The series follows Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, who is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.444 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
In present day, Elliot (Rami Malek) finds out about the deaths of Mobley and Trenton, and destroys their files from his computer.
Dejected, Elliot gives his dog to his landlord, burns his father's jacket, and buys morphine pills from a local drug dealer.
To kill time and at Mohammed's insistence, Elliot takes him to the movie theater, realizing that it is Back to the Future Day.
Having found a reason to live, Elliot returns to his apartment, where a white van drops the garbage bags into which he threw the jacket.
This seems to be the way of many aborted attempts at suicide — something simply delays the act until the point where the person is forced to contend with the fact that life will go on, and maybe that's okay.
"[5] Alan Sepinwall of Uproxx wrote, "There are a lot of ways an episode that's essentially about Elliot being roused from a suicidal stupor thanks to his interaction with a cute kid could have gone terribly awry and felt mawkish and/or silly.
"[6] Kyle Fowle of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Slowly, Angela starts to come back, until she chimes in with the line that they always used with each other at the end of the game: 'No matter what, we'll be okay.'
"[7] Jeremy Egner of The New York Times wrote, "It was the most dramatic of several signs that despite its dark imaginings and increasingly frightened and militarized setting, Mr.
"[8] Vikram Murthi of Vulture gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "'eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko' follows Elliot's suicide attempt and his slow return from the brink.
"[9] Alec Bojalad of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "'Don't Delete Me' really does a solid job of not feeling obligatory.
Elements like the Back to the Future day and the ice cream truck man help disguise the thinness of the premise, making 'Don't Delete Me' an altogether enjoyable hour.
"[10] Caralynn Lippo of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Overall, this was about as predictable as an hour of this show can possibly get.