A door below an exit sign opens and Mr. Robot comes through. He walks down a long hallway and walks through an identical door. He enters a meeting room when a younger version of Elliot's mother, Magda Alderson, and a younger version of Elliot sit at the round table. Magda asks him how is "he?" Mr. Robot says that it isn't going to happen today so there's no point in waiting; they need to help "him" through this. Magda wants to bring him here. Young Elliot asks him if they should tell "him" everything. Mr. Robot declines again. Magda says that Mr. Robot has let this go on for too long. Mr. Robot says that they just have to finish Elliot's hack and then they can get through. Magda asks how. Mr. Robot replies to show "him" what he did. Magda says that they can't go on like this if it doesn't work and that they may lose the poor boy forever. Mr. Robot says that he woke up when Darlene talked to him two months ago. She is the key.
Darlene is in a hotel room, prepping for the hack on a laptop. Mr. Robot enters, narrating that he is here while Elliot is dealing with his mental trauma. Mr. Robot notes that the Deus Group should be arriving soon. Darlene asks where's he's been, but Mr. Robot simply says that he was held up. Darlene argues that she had a bad day too. As they bicker, Darlene realizes it is Mr. Robot and asks what happened. Mr. Robot says that Elliot will tell her when he's ready. There is a knock at the door. Phillip enters. Mr. Robot says that this is too risky as the Deus Group meeting is right across the street. Phillip says that he needs a favor and hands over a thumb drive. He asks Mr. Robot to promise to destroy the Whiterose's machine, as Angela wanted. Mr. Robot agrees. He tells Phillip to keep everyone at the meeting while they hack their phones. Phillip leaves. Darlene is surprised that Phillip knows Angela. Later, Phillip is narrating the plan to steal the numbers and the bank accounts. Phillip approaches the Deus Group meeting. Inside, in an open space museum floor, Phillip finds Zhang sitting at a table for two.
Darlene sits at her laptop, wondering why Angela never told her that Phillip was her father. Mr. Robot says that maybe she didn't know. Darlene states that she misses Angela. Mr. Robot is watching the Deus Group guards from the window. He finds it suspicious that no one has entered or left except Phillip. Darlene wonders if their plan has been discovered. Phillip is pat down by the masked Dark Army soldiers. Zhang wants to have a drink. Phillip wants to skip the foreplay.
Mr. Robot says that they have been found out. If the Deus Group doesn't show up, it's over. He concludes that Elliot would look for abnormalities. He goes on the laptop and recalls that Elliot saved an image on Tyrell's phone. Zhang decries that Phillip couldn't wait until the new year and that he would have been allowed to live in retirement. Darlene takes the laptop and starts looking at Tyrell's calendar. Zhang asks what Phillip and Elliot were working on and if Phillip reveals it, he will be allowed to go home and die in his sleep. Or else, they have their methods. Darlene finds the image, a different location for the Deus Group meeting. Mr. Robot wonders that if Phillip is the only one who got the other address, the guards aren't there to just kill him, they're there to protect someone. Zhang gloats that the meeting is taking place as they speak and Tyrell is impressing everyone. Phillip says that he expects a mutiny because Tyrell isn't there. Darlene wants to go to the new location. Mr. Robot wants to stay and keep an eye on the Whiterose. Darlene doesn't want to know if the plan goes wrong and they only have one device to catch the numbers. Mr. Robot sends her off.
Wang Shu confirms that Tyrell is not at the meeting. Zhang is angry, asking where Tyrell is. Phillip doesn't know, continuing to drink. Wang wants to go to the meeting as Phillip is nothing but a fool. Zhang refuses. Wang insists that letting Elliot live had led them to this delay. She tells Zhang that Elliot has beat him and they must warn the Deus Group. When Zhang refuses again, Wang quits and walks out.
Darlene is at the new location, a restaurant called Cipriani. Inside, the room is filled with world leaders and such men. The kitchen staff is busy. A worker goes outside for a cigarette, but a guard tells her to go back inside. Darlene watches from the barricades at the corner. She is distraught at the level of security, but notices a nearby building being used to film "Shift + Control" a TV show inspired by fsociety.
Mr. Robot grabs his phone. He calls Phillip's phone and Zhang picks up. They exchange a few words when Zhang offers to reveal something about Angela if he stops his plot. Zhang says Angela is not dead. Mr. Robot saw the picture of her corpse. Zhang insists that she is alive and not to believe what someone sees. Zhang can take Elliot to see her, hear her voice, hold her hand. It is Elliot holding the phone. Zhang offers to show Elliot a world without his pain or regrets. Elliot sheds a tear, saying he saw what Angela became because of the Whiterose's plan: using her. Zhang says to ask her yourself. Elliot receives a message from Darlene to turn on the TV.
The news shows a new fsociety video. Darlene has donned the mask and reveals to the camera that the Deus Group runs the world. She has doxxed them, linking their private files, and inviting people to the meeting location. Zhang is mad. Elliot gets a call from Darlene. The fsociety video will smoke them out, Darlene says. Elliot tells her that he had spoken to the Whiterose. Darlene asks if he's okay and is glad that he's back. Elliot notices a cell tower nearby and enacts a plan to get the numbers. Zhang is on the phone, calming down the Deus Group members, telling them not to go outside. They hang up. Zhang yells at Phillip. Elliot is hacking while Darlene hacks the car garage barricade. At the meeting, one member starts to leave, starting a rush for the exit. All of their cars are trapped in the garage because of a jammer Darlene has left behind. The Deus Group members spill into the back alley. Darlene watches from the barricade as a crowd swarms. Darlene hacks on her phone. Darlene is capturing people's numbers while Elliot phishes for access to the cell tower. He is successful. The garage barricade is opened. Zhang is pacing, wondering if the front entrance is secure and demanding the car be brought. Phillip marvels at what havoc a pipsqueak in a hoodie has wrought. Elliot is hacking. Mr. Robot asks for an update. They have a bunch of people's numbers, don't know if the Whiterose is among them. Darlene has captured 99 of 100 Deus Group accounts. She checks with Elliot. Phillip rubs it in Zhang's face that Elliot is the only one who has truly hurt him.
Zhang and Phillip exit the museum. Phillip stops on the stairs to take in the cold, peaceful night. Zhang asks if Phillip must be forced into the car. Phillip admits that he almost believed that Angela was still alive. But he knows Zhang is a con man. Darlene finds the final account. She tells Elliot to start the bank transfer. Cars begin picking up the Deus Group members. One of the men receives a text from the bank with a code. Elliot intercepts it. Phillip tells Zhang that Angela lives on in the people who love her and have set off to destroy Zhang. The money transfer is complete. Elliot marvels with Mr. Robot. Zhang receives the message on his phone as Phillip concludes that they are broke. Zhang yells as the accounts are overdrawn. Phillip tells Zhang that the project, the dream of another world, is dead. Zhang grabs a gun from a Dark Army soldier and shoots Phillip multiple times. Elliot and Mr. Robot arrive on the sidewalk across the street to see Phillip fals dead. Mr. Robot narrates that Rome has fallen: no more top 1% playing gods. As one Deus Group member is driven away, his picture is being taken by the people. He sees Darlene in the crowd. Elliot puts on his hoodie and walks away as Zhang looks in his direction before being driven away.
In her residence, the Whiterose applies lipstick as the police bang on the front door. They demand that Zhang open up, count down, and bust down the doors and start shooting.