Mr. Robot quotes

Mr. Robot

Five/Nine, fsociety... You knew the entire time, didn't you?

Phillip Price

Five/Nine, yes. Well, not all the minutiae, of course. But since the cyber bombings, the breadcrumbs haven't been that difficult to follow. World catastrophes like this, they aren't caused by lone wolves like you. They occur because men like me allow them. You just happened to stumble into one of them.

Mr. Robot

No, no. I ran the operation. I pushed the button. I am the one--

Phillip Price

There you go again. "I, I, I..." You are still thinking like a lone wolf.

Mr. Robot

Why don't you tell me how I should be thinking?

Phillip Price

Like a leader!

Mr. Robot

I am a leader.

Phillip Price

Then where are your followers? You can't force an agenda, Mr. Alderson. You have to inspire one.

Mr. Robot

So. Ferris wheel. Cute touch.

Elliot Alderson

I need information from you.

Mr. Robot

You do not get to summon me like you're Ali Baba. Squeeze me for information, then shove me back in some lamp.

Elliot Alderson

Darlene's in trouble! She might already be dead!

Mr. Robot

The whole reason you're in this goddamn mess is because we're not working together, because YOU refuse to talk to me!

Elliot Alderson

I wish that were true! The sick part is... I actually missed you. The only reason we haven't been talking is because I haven't let myself. Because I've been scared of you. The part of me that is you.

Mr. Robot

Why are we talking now?

Elliot Alderson

71 buildings.

Mr. Robot

I didn't know about that.

Elliot Alderson

If you did, would you have done it?

Elliot Alderson

Would you have done it?

Mr. Robot

I would've... I would've found another way.

Elliot Alderson

...because as much as there is a part of you in me, there's a part of me in you.

Irving

A story could have a mediocre beginning and middle, and oftentimes it does, but always gotta have a wow ending. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Elliot Alderson

If one of us dies, everything gets leaked.

Well, we can survive a leak. You can't survive a bullet through your throat.

Darlene Alderson

Dom...

You are a terrible person. Don't ever convince yourself of anything else. All you deserve for the rest of your life is pure and utter agony. That'll begin to scratch the surface of how I feel about you. You've taken everything from me. My whole life...is ruined...because of you. Live with that. Die with that.

Elliot Alderson

No, that's not what happened.

Darlene Alderson

Trust me, I remember. You took your baseball bat and you smashed the window, and then you kept telling dad you were going to jump. Elliot you weren't pushed, you jumped.

Elliot Alderson

I don't remember any of that.

Darlene Alderson

Well I'm here to remember for you.

Elliot Alderson

It wasn't Romero. It was you who exported the keys. Why?

Mr. Robot

We're close, Elliot. You pull the ripcord now and everything will be for nothing. There was a huge cost to get to this point. I still believe if we hold out a little longer-

Elliot Alderson

No.

Mr. Robot

You do this, and they will have won. You really believe undoing this is gonna fix anything? Huh? Do you? I mean who is this really gonna help?

Elliot Alderson

Me. I'm doing this for me. I can't live with what I did anymore. And you're wrong. They won't win. Because one good thing came out of all of this. They showed themselves. The top one percent of the one percent. The ones in control. The ones who play god without permission. And now I'm gonna take them down. All of them.

Darlene Alderson

Can I help you, fellas?

Fernando Vera

My sister, only the north stars of the cosmos can help a visionary like me. But, yes, you can shine a light on a dark corner of my mind.

Darlene Alderson

What? Who are you?

Fernando Vera

I'm just... I'm just a brave traveler who's finally come home.

Mr. Robot

I know we don't usually do this, but I have to fill you in if he won't. That's why you're back, isn't it? To help? You gotta be noticing it, then, too. That he isn't talking to you. He doesn't talk to me that much, either, not since Angela died. Darlene's right. He's shutting down, compartmentalizing the pain, living in the distraction, just like the holidays: the plastic trees, the annoying Christmas carols.

Mr. Robot

One big song-and-dance production to sell ourselves the theater that everything's jolly, at least for a moment. But when it's all over, Santa's gone back to his shitty day job. The trees get disassembled and thrown in a closet. The music's faded away. What then? That's why you can't go anywhere. I know he's keeping you away, but I'll let you in. Don't think I'm doing it for you, though. Let's be clear. I still don't give a shit about you, but he does. This does not feel right to me. E Corp owns the building. They own half of Manhattan. We stick to the plan. And right now, Elliot needs you more than he lets on, because when that cold, brutal reality closes in on us, we're gonna need a friend, and that's still what you are, right?

Elliot Alderson

You tell that piece of shit that my anger won't die with me! And she can't hide from what's coming for her! You hear me?! You hear me?! DO YOU HEAR ME?! Say something...!

Goodbye, friend.

You got too reckless. Your job was to control him.

Mr. Robot

My job was to protect him.

Your job was to protect all of us.

Young Elliot

What's gonna happen?

The inevitable. We're all gonna go away. I just didn't think it was gonna be like this.

Mr. Robot

There’s the cost of living and the cost of dying. Seems you’re paying the price whether you’re coming or going.

Tyrell Wellick

I just got it. Why you wear that hoodie. I've never seen you in anything else. Black hoodie, black jeans, black shoes, always the same. I've been wondering this whole time, but now I finally get it. You don't care. Sure, why not? Silk tie, $6,000 suit. I mean, it sounds pathetic to say aloud, but I actually care. And you know what? That's why I'm a failure. My entire life, I've been an outsider, worried what other people think of me, how I can make them happy, because I needed their approval and their acceptance. But you never cared. The first day we met, there we were, Allsafe's most important clients roaming through the office, and you couldn't care less.

Darlene Alderson

I have lost absolutely everyone, my boyfriend, my best friend, my parents. The only one I have left is my brother, who is an asshole that treats me like absolute shit. But I'm really worried about him right now, and it pisses me off that I'm worried, because I am always worried about him, and he flat-out told me to fuck off. So why do I bother? I don't know. I don't know, I'm afraid this time it's different. I'm afraid he might be dead.

Mr. Robot

Seems like we're always thinking of ourselves when looking for something that's lost, but we never think much about the lost, whatever, whoever is unable to be found, whether it's a set of keys left somewhere and forgotten, a couple of guys wandering aimlessly in the woods, or someone who's disappeared inside himself. What if that's what they wanted all along? Not to be found.