Who Is Mr. Robot’s Landlord? Recap of Season Four “410 Gone”

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I have been writing about Mr. Robot for a very long time. You can read all my earlier writing about the show using this guide.

We have finally come down to this one final season, hopefully, we will get answers to many pressing questions (I put together this list of questions in advance of the final season)

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If you have not watched every episode of Mr. Robot or read Red Wheelbarrow this could contain spoilers *Spoiler Alert*

Some Additional Thoughts From 409

I wrote something on Reddit about last week’s episode, figured i would share it here too::

This Isn’t About Budapest

In the traditional romantic comedy, the couple fights break up, and then, always at the last possible minute before one of the two people moves away they reconcile (usually after one of the two people running full speed across an airport terminal or tarmac).

Sam Esmail chose a different, but in its own way, an equally romantic ending for Dom and Darlene.

Dom and Darlene were at an airport and they had been fighting about the ethics of Darlene redistributing the Deus group and Dark Army bitcoin to everyone else in the world. 

They are originally fleeing to avoid the Dark Arny and Darlene gets them alternative identification and tickets to Budapest (where Cisco imagined him and Darlene escaping way back in Season Two).

As they arrive in the airport Dom runs into Irving (whose book, “Beach Towell” has finally been published and is available in the airport bookstore). Irving tells Dom that the Dark Army no longer cares about her, her family, or about Darlene.

And here is the romantic part...As they are talking about leaving together, and Dom is saying she doesn’t want to go to Budapest, Dom tells Darlene that Budapest wasn’t her dream and that she shouldn’t go because Cisco wanted her to go….and Dom was right.

Darlene conversely tells Dom that it might be time for her to stop acting purely out of a sense of duty and that a break might do her good….and Darelene was right.

So Dom runs off from Darlene and decides to follow her duty but turns around and returns to the flight.

And Darlene stays in the terminal, starts to have a panic attack and figures out that she really wants to leave, so she does.

It is a happy ending for both (Dom may in fact be leaving to go work with Leon, as a boss because, as Leon put it “she is a boss”). She also might go work for US Cyber-Command, but that seems a bit far-fetched.

Dom, on the other hand, is going to Budapest to chill out and have fun, away from duty and responsibilities. 

Good times. Totally subverted the traditional RomCom ending but did so in a way that leaves both characters happy.

Oh, and Dom might be in trouble with the FBI anyway, but for once in her life, she doesn’t seem to care too much. She is also reading Irving’s book on the flight from Boston to Budapest

Three Days Of The Condor

Not much more to discuss tonight. Darlene decided she was done with Fsociety and Elliot’s project and took off. They both have gone their separate ways.

Elliot has read the jump drive, and he says he is going to finish the rest of the job.

Also, I haven’t looked at my E-Coin account yet (remember a few years ago when we all signed up for E-coin accounts and could get prizes?). I wonder if we all got some kind of special present in our E-Coin accounts?

Leon is either working with him to finish the job or was just hired to take care of Dom and Darlene getting away, we will find out later I suspect. Leon did suggest everyone watch Three Days of the Condor, which, like Mr. Robot, is on Amazon Prime right now.

Just a few more episodes left.

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