document_title: Thirty Seconds to Mars

question_text: where does 30 seconds to mars name come from

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars

text: History

text: 1998–2000: Formation and first years

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars started in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, as a collaboration between brothers Jared Leto and Shannon Leto, who had been playing music together since their childhood.[4] The duo later expanded to a four-piece when they added guitarist Solon Bixler and bassist Matt Wachter to the line-up. Additional guitarist Kevin Drake, who first auditioned for the position of bassist, also joined the band as a touring musician. The band played its first concerts under different names, before finally settling on the name "Thirty Seconds to Mars", which was taken from a rare manuscript titled Argus Apocraphex.[5] Jared Leto described the name as "a reference, a rough translation from the book. I think the idea is interesting, it's a metaphor for the future," he explained. "Thirty seconds to Mars—the fact that we're so close to something that's not a tangible idea. Also Mars being the God of War makes it really interesting, as well. You could substitute that in there, but what's important for my brother and I, is that it be imaginative and really represent the sound of our music in as unique a way as possible."[6] He described it as a name that "works on several different levels, a phrase that is lyrical, suggestive, cinematic, and filled with immediacy."[7] When Thirty Seconds to Mars first started, Jared Leto did not allow his vocation as a Hollywood actor to be used in promotion of the band.[8]

text: By 1998, the group performed gigs at small American venues and clubs. Their eponymous debut album had been in the works for a couple of years, with Leto writing the majority of the songs. During this period, the band recorded demo tracks such as "Valhalla" and "Revolution", or "Jupiter" and "Hero", which later appeared on the band's debut album as "Fallen" and "Year Zero" respectively, but also "Buddha for Mary".[7] Their work led to a number of record labels being interested in signing Thirty Seconds to Mars, which eventually signed to Immortal Records.[9] In 1999, Virgin Records entered into the contract.[10]

text: 2001–03: Debut album

text:
"Edge of the Earth"

"Edge of the Earth", taken from the band's self-titled debut album, mixes sounds from different genres and styles.
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text: Thirty Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of Wyoming's countryside in 2001 to record their debut album, working with Bob Ezrin and Brian Virtue. They contacted Ezrin because they grew up listening to his work with Pink Floyd, Kiss and Alice Cooper and they felt he was the only one who could help them capture the size and scope of what they wanted to accomplish on their debut recording.[7] The band chose an empty warehouse lot on 15,000 acres, striving for the precise location that would enhance their sound.[11] Even before the album was released, Puddle of Mudd invited Thirty Seconds to Mars to open a six-week tour for them in the spring of 2002.[12] The band later embarked on a North American tour to support Incubus and began a club tour in August.[13]

text: The band released their first studio album, 30 Seconds to Mars, on August 27, 2002 in the United States through Immortal and Virgin. Jared Leto described the record as a concept album that focuses on human struggle and self-determination, in which otherworldly elements and conceptual ideas are used to illustrate a truthful personal situation.[7] The album reached number 107 on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the US Top Heatseekers, selling 121,000 copies in the United States.[14][15] It was preceded by the single "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)", which peaked at number 31 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.[14] Upon its release, 30 Seconds to Mars was met with mostly positive reviews;[16]  music critic Megan O'Toole felt that the band has "managed to carve out a unique niche for themselves in the rock realm."[17] The album was a slow-burning success, and eventually sold two million copies worldwide as of March 2011.[18]

text: In October 2002, the band toured with I Mother Earth and Billy Talent on MTV Campus Invasion. The following month, Thirty Seconds to Mars made their first appearance on television on Last Call with Carson Daly and opened concerts for Our Lady Peace and Sevendust. Released in 2003, "Edge of the Earth" became the second single from the album. In early 2003, Bixler left the band due to issues primarily related to touring. He was later replaced by Tomo Miličević, who successfully auditioned for the part of guitarist.[19] The band later went on tour with Chevelle, Trust Company, and Pacifier, and took a slot on the 2003 Lollapalooza tour.[20]

text: 2004–08: A Beautiful Lie

text:
"The Kill"

"The Kill" was heavily influenced by '90s alternative rock. It was the second single from A Beautiful Lie.
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text: Thirty Seconds to Mars returned to the studio in March 2004 to begin working on their second album A Beautiful Lie, with Josh Abraham producing.[21] During the recording process, the band traveled to four different continents to accommodate Jared Leto's acting career. A Beautiful Lie was notably different from the band's debut album, from both musical and lyrical aspect. "On the first record I created a world, then hid behind it," Leto said. "With A Beautiful Lie, it was time to take a more personal and less cerebral approach. Although this record is still full of conceptual elements and thematic ideas it is ultimately much more wrapped around the heart than the head. It's about brutal honesty, growth, change. It's an incredibly intimate look into a life that is in the crossroads. A raw emotional journey. A story of life, love, death, pain, joy, and passion. Of what it is to be human."[22]

text: A Beautiful Lie was released on August 30, 2005 in the United States. It has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has reached platinum and gold status in several countries, with a sales total of over four million.[16] Its lead single, "Attack", made its radio debut on June 6, 2005 and became the most added track on American modern rock radio during its first week of release.[23] During 2005, Thirty Seconds to Mars went on tour with Chevelle, Audioslave and The Used. The group embarked on their first headlining tour Forever Night, Never Day in March 2006. At the same time, the band released the album's second single, "The Kill", which set a record for the longest-running hit in the history of the US Modern Rock chart when it remained on the national chart for more than 50 weeks, following its number three peak in 2006.[24] Its music video, directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins, received a largely positive response and numerous accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award.[25]

text: In October 2006, the band began their Welcome to the Universe Tour, sponsored by MTV2, and were supported by Head Automatica, The Receiving End of Sirens, Cobra Starship, and several other bands including Street Drum Corps. The third single from the album, "From Yesterday", was released in November 2006 and became the band's first number one on the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.[26] Jared Leto directed a short film for the single, which became the first ever American music video shot in the People's Republic of China in its entirety.[27] A Beautiful Lie was released in Europe in February 2007. During the year, Thirty Seconds to Mars toured extensively throughout Europe and played at several major festivals, including Roskilde, Pinkpop, Rock am Ring, and Download. In March 2007, Matt Wachter left the group to spend more time with his family and was replaced by Tim Kelleher, performing live only.[28]

text: On November 1, 2007, Thirty Seconds to Mars won an MTV Europe Music Award in the category of Best Rock.[29] The band also received the Kerrang! Award for Best Single in two consecutive years for "The Kill" and "From Yesterday" in 2007 and 2008, respectively.[30][31] The album's title track, "A Beautiful Lie", was released as the fourth single in North America and selected European countries. Its music video was filmed 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland, and proceeds from the sales benefited the Natural Resources Defense Council.[32] At the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards on November 6, Thirty Seconds to Mars earned their second Best Rock and Best Video for "A Beautiful Lie".[33]

text: 2008–11: EMI lawsuit and This Is War

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars began recording their third studio album This Is War in August 2008.[34] To produce the record, the band worked with Flood and Steve Lillywhite. Thirty Seconds to Mars had attempted to sign with a new label after the A Beautiful Lie tour, prompting EMI (the parent label of Virgin) to file a lawsuit for $30 million. EMI claimed that the band had failed to produce three of the five records they were obligated to deliver under their 1999 contract, which Virgin entered into with the now-defunct Immortal Records.[35] Jared Leto responded to some of the claims in the suit stating "under California law, where we live and signed our deal, one cannot be bound to a contract for more than seven years." Thirty Seconds to Mars had been contracted for nine years, so the band decided to exercise their "legal right to terminate our old, out-of-date contract, which, according to the law is null and void."[36]

text: After nearly a year of the lawsuit battle, the band announced on April 28, 2009, that the case had been settled.[37] The suit was resolved following a defense based on a contract case involving actress Olivia de Havilland decades before. Leto explained, "The California Appeals Court ruled that no service contract in California is valid after seven years, and it became known as the De Havilland Law after she used it to get out of her contract with Warner Bros."[38] Thirty Seconds to Mars then signed a new contract with EMI.[37] Leto said the band had resolved their differences with EMI and the decision had been made because of "the willingness and enthusiasm by EMI to address our major concerns and issues, [and] the opportunity to return to work with a team so committed and passionate about Thirty Seconds to Mars."[39]

text: In a bid to involve their fans for This Is War, Thirty Seconds to Mars held an event, called The Summit, at the Avalon Club in Los Angeles, where they invited fans to provide backing vocals and percussion.[40] After the success of the initial Summit, the group repeated the event in eight countries and extended it digitally.[41] The band also invited fans to submit close-up shots of their faces in order to make 2,000 different individual covers for the album.[42] Leto described This Is War as a record about survival: "It was a two-year creative battle that was ferocious and tough but creatively rewarding, and all of those adverse elements, in hindsight, made us stronger and made the record stronger."[43]

text: Although the release date was changed many times, This Is War was eventually released in December 2009. The album reached the top ten of several national album charts and entered the Billboard 200 at number 18, with first-week sales of 67,000 in the United States.[44] Its first two singles, "Kings and Queens" and "This Is War", reached the number-one spot on the US Alternative Songs chart.[45] After a promotional tour in winter 2009, Thirty Seconds to Mars embarked on their Into the Wild Tour in February 2010.[46]

text: At the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, "Kings and Queens" received four nominations, including Video of the Year and Best Direction, and went on to win Best Rock Video.[47] The album's third single, "Closer to the Edge", was the 2010 best-selling rock single in the United Kingdom, topping the UK Rock Chart for eight consecutive weeks.[48][49] Thirty Seconds to Mars collaborated with rapper Kanye West on the song "Hurricane", which was released on the deluxe edition of This Is War and became the album's fourth single in some countries. On November 7, Thirty Seconds to Mars and West performed "Hurricane" at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards at the Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid, where the band also received their third Best Rock.[50] On May 13, 2011, Thirty Seconds to Mars recorded a performance for the television program MTV Unplugged.[51] They performed with musicians from the Vitamin String Quartet and invited a gospel choir to join the group for a rendition of U2's song "Where the Streets Have No Name".[52]

text: A Songkick study indicated that, based on quantity of tour dates, Thirty Seconds to Mars was among the hardest-working touring artists in 2010.[53] On October 16, 2011, it was announced that the band would enter the Guinness World Records for most live shows during a single album cycle, with 300 shows.[54] The 300th show, called Tribus Centum Numerarae, took place on December 7, 2011 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and was followed by a special series of shows which marked the end of the Into the Wild Tour.[54]

text: 2012–15: Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars took a break from touring in 2012 and spent most of the year recording their fourth album, entitled Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams.[55] The album was produced by Jared Leto with previous collaborator Steve Lillywhite. Leto said that the band took a new direction with Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams. He explained that the album "is more than an evolution, it's a brand new beginning. Creatively, we've gone to an entirely new place, which is exciting, unexpected, and incredibly inspiring."[56] In September 2012, Artifact, a documentary about the band's legal battle against the record label EMI and the making of This Is War, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the People's Choice Documentary Award.[57]

text: In February 2013, it was announced that "Up in the Air" would be the first single from the fourth album.[58] In partnership with NASA, Thirty Seconds to Mars launched the first copy of "Up in the Air" aboard the Dragon spacecraft on SpaceX CRS-2.[59] The mission was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 1, 2013, sending the first ever commercial copy of music into space. On March 18, 2013, the single premiered from the International Space Station, after a Q&A session with the band and Expedition 35 flight engineer Tom Marshburn, while Annise Parker, mayor of the city of Houston, proclaimed the Thirty Seconds to Mars Day.[60] "Up in the Air" made its radio debut on March 18 and became commercially available for downloading the following day.[61] The song reached number three on the US Alternative Songs chart and experienced success in international markets.[62]

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars released Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams on May 21, 2013, through Universal in the United States. The album received generally positive reviews and reached the top ten in more than fifteen countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States.[63] The band began their Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams Tour in June, which included festival dates at Rock Werchter, Pinkpop, Rock in Rio, and Rock am Ring. The second single from the album, "Do or Die", achieved a level of play on modern rock radio, while "City of Angels", the third single, was released to rave reviews from critics and eventually reached number eight on the Alternative Songs chart in the US.[62][64] At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, held on August 25, "Up in the Air" won the award for Best Rock Video.[65]

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars announced on April 25, 2014 that they have parted from Virgin Records after tumultuous years with the label, with Leto telling Billboard, "We're free and clear and excited about the future. It's the most wonderful place to be."[66] In August 2014, the group embarked on a double-headline tour, dubbed the Carnivores Tour, with American rock band Linkin Park, visiting arenas and stadiums throughout North America.[67] Thirty Seconds to Mars then launched a music festival called Camp Mars. The first edition took place in Malibu, California, in August 2015 and included a series of activities in a semi-rustic setting and several DJ sets.[68]

text: 2015–present: America and the departure of Miličević

text: On November 3, 2015, it was announced that Thirty Seconds to Mars are working on their fifth studio album.[69] In August 2016, the band revealed to have signed to Interscope Records.[70] The group later unveiled that they would embark on a North American tour with Muse and PVRIS, which took take place from May to September 2017.[71] In August 2017, "Walk on Water" was announced as the lead single from the band's fifth album.[72] Thirty Seconds to Mars then performed the song at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards featuring special guest Travis Scott. During the ceremony, Jared Leto received media attention for his tribute to musicians Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell, who both died earlier that year.[73]

text: On January 25, 2018, Thirty Seconds to Mars released "Dangerous Night" as the second single from their upcoming fifth studio album.[74] In February 2018, the band officially announced the Monolith Tour with Walk the Moon, Misterwives, K. Flay, Joywave, and Welshly Arms. Thirty Seconds to Mars later confirmed America as title of their fifth album, which was released on April 6, 2018. The album received polarizing reviews from critics and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, becoming the band's highest entry on the chart.[75] America also reached the top ten in seventeen other countries, including number one in Germany and Austria.[76]

text: During the first leg of the Monolith Tour, it was announced that Miličević would be taking a break from touring due to personal matters. On June 11, 2018, he officially announced his departure from the band.[77]

text: Musical style

text: The style of the band's first studio album combined progressive metal and space rock with influences and elements from electronica, utilizing programming and synthesizers.[78][79] Ryan Rayhill from Blender described the album as a "high-minded space opera of epic scope befitting prog-rock prototypes Rush," and wrote that Thirty Seconds to Mars "emerged with an eponymous debut that sounds like Tool on The Dark Side of the Moon," referring to the 1973 album by Pink Floyd.[80]

text:
"Kings and Queens"

From the album This Is War, "Kings and Queens" features influences and elements from arena rock.
"City of Angels"

"City of Angels" was cited as an example of variety and experimentation in Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams.
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text: Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and self-determination, A Beautiful Lie's lyrics are more personal and the music introduces screaming vocals.[22] The transformation that resonates throughout the album reflects the personal and artistic changes experienced by the band members before and during the creation of the record.[81] The album widened the band's sound by combining elements from progressive rock, hard rock and emo.[82][83][84] Such alternative rock style has been compared to bands like The Cure, U2 and The Smashing Pumpkins.[22][85]

text: Their third release This Is War was described as "an extremely progressive rock sound with killer choruses," drawing inspirations from experimental Pink Floyd to melodic M83.[86] Chris Harris from Rolling Stone considered it "an ambitious collection of experimental rock" shaped by the band's personal struggles and legal battle with their record label.[43] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic acknowledged the band's progression, referring to the overall style of the record as a mixture of synth rock, heavy metal, and progressive rock.[87]

text: In Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams the band experimented with different instruments and drew influences from a wider and more varied range of styles.[88] The album mixes experimental instrumentation with elements both symphonic and electronic, and the music introduces a minimalist approach full of ethereal sonics.[88][89][90] The record carries the concept album format of This Is War and expands the spectrum to revolve around the themes after which it is named.[88]

text: Activism

text: Thirty Seconds to Mars launched a website, called abeautifullie.org, to provide information about environmental issues and ways to participate in environmental activities.[91] People can make donations through the site to support the Natural Resources Defense Council.[91] In 2006, Jared Leto created the cover art for The 97X Green Room: Volume 2, a compilation of live music that includes a Thirty Seconds to Mars song, which proceeds from the sales benefited The Nature Conservancy.[92] During their Welcome to the Universe Tour, the group worked to develop strategies that would minimize fuel consumption to offset the impact that the tour would have had on the environment.[93]

text: In June 2008, the band joined Habitat for Humanity to work on a home being repaired and renovated through the Greater Los Angeles Area's "A Brush With Kindness" programme.[94] In advance of the build, the band organized an auction of "build slots" to give fans the opportunity to volunteer alongside them. In less than a week, six extra workers were enlisted and over $10,000 was raised to fund additional Habitat for Humanity projects.[94] Thirty Seconds to Mars fans, termed as the Echelon, started several philanthropic organizations and projects with the purpose of supporting various charities and humanitarian causes.[95]

text: After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Thirty Seconds to Mars raised $100,100 for Haitian relief through a charity auction.[96] The band has also supported the Haitian population through the Echelon project "House for Haiti" and Hope For Haiti Now telethon special.[96] The group auctioned a quantity of items raising funds to help the Red Cross assist people affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[97] The band contributed one dollar per concert ticket sold on the Carnivores Tour to the charity Music for Relief to support disaster relief and programs to protect and restore the environment.[98]

text: Band members

text:
Current members

Jared Leto – lead vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards (1998–present)
Shannon Leto – drums, percussion (1998–present)
Former members

Solon Bixler – lead guitar, backing vocals (2001–03)
Matt Wachter – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (2001–07)
Tomo Miličević – lead guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards, percussion (2003–18)

Current touring musicians

Stevie Aiello – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (2013–present)
Former touring musicians

Kevin Drake – rhythm guitar (2001–02)
Tim Kelleher – bass guitar, keyboards (2007–10, 2011)
Matt McJunkins – bass guitar (2011)
Braxton Olita – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals (2009–11)

text: Discography

text:
30 Seconds to Mars (2002)
A Beautiful Lie (2005)
This Is War (2009)
Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013)
America (2018)

text: Concert tours

text:
Forever Night, Never Day Tour (2006)
Welcome to the Universe Tour (2006)
A Beautiful Lie Tour (2007–08)
Into the Wild Tour (2010–11)
Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams Tour (2013–15)
Carnivores Tour (with Linkin Park) (2014)
Monolith Tour (2018)


document_title: Calcutta Cup

question_text: when did scotland last win the calcutta cup

root

text: Calcutta Cup

text: The Calcutta Club[edit]

text: On Christmas Day 1872, a game of rugby, between 20 players representing England on one side and 20 representing Scotland on the other, was played in Calcutta.

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text: The match was such a success that it was repeated a week later. These lovers of rugby wanted to form a club in the area and the aforementioned matches were the agents which led to the formation of the Calcutta Football Club in January 1873.

text: The Calcutta Club joined the Rugby Football Union in 1874. Despite the Indian climate not being entirely suitable for playing rugby, the club prospered during that first year. However, when the free bar had to be discontinued, the membership took an appreciable drop. Other sports, such as tennis and polo, which were considered to be more suited to the local climate, were making inroads into the numbers of gentlemen available. The members decided to disband but keen to perpetuate the name of the club, they withdrew the club's funds from the bank, which were in Silver Rupees, had them melted down and made into a cup which they presented to the RFU in 1878, with the provision that it should be competed for annually.

text: The cup[edit]

text: The cup is of Indian workmanship, approximately 18 inches (45 cm) high, the body is finely engraved with three king cobras forming the handles. The domed lid is surmounted by an elephant which is, it is said, copied from the Viceroy's own stock. The inscription on the Cup's wooden base reads: THE CALCUTTA CUP.

text: The base has attached to it additional plates which record the date of each match played with the name of the winning country and the names of the two captains. There is an anomaly in the recording of the winning country on the base of the Cup. It was first played for in 1879, but the plinth shows records extending back to the first international in 1871.

text: The original trophy is in a very fragile state following many years of poor treatment and is not in a strong enough condition to attend functions or go on tours. When won by England the original Calcutta Cup is put on public display in the Museum of Rugby in Twickenham, where it slowly turns around in a purpose built showcase. Both nations have full size replicas of the Cup. Whilst the original was handmade by Indian craftsmen, the replicas were made using modern technology.

text: In 1988 the cup was damaged by the antics of some drunken players, including England number eight Dean Richards and Scotland flanker John Jeffrey who played football with the Calcutta Cup along Princes Street in Edinburgh. Jeffrey received a six-month ban from the SRU, whilst Richards was given a one-match sentence from England.[1]

text: The competition[edit]

text: Despite the initial request of the Calcutta Club that the trophy be used as rugby's answer to football's FA Cup, the RFU refused to turn the Calcutta Cup into a knock-out competition for English club sides. They believed that "competitiveness" ran against the amateur ethos and instead decided that a game should be played each year between England and Scotland and whoever wins should keep it for that year. The first Calcutta Cup match was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, on 10 March 1879 and ended in a draw; Scotland scored a drop goal and England a goal. The following year on 28 February 1880 England became the first winners of the Calcutta Cup when they defeated Scotland by 2 goals & 3 tries to 1 goal in Manchester. Matches have continued on an annual basis ever since except for two interruptions due to the World Wars between 1915–1919 and 1940–1946.

text: As of 2018, 125 Calcutta Cup matches have taken place. Currently, this game is the annual match between the two nations in the Six Nations Championship. The ground alternates between Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh (on even years) and Twickenham Stadium in London (on odd years).

text: In 2004, the two countries' rugby governing bodies, the Rugby Football Union (England) and the Scottish Rugby Union, were considering a plan to add a second Calcutta Cup fixture each year, outside the Six Nations. The second fixture would be hosted by the away nation in the Six Nations fixture of the same year. Under that plan, one nation would have to win both matches to take the Cup off its current holder. Due to a largely unfavourable reaction, the proposal soon disappeared from view.

text: Results[edit]

text: Since 1879, the Calcutta Cup has been played 125 times.

text:
Year
Date
Winner
Result
Stadium
Place

1879
10 March
draw
3–3
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1880
28 February
 England
9–3
Whalley Range
Manchester

1881
19 March
draw
4–4
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1882
4 March
 Scotland
0–2
Whalley Range
Manchester

1883
3 March
 England
1–2
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1884
1 March
 England
3–1
Rectory Field
Blackheath

1885
Not played

1886
13 March
draw
0–0
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1887
5 March
draw
1–1
Whalley Range
Manchester

1888
Not played

1889
Not played

1890
1 March
 England
0–6
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1891
7 March
 Scotland
3–9
Athletic Ground
Richmond

1892
5 March
 England
0–5
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1893
4 March
 Scotland
0–8
Headingley
Leeds

1894
17 March
 Scotland
6–0
Raeburn Place
Edinburgh

1895
9 March
 Scotland
3–6
Athletic Ground
Richmond

1896
14 March
 Scotland
11–0
Hampden Park
Glasgow

1897
13 March
 England
12–3
Fallowfield
Manchester

1898
12 March
draw
3–3
Powderhall
Edinburgh

1899
11 March
 Scotland
0–5
Rectory Field
Blackheath

1900
10 March
draw
0–0
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1901
9 March
 Scotland
3–18
Rectory Field
Blackheath

1902
15 March
 England
3–6
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1903
21 March
 Scotland
6–10
Athletic Ground
Richmond

1904
19 March
 Scotland
6–3
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1905
18 March
 Scotland
0–8
Athletic Ground
Richmond

1906
17 March
 England
3–9
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1907
16 March
 Scotland
3–8
Rectory Field
Blackheath

1908
21 March
 Scotland
16–10
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1909
20 March
 Scotland
8–18
Athletic Ground
Richmond

1910
19 March
 England
5–14
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1911
18 March
 England
13–8
Twickenham
London

1912
16 March
 Scotland
8–3
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1913
15 March
 England
3–0
Twickenham
London

1914
21 March
 England
15–16
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1915
Not held due to World War I

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920
20 March
 England
13–4
Twickenham
London

1921
19 March
 England
0–18
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1922
18 March
 England
11–5
Twickenham
London

1923
17 March
 England
6–8
Inverleith
Edinburgh

1924
15 March
 England
19–0
Twickenham
London

1925
21 March
 Scotland
14–11
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1926
20 March
 Scotland
9–17
Twickenham
London

1927
19 March
 Scotland
21–13
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1928
17 March
 England
6–0
Twickenham
London

1929
16 March
 Scotland
12–6
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1930
15 March
draw
0–0
Twickenham
London

1931
21 March
 Scotland
28–19
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1932
19 March
 England
16–3
Twickenham
London

1933
18 March
 Scotland
3–0
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1934
17 March
 England
6–3
Twickenham
London

1935
16 March
 Scotland
10–7
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1936
21 March
 England
9–8
Twickenham
London

1937
20 March
 England
3–6
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1938
19 March
 Scotland
16–21
Twickenham
London

1939
18 March
 England
6–9
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1940
Not held due to World War II

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947
15 March
 England
24–5
Twickenham
London

1948
20 March
 Scotland
6–3
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1949
19 March
 England
19–3
Twickenham
London

1950
18 March
 Scotland
13–11
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1951
17 March
 England
5–3
Twickenham
London

1952
15 March
 England
3–19
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1953
21 March
 England
26–8
Twickenham
London

1954
20 March
 England
3–13
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1955
19 March
 England
9–6
Twickenham
London

1956
17 March
 England
6–11
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1957
16 March
 England
16–3
Twickenham
London

1958
15 March
draw
3–3
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1959
21 March
draw
3–3
Twickenham
London

1960
19 March
 England
12–21
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1961
18 March
 England
6–0
Twickenham
London

1962
17 March
draw
3–3
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1963
16 March
 England
10–8
Twickenham
London

1964
21 March
 Scotland
15–6
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1965
20 March
draw
3–3
Twickenham
London

1966
19 March
 Scotland
6–3
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1967
18 March
 England
27–14
Twickenham
London

1968
16 March
 England
6–8
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1969
15 March
 England
8–3
Twickenham
London

1970
21 March
 Scotland
14–5
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1971
20 March
 Scotland
15–16
Twickenham
London

1972
18 March
 Scotland
23–9
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1973
17 March
 England
20–13
Twickenham
London

1974
2 February
 Scotland
16–14
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1975
15 March
 England
7–6
Twickenham
London

1976
21 February
 Scotland
22–12
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1977
15 January
 England
26–6
Twickenham
London

1978
4 March
 England
0–15
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1979
3 February
draw
7–7
Twickenham
London

1980
15 March
 England
18–30
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1981
21 February
 England
23–17
Twickenham
London

1982
16 January
draw
9–9
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1983
5 March
 Scotland
12–22
Twickenham
London

1984
4 February
 Scotland
18–6
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1985
16 March
 England
10–7
Twickenham
London

1986
15 February
 Scotland
33–6
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1987
4 April
 England
21–12
Twickenham
London

1988
5 March
 England
6–9
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1989
4 February
Draw
12–12
Twickenham
London

1990
17 March
 Scotland
13–7
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1991
16 February
 England
21–12
Twickenham
London

1992
18 January
 England
7–25
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1993
6 March
 England
26–12
Twickenham
London

1994
5 February
 England
14–15
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1995
18 March
 England
24–12
Twickenham
London

1996
2 March
 England
9–18
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1997
1 February
 England
41–13
Twickenham
London

1998
22 March
 England
20–34
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

1999
20 February
 England
24–21
Twickenham
London

2000
2 April
 Scotland
19–13
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2001
3 March
 England
43–3
Twickenham
London

2002
2 February
 England
3–29
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2003
22 March
 England
40–9
Twickenham
London

2004
21 February
 England
13–35
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2005
19 March
 England
43–22
Twickenham
London

2006
25 February
 Scotland
18–12
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2007
3 February
 England
42–20
Twickenham
London

2008
8 March
 Scotland
15–9
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2009
21 March
 England
26–12
Twickenham
London

2010
13 March
draw
15–15
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2011
13 March
 England
22–17
Twickenham
London

2012
4 February
 England
6–13
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2013
2 February
 England
38–18
Twickenham
London

2014
8 February
 England
0–20
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2015
14 March
 England
25–13
Twickenham
London

2016
6 February
 England
9–15[2]
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2017
11 March
 England
61–21[3]
Twickenham
London

2018
24 February
 Scotland
25–13[4]
Murrayfield
Edinburgh

2019
16 March

Twickenham
London

tag: table

text: Records[edit]

text:
Team
Wins

 England
70

 Scotland
40

text: The cup has been tied 15 times.

text: The current record number of points scored by a player in a Calcutta Cup game was set by Jonny Wilkinson in 2007 when he scored 27 points (1 try, 2 conversions, 5 penalties, 1 drop goal). The previous record of 24 points was held by Rob Andrew.


document_title: Multiple choice

question_text: distractors in multiple choice questions are also called

text: Multiple choice

text: Structure[edit]

text: Multiple choice items consist of a stem and several alternative answers, among which are the correct ("keyed") answer and one or more incorrect ("distractor") answers. The stem is the beginning part of the item that presents the item as a problem to be solved, a question asked of the respondent, or an incomplete statement to be completed, as well as any other relevant information. The options are the possible answers that the examinee can choose from, with the correct answer called the key and the incorrect answers called distractors.[4] Only one answer can be keyed as correct. This contrasts with multiple response items in which more than one answer may be keyed as correct.

text: Usually, a correct answer earns a set number of points toward the total mark, and an incorrect answer earns nothing. However, tests may also award partial credit for unanswered questions or penalize students for incorrect answers, to discourage guessing. For example, the SAT Subject tests remove a quarter point from the test taker's score for an incorrect answer.

text: For advanced items, such as an applied knowledge item, the stem can consist of multiple parts. The stem can include extended or ancillary material such as a vignette, a case study, a graph, a table, or a detailed description which has multiple elements to it. Anything may be included as long as it is necessary to ensure the utmost validity and authenticity to the item. The stem ends with a lead-in question explaining how the respondent must answer. In a medical multiple choice items, a lead-in question may ask "What is the most likely diagnosis?" or "What pathogen is the most likely cause?" in reference to a case study that was previously presented.

text: The items of a multiple choice test are often colloquially referred to as "questions," but this is a misnomer because many items are not phrased as questions. For example, they can be presented as incomplete statements, analogies, or mathematical equations. Thus, the more general term "item" is a more appropriate label. Items are stored in an item bank.

text: Examples[edit]

text: If a=1 and b=2, what is a+b?

text:
12
3
4
10
8

tag: ol

text:
In the equation

2
x
+
3
=
4

{\displaystyle 2x+3=4}

, solve for x.

text:
4
10
0.5
1.5
8

text: Ideally, the multiple choice question should be asked as a "stem", with plausible options, for example:

text: The IT capital of India is

text:
Bangalore
Mumbai
Mexico
Hyderabad

text: A well written multiple-choice question avoids obviously wrong or silly distractors (such as Mexico in the example above), so that the question makes sense when read with each of the distractors as well as with the correct answer.

text: A more difficult and well-written multiple choice question is as follows:

text: Consider the following:

text:
An eight-by-eight chessboard.
An eight-by-eight chessboard with two opposite corners removed.
An eight-by-eight chessboard with all four corners removed.

text: Which of these can be tiled by two-by-one dominoes (with no overlaps or gaps, and every domino contained within the board)?

text:
I only
II only
I and II only
I and III only
I, II, and III

text: Advantages[edit]

text: There are several advantages to multiple choice tests. If item writers are well trained and items are quality assured, it can be a very effective assessment technique.[5] If students are instructed on the way in which the item format works and myths surrounding the tests are corrected, they will perform better on the test.[6] On many assessments, reliability has been shown to improve with larger numbers of items on a test, and with good sampling and care over case specificity, overall test reliability can be further increased.[7]

text: Multiple choice tests often require less time to administer for a given amount of material than would tests requiring written responses.

text: Multiple choice questions lend themselves to the development of objective assessment items, but without author training, questions can be subjective in nature. Because this style of test does not require a teacher to interpret answers, test-takers are graded purely on their selections, creating a lower likelihood of teacher bias in the results.[8] Factors irrelevant to the assessed material (such as handwriting and clarity of presentation) do not come into play in a multiple-choice assessment, and so the candidate is graded purely on their knowledge of the topic. Finally, if test-takers are aware of how to use answer sheets or online examination tick boxes, their responses can be relied upon with clarity. Overall, multiple choice tests are the strongest predictors of overall student performance compared with other forms of evaluations, such as in-class participation, case exams, written assignments, and simulation games.[9]

text: Disadvantages[edit]

text: The most serious disadvantage is the limited types of knowledge that can be assessed by multiple choice tests. Multiple choice tests are best adapted for testing well-defined or lower-order skills. Problem-solving and higher-order reasoning skills are better assessed through short-answer and essay tests.[citation needed] However, multiple choice tests are often chosen, not because of the type of knowledge being assessed, but because they are more affordable for testing a large number of students. This is especially true in the United States and India, where multiple choice tests are the preferred form of high-stakes testing and the sample size of test-takers is large respectively.

text: Another disadvantage of multiple choice tests is possible ambiguity in the examinee's interpretation of the item. Failing to interpret information as the test maker intended can result in an "incorrect" response, even if the taker's response is potentially valid. The term "multiple guess" has been used to describe this scenario because test-takers may attempt to guess rather than determine the correct answer. A free response test allows the test taker to make an argument for their viewpoint and potentially receive credit.

text: In addition, even if students have some knowledge of a question, they receive no credit for knowing that information if they select the wrong answer and the item is scored dichotomously. However, free response questions may allow an examinee to demonstrate partial understanding of the subject and receive partial credit. Additionally if more questions on a particular subject area or topic are asked to create a larger sample then statistically their level of knowledge for that topic will be reflected more accurately in the number of correct answers and final results.

text: Another disadvantage of multiple choice examinations is that a student who is incapable of answering a particular question can simply select a random answer and still have a chance of receiving a mark for it. If randomly guessing an answer, there is usually a 25 percent chance of getting it correct on a four-answer choice question. It is common practice for students with no time left to give all remaining questions random answers in the hope that they will get at least some of them right. Many exams, such as the Australian Mathematics Competition and the SAT, have systems in place to negate this, in this case by making it no more beneficial to choose a random answer than to give none.

text: Another system of negating the effects of random selection is formula scoring, in which a score is proportionally reduced based on the number of incorrect responses and the number of possible choices. In this method, the score is reduced by the number of wrong answers divided by the average number of possible answers for all questions in the test, W/(c – 1) where w is the number of wrong responses on the test and c is the average number of possible choices for all questions on the test.[10] All exams scored with the three-parameter model of item response theory also account for guessing. This is usually not a great issue, moreover, since the odds of a student receiving significant marks by guessing are very low when four or more selections are available.

text: Additionally, it is important to note that questions phrased ambiguously may confuse test-takers. It is generally accepted that multiple choice questions allow for only one answer, where the one answer may encapsulate a collection of previous options. However, some test creators are unaware of this and might expect the student to select multiple answers without being given explicit permission, or providing the trailing encapsulation options. Of course, untrained test developers are a threat to validity regardless of the item format.

text: Critics like philosopher and education proponent Jacques Derrida, said that while the demand for dispensing and checking basic knowledge is valid, there are other means to respond to this need than resorting to crib sheets.[11]

text: Despite being sometimes contested, the format remains popular due to its utility, reliability, and cost effectiveness.[citation needed]

text: Changing answers[edit]

text: The theory that students should trust their first instinct and stay with their initial answer on a multiple choice test is a myth worth dispelling. Researchers have found that although some people believe that changing answers is bad, it generally results in a higher test score. The data across twenty separate studies indicate that the percentage of "right to wrong" changes is 20.2%, whereas the percentage of "wrong to right" changes is 57.8%, nearly triple.[12] Changing from "right to wrong" may be more painful and memorable (Von Restorff effect), but it is probably a good idea to change an answer after additional reflection indicates that a better choice could be made. In fact, a person's initial attraction to a particular answer choice could well derive from the surface plausibility that the test writer has intentionally built into a distractor (or incorrect answer choice). Test item writers are instructed to make their distractors plausible yet clearly incorrect. A test taker's first-instinct attraction to a distractor is thus often a reaction that probably should be revised in light of a careful consideration of each of the answer choices. Some test takers for some examination subjects might have accurate first instincts about a particular test item, but that does not mean that all test takers should trust their first instinct.

text: Automation[edit]

text: Finding the right answer from multiple choices can be automated using  multiple choice question answering systems.[13]

text: Notable multiple-choice examinations[edit]

text:
ACT
AIEEE in India
AP
ASVAB
AMC
ARRT registry test for student radiologic technologists
Australian Mathematics Competition
CFA
CISSP
COMLEX
CLAT
F = ma
FE
GCE Ordinary Level
GRE
GATE
IB Diploma Programme science subject exams
IIT-JEE in India, which had, until 2006, a high-stakes phase after the initial MCQ based screening phase
Indonesian National Exam
LSAT
MCAT
Multistate Bar Examination
NCLEX
PLAB for non-EEA medical graduates to practise in the UK
PSAT
SAT
Test of English as a Foreign Language
TOEIC
USMLE
NTSE

tag: ul

text: NET CSIR


document_title: The Real McCoys

question_text: who played george mcmichael on the real mccoys

text: The Real McCoys

text: Synopsis[edit]

text: The Real McCoys revolves around the lives of a family from the Appalachian Mountains who originally hailed from fictional Smokey Corners, West Virginia. The McCoys moved to California to live and work on a farm they inherited from a relative. The family consists of Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan); his grandson Luke (Richard Crenna), Luke's new wife Kate (Kathleen Nolan), Luke's teenage sister Tallahassie "Hassie" (Lydia Reed), and his 11-year-old brother "Little Luke" (Michael Winkelman). The double-naming of the brothers is explained in the first full episode, when the elder Luke introduces Little Luke to Pepino Garcia (Tony Martinez) and says, "Well, you see, in the excitement of having him, Ma and Pa 'plum' forgot they already had me."[1] Only Crenna appeared in all 225 episodes.

text: The McCoys' farm had previously been owned by an uncle, Ben McCoy, who died. The former West Virginians join the Grange farm association and hire Pepino as a farm hand after he informs them that he had worked for Ben, serving as his "foreman" on the property. In the episode that aired on January 8, 1962, Pepino becomes an American citizen and takes the surname "McCoy". The McMichaels, a brother and sister combination played by Andy Clyde and Madge Blake in twenty-nine and twenty-one episodes, respectively, lived on the hill not far from the McCoys. Amos McCoy and George McMichael, both mischievous, crotchety old men, would sometimes quarrel, particularly over their games of checkers and horseshoes. Kate is friendly with the much older Flora McMichael, George's sister, and becomes involved with life in the community.

text: Though still in her twenties, Kate serves as a mother figure for Luke's younger siblings, Hassie and Little Luke, and one episode shows her bewilderment in trying to entice the children to take responsibility for their school studies. Many episodes have a moral theme consistent with the conservative views of Walter Brennan, such as two 1957 segments entitled "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" with Joseph Kearns, later of Dennis the Menace, and "Gambling Is a Sin", in which Amos allows a casino to advertise on McCoy property before the ethics of the matter is brought to his attention.[2] Other such episodes are "Go Fight City Hall", "The Taxman Cometh", "You Can't Always Be a Hero", "You Never Get Too Old", "Where There's a Will", "Beware a Smart Woman", "Money in the Bank", "How to Win Friends", "You're As Young As You Feel", "Honesty Is the Best Policy", and "Never a Lender Be".[3]

text: Perhaps one of the more memorable episodes, "The New Well" (October 30, 1958), pits science against folklore, when Grandpa's divining rod proves superior to the paid recommendation of a geologist, played by Joe Flynn, in locating a new water source on the farm.[4] In the 1958 episode "It Pays to Be Poor", John Dehner plays Roger Brewster, a hard-edged New York City businessman determined to buy the McCoy farm to turn it into a motel; but spurred by his kindly wife (Dorothy Green), he soon develops an unexpected appreciation for the basic values and personal benefits of rural living.[5]

text: In "Little Luke's Education" (February 6, 1958), Amos confronts bigotry among the local children against hillbilly peoples such as the McCoys. In "Grampa's Private War" (February 12, 1959), Amos gets so carried away with patriotic fervor that he claims to have fought under Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish–American War, but Walter Brennan was four years old when that war was fought in 1898. Then Amos is invited to speak at a Veterans Day ceremony.[3]

text: Jon Lormer was cast seven times on The Real McCoys in 1959 and 1960, six as the character Sam Watkins. Joan Blondell appeared three times near the end of the series as Aunt Win. Marjorie Bennett was cast three times as Amanda Comstock. Pat Buttram and Howard McNear also appeared three times; they were subsequently cast as Eustace Haney on CBS's Green Acres and as Floyd the Barber on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show. Olin Howland and Willard Waterman appeared five times each as Charley Perkins and Mac Maginnis, respectively.[3]

text: Early in the series, Charles Lane, who often appeared in a character role on I Love Lucy, was cast twice as Harry Poulson, a fast-talking egg salesman; Hassie McCoy has an interest in Harry's son. In 1963, Jack Oakie appeared three times in the role of Uncle Rightly. Dick Elliott was cast twice as Doc Thornton, and Lurene Tuttle appeared twice as Gladys Purvis, the widowed mother of series character Kate McCoy, with Jay Novello in one of those appearances as Gladys' intended second husband, a retired photographer from Fresno.[3]

text: Malcolm Cassell appeared several times as Hassie McCoy's boyfriend, Tommy. Edward Everett Horton played J. Luther Medwick, the grandfather of Hassie's other boyfriend, Jerry; Medwick and Amos soon clash. Verna Felton, a member of the December Bride cast, appeared once as Cousin Naomi Vesper. Jesse White, known as the Maytag repairman in the television commercial and subsequently a cast member of CBS's The Ann Sothern Show, portrayed a used car salesman named "San Fernando Harry" who clashes with Amos McCoy in "The New Car" (October 2, 1958). On June 1, 1961, Amos, Luke, and Kate return to West Virginia for the 100th birthday gathering of "Grandmother McCoy", played by Jane Darwell. In one episode, Lee Van Cleef played a sentry; in another Tom Skerritt appeared as a letter carrier.[3]

text: The episode "The Tycoon" (August 30, 1960) four years later coincidentally became the title of Brennan's next ABC sitcom, The Tycoon, with his co-star Van Williams.[3] Barbara Stanwyck made a cameo appearance in the 1959 episode, "The McCoys Go to Hollywood", which also features Dorothy Provine, and a glimpse of the Desilu Studios, where the series was filmed. In 1961, Fay Wray is featured in the episode "Theatre in the Barn", as herself. She  volunteers to direct a local amateur production to raise money for the Grange.[citation needed]

text: Just before The Real McCoys ended its run on ABC, Nolan left the series in a contract dispute and was written out of the remaining scripts: her character of Kate died, but details were never given. Hassie left home to attend college, and Little Luke joined the United States Army. She appeared only in the first episode of the final season—he never did. Amos McCoy did not appear in many episodes. Luke was a widower, and many of the stories revolved around Grandpa trying to find him a new wife. This nearly succeeded when Luke met Louise Howard, portrayed by Janet De Gore, a widow with a young son, Greg, played by Butch Patrick, later of CBS's The Munsters.

text: Nielsen ratings[edit]

text:
Season
Time slot (ET)
Rank
Rating

1957–1958
Thursday at 8:30–9:00 p.m.
#30
26.6 (Tied with The Loretta Young Show and Zorro)

1958–1959
#8
30.1

1959–1960
#11
28.2

1960–1961
#5
27.7

1961–1962
#14
24.2

1962–1963
Sunday at 9:00–9:30 p.m.
N/A

text: Syndication[edit]

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text: For several seasons beginning in 1962, starting with the ABC episodes, the series aired weekday mornings in reruns on CBS under the title The McCoys. It was then syndicated. Its current distributor SFM Entertainment showed the series on weekday afternoons on the former The Nashville Network in the late 1990s into 2000. The show is currently shown at 6:00 and 6:30 pm Eastern time, Mondays through Fridays, on COZI TV. With the morning reruns, the opening theme was played in instrumental form (these reruns were aired opposite, NBC's Concentration game show).

text: The show is remembered as The Real McCoys, except for the season on CBS and in the morning reruns between 1962 and 1966. These latter episodes were used in the DVD releases and omitted the full-length pilot. The ending theme music on the DVDs is from the morning rerun version. The original end theme used the following lyrics: "Livin' as good folks should live, as happy as kids with toys/Week after week you're gonna be showed another human episode of Grandpappy Amos and the girls and the boys of the family known as The Real McCoys." An alternate closing theme used these lyrics: "Sharing each others sorrows, enjoying each others joys/week after week you're gonna be showed another human episode of Grandpappy Amos and the girls and the boys of the family known as the Real McCoys!"

text: DVD releases[edit]

text: Infinity Entertainment released the first four seasons of The Real McCoys on DVD in Region 1 for the first time between 2007 and 2010.  As of 2012, these releases have been discontinued and are out of print.

text: On May 7, 2012, it was announced that Inception Media Group (IMG) had acquired the rights to the show. IMG subsequently re-released the first two seasons on DVD.[6][7]

text: On June 4, 2012, IMG announced that it would be releasing a complete series set, featuring all 224 remastered episodes.[8] Release of this set never came to fruition, and the rights to the show's home videos later moved to SFM Entertainment, which released The Real McCoys: The Complete Series on August 29, 2017 in Region 1. [9]  This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively from Amazon.com.

text:
DVD name
No. ofepisodes
Release date

Complete Season 1
39
July 24, 2007July 24, 2012(re-release)

Complete Season 2
39
October 30, 2007November 13, 2012(re-release)

Complete Season 3
39
June 17, 2008August 26, 2014(re-release)[10]

Complete Season 4
39
June 29, 2010August 26, 2014 (re-release)[11]

Complete Season 5
29
August 26, 2014[12]

Complete Season 6
39
August 26, 2014[13]

The Complete Series
224
August 29, 2017[14]


document_title: List of Mr. Robot episodes

question_text: when does season 2 of mr robot start

question_tokens: when does season 2 of mr robot start

text: List of Mr. Robot episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
10
June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24)
September 2, 2015 (2015-09-02)

2
12
July 13, 2016 (2016-07-13)
September 21, 2016 (2016-09-21)

3
10[4]
October 11, 2017 (2017-10-11)
December 13, 2017 (2017-12-13)[4]

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1 (2015)[edit]

text: Each episode title resembles a computer filename. In season 1, each title ends with the filename extension of a video file format.[5]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov"
Niels Arden Oplev
Sam Esmail
June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24)
1.75[6]

Socially inept Elliot Alderson works at cyber security company Allsafe. At night, he hacks social media, personal information, and bank records including those of his co-workers, therapist, and drug dealer. Allsafe's biggest client, E Corp, suffers a DDoS attack which Elliot stops. He identifies a file labeled fsociety00.dat, along with a text file asking him to leave the malware he finds hidden on E Corp's server. Mr. Robot, the mysterious leader of the hacker group fsociety, contacts Elliot on the subway. Fsociety plans a digital revolution by deleting all debt records and Elliot is invited to join their cause. He is intrigued and eventually agrees. As his first act of collaboration with fsociety, Elliot provides the FBI investigation into the attack on E Corp with an encrypted file falsely implicating E Corp's own chief technology officer (CTO) as the orchestrator of the attack.

2
2
"eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
July 1, 2015 (2015-07-01)
1.73[7]

Elliot declines a job offer from Tyrell Wellick, interim CTO of E Corp. Elliot, increasingly paranoid, uses more morphine than normal. Darlene visits him at home to bring him to fsociety, surprising him. Mr. Robot and fsociety want Elliot to hack into a gas plant and cause an explosion, destroying the adjacent offline backup facility used by E Corp: Steel Mountain. However, Elliot does not want to risk lives – and backs out. Elliot's drug dealer and girlfriend Shayla's supplier Fernando Vera shows signs of abusing Shayla so Elliot gathers information against him, and when Vera rapes Shayla, Elliot turns him in despite Shayla's explicit instructions not to. Meanwhile, Ollie's computer gets hacked by an unknown man named Cisco, who is shown to be an associate of the Chinese hacker group, The Dark Army. In the closing scene, Elliot and Mr. Robot discuss Elliot's falling out with his father – Mr. Robot pushes Elliot off a railing onto the rock-strewn beach below as punishment for not keeping his father's disease a secret and betraying his trust.

3
3
"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv"
Jim McKay
Sam Esmail
July 8, 2015 (2015-07-08)
1.60[8]

Tyrell is enraged after he learns that Scott Knowles has been chosen for CTO. Tyrell pays a homeless man to allow him to beat him. Cisco demands that Ollie infect Allsafe with the same CD. Elliot believes he is done with fsociety. Tyrell seduces his boss's male secretary and installs software on his phone. Attempting to be more normal, Elliot asks Shayla to accompany him to a party. She accepts. During the party, fsociety leaks E Corp's emails that incriminate Colby for covering up a toxic waste leak that caused leukemia in Elliot's father and Angela's mother. Tyrell ties up his pregnant wife and ball-gags her upon her request. Ollie confesses both his infidelity and Cisco's demands to Angela. Fearing identity theft, she wants him to infect Allsafe with the CD. Elliot returns to fsociety. Gideon becomes suspicious of Elliot's story regarding the E Corp attack, and begins to investigate.

4
4
"eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4"
Nisha Ganatra
Adam Penn
July 15, 2015 (2015-07-15)
1.27[9]

Elliot has a new plan to destroy E Corp's tape back-ups of their data at Steel Mountain involving hacking into their climate control system by connecting a Raspberry Pi to slowly raise the temperature (bypassing the climate control system) to a point where it will destroy the magnetic tape back-ups, but this requires physical access to the heavily fortified data center. Elliot, Romero, Mobley, and Mr. Robot go to Steel Mountain. With his morphine supply cut off, Elliot starts to suffer from serious withdrawal symptoms including multiple hallucinations. Darlene and Trenton stay behind to contact Cisco (Darlene's ex-boyfriend) and arrange a simultaneous hacker attack by the Dark Army on E Corp's backup sites in China. Meanwhile, Angela and Shayla do ecstasy which results in the two kissing. The next morning, Angela sabotages Allsafe using Ollie's work ID and computer.

5
5
"eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv"
Jim McKay
David Iserson
July 22, 2015 (2015-07-22)
1.38[10]

With the help of fsociety, Elliot infiltrates Steel Mountain through the use of what he calls "human exploits". He coincidentally meets Tyrell and uses his ego to gain access to the restricted area where he needs to connect his Raspberry Pi loaded with the program to override the climate control system and destroy E Corp's tape back-ups. Tyrell reveals he knows that Elliot framed the CTO, but will not turn him in. The Dark Army refuses to attack the back-up facility in China, which puts fsociety's plan in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Tyrell and Joanna have dinner with the CTO candidate Scott and his wife Sharon in an attempt to find their weaknesses. Tyrell sexually approaches Sharon in the bathroom. Angela leaves Ollie after telling him she infected Allsafe with the hacker's CD, and moves in with her father. She discovers that he is deeply in debt from her mother's old medical bills. Elliot finds Shayla's phone on the floor. Fernando Vera calls him on it from prison, with the suggestion that he has organized Shayla's abduction. He blames Elliot for turning him in to the police.

6
6
"eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf"
Deborah Chow
Kyle Bradstreet
July 29, 2015 (2015-07-29)
1.25[11]

Shayla is kidnapped by Vera's brother in order to pressure Elliot to hack Vera out of prison before he is killed on the inside. Elliot visits Vera to check on the prison's cyber system, and later realizes Vera's brother arranged the inside hit. Acting CTO Scott reveals to Tyrell that his wife told him about the bathroom incident, humiliating Tyrell. After Tyrell smashes his kitchen in rage, Joanna explains that Sharon's desire to be wanted is their vulnerability. Angela meets with lawyers in an attempt to reopen her toxic waste lawsuit against E Corp – they tell her it is impossible to win without testimony from someone on the inside. Elliot breaks Vera out of jail, and Vera immediately kills his brother. Upon Elliot's query about Shayla, Vera tosses him the keys to the car and says, "She was with you the whole time." Elliot opens the trunk and finds Shayla inside with her throat slit.

7
7
"eps1.6_v1ew-s0urce.flv"
Sam Esmail
Kate Erickson
August 5, 2015 (2015-08-05)
1.15[12]

Flashback: Shayla moves in next door and gives Elliot a pet fish. She wants to be his friend despite his awkwardness around people. She offers to contact a suboxone supplier for Elliot. In the present, it has been one month since Shayla's murder. Angela makes a deal: she will lie and say she broke chain of custody with the .dat file that incriminated Terry Colby, if in exchange, Colby will testify that E Corp covered up the toxic waste leak in 1993. Gideon warns Angela that her plan will put Allsafe out of business. Meanwhile, Darlene and Mr. Robot attempt to bring fsociety back together. She sets up an in-person meeting with mysterious Whiterose, leader of the Dark Army. Tyrell, at a party celebrating Knowles's promotion, entices Sharon up to an isolated rooftop and strangles her while seducing her. Elliot confesses to his therapist that he hacks everybody in an attempt to find a way out of loneliness.

8
8
"eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v"
Christoph Schrewe
Randolph Leon
August 12, 2015 (2015-08-12)
1.24[13]

Darlene steals a gun, and has a conversation with Angela that implies they are longtime friends. Elliot and fsociety re-plan their attack but still need the Dark Army. Elliot meets Whiterose, a transgender woman obsessed with time, who says the Dark Army backed out because Gideon, suspicious of Elliot's story, turned E Corp's hacked server into a honeypot. With help from Darlene, Elliot shuts this down. Tyrell finds fsociety's .dat file after Gideon tells him of the honeypot and meets with Mr. Robot, and it appears that the two are working together. He reminds Mr. Robot that he knows his "dirty little secret" when Mr. Robot refuses to cooperate, which Mr. Robot shrugs off. When police question the Wellicks about Sharon's murder, Joanna secretly breaks her own water with a fork to distract them. Elliot tells Darlene of their plan's success, and an ecstatic Darlene tells him she loves him. He kisses Darlene, who is revolted. She asks if he "had forgotten again". Elliot realizes that Darlene is his sister, but he has no recollection of her. He finds a CD that contains old family photos – revealing that Mr. Robot is his father.

9
9
"eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt"
Tricia Brock
Sam Esmail
August 19, 2015 (2015-08-19)
1.32[14]

A flashback shows a young Elliot and his father in his computer repair shop "Mr. Robot". After the birth of their child, Joanna tells Tyrell that he needs to keep in control if he "wants to be part of this family". Tyrell is fired from E Corp – his final act is to prevent Gideon from reverting the honeypot. Mr. Robot takes a trip with Elliot to his childhood home. Angry, Elliot pushes Mr. Robot out of a window and then takes him to a graveyard. Mr. Robot tells Elliot not to let Angela and Darlene "get rid of him", and that he will always love him. When they arrive, Elliot, alone at the grave of his father, realizes he had taken on his dead father's persona the entire time, saying "I am Mr. Robot". Terry Colby offers Angela a job at E Corp. Elliot now doubts the continuation of his Mr. Robot/fsociety plan. Tyrell threatens Elliot about fsociety's plan – Elliot takes Tyrell to the arcade and understands that he will carry on with the hack. They agree to work together, but Elliot glances over to the popcorn machine where Darlene's gun is hidden.

10
10
"eps1.9_zer0-day.avi"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
September 2, 2015 (2015-09-02)[a]
1.21[15]

Elliot wakes up alone in Tyrell's SUV three days after the conclusion of the previous episode, with no memory of those three days. The fsociety hack succeeded, throwing the world into chaos and gathering cheering crowds throughout the city. fsociety encrypt their data and cover their tracks. E Corp is readying an emergency TV interview. The E Corp EVP of Technology commits suicide on TV after stating that the situation is hopeless. Elliot talks to Mr. Robot again and asks about Tyrell's location. He visits Tyrell's address but finds only Joanna, introducing himself as "Ollie". The episode ends with Elliot opening his apartment door; the visitor is not seen. In a post-credits scene, Whiterose, dressed as a man, and Phillip Price, the CEO of E Corp, are shown conversing at a formal event where Price indicates he "knows who's responsible".

text: Jump up ^ The first season finale was postponed one week from its originally scheduled air date of August 26, 2015, because the episode includes a scene with similarities to the Roanoke, Virginia murders, which happened earlier the same day.[16]

text: Season 2 (2016)[edit]

text: Each episode title resembles a computer filename. Season 2 titles have a suffix corresponding to a type of encryption.[5]

text:
No.
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No. in
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Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

11
1
"eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
July 13, 2016 (2016-07-13)
1.04[17]

A brief flashback shows that Tyrell recorded an fsociety video the night he visited Elliot. One month later, Elliot has gone off the grid, living with his mother and maintaining a repetitive routine in an attempt to weaken the influence of Mr. Robot, who continually appears to him and torments him while still refusing to tell him what happened to Tyrell. fsociety continues under Darlene's leadership, hacking the smart home of E Corp general counsel Susan Jacobs and using it as home base after forcing Jacobs to move out. With Mobley's assistance, Darlene executes a hack on the Bank of E Corp, holding their records for ransom.

12
2
"eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
July 13, 2016 (2016-07-13)
1.04[17]

As part of the ransom demand, fsociety forces Scott Knowles to wear an fsociety mask and publicly burn the $5.9 million from the previous episode's hack. Angela continues up the ladder at E Corp, seemingly content in her new corporate position, and appears to abandon the lawsuit. Joanna receives a gift on her doorstep, a music box with a phone hidden underneath, but misses the call. Elliot discovers he has been acting under Mr. Robot's influence while he thought he was sleeping. A man named Brock murders Gideon, who had earlier threatened to report Elliot's suspicious behavior at Allsafe to the FBI and agent Dominique DiPierro. Elliot wakes up from a dissociative state on the phone, greeted on the other end by Tyrell.

13
3
"eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
July 20, 2016 (2016-07-20)
0.80[18]

A flashback reveals Romero wanted to rent the arcade to Mobley, but Mobley recruited him into fsociety instead. After a confusing conversation with Tyrell on the phone, Elliot tries to completely get rid of Mr. Robot. The news reports Gideon's death, shocking Elliot. Later, Mobley finds Romero dead at home. Mobley and Trenton fear the Dark Army is hunting them and grow suspicious of Darlene and Elliot. Dominique DiPierro takes snapshots of a list found on the computer table at the crime scene denoting FBI agents and their information. Ray is on the hunt for a cyber engineer for his own sinister purposes and manages to convince Elliot to open up about Mr. Robot. Phillip Price invites Angela to dinner and tries to make her take matters less personally. Dominique decides to pursue the Romero investigation after finding her name on the list; while visiting Romero's mother, she finds a poster for the "End of the World Party", which leads her to fsociety's arcade.

14
4
"eps2.2_init_1.asec"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
July 27, 2016 (2016-07-27)
0.64[19]

On Halloween of the previous year, Mr. Robot emerged for the first time and suggested the hack to Darlene while Elliot wore the fsociety mask. In the present, Elliot rejects her plea for help. Mr. Robot states that if Elliot can beat him in chess, he will leave forever. Though Krista advises against it, Leon tells him to fight for what he wants; however, all three matches end in stalemates. Dominique finds a bullet casing in the arcade. Whiterose pressures Price to stay on schedule and monitors the FBI. Angela assumes Price wants her to help settle the class action lawsuit over the toxic leak after she turns in the other executives, but he rebuffs her theory. Joanna is running low on funds from paying the parking attendant who found Tyrell's SUV during the hack to stay quiet. Scott rejects her offer to testify against Tyrell in exchange for Tyrell's severance pay. Cisco tells Darlene that the Dark Army wouldn't have killed Romero, whose murder might have something to do with an illegal FBI surveillance program called Project Berenstain. Elliot agrees to help Ray, but secretly uses the computer to contact Darlene and hack the FBI.

15
5
"eps2.3_logic-b0mb.hc"
Sam Esmail
Kyle Bradstreet
August 3, 2016 (2016-08-03)
0.71[20]

Elliot writes the FBI hack malware from Ray's computer. Darlene tells Angela that they can wipe the FBI's records connecting her to the Allsafe CD if she helps, but she declines. Joanna's contact fears that the FBI is onto them, so she orders him killed. Elliot tells Ray that he must communicate with his previous IT specialist, "RT"; Ray reluctantly agrees and brings RT over. Dom and her team travel to China to investigate the Dark Army's involvement in Five/Nine. There, they meet Minister Zhang, the Chinese Minister of State Security, who is actually Whiterose. After Dom and Zhang have a private conversation, gunmen attack the office, killing most of Dom's team. Joanna gets a phone call from someone breathing heavily, possibly Tyrell. After her ex-boyfriend Ollie sells her out to the FBI, Angela decides to aid with the hack. Elliot asks RT what happened to him and RT reveals that Ray runs a black market website trafficking drugs, weapons, and sex slaves. That night, thugs break into Elliot's house, drag him into the street, and beat him while Ray reminds him that he was warned not to look.

16
6
"eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes"
Sam Esmail
Adam Penn
August 10, 2016 (2016-08-10)
0.57[21]

Elliot experiences a twisted 1980s sitcom version of a family road trip with Tyrell locked in the trunk, featuring ALF. Mr. Robot encourages him to keep his eyes forward until he is ready to wake up in the hospital. Ray lets him know that he is Elliot's master. Upon being locked away by Lone Star, Elliot hugs Mr. Robot for protecting his mind during the beating. A flashback reveals that, the day Elliot's father told him he was fired for being sick, he also let Elliot name the new computer store. Cisco receives equipment from the Dark Army for fsociety's FBI hack, but they break off a hypodermic needle in his finger for asking too many questions. Dom was spared in the shooting, as both attackers killed themselves. Though the attack gets blamed on Chinese separatists, she is determined to investigate the Dark Army. Congress refuses to move forward with Phillip Price's bailout plan to borrow from China because four FBI agents were killed there. Darlene and Mobley coach Angela through hacking the FBI, but Dom appears just before she can finish.

17
7
"eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
August 17, 2016 (2016-08-17)
0.65[22]

Dom learns Angela's history and is suspicious when the FBI is hacked. Angela confronts Darlene about her and Elliot creating fsociety after remembering the masks originate from a movie they watched many times as kids. Angela settles the E Corp v Washington Township lawsuit, and through Price, she's reassigned to the Risk Management division. But she oversteps boundaries at her first director's meeting. fsociety is able to interrupt Price's bailout vote. Mr. Robot admits to Elliot that they shot Tyrell. Elliot fixes Ray's website, but also alerts the FBI via the internet after seeing they are selling slaves, drugs and heavy weapons on the Dark Net. Ray realizes what Elliot has done and feeling remorse, lets Elliot go as the FBI arrive. Mr. Robot encourages Elliot to be a leader, making peace with him to benefit them both. A gang attacks Elliot for shutting down Ray's website but Leon stops them; he works for the Dark Army, protecting Elliot for Whiterose. Leon tells Elliot he'll get a letter and to do what it says. Elliot admits to Krista he knows he was never at his mother's, and the viewer finally learns that he is in prison.

18
8
"eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12"
Sam Esmail
Courtney Looney
August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24)
0.74[23]

fsociety learns that Project Berenstain is illegal surveillance of three million people for the Five/Nine investigation that has yielded 16 prime suspects, one of them deceased. Mobley fears that Romero is the dead suspect, meaning the FBI is close to them. fsociety releases this information, causing problems for the FBI, but Susan Jacobs comes home and sees them. They tie her up and try to hack her for blackmail information, but Darlene remembers Susan laughing when E Corp was cleared in the case regarding the toxic leak that killed her father. Darlene shocks her with a stun gun, fatally because of Susan's heart condition, and claims it was self-defense, an accident. Darlene and Cisco incinerate Susan's body while Mobley and Trenton panic. Dom interviews the owner of Darlene's stolen gun and brings Mobley in for questioning about the arcade, still hunting for Tyrell. He gives her nothing and Dom is forced to let him go. Mobley warns Trenton they must run, but is two hours late for his meet with Trenton though someone does find her. Angela's fling was an FBI plant, but she ditched him for an older man. Darlene sees Cisco is reporting back on her to the Dark Army and attacks him with a baseball bat.

19
9
"eps2.7_init_5.fve"
Sam Esmail
Kyle Bradstreet & Lucy Teitler
August 31, 2016 (2016-08-31)
0.65[24]

The knock on Elliot's door was the police to arrest him for hacking Lenny, Krista's ex, and stealing his dog. He pleads guilty; he's in jail the next day with Ray as warden, establishing his illusion. Even though his sentence is for 18 months, he's released 86 days later due to the Dark Army's influence. Darlene informs him Mobley and Trenton are missing. Through Cisco, they hack a Dark Army agent's phone, hoping to learn about Stage 2. Angela hacks E Corp herself, discovering the toxic plant wasn't fixed, though grows too suspicious to be a whistleblower; Dom tells her she's running out of options. Darlene left an fsociety tape with her face at Susan's house; Cisco retrieves it and hears someone. Whiterose had arranged the death of the previous E Corp CEO for interfering with the plant. Price is able to calm Zhang (Whiterose) by saying they can keep the plant if China loans E Corp some bailout money as goodwill. Elliot and Mr. Robot notice that they are somehow disconnecting from each other. Darlene hears Whiterose say Stage 2 is Elliot's plan as someone knocks at her door. Waiting for Elliot outside his apartment is Joanna.

20
10
"eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx"
Sam Esmail
Kor Adana & Randolph Leon
September 7, 2016 (2016-09-07)
0.77[25]

Price has Colby pull political strings to allow China to annex the Congo in exchange for a financial bailout of E Corp. Cisco finds one of fsociety's members badly wounded and persuades Darlene that he needs a hospital. A witness IDs Cisco leaving Susan's house and the authorities begin to investigate if her vacation is really a disappearance. Despite Dom's protests that the Dark Army will attack, Cisco's image is released to the media as a Five/Nine suspect. The BOLO is later seen by the hospital's ER staff who report his location. Joanna persuades Elliot to track the phone she believes was left by Tyrell. Elliot traces the call to a nearby residence, but Mr. Sutherland thinks it won't be Tyrell based on the location. Elliot and Angela later meet on the subway to talk. She makes him realize there are more gaps in his memory and warns him not to trust Mr. Robot. Defeated, Angela intends to confess with her lawyer, admitting her part in the FBI hack. After sharing a kiss with Elliot, she is approached by two figures. Dom tracks Darlene and Cisco to a restaurant but, while she's inside, a Dark Army shooter opens fire on them, and she emerges from the restaurant covered in splattered blood.

21
11
"eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
September 14, 2016 (2016-09-14)
0.69[26]

Dom demands the shootout be investigated as a possible act of war by the Dark Army, but is told the government will not upset China after they just gave the U.S. a $2 trillion loan. Joanna considers the phone's location to be a great gift from Tyrell. Phillip Price uses the bailout money to strengthen Ecoin, forcing the government to support him to keep pace with China and rebuilding the banking sector. Angela is taken to a house where a seemingly-tortured girl gives her a psych evaluation. Her captor is Whiterose, who says Angela should have died months ago; she wants Angela to believe in Whiterose's cause and claims Angela's mother and Elliot's father died for a greater good. Angela tells her lawyer never to call her again. Elliot uses a lucid dreaming technique to watch Mr. Robot decode a message in the apartment. As he follows him, Elliot then takes control on the way to a waiting cab. To his astonishment, Tyrell gets in. Despite accepting his destination, the cab driver doesn't directly acknowledge Tyrell's existence and kicks Elliot out for panicking. Tyrell says the Dark Army has Stage 2 ready and that Elliot will be pleased.

22
12
"eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
September 21, 2016 (2016-09-21)
0.85[27]

Months before, Tyrell begged Elliot to be let in on the plan. Present day, he takes Elliot to a discreet location, across the street from where E Corp is revealed to be gathering all its paper records. Tyrell tells Elliot about what will happen during stage 2. Scott Knowles is the owner of the mystery phone, gaslighting Joanna to make her suffer because he wanted her to feel what he felt. Scott beats up Joanna after she slanders his deceased wife. Joanna convinces Derek to frame Scott for Sharon's murder as payback. After the Dark Army's attack, Darlene is interrogated by the FBI. Dom shows her that she plays a big role in the FBI's investigation. Convinced that Tyrell is not real, Elliot tries to undo the firmware hack, but Tyrell shoots him with Darlene's stolen gun. Angela gets a call from a distraught Tyrell through the Dark Army, departing to be with Elliot when he awakes. In a post-credits scene, Mobley and Trenton are revealed to be hiding out on the West Coast. Trenton reveals to Mobley she's found a way to undo the hack. As Mobley expresses his desire to move on from the incident, the two are approached by Leon, who asks for the time.

text: Season 3 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
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Title
Directed by [28]
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

23
1
"eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
October 11, 2017 (2017-10-11)
0.68[29]

Zhang intends for Elliot to die once his work for the Dark Army is complete. In a panic Tyrell calls used car salesman and Dark Army agent Irving. Elliot wakes up a week later with Angela. He finds the firmware hack building empty. Darlene appears, pumping him for information but he lies and says Tyrell was never involved. With the power still out she takes him to an underground hacker tournament with fiber connections. He shuts the backdoor into E Corp but Dark Army agents force them out. Irving shakes their FBI tail and Elliot thinks he calls off Stage 2. Thinking his revolution made things worse, he asks Angela for a job at E Corp to fix things. That night, Mr. Robot emerges and Angela takes him to work with Irving and Tyrell; creating another way to progress Stage 2. Angela plans to manipulate Elliot along like Mr. Robot does, believing in Whiterose's plan to undo everything E Corp has ever done and create a new world.

24
2
"eps3.1_undo.gz"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
October 18, 2017 (2017-10-18)
0.52[30]

Five weeks on, Elliot works his way up E Corp, turning in lower executives and convincing a middle manager to start digitizing the paper records, while secretly moving the rest away from the Stage 2 building to an E Corp warehouse. Scott Knowles is arrested for Sharon's murder, Joanna goes on television saying she will always love Tyrell; Derek kills her and Mr. Sutherland kills Derek. An unknown source releases another fsociety video. Dom and the FBI put pressure on Darlene, revealing the prison phone call Elliott made to Tyrell. Darlene stays over at Elliot's, Mr. Robot emerges and scares her. Phillip Price has all necessary nations except China on board for Ecoin. When Price tries to threaten Zhang with the UN vote to let China annex Congo, Zhang reveals his hold on Angela. Zhang wants Stage 2 to commence on the day of the vote whether they win or lose, to punish Price. Elliot lets Mr. Robot out during a therapy session where he tells Krista that he and Elliot were compromised. Lenny returns the sick dog. Elliot realizes Darlene bugged his computer and goes to Darlene's FBI safe house.

25
3
"eps3.2_legacy.so"
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail
October 25, 2017 (2017-10-25)
0.54[31]

The night of the hack, Mr. Robot tried to shoot Tyrell but the gun jammed. Tyrell then convinces Mr. Robot he needs him for Stage 2. Irving and the Dark Army appear, stating Gideon told the FBI that Tyrell shut down the honeypot, making him the prime suspect of the hack. They take Tyrell to a cabin in a secluded area. The psych evaluation breaks him but he admits he will always be loyal to Elliot. Zhang begins working on both Tyrell and Elliot. Tyrell is given secure access to engineer Stage 2 and Cisco's firmware. The reports of Joanna moving on make Tyrell snap and go for a walk where he is arrested by a local police officer. The officer is killed by FBI Agent Santiago, another Dark Army plant and Dom's superior; that makes sure nobody knows about Tyrell. Irving is able to calm Tyrell saying he can win his family back when this is over. Irving checks on Elliot through Leon. Tyrell is taken to a Dark Army controlled hotel and is excited to meet Elliot again. After having to shoot him, Angela tells Tyrell of Elliot's alter/split personality (Mr. Robot). While in surgery, Mr. Robot awakens and smiles at Tyrell for following the plan.

26
4
"eps3.3_metadata.par2"
Sam Esmail
Kyle Bradstreet
November 1, 2017 (2017-11-01)
0.55[32]

Darlene is able to play off Elliot's suspicions of her, bonding over their distrust of Mr. Robot. Elliot admits Stage 2 was never called off, suspecting Mr. Robot emerges at night and asking Darlene to hide in Shayla's vacant apartment to follow him. Darlene continues in a downward spiral, seeing Mr. Robot leave with Angela. Tyrell has lost all faith in Elliot after finding out about the delays made to the shipping records. With three days before Stage 2 is set to occur, Angela says they can move all the paper records over the weekend. She tranquilizes Elliot when he emerges and sees Tyrell. Angela has Phillip Price fire Elliot to prevent him from interfering. Tyrell wants himself and his family sent to safety in Ukraine after Stage 2. Dom captures the source of the new fsociety video, still convinced it's truly Dark Army. Darlene promises to follow a lead, but without a wire and having made Elliot promise to get vengeance if something happens to her.

27
5
"eps3.4_runtime-error.r00"
Sam Esmail
TBA
November 8, 2017 (2017-11-08)
TBD

Elliot goes to work the day of Stage 2 and the UN vote; with no memory of what happened. He realizes he's been fired and Stage 2 is going to happen today. He tries to evade security to shut it down but is caught and escorted out. Outside, he tries calling in the bomb threat while the largest gathering of anti E Corp protesters gather. Darlene appears admitting she's working with the FBI and Angela is working with Mr. Robot, making Elliot remember. The protesters break inside E Corp, terrifying the workers. Irving calls Angela with data needed from an HSM on a secure floor to be copied by Elliot before Stage 2 can happen; the riot is a distraction. Angela is able to do this while letting a security guard be attacked and reporting the name of a woman who saw her to Irving. After passing the information to a Dark Army agent, Elliot confronts her in the chaos.

28
6
"eps3.5_kill-process.inc"[33]
Sam Esmail
TBA
November 15, 2017 (2017-11-15)
TBD

29
7
"eps3.6_fredrick&tanya.chk"[33]
Sam Esmail
TBA
November 22, 2017 (2017-11-22)
TBD

30
8
"eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko"[33]
Sam Esmail
TBA
November 29, 2017 (2017-11-29)
TBD

text: Specials[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
"Mr. Robot_dec0d3d.doc"
June 20, 2016 (2016-06-20)
0.78[34]

A one-hour special that explores the authenticity and social impact of the series and also previews season 2. It features interviews with cast and crew members, as well as experts and journalists in the fields of hacking and cyber security.

text: Hacking Robot[edit]

text: In June 2016, USA Network announced Hacking Robot, a live aftershow hosted by Andy Greenwald.[35] The first episode of Hacking Robot debuted after the season two premiere, with guests Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin and Portia Doubleday and received 376,000 viewers.[36] The second installment aired on September 7, 2016, after the tenth episode of the second season,[37] and received 320,000 viewers.[25]

text: In addition, a weekly web-only aftershow titled Mr. Robot Digital After Show premiered on The Verge and USA Network's websites after the third episode.[38]

text: Ratings[edit]

text: Season 1 (2015)[edit]

text: The first episode of Mr. Robot was released across multiple digital platforms in advance of its first broadcast. It had a viewership of 2.7 million prior to the first broadcast of the episode.[39]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov"
June 24, 2015
0.5
1.75[6]
0.4
1.34
0.9
3.09[40]

2
"eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg"
July 1, 2015
0.6
1.73[7]
0.6
1.81
1.2
3.54[41]

3
"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv"
July 8, 2015
0.6
1.60[8]
0.6
1.45
1.2
3.05[42]

4
"eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4"
July 15, 2015
0.4
1.27[9]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

5
"eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv"
July 22, 2015
0.5
1.38[10]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

6
"eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf"
July 29, 2015
0.4
1.25[11]
0.5
1.09
0.9
2.34[43]

7
"eps1.6_v1ew-s0urce.flv"
August 5, 2015
0.5
1.15[12]
0.6
1.27
1.1
2.42[44]

8
"eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v"
August 12, 2015
0.4
1.24[13]
0.8
1.44
1.2
2.68[45]

9
"eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt"
August 19, 2015
0.5
1.32[14]
0.6
1.30
1.1
2.62[46]

10
"eps1.9_zer0-day.avi"
September 2, 2015
0.5
1.21[15]
0.4
0.94
0.9
2.15[47]

text: Season 2 (2016)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc"
July 13, 2016
0.4
1.04[17]
0.6
1.21
1.0
2.25[48]

2
"eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc"
July 13, 2016
0.4
1.04[17]
0.6
1.21
1.0
2.25[48]

3
"eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd"
July 20, 2016
0.3
0.80[18]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

4
"eps2.2_init_1.asec"
July 27, 2016
0.3
0.64[19]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

5
"eps2.3_logic-b0mb.hc"
August 3, 2016
0.2
0.71[20]
0.4
0.65
0.6
1.35[49]

6
"eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes"
August 10, 2016
0.2
0.57[21]
0.3
0.63
0.5
1.20[50]

7
"eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme"
August 17, 2016
0.3
0.65[22]
0.3
0.65
0.6
1.30[51]

8
"eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12"
August 24, 2016
0.3
0.74[23]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

9
"eps2.7_init_5.fve"
August 31, 2016
0.3
0.65[24]
0.3
0.67
0.6
1.32[52]

10
"eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx"
September 7, 2016
0.3
0.77[25]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

11
"eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z"
September 14, 2016
0.3
0.69[26]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

12
"eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z"
September 21, 2016
0.4
0.85[27]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

text: Season 3 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h"
October 11, 2017
0.3
0.68[29]
0.3
0.65
0.6
1.33[53]

2
"eps3.1_undo.gz"
October 18, 2017
0.2
0.52[30]
0.3
0.52
0.5
1.04[54]

3
"eps3.2_legacy.so"
October 25, 2017
0.2
0.54[31]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

4
"eps3.3_metadata.par2"
November 1, 2017
0.2
0.55[32]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD