Mr. Robot: We've Got an Insane Whiterose Theory
Elliot (Rami Malek) locked himself up in his mom's house (yeah, right), Darlene (Carly Chaikin) was a little lost as the leader of a wayward movement and Angela (Portia Doubleday) was playing chicken with media publicists as she became Evil Corp's new bulldog.
[...] Logic Bomb" -- the best episode of the season so far -- proved that Mr. Robot works better when these characters bounce off each other and are after similar goals.
Elliot got himself into a heap of trouble when his curiosity -- you know, that part of his mind that needs a good scratching every now and then -- made him poke around Ray's (Craig Robinson) site, leading to a good old-fashioned thug beatdown in the streets of New York (or, as we've theorized, somewhere in the recesses of a prison or mental hospital).
The twist here is that we know Whiterose is also the leader of the Dark Army, the very same group that the Minister of State Security should be going after.
(A line that was repeated in the "previously on" segment, signifying some kind of importance as it relates to this episode.) And as far back as Season 1, I've said out loud to actual human beings that I think Mr. Robot might be headed toward something a lot more than just rich corporate jerks putting their boots on the throats of the 99 percent.
Whiterose clearly likes Dom as a potential recruit for whatever she's doing; not only does she find her interesting, but Dom would also make a fantastic mole inside the FBI for the Dark Army cause (assuming Whiterose puts being leader of the Dark Army over being China's Minister of State Security, which is the cover for her real job).
[...] when Whiterose talked about "alternate realities" with a twinkle in her eye, it was almost as if she was testing Dom's interest in the subject so that she could gauge a potential recruiting speech, or at the very minimum, Dom caught Whiterose in a moment of vulnerability.
Whiterose also talked about leading o