick

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but it wasn't... Evil Corp's corporate mail servers,

corporate corps evil evil-corps mail servers

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they haven't patched anything since Shellshock.

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He doesn't even use two-step verification.

step

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His password was just his wife's maiden name

name password wifes

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and Sweden's independence date, 6-6.

date independence

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One six away from the obvious, but still,

obvious

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this is bad noob practice.

practice

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These emails...

emails

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His life... it's nice, happy, perfect.

happy life perfect

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This doesn't make sense.

sense

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Did he know I was going to hack him?

hack

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Did he let me?

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I'm gonna need to wipe everything.

wipe

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[beep]

beep

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[drilling]

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[microwave beeps]

beeps microwave

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(Elliot voice-over) I know, I know, taking more than I should.

elliot elliot-voice voice

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I'm breaking my rule, but come on, it's an off week.

breaking rule week

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[soft clanking]

clanking soft

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[liquid trickling] [clanking continues]

clanking continues liquid

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Come on.

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Yo. My man, you gotta...

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You gotta deuce it out over here, all right?

deuce

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Yo, you gotta do your business up in here, all right?

business

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Hey...

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You got this. You got this.

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[sniffs]

sniffs

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[indistinct chatter, phone ringing]

chatter indistinct indistinct-chatter phone phone-ringing ringing

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(female news announcer) Terry Colby, the chief technology officer of...

announcer chief colby female news officer technology terry terry-colby

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(Elliot voice-over) Terry Colby's arrest is on everyone's mind.

arrest colbys elliot elliot-voice everyones mind terry voice

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Screen. Might as well be the same thing nowadays.

might nowadays screen

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How do I go back to work after this?

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How can I focus on anything?

focus

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And when's Mr. Robot going to contact me again?

contact robot whens

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What's he waiting for?

waiting

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Did I just destroy a man's life for no reason?

destroy life mans mans-life reason

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(Gideon) I'm gonna talk to HR about a salary bump for you.

bump gideon salary

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- Oh, please. - No, no.

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Take the raise.

raise

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It's not gonna be much, but it's the best I can do right now.

best

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Elliot...

elliot

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You saved the company.

company saved

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Now...

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Why didn't you tell me about the DAT file?

file

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You could've come in here at any time before the meeting

couldve meeting

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to say you found something, but you didn't.

found

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I gotta be honest. I found that kind of curious.

curious found honest

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Yeah, I didn't know what I had.

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Could've easily been a junk file.

couldve easily file junk

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C'mon...

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You're never sure about anything

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unless there's something to be sure about.

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Maybe you don't know me that well.

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Regardless,

regardless

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I still need you to stay on it, now more than ever.

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I mean, who knows what

knows

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these Fsociety hackers are going to do next.

fsociety hackers

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(Elliot voice-over) What did he just say?

elliot elliot-voice voice

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- What did you just say? - The ones working with Colby.

colby ones working

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Who knows how deep these data dumps are going to get,

data data-dumps deep dumps knows

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and Evil Corp is...

corp evil evil-corp

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What're you talking about?

whatre

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There's a twist.

twist

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You're usually the one a step ahead of me.

ahead step step-ahead usually

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They hit the mother lode during the breach.

breach mother

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Potentially terabytes worth of emails and files.

emails files potentially worth

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They're threatening to dump everything

dump threatening

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unless the FBI frees Colby.

colby

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They released the video this morning.

morning released video

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Hello, Evil Corp. We are Fsociety.

corp evil evil-corp fsociety

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Over the years, we have been watching you.

watching years

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Your financial abuse of the poor;

abuse financial poor

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your corruption of governments;

corruption governments

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your cover-ups of the murder of innocent, ordinary citizens,

citizens cover innocent murder ordinary

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all for the sake of a profit.

profit sake

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This is why we at Fsociety have decided you must die.

decided fsociety must

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We are malicious and hostile. We do not compromise.

compromise hostile malicious

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We are relentless.

relentless

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We will not stop until every tentacle

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of your evil monstrosity is sliced off at the nerve.

evil monstrosity nerve sliced

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But we are also not without mercy.

mercy

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Our latest hack was our last warning.

hack latest warning

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Meet our demands, and we will consider not destroying you.

consider demands destroying meet

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First, release our leader Terry Colby

colby leader release terry terry-colby

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from your illegitimate prison immediately.

illegitimate immediately prison

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Second, release all the people of the world

release second world

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from your even more illegitimate prisons of debt.

debt illegitimate prisons

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Third, dissolve your corporation

corporation third

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and donate all your assets to charities around the world.

assets donate world

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This proposal is non-negotiable.

proposal

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The people are realizing they don't have freedom of choice

choice freedom realizing

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so long as you exist.

exist

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The people are waking up,

waking

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no longer accepting your economic slavery.

accepting economic longer slavery

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Meet these demands, or we will kill you.

demands kill meet

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Consider yourself warned.

consider warned

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[sustained beep]

beep sustained

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Play it again.

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Yo, yo, yo, yo, my album just dropped.

album dropped

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Yo, please buy my CD. Only cost you 20 likes.

cost likes

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Yo, it'll give you the feels, y'all, I swear.

feels itll swear yall

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The CD's free. All's I ask is you Tweet.

alls free tweet

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Help my social media outreach.

media outreach social social-media

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(Ollie) You know, be like, "I want to set up this meeting.

meeting ollie

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It's like a very, like a... " Oh, Elliot!

elliot

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(Ollie) Hey, congrats, man.

congrats ollie

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Allsafe is all over the internet today because of you.

allsafe internet today

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Dude, we should celebrate. We have this Groupon

celebrate groupon

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for four at Morton's on Thursday.

four thursday

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This other couple we were going with totally bailed.

bailed couple

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Why don't you come with?

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Their steaks are badass. It's $29.95...

badass steaks

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(Angela) I'm not sure that Elliot would like that.

angela elliot

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Yeah, okay.

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Yeah? Okay. Awesome, man.

awesome

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And, hey, why don't we make it a double date?

date double double-date

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I heard that you had a girlfriend.

girlfriend heard

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Ollie, you weren't supposed to say anything.

ollie supposed

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(Ollie) Babe, it's cool. Elliot's okay with it.

babe cool elliots ollie

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Yeah, okay, sure. I... have to go.

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Um, my neighbor's complaining about the dog barking again.

barking complaining neighbors

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- (Angela) Since when does he have a dog? - (Cisco) Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

angela

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You look like a beautiful couple.

couple

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Yo, my album just dropped,

album dropped

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You like rap, hip-hop?

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Yo, this shit is deep, lyrical, poetic.

deep poetic

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Yo, your girl will like this, my man, I swear.

girl swear

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Come on, bro, you've been outside our building

building

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for two weeks now.

weeks

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All right, you know, I'll take it,

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if you leave us alone.

alone

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Thank you, thank you, man, thank you.

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And I'll tweet, but only if I like it, all right?

tweet

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I only have 48 followers, but it's growing.

followers growing

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- No doubt, no doubt. - Some tastemakers in there so...

doubt

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I feel you, I feel you.

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- Yeah. - All right.

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Yo, I appreciate it, man, really.

appreciate

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- You guys have a good day. - Yeah, you too.

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Thank you so much. Check track two out.

check track

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- Track two. - All right, man.

track

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(Elliot voice-over) This was never part of the plan.

elliot elliot-voice part plan voice

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Data dumps? Releasing Terry Colby?

colby data data-dumps dumps releasing terry terry-colby

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None of this makes sense.

makes makes-sense sense

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Need to cut off all ties with Fsociety.

fsociety ties

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Need to disconnect.

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We need to call in sick and lie low for a...

sick

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[dog whining] [shower running]

running shower whining

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[door shuts]

door door-shuts shuts

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Dude! Jesus Christ! I am naked, asshole!

asshole christ jesus jesus-christ naked

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Don't stare at me!

stare

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Why the hell are you in my shower?

shower

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Well, I was waiting for you.

waiting

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You were supposed to come last night.

night supposed

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- Did you forget? - Come? Where?

forget

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It's fine, everyone's coming later.

coming everyones

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[Darlene sighs]

darlene sighs

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I'm stealing your clothes.

clothes stealing

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My dress has cum stains on it.

dress stains

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[laughs]

laughs

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Jesus, I am just messing with you.

jesus messing

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My stuff is just in the wash.

stuff wash

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I'm gonna borrow this for the time being.

borrow

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Oh, by the way,

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your dog shat on your bed.

shat

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You gotta walk that thing.

walk

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(Elliot) Hey, please take Flipper for a while.

elliot flipper

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She probably needs a walk or something.

needs walk

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She keeps shitting everywhere.

keeps shitting

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Of course she needs a walk, Elliot.

course elliot needs walk

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She's a friggin' dog.

friggin

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Yo, I want to stop and get some froyo before we go.

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[hip hop music playing over headphones]

headphones music music-playing playing

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Uh, I'll be back later.

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- I owe you. - Yeah, big time.

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How do you know where I live?

live

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Why wouldn't I know where you live?

live

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I don't know. I don't know where you live.

live

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Well,

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I don't live anywhere at the present.

live present

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The douche I was dating proposed to me, can you believe?

believe dating douche proposed

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I mean, what an asshole.

asshole

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Anyways, we got into this huge fight, and...

anyways fight huge

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(Elliot voice-over) What the hell am I doing?

elliot elliot-voice voice

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This chick is out of her mind batshit crazy.

batshit chick crazy mind

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I gotta go back, tell Gideon everything.

gideon

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He'll understand, right?

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He'll know what to do.

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It's whatevs. He'll take me back.

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He's just gotta get over this whole

whole

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"love is forever" bullshit.

bullshit forever love

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I'll do my disappearing act for a minute,

minute

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and then he'll come to his senses.

senses

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(male announcer) Stand clear of the closing door.

announcer clear closing door male stand stand-clear

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You know, it's our thing.

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Quick!

quick

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[indistinct female announcer over intercom]

announcer female indistinct intercom

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(Elliot voice-over) Can she see them, too?

elliot elliot-voice voice

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What?

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I like to stay on my toes.

toes

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Speaking of, that's, like, one of the most annoying things...

annoying speaking

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(Elliot voice-over) But what if Tyrell finds out? What will he do?

elliot elliot-voice finds tyrell voice

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Shit, there's basically no scenario in which

scenario

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I'm not getting killed or going to jail.

jail killed

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Because I wanted a turtle, and he was like, "No..."

turtle wanted

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(Darlene) I might need to crash with you for a couple of nights.

couple crash darlene might nights

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That's cool, right?

cool

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Seriously?

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Fine! I'll crash at Mobley's.

crash

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Don't love dogs anyway.

dogs love

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Especially ones that shit in your bed.

especially ones

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I mean, how do you live like that, honestly?

live

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How do you go to sleep when you know that there's...

sleep

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(Elliot voice-over) For all we know,

elliot elliot-voice voice

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I could be walking into a trap right now.

trap walking

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We could be dead the second I walk through that door.

dead door second walk

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Come on, kid. We got big things in store.

store

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Big things.

↓

[clapping]

clapping

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Man of the hour. Take a curtsy.

hour

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[gunshot]

gunshot

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Goddamn ducks.

ducks goddamn

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[three gunshots]

gunshots three

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Hey, hey, man!

↓

What's... oh. Shit, sorry, sorry, dude.

↓

Um, okay.

↓

Anyway, just, awesome work, man.

awesome

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Really awesome.

awesome

↓

Right on, man. Right on.

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- Real cool. - Great.

cool real

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So now that we're all done going down on each other,

↓

can we please hear the plan?

plan

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Where are we at with Steel Mountain?

mountain steel steel-mountain

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(Mr. Robot) If I'm not mistaken,

mistaken robot

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these lines aren't 100% safe yet,

lines safe

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and we still haven't made the Colby project disappear.

colby disappear project

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Seriously?

↓

It's been weeks. Any links or traces

links traces weeks

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would have been owned by now.

owned

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The lines are clean, Boss, I swear.

boss clean lines swear

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- Thank you. - I mean, um...

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if it makes you feel better, Romero and I can check...

check makes romero

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Great! Make me feel great.

↓

I'm gonna hang back over here, collect my thoughts.

collect hang thoughts

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[groans] Ohh!

groans

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What's her deal?

deal

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Ah, she's a complicated woman.

complicated woman

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Most malware coders are. Am I right?

malware

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She showed up at my apartment.

apartment showed

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Why does she know where I live?

live

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Let's not focus on her. That'll be like

focus thatll

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entering a bad K-hole you'll never wake up from.

entering hole wake

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Instead, I need you to focus on the next phase of our project.

focus phase project

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Comet, the natural gas plant up around Albany?

natural plant

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We're gonna blow it up.

blow

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Why would you blow...

blow

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Comet plant's right next to Steel Mountain.

mountain plants steel steel-mountain

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Which, as you know,

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is the off-site and data storage facility

data facility site storage

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for every corporation in the S&P,

corporation

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including everyone's favorite...

everyones favorite including

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- Evil Corp. - [snaps fingers] Bingo!

bingo corp evil evil-corp fingers snaps snaps-fingers

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You're gonna destroy their tape backups.

backups destroy tape

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They're gonna be looking out for something like that.

looking

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They've been on high alert ever since the hack.

alert hack

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From what I heard, they've caught their hacker.

caught hacker heard

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- Haven't they? - No, they haven't.

↓

- Tyrell Wellick knows. - What they want him to know!

knows tyrell tyrell-wellick wellick

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He's a corporate robot just like the rest of them.

corporate rest robot

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Besides, the entire company is gonna be reeling

besides company entire

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from all the data dumps we've got in store for them...

data data-dumps dumps store

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and man, do we have some goodies.

goodies

↓

Some good old-fashioned executive racism,

executive fashioned racism

↓

sexism, fascism.

↓

Trust me, we are gonna "ism" so much all over them

trust

↓

they won't be able to see straight.

able straight

↓

And asking for Colby's release as ransom was genius.

asking colbys genius ransom release

↓

That'll only make his spotlight bigger,

bigger spotlight thatll

↓

keeping it off us.

keeping

↓

That neat little ditty was Trenton's idea.

idea neat

↓

She may look innocent, but I'd be careful.

careful innocent

↓

She's got some Allah Akbar in her.

↓

And while all that's going on,

↓

you will use your Allsafe security clearance

allsafe clearance security

↓

to hack the Comet PLC, increase the pressure,

hack increase pressure

↓

causing a gas pipeline explosion

causing explosion pipeline

↓

making Steel Mountain go kablooey

mountain steel steel-mountain

↓

along with Evil Corp's soul.

along corps evil evil-corps soul

↓

They know about all this?

↓

You're the first.

↓

Workers?

workers

↓

Anyone living around the plant...

living plant

↓

They all die?

↓

We'll give them a head start.

head head-start start

↓

Sound some alarms. They'll be fine.

alarms sound

↓

You're blowing up a gas pipeline.

blowing pipeline

↓

The world is a dangerous place, Elliot,

dangerous elliot place world

↓

not because of those who do evil,

evil

↓

but because of those who look on and do nothing.

↓

This is war.

↓

People will die. C'est la mort.

cest mort

↓

And once we blow up the pipeline,

blow pipeline

↓

Darlene's worm will kick into high gear

gear kick worm

↓

at the U.S. data center

center data data-center

↓

which you helped to us install, thank you very much.

helped install

↓

The redundant backups at their eastern data center in China...

backups center china data data-center eastern redundant

↓

the Dark Army is covering us on that.

army covering dark dark-army

↓

Dark Army? Why, man?

army dark dark-army

↓

They got no code. They hack for anyone:

code hack

↓

terrorists, North Korea, Iran, Russia...

iran korea north north-korea russia terrorists

↓

Which means they hate U.S. capitalism

hate

↓

just as much as anyone.

↓

Last but not least.

least

↓

Steel Mountain.

mountain steel steel-mountain

↓

The hacker's dilemma. What to do

dilemma hackers

↓

when a bunch of data you want to destroy

bunch data destroy

↓

is completely off the grid?

completely grid

↓

[explosion noise]

explosion noise

↓

I'm not killing anyone.

killing

↓

Tell me one thing, Elliot.

elliot

↓

Are you a one or a zero?

zero

↓

That's the question you have to ask yourself.

question

↓

Are you a yes or a no?

↓

Are you going to act or not?

↓

Yo... you've been staring at a computer screen

computer screen staring

↓

way too long, homie.

homie

↓

Life's not that binary.

lifes

↓

Isn't it?

↓

Sure, there are grays...

↓

but when you come right down to it, at its core,

core

↓

beneath every choice, there's either a one or a zero.

beneath choice zero

↓

You either do something or you don't.

↓

You walk out that door, you've decided to do nothing,

decided door walk

↓

to say no, which means you do not come back.

↓

You leave, you are no longer a part of this.

longer part

↓

You become a zero.

become zero

↓

If you stay,

↓

if you want to change the world,

change world

↓

you become a yes.

become

↓

You become a one.

become

↓

So, I'll ask you again:

↓

are you a one or a zero?

zero

↓

An innocent man is in prison because of what I did.

innocent prison

↓

Come on, let's not kid ourselves!

↓

This has nothing to do with Colby.

colby

↓

This isn't even about my revolution.

revolution

↓

This is more than that for you.

↓

This is about how those bastards slowly killed your father

bastards father killed slowly

↓

and how you wished he'd done something about it.

wished

↓

But he didn't. Because he was a zero,

zero

↓

just like you're being right now.

↓

Fuck you.

fuck

↓

Disappearing again?

↓

I'm not killing anyone. Leave me out of this.

killing

↓

You don't get to disappear from this.

disappear

↓

We can do it with or without you,

↓

but you're a part of it either way!

part

↓

Yeah, even your stupid hoodie can't protect you, bitch!

bitch protect stupid

↓

(Elliot voice-over) This was a mistake.

elliot elliot-voice mistake voice

↓

I've gotta turn them in. Should I turn them in?

↓

Will I get into trouble? Shit, she's right.

trouble

↓

I'm culpable now. No, we're culpable.

↓

You're in this with me, so start thinking of solutions now.

solutions start start-thinking thinking

↓

[muffled electronic music]

electronic muffled music

↓

Shayla?

shayla

↓

[knocking on door] Yo, Shayla.

door knocking shayla

↓

Yo, bro.

↓

Can I help you with something?

↓

I, uh... just need to talk to Shayla.

shayla

↓

Oh, your girl.

girl

↓

She in the tub.

↓

[knocking on door] Shayla.

door knocking shayla

↓

Yo, she'll be out in a minute.

minute shell

↓

Can sit and wait if you want.

↓

I think we should check on her, make sure she's all right.

check

↓

[laughs]

laughs

↓

You a funny dude. I like you.

funny

↓

Don't be rude.

rude

↓

Sit down and chill.

chill

↓

No, that's right.

↓

You only do this.

↓

Only nigga I know that take withdrawal meds while he using.

meds nigga using withdrawal

↓

That's smart.

smart

↓

Probably even convinced yourself you ain't an addict.

addict aint convinced

↓

[laughs] Oh, shit.

laughs

↓

Forgot to introduce myself. I'm Fernan...

forgot introduce

↓

(Elliot voice-over) Fernando Vera, Shayla's supplier.

elliot elliot-voice fernando supplier vera voice

↓

One of the worst human beings I've ever hacked.

beings hacked human human-beings worst

↓

His password? "eatadick6969."

password

↓

Aside from the massive amounts of money

amounts aside massive money

↓

he spends on porn and webcams,

porn spends

↓

he does all his drug transactions

drug

↓

through emails, IMs, Twitter.

emails twitter

↓

The fact that the cops haven't caught him yet is beyond me.

beyond caught cops fact

↓

If they had half a brain cell,

brain cell half

↓

they'd be able to crack his gang's simplistic code,

able code crack gangs theyd

↓

if it can even be called that.

called

↓

After only a couple of hours of timing his tweets

couple hours timing

↓

with related news articles,

articles news related

↓

I figured out that "biscuit" and "clickety"

biscuit figured

↓

clearly referenced guns.

guns

↓

"Food," "sea shells" or "gas" for bullets.

bullets food

↓

And the ultimate: "rock to sleep early."

early rock sleep ultimate

↓

I haven't made the direct connection to a hit yet,

connection direct

↓

but the math of guns plus bullets

bullets guns math plus

↓

usually adds up to one thing.

adds usually

↓

I've thought about turning him in,

turning

↓

but he's Shayla's only supplier.

supplier

↓

I take him down, I lose my drugs,

drugs lose

↓

and with everything going on right now, I can't have that.

↓

You get that, though? [inhales]

inhales

↓

[laughs] Anyway, bro,

laughs

↓

I ain't nothing to worry about.

aint worry

↓

Just making a drop for you.

drop

↓

What's your name, anyway?

name

↓

Elliot.

elliot

↓

(Vera) What it mean?

vera

↓

What, you ain't never Googled it?

aint googled

↓

Man, you gotta do that.

↓

The meaning of a person's name is important, bro.

meaning name persons

↓

Yo, she good! She good.

↓

Trust me.

trust

↓

Took care of that shit myself.

care

↓

You remind me of me when I was younger,

remind younger

↓

depressed and sullen.

depressed

↓

Matter of fact, tried to kill myself, a couple of times.

couple fact kill matter times tried

↓

Never could get that shit right.

↓

Biology wasn't my strong suit.

biology strong suit

↓

I hated myself, man. Still do.

hated

↓

Thought that shit was a weakness for a long time.

weakness

↓

Then I realized that shit was my power.

power realized

↓

People walk around, act like they know what hate means.

hate walk

↓

Nah, no one does, until you hate yourself.

hate

↓

I mean...

↓

truly hate yourself.

hate truly

↓

That's power.

power

↓

You ain't scared of me, are you?

aint scared

↓

That's good.

↓

Means I didn't waste my time making friends with you.

friends waste

↓

[chuckles]

chuckles

↓

You don't really need these, do you?

↓

Man of your courage can last through a little withdrawal.

courage withdrawal

↓

Ya know, you the only reason why I met Shayla.

reason shayla

↓

I'm the only nigga in town carrying everything,

carrying nigga town

↓

including your precious Suboxone.

including precious suboxone

↓

So, in a weird way, I should be thanking you.

thanking weird

↓

You brought her to me.

brought

↓

Your star orbiting with mine, gravitationally,

star

↓

brought me the love of my life, Elliot.

brought elliot life love

↓

I mean, this, us?

↓

Being here?

↓

This has...

↓

beautiful meaning.

meaning

↓

But make no mistake, that girl in there...

girl mistake

↓

is mine.

↓

I don't know what I'd do without her.

↓

Now, I don't know what kind of arrangement

arrangement

↓

you had with her before, but now that we friends...

friends

↓

I trust you respect this boundary.

respect trust

↓

Feel me?

↓

[chuckles]

chuckles

↓

A dude earlier today gave me that same look.

today

↓

Only thing I gotta say is,

↓

there's a smart time to be scared, bro...

scared smart

↓

And a stupid time.

stupid

↓

[door closes]

closes door door-closes

↓

Shayla?

shayla

↓

(Elliot voice-over) The lock pick.

elliot elliot-voice lock pick voice

↓

Every hacker's favorite sport.

favorite hackers sport

↓

The perfect system to crack,

crack perfect system

↓

mostly because unlike virtual systems,

mostly systems unlike virtual

↓

when you break it, you can feel it.

break

↓

You can see it. You can hear it.

↓

[metal clatters]

clatters metal

↓

Shayla.

shayla

↓

Hey.

↓

Shayla.

shayla

↓

Wake up.

wake

↓

Mm.

↓

What happened?

happened

↓

You okay?

↓

Why was that asshole here?

asshole

↓

Why am I in the tub?

↓

(Shayla) I don't know, um... I told him I needed your pills.

needed pills shayla

↓

He came over. We smoked a little.

smoked

↓

You remember having sex with him?

having remember

↓

What? No.

↓

(Elliot voice-over) But he definitely does.

elliot elliot-voice voice

↓

Okay, let's go.

↓

- Get your purse, make sure... - Stop.

purse

↓

I'm not going anywhere, okay?

↓

What do you mean?

↓

Oh, he's just gonna get away with it?

↓

You can't go back to him. Hey, I don't need the pills.

pills

↓

- Just find someone else. - I can't.

↓

He gives me a really good deal on the split.

deal gives split

↓

I make good money.

money

↓

(Elliot voice-over) There it is again,

elliot elliot-voice voice

↓

the invisible hand at work, controlling us,

controlling hand invisible

↓

even if it pushes us past our threshold of pain.

pain past pushes

↓

It's not gonna stop.

↓

What if he does it again?

↓

Promise me you won't do anything?

promise

↓

I'm serious, Elliot.

elliot serious

↓

There's nothing to be done here.

↓

It's not like I have a choice.

choice

↓

Hey...

↓

Would you mind sleeping here tonight?

mind sleeping tonight

↓

(Elliot voice-over) Choices.

choices elliot elliot-voice voice

↓

Maybe Mr. Robot's right.

robots

↓

That's what this is all about, the yesses and nos of life.

life

↓

But do we decide them or do they decide us?

decide

↓

Fernando Vera. I get rid of him,

fernando vera

↓

I get rid of my drug dealer's supplier.

dealers drug drug-dealers supplier

↓

I get rid of the morphine.

morphine

↓

And the pain I've been holding in comes rushing out.

comes holding pain rushing

↓

Sure, I can try to find another dealer,

another dealer

↓

but like Vera said, no one on the streets deals Suboxone.

deals streets suboxone vera

↓

I could go back to digitally counterfeiting scripts,

scripts

↓

but pharmas spend a lot of dough protecting their wares.

dough protecting spend

↓

Most places only take paper scripts.

paper places scripts

↓

Continuously getting legit refills isn't realistic,

legit realistic

↓

and neither is being a junkie.

junkie

↓

So I quit cold turkey or let Vera exist.

cold exist quit turkey vera

↓

I know what you're thinking. The answer's too obvious.

answers obvious thinking

↓

Vera may have been groping Shayla before,

groping shayla vera

↓

but he's graduated to rape.

graduated rape

↓

Just like Shayla, he's left me no choice.

choice left shayla

↓

He can't be allowed to exist anymore.

allowed anymore exist

↓

(Krista) Perhaps we should start with how you're feeling.

feeling krista perhaps start

↓

Not good.

↓

What's not good right now?

↓

Everything.

↓

Humor me with some specifics.

humor specifics

↓

How do we know if we're in control?

control

↓

That we're not just making the best

best

↓

of what comes at us, and that's it.

comes

↓

Trying to constantly pick between two options.

constantly options pick

↓

Like your two paintings in the waiting room.

paintings room waiting waiting-room

↓

Or... Coke and Pepsi.

coke pepsi

↓

McDonald's or Burger King?

burger king mcdonalds

↓

Hyundai or Honda?

↓

Hmm.

↓

It's all part of the same blur, right?

blur part

↓

Just out of focus enough.

focus

↓

It's the illusion of choice.

choice illusion

↓

Half of us can't even pick our own...

half pick

↓

our cable, gas, electric.

cable electric

↓

The water we drink, our health insurance.

drink health health-insurance insurance water

↓

Even if we did, would it matter?

matter

↓

You know, if our only option is Blue Cross or Blue Shield,

blue cross option shield

↓

what the fuck is the difference?

difference fuck

↓

[indistinct radio chatter]

chatter indistinct indistinct-radio indistinct-radio-chatter radio radio-chatter

↓

In fact, aren't they... aren't they the same?

fact

↓

No, man...

↓

our choices are prepaid for us,

choices

↓

long time ago.

↓

I'm sorry you feel you have no control.

control

↓

Thought I was doing something good.

↓

I was a part of this... project.

part project

↓

Thought I was going to be a part of something special.

part special

↓

- And now? - Now...

↓

It turned out to be a mistake,

mistake turned

↓

like everything else.

↓

What's the point, right?

point

↓

Might as well, just... you do nothing.

might

↓

Might as well do nothing.

might

↓

You've brought up this issue before,

brought issue

↓

this issue of not feeling like you're in control.

control feeling issue

↓

Do you remember?

remember

↓

When we spoke about your father.

father spoke

↓

You talked about how he chose to do nothing

chose talked

↓

when he was battling his cancer.

battling cancer

↓

You told him he could have

↓

fought the company that caused it.

caused company fought

↓

He could have told people about it.

↓

He could have sought better care than what he was getting.

care

↓

Instead, he did nothing.

↓

Maybe your father felt the same way as you do now.

father

↓

After all, like you said, what's the point?

point

↓

- It's different. - What's different

↓

is you've found options, Elliot.

elliot found options

↓

That's the power you have. That's the control you own.

control power

↓

You don't have to just take what life gives you.

gives life

↓

Come on.

↓

Tell me what is going on with you.

↓

I cannot help you if you keep me in the dark.

cannot dark

↓

Shut up!

↓

Shut up!

↓

You've got bags under your eyes.

bags eyes

↓

You're yelling. You're jittery.

jittery yelling

↓

For the last month, I have seen you

month seen

↓

slip into old patterns, old behaviors.

patterns slip

↓

What is going on?

↓

[metal pipes clanking quietly]

clanking metal pipes quietly

↓

[thud]

thud

↓

[clanking continues]

clanking continues

↓

[cell phone vibrates]

cell cell-phone phone phone-vibrates vibrates

↓

[line ringing]

line line-ringing ringing

↓

[stops ringing]

ringing stops

↓

He's still not answering.

answering

↓

(Ollie) Well, we'll just have to ask him tomorrow.

ollie tomorrow

↓

Every time I try to play it or rip it,

↓

it just freezes up my computer and spits it back out again.

computer freezes spits

↓

He's not okay.

↓

He was acting so out of it at work today.

acting today

↓

Um...

↓

Are you saying something, babe?

babe

↓

(Angela) Something's wrong.

angela somethings

↓

Should I go over there?

↓

And just...

↓

Check in on him?

check

↓

Uh... come on.

↓

That's ridiculous.

ridiculous

↓

You know he's always been a weirdo, right?

weirdo

↓

I'm really worried about him.

worried

↓

Um...

↓

My Arizona buddy Fred hit me up.

arizona buddy fred

↓

He wants to grab a drink.

drink grab wants

↓

Shouldn't take too long.

↓

Okay.

↓

[line ringing]

line line-ringing ringing

↓

[shower running]

running shower

↓

[line ringing]

line line-ringing ringing

↓

[shower water running]

running shower water

↓

[stops ringing]

ringing stops

↓

_

↓

- Nice one, bro. - Nice.

↓

[hip-hop plays]

plays

↓

♪ ♪

↓

[indistinct chatter]

chatter indistinct indistinct-chatter

↓

♪ ♪

↓

(Mr. Robot) "Deep passions, longing...

deep robot

↓

"The two of them had never felt such a love,

love

↓

such closeness, such a connection."

connection

↓

- Found a way to do it without... - Shh!

found

↓

Sit down.

↓

I know how to take out the backups

backups

↓

without blowing up the pipeline.

blowing pipeline

↓

You know, Elliot, I really feel like we resolved

elliot resolved

↓

this thing between us. Didn't you walk away?

walk

↓

- I did. - Didn't I say

↓

that if you walked away,

walked

↓

you were no longer a part of this?

longer part

↓

I have a real plan...

plan real

↓

If you want me to let you back in,

↓

there's an understanding we have to come to,

understanding

↓

a debt you have to pay,

debt

↓

because, remember, you walked away.

remember walked

↓

I thought you didn't believe in debts.

believe debts

↓

Not true. I believe in debts.

believe debts

↓

I believe in erasing them.

believe

↓

What do you want?

↓

[exhales]

exhales

↓

I want you to tell me about your father.

father

↓

You're not gonna get into my head, man.

head

↓

Your David Koresh shit isn't gonna work on me.

david

↓

Tell me how he died.

died

↓

Why, man? Something tells me

tells

↓

you already looked that shit up anyway.

looked

↓

I wanna hear it from you.

↓

So I do this...

↓

we go back to the arcade,

arcade

↓

discuss the plan with the rest of them?

discuss plan rest

↓

I don't know what you want me to say.

↓

We were close. Very close.

close

↓

He was my best friend.

best best-friend friend

↓

Worked at Evil Corp his whole life.

corp evil evil-corp life whole whole-life worked

↓

He was one of the best computer engineers they had.

best computer engineers

↓

And out of the blue, he got fired.

blue fired

↓

No one knew why.

↓

Then one day he told me.

↓

He had leukemia.

leukemia

↓

Made me swear to never tell anyone,

swear

↓

especially my mom.

especially

↓

So I didn't.

↓

A few months go by...

months

↓

he got sicker and sicker.

↓

Finally, I got so worried...

finally worried

↓

told my mom.

↓

When he found out, he got pissed.

found pissed

↓

Started yelling.

started yelling

↓

I remember I tried to hug him, tell him I'm sorry, and...

remember tried

↓

kept shoving me away and shoved me so hard

hard shoved shoving

↓

I fell backwards out the window.

backwards fell window

↓

I fell, and I broke my arm.

broke fell

↓

Never spoke to me after that.

spoke

↓

Couldn't even look at me.

↓

Even the night he died.

died night

↓

- We good? - [sighs]

sighs

↓

I understand what it's like to lose a parent.

lose parent

↓

It's heartbreaking.

↓

Did you ever think he was right?

↓

About what?

↓

Hurting you that day?

hurting

↓

For what you did to him?

↓

You ever think you deserved it?

deserved

↓

I didn't do anything to him.

↓

I was trying to help him.

↓

For betraying his trust.

trust

↓

I was eight years ol...

eight eight-years years

↓

You didn't commit to the sacred pact you'd formed.

commit formed pact sacred

↓

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