Jeffrey Wright Spills The Beans On The Most Awaited ‘Westworld’ Reveal

This has two important implications for the show: Firstly, as that was a longstanding fan theory, it opens the door for other fan theories to be true.

Sunday night’s episode of “Westworld” is no doubt the best one to date; it is aptly named, too.

That was until Dr. Ford, the co-creator of park, proved that he may very well be the biggest threat to Westworld. Together, they meet with Bernard and Ford to tell them about the “disturbing” things they found when they reviewed the update that added the reveries.

This episode saw Bernard waking up from his sleep. Theresa sees host prototype plans, and shows Bernard’s to Bernard. Pursued on horseback by the Confederados, things looked bleak for our heroes… until the Ghost Nation arrived and picked off their pursuers one by one. But we had reasons that I can’t get into that dictated we be clear with him about some aspects of his performance. Bernard notices Theresa Cullen and remembers Elsie’s warnings about her. Bernard is tired of her, naturally. Can’t they just lobotomize her or tell a higher-up? But that never led to visions of Bernard dancing in her head. It was like watching a game of cat and mouse.

Theresa has a meeting with Charlotte Hale, the new executive director. Are they about to reach the boundary of a Truman Show-esque dome that surrounds the park? He tells Theresa that what they said was happening wasn’t and he could tell they’d made up that code for the purposes of the demonstration. The episode kicked off with a tragic moment created to throw us off the scent – the day Bernard watches his young son, Charlie, die in a hospital room. And Clementine “remembered” the attack and trying to get revenge on the tech when she was restarted and saw him.

Bernard confronts Theresa about using hosts to send data outside the park. His robots are freer than humans, he believes, because they are free from anxiety, self-loathing, and guilt (how this jives with Bernard’s guilt over his dead son is confusing). The first scene of this episode deserves a closer look, given the Bernard revelation. Then, they wipe her memory and do it again.

They manage to make an escape and finally get to the place that Dolores had drawn earlier.

Still, the best material again involved the two female hosts, and particularly Maeve, who witnesses Sylvester lobotomizing Clementine and decides that’s all the motivation she needs to mount a prison break of sorts.

Her gaolbreak and the Ford/Delos battle (plus the Arnold question) is the best part of this show. They want to get rid of Ford, but they’re anxious he’ll destroy everything if they make a move.

She assures him that she is concerned about the park and its personnel only. She resists the urge, however, as the masked men take Clementine away. And that’s why he’s conscripted various hosts to assist him in his progress, from outlaw Lawrence to lovestruck cowboy Teddy, discarding them when they’ve outlived their usefulness. The cabin is empty and dark and Theresa asks about a door that Bernard could not see, first hint. Theresa notices prototypes for hosts and she sees Dolores’. He sees that she’s in another room and takes her there just in time to see Sylvester lobotomize her. While the episode title was indicative of what was to come, can we really accept anything the show gives us at face value? The prototype model is of Bernard himself and bam!

Similarly, there are cleverly disguised examples of Bernard’s Host behaviours hidden in different places.

Ford makes an appearance. Is the host being made in the tank actually a replacement version of Theresa? The assumption here is that, allowing her to have talks with Bernard while simultaneously following her narrative loop. For instance, as we’ve seen Delores grow, she still reverts to her original android state when asked by staff. The truth about Clementine is that to be gentle and loving all the time is denying the truth about something that is within her, which this rigged experiment unleashed. Perhaps she wants to go out into the world to destroy it for bringing her to being. Bernard says, “What door?” That explains why her phone isn’t working to call for help.

Any show with this subject matter is going to inspire speculation about whether some – or even all – of the “humans” are in fact also robots, and Bernard always seemed the most likely suspect. Is Ford instructing Bernard to have secret conversations with Dolores, or is Bernard going rogue?