Edward Alderson

"Even though what you did was wrong, you’re still a good kid."

- Edward Alderson

Edward Alderson is a major antagonist of the USA Network drama series Mr. Robot. He is the father of hacker Elliot Alderson who died when Elliot was nine years old. Elliot proceeded to create his own alternate personality based on his father named "Mr. Robot", a more powerful and aggressive version of himself with the physical appearance of Edward, in order to cope with his father's death.

He was portrayed by Christian Slater, who also portrayed Ushari and Jason Dean.

Biography
One day when Edward was working at E Corp, an event happened that would change lots of lives; the Washington Township Toxic Waste Scandal. While the E Corp employees were working, toxic waste started leaking out of the nearby Washington Township. This lead to multiple employees, including Edward himself, being infected with different types of diseases. Edward was contracted with leukemia. Edward told Elliot about the disease but to keep silent about it. However, Elliot eventually told his mother, Magda, about it. Elliot remembers this as leading to Edward suffering a violent breakdown and pushing Elliot out of a second-story window, only to regret it and take him to the hospital.

As it turns out though, this was just a way of covering the true, repressed memories of what really happened that day. The person suffering the violent breakdown was actually Elliot himself, who had locked his younger sister Darlene in the closet while destroying things in his bedroom with a baseball bat, and when Edward came to see what was going on, Elliot threatened to jump out of the second-story window. Later on, during Elliot's childhood, Edward tries to have Elliot forgive him for unknown reasons, inviting him to go and watch a movie. However, Elliot refuses to forgive him. Suddenly, Edward collapses due to the toxic waste scandal. Instead of helping him though, Elliot leaves him to die and coldly walks away.

In December of 2015, the crime lord Fernando Vera had kidnapped Elliot as part of his scheme to have Elliot become the very own architect of his crime empire which would make him a very rich man. Vera's plan was to use Elliot's former psychologist Krista Gordon to break Elliot psychologically, which would allow Vera to control him. Vera decides to hold a psychological session between Krista and Elliot.