The 'Mr. Robot' Season Finale Somehow Managed to Stick the Landing

In a subsequent conversation with Santiago, Dom acknowledges that Darlene is winning the interrogation--her armor is impenetrable enough to keep any confession, no matter how mild, from coming through. But in a fascinating revelation with major implications for the future of the entire series, it turns out that the FBI's game has been rigged all along. Dom takes Darlene into a conference room covered with whiteboards that reveal all the information they've collected in their investigation: The real names, hacker handles, and connections between pretty much every single member of fsociety. The FBI has been playing a long con, letting their suspects operate in the real world while they build a case and wait for them to slip up. The FBI has it all--with one key mistake: They assume Tyrell, not Elliot, is the ultimate mastermind of the 5/9 hack, with Elliot standing as a kind of second-in-command.