Elliot lives in New York City. He is a cyber security expert. He works for AllSafe, a cyber security company. It seems as though he has trouble interacting with others. He doesn't like to be touched. He keeps tabs on his therapist. He doesn't approve of the men she dates. He missed his friend Angela's birthday party. He doesn't like her boyfriend.
The episode open with Elliot exposing a man who runs a network that carries a lot of child pornography. Elliot has notified the police. They are coming to get the man.
Someone tries to take down AllSafe's network. Elliot is called in at 3 in the morning to deal with the problem. Nothing seems to work. All the usual procedures for a situation like this just seem to make the situation worse. Elliot figures it out but then as he is fixing the problem he finds a message coded in the system. He is about to delete the message when he changes his mind and hides it.
Elliot is on the subway on his way home when he meets a man with a name tag that reads Mr. Robot. He has seen this guy a couple times before, once on the subway and another time on the street. Mr. Robot asks Elliot to follow him. He takes Elliot to Coney Island, to an old abandoned arcade. He introduces him to a secret society of hackers. Mr. Robot wants Elliot's help to plant evidence that will implicate the head of Evil Corp in the previous night's cyber attack.
Elliot runs into Angela on the street the next morning. She wants to personally thank him for solving the problem. She has brought over Back to the Future and suggests they could go up to his apartment and watch it. He seems a little hesitant but goes with it. There is no movie watching. They walk in only to find a woman in Elliot's bed. She's still asleep. Elliot got high with her the night before, before he was called in to the office. Angela doesn't stick around.
One of the pieces of information that Mr. Robot gave Elliot was that what the secret society wants to do is unleash a piece of malicious code that will wipe out all electronic records of debt. Elliot hacks Angela's credit card account. He sees her balance is almost $200,000.
Elliot has second thoughts about helping Mr. Robot. He is planning to expose Mr. Robot and friends but something changes his mind. The head of Evil Corp fires Angela in the middle of a meeting. That's what I thought happened but later on she is still shown working in the office. I assume that means that she was just demoted or taken off the project. Either way, Elliot changes his mind and plants the information implicating the head of Evil Corp. Tyrell Wellick, one of the Evil Corp executives, sees Elliot switch out the one folder for the other before he hands it over. He doesn't say anything and I don't think Elliot knows that he knows.
It takes a while but eventually the head of Evil Corp is taken down. Elliot is happy until he gets picked up by some goons who take him to Evil Corp. Tyrell wants to meet with him.
I'm not sure how satisfying this show is going to be for me but I am intrigued by it. I like the music a lot. It really helps to set the mood.
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