I wasn’t expecting this.

Angela is broken.

In case you missed it, last week there were some pretty heavy hints that Phillip Price is Angela Moss’s real father (he may or may not have acquired the power of the Dark Side of the Force too).

Phillip Price agreed, way back in the post-credit scene from Season 1, to get rid of the lawsuit that Angela Moss was bringing against the Washington Township Facility. Turns out, as we later learned Price did not get rid of the lawsuit and ‘whiterose’ had to spike it himself by meeting with Angela.

Now here is where things get trippy and theoretical (not sure I am right here) but there were heavy overtones that ‘whiterose’ (I know it was Zhang but Zhang is really ‘whiterose’...respect) was getting revenge not just by running Price out of E-Corp but also by breaking Angela.

Yes, what I am saying is that ‘whiterose’ was so pissed at Phillip Price for not doing what he said he would do that he used his inside knowledge about Angela to take her “faith” from her mother and used it to turn her and break her mind.

Remember, until the end of last season, Angela was the only person who was not morally complicit in 5/9 or with the Dark Army. Angela had actually tried to take down the WTF and E-Corp through legal and legitimate means.

Portia Doubleday has said in interviews for years that she and Elliot were trying to do the same thing through different means. Yes, she was trying to do them without hurting anyone while Elliot was taking down the entire world economy marooning millions in poverty.

Whiterose convinced Angela that he could change the world and reunite her with her mother and Angela changed sides believing in the essential goodness of ‘whiterose.”

Big mistake.

Now, all Angela, who is really deep down a fundamentally good person, can do is sit and rewind the tape of the 71 buildings collapsing to convince herself everyone will be okay. Over and over and over and over again.

And remember, this was because Price showed that his true allegiance was to Angela (family) more than to the Dark Army.

This was also the purpose of the last scene when Grant explains that every member of the Dark Army believes in suicide at a minutes notice because they believe in the cause.

So, ‘whiterose’ wanted to not only humiliate and ruin Price, he wanted him to see what happens to the people more important to him than his allegiance to the Dark Army.

Wow.

Brutal.