History Recap / WestworldS03E05Genre

Serac's backstory is revealed through a series of flashbacks. Born in France to wealthy parents, as a child Serac and his brother Jean-Mi watched from the countryside as a thermonuclear accident destroys Paris, France. The experience radicalized the two brothers, who vowed to prevent another cataclysm from happening. As adults, they created an artificial intelligence known as Solomon, which when given sufficient data, can predict future events. To obtain data needed for their machine, the two make a deal with Liam Dempsey Senior; a tech magnet who's company Incite has managed to consolidate/control personal data of nearly every person on Earth before laws were passed making such data collection illegal.

* AwfulTruth: Dolores has Rehoboam's psych profiles sent to everyone on Earth, which causes an immediate spike in violence as everyone realizes how terrible their lives will be. This is represented on Reboham's graph as a huge burst on the circle.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jean-Mi is deemed an uncontrollable element by the system he and his brother designed, and is driven mad and confined as a result.

* SiblingTeam: Serac and his brother built Rehoboam and its predecessor Solomon together in collaboration with Liam Dempsey Sr.

* WatchingTroyBurn: A flashback shows Serac and his brother watch their hometown Paris in flames in the distance.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Rehoboam predicted that human civilization will end in 200 years, so Serac will do anything to neutralize the cause.

Serac's backstory is revealed through a series of flashbacks. Born in France to wealthy parents, as a child Serac and his brother Jean-Mi watched from the countryside as a nuclear bomb destroys Paris, France. The experience radicalized the two brothers, who vowed to prevent another cataclysm from happening. As adults, they created an artificial intelligence known as Solomon, which when given sufficient data, can predict future events. To obtain data needed for their machine, the two make a deal with Liam Dempsey Senior; a tech magnet who's company Incite has managed to consolidate/control personal data of nearly every person on Earth before laws were passed making such data collection illegal.

Dempsey Sr is convinced to give his data to Serac and Jean-Mi after they prove that Solomon can predict stock market trends to make money for Dempsey Sr. However, Jean-Mi is very impatient with Dempsey Sr's initial reluctance to help the brothers and suggests to Serac that they murder Dempsey. Serac responds by "eliminating" his brother and creating a new replacement for Solomon that is named "Reboham" which "lacks his brother's sociopathy".

Serac ultimately discovers that Dempsey Sr is wanting to untangle his partnership with Serac, upon realizing that Serac is using Incite's data to engage in full-scale social engineering to bring about "world peace" and dominance over the lives and futures of everyone on the planet. Luring him to the desert, Serac reveals that there are "gaps" in Rehobam's predictions that allow for "free will to reign"; they arrive at the site of a plane crash where the plane belongs to Incite. Serac then murders Dempsey Sr so that he can take control over Incite via his surrogates that have been placed inside the company by him.

While transporting Liam, Caleb is dosed with a drug called "Genre" that causes him to hallucinate in the style of different movie genres as Caleb, Liam, and Delores flee Serac's men with help from Caleb's fellow criminal friends. Forcing him to give up his access key to Incite's main database, Delores gives the key to Jerry, who leaks to the world at large Incite's profiles on everyone before suicide bombing the main Incite office. The horror of seeing how Incite controls the masses, causes shock and horror among the masses and leads to Liam's death.

Serac's past is revealed as Dolores plots to throw a wrench in his plans.

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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Serac asks the president of Brazil to halt his friends' mining operations in an area on the verge of a separatist uprising, in the interest of maintaining order. Otherwise, Rehoboam will tank his country's currency and economy, which Serac claims will accelerate the timetable for the uprising and will ultimately lead to the president getting overthrown by one of his generals, to whom Serac will make the same offer.

* CainAndAbel: Non-lethal example. Serac institutionalized his brother Jean-Mi, because his personality didn't fit in the society Rehoboam was designing.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: Martin stays behind to confront Serac's men while Bernard and Stubbs escape, since he's just a copy of Dolores while Bernard is irreplaceable.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Serac asks the president of Brazil to halt his friends' mining operations in an area on the verge of a separatist uprising, in the interests of maintaining order. Otherwise, Rehoboam will tank his country's currency and economy, which Serac claims will accelerate the timetable for the uprising and will ultimately lead to the president getting overthrown by one of his generals, to whom Serac will make the same offer.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Dolores needs to keep Liam alive so his access key to Rehoboam won't be invalidated.

* CloningBlues: Brought up by Bernard when he questions the host Martin about whether it's difficult to have aspects of the real Martin bleeding over into the Dolores personality

* ExpendableCLone: Martin sees himself as this, being a mere copy of Dolores made for a specific purpose.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jean-Mi is deemed an uncontrollable element by the system he and his brother designed, and is driven mad and confined as a result

* AwfulTruth: Dolores has Reboham's psych profiles sent to everyone on Earth, which causes an immediate spike in violence as everyone realizes how terrible their lives will be. This is represented on Reboham's graph as a huge burst on the circle.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Dolores needs to keep Liam alive so his access key to Reboham won't be invalidated.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Serac kills Alan because Alan knows about Reboham's prediction of human extinction and will go public with it, an outcome that will only serve to make that prediction all the more likely.
* HobbesWasRight: How Liam sees the lower classes, especially after seeing how people react to their Rehoboam profiles. Serac shares a similar view.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Serac makes it look like Alan Dempsey was killed in a plane crash, when in fact Serac killed him.

* SiblingTeam: Serac and his brother built Rehoboam and its predecessor Solomon together in collaboration with Alan Dempsey
* SpannerInTheWorks: Dolores completely screws up Reboham's predictions by showing everyone on Earth their profiles.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Reboham predicted that human civilization will end in 200 years, so Serac will do anything to neutralize the cause.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dolores lets Caleb's friends do whatever they want with Liam once she no longer needs his access key. He's shot after ranting at them for a bit about being a drag on society.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Alan thinks that Serac isn't going to kill him because Reboham predicted Serac would let him go. As Serac explains, Reboham is accurate but not perfect, and there are instances where people can act in unexpected ways, this being one of them.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Serac asks the president of Brazil to halt his friends' mining operations in an area on the verge of a separatist uprising. Otherwise, Rehoboam will tank his country's currency and economy, which Serac claims will accelerate the timetable for the uprising and will ultimately lead to the president getting overthrown by one of his generals.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Serac asks the president of Brazil to halt his friends' mining operations in an area on the verge of a separatist uprising. Otherwise, Rehoboam will tank his country's currency and economy, which Serac claims will acceleratevthe timetable for the uprising and will ultimately lead to the president getting overthrown by one of his generals.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Serac asks the president of Brazil to halt his friends' mining operations in an area on the verge of a separatist uprising. Otherwise, Rehoboam will tank his country's currency and economy, accelerating the timetable for the uprising and ultimately leading to the president getting overthrown by one of his generals.

* CainAndAbel: Serac arranged for the death of his brother Jean-Mi, because his personality didn't fit in the society Rehoboam was designing.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Serac makes it look like Alan Dempsy was killed in a plane crash, when in fact Serac killed him.

* MushroomSamba: Caleb spends half the episode high on Genre, a drug that makes its users perceive the world as if they were in different types of movies
* TakingYouWithMe: Connells blows up the office while Serac and his assistant are in a meeting with him about the Rehoboam data breach.

* CainAndAbel: Serac arranged for the death of his brother Jean-Mi, because his personality didn't fit in the society Rehoboam was designing

* TakingYouWithMe: Connells blows up the office while Serac and his assistant are in a meeting with him about the Rehoboam data breach.

* CainAndAbel: Serac arranges for the death of his brother Jean-Mi, because his personality didn't fit in the society Rehoboam was designing