Ryan Kazanciyan

Mr. Robot writer Kor Adana’s in-season schedule seems tough. In addition to some pivotal plot-making in the writers’ room, Adana does appearances on the The Verge’s Digital After Show, conducts regular post-episode Q&As with The Hollywood Reporter, and famously leads the charge on the show’s obsession with technical detail. Each bit of screen real-estate that appears in an episode—URLs, code, IP addresses, etc.—has to pass through Adana and the team. But throughout all of that, one constant Mr. Robot quest stays in the back of the mind.

“Whenever an opportunity presents itself to do some form of PR for the show, the first thing we go to is, ‘What can we incorporate from the ARG?’” Adana tells Ars. “Can we hide a puzzle? Can we do a cipher code? Our conversations always seem to start with, ‘I have a really weird idea I want to run by you,’ but somehow we’re able to pull it off. And it’s been kinda crazy in S3.”