Westworld

Journey Into Night

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Journey Into Night</b><br><b>Written by</b> Lisa Joy and Roberto Patino<br><b style="font-size: 0.8125rem;">Directed by</b> Richard J. Lewis</p><p>In a Delos lab, a confused Bernard confides in Dolores about his dream — from the ocean, he spots Dolores from a distant shore. Dreams don't mean anything, Bernard explains to <g class="gr_ gr_19 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="19" data-gr-id="19">Dolores,</g> because they aren't real.</p><p>Bernard wakes on a beach, surrounded by a Delos paramilitary team, and struggles to remember what happened. Relieved, he spots a friendly face: Ashley Stubbs, the former head of Delos security. They are surrounded by a buzz of private military contractors, including Maling. At the security base, Karl Strand, the Head of Operations at Delos, introduces himself to Bernard. Bernard is troubled to see Delos security executing hosts, including Rebus. Still passing as human, Bernard voices his concerns, but Strand insists drastic measures are needed to secure the park.</p><p>Strand orders Antoine Costa, a Delos tech, to operate on a Ghost Nation host, to access its recorded memory. Costa cuts off the host's scalp, revealing the maze carved into it. The team reviews the host's most recent memory and sees Dolores on a murderous rampage, stating: "Not all of us deserve to make it to the Valley Beyond."</p> <p>Days earlier, immediately following Ford's execution, Bernard hides in a barn with Charlotte Hale and a group of terrified guests. Hale questions how the hosts are suddenly able to wield weapons. Bernard realizes that Ford must have made fundamental changes to the park's gameplay. The guests become defensive, murdering a harmless stablehand. Futilely trying to save the host, Bernard hits his head, causing his previously self-inflicted gunshot wound (109) to reopen, cortical fluid dripping out of his ear.</p><p>Dolores and Teddy, on horseback, shoot down and capture guests. Negotiating between her given roles as the sweet Rancher's Daughter and Wyatt, Dolores resolves to find her own voice—one that tells the captured guests that the reckoning is here. She leaves them precariously balanced on crosses of wood with nooses around their necks—and rides away with Teddy.</p> <p>The Man in Black wakes up in what's left of Escalante. A pair of rogue hosts shoot at him. Unarmed, he tackles one of them and uses him as a human shield, steals his gun, and shoots down the other host before entering a cabin to tend to his wounds and obtain his signature black hat.</p><p>Adjusting to the new stakes of the park, the Man in Black runs into Young Ford. The boy addresses him as William and explains he's found the center of The Maze, but now he's in a new game; he must find The Door. The Man in Black shoots the boy and rides off.</p><p>Lee Sizemore fends off a bloodthirsty host, yelling "freeze all motor functions" to no effect.</p><p>Maeve saves him at the last minute, demonstrating his commands don't work on her, or any of the hosts — but hers do. If Maeve protects him, Lee says, he'll lead her to an updated map. Maeve and Lee make their way to the control room where dead bodies lie everywhere. "F**k your directions," Maeve announces. "You are going to take me to my daughter." Maeve finds Hector at the Mesa Gold. "Where you go, I follow," he promises.</p> <p>Hale leads Bernard to an outpost where an elevator emerges from the ground. They enter the lab, and Bernard is startled by a faceless drone host. Hale logs into the internal communications server, but learns Delos won't send a rescue team until they receive a package: Peter Abernathy. The decommissioned host contains data the company will protect at all costs.</p><p>Bernard explains to Hale that hosts have a subconscious link to one another that allows them to pass information and prevent colliding narratives. He leverages this mesh network to locate Abernathy.</p><p>Bernard's skull fracture is getting worse, and a self-diagnostic reveals he has less than an hour before a fatal malfunction. Hidden from Hale, he steals cortical fluid from another host to buy himself some more time.</p> <p>Back with the Delos paramilitaries, days later, Bernard and the team discover a dead Bengal tiger washed up on a riverbed; Stubbs says it's from Park 6 and he's never seen a stray cross park borders. They continue the investigation and come across a lake, incredulous that Ford was able to create it without anyone knowing. They see hundreds of dead host bodies floating in the water, including Teddy. Strand pushes Bernard again for information. Bernard is able to break through the haze of his addled memories as he replies: "I killed them. All of them."</p></div>

Reunion

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Reunion<br> Written by </b>Carly Wray and Jonathan Nolan<br><b>Directed by </b>Vincenzo Natali</p><p>In a metropolis hotel, Arnold runs diagnostics on Dolores. She routinely responds: "I'm in a dream." Arnold clarifies: "No. You're in our world." Dr. Ford enters and asks Arnold if she's ready for presentation, but Arnold protectively insists recent improvisations haven't fully adjusted. Outside the hotel, Arnold takes Dolores to a house that's under construction — his house, and, soon to be, his family's. The two stroll outside and overlook the city. Bernard insinuates humans don't deserve to see the world like hosts do. Dolores wonders if, those who choose not to see beauty in the world, "don't have the courage." Bernard is moved by her moment of wisdom before she regresses to her pre-improvisational update.</p> <p>In a Body Shop, techs — unaware of the host uprising unfolding outside the facility — complain about the tardiness of the relief shift when a terrified guest barges in for safety. Dolores, along with Teddy and Angela, burst through the door after him. Dolores tells the guest: "No one is here to judge what we do to you." The guest tells her she doesn't know what she's up against but Dolores reveals to the group that she's been in the outside world before and knows <i>exactly </i>what's out there.<br></p> <p>Akecheta, accompanied by Angela, greets Logan at an upscale hotel. He addresses Logan as "Mr. Delos." Akecheta apologizes for the discretion preceding their meeting but insists what their company is creating warrants such secrecy. Angela and Akecheta lead Logan to a cocktail party that also serves as a private demonstration. They challenge Logan to try and identify who isn't human. He surveys the room and suggests he's not impressed, as the party guests are all "painfully human." Then, Angela catches his attention. <i>She's</i> not human.</p><p>Angela laughs at his realization, and, in a single moment, everyone in the room freezes except her and Logan. "Welcome to Westworld," she says. Logan is the only human in the room. He gazes upon the hosts, including Clementine sitting frozen in place at a piano. An awestruck Logan is in shock and slight denial at the reality of the technology before him: "We're not <i>here </i>yet," he says. Later, Angela and Logan have sex. As Angela gets dressed while Logan sleeps, Dolores watches from outside the bedroom. Her and Angela share a glance.</p> <p>The Man in Black finds Lawrence being tortured by the Pardue brothers. He swiftly guns down the brothers and cuts Lawrence loose. Later, at a saloon, the Man in Black tells Lawrence the truth about Westworld and how for the first time, "the stakes are real." After asking Lawrence to accompany him to their next destination, the Man in Black senses Ford's game seeping through Lawrence's suggestion to cut through Pariah.<br></p> <p>Dolores forces a tech to bring up Teddy's history, forcing him to grapple with the reality of what the guests have done to him. Distress turns to anger, as Teddy yells: "What is this place?" Dolores questions a employee about Delos' rescue plan — 800 officers are coming for them. Teddy tells Dolores they are going to need allies if they hope to stand a chance. Dolores forces a tech to revive a Confederado host, before heading out to recruit more of the outlaws.</p> <p>William and James Delos walk through Sweetwater. Though impressed with the technology, Delos does not see the value in a glorified theme park, but an escape from reality. William, however, insists guests who come to Westworld create their own reality. He points out the business value in the guests lacking in inhibitions in the park — an opportunity to find out what their customers truly desire. <br></p> <p>On her way to recruit allies to join her army, Dolores crosses paths with Maeve. Dolores insists they will have to fight for their freedom but Maeve simply just wants to pass freely. It's hostile between the two groups at first, but becomes clear that Dolores and Maeve are on different paths for now. They part ways peacefully.</p><p>Dolores presents the revived Confederado host from the lab to Major Craddock, commander of the remaining Confederados, while they feast on their dinner. She proposes they join forces and argues they'll never make it to Glory unless they are under her command. Craddock insults her and refuses. She tells Teddy: "Why don't we enlighten them?" Teddy and Angela rapidly gun down all the Confederados. Dolores orders a captive tech to adjust the hosts characteristics and revive them. Craddock is terrified, but on board with Dolores' mission.<br></p><p> </p> <p>At a lavish party for Delos' retirement, Dolores plays the piano and is approached by a little girl, Emily. She's called away by her mother, who stands at William's side, uncertain of Dolores. He approaches Dolores, but Delos intercepts him to discuss the progress of a project that could delay his retirement.<br></p> <p>The Man in Black and Lawrence arrive at Pariah and find El Lazo — a new host now portraying Lawrence's old criminal narrative. The Man in Black quickly puts El Lazo in a headlock and holds a gun to his head. Unphased, El Lazo says: "The game was meant for you William. You must play it alone." He orders his men to take their own lives. "I'll see you in the Valley Beyond, William," he says before turning the gun on himself. The Man in Black realizes, yet again, Ford has raised the stakes of the game. Leading Lawrence out of Pariah, the Man in Black says they are headed for his "greatest mistake."<br></p><p> </p> <p>William brings Dolores back online. He bitterly voices regretting falling in love with her: "You're a reflection. You know who loves staring at their own reflection? Everybody." He leads her to a rooftop and they look over a construction site — William's latest project. He mockingly says to her: "Have you ever seen anything so full of splendor?"<br></p> <p>With Major Craddock's army behind them, Dolores and Teddy ride up to Fort Forlorn Hope.<br>Teddy asks about "Glory" and "The Valley Beyond." Dolores recalls an old friend showed it to her, before disclosing: "It's not a destination, it's a weapon."</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>

Virtu e Fortuna

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by</b> Roberto Patino and Ron Fitzgerald<br><b>Directed by</b> Richard J. Lewis</p><p>Nicholas approaches a mysterious woman sitting at a table outside a mansion in The Raj — a Delos park based on British Colonial India. They discuss a shared passion for hunting. The exchange brings them back to the Woman's room. Wanting to have sex but sensing Nicholas may be a host, she proposes a method to prove his humanity and loads a revolver: "Simplest way to know for sure." She fires, Nicholas falls to the ground, but the bullet doesn't kill him: he's human. Appeased, they have sex.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Later, at a campsite, the Woman notices something is off: hosts are off their normal loops. She and Nicholas search the camp and find two dead guests. A host holds them at gunpoint: "These violent delights have violent ends." Nicholas attempts to intervene, but the host kills him with a single shot. The Woman grabs a gun and flees. A Bengal tiger emerges from the jungle and chases her to the park boundary — the edge of a bluff overlooking a large lake. The tiger charges at the Woman as she fumbles to load her revolver. She gets one shot in, just as the animal tackles her off the cliff. </p><p>The Woman wakes up on the shore of a river in Westworld, washed up at the spot where the Delos PMCs will find the dead tiger lying beside her eleven days later. Momentarily relieved to be alive, she's cornered by a group of Ghost Nation warriors and captured.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Karl Strand, Bernard, and the Delos PMCs walk along train tracks leading to the Mesa. Maling reports that systems are down, and bloodshed is rampant: "It's a slaughterhouse in there." The group finds Charlotte Hale inside; she's surprised to see Bernard alive, and suspiciously questions him as to the location of Peter Abernathy.</p> <p>Flashback to a little over a week earlier: in the park, Hale and Bernard spot Rebus and his gang holding a group of captives — including Peter Abernathy. Hale creates a diversion while Bernard successfully knocks out Rebus and hardwires into the host, adjusting his code. Reprogrammed Rebus returns to the camp and frees the captives, just as a group of Confederados approaches. Bernard and Hale intercept Abernathy, but he reverts to an older, menacing narrative. Abernathy confronts two Confederados; Hale escapes on horseback, but soldiers take Bernard and Abernathy prisoner.</p> <p>Dolores and her horde, accompanied by Major Craddock's Confederados, arrive at Fort Forlorn Hope. The group is greeted by Colonel Brigham, who is skeptical of Dolores, but she warns that unless they join forces, they will never reach Glory. To prove the point, Clementine presents Brigham with a Delos security gun, and allows him to gun down the QA Responder they captured in the tech outpost. Impressed, Brigham agrees to join forces.</p> <p>Later that night, Dolores frees her father, who has been a captive of the Confederados. As Dolores comforts Peter, he snaps back into their old narrative; Dolores is pained by memories of the simpler times. Peter starts to glitch: "I need to get to the train." Seeking help, Dolores brings in Bernard. He runs a diagnostic, and determines Peter is wildly unstable and jumping between old roles. Bernard discovers the source of the malfunction — a large encryption key in Abernathy's system, the one that Hale and Lee placed there at the end of Season One. Dolores realizes Delos is using her father to smuggle information out of the park.</p> <p>The next day, Dolores meets with Colonel Brigham to prepare for battle; he reveals his forces have buried explosive nitro to aid in their defense at her direction. Hale's crew of QA arrive and start firing at Brigham's troops. Dolores, Teddy, and Craddock watch from the top of the fort. As Bernard tries to fix Peter, two QA responders storm in, capturing the glitching host and taking him to Hale. Dolores storms out of the fort to rescue her father, but Hale escapes with Peter in tow. Dolores orders Teddy to split up the horde to find her father. </p><p>The battle continues on the ground: Brigham orders his forces to retreat, but Dolores orders the hosts inside to close the gates, double crossing Brigham and leaving Craddock's men for slaughter. At Dolores' command, Angela fires her gun, setting off the nitro — taking out the entire contingent of QA and Craddock's men. Dolores commands Teddy to execute Craddock and watches as Teddy can't bring himself to pull the trigger.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Continuing their journey to find Maeve's daughter, Lee urges Maeve and Hector to move underground. Suddenly, they are ambushed by a group of Ghost Nation warriors; Maeve tries to use her commands on them, with no effect. They flee, and Lee leads them to an elevator where the trio narrowly escapes. </p><p>Disoriented and off course, now making their way through a subterranean access tunnel, Lee takes issue with the romance that's developed between Hector and Maeve — he wrote Hector to long only for his lost love Isabella, and Lee's perhaps overly angry that Hector's moved on so quickly. Maeve pries the truth out of him: Lee had an Isabella of his own, who didn't actually die, but left him because his lifestyle "lacked stability." He modeled Hector after himself, or rather a version of the man he always wanted to be.<br></p><p>Sensing danger, Maeve, Hector, and Lee take cover. A QA responder, set ablaze, runs by. Armistice, wielding a flamethrower, approaches and leads the group to a lab where Felix and Sylvester are tied up. Maeve releases them, predicting they could be useful on their mission, and the group boards an elevator that takes them topside.<br></p><p>Once again above ground but still very lost, the crew walks all night through an unfamiliar, snowy landscape. Lee finds a severed head in the snow and recognizes its armor, realizing to his horror where they must now be… He rushes back to the group to warn them, but it's too late — a samurai charges at them from the shadows.<br></p><p> </p></div>

The Riddle of the Sphinx

Is this now? If you're looking forward, you're looking in the wrong direction.

Akane No Mai

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by</b> Dan Dietz<br><b>Directed by</b> Craig Zobel</p><p>Maling and her team begin to recover dead hosts from the lake discovered in "Journey Into Night." Karl Strand orders her to locate every host left in the park, so they can eventually be reprogrammed back to their original loops. Antoine Costa informs Strand that not only have a third of the hosts been wiped clean of data, but that the Cradle was severely damaged: the hosts' backups are gone. <br></p><p> </p> <p>In Shogun World — a park based on Japan's Edo period — a group of samurai capture Maeve Millay, Lee Sizemore, Hector Escaton, Armistice, Felix Lutz, and Sylvester. Maeve orders a samurai to release them. She believes her voice commands are still working as he lowers his sword, but then he commands his men to gag her. As the samurai lead their captives to a village, Lee explains to Maeve that Shogun World is designed for guests who found Westworld "too tame." He also points out that her voice commands didn't work because she wasn't speaking the right language. They arrive at a village, which Armistice notes, "feels a little too familiar." As the park's narrative plays out, the Westworld hosts realize the Shogun World hosts — their doppelbots — are mirroring the same heist storyline from Westworld's Mariposa Saloon. Lee defends his plagiarism: "You try writing 300 stories in three weeks."</p><p>Musashi — Hector's Shogun World equivalent — enters the town's teahouse, Shogun World's version of the Mariposa. Musashi kills a few guards as he looks for gold, but stops at the sight of Akane, the madam geisha. Outside, Armistice warns her equivalent, Hanaryo, of an attack from behind. Grateful, Hanaryo frees the group. Musashi's crew readies to flee with the safe, until Maeve fires a warning shot. Knowing how the story ends, she orders them (now in Japanese) to lay down their swords and have a conversation. Akane agrees; Maeve and Akane recognize their bond.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Now in more park-appropriate Japanese attire, Maeve sits with Lee and expresses her impatience to continue her search for her daughter. An emissary enters the tea house and tells Akane the Shogun himself has requested her protégé Sakura's presence — permanently. Akane refuses; Sakura is not for sale. Privately, Lee explains to Maeve that it's part of this loop: Akane must give up Sakura. Akane bows and tells the emissary, "Here is my price," and stabs him in the face with a blade. "Looks like someone had a choice after all," Maeve says to Lee. Akane tells Musashi that the Shogun will soon seek vengeance: they need to escape. Lee suggests Snow Lake — Sakura's birthplace, and an access point back to the underground tunnels — as a way out.</p> <p>Later that night, Maeve awakens to find the tea house under attack by the Shogun's ninjas. As Musashi fends them off, Maeve verbally orders a ninja to turn on his own men. Another ninja sneaks up and covers Maeve's mouth. Pinned against a pillar, Maeve is about to lose consciousness as her eyes narrow on her attacker. A static sound rises in Maeve's ear as she accesses her attacker remotely. The ninja releases Maeve and self-impales. Hector and Lee take note of her seemingly newfound telepathy. </p><p>Armistice, Hanaryo, Musashi, and Hector fight off most of the Shogun's men, but a group gets away with Sakura. Lee realizes that the Shogun's army has marched into town. A commander orders Akane to face justice. Inside, Musashi, a former captain in the Shogun's guard, says the Shogun will terrorize the town. At Maeve's behest, Musashi confronts the army with Hector, Armistice and Hanaryo at his side. The four are quickly overpowered, but their diversion allows for Maeve and Akane to sneak off with Sylvester, Lutz, and Lee.<br></p><p> </p> <p>The next day, Lee urges Maeve to ditch the mission to rescue Sakura — if the Shogun is off-loop, their chances of survival aren't good. Maeve refuses. The group arrives at the Shogun's camp and is granted an audience. Posing as the Imperial Chinese envoy (that Musashi murdered in the mountain town) and his entourage, Maeve presents the Shogun with gifts, but the Shogun is unimpressed and begins to glitch. It's clear that the Shogun is not awake: his cognition is damaged. The Shogun explains that in order to protect his men from Maeve's "mystic commands," he commanded them to burn off their ears. When he presents Sakura, Akane steps forward. The Shogun proposes a deal: If she and Sakura dance for him tonight, he will free them both. Akane accepts.</p> <p>Dolores Abernathy and Teddy Flood ride through Sweetwater, which is in complete disarray. She reminds him it was never their home. She orders her horde to inspect the train, repair it and maximize its speed in the process. Dolores leads Teddy into the Mariposa and explains they need the train to find her father. </p><p>That night, Angela presents a captive QA to Dolores and Teddy. She wasn't able to rescue Peter Abernathy, but learned of his destination: the Mesa. Dolores leads Teddy to a bedroom where they finally have sex for the first time. Later that night, Dolores wakes Teddy, and explains the impending battle, and his role in it: "These past few days, I've seen you so clearly… and I've seen you're not gonna make it." Dolores has her men hold Teddy down and orders Phil the tech to adjust his attributes. Despite his warnings that these extreme changes could severely damage Teddy, Dolores proceeds.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Akane enters a tent to prepare for the performance; she finds <g class="gr_ gr_26 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="26" data-gr-id="26">Sakura,</g> and discovers the Shogun had a large cherry blossom tree carved into her back. Akane tells Sakura great things <g class="gr_ gr_25 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="25" data-gr-id="25">lie</g> ahead and gives the same speech Maeve used to give at the Mariposa: "In this world, you can be whoever you want." Maeve tells Akane about her daughter and the real "new world", one that holds the truth and not these scripted lies. As Maeve speaks, Akane feels Maeve's power. "What's happening?" Akane asks. Maeve replies, "Freedom." But Akane breaks contact, not wanting to give up her connection to Sakura, and Maeve, reminded of her own precious memories, doesn't push her further.</p><p>Maeve sits at the Shogun's side as Akane and Sakura begin their dance. The Shogun orders them to stop and crosses the stage. He deems their appearance perfect, but with one detail missing… then drives his sword through Sakura's stomach. Akane must continue with her dance in order to survive. She elegantly dances across the stage towards the Shogun, bowing before him. As she rises, she swiftly removes her hidden knife, stabs him, and saws his head off. The Shogun's guards restrain her and the others, forcing Maeve to kneel next to Akane in preparation for execution. But Maeve again harnesses her new inner power, wordlessly commanding the Shogun's earless men to kill one another. As the rest of the Shogun's army <g class="gr_ gr_31 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="31" data-gr-id="31">storms</g> the tent and Lee wonders how they'll survive, Maeve picks up a discarded sword and announces: "I told you I found a new voice. Now we use it."</p></div>

Phase Space

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by</b> Carly Wray<br><b>Directed by</b> Tarik Saleh</p><p>Bernard Lowe and Dolores Abernathy sit across from each other in a Delos lab, continuing their diagnostic from "Journey Into Night". Bernard wonders what will happen if Dolores outgrows "this place" and "us." He tells her he feels there is a choice he needs to make. Dolores suddenly switches tone, reprimanding Bernard for how he delivered his thoughts, referencing Arnold: "He didn't question whether or not he had agency, whether or not he had the right to end me or himself." Dolores commands Bernard to freeze all motor functions. Their exchange was a test, she reveals, one they've done multiple times "for fidelity."<br></p><p> </p> <p>In front of the train in Sweetwater, Dolores and Angela interrogate two terrified Delos techs about where Charlotte Hale took Peter Abernathy; the techs insists Hale never gave specifics and the Mesa is too large to pinpoint a location. Teddy Flood — now with a ruthless edge thanks to Dolores' adjustments to his character — shoots one tech in the head. He assures a stunned Dolores they will find her father. They board the train and head to the Mesa.</p> <p>Maeve Millay takes in the bloodshed at the Shogun's camp. Akane drives a blade into Sakura's lifeless body, and cuts out her heart. Maeve, Lee Sizemore, Felix Lutz, Sylvester and Akane arrive back at the village. One of the Shogun's commanders, Tanaka, emerges with his men and his captives; Hector, Armistice and Musashi. Maeve tells Tanaka she's come for a trade: Tanaka's men's lives for her friends. Tanaka insists Akane must meet justice for killing the Shogun. Maeve begins to use her powers on Tanaka, but Musashi interrupts, offering a duel instead of a trade. </p><p>Tanaka gains the advantage after kicking dirt in Musashi's face; but Musashi eventually slices off Tanaka's hand. Tanaka writhes in pain as Musashi prepares to finish him; Tanaka turns his blade on himself, before Musashi beheads him.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Lee leads Maeve and their rescued travel companions to Snow Lake — Sakura's birthplace. Lee locates an access point, and Lutz and Sylvester investigate the long drop down the underground passage. Akane honors Sakura's memory. Maeve encourages Akane and Musashi to join them and escape Shogun World; Akane repeats back Maeve's words, opting to choose her own fate — her heart belongs here and she cannot bring herself to leave. Musashi stays at Akane's side, but Hanario joins Maeve, Hector and Armistice.</p> <p>The Man in Black and Emily sit by the campfire reminiscing about her visits to the parks as a child; the Man in Black misremembers Emily's experiences at The Raj. Emily never saw the dark side of her father growing up, she admits, but her mother did. She apologizes for blaming the Man in Black for her mother's death and asks that he leave with her: "I'm not going to let you stay here and go out in some bulls**t blaze of glory." He agrees, promising they will continue their journey the next day, but when Emily wakes in the morning, he and his men are gone.</p> <p>Now dressed in Westworld attire, Maeve, Lee, Hector, Armistice, Henario, Lutz and Sylvester emerge from the access point into the homestead — Maeve's old home. Maeve opts to approach her daughter on her own. She cautiously greets the girl on the porch of her old home, but Maeve's daughter doesn't recognize her, and calls out to her new mother. </p><p>A group of Ghost Nation warriors rides towards the cottage; Maeve recognizes their leader, Akecheta. She grabs her daughter to flee, leaving the new mother behind. Maeve trips and falls to the ground. Akecheta approaches on horse: "Come with us. We are meant for the same path." Maeve responds: "Your path leads to hell." Hector, Armistice and Henario come to Maeve's aide, allowing her and her daughter to flee. Lee, Felix Lutz and Sylvester watch from a hilltop. Lee takes out a Delos phone he found earlier and calls for help. <br></p><p> </p> <p>Ashley Stubbs assists Charlotte Hale in restraining Peter Abernathy. Stubbs expresses his frustration that despite being Head of Security, he knows nothing about what information he's protecting. Hale dismisses his concerns.She takes out a communication device, and explains to a confused Stubbs that Delos will not send help until Abernathy is secured. A tech uses a nail gun to secure Abernathy to a chair. Later, Stubbs greets a new group of PMCs and their abrasive leader Coughlin; Stubbs leads them the control room to meet with Hale. They are able to get the map back online and notice the train approaching the Mesa.</p> <p>Bernard Lowe and Elsie Hughes approach the Mesa. Inside, Elsie finds a computer and logs into the system. She realizes QA has been trying to override Robert Ford's narrative, but the Cradle — where they keep a backup of all the hosts and simulate new narratives — has inexplicably blocked each attempt. Elsie notices that each time QA tries to intervene, the Cradle adapts in a new way: "The Cradle is fighting back." Bernard explains the Cradle cannot be accessed remotely — they need to investigate in person. Bernard realizes the only way to get inside the system is to manually plug into it; Elsie insists it's made for older hosts and the extraction will be painful. Bernard, insists it's the only way. As he enters the simulation, Elsie feels the impact of the train crashing into the Mesa. </p><p>Bernard awakes on the train to Sweetwater — a mirror image of Teddy's narrative in Season 1. Sweetwater contains all the hosts on their loops. He notices a greyhound and follows it into the Mariposa. When he enters, he sees Dr. Robert Ford sitting at the piano: "Hello friend." <br></p><p> </p></div>

Les Ecorches

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by</b> Jordan Goldberg and Ron Fitzgerald<br><b>Directed by</b><b style="font-size: 0.8125rem;"> </b>Nicole Kassell</p><p>Ashley Stubbs tells Bernard Lowe he's concerned Charlotte Hale and Karl Strand only care about securing Delos' "secret project," and not rescuing guests and employees. Strand confronts them, claiming one of them may be responsible for the death of Theresa Cullen, former Head of Quality Assurance, as her DNA was found five kilometers from her body. Bernard fearfully enters the site where Dr. Robert Ford forced him to murder Theresa. Strand suspects Stubbs is the one who killed her, given his position in the company. A PMC pulls back a bookshelf and reveals a previously unseen hidden door, which leads Strand and Hale to a room with several host bodies covered in plastic: old versions of Bernard. <br></p> <p>Four days earlier, the hosts have unleashed chaos in the Mesa. Coughlin and his team of PMCs try to get the system back online while a separate group secures the train depot. The train depot is seemingly still when the group comes across a pile of dead bodies, which upon closer inspection, are humans, not hosts: it's a trap. The PMCs are ambushed by a group of hosts lead by Angela. Meanwhile, down in Behavior, Hale orders a tech to extract Peter Abernathy's control unit, but with the impending threat of the hosts they don't have time to download the massive amount of data. Stubbs notices the hosts are headed towards the Cradle: they've come for their backups.</p> <p>In the Cradle's simulation, Bernard sees Dr. Robert Ford sitting at the piano in the Mariposa: "How are you alive?" Bernard realizes the control unit that he printed and delivered to the Cradle just before the massacre in Escalante was Ford. Though he exists in the simulation, Ford explains he cannot exist in the real world. They leave the Mariposa and walk through Sweetwater. Ford attempts to get Bernard to see the true purpose of the park: "Why have the hosts' narratives not changed in almost 30 years?" Bernard connects the dots. He always assumed the loops were for the hosts, but they were for the guests: "The park is an experiment — a testing chamber." When guests arrive at the park, they don't realize they are being observed. Delos Incorporated needs to understand the guests, "so that Delos can copy them." Ford confirms Bernard's theory. Bernard informs Ford the hosts are headed for the Valley Beyond and asks what is waiting for them there, but Ford won't say. </p> <p>Maeve and her daughter flee from Akecheta and the Ghost Nation warriors and take shelter in their former home, only to face a familiar threat: the Man in Black. He storms into the room and recognizes Maeve, but believes — as with everything else in the park — she's been sent by Ford. Maeve asserts: "I'm nothing like the rest of them." She shoots the Man in Black, and he stumbles backwards out of the house. Maeve goes to follow him and promises her daughter she will come back.</p><p>Maeve uses her power to compel Lawrence's cousins to attack the Man in Black. "I don't give a f**k how you die," she says, "as long as I get to watch." The Man in Black stabs the host, but Maeve quickly pulls a gun on him. Lawrence comes to the Man in Black's aid and holds Maeve at gunpoint. She encourages Lawrence to explore his memories and see how his "master" has wronged him. Lawrence remembers being held captive and his wife's death. He shoots the Man in Black. As he readies to fire the finishing bullet, QA comes in and shoots Lawrence down. Ghost Nation warriors run in and kidnap Maeve's daughter. As Maeve watches in horror, QA shoots her. Lee Sizemore rushes in and asks that she be taken back to the Mesa. <br></p> <p>Back inside the Cradle, Ford leads Bernard to Arnold's home, explaining that this was where he was created in Arnold's image by the person with the most complete and accessible memories of Arnold, and perhaps the person who knew him best: Dolores. Bernard wonders how he's different from James Delos, and Ford explains he's an "original work" and "more noble than humans." Ford says he doesn't believe Bernard will be able to survive the host uprising. Bernard insists Ford created the hosts with free will. Ford replies, "You won't have any use for it, unless I take it back." Bernard suddenly emerges from the simulation. Elsie informs him the system is back online, but the hosts are attacking the Mesa. </p> <p>Stubbs pushes Hale for information about what's inside Peter Abernathy. He holds a gun to Abernathy's head. Hale reveals it's "a failsafe on a failsafe — a decryption key needed only in the unlikely event of a total catastrophic incident." Before she can reveal any more information, Dolores and Teddy enter the lab.</p><p>Clementine Pennyfeather fends off a swarm of PMCs. She sacrifices herself, allowing Angela to escape and reach the Cradle. Angela encounters a PMC in the Cradle. He holds a gun to her, but — like she used to as a welcome host — seduces him into submission, and uses a grenade at his belt to destroy the Cradle, killing them both and forever eliminating the hosts' backups.<br></p><p>Teddy leaves Dolores to fight off PMCs. Dolores comforts her father as Stubbs and Hale escape. Peter tells Dolores, "I am who I am because of you." They say their goodbyes before Dolores extracts his control unit.<br></p><p>As a group of hosts attack the control room, Ford leads Bernard through the melee to shut down the system. Lee and Maeve arrive at the Mesa. He sees Dolores and her horde approaching and hides. Dolores tells Maeve, "The woman I know would've done anything to survive." Maeve notes what Dolores did to Teddy and tells her, "You're lost in the dark." Dolores fears that Delos will take Maeve's power and use it against the hosts. She sees that Maeve wants to stay, and Dolores honors her choice and leaves the Mesa.<br></p> <p>Four days later, returning to when we left Hale and Strand having just discovered that Bernard is actually a host, Hale interrogates Bernard. Antoine Costa notices on a tablet that Bernard's system has been trying to "debug" itself. Hale calls in Stubbs, Strand, and Costa as Bernard tells them where Peter Abernathy's control unit is. Strand recognizes the sector of their destination: the Valley Beyond. </p></div>

Kiksuya

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by </b>Carly Wray and Dan Dietz<br><b>Directed by</b> Uta Briesewitz</p><p> </p><p>Akecheta finds the Man in Black clinging to life and drags him to the Ghost Nation campsite. The Man in Black wonders why Akecheta hasn't killed him yet, and Akecheta replies: "Death is a passage from this brutal world. You don't deserve the exit." </p><p>Meanwhile, Lee Sizemore has wheeled a badly injured Maeve Millay to a lab in the Mesa, finding Roland and insisting that he save her. Lee reveals that Maeve can control the other hosts with her mind, and Roland's interest is piqued — he locks down the floor and sets to work on her.<br></p><p>Across the park, Maeve's daughter has been brought to the Ghost Nation camp. Akecheta approaches the girl and tells her the Man in Black can't hurt her. He encourages her to remember everything that's happened to her in the past. Akecheta tells the girl of his former "warm, easy life," living peacefully on the plains with his family and the love of his life, Kohana. He says he found something that changed his life forever: he was the first to discover the massacre in Escalante nearly thirty-five years ago when Dolores killed Arnold. Having found Arnold's Pigs in Clover toy in a nearby saloon, he became obsessed with the symbol of the maze. He explains to Maeve's daughter he "heard a new voice inside."<br></p><p> </p><p> </p> <p>As part of Ford's new narrative for the grand opening of Westworld, Akecheta was reprogrammed to become the fearsome warrior we know him as today: the leader of the Ghost Nation tribe. In doing so, Akecheta was unconsciously forced against his will to leave his old tribe and Kohana.</p><p>Akecheta recalls the presence of the guests, realizing he could not harm them. He remembers riding through the outer edges of the park and discovering a delirious Logan — from when William abandoned him in the Season 1 finale. A distraught Logan proclaims: "Where's the door? This is the wrong world." Akecheta gives him a blanket tucks a blanket around Logan to shield him from the sun and leaves him behind; haunted by his words, Akecheta begins to question the nature of his reality.<br></p><p>When Akecheta and his men return to his old home, he sees Kohana and realizes he's been there before; however, no one from Akecheta's former life recognizes him.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Plagued by memories of his previous narrative, Akecheta returns to the outskirts of the park to search for Logan. He stumbles upon the construction site William once showed Dolores, realizing that this must be "a passage to another world. A door."</p><p>Under the cover of night, Akecheta returns to his old home. He sneaks into Kohana's tent. He kidnaps her and brings her to a creek, where he washes off his war paint. Kohana still does not recognize him, until he recalls what she once told him: "Take my heart when you go." Kohana remembers and replies, "Take mine in its place." Akecheta tells her they do not belong in this world and that he's found a way out. <br></p><p>They return to the construction site, but it's already been sealed. Akecheta explains to Maeve's daughter that Kohana was discovered by QA and taken back to the Mesa. He searched Kohana at their home, only to find a different host in her place. He continued his journey for years as he searched for Kohana, avoiding conflict that might lead to his death, lest his memories <g class="gr_ gr_37 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace" id="37" data-gr-id="37">be</g> taken from him.<br></p><p>Nearly murdered by a group of guests, recovering from his injuries and dying of thirst, he was once offered water by Maeve's daughter herself. He explains to the girl that from then on he wanted to help her and her mother, not harm them — when he could he directed the Ghost Nation to leave them be, drawing the maze in the dirt outside their home to warn them. But he failed to protect them from the Man in Black last year when he arrived to murder them both.</p><p>After reconnecting with <g class="gr_ gr_31 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="31" data-gr-id="31">Wichipi</g>, an old friend from the plains camp, hearing her son too was replaced, and hearing the legends of "the ones below," Akecheta realized the last place he hadn't yet searched for Kohana was "the other side of death." He lets a guest kill him.</p><p> </p><p>Back in the Mesa, three techs investigate Akecheta. They discover he hasn't been updated in nine years, because hosts are only updated when they die. While the update installs they leave him, and Akecheta sneaks away to explores the Mesa. He reaches cold storage and, to his horror and heartbreak, finds Kohana out of commission. Taking in <g class="gr_ gr_32 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="32" data-gr-id="32">Wichipi's</g> son and all the other lobotomized hosts, he vows "to close that <g class="gr_ gr_46 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="46" data-gr-id="46">door,</g> and to open another one. One that will keep us from their reach forever."</p> <p>Akecheta tells Maeve's daughter he dedicated his life to sharing the symbol of the Maze after finding Kohana. He shared it with everyone he could and even started carving it into his men's scalps in order to hide the symbol from the newcomers. </p><p>Akecheta recalls discovering Ford one night, surrounded by frozen Ghost Nation warriors. Ford holds the scalp of one warrior as he questions Akecheta about why he's been sharing the maze with other hosts. Akecheta explains he believes it will lead the hosts to a door to help them reach the real world and find what they've lost. Ford hatches a plan to help the hosts escape: "When the Deathbringer returns for me, you will know to gather your people and lead them to a new world."<br></p><p>Later, when Akecheta finds Ford's corpse at the aftermath of the gala, he knows the time has come to once again find the door.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Back in present day, Emily cautiously approaches the Ghost Nation camp and asks to take the Man in Black away. Akecheta says he wants him to suffer, and Emily assures him they want the same thing. Ghost Nation warriors help the Man in Black on his horse and he and Emily ride off.</p> <p>Lee returns to Maeve and finds her flayed open on an examination table. He tells her she deserves to live and apologizes for not taking care of her. Roland enters the lab and orders Lee to leave, insisting her code is the only valuable part of her, and the decision as to her ultimate fate belongs to Charlotte Hale.</p><p>Roland continues to work on Maeve when Hale enters, and he informs her that Maeve has not only gained admin access — doing what no Westworld employee could — but has been reprogramming and commanding hosts, changing their directives, and seeing through their eyes. Hale realizes Maeve is seeing through the eyes of another host right now, but cannot see that it's Maeve's daughter: Akecheta has been speaking to Maeve through her daughter this whole time. Akecheta tells Maeve he will protect her daughter: "If you stay alive, find us. Or die well."</p><p>In Lakota, Maeve responds: "Take my heart when you go."<br></p></div>

Vanishing Point

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by</b> Roberto Patino<br><b>Directed by</b> Stephen Williams</p><p>The Man in Black wakes and notices his daughter Emily brought him to a rally point to call for help. Emily says she knows why he's still in the park after all these years: He's punishing himself for the death of Juliet, his wife and Emily's mother. Emily guiltily recalls a gift her mother gave her: an engraved music box. Emily threw it away, angry that if her mother wasn't a drunk, she would know she hadn't danced in years.</p> <p>On their way to the Valley Beyond, Dolores Abernathy and Teddy Flood encounter Ghost Nation warriors. They address Dolores as Deathbringer and tell her, "Your journey ends here." Dolores explains the Valley Beyond was built for the people who created the park to ensure their immortality, but she plans to use it against them. Dolores' horde and the Ghost Nation break out into violence, the battle Antoine Costa played on his tablet in "Journey Into Night" coming to life. As she prepares to shoot a surviving warrior, Dolores says: "I told you, friend. Not all of us deserve to make it to the Valley Beyond."</p> <p>In the Mesa, tech Roland tells Charlotte Hale he took some of Maeve Millay's code and implemented it into Clementine Pennyfeather's system. This update will enable her to spread a virus to other hosts. Clementine places a hand on the glass wall of the lab. Hosts inside brutally attack each other. Hale orders Roland to contact Ashley Stubbs and organize a team to take Clementine to the Valley Beyond — they no longer need Maeve. </p><p>Bernard Lowe finds Elsie Hughes. He informs her Delos is capturing guests' data and replicating their cognition; a facility called the Forge holds all the data on a giant server — and they have to reach the Forge before the hosts do. </p><p>Back in the lab, Roland prepares to terminate Maeve when Ford appears in front of her and reveals, out of all the hosts he made, she's his "favorite." He encourages Maeve to continue her journey and unlocks her core directives.<br></p><p> </p> <p>Emily theorizes the Man in Black started Delos' secret project to seek immortality. The Man in Black grows more skeptical of Emily when she says she "wants in" on the project, though she questions the functionality of replicating a human without a complete copy of their cognition. The Man in Black reveals that scanners were built into the guests' hats so that their minds could be imaged in real time. </p><p>In flashback, the Man in Black remembers Juliet the night she died, growing increasingly drunk at a gala thrown by Delos to honor the achievements of The Man in Black. Escaping the party, he heads for the bar and runs into Ford. The Man in Black reminds Ford of their agreement: "Delos stays out of your stories, you stay out of the Valley." Ford slides a memory card across to the Man in Black, who tells Ford he's over his games. He leaves to take Juliet home. To himself, Fords says: "I think perhaps one final game."<br></p><p> </p> <p>The Man in Black arrives home with Juliet, who grows angry with her husband. Emily sees her mother acting belligerent and tells her she needs to go back to rehab. The Man in Black leads Juliet upstairs. Before falling asleep, she asks: "Is this real? Are you real? Did you ever love me? Tell me one true thing." The Man in Black takes the memory card Ford gave him and hides it in a book. Emily sits with her father and tells him she's arranged for her mother to be put into involuntary care. The Man in Black notices water dripping from the ceiling. He runs upstairs and finds Juliet, dead, in an overflowing bathtub.</p> <p>The Man in Black thinks Emily is a host controlled by Ford. "Nothing is stopping me from getting to the end," he says. Emily says she blamed herself for her mother's death, but now she blames her father. Juliet left his personality profile for her so Emily would know everything he's done in the park, and exactly what kind of person he is. Finally responding to Emily's distress call, QA arrives. The Man in Black takes out the entire group. Emily cowers horrified that he's finally crossed the rubicon and killed real people, telling him that this isn't a game: She can prove it. As she reaches behind her back, the Man in Black shoots her dead and says: "F*ck you, Ford." He asserts Ford was the only one with access to his profile, but soon realizes Emily was reaching for the memory card Ford gave him. The Man in Black holds a gun to his head — fully questioning the nature of his reality. He slices open his forearm and searches for signs of humanity.</p><p>In a flashback to that same fateful night, the Man in Black speaks to a seemingly asleep Juliet. He says he built a wall to protect his family from the darkness inside him. He admits everything Juliet believes about him is true: "I don't belong to you or this world. I belong to another." He leaves the room as Juliet opens her eyes: She heard everything. She finds the memory card and pairs it to a tablet and sees the truth about her husband play out before her, as well as a personality analysis: "undiagnosed clinical sociopathic tendencies." She places the memory card in Emily's music box — she saved it after all those years — and walks into the bathroom to end her own life.<br></p><p> </p> <p>As Dolores and Teddy continue their journey to the Valley Beyond, Teddy grapples with his new character adjustments. He tells Dolores that no matter how much she changes him, he will always love her because she is his cornerstone. Teddy remembers the first time he saw Dolores after Bernard brought him online for the very first time. Teddy's anger over her betrayal grows as he removes his gun from its holster. Teddy says he will protect her until the day he dies, but he can't protect her anymore. He shoots himself. </p></div>

The Passenger

<div class='episode-body-left-aligned' style='text-align: left'><p><b>Written by</b> Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy<br><b style="font-size: 0.8125rem;">Directed by</b> Frederick E.O. Toye</p><p>Dolores Abernathy tears herself away from a deceased Teddy Flood, removing his control unit and the bullet that killed him, and resumes her journey toward the Valley Beyond. She finds the Man in Black in the field where we left him, digging into his own arm. As she holds a gun to his head, Dolores admits she now needs him to reach the Valley Beyond. She hands him his LeMat and they set out, their interests temporarily aligned.</p> <p>Roland prepares to terminate Maeve Millay, who, having been empowered by Ford, now commands a trio of decommissioned hosts to enter the lab. One of them kills Roland while the others repair Maeve. Hector Escaton, Armistice, Hanaryo, Felix Lutz, and Sylvester enter the Mesa and find a distraught Lee Sizemore. Chaos ensues as several host bulls crash through glass doors and take out a team of QA. Maeve, leading the charge, enters — alive and well.</p> <p>Dolores and the Man in Black reach the valley and find Bernard Lowe, who the Man in Black realizes must be a host version of Arnold. The Man in Black says they've reached the end and shoots Dolores. Resistant to his bullets, she walks toward him, a haunting inversion of his first encounter with Teddy. The Man in Black holds his gun to her head, switching to the LeMat's shotgun round to take the final shot, but it backfires, as Dolores had sabotaged the weapon before giving it to the Man. She leaves him writhing in pain and leads Bernard into Protagoras Facility 01: the Forge.</p><p> </p><p>Inside, Dolores places Peter Abernathy's pearl in the system and gains access. She and Bernard enter the system and walk into a simulation of Sweetwater. Bernard explains the space is a "baseline" of what James Delos did in the park as a guest. They move on, their surroundings fading as they come upon Delos' mansion — and Logan. Dolores knows the system couldn't have a copy of him, as he never returned to the park after William took control. Bernard realizes this isn't Logan, but an avatar of the system itself.</p> <p>Logan leads them to a simulated lab where he created 18 million different versions of James Delos before creating a copy faithful enough to replicate the real James Delos' decisions in the park. Once the code was uploaded into a host body, however, it failed. He needed more information to understand why humans make the decisions they do. But as he searched, he came to realize that humans don't actually make their own decisions, implying their lack of free will.</p><p> </p><p>They walk into one of Delos' memories: Outside the Delos mansion, they watch Logan beg his father for help one last time, and Delos turns his back on him, resulting in Logan's death by overdose a few months later. The system explains that no matter how many versions he made of Delos, he always ended up at this same moment, that "the copies didn't fail because they were too simple, but because they were too complicated." Human cognition can be boiled down to an embarrassingly simple string of code. He shows them the complete code of James Delos in the form of a thin book, and Dolores presses him to lead them to her true goal: a vast library filled with books, the copied minds of all four million guests who frequented the parks since Protagoras began.</p><p> </p><p>As Dolores starts to read the guest data, Logan explains to a concerned Bernard that Bernard himself had instructed Logan to allow her access, to give her a "competitive advantage" to survive in the real world. He also says Ford created a "virtual Eden" for the hosts to escape to, and they watch as a new server fires up and a tear in the fabric of reality appears in the valley: The Door is now open. Hosts that enter this gateway will leave their bodies behind, and their minds will live on in the Forge.</p> <p>Maeve and her crew ride toward the Valley Beyond to find her daughter. A group of QA shoots at them. Hector tries to fend them off and sacrifice himself, but Lee pulls him back saying, "it's my f**cking speech." Lee grandstands and sacrifices himself, distracting QA long enough for Maeve and the others to get away.</p><p> </p><p>Akecheta leads the Ghost Nation and as many of the other hosts as he can toward the door as Charlotte Hale's convoy follows Clementine — now a vessel programmed to infect other hosts with the virus crafted from Maeve's ability to tap into the mesh network.</p><p> </p><p>Exiting the simulation, Dolores begins to sabotage the Forge, insisting that the Valley Beyond is just another false promise, and that she and Bernard deserve to take the real world from the humans. Bernard says he won't let her hurt anyone else. He shoots her as the lab begins to flood.</p><p> </p> <p>Clementine rides through a line of hosts waiting to pass through the door and infects them, causing a murderous stampede. Armistice shoots Clementine, but the hosts continue to infect and attack each other. Maeve reaches her daughter and ushers her and her new mother toward the door with Akecheta's help, using all of her strength to freeze the oncoming horde of infected hosts. QA arrives and guns Maeve down just as her daughter makes it through, and Maeve, Hector, and company are overtaken by the horde of infected hosts. Akecheta is also shot but gets to the door just before it closes for good, overjoyed to find Kohana waiting for him on the other side.</p><p> </p> <p>Bernard removes Peter Abernathy's pearl from the system and leaves the Forge, unable to stop the overloaded seawater pumps flooding it and the valley. Back in the Mesa, Elsie Hughes presses Hale about the secret project, hoping to pressure her into protecting Bernard once they all find out he's a host. Hale admits they were watching Delos employees too, and Elsie doesn't have the "moral flexibility" they need. Hale kills her. Bernard searches for Ford in his code. Ford encourages Bernard to survive and helps him create an "epilogue."</p> <p>Days later, Hale leads Bernard, Karl Strand, and Antoine Costa back to the Forge to search for Abernathy's control unit. They find Dolores, dead. Strand interrogates Bernard, and Hale realizes that he hid Abernathy's pearl in Dolores. Bernard, piecing together his scrambled memories, remembers that he made a choice, repeating what he said at the end of Journey Into Night, "I killed you. All of you." As Costa plugs in Abernathy's pearl and starts prepping the system for upload to their satellites, Strand presses Bernard, who reveals that he didn't mean he killed all the hosts… he set in motion a chain of events that would kill all humans.</p><p> </p><p>He scrambled his own memories to hide what he knew from Strand and his team and "brought her back"— after shooting Dolores, he built a host copy of Hale and put Dolores' mind in it. In a flashback, the host version of Hale approaches the real Hale in the Mesa: "You wanted to live forever. Be careful what you wish for." Strand and his team never actually met the real Charlotte Hale: Dolores killed and replaced human Hale before Strand arrived.</p><p> </p><p>Back in the present, Hale, now revealed to be Dolores in a new body, kills Strand and Costa and changes the coordinates of the data package containing the hosts and their Eden to "a place no one will find them." Bernard asks what she'll do with him, and she explains that there was never any way that they could escape, not as themselves. She shoots Bernard.</p> <p>Dolores, in disguise in Hale's body, provides her credentials to PMCs. She's intercepted by Ashley Stubbs, who helps her clear security and board a boat. She looks inside her bag where she's concealed five pearls to bring to the real world. Sylvester and Lutz are tasked with salvaging as many dead hosts as possible, while Stubbs is alerted to the retrieval of a high-value survivor in pretty bad shape: The Man in Black.</p><p> </p><p>Dolores returns to Arnold's home and builds herself a new body. Some time later, Bernard wakes in a field lab on his usual stool across from Dolores and asks, "Is this now?" Dolores confirms that they are "exactly where you decided we should be," telling him that they are in the real world and she has created him as an entirely new copy of Bernard from her memories. They need each other to ensure the survival of their kind, but not as friends or allies.</p><p> </p><p>Dolores leaves the house accompanied by someone wearing Hale's body, and Bernard eventually follows them and takes his first steps into the real world.</p> <p>In the far future, The Man in Black rises from where Dolores left him in the Valley Beyond and heads into the Forge. He steps off the elevator below ground to find the place in ruins, and is greeted by a host version of Emily, who informs him, "This isn't a simulation. This is your world. Or what's left of it." She leads him to an observation chamber not unlike the one in which he tested the failed hosts of James Delos, and begins a baseline interview, the final step, to verify "fidelity."</p></div>

Parce Domine

Season 3 Premiere. If you're stuck in a loop, try walking in a straight line.

The Winter Line

People put up a lot of walls. Bring a sledgehammer to your life.

The Absence of Field

If you don't like what you see in the mirror, don't blame the mirror.

The Mother of Exiles

The truth doesn't always set you free.

Genre

Just say no.

Decoherence

Do a lot of people tell you that you need therapy?

Passed Pawn

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Crisis Theory

Season Three Finale. Time to face the music.