Season

Mr. Robot Season 2

by Stephanie Corneliussen, Portia Doubleday, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin, Michael Cristofer and 7 others

Following the events of fsociety’s 5/9 hack on multi-national company Evil Corp, season two explores the consequences of that attack as well as the illusion of control.

(25 total)

Characters

Sam Esmail (18)Rami Malek (12)Elliot Alderson (12)Kyle Bradstreet (3)Michael Cristofer (3)Philip Price (3)Randolph Leon (2)Christian Slater (2)Adam Penn (2)Mr. Robot (2)

“It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to question your eyes and ears. But, then again, isn't it all the same? Our senses just mediocre inputs to our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us, but what if the haunting truth is they can't? That w…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: Perception, Reality

“Maybe wars aren't meant to be won, maybe they're meant to be continuous.”

— Kor Adana, Randolph Leon, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: War, Eternal War

“I don't want your proof. I want your belief.”

— Sam Esmail, imdb.com

Tagged: evidence, Faith

“Every relationship is a power struggle. Some of us need to be controlled.”

— Adam Penn, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: Relationships, Power Struggles

“I was...I am disgusted by the selfish brutality of the world, but at the same time I am utterly fascinated by it. The FBI is the perfect place for that kind of contradiction.”

— Kyle Bradstreet, Dominique DiPierro, Grace Gummer, imdb.com

Tagged: FBI, selfishness, Brutality

“Politics is for puppets.”

— Kor Adana, Randolph Leon, Philip Price, Michael Cristofer, imdb.com

Tagged: Politics, puppets, Conformity, Propaganda

“I'm a mercenary. I don't play fair. I play what I want. When you deal with a mercenary then all decorum gets tossed out the window. So you go ahead with your cute threats and your watch beeps. Order will not protect you anymore, my friend. I will rain chaos. Even if it hurts me. Because I would rath…”

— Kyle Bradstreet, Lucy Teitler, Philip Price, Michael Cristofer, imdb.com

Tagged: Mercenaries, Chaos, Decorum

“Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid eac…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: Control, Fantasy, Illusion, Escapism

“Never trust a tech guy with a rat tail—too easy to carve secrets out of him.”

— Adam Penn, Lone Star, Michael Maize, imdb.com

Tagged: Rat Tail Haircut, Tech Guys

“Killing a man instantly robs him of explanation. He has no time to process his final moments. Now, even though he was paralyzed, his mind was still able to understand why his life was ending. We let him die with answers, otherwise we're nothing but ruthless murderers.”

— Kyle Bradstreet, Joanna Wellick, Stephanie Corneliussen, imdb.com

Tagged: Murder, Final Moments

“You wanna unburden yourself, go jerk off.”

— Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot, Christian Slater, imdb.com

Tagged: masturbation, Release

“I have burrowed underneath your brain. I am nested there. I am the scream in your mind. You will cooperate.”

— Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot, Christian Slater, imdb.com

Tagged: manipulation, Control

“Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves every day. We Photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong—annihilation is all we are.”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: Annihilation, Self-deprecation, photoshop, Identity

“Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while the guilty roam free? Okay, fine. Forget the one-offs. How about the countless wars declared in his name? Okay, fine. Let's skip the random, meaningless murder for a second, shall we? How ab…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: God, atheism, Religion, War, Scapegoats

“Control is about as real as a one-legged unicorn taking a leak at the end of a double rainbow.”

— Sam Esmail, Ray, Craig Robinson, imdb.com

Tagged: Unicorns, Rainbows, Absurd, Control

“In the fallout of the Great Depression, FDR closed all the banks for a bank holiday and then he reopened them in stages when they were reported to being sound. Later, historians discovered what we in this room now know; that those reports, they are mostly lies. Nevertheless, it worked, it worked bec…”

— Sam Esmail, Philip Price, Michael Cristofer, imdb.com

Tagged: FDR, Great Depression, American Dream, Family Values

“When you look closely at the seams between order and chaos, do you see the same things I see? The strain, the tears, the glimpses of truth hidden underneath. Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask? Sometimes I wonder w…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: order, Chaos

“A guy walks up to a woman at a bar. He flirts with her. He makes small talk, but the woman insists she isn't gonna go home with him. Guy says, ‘What if I offer you $1 million to sleep with me?’ The woman's never had a million dollars in her life. She stops and considers the offer very seriously. The…”

— Sam Esmail, Antara Nayar, Sakina Jaffrey, imdb.com

Tagged: Jokes, prostitution

“Repeating the same tasks each day without ever having to think about them, isn't that what everybody does? Keep things on repeat to go along with their NCISes and Lexapro. Isn't that where it's comfortable? In the sameness?”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

Tagged: NCIS, Lexapro, Monotony

“Now he's doing what all small animals do when they're scared, pretend they're bigger and scarier.”

— Sam Esmail, imdb.com

Tagged: Animals, Fear