Once again we start with Dolores and Bernard during one of their top-secret chats.
(See?).
Dolores gives a logical explanation for asking.
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At first I wondered if Bernard was suspicious that Dolores might be manipulating him.
The girl needs to buy in bulk and come to town less.
She meets up with Teddy and they start doing their usual loop.
William’s traveling companion Logana.k.a.
every negative male trait jammed into one characteris impressed by his friend getting at least some kind of action.
But William has a different idea.
She wonders who Arnold iswhy, it’s like she’s recapping the season premiere for us!
Hosts remembering stuff and extracting vengeance really seems like it should worry the tech team more than it does.
Speaking of glitching bots, there’s also a host that’s gone wandering, “the stray.”
Elsie teams with sensible Stubbs to go retrieve him.
Elsewhere backstage, we see a host’s eye being made, which looks cool and expensive.
Ford is hanging out with Teddy and tosses off a Shakespeare quote.
When Ford explains all this to Teddy, the host doesn’t react.
Ford explains to Teddy the park’s writers were just too lazy to write a backstory for him.
This is also a clue to Ford’s new narrative, we’re told.
Teddy’s backstory is triggered the next time Dolores and Teddy are hanging out.
He’s trying to teach her how to use a gun.
She tries to pull the trigger but says she can’t.
Then the posse comes by and drops evil Wyatt’s name.
“Wyatt?!”
Teddy says, all activated.
Dolores is bummed; her boyfriend is ditching her to run off with the guys.
Uttering “Wyatt” is like the host equivalent of saying “the football game started.”
NEXT: Hey Arnold!
“He doesn’t get old, doesn’t feel ashamed.”
Ford is wary of the slippery slope that causes workers in the park to treat the hosts as human.
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We learn that Arnold was an introverted tech-loving Steve Wozniak to Dr. Ford’s visionary Steve Jobs.
We get some flashback scenes of creepy square dancing bots and young Anthony Hopkins.
Arnold loved his hosts and wanted them to become truly self aware.
Ford drops Bicameral Mind theory.
It didn’t work because thinking they’re hearing God’s voice in their head drove the hosts nuts.
The only element that remains of Arnold’s Ver.
1.1 of host software is using verbal command codes.
Bernard asks what happened to Arnold.
Ford says, “He died.
Here in the park.”
We are lucky to have Sir Hopkins doing a TV show.
Ford’s particularly worried Bernard might be vulnerable to such sentiments because of the death of his son.
It’s a dick thing to say, but also correct.
NEXT: Okay, seriously: Where is this place?
So Ford’s partner died in the park after becoming too close to the hosts.
The only thing that remains from Arnold’s programming are the verbal command codes.
Dr. Ford seems like an unlikely suspect given his strong feelings about host humanity.
Bernard is allowing Dolores to awaken but also seems genuinely confused as to the full story.
Perhaps Lee Sizemore or Teresa Cullen, who have anti-Ford agendas, started this?
Or perhaps the Reveries that Ford introduced simply revived that bit of code?
“I need to decide what to do with you.
I think I made a mistake,” he tells her.
“I was fascinated…
I think I was being selfish.”
Ultimately, Bernard decides to let Dolores continue to grow.
As Bernard says about his son: That’s what parents do.
Then in the barn, she sees her attacker, but then sees him as the Man in Black.
She pulls the gun and is able to push through her programming and fire, killing the bandit.
Dolores then flees and finds herself in William and Logan’s camp.
FINALLY: “I’m vectoring, asshole!”
Can they extract energy from food?
Are they solar?).
Stubbs points out it looks like the constellation Orion.
Later, they’re hunting their wayward bot.
Stubbs asks what Elsie is doing.
She snaps back, “I’m vectoring, ahole!”
This is going to be my new reply whenever somebody interrupts me while I’m working.
They find the host has tried to climb up a hill.
Why would he do that?
I’m honestly asking because I don’t know.
What could he find up there?
Is this the opening to the maze?
The host is trapped in a crevasse like an android127 HoursJames Franco.
Stubbs has a similar solution to his plight.
He lowers himself down to saw the host out.
At this point, we’re leaning forward: Is this the big moment?
Will a host take out a Hemsworth?
The host hits Stubbs, climbs up out of the crevasse, and starts toward Elsie.
Her remote controller isn’t working.
The host bashes his own head in with a rock rather than be taken back to the lab.
There must be something in his programming that he didn’t want them to see.
Oh, and Teddy died again.
Because that’s what he does.
And so we break again for the week, but don’t go just yet.
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(We’re doing episode grades now on recaps.
Full disclosure:Westworldis my favorite new show of the fall, so my episode grades will reflect that.
I think this episode is probably the softest of the first four so…).
