A nudity-stuffed hour revealed major cluesand we have new theories
The world ofWestworldis getting bigger and naked-er.
He’s down in the basement chilling with Old Bill.
And speaking of getting off loop, Dolores is far from home.
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She’s going with William and Logan to the decadent Pariah.
Dolores has been listening to a voice in her head, somebody telling her to find him.
Presumably, the same person who told her to dig up that gun a few episodes back.
We’re starting to get the feeling that this voice is the mysterious Arnold.
But how, when Arnold died 34 years ago?
William makes a reference to the “real world” and Dolores asks what he means by that.
William is startled as the hosts are supposed to blank out whenever guests say anything that challenges their reality.
I wonder how open Dolores' system is at this point.
If William decided to point-blank explain she was a robot in a theme park, could she understand him?
Dolores spots a vision of herself and follows it into a Day of the Dead-like parade.
She hears Dr. Ford giving a voice command to sleep and suddenly she’s being interviewed by him underground.
How, exactly, remains unclear.
Ford notes she’s gone far off her “modest loop"like his pet greyhound.
I’m sure you remember himArnold, the person that created you?”
This is dropped so casually that it’s unclear how literal we are meant to take it.
She lies and tells him that Arnold hasn’t said anything to her since he died.
Dolores also reveals that before he perished, Arnold wanted her help to destroy the park.
I didn’t tell him anything."
First, I’m wondering if Arnold and Dr. Ford are the same person.
Could Arnold have been a younger, more idealistic Dr. Ford?
Ford and Dolores also had this exchange: “Are we very old friends?”
Dolores asks, and Ford replies: “No.
I wouldn’t say friends.
I wouldn’t say that at all.”
And that Arnold memory has something to do with that church and graveyard scene she keeps flashing back to.
Down there lies the secret.
Which then brings up another, even wilder possibility: Could Dolores … somehow … be Arnold?
And Ford killed him/her, trapped her in this host body?
Her name is something close to being an anagram for Arnold (Dolarn).
Is the thin branch I’m out on breaking off yet?
Okay, it’s safe to continue reading again.
Elsewhere backstage, Elsie is working on a naked host who can’t pour drinks correctly.
That’s the host that tried to kill me!"
She discovers a transmitter in the stray’s arm and goes to Bernard with her finding.
You’ll recall that the biggest asset in Westworld is the park’s proprietary AI code.
Somebody has been using the hosts to smuggle data out of the park.
But who programmed him to do that?
(This might be a bit confusing for some.
The Man in Black killed Lawrence in an earlier scene that we’ll talk about later.
The writers ofWestworldare no longer holding our hands with this stuff and just assume we’re keeping up.)
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Lawrence gives our heroes a stage-coach robbing mission to complete, which they do.
William gets deeper into the outlaw spirit by shooting an unarmed guard, much to his own dismay.
The hosts, interestingly, are fighting back now.
For completing the mission, the tourists are given a reward to the E-Ticket orgy ride.
I worry about the people on the bottom of the orgy pile.
They probably can barely move or breathe down there.
Is there a safe word for tapping out?
Wouldn’t the bodily fluids situation be kinda out of control?
And how much of thisWestworldepisode’s budget was spent on merkins?
None of our characters seem to be having any fun here.
Dolores is turned off and can’t wait to leave.
It’s a sex party guys, don’t be lurkers.
Dolores finds a Tarot card reader.
This could be a literal clue as well.
Moving on: Lawrence double-crosses William and Logan by giving the Confederdos tequila instead of explosives.
Logan gets captured and is getting the hell beaten out of him by hosts.
Finally, an experience in the park that’s too intense for him.
William decides to ditch him.
Good, we’ve had enough of Logan.
Then William and Dolores get cornered themselves, and Dolores sharp-shoots the Confederados.
“You said people come here to change the story of their lives,” she says.
“I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel.”
She’s seeming to evolve and improvise.
But is she really?
So does she really like him, or is she just using him?
And then there’s The Man in Black.
He kills Lawrence and uses his “blood” to juice up Teddy.
It’s like Walt Disney joining you while you’re waiting in line at the Haunted Mansion.
But the MiB is far more interested in Ford’s former partner, Arnold.
“Maybe he left something behind,” the MiB says.
That Teddy blocked the knife doesn’t help hereFord presumably programmed the hosts to protect him no matter what.
He’s startled to find Maeve awakeand wanting to have a chat.
