The series follows Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, who is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr.
In the episode, Elliot discovers the Dark Army's Stage 2, while Darlene is pressured into testifying against fsociety.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.852 million household viewers and gained a 0.4 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
In present day, Tyrell takes Elliot to a warehouse across the street from where E Corp is revealed to be gathering all its paper records.
Elliot then realizes that Stage 2 involves engineering an explosion at the backup facility to permanently destroy E Corp's data.
To prove a point, Dominique shows Darlene part of her investigation, which has linked her, Elliot, and Angela (Portia Doubleday) to fsociety.
Joanna reveals the beating to Derek (Chris Conroy), convincing him to testify against Scott as Sharon's murderer.
Trenton is trying to persuade Mobley in taking a look at her work, which might undo the hack, but they are interrupted by Leon (Joey Badass), who asks them the time.
2' delivers shocking reveals and thoroughly surprising cliffhangers in a finale that ultimately serves as a solidly enticing trailer for season 3.
"[4] Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode an "amazing" 9 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, "After a half season of trickery, and Elliot trying to get rid of (or make peace with) Mr.
Season 2's finale didn't give us all the answers we craved, but the show, by digging an even bigger conspiracy hole, gave us more of an indication that it knew where everything was headed.
Robot are coming from the same basic impulse to try things that no one's quite done before in TV, and that means I'm going to be patient even at the end of a season finale I found largely underwhelming.
"[8] Jay Bushman of IndieWire gave the episode a "B" grade and wrote, "And that's a wrap on Season 2 of Mr.
Robot, which for the most part successfully navigated a very difficult job of expanding the very strange world that its built, while still keeping it fresh and surprising.
"[9] Vikram Murthi of Vulture gave the episode a 2 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "In the end, 'eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z' is an especially frustrating finale because we know Mr.
The first half was quite slow, and they purposefully didn't wrap up every single plot line, but I actually feel satisfied with where we left off.