I'll settle this thing once and for all. One game. I'll even let you have the first move. A game to end all games between us.

We play and the winner takes all. Winner takes all over us. You win, you can confess to the JFK assassination for all I care. I'll leave, never come back.

What would happen if I lose? You lose, I get to be in charge once and for all. And you? What about me? Remember the night of the hack?

Remember what happened to you? All I remember is that I woke up in a Lexus car three days later. And what happened in those three days?

I don't know. That's what the absence of knowing. Losing time forever. A deep black void that you will never come back from.

No thoughts, no body, no memories. Absolute nothingness. You're serious? You think I want this silly, this futile battle we're in?

Two halves, a perpetual war. I want peace just as much as you do. Since we can't seem to find any common ground, let's play for it.

What are you thinking about? I'm thinking about his offer. Is he the only person you interact with? Don't worry, you're safe.

Yes. Oh, yeah. Do you think I could talk to him? No. Why not? It would legitimize him. At this point, I think we have to accept the fact that he is an illegitimate existence in your life.

That's giving him too much power. In order for us to figure this out, we have to work. What do you want from me?

You know everything. You want me to keep repeating myself? You want me to tell you that I see my dead father, that I talk to him, that sometimes I lose time, that there are gaps in my life where I don't know what happened, that I'm losing my mind that I can't even recognize my own sister.

That I don't know how to control this thing. I don't know how to stop it.

Fine, I acknowledge it. But let's move on to the part where you actually help me. This game you are agreeing to is dangerous.

Elliot, you are agreeing to destroy a part of yourself, win or lose. So yes, this matters a great deal actually. For better or worse, he is a part of you that makes you, you.

Annihilation is not the answer. Krista is wrong. Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves every day.

We Photoshop our wards away. We edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve a distiller.

Krista's wrong. Annihilation is all we are.

Annihilation Is The Answer | Mr. Robot

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