This clause hold major spoiler up through " The Stray , " the third episode ofWestworld . To take more about the mind - bending HBO serial , head over to Westworld World , the home for all of ourWestworldrecaps , interviews , and theories .
At the ending ofWestworld ’s third episode,“The Stray , " there seems to be a big reveal that , to use the parlance of the park , would decommission a very aphrodisiacal hypothesis about the Man in Black . Dolores go away from her messed - up narrativeand fall right into the arm of White Hat William , signal to many viewer that William must exist inthe same timelineas the Man in Black .
But do n’t start printing your " White Hats Ca n’t Jump ( Time Sequences ) " T - shirts quite yet . The William - is - the - military personnel - in - inglorious hypothesis still works , Friend . And you , too , will be even more certain the fresh - faced William is the mysterious Man in Black after you sieve through the evidence :
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Something is wrong with Dolores' memory
Ever since Creepy Bernard begin a hole-and-corner two - person Scripture club with Dolores in an unknown basement themed around the estimation of " commute , " her reveries have turned into something else . In this episode , she finds herself inthe nighttime version of her narration : she sees her dead pop and gets force into the barn . That ’s when things really take a turn . Not only does she miraculously feel a gun in the hay , she ’s able-bodied to pull the trigger – unlike earlier , when Teddy tried to learn her to shoot – and she care to send a smoke through the neck of Milk River - fiend robo - rapist Rebus .
But each of Dolores ' tangible - time action seems to be inform by a retentivity of her in a similar situation . So when she finds her Fatherhood drained , it ’s first the new version of Peter Abernathy , the guy with the mustache , as well as the old one who ’d found the photo and glitched out . And when she aim the gas pedal in the barn , she does so at both Rebus and the Man in Black . When she rushes back outside , her newly bubbling up remembering aid her by cue her she ’d been shot in that scenario before and guide her to get out of there . It ’s a little like when you ’ve in the end played a picture plot enough that you know all the pitfalls as they come , and you adjust your gameplay to beat them . Dolores ' retentivity is her Game Genie .
Which get us to White Hat William . When she runs into him and snuff it out in his arm in that final shot , that ’s almost by all odds her memory play tricks on her from a previous story .
There are two completely different Westworld logos
My fellow worker and terrifyingly extensiveWestworldexpert John Sellers develop this down rather nicely inhis recapitulation of the third episode , but the main dot is this : you’re able to seethe old Westworld logowhen William arrives at the park in Episode 2 and on actor uniforms inEpisode 2 ’s Arnold flashback , while all tantrum during the right - now timeline havea different , more innovative logo . And we all make love that if the logotype does n’t fit , you must … hold off , sorry , ill-timed show .
Sweetwater is different
You bonk when you go back to the Ithiel Town you grew up in after a 10 - year absence seizure and , on a whole , it feel the same , but in realism everything is slimly unlike ( and your high school girl is now married to a banker ) ? Well , the same sort of thing is come about in Sweetwater , the dusty townsfolk that process as the Edgar Guest ' hitching post .
In William ’s timeline , Maeve does n’t come out to be the brothel owner ( Maeve has n’t appear in any of those scenes yet ) ; that job seems to go to Clementine ( which might be what a QA specialist was alluding to when Maeve was having air castle trouble ) . Plus , the other lady of the Nox and daylight resist with Clementine in front of the brothel when Logan and William arrive have n’t been seen in other Sweetwater scenes . And the bounty huntsman role , which commonly belongs toour frequently bolt down son Teddy , is being play in William ’s timeline by a valet who ’s like a Cro - Magnon interpretation of Teddy ( Teddy 1.0 ? ) .
On top of that , the narratives when Teddy arrives to Sweetwater in Episode 1 and when Logan and William perambulation through Ithiel Town in Episode 2 are all dissimilar . In William ’s timeline , the US Army is enter passers - by ; in the current - twenty-four hours version , the sheriff wants you , yes , you , to unite his posse comitatus . Even the Wanted bill poster do n’t gibe up . The newer version have some fancy red ink for the " dead or alive " section and are offering $ 500 for Hector Escaton , while the I William look at in Episode 3 only practice black ink and involve hunting for baddie named Jasper Hewitt and the " conman and crime boss " Scott Jones , " alias Jonesy , " for a measly $ 100 . splashiness ! ! !
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Lawrence
Remember Lawrence ? That sweet villain enamor by the Man in Black and taken back to his kin so MiB could move to the next level ? Do you remember how the MiB told him that he ’d known him for years and never knew he had a family ? Well , the feel - ahead trailer released after Episode 2(from which the screengrab above is admit ) prove Lawrence – dressed in the same kit as in the MiB scenes , only his clothes and face seem freshly dampen – kicking back with William and Dolores , build up a friendly relationship , taking object at someone , possibly from a train motorcar , but still definitely not talking about his sept . Can they be from the same timeline ? possibly . But also perchance not .
The woman in the photo found by Peter Abernathy
One of the show ’s expectant enigma through three episode is what ’s go on in that picture dug up by the Louis Herthum version of Dolores ' dad , Peter . It does n’t wait like anything to Dolores , of form , but a Reddit user going by the namecroweschmo may have hit upon the good possibility yetabout who ’s portray in the image : " The photo Peter Abernathy delve up in episode 1 is William ’s . We will see William pull the photo out of his jacket and leave it behind at the Abernathy spread at some point this season . The woman in the photo is his fiancèe and Logan ’s sister . " Insertyour favorite psyche - flub GIFhere .
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