Elliot looks down, touches the place where he felt the bullet enter, speculative. He wishes he had a straightforward answer to give. But it's all tangled up: in Mr Robot, in fsociety's plan, in Cathaway and the Enemy. If Shiro hears any of it then what he hears is a swirl of adrenaline and confusion, standing in the way of an unstoppable force that you pushed in the first place.

"I tried to save the world," he says softly, then shakes off all those memories. "Doesn't matter now." He's here now, and like the song he can never go home again, so as fucked up as it is to be on this alien world all mental linked into a bunch of strangers, it's what he's got.