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(SPOILERS FOR MR. ROBOT S1)
wikipedia's episode guide for S1 of Mr. Robot is a pretty good place to start.
We first meet Darlene plugged into her laptop at the fsociety HQ on Coney Island. She is duly unimpressed with Elliot when he makes his entrance, and similarly unimpressed when he shows up to work with fsociety the next day. When Elliot acts confused at Darlane's questions, she prompts him with a reminder of Mr. Robot's task for him: he needs to hand over access to the root directory from the DDos attack against E Corp. At Elliot's continued confusion, Darlene dismisses him as a dick and takes off.
Darlene, having demonstrated that she is a real friendly girl, puts in regular and abrupt appearances in Elliot's life. She stays over, uses his shower, bitches about her relationships, and eats froyo on the subway with him. Elliot, meanwhile, elects to continue his work with fsociety despite Mr. Robot having pushed him off a railing and onto some rocks. In a stroke of crazy genius, Elliot cracks the plan for wrecking E Corp's hard copy records. Steel Mountain, the impenetrable fortress of data, does not need to be blown up. fsociety will hack the facility's climate control system. This part of the mission will require a physical presence, so Elliot volunteers to go with Ramon, Mobley, and Mr. Robot, while Trenton and Darlene stay behind to get in contact with the Dark Army, the powerful Chinese hacker group, in order to coordinate a simultaneous hack on E Corp's Chinese servers.
Darlene's contact with the Dark Army is a personal one. Their agent, Cisco, is her ex-boyfriend, the one who wanted to marry her. Darlene storms around New York with Trenton in tow until she finds him. Cisco is not so sure about Darlene getting in touch with the Dark Army and the famous whiterose, but Darlene is insistent. They will talk, Cisco will arrange a meeting, and it will go well. When the crucial moment comes, however, the Dark Army cuts off contact with Darlene. She hacks Cisco and uses his credentials and username, but the Dark Army is unresponsive, and do not coordinate the attack. Elliot, Ramon, Mobley, and Mr. Robot return, only to learn Darlene's news. Without coordination from China, the plan cannot progress. It will be meaningless to trigger the meltdown of the climate control system, since China will still have the backup records stored. Their time is up. The records are duplicated; the duplicates are shipped out to similarly impenetrable structures. Darlene takes the failure very personally. She is angry with herself, and with her failure. On the way back to Elliot's place, she miserably puts her head on his shoulder and cries.
That seems to be it for fsociety. Or it would be. But it isn't. After helping Elliot release a man from prison so Elliot's girlfriend will be freed (which fails), Darlene rebounds. She secures a meeting with whiterose, which Elliot is to attend. Meanwhile, Darlene and Mr. Robot work on getting the band back together. While Mr. Robot pulls some crazy intimidation tactics, Darlene visits Trenton at university and lodges a more personal appeal. One by one, fsociety reforms. In his meeting with whiterose, Elliot learns that his Elliot's boss, Gideon, has turned E Corp's hacked server into a monitored honeypot, which would have been a trap. This is why the Dark Army refused to cooperate. Darlene and Elliot work together to take down the honeypot. They succeed, which will provide them a clear path for cooperation with the Dark Army. Darlene, ecstatic, tells Elliot that he is the best person and that she loves him. He kisses her. She reacts badly because, guess what: she's his sister, and he's forgotten all about her.
Elliot takes off, leaving Darlene to look for him. She enlists the help of Angela, Elliot's old friend, but neither of them have any success. Angela, on a whim, tries the Alderson's old house. Darlene had the same thought and they meet there, but Elliot has already gone, to stand beside the grave of their father. Darlene and Angela find him talking to no one and having a bit of a breakdown, but they calm him and Darlene gets him home again.
Then Elliot takes off again. fsociety's hack takes place, without fsociety. The world goes effectively crazy. As CEOs shoot themselves on live TV and banks close their doors, fsociety eradicates the evidence of their hack, frees a whole lot of dogs, and hosts an end of the world party to eradicate any fingerprints or DNA evidence in their headquarters. "We are finally free," says Darlene. And they are, every one of them. And Elliot is still missing.
PERSONALITY:
POWER:
power-up.
Darlene is a hacker, so it's natural that her abilities will be technologically focused. Her technopathy will be centered around power sources, and will render her as basically a really big battery. If you put your phone against your arm, your phone charge will boost up. She will work with anything battery-based, and any kind of battery, large or small, though the larger charges will tire her out. She can also drain batteries, as long as she's touching the device.
technoempathy.
Darlene can tell how machines are "feeling" just by being in proximity and concentrating. The better the machine is feeling, the easier it will be to manipulate and work with. This will be very helpful when hacking, but also really annoying when she has to listen to your phone whining about your weird habits.
