Who is Susan Jacobs in Mr. Robot? Character explored in depth

Created by Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot, is a drama thriller series featuring Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday, Grace Gummer, and others. The series is about Elliot Alderson (Malek), who is a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with dissociative identity disorder, depression, and social anxiety.

However, Elliot’s life changes when he is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist who is mysterious and only known as Mr. Robot. Elliot must now join a group of hacktivists called ‘fsociety’ and the group’s aim is to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of E Corp, the largest and most powerful conglomerate in the world.

The show has four seasons and it began airing in 2015. Mr. Robot was a critical and commercial success and has received praise for its story, performances, and score. It has also received various awards. In the show, the character of Susan Jacobs is important. Here’s a quick look at her character.

Character details of Susan Jacobs in Mr. Robot

Played by Sandrine Holt, Susan Jacobs is the General Counsel at E-Corp. The character of Susan Jacobs in Mr. Robot is extremely powerful and insidious. Susan has been the face of the conglomerate and as General Counsel, she has made sure that any lawsuit that is brought against E Corp is successfully killed.

This also includes a case that was killed by Susan Jacobs on behalf of E Corp, which led to the death of Darlene and Elliot’s father, who had contracted leukemia because of an unsafe project he worked on for E Corp.

She has therefore earned the nickname of “Madame Executioner” among her colleagues. In the show, Susan has a smart home in NYC and has had an affair with a presiding judge.

Why Darlene does not like Susan Jacobs in Mr. Robot

In Mr. Robot, her smart home is hacked by fsociety. Susan is terrorized, and Darlene and the rest, take over her home. When she returns to her home that has been hacked, she finds Darlene, Cisco, Trenton, and Mobley. The four quickly tie her up and hack her emails.

As Susan tries to break free, she encounters Darlene, who reminds her that she saw as a young girl how Susan laughed when E Corp was vindicated of their wrongdoing in the Washington Township lawsuit, which killed Darlene’s father. As Susan tries to appease Darlene, she hits Susan with a taser and Susan falls into the pool. As Susan Jacobs had a heart condition, she gets killed by the taser.

Susan’s body is stuffed in a bag and is cremated by Darlene and Cisco. Darlene decides to use Susan’s email account to notify her colleagues that she will be taking a vacation. However, when Cisco breaks into Susan’s home again to get a video tape, a witness gives the sketch to the FBI and they begin an investigation into the disappearance of Susan Jacobs in Mr. Robot.

Towards the end of the show, Elliot has to find out what happened to Susan Jacobs as he can manipulate her to get access to a bank and take down Whiterose. However, Elliot will soon come to realize that Susan is dead and it was his own sister, Darlene, who did it.

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