In a house, a man lays dead on the floor as the TV shows news covering the 71 E-Corp buildings that have exploded. On the couch, Leon sits between Sunil and Shama. He denounces the award-winning show Frasier while praising Knight Rider for its believable protagonist. Sunil pleads for their lives, offering their usefulness. Leon says that Sunil's roommate was just an example. Shama asks why he's there. Babysitting, he says, before praising about Knight Rider again for foretelling society's dependence on technology. Leon drives away from the suburbs with Sunil and Shama in the backseat and goes off road into the Arizona desert.
Elliot is watching the news of the attacks at a storefront's wall of the TVs and begins to cry. He hears sirens go by, puts his hoodie on, and runs away. At Krista's home office, she tries to calm him down. But he can't say what's bothering him and begins to glitch away. Mr. Robot takes his place and speaks to Krista instead. He laments that Elliot ran to her, using a middle man to converse. Krista asks about what Elliot was trying to say before glitching away. Mr. Robot explains that everything that happened today was because he wouldn't listen to him and that the real string-pullers are still out there. He explains that their mission was to give control back to the people when his ideas were hijacked. Krista thinks that he supported 5/9, but he clarifies that he was the architect. She wants to get at his and Elliot's problems, but Mr. Robot wants to leave before they can blame the attacks on him. She questions him, as he explains that the plan was for one of the buildings. Krista thinks he has delusions of grandeur because Tyrell is said to be responsible on the news. Mr. Robot dismisses it as the media lies and refuses to be treated like a psychotic patient. He gets in her face and spells it out that Elliot worked at Allsafe during 5/9, hacked her, and is crazy.
An fsociety video takes responsibility for the attacks and promises something else in 24 hours. Dominique and Ernesto Santiago are playing the video for a visitor in an FBI room. The man, Tyrell's lawyer, tries to leverage Tyrell's warning as the heroic efforts against the foolish FBI: that he had been kidnapped and threatened to work with terrorists. Santiago counters with Tyrell's order to disable the honeypot on the targeted server on the night of 5/9, while being investigated for murder. The lawyer notes that he was cleared of murder charges. Dominique explains that Tyrell was fired two days before 5/9 and now has resurfaced the day of the explosions. The lawyer calls it a coincidence with no hard evidence. He says that Tyrell can ID the true terrorists in exchange for immunity, using the 24 hour threat to his advantage.
In Santiago's office, Dominique wants to bring in both Darlene and Angela, questioning everybody to get after the Dark Army. Santiago wants to confer with the FBI Director and POTUS with concrete evidence. They continue to yell as Dominique says something that isn't adding up since he wants to wait when the clock is ticking towards another attack. Santiago says that she isn't a super cop, telling her that she reports to him.
Darlene and Angela watch the news in Angela's apartment. Angela coldly notes that the death toll is estimated at 4,000 and climbing. Darlene takes the remote away from her and tells her to chill out. Angela wonders if the dead are going to be okay. Darlene says that she's going out and will come back.
Tyrell is in an interrogation room, asking to see both his wife and child. An FBI agent, Stanchek, has him look through a book of faces, one of which is Elliot. Santiago talks to his mom on the phone, telling her that she shouldn't be afraid to leave the house as she has two treatments left and the FBI caught the guy behind the attacks. The threat is a scare tactic. He promises to call the doctor to reschedule and tells her that he loves her. He looks at the news and throws his phone. Stanchek comes in and says that Tyrell identified two suspects corroborated by Sasan Nouri. Santiago snaps at the agent for a moment when told about Tyrell's request to see his family.
Santiago goes to see Tyrell and turns off the camera. He assures him that they are alone and can speak freely. Tyrell is silent, nothing to get him off of his chest when prompted. Santiago tells him that his wife died almost two weeks ago. A lover's quarrel when he shot her in the head. Tyrell thinks that he's lying. Santiago tells him that his son is in a foster care with a low abuse rate. He promises Tyrell that he won't live and his son will be forgotten if he tells anyone about Santiago. Tyrell weeps and Santiago turns on the camera before leaving.
Leon stops the car in the middle of nowhere. He opens the trunk and begins digging. Sunil blames Shama for sending the email to the FBI, believing that the Dark Army found out. She says she didn't send it, but it will go out automatically to someone that she trusts. Sunil whines about his missed J-Date with Juanita Rosenberg, wondering if she called the cops. Shama is trying to get out of her restraints, wanting to be with her family: her brother is probably freaking out. Sunil continues to rant as Shama frees herself. Although she can't drive, having to grown up in the city, Sunil convinces her to try. Leon watches them crash nearby.
In her office, Krista talks to her lawyer friend Chad Davidovitz about how she almost reported Elliot to the authorities. He reminds her of the doctor-patient privilege. She says she believes in him. He tells her a lot of the crazies are claiming the responsibility.
Angela watches a building collapse on TV and rewinds it repeatedly. Darlene comes in and finds her on the floor talking about the death toll not mattering, even if there's more. Darlene asks her about more attacks, but Angela says she doesn't know. Angela takes Darlene's hand and has her sit beside her. She shows her that all of the people all came back, showing her again by rewinding the video. Angela repeats that everyone will be okay.
Mr. Robot arrives at Otto Irving's car dealership. Inside, the front desk is empty. Mr. Robot finds Irving working on a car in the garage. He begins yelling about Stage 2 being his operation when the masked Dark Army soldiers knock him unconscious.
At the Mar-a-Lago Club, Zhang tells a man that global conflict creates profit when Phillip Price walks over to him just to say it's all bullshit. The man leaves as the two talk about Phillip being marooned there even with everything going on. Zhang notes that China signed the economic accord. Phillip blames Zhang for the attacks, but Zhang suggests that the American sympathy will only help E-Coin. E-Corp is too big to fail. Phillip sits and addresses the notion that Zhang surprised him with 5/9 in order to create the economic pressure that would allow manipulation for the UN vote. All of it went to plan, but he can't find upside in the attacks "coming after me". Zhang reminds him of when they sat together listening to the lyre. Phillip swore to handle the lawsuit against the Washington Township plant, yet his pet project Angela was allowed to keep the lawsuit. Since he couldn't manipulate and control her, Zhang had to. Zhang reminds him that he was installed as CEO only to protect the plant, and his predecessor died for failure. Phillip is to find his own replacement and facilitate the plant's relocation to the Congo. Phillip laughs it off before loudly demanding the real reason, drawing the room's attention. Zhang calls it a lesson, destroying so much because Zhang has to ask Phillip twice. Zhang walks away.
Shama continues digging the grave, musing that they may be recruited for another attack as the hole is only so big. Sunil's roommate's dead body is on the ground nearby. Leon says that he can hear them, sitting on the car. Sunil asks about what the Dark Army wants. He threatens to stop digging. Leon threatens them with his knife and where it's been. Sunil takes his turn digging.
Mr. Robot is sleeping in a car when Irving knocks on the window. Mr. Robot isn't wearing his glasses as he emerges. Irving points out a rooftop party, noting how they can be so joyous on the day of America's worst terror attack. Mr. Robot asks who gave the orders, asking about Tyrell. Irving tells him that the plan was bought and paid for by the people like those at the party. Mr. Robot calls him out for going in, to which Irving says that he's just there to clean up the scandal of an overdose of a senator's mistress on the payroll. No death, thousands or a body in the guest room, can stop these parties.
Leon brings in both Shama and Sunil back to the house where the Dark Army is clearing it out. He says he's leaving them with the Dark Army and he hopes that Grant treats them well. Grant asks that they were follow him into the garage. Elsewhere, two Spanish speaking workers Pedro and Hector are eating when the news shows both Sunil and Shama as having been identified by Tyrell. Hector recognizes them as Frederick and Tanya from work. Pedro says that he should report them. In the garage, Grant has both Shama and Sunil sit at two desks.
Dominique, Santiago, Norm and the FBI oversee a raid on the Arizona house. Sunil and Shama identify what's on the computers as the malware is targeting the air traffic control across major cities. Shama notes that the code is already written. The SWAT team move in closer. Grant has the soldiers place their guns on the desks. SWAT is in the house. Grant speaks about the Dark Army's willingness to die for their cause. Sunil pleads for their lives. Grant believes in him for honoring the higher power through suicide, sacrificing everything. Shama and Sunil offer their services. Grant says the plans to crash the airplanes are just to tell a story. The Dark Army soldiers force a gun to Sunil's head.
SWAT enters the garage to find the blood-stained computers and find both Shama and Sunil dead from apparent suicide. The control center is shown the Iranian flag and fsociety paraphernalia in the garage. Santiago tells Dominique that it's over, and though they didn't get them alive, they stopped an attack. Dominique enters the whiteboard evidence room. She crosses out both Shama and Sunil and puts "? Whiterose" at the center of the web, sighing "You're actually gonna get away with this".