At the Queens Museum in 1995, a Young Elliot runs through the empty halls as Angela counts for hide and seek. Elliot goes through a staff only door and finds a storage room. He talks to someone who isn't there, saying that he trusts him and that Angela won't find something. He goes on to hide in a crevice in the wall. Elliot returns to the visitor's area, where Angela spots him in the giant map room, and playfully chases him.
In Krista's apartment, Fernando Vera lays dead. Krista is freaking out, hearing Vera's phone ring and checking outside to see both Peanuts and Javi calling. Elliot is staring at a younger version of himself standing before him. Krista breaks his trance and insists that they leave. Outside, Peanuts convinces Javi to go back inside. They find Vera's body, they also check that they both escape, and decide to take his wallet.
In the alley, Krista hails a cab. She tells the driver to drive them to the nearest police station. On the TV, Tyrell Wellick delivers E-Corp's holiday greeting. At the DiPierro house, the kids are playing cards when Dominique's mom Trudy DiPierro has to play mediator. One of the boys, Tommy, curses at her and is sent to timeout. He sees the masked men storming the front door. They rush in and tie up everyone in the house.
Janice is in Angela's apartment, looking out the window. She tells the story about the accidental creation of cement by lightning to a tied up Dominique and Darlene. One of her soldiers says that Darlene's phone is completely wiped. Janice tells Darlene to restore it. Darlene is defiant. Dominique insists that Darlene doesn't know where Elliot is and wouldn't give him up. Janice can't trust Dominique, as she failed her. Janice notes that Dominique cares about Darlene, given her masturbating to her interrogation video. (“404 Not Found”) Janice senses the awkward tension in their relationship. She takes out her bag of tools. Darlene dismiss that her relationship with Dominique was just sex. Janice presses her, but Darlene just wants to get things over with. Janice stabs Dominique in the chest, puncturing a lung and sending her falling to the floor. Dominique has about 15 minutes for Darlene to decide.
Krista and Elliot get off at the police station, but Elliot won't go inside the police station. He asks her what people do when they find out what he just found out. Krista counsels him through his doubts and fear, telling him that he can survive. Elliot tells her that she doesn't have to take care of him anymore. Krista wants to see him again. Elliot sees the young boy across the street. He hugs Krista. She enters the police station. Elliot follows the boy into the subway and asks where they're going.
Dominique lays there, dying on the ground. Janice talks about Dominique's honesty and that moles have growing pains. Dominique tells Darlene not to say anything. Janice recognizes their special relationship and talks about Dominique's mom Trudy. She talks about her interest in taxidermy in high school and all the tests saying that she was normal. Janice decides to take things up a notch and calls her team at the DiPierro house to start killing the family. Dominique begs her to stop. Darlene intervenes, agreeing to fix the phone.
At the Queens Museum, Elliot sees the boy inside. He finds him in the map room. Elliot asks him why he brought him here. He thinks it's because this is where he ran away from his father Edward. Elliot apologizes for not protecting his younger self, screaming it aloud. The boy says that isn't why and leads Elliot into the storage room. They uncover the hiding spot in the wall. Elliot finds a small bag, holding a key. The key to his childhood bedroom. Their dad's key, the boy clarifies. Elliot hid it to keep the monster back. He wasn't running away. He was fighting back.
Outside of Krista's apartment, medics load Vera's body bag into an ambulance. A Dark Army Op relays to Janice over the phone that they tracked Elliot's phone there, but the body isn't him. Janice is mad at Darlene. She gets her phone to order the death of Trudy. There is no answer. Janice tries again. Dominique tells Janice to check her phone, as "he", Deegan Maguire, has been trying to call her. Janice sees the missed calls from the "Lucky Irish bastard" and calls him. He explains that Dominique's plan worked. He killed all of the Dark Army men and is taking the family to a safe house. As Janice threatens him over the phone. Dominique pulls the knife out of her chest, cuts one of the goon's ankles, gets his gun, and shoots the three captors in the head. Darlene frees herself and Dominique. Dominique calls in for an officer down. She tells Darlene to go. Darlene blames herself and wants to stay, but Dominique simply tells her to take down the Dark Army, Darlene leaves.
Elliot is coding at the abandoned Allsafe. Mr. Robot enters the scene. Elliot tells him that he is sorry for the timeout, but the hack is almost ready to go and the Deus Group meeting is in an hour. Mr. Robot asks him why he has been let back in. He explains that his reason for existence was to protect Elliot, as his father couldn't. Mr. Robot kept the happy memories, hiding the truth to protect himself as much as Elliot, afraid of how it might hurt him. Mr. Robot apologizes for keeping Elliot in the dark. And if he must be gone for good, Mr. Robot wants him to know that he is not, nor ever was, Elliot's father. Elliot says that he was the father he needed. Mr. Robot starts to wonder if he could go back in time and stop all of this from happening. Elliot counters that he wouldn't be who he is today, and he wouldn't have Mr. Robot. As Mr. Robot puts his hands on Elliot's shoulders, Elliot says that he can't do the hack. He can't do anything. Elliot begins weeping.