But more importantly, it appears that Elliot and Mr. Robot are back working together again, and even if Elliot knows Mr. Robot isn’t real, that’s where Mr. Robot needs to be.
Elliot just gave that alter ego a face — his dad’s face — and the way Mr. Robot has portrayed Elliot’s situation up until now has been of Mr. Robot invading Elliot’s headspace rather being invited.
As fascinating as the internal rumble between Elliot (Rami Malek) and Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) is, that can’t be all that Elliot is about.
That was never the case in Season 1; Elliot was masterminding a world-changing hack AND he was figuring out who Mr. Robot was, and the two plots worked excellently together.