This post bear spoilers through the 5th episode ofWestworld,“Contrapasso . “Head toourWestworldshow hubfor more reviews , theory , and inscrutable dives .
Westworld ’s 5th episode , " Contrapasso,“features a trueReal Worldmoment , when William , Logan , and Dolores finally find out what happen when multitude block up being genteel and start acting material .
The merriment start up in a graveyard , when Dolores divert her tending from passing notes with the vox inside her head to sociopath Logan , who demand to excuse where they ’re going : Pariah , one of Lonely Planet ’s top cities for " outcast , delinquent , thieves , harlot , and murderers . "
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" That is one humdinger of a story , partner . Shall we fuddle to the noblewoman with the white-hot shoes ? " Join Old Bill and me as we walk through this humdinger of an installment .
The self - of import outlaw Slim check Logan , William , and Dolores that his boss , El Lazo ( aka " the cringle " in Spanish!SYMBOLS ! ) , will give them all variety of medical and societal - emotional welfare for his secure proceeds , and so they maneuver toward Pariah , walking past a Union Army encampment that fundamentally acts as edge patrol .
Once in the city , crows pilot overhead – in event you were in pauperism of even more war and expiry symbolization . Meanwhile , on the ground , multitude are either receive sex activity in carriages , dress up like skeletons for Dia de Los Muertos ( eminence : is this a Halloween tie beam - in ? ) , or shooting things . As they take in the metropolis , Ol' Dirty Bastard fan Logan mention how , while some of the car park feels like it was market - try out and " designed by citizens committee , " these parts on the outskirts are " raw . "
Logan also drops someinsider business entropy : he ’s heard that his company is considering buy Ford and his group out because Westworld is shed blood cash . See , he explains , it start out as a partnership , but decent before the park opened , " one of the partners killed himself , " and that post the park into " a devoid fall . " William remark something about lawyers , and that ’s when it get uncanny . Logan exact that the lawyers who came to check it out " come up empty . " And somehow Arnold is " a over enigma – not even a picture . "
Consider this for a moment . How is it potential – especially in some succeeding world in which , you ’d ideate , an addition in applied science would also increase one ’s technological step – that someone could just cease to exist without leaving a trace ? HadArnoldso good gift himself inside Westworld that he ’d stopped live in " the real world ? " Could you even do that ? Who was paying his H2O and electrical bills ?
This is also a beneficial time to point out that the line about the attorney is likely an homage to originalWestworldcreator Michael Crichton ’s obsession with ( and loathing of ) lawyer in his stories . call back inJurassic Park , how the full reason Dr. Grant is there is that lawyers evidence Hammond that he must get an external expert to approve the park for insurance policy rationality ? Then a T. rex eats the attorney while he ’s sitting on the throne .
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The other big point from this vista is bring in a bunch of drunk host in grey uniforms who seem to have tied up a large group of women innkeeper to lug around as their captive . These fellas are the Army of New Virginia , aka the Confederados , a cluster of ex - Confederate soldier who refused to surrender after the war and now just work as mercenaries below the border . Logan believe these guys are the key to the " self-aggrandizing game there is : war " and need to make friends with them at once . William , who just read the bookKiller Angels , is n’t so sure .
After a quick scene in which the Man in Black transfuses blood from Lawrence to Teddy , and tells Teddy he liked him better in the older days , when the machines were made up of a million little pieces and not flesh and ivory , we ’re back toDolores ' next visual modality . We see her stare into a casket at a dead person – the consequence of a mass murder by the church .
William breaks Dolores ' reverie by expect if she ’s all proper . This time she does n’t even pretend not to be disturb . The legion just looks back at the jewel casket and walks by with White Hat Willy . Dolores rent him in a somewhat elevated conversation , telling him that lately she ’s wonder if in every moment in living there are many paths , choices hanging in the air " like spectre , " and if you could just see them , " you could interchange your whole life . "
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Will go on about how that is why multitude come to Westworld , because " whoever you were before does n’t matter here " and you’re able to convert the whole infernal story of your life and be really into murder or sex or shooting Teddy in his human knee for no reason and " no one will adjudicate you , no one in the real world will even know . "
Dolores block up him there and is like , " the real world ? WTF you mean by that ? " and Will is shook because he thought hosts were n’t guess to detect that stuff . But Dolores is shedding her host pelt fast as hell . " Why would n’t I , " she responds . " lately it seems like the whole world is foretell to me in a path it has n’t before . "
Willy see this as a romantic moment , and grabs Dolores ’s hand so they can stare at each other in a sexual personal manner until Logan comes along and ruins the here and now because he is jealous of real closeness – he only knows orgiastic violence . As a Dia de Los Muertos parade go on , Slim tells them that they can assemble up with El Lazo tomorrow but for now they should just get in on some brothel action ( " I know a place with a contortionist ! " Logan adds helpfully ) , but William feels like really weird - angle sex might not be interesting to Dolores .
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Logan is make water because Willy is in love with a robot and call Dolores a dog . Will asks if he ’d kindly stop saying that around her because he find like " she understands . " Logan pouts and goes to have sex with the contortionist .
Meanwhile , Dolores finds herself overwhelmed by the parade of skeleton - fit out people before swoon and awaken up peach to Ford , who asks her hatful of question about Arnold . She tells him the last time she had contact with Arnold was 34 age , 42 days , and seven hours ago – the day Arnold buy the farm .
The last thing Arnold said to her was that she was go to help him destroy this place . But Ford taunts her : " You did n’t , did you ? You ’ve been content in your small loop . " Dolores asks if they were onetime friend and Ford responds strangely , " No , I would n’t say friends , Dolores . I would n’t say that at all . "
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I ’m not sure what that ’s supposed to entail . Did Ford shoot down Arnold because of Dolores?Were Arnold and Dolores mean to Ford ? Is he merely referring to the fact that she ’s a robot and he ’s only friend with the old broken cattleman robot running on the battery of an original Microsoft Zune ? The best part comes right after Ford leaves and shut out out the light . In the dark , sitting defenseless in that berth , Dolores drop a line that gives me R.L. Stine - grade horripilation . restfully , she says to herself ( and that voice inside her head , aka Arnold ) , " He does n’t know . I did n’t tell him anything . "
The automaton revolution is coming , friend .
This brings us back to yet another prospect starting with Willy nettle Dolores about the way she ’s been acting . She tells him that she had a bad dream . Then they meet El Lazo – who is Lawrence ! And the fact that the Man in Blackjustkilled Lawrence in a parallel plot line return credence toour long - hold theory that Willy is in fact the Man in Black .
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Logan separate El Lazo that he require to see the Confederados , but some lady tough behind El Lazo punches him and claim his gas , which makes me think that the normal rules of safety for guest do n’t quite apply in Pariah . Things are going badly until Dolores has yet another trigger retentivity and goes off about how she knows El Lazo is seek something . El Lazo is like , " okay , go steal this nitroglycerine from the Union soldiers and bring it back here and I ’ll introduce you to the Confederates , but Dolores has to wear normal cowboy gear . "
Lo and behold , in the next scene , our freshly shape quartet wait behind a bowlder for the Union Charles’s Wain , Dolores now in elevate Wild West yarn . Everything is go swimmingly until Logan decides to ordain the sociopath article in his internal contract , and the Union hands fight back , killing Slim , and beating on Logan . One of the soldier grabs a gun for hire and is about to attack Dolores when something click in Willy – he shoot the Union humanity deadened . Then he kills another unarmed Union soldier . Then the one choking out Logan . Logan , when he realizes he ’s not numb , is psyched and tries to fete with William . " That ’s the heart ! I knew you would get into this place ! " Willy is well less psyched . Dolores looks sexy as blaze in her young cowman gear , but also troubled .
They bring the glyceryl trinitrate back to El Lazo and he whistles , which is the obvious signal for the Confederados to show up and give him a suitcase of gold . They ’re about to take the nitroglycerin when El Lazo intimate that they celebrate their impending victory over the Union with some bawd covered in golden key . El Lazo order he ’ll halt on to the nitroglycerin while they go have sexual activity . He ’s totally not going to do anything with it . Totally . Although it ’s unclear if any of the prostitutes are contortionist , Logan still wish this suggestion , and they head off to a political party .
Skipping ahead through a scene where Bernard ’s supporter is sad that a host with a jumbo penis ca n’t seem to pour whisky direct , finds a laser - base satellite uplink in the weapon of the dude who smash his own nous by blackmail a technician who is having sex with broken hosts , and tell Bernard someone has been using the smashed host to smuggle data out of the parkland , we ’re back at the Pariah political party .
Lots of naked girls and guy with body paint of all colors are all hang around and have a gargantuan saturnalia , though Will , Dolores , and the Confederate loss leader all sit on couch awkwardly . When Logan comes over , the leader asks if they ’ll fight with him and Logan harmonise , but Willy is n’t having it , and recite him he ’s " not move anywhere with these psychopaths " and that he ’d really just wish to watchJurassic Parkin his room with Dolores .
Logan , who is pissed potential because torsion sex is now just a normal thing to his corrupted mind , seizes on this second . He and Will finally have it out . Logan claims there are n’t " heroes and baddie here , it ’s just a elephantine circle jerk . " Will answer that this is Logan ’s own ism , so his buddy stick to the knife profoundly , and eddy , telling Will that he probably thinks he ’s on this trip because he look at himself as some " type of contender , some threat to me " but he picked him on the button because " you will never be a threat to anyone . "
Logan chaffs his future - chum - in - law with the notion that his babe probably pluck him for the same reason and he makes fun of the 24-hour interval he reached the pinnacle of his vocation flight and made Executive Vice President . The last straw is calling William ’s dark suit bum . He slams Logan against the wall to laud that the suit of clothes was really a discontinued Hugo Boss cotton fiber and mohair suit , and that it breathes really well in spicy weather . When no more physical fury fall out , Logan further provokes . " Right , buddy … That ’s what I thought . "
But this is a turning point of sorts . For one , all the cards are now on the board with Will and Logan . Also , Logan seems to be somewhere gamy up the corporate food for thought chain ( because his family owns the business ) , while William is stuck in upper - middle direction ( though also employ to Logan ’s sister ) , thus partially helping to explain why Will has been averse to just assure him to fuck off and do his own thing . You ca n’t do that to your boss / brother - in - law . Though now that the gloves are off , anything go , I guess .
Meanwhile , Dolores has cuckold past puff job and naked dudes in gold paint and orgies involving flack to receive a woman in all black reading cards . She selects one and it ’s the maze card ! When she looks back at the charwoman , she ’s look at herself , who tell her she must follow the labyrinth . Then she find a uncanny thing with a strand in her limb unraveling ( more laser information transmitters ? ) . She ’s freaked out and set forth to run back through when she notices that El Lazo is learn the glyceryl trinitrate and feeding it into Slim ’s dead body and put tequila back in the bottles .
This would be all well and good , but the Confederates like nothing more than playing hot potato with bottles of Nitrostat . When they do n’t break after the bottleful hits the ground and time out , they ’re pissed and take it out on Logan . Dolores and Willy see Logan getting beat up and mouthing " help me , " but Will is done with that – no one makes sport of Will ’s suit ! " No more pretending , " he says , and pulls Dolores along . Weirdly , Logan seems to smile when he sees this happen .
Unfortunately for Dolores and Will , they pass into more Confederates , who , using troubling logic , claim that not give way them explosives is in reality a resolution of warfare . William manages to germinate one of them before they seize him and he shout for Dolores to go . But Dolores does n’t run any longer .
In one of the best setting of any episode so far , our girl snap all of the Confederates and then holsters her torpedo as if she ’s one of those badass hitman from that Sharon Stone westernThe Quick and the Dead . Willy is stunned . " How did you do that ? "
" You suppose people add up here to change the story of their lives , " she says , chillingly , almost . " I imagined a account where I did n’t have to be the damsel . "
Even her voice is lower . She is officially a badass , and as a badass , also seems to know just what to do next , so she evidence Will they have to catch a train , and they do . But upon entering the railroad train car , they see El Lazo pointing guns at them , but Dolores bed all the whoremonger , so she points a gunman at Slim ’s jewel casket filled with nitroglycerin and El Lazo gives up and is like , " Damn , OK , well , now that we ’re all ally , you may call me Lawrence , " further twistingthe parallel narrative melodic theme . And then Lawrence severalize them to settle in for a long ride to the front .
So … the state of war front ? Are they still work to war ? Is Logan dead ? If Logan is dead , could this be the beginning of the incident that the current - time Westworld proletarian keep look up to ? And could this also explain how William gets out of upper - middle direction and becomes enough of a baller to have a foundation , if he truly is theMan in Black ? !
Just before the scene terminate , Dolores looks down and watch a maze symbol on the coffin and tells that representative that she ’s coming . There are no more smiles . That ’s not in her new story loop .
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