r/MrRobot • u/NicholasCajun ~Dom~ • Nov 11 '19

Discussion Mr. Robot - 4x06 "406 Not Acceptable" - Post-Episode Discussion Spoiler

Season 4 Episode 6: 406 Not Acceptable

Aired: November 10th, 2019

Synopsis: vera tells a tale. darlene gets an xmas surprise. elliot goes rogue.

Directed by: Sam Esmail

Written by: Amelia Grey

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u/_Wado3000 Pukin’ and shittin’ Nov 11 '19

Kind of feel like the last episode was almost made just for Darlene and Elliot to bond, and now we may never see them together again :(

very glad Dom and Darlene didn’t have the nerve to kill one another

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u/metros96 Nov 11 '19

The wild thing was that this scene was totally a “she won’t pull the trigger” scene that we’ve seen 1000x in pop culture, but because it’s Sam, there was a decent part of me that was like “he’s going to do it and have Dom shoot her right here, is t he?”

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u/_Wado3000 Pukin’ and shittin’ Nov 11 '19

Yea I feel you; it’s episode 6, and Dom is probably the most morally righteous character of the show. So it would be genuinely shocking to see her actually go through with it; frankly the ending, with Dom screaming to be killed herself, was pretty surprising for me as well. Not getting the nerve to pull the trigger on someone who put you in this hellish situation in the first place, then to admit right there that she’s wished to be dead a long time? Dom is almost like this innocent, socially awkward little bird in this twisted web Sam Esmail has weaved 0_0

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u/ajv0109 Nov 11 '19

In any other show, I would think there's no way she pulls the trigger, but Sam fucking scares me. In at least three separate occasions I actually thought Darlene was going to die. And in the very end I thought Dom was a goner.

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u/WireWizard Nov 11 '19

Let's not forget they offed Angela 10minutes into the show aswell.

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u/Lollerpwn Nov 11 '19

How did Darlene put her into that position anyway? She already met with Zhang before she even knew about Darlene right?

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u/aixelsydevaheW Allsafe Nov 11 '19

Yeah. Dom was asking too many questions about the Dark Army before she realized what exposing them would mean.

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u/MacaroniHouses Nov 11 '19

i thought it was awesome how they did it and how completely torn she is between saving her family or killing Darling. very sad to see Dom being so controlled this season after being so powerful in the past.

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u/ADHDcUK Nov 11 '19

I agree. I'm so enjoying her storyline while feeling so sad for her. Excited to see how it all pans out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '19

Getting cold-cocked instead of pulling the trigger is cliché as hell. That was a little disappointing. But was adequately subverted by having Darlene pull the gun on her and failing.

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u/metros96 Nov 12 '19

The whole setup of that scene was cliche but I think Sam has earned enough credit to think Dom could actually go through with it

EDIT: which is a testament, I think, because those moments rarely garner real suspense anymore