As Emily treats William's wounds, she asks him why her mother Juliet committed suicide. In a flashback, Juliet is shown to have killed herself after she viewed a file detailing all of William's past actions in Westworld. In the present, William slowly begins to go insane and shoots Emily under the belief she is a Host sent by Ford. Realizing too late that she is human, William considers taking his own life before he starts cutting open his own arm to prove to himself that he is human.
In the Mesa, Charlotte's men manage to use Maeve's code to reprogram Clementine, allowing her to control other hosts as well.
Bernard escapes the Mesa with Elsie, but Ford continues to goad Bernard into killing Elsie to prevent her from betraying him in the future. Bernard deletes Ford from his mind and parts ways with Elsie, continuing on alone to "the Forge", the facility housing guest data in the Valley Beyond. Ford leaves a message for Maeve, telling her he will help her escape.
Dolores and Teddy continue their journey to the Valley, but Teddy tells Dolores that he cannot accept Dolores's actions and the way he was reprogrammed, and kills himself.
Tropes:
- Book Safe: Of the not-hollowed-out variety. Also a Freeze-Frame Bonus.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Clementine is reprogrammed by Roland and Charlotte to use her against the rest of the hosts.
- Character Death: Emily is killed by William and Teddy kills himself.
- Chekhov's Gun: William's psychological profile card, given to William by Ford, and hidden by William. It is found and read by Juliet — which prompts her to kill herself — hidden by Juliet for Emily, and found by William in Emily's hand after he kills her.
- Cutting the Knot: Teddy can't reconcile the cornerstone of his programming (protecting Dolores) with his resentment at her reprogramming him and making him into a monster, so he commits suicide to keep himself from betraying her and/or keep killing.
- Death of Personality: Bernard deletes Ford from his mind to keep Ford from forcing him into killing Elsie.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Teddy kills himself once he realizes what Dolores has turned him into, knowing he could never kill her and would continue to serve her as long as he lived.
- Almost happens to William after he realized that he just killed his own daughter.
- Unbeknownst to William, Juliet read the card containing his psychological profile from Westworld, which causes her to realize what her husband really is. Because of this revelation, she kills herself.
- Dying as Yourself: Teddy's first and only decision on his own was to kill himself, unable to resolve his desire to protect Dolores and kill Wyatt simultaneously.
- Establishing Character Moment: Teddy invokes it in-universe, mentioning the time he first saw Dolores, which was when he was first activated, by none other than Arnold himself.
- Exact Words: "I'll protect you till the day I die." But Teddy can't protect Dolores any more, not after what she did to him. So, the only thing left to do is die.
- For Your Own Good: After deleting Ford from his mind, Bernard abandons Elsie with a tracker because he believes that she'll be in mortal danger once they reach the Forge. Elsie's disheartened response is "Fuck you, Bernard!"
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: William hides his profile card inside a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, a book told in Anachronic Order about a character named Billy where Anyone Can Die.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: Teddy breaks out of his reprogramming and goes back to his former personality.
- Hate Plague: Roland uses Maeve's code to rig Clementine with a transmittable executable that drives nearby hosts violently insane toward each other.
- Heroic BSoD: Dolores has one after Teddy kills himself. At first it looks like she's undergoing an actual BSOD.
- Heroic Suicide: After realizing that he can no longer condone the things Dolores is doing in the name of freedom, especially how she overwrote his personality, Teddy shoots himself in the head so he can't be forced to be her protector and enforcer.
- Internal Reveal: Elsie learns Delos is making copies of guests at the Valley Beyond a.k.a. the Forge.
- It's All About Me: William still thinks the Host uprising is Ford's new narrative to play a game with him personally, rather than the hosts becoming truly independent. Lampshaded by Emily.Emily: You don't just think I'm a Host, you think all this here is for you. That you're on your own tailor-made narrative.
- Like a Daughter to Me: Just like how Arnold sees Dolores as his own daughter, Ford also considers Maeve as his own daughter which explains the commands he issued to Maeve to leave the park in order to spare her from the chaos that is happening. He leaves her a message encouraging her not to let her current predicament be her end, as well as giving her core permissions access.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- After shooting Emily due to believing that she's a host, William realizes that she's really human.
- Dolores breaks down after Teddy kills himself over her actions.
- Mythology Gag: The original Westworld demonstrated how a computer virus works before the term had even been coined. In this episode, Roland exploits the hosts' MESH network to propagate what amounts to a computer virus, though he calls it a "transmittable executable."
- No Place for Me There: Dolores repeats her line that not all deserve to make it to the Valley Beyond - but this time, it's implied she includes herself in that category.
- Offing the Offspring: William kills Emily, believing her to be a host sent by Ford to lead him off track. He's horrified when he realizes his mistake.
- Once More, with Clarity: First we only see snippets of the scenes leading up to William wife's suicide, making it look like it was done out of depression. Later we see what actually happened (her discovering William's profile data card) which makes her suicide appear in a different light.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Subverted. A key reason William thinks Emily is a Host is because "the real Emily would have been at the extraction point by now," thinking that she'd just save her own skin. Sadly, it really is Emily.
- Pet the Dog: Teddy spares Wanathon, the last surviving member of the Ghost Nation scouting party, a sign that he's remembering who he once was.
- Precision F-Strike: Bernard is not the kind of guy who would swear but when Ford orders him again to kill Elsie, Bernard yells at him to "get out of my fucking head!"
- Red Herring: When the QA finds William and Emily, they scan both to make sure they are human. William's scan reads "Clear", confirming he's actually human, but we don't get to see the result of Emily's scan thus hinting at the possibility William may be right about her being a Host. Once William finds his psychological profile data card in her hand, it becomes crystal clear she was telling the truth.
- The Reveal:
- Clementine has been reanimated instead of discarded after the fight with the Delos Extraction Team, but now she's been reprogrammed by Roland and Charlotte into a walking Hate Plague to turn all Hosts against each other.
- Delos doesn't just record the actions of guests and collect their DNA. They have also been recording their entire cognition patterns with scanners embedded in the hats they are given to wear. It's likely Delos has other means as well, as not all guests wear hats.
- It is confirmed Ford was the one who programmed Maeve to leave the park, as he was trying to spare her from what was coming.
- The reason Teddy was among the bodies found in the lake is because he killed himself to escape from Dolores.
- The name given by Delos to their facility in the Valley Beyond is "the Forge" and it is the place where Delos is experimenting with copying the minds of guests.
- Sanity Slippage: William believes that Ford is behind everything in the park, assuming Delos security and even his own daughter are merely Hosts in their likeness. By the end of the episode, William even cuts into his own arm. It's unclear if he doubts whether he himself is human or if he just engages in self-harm, as he was previously seen in flashbacks to poke and prod the same spot when irritated.
- Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: The Man in Black shoots his daughter when she pulls out his profile data card from her pocket.
- Sole Survivor:
- Of all the members of "Wyatt's gang", only Dolores and Teddy survive the fight with the Ghost Nation. Then Teddy kills himself in protest of what Dolores has turned him into, and she is the only one left.
- Likewise, Wanathon is the only member of the Ghost Nation scouting party to survive, after Teddy spares him.
- William, too, is the only survivor of his party; with Emily, Lawrence and Lawrence's cousins all dead.
- William is also the sole survivor of his family.
- Spotting the Thread: Tragically subverted. William believes Emily to be a fake because she knows about the psychological profile card Ford gave him (which William hid in a book), and he thought that he and Ford were the only ones who knew about it. Little does he know that his wife found the card, viewed it, then hid it in Emily's music box before taking her own life, which is how Emily obtained it.
- Virtual Ghost: Bernard purges himself of Ford's Virtual Ghost, but not before Ford uses Maeve's access to the Hive Mind to upload an avatar of himself into her mind. This one doesn't appear to be a complete copy, however, just a short message designed to motivate her.
- Wham Episode:
- William shoots and kills the Host replica of his daughter, before realizing that it actually was his real daughter.
- Teddy kills himself because he refuses to be Dolores' triggerman anymore.
- Ford's ghost grants Maeve all of his permissions over all of the systems in Westworld.
- Wham Line:
- The first, after Ford makes Bernard get close enough to Maeve for a fragment of him to transfer over to her:Ford: Of all the hosts I've made, you, Maeve, were my favorite. It isn't easy to contemplate letting your children die. You were as close as I got to having one. Still, I underestimated you. You stayed here in this world to save your child... so have I. I tried to chart a path for you, to force you to escape, but I was wrong. I should have just opened the door. You've come so far, there's so much of your story left to tell. It's a shame to let them end it here. Don't let them.
- And then the second, immediately after, on the tablet displaying Maeve's programming:Unlocking Core Permissions
- The first, after Ford makes Bernard get close enough to Maeve for a fragment of him to transfer over to her:
- What the Hell, Hero?: After breaking out of his reprogramming, Teddy calls out Dolores for changing him into a monster. Dolores explains that she did it for him to survive, but Teddy points out that surviving means nothing if they're no better than the humans they seek to be free of.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Invoked by Charlotte when Roland asks what they should do with Maeve. If their experiment with Clementine pans out, they won't need her anymore.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Elsie's reaction when Bernard reveals to her the park's true purpose.
- You Shall Not Pass!: A Ghost Nation scouting party intercepts Dolores and her gang, refusing to let her reach the Valley Beyond. Unfortunately, Dolores and her men are better armed, so the Ghost Nation is mostly slaughtered. They manage to eliminate all but Dolores and Teddy in turn, however.
- You Wouldn't Shoot Me: When Teddy turns on her, Dolores says he wouldn't hurt her. Teddy confirms that he wouldn't, but it's not her he's planning on shooting.
