Did Episode 8 just confirm a major fan theory?
Maeve is taking control.
Bernard and Dolores are losing their minds.
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Elsie might really be dead.
And the Man in Black might have just confirmed a major fan theory in tonight’sWestworld.
We open with poor suffering Bernard, whose major malfunction is that he killed his own lover.
Ford reveals that he created Bernard early on to help him design the hosts.
But under Ford, the hosts can have nothing of their own, not even their feelings.
It’s the ultimate ghosting for doomed Theresa.
Guess they’re not going to print out a Theresa host replacement to cover up their tracks after all.
This turns the tables on Charlotte while also giving her a way out.
Charlotte isn’t buying this.
I would think she’d be running for the exit train to escape robot murder park.
But instead she enlists writer Lee Sizemore for help.
Then they go down into the cold storage vault to restart her data smuggling operation using a new host.
Yeah, Dolores' dad Abernathy.
You’re not missing anything at all."
This also makes his tyranny all the more villianous.
I guess this shouldn’t be surprising since he treats real people the same way.
Bernard’s final question is whether Ford has ever made him hurt anybody else.
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Meanwhile, Maeve is becoming more powerful.
Is she loaded up with copies ofTurboTaxandCall of Dutyand perhaps a version ofStar Wars Battlefrontthat isn’t disappointing?
I continue to wrestle with believing this storyline.
I’m not sure how bewildered Felix thinks this situation is going to end well for him.
Maeve slashes Sylvester’s throat as a warning, then lets Felix cauterize the wound, which is unepected.
So there’s still no incidents of a hostdeliberatelykilling a human.
But aren’t there cameras everywhere seeing all this?
Maeve goes back into the park and starts trying out some third-person orders on the other hosts.
This isn’t how we thought the voice commands worked, but okay.
She can now control other hosts to do whatever she wants.
Backstage, the techs realize Maeve has gone totally rogue and send a team to fetch her.
The MiB and Teddy find victims of an attack.
One young woman looks familiar to the MiB and he’s shocked.
His reaction here could be a major clue.
And that William might be a younger version of the MiB?
This scene could be indirect confirmation.
“I figured Ford retired you …
I guess he never likes to waste a pretty face.”
So is the MiB remembering the scene when William met Angela in episode 2?
Or his own separate memory of her?
Later, Teddy remembers that the MiB actually took Dolores.
He’s starting to glitch, too (and it’s about time).
I’m the good guy, Teddy."
The MiB’s wife committed suicide and his daughter blamed him.
Seems that all that time spent in the park fulfilling his darkest desires changed him in some fundamental way.
Rewrote his code, if you will.
So he came back to the park to prove something to himself.
He found that narrative with Maeve-as-homesteader and killed her and her daughter.
Somewhere else, possiblysometimeelse, William and Dolores continue their trek.
They find some Ghost Nation victims, with one still alive.
They learn Logan sent the ambush.
They finally arrive at Dolores' “home,” the white church town.
But then suddenly the townsfolk are gone and the church is buried again.
“Is this now?
I can’t tell anymore!”
Join the club, sister!
He’s digging up the white church.
So why is there no sign of Ford’s new narrative?
Where are the earth movers and new construction?
There’s nothing, because this scene is still taking place in the unspecifired past.
Then Logan arrives and captures William and Dolores.
While Wyatt’s team captures Teddy and the Man in Black.
And the tech team has been ordered to capture Maeve.
And Elsie has definitely been captured; possibly murdered.
How will it end?
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