Huge revelations and happenings as Bernard and Dolores lose their minds
Poor Bernard!
First his mind was blown a few episodes back when he learned he was a host.
Tonight his mind was blown all over again by re-discovering he’s a host.
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Then Bernard literally blew out his mind via a gun to the temple.
It was glitch, glitch, glitch,boom.
I don’t think Bernard Lowe is really gone, and for a couple reasons.
First thing first: We opened with Maeve, who was brought into backstage jail for killing New Clementine.
Bernard wants to know why she did it.
She grabs him and is apparently able to control him with voice commands.
Bernard hunts down his boss and gathers Lobotomized Clementine to stage a complex intervention on himself.
Bernard has hacked Clementine to use as a weapon to threaten Ford.
Bernard wants to go all the way back to his first memory.
This means nude Bernard butt, among other things.
Ford basically invented a host version of Arnold just like he made host versions of his family.
Also, Bernard Lowe rearranged is “Arnold Weber” (your anagrams are showing, Dr. His fail-safe protections go very deep.
Bernard is ordered to shoot himself in the head, which he seemingly does.
And that could be the end of his character, but I suspect it’s not.
So much of this season has been spent setting up the story of Bernard and the story of Arnold.
So back out in the park:
1.Elsie is still missing.This is getting downright weird.
She’s just gone.
We know Bernard throttled her, but suspect she’s still around.
She tips over a lantern and they have sex as the tent burns around them.
I’m starting to think that death-sex is the only way Maeve can get aroused now.
3.Teddy is still being killed.It’s almost like the show is parodying Teddy always being killed at this point.
Last week Angela stabbed him with the arrow.
The Man in Black raises his eyebrows at that reference, so it’s an important maze clue.
Obviously, the white-church town that Dolores is always obsessing about is also covered by sand.
(Except when it’s not, like tonight).
Unless the host horses are glitching, too?
We need one whole episode all about host-horses.
The MiB is interrupted by Charlotte.
We know it really annoys him when people break character.
She tells him Teresa Cullen has died, and the MiB knows it was Ford.
We’re about to talk about that very thing.
NEXT: William paints it black
So we need to talk about William.
Tonight’s episode told us who Bernard really is, and camethiscloseto saying who William really is, too.
There were three big clues that I counted and I probably missed one or two as well.
Dolores notes she doesn’t actually want to leave, but they ignore her.
She’s a robot enslaved by human masters, of course, she wants to leave!
Logan accuses William of forgetting all about his sister, and then he whips out her picture.
And how could he have found that photo if William’s story line was taking place after that?
He then stabs Dolores in the stomach and we yelp.
Logan reveals that inside she’s metal with pistons and stuff.
So this version of Dolores is First Generation, that’s Clue #2 we’re in the past.
Dolores slices Logan’s face and runs off.
William convinces Logan to untie him and they seemingly make up.
When Logan wakes the next morning William has killed everybody.
“This park seduces everyone.
You were just a little more enthusiastic than most,” Logan says, which is quite the understatement.
William says he’s going to find Dolores and Logan is going to help him.
Meanwhile, Dolores runs to the white-church town.
Her outfits keep changing and her wound keeps vanishing.
I think this is to indicate that she’s arriving in this town during two different timelines.
Dolores sees all the first-generation hosts glitching in the church pews just like Ford told us about.
She takes a ride in a confessional down to the offices.
This is the first-generation backstage area complete with young Ford and Arnold/Bernard, who’s been drawing her here.
She realizes he’s dead and … she killed him.
When she goes back upstairs, the church door opens.
She’s expecting William.
I suspect many years ago William is exactly who walked in those doors.
But now it’s the Man in Black and she screams.
Does she know who the Man in Black really is?
