After triggering people in his group therapy session with his nihilistic views on humanity, William is forced to participate in Augmented Reality therapy, with his past selves and James Delos. Confronted with his past self, William is forced to confess that he was always a psychopath even as a child as he was forced to admit to breaking another kid's arm and knocking out several of the child's teeth after the child called him and his father white trash. In response to being forced to admit that his wife was right about him having lied about being a poor, meek, bullied bookworm growing up and having used Logan and his sister's sympathy to worm his way into the Delos family, William murders his past selves and believes himself to be a "good guy". Then, he is found by Bernard and Stubbs.
Maeve is brought back into Warworld; while waiting for her body to be rebuilt, she manages to restore Hector's memories. Then, she, Hector and Sizemore interrogate a copy of Dolores who initially resided in Martin's host body. Dolores refuses to answer Maeve's questions and tells her that she already planned ahead, revealing that Charlotte destroys Hector's pearl.
Charlotte's attempt to stop the Delos buyout fails and Serac orders all host data erased and their bodies burnt. Charlotte backs up the host data but is forced to flee when Serac outs her as a host because he knows that the real Charlotte doesn't care about her son. After Serac tells her that Dolores intends her to be expendable, Charlotte fights her way out of Delos's corporate headquarters. But before she goes, Charlotte destroys Hector's pearl, who along with several other hosts, are being rebuilt to aid Maeve in stopping Delores. But as Charlotte and her family escape in a car to flee the city, Serac has a bomb planted in the vehicle which explodes, badly burning Charlotte and killing her ex and son.
Tropes:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Maeve, upon realizing the situation, begs the Dolores copy she is speaking to to prevent Charlotte from murdering Hector. It doesn't work.
- Abusive Parents: William has convinced himself that his father was this, but seems he was actually hard on him because of William's own Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Serac takes over Delos when he stops the company going private by killing Brompton. To drive the point home, all the Delos logos on screens are replaced with Incite logos.
- Artistic License – Gun Safety: When one of Serac's goons unloads Host Charlotte's pistol, he only removes the magazine. He does not pull back the slide to check if the chamber is empty. Since Host Charlotte shoots the Serac hologram without racking the slide after reinserting the magazine, that means the gun was loaded the whole time.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted to extreme detail. When Host Charlotte crawls out of the wreckage of her destroyed car, she is almost unrecognizable due to the scars and burns all over her body. The camera has to linger on her face to allow the audience to actually figure out that it is her.
- Becoming the Mask: Host Charlotte genuinely cares for her family, and she admits to Dolores that she can feel herself slipping away from her true self.
- Big "NO!": Performed by Maeve in slow motion after Hector gets killed by Halores.
- Board to Death: After having her cover blown by Serac, Host Charlotte kills the board and some of his goons with a canister of lethal gas she brought to the meeting from her office safe. Serac himself is smart enough to not be physically present, communicating via hologram.
- Bottomless Magazines: When Host Charlotte takes a pistol out of the safe in her office, she does not take any spare magazines. During her escape from Delos, she fires, at a minimum, 14 shots out of a pistol that has a magazine capacity of 13 rounds plus 1 in the chamber (which she must have had as she shot at the Serac hologram without racking the slide when she put the magazine back in the gun). The pistol should have locked open on the empty magazine when she shot one of the security guards as she finally got outside of the building, right before the riot control robot burst through the doors. Given the amount of shooting Host Charlotte did in her escape, she probably ran out of ammo several scenes before then.
- The Bus Came Back: Zigzagged: the group therapy session with different versions of William from throughout his life allows for the return of Jimmi Simpson, who starred as Young!William in Season 1. However, since he and Ed Harris share the role, the character never left.
- Chekhov's Gun: Host Charlotte uses the riot control drone she was shown several episodes ago to aid in her escape, turning it on the guards when she's cornered.
- Deader than Dead: Host Charlotte destroys Hector's host pearl, making it impossible for Maeve to bring him back.
- Driven to Suicide: William's therapist hangs herself in her office after receiving her Incite profile and having her husband leave her with their children after it revealed her affairs with her patients.
- Elevator Action Sequence: Host Charlotte has to kill a guard in an elevator after she's exposed as a host.
- External Combustion: Host Charlotte's getaway car gets blown up. She survives since she's a host (albeit badly burned), but her family is killed.
- Godiva Hair: Used to keep Dolores's nakedness in check when she is interviewed by Maeve.
- Hired to Hunt Yourself: Serac orders Halores to find the Dolores mole amongst the staff, probably only to toy with her.
- Hologram Projection Imperfection: Serac's projection at the board meeting is flawless until Halores's bullet hits it at which point it flickers swiftly.
- Hope Spot: Maeve makes a deal with Serac to return some of her Host allies to bodies in the real world, including Hector. Hector is thus resurrected first in the virtual version of War World, taking the place of the virtual Hectore, and the two lovers are happily reunited. He is then promptly murdered by Charlotte, who crushes his pearl, meaning there is no way to resurrect him. Maeve is distraught upon witnessing this.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The guards with automatic weapons only manage to shoot Host Charlotte once, though admittedly they are trying to take her alive.
- Internal Reveal: Serac exposes "Charlotte" to be Dolores in a host body in front of the board. But then she uses poison gas to kill them all. Serac survives because he's present only through a hologram.
- I Want Them Alive!: Serac orders his men to capture Host Charlotte alive.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While James Delos isn't exactly a saint himself, he's not wrong when he reminds William that his repeated abuse of Dolores largely contributed to her wanting to destroy humanity.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Halores is busy talking when her car explodes. Subverted by the fact that she survives the assassination attempt.
- Killed Off for Real: Charlotte crushes Hector's pearl in the real world. As he never made it to the Sublime, and his backup was destroyed with the Cradle, he is well and truly gone. Any version of him moving forward will just be a copy. Maeve completely breaks down in anguish when it becomes clear that her lover is gone for good.
- Kill It with Fire: Serac has the hosts at Westworld burned after extracting Maeve's allies.
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Serac has become even more brazen in his assassinations because of the chaos Dolores created, making it easy to pass off targeted killings as random violence.
- Man Bites Man: William bites one of the orderlies' fingers off.
- Mook Horror Show: Host Charlotte activates the riot control bot and escapes while the robot goes on a rampage through Delos HQ, tossing and crushing security guards left and right.
- My Past Selves and Me: William's AR therapy eventually leads him to have a group therapy session (hosted by Jim Delos) with different versions of himself at different stages of life. William beats them all to death (save Delos) to escape his own past.
- Neck Snap: Host Charlotte snaps Bantham's neck to keep him from telling Serac that she copied the host creation data before destroying it.
- No-Sell: Host Charlotte tries to shoot Serac after killing the board, but he was only there as a hologram.
- Obligatory Earpiece Touch: When the guard at the elevator reaches up to his ear to receive intel on Halores standing next to him. Cue the Elevator Action Sequence.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: When William's blood gets scanned at the AR center, the display starts to glitch indicating Halores' virus activating.
- One-Man Army: Maeve takes out a whole squad of German soldiers in the simulation as practice for the real world.
- Perception Filter: Sizemore reprogrammed the Warworld bar simulation to make himself invisible to the staff and patrons.
- Screw Destiny: Charlotte's ex decides not to read the profile of his future, wanting to decide that on his own with Charlotte.
- Spotting the Thread: Serac claims that the real Charlotte would never have cared so much for her family, although the real Charlotte's Video Will seems to put this in question.
- That's What I Would Do: Connells!Dolores is not privy to the full scope of her prime self's plans, but they're similar enough that she guesses Dolores would have anticipated Maeve's interference and made contingency plans. Sure enough, Charlotte!Dolores shows up and tries to destroy Maeve's pearl, though she only gets as far as crushing Hector's before the guards drive her off.
- Trailers Always Lie: The scene of Serac with Caleb doesn't appear in the episode.
- Trojan Horse: Charlotte slipped a virus package into William's blood, designed to activate as soon as the AR therapy wing scanned a sample. This allows her to locate the main processing facility and relay its location to Dolores.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: After completing Dolores's mission of extracting the Host manufacturing data from Delos and narrowly escaping from Serac's men, Host!Charlotte leaves the city with her family but then her car explodes. She survives but her husband and son are killed by, presumably, one of Serac's men, leaving her in grief.
