Who is <PERSON> talking to in the limo? (s01e07)
In the early episodes, the show creators were very careful about putting Mr <PERSON> into scenes, but not having anyone other than <PERSON> interacting with him.
In later episodes, they break this pattern. In s01e06, v1ew-s0urce, <PERSON> and <PERSON> have a conversation in a bar about the Dark Army and <PERSON>. Later in that episode, Mr <PERSON> visits <PERSON> at his grow lab, and threatens him to get him to return to F Society.
In these scenes, are we meant to believe that it's actually <PERSON>, and not <PERSON>? If so, then it follows that in s01e07, wh1ter0se, it's actually <PERSON> in the limo with <PERSON> having this (paraphrased) conversation:
<PERSON>: We’re meant to be allies.
Mr <PERSON>: I don't think there’s anything we can possibly agree on.
<PERSON>: I know your dirty little secret.
What is this secret? Is it about the F Society plan? Seemingly not (unless he's bluffing), because in the last episode (of season 1) he goes to <PERSON>'s apartment begging to know what's going on. 663
Additionally, there's nothing in the earlier episodes between <PERSON> and <PERSON> to suggest they're allied in some kind of plan. Again, in the last episode, <PERSON> tells <PERSON>, "I told you we were meant to work together." I read that as counter to the idea they had previously agreed to be allies. And this banter is unlike any conversation <PERSON> and <PERSON> had before.
At this point in the season, it's not been revealed that Mr <PERSON> isn't real, so the show creators want us to believe there's some secret additional plot between Mr <PERSON> and <PERSON>. But it seems to me that this never pans out in any real way.
So we're left with:
* This is <PERSON> and <PERSON> having a conversation, and it makes no sense with the rest of the plot.
* This is <PERSON> having a conversation with someone else, who for some reason is also <PERSON>.
* The conversation never actually occurred, and the show creators are just messing with us.
* <PERSON> is also hallucinating Mr <PERSON>.
* Since only <PERSON> can see <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> are the same person (which makes even less sense than this scene).
* The whole conversation is actually in <PERSON>'s head, and we see it because <PERSON> talks to us.
Perhaps there are other possibilities I've not considered.
What was the purpose of this scene, and to whom is <PERSON> actually speaking? 663