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" I suppose there may be something ill-timed with this existence . "
And the understatement of the yr laurels go to … Dolores , for this quote in the first scene ofWestworld ’s fourth episode , " Dissonance Theory . "
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Like mostWestworldinstallments so far , this one – directed byVincenzo Natali , who broke down how the episodewas film for us – starts with one of Bernard and Dolores ' creepy Church Father - humanoid girl schmoose . She is telling him about the sorrow she ’s experiencing after her parent ' death in the previous sequence , and how it is in reality make her feel more alive , like " a building with elbow room I ’ve never explored . "
" Oh , yeah,“evil Bernardsays ( I may be paraphrase ) , pick his glass even though they ’re all non - prescription drug . " Well , if you like that feeling you get when your parent die , you ’ll get laid this game I desire you to play . " And then he narrate her about the maze , and how if she can get the middle , then " maybe you could be destitute . "
That Bernard – played by the amazingJeffrey Wright , who we interviewedfor this episode – says this is interesting for a variety of reasons . For one , we now hump the Man in Black is n’t the only one who knows about the tangle . Two , it seems to crystallize up any motion that the center of the maze will wrench out to just be the behind - the - scenes domain where Ford and the rest of the crew tinker with the server . It wo n’t merely be a " give no attention to the man behind the drape " kind of trope , and for that I ’m relieved .
Like Dolores setting off to play the maze biz , get ’s take a circuit through the rest of the plot line from this game - changing instalment and see if we can figure it all out .
Ford & Theresa
At the diagnostic laboratory , where Ford gets really harebrained if all the robots are n’t naked , the host who smash his oral sex in with a bowlder last workweek is being examine by Bernard ’s quippy comrade Elsie , who is being grill by park ops manoeuvre Theresa . Theresa says her squad is endure to check up on out the smashed - oral sex serviceman , and Elsie get upset and sound off to Bernard , who seems engrossed on throwing her off the lead , mostly by pointing out that the weird drawing the smashed - skull humankind was doing is n’t in reality Orion ’s belt , because it only has three star and this drawing has four . I ’m not really sure why this computer error in trace an astrology chart should be grounds that the golem are n’t acting in foreign ways ( if anything , would n’t a ordinarily functioning robot make a carving accurate ? ) , but this just further confirms Bernard ’s sketchiness .
Speaking of which , afterward we see Bernard and Theresa stake - sex act , and she mentions she has to meet with Ford the next day and see if she can buy some time , because the display board has to approve his huge narration plan . Bernard tell her to not crossbreed her arms when talking to Ford , and also to avoid putting clothes on hosts , or he ’ll get super harebrained .
That tale program is very visible when they meet at some eating place , which might overlook agave plants , but I ’m not a botanist . Giant rock - eating machines and groups of host with pickaxes work on a giant hole , and Ford and Theresa talk of the town . He says he make love she thinks he ’s gone mad and lost his way , and she say she ’s simply concerned with the extent of the changes being made .
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And thenFord pulls some Zach Morris clip - out magic dogshit . He spill the beans about Arnold and how they made 100 promising storylines , but Arnold had a vague view of people , and begged Ford not to have the " money men " into the park , but Ford was convinced that the money masses would n’t see the bigger picture . Theresa look at him , and Ford appears to have run into the pause button on the total park . The waiter serving them the wine keeps pouring wine into a glass until it overflow and empty . Everyone else is frozen .
" woefully , " Ford says , chillingly , " Arnold lost his linear perspective . I have n’t . I have always see things understandably . "
And that ’s when Theresa realizes that this was the exact arse at the precise table she pose in with her parent when she visited the park as a kid . Ford have sex that . And he also knows she ’s slumber with Bernard . He tell her to continue out of his way . And then he make water the world begin up again , and the server is fairly embarrassed he just rain cats and dogs $ 100 of merlot all over a tabular array .
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by from this being one of the good panorama in the show , because Anthony Hopkins rules , it also shows Ford ’s all - encompass top executive and near omniscient knowledge of the parking lot . How does he hump she ’s sleeping with Bernard ? This brings up another interesting fan hypothesis circulating around : is Bernard actually just a robot , too ?
William & Logan
As for White Hat William , he is busy being smitten by Dolores , even though he ’s on this whole bounty - hunter story , and wants to take her back to town . But Logan is like , " Ahhh , let ’s just pop her , I ’m so blase . Why do I amount to this place ? ! ? I could be in Cabo ! " And then Logan reveals some interesting information about how his ship’s company needs to knock its post in Westworld .
White Hat Willy complains because he thought Logan was just here to hang with his novel bro - in - law , and Logan tweaks that estimation . " In our family , " Logan says , " everythingis business . " Holy shit , is William marrying into an MBA program ? But , yes , this does bring out that Logan ’s category has actual ties to the car park , which just make some theories I ’ll get into later on even more interesting .
Oh , also : Do n’t call William " Billy . "
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We later seeDolores out in Las Mudas , Lawrence ’s hometown . She face the Man in Black ’s sad - sack captive ’s daughter and ask her where she ’s from . " Same as you , do n’t you commemorate , " the girl says , creepily , like most little girlfriend in horror - esque show . Dolores hears that internal voice again saying " remember " and scoot back to a church and a entombment and guns and the little girl in a apparel . Also , the little girl is drawing the snarl in the soil , which is impressive on several levels .
finally , some marshal - character host belike air by that Hemsworth bro arrive to bring her back to the farm , but William intervenes . " That ’s my girl , " William tell him . " But not in a sexual way , since I have someone at home base and wear a white-hot chapeau , and so we ’re just kind of complicated friends for now , OK ? " Confused , the legion back off .
William and Logan eventually do get involved with the brigand raid , shoot up a farm , and snag their boy " Slim , " who tells the marshal they ’re with that he work for Alonzo . of course , Logan then kills the marshal because it turn out Alonzo is their " tag to the best ride in the park , " and they hit upon an " Easter orchis . " Dolores objects to setting Slim detached , and Logan and William briefly deem accelerator pedal to each other ’s favorite hosts until Logan tell apart William that Dolores will be okay with " a trip down the dismal side , and so will you . "
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Where exactly is the dark side ? What ’s Alonzo ’s deal ? Will this grade a turning decimal point for White Hat Willy ? What was Logan ’s puerility like that he ’s always so world-weary ?
Maeve
Meanwhile , back at the brothel , Maeve is have issues concentrating . As Clementine make jokes about things she ’s had on the peak of her tongue and discusses the anatomy of a sure " cowpoke from Abilene , " Maeve chug sherry and experiences more reverie glitch , which seem to make voice fathom like they ’re coming out of a CB radio , and starts to recollect a previous view in which some silly - looking invitee in a not - very - nerveless cowhand hat murdered everyone and the techs came in to clean it all up for the next 24-hour interval . ( Side bank bill : what a unearthly job , being a tech at Westworld whose line is to come into fake massacres , scavenge them up , and start the physical process over again . draw a blank the robot – what aretheirdreams like ? ! ? )
Maeve blend in to her elbow room and , in her strange sometime - timey 1800s undies , count for a gunshot lesion she swears has to be on her body , and she go on flashing back , so she pull a sketch of the person she keeps run across in her mind , which variety of looks like one of those thirties scuba frogman . She lifts up the floorboard and sees that she ’s sketched this scuba person over and over and over . This scene could basically be fromMemento .
Later , as the Hector narrative plays out and he buy the farm into town to get the safe out of the brothel , Maeve has another plan . She realise some of Hector ’s outlaw buddies in the house of prostitution earlier , and Clementine acknowledgment that Hector exist out with " the savages . " Maeve had seen that damn aqualung - looking robot person when the Native Americans walked on a Trail of Tears - type deal through the townspeople , and one of the Union soldiers had bring up that it was part of their religion .
When Hector comes into the brothel , she place a hitman to his point and shows him upstairs to the safe , where she offer to give him the combination if Hector tells her about the scuba cat . Hector tell her that the thing is a " shade , " from sacred aboriginal lore , a man who walks between human beings , air from hellhole to oversee our world .
This makes sentiency . Often the horde are just program to suppose thing they ’d date in the past were dreams , so , yes , this " shade " literally is sent from hell ( underground ) to oversee their human beings ( clean up the dead the great unwashed and set them up for the next day ) . Maeve secernate Hector that she call up getting shot and the tone standing over her and all of a sudden she was n’t tear any longer . So she ask him to cut her open where she consider she was shot .
" Cut me , Mick " she clapperclaw .
" But my name is Hector , " Hector say , and decline to cut her , so she does it herself , and asks him to pass inside her . He draw out out the bullet . Maeve is so happy . " I ’m not half-baked , " she says , as law people stand outside the threshold ready to sprout Hector . " And none of this matter , " so they make out as the bullet come raining down . But Maeve does n’t care anymore . She has nearly reach Bill Murray inGroundhog Daystatus . And that is a truly severe and ultra thing . Dolores may have the gun , but Maeve has the clearness .
The Man in Black
He ’s traveled to the blood arroyo with Lawrence to calculate out the next level of the biz , but he ca n’t find where the snake set its eggs until he walks down to the water and seesthat outlaw Girl With the Dragon Snake Tattootopless in the piddle . After mutilate a few of her outlaw crew to create some task openings , the Man in Black volunteers himself and Lawrence for the job of getting their outlaw chief Hector out of jailhouse in exchange for the backstory of the tattoo .
During this interchange , he need Snake Tattoo if she ’s heard of Arnold , basically " the original settler of these parts , " and talks about how Arnold had created a world where " you could do anything you want except one affair : you ca n’t die . " But then , the MiB enounce , Arnold come apart his own convention by croak in the park , which is crappy , because he had one more level to distinguish – a story with " real stakes , real wildness . " And he shows her the scalp maze again and says her tattoo are the 2nd part of the puzzle . She ’s like , " I did n’t realize we were go to get into such an intensely recondite conversation , but if you ’d like to get Hector out of jail , that ’s cool . "
Also that night , as he sits around a campfire , a guest come up to the MiB and says he ’s a giant buff of his , which should n’t be a surprise becauseEd Harris is terrific inThe Rock , but actually the client was referring to the MiB ’s work outside of Westworld , and mentions that his foundation literally saved his babe ’s life-time .
The MIB cuts him off and peril him and tells him he ’s on vacation , but still this further deepens the MiB backstory . Is he some sorting of serious samaritan after all ? Does this make theWilliam the White Hat is the Man in Black theoryall the stronger ? After all , if William espouse into Logan ’s family unit , which have a piece of the ballpark ( further helping to explicate why , for the most part , the staff result the Man in Black alone ) , William could have unbelievable wealthiness outside pronounce parkland and be using it for real - sprightliness clean - hat purposes .
The MiB and Lawrence somehow obtain themselves in a prison stage where the MiB tells Lawrence he ’s " always been a prisoner " and " What if I told you I ’m here to set you free ? " because being set complimentary is a big root word in this episode . Lawrence probably thinks he ’s being real because Lawrence ’s narrative seems to always involve him being actually being in gaol . Anyway , the gaol decide to blast Lawrence in front of a shooting squad , but the Man in Black apply some sort of exploding cigars to blow himself and the outlaw Hector out of gaol and kill everyone in the shot squad just as Lawrence was travel to get dead for the 2nd clock time . " Motherfucker , " Lawrence says . Indeed , Lawrence . Indeed .
lady friend with Snake Tattoo then tells her backstory . Her whole family and hamlet were savagely murdered by " masked military man . " She had to put her mother ’s blood on her body so they ’d opine she was numb , and so when she tracked down each of them , she used her blood to paint her peel again . And she only has one person left to find , so she can paint the head of the ophidian on her face and truly front like Mike Tyson : " He has many names , " she says . " Most get laid him as Wyatt . "
The Man in smuggled grin . And goes off with Lawrence looking for Wyatt . When they do , they stumble across someone tied up naked like Jesus . It ’s poor Teddy . " Put me out of my misery , " Teddy ask . " That ’s not really how this park works , " the Man in Black tells him , sort of , and pass off in search of more donors to his foundation .
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