Hello, Elliot/Summary

Elliot murders the other Elliot in the apartment. He asks the audience not to judge him. He rationalizes his actions as inevitable, the earthquakes being a sign that both of them can't exist in this world. Elliot showers, wiping the blood of his hands.

In the morning, Elliot retrieves his other's car from a parking lot and brings it to the apartment. Phillip calls, saying they're all waiting at the beach for the wedding photo. Elliot says he'll be there. He steals a moving cart as a deliveryman heads inside a store. Elliot packs the corpse of other Elliot into a box and wipes down the apartment. He dresses in a wedding tux when Mr. Robot appears. Elliot promises to fill him in on what's happened on the way to the wedding. He believes Whiterose's machine worked and he is in a better world. Mr. Robot cautions him against taking other Elliot's life, explaining that though they look alike, they are not the same.

Elliot brings out the box on the cart and rolls it to the car. As he attempts to put it in the trunk, a uniformed police officer, Dom, arrives to give him a parking ticket. She asks for ID. Elliot hands over his license. Dom is perplexed by the ID named "Elliot Alderson" as it is nothing like him. She asks about the box and his tuxedo. Elliot tries to leave, when she notices blood on his sleeve and blood seeping out of the box. She draws her gun on him. She looks inside the box and an earthquake hits. Elliot runs and Dom gives chase. He takes the subway. Mr. Robot awaits in the train.

Mr. Robot wants to explain what is happening, but Elliot is focused on finding Angela. Elliot says he's only ever wanted to be alone from Mr. Robot and goes to sit in another car. At Coney Island, Elliot sees the wedding set up on the beach. He sees the people in attendance are all wearing Fsociety masks. Mr. Robot joins him at the altar and gives him his hoodie. Elliot continues to talk about Whiterose's machine and Angela. Mr. Robot explains that there is no wedding. The game they played at the nuclear plant disabled the machine. This a world Elliot created. Mr. Robot tried to bring him here a while ago, slipping into it during his morphine withdrawal. This isn't a dream, but a prison: a recursive loop he created a year ago to keep "him" occupied. So Elliot could take control of him. The real Elliot, Mr. Robot says. Our Elliot dismisses other Elliot from the apartment as being real. Mr. Robot tells him that he, our Elliot, is no more real than Mr. Robot and that he needs to let go so that the real Elliot Alderson can get his life back. Our "Elliot" asks who he is. Mr. Robot says he already knows. "Elliot" looks to the boardwalk and sees Angela in a wedding dress. She runs. He gives chase. Their footsteps have an eerie echo.

He finds her in the fsociety arcade. She tells him there was never going to be a wedding. Because he's not Elliot. He is the Mastermind. "Elliot" glitches and stumbles out of the arcade's back door. Wind howls. He chases Mr. Robot onto the boardwalk. In a crowd of people, every man, woman, and child has Mr. Robot's face. "Elliot" follows Mr. Robot. A cell door buzzes, as if from a prison. "Elliot" turns Mr. Robot around, only to find Tyrell. Tyrell takes out a gun and shoots Elliot. A crowd applauds. Suddenly it is night. Elliot lies in an empty lot outside the amusement park as Tyrell digs a grace. A child counts down from nine. Elliot tries to crawl away but Tyrell throws him in the grave. The child says "Ready or not, prepare to die." Darlene's voice pleads with him to wake up.

Elliot finds himself in Krista's therapy room at her house. She greets him. Elliot concludes she is not Krista. She agrees and tells him since he trusted her, the others chose "her" to speak to him. Elliot doesn't trust anyone as they've been trying to kill him. "Krista" says they've been trying to show him the truth but he is resisting. Elliot wants to talk to Darlene, but Krista says she's not here, only "out there" in the real world. Elliot heard her voice trying to wake him. Krista notes that the siblings' connection is so strong, Darlene is Elliot only link to reality, and thus was omitted from the fantasy world. Without Darlene, it was the best chance to trap him here.

Elliot tries to leave the room but is looped back in. Elliot demands to wake up from his nightmare and reclaim his life. Krista offers to explain as he takes a seat. She brings up Elliot's dissociative identity disorder. The first personality was created the day he jumped out the window as a child, the protector to replace Elliot's father, who was with him at the movies when his father collapsed, who tookover when he was assaulted in prison: Mr. Robot. Later in life, the mother personality was created. The persecutor, appearing in visions of his childhood abusing him, blaming him for his father's abuse. Then came the personality of Elliot's younger self, who emerged to handle the abuse he couldn't tolerate. Elliot thinks she doesn't know about the viewer, but she looks into the camera and identifies the voyeurs. She says they identified all the personalities, but a new one came about not too long ago. Elliot doesn't want to hear it, not believing it to be true.

Krista sympathasizes with why Elliot did it: to protect the real Elliot. Changing his past and giving him the memory of a loving father and a defenestration accident. Elliot also wanted to protect his future, taking down child pornographers and all the evil in the real world. Fsociety was meant to save the world to protect him. Real Elliot was hidden away in an idealic fantasy world. Meanwhile, our "Elliot" carried all his anger, a vigilante hacker Elliot dreamed of being. Coinciding with all the morphine Elliot snorted, he eventually forgot that he was another personality. He is the Mastermind, having taken over some months before his journey with fsociety began. Krista tells him it's time to give back control to the host. Elliot refuses to give up and the room shakes. He intends to wake up and take back his life. The ceiling collapeses.

Elliot wakes up in a hospital bed. The TV shows news that Minister Zhang was found dead in an attempted terrorist attack and that a nuclear meltdown was narrowly avoided. Elliot sees Darlene in a nearby chair. She goes to his side. He takes her hand and wants to confirm that he isn't dreaming. She assures him and calls a nurse. They both don't want to lose each other. She asks him about the power plant. She tells him there was an explosion, but the room he was in was protected. Whiterose is dead and the machine blew up. "You saved the world, Elliot Alderson."

Elliot looks at his name tag wrist band and takes his hand away. He's having second, confused thoughts. Darlene takes his hand and assures him everything they went through was real. All their friends are dead. Elliot says that he isn't real. He isn't Elliot. Just a part of him. Darlene says she knows. He's not the Elliot she grew up with. She knew she they started fsociety. He doesn't act like him. Darlene thought he was just different, but when he forgot her she figured it out. She didn't say anything because they were hanging out, getting close. Elliot asks why they weren't close before. Darlene blames herself for not being there for him, not understanding what he was going through, and leaving. She came back to the city to fix things, but only found "Mastermind" Elliot. She asks about real Elliot. He's in a safe place, where he has everything. Darlene misses him. She leaves to go get the nurse. Elliot corrects himself, telling Darlene that real Elliot doesn't have everything. Mastermind Elliot says I love you. Elliot closes his eyes.

"Hello, friend." Elliot apologizes for not giving the viewer a name, though he doesn't have one himself. He's just a guy playing God without permission. In the skyscraper boardroom overlooking the city, "Elliot" stands with Mr. Robot, his mother personality, and his child personality. The mother and child leave the room. Elliot talks to Mr. Robot, asking if they are headed to a black void of nothingness. Mr. Robot tells him they will always be a part of him. Elliot muses that changing the world is not a single act, but being present in the world and true to who we are. And if we refuse to budge, maybe the world will change around us. Mastermind Elliot and Mr. Robot changed the real Elliot by being there, something our Elliot takes pride in.

"Elliot" takes a long walk down a hallway. In front of a door at the end, he tells the viewer it only works if you let go too. Through the door, "Elliot" takes a seat in a movie theater with the other personalities. A movie begins to play. "Elliot" watches with tears in his eyes. Images fly by the screen. The projector becomes an eye, shedding a tear. Darlene looks into this person's eyes and says "Hello, Elliot."