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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ford shows the steel beneath the AbsentMindedProfessor act, subtly blackmailing Cullen (with her relationship with Bernard), demonstrating his power over Westworld (stopping all the robots in place and knowing the exact chair she sat in when she visited the restaurant as a little girl) and ruthlessness (bulldozing the restaurant to make way for his new project).

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ford shows the steel beneath the AbsentMindedProfessor act, subtly blackmailing Cullen (with her relationship with Bernard), demonstrating his power over Westworld (stopping all the robots in place and knowing the exact chair she sat in when she visited the restaurant as a little girl) and ruthlessness (bulldozing ([[ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam bulldozing the restaurant restaurant]] to make way for his new project).
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* AmnesiaLoop: Maeve keeps having what she thinks are dreams featuring a Westworld staff member in a HazmatSuit. When she suspects her memories are being tampered with after Dolores triggers her self-awareness, [[NoteToSelf she quickly sketches the figure of the staff member and hides it under a loose floorboard]], only to discover that she's already done this several times.

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* AmnesiaLoop: Maeve keeps having what she thinks are dreams featuring a Westworld staff member in a HazmatSuit. When she suspects her memories are being tampered with after Dolores triggers her self-awareness, [[NoteToSelf she quickly sketches the figure of the staff member member]] [[LooseFloorboardHidingSpot and hides it under a loose floorboard]], only to discover that she's already done this several times.
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Logan decides to finish the bounty hunt and mocks William for bringing Dolores along. They capture the fugitive, but Logan decides to have a better adventure by taking him to his boss. Meanwhile, the Man in Black, accompanied by Lawrence, is hunting snakes and finds Armistice with her snake tattoo. He breaks Escaton out of prison for her, and she tells him that the tattoo represents all of her victims, who were Wyatt's men. The Man in Black and Lawrence leave for Wyatt, rescuing a tortured Teddy. Cullen takes over the investigation into the stray, not trusting Elsie and Bernard. She meets Ford about his new narrative, but he demands she not interfere, revealing his knowledge about her past and affair with Lowe. Maeve is having visions, and during Escaton and Armistice's attack on the town she finds a bullet in her unscarred belly with his assistance, proving that her visions are real. They kiss passionately as the sheriff's men open fire through the door.

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Logan decides to finish the bounty hunt and mocks William for bringing Dolores along. They capture the fugitive, but Logan decides to have a better adventure by taking him to his boss. Meanwhile, the Man in Black, accompanied by Lawrence, is hunting snakes and finds Armistice with her snake tattoo. He breaks Escaton out of prison for her, and she tells him that the tattoo represents all of her victims, who were Wyatt's men. The Man in Black and Lawrence leave for Wyatt, rescuing a tortured Teddy. Cullen takes over the investigation into the stray, not trusting Elsie and Bernard. She meets Ford about his new narrative, but he demands she not interfere, revealing his knowledge about her past and affair with Lowe. Maeve is having visions, and during Escaton and Armistice's attack on the town she finds a bullet in her unscarred unmarked belly with his assistance, proving that her visions are real. They kiss passionately as the sheriff's men open fire through the door.



* AnachronismStew: Logan helps himself to a double-action Colt Model 1917. The armoured wagon carrying our {{Trojan Prisoner}}s has a Browning water-cooled machine gun, also from the same year.

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* AnachronismStew: Logan helps himself to a double-action Colt Model 1917. The armoured armored wagon carrying our {{Trojan Prisoner}}s has a Browning water-cooled machine gun, also from the same year.



** Cullen finds Ford supervising a giant earthmoving machine. After their conversation takes a threatening turn, [[BadVibrations it's shown advancing on the restaurant]].

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** Cullen finds Ford supervising a giant earthmoving earth-moving machine. After their conversation takes a threatening turn, [[BadVibrations it's shown advancing on the restaurant]].



** The Man in Black is eyeing the bathing outlaw when he hears a gun cock. He turns to find her gang has snuck up on them.

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** The Man in Black is eyeing the bathing outlaw when he hears a gun cock. He turns to find her gang has snuck sneaked up on them.



* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted when Wiliam and Logan are involved in a shootout in a saloon and they hide behind a wooden cupboard. The bartender next to them dies by a headshot when one of their opponents' bullets passes through.

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* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted when Wiliam William and Logan are involved in a shootout in a saloon and they hide behind a wooden cupboard. The bartender next to them dies by a headshot head-shot when one of their opponents' bullets passes through.



* FalseReassurance: Lampshaded

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* PlotCoupon: Lampshaded. Armistace's gang plan to steal an army cannon so [[OpenSaysMe they can blast out Escaton from the jail]]. The Man in Black doesn't have the time for this 'color by numbers bullshit' and offers to go there directly and spring him.

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* PlotCoupon: Lampshaded. Armistace's Armistice's gang plan to steal an army cannon so [[OpenSaysMe they can blast out Escaton from the jail]]. The Man in Black doesn't have the time for this 'color by numbers bullshit' and offers to go there directly and spring him.



* WishfulProjection: Bernard looks disappointed when Dolores, after apparently saying something meaningful, reveals she just adapted it from another program. Later he cautions Elsie against [[JustAMachine reading too much into a Host's behaviour.]]

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* WishfulProjection: Bernard looks disappointed when Dolores, after apparently saying something meaningful, reveals she just adapted it from another program. Later he cautions Elsie against [[JustAMachine reading too much into a Host's behaviour.behavior.]]

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Dolores’ next interview occurs right after the deaths of her parents, and she rejects an offer to stop feeling the grief of that loss as it’s all she has left of them, just like Bernard had said about his son’s death. She goes on that she can feel herself changing and becoming more real because of the grief, as the Man in Black had said. Finally, she departs from her usual optimistic view of the world, saying something may be wrong with it, or her. She’s offered a game called The Maze, like the Man in Black is searching for, and upon hearing that winning it will set her free, says she wants that. She wakes up at the campsite with the gun still in her hand, and William watching over her.

Maeve and Clementine make small talk, when seeing a drunken guest nearby causes Maeve’s hearing to glitch. She then gets a flashback of the same guest killing everyone in the Mariposa, and even some brief memories of being retrieved and repaired. She runs back to her bedroom, where she finds no bullet wound in her stomach like she remembered, but there is a small blood patch on her shirt that the techs missed. She draws a picture of the hazmat suits they wear during retrieval, but when she goes to hide it under a floorboard, she finds several other similar drawings, revealing this has happened to her several times before and then been erased by a memory wipe.

Elsie tries to downplay the woodcutter incident in her report to Theresa, saying it didn’t hurt her or Stubbs, but Theresa accuses her of covering up a mistake and announces that QA will be taking over the investigation of the malfunctions. Bernard quickly agrees, and Elsie follows him to complain, as there’s clearly a larger issue that Behavior needs autonomy to figure out. Bernard replies that she’s ascribing human behavior to the hosts where there isn’t any, and the carving she kept isn’t even a constellation like she thought.

William wants to take Dolores back to Sweetwater, upsetting Logan as it would make the bounty hunt story even more of a waste of time. He also suspects she was specifically sent to them due to the connection William made with her on their first meeting, to get him more invested in the park. He goes on that their company needs to increase its stake in the park, to William’s dismay as he was hoping the trip wasn’t about business.

The Man in Black and Lawrence reach the Blood Arroyo, and he continues about how the Maze represents the last page of the park’s story. They spot Armistice bathing in the distance, revealing a large snake tattoo that’s been added all over her body. Tenderloin and some other members of Hector’s gang ambush them, and Armistice explains that they’re on a mission for something valuable. The Man in Black promptly shoots two of the gang members and offers himself in their place.

Stubbs is alerted that Dolores seems to have gone rogue, and with all the changes Ford is making in preparation for his new story, it’s impossible to tell if anything is wrong with her. Stubbs orders her flagged for retrieval.

Dolores walks into Lawrence’s hometown and meets his daughter, now just sitting in place and drawing in the dirt with nothing to do now that the rest of her family is gone. She tells Dolores they’re both here for the same reason, to which the voice again tells her to remember, and she gets a flash of a church, whose steeple matches the frame that’s part of Ford’s new story. Dolores sees that her drawing is the same Maze pattern, when a man accosts her to try to get her back home. After more flashes of walking into the church as well as her gun, William interrupts and gets the man to back off. He’s found a lead on their bounty target Slim, and Dolores decides to keep going with him.

The rest of Hector’s gang watches from a hilltop as Armistice meets with two men who have information she needs. After a few seconds she kills both of them, and the gang keeps riding on their mission.

William talks with Dolores, but has trouble not bringing up her artificial nature. She responds similarly to the interviews, saying she’s never before questioned her life but now she feels a call to go somewhere else. Then the moon triggers a flashback of spotlights as a retrieval team examines her after being shot, causing her to feel faint.

A guest with Hector’s gang named Todd excitedly greets the Man in Black, saying his sister’s life was saved by his foundation. The Man in Black curtly rejects the overture, insisting that he’s on vacation as he needs to keep all thoughts of the outside world away during his search for The Maze. Upon hearing their plan to steal a cannon to break into a prison, the Man in Black declares he doesn’t have time for this and says he’ll do it himself in exchange for the story behind Armistice’s tattoo. He also brings up Arnold, showing just how high level he is in the company to know the story. He believes Arnold had one more story to tell at the time of his death, which will make the stories of the park have the true danger of death so they can have real meaning.

The Man in Black gets arrested stealing horses along with Lawrence to get into the prison, and on the way discusses how Lawrence can’t comprehend that he’s never made any real choices for himself, but will soon be set free. Lawrence is taken off to be executed while the Man in Black is thrown in a cell with Hector. He again openly discusses the park’s true nature, saying that Hector had always seemed overly manufactured as a melodramatic gunslinger. Hector replies that he’s always believed everything in the world will end badly and only truly brave people can accept that, bringing the Man in Black up short as it’s strikingly close to his own worldview. He uses a trick cigar to send a request for explosions to Stubbs, letting him blow the door open, and he and Hector rescue Lawrence.

On returning to the gang, the Man in Black turns down an offer to join, and gives them advice that the Mariposa safe they’ve all been programmed to want will never actually give them anything. As agreed, Armistice shares her new backstory: Wyatt’s men massacred her entire village when she was a child, and ever since she’s been tracking them down and killing them one by one, using their blood to fill in her snake tattoo. Now only Wyatt is left.

A group of soldiers escorts Native Americans through Sweetwater, and a little girl drops a doll modeled after the staff’s hazmat suits. Maeve recognizes it and asks what it means, but a soldier tells her it’s part of their religion, which they never reveal to outsiders. At the Mariposa she recognizes Tenderloin from a wanted poster as the robbery storyline is being set up, and Clementine reminds her that Hector is said to live alongside the Natives, causing Maeve to wonder if he can be her way to learning more about the doll.

After her latest tryst with Bernard, Theresa brings up how she needs to talk to Ford about the problems his new story is causing. Despite her best efforts, Bernard’s experience with the hosts lets him pick up on her innate fear, and he advises her in how to carry herself to not show it.

Theresa meets Ford at a spot in the desert where he’s supervising a massive excavation and demolition to prepare for his story, with hosts providing the labor. They go to a nearby restaurant for their conversation, where Theresa shares that her parents took her to this very spot as a child, where she was struck by the beauty of it. Ford shares how at the beginning he had a very optimistic view of what the park would bring out in its guests, while Arnold knew better. He also advised Ford not to let Delos become such a major stakeholder, to no avail, then “lost his perspective.” Ford then makes several shows of power for Theresa: freezing all the hosts in their tracks on no apparent command, revealing that he’s purposely put them at the very same table where she sat as a child and even knows about her relationship with Bernard, and is even more well-connected with Delos themselves as they told him but not her they were sending a representative. He concludes by having the view she loved so much bulldozed as he says this is all him asking nicely for her not to interfere with his plans.

William and Logan reach Slim’s hideout, and William urges Dolores to stay behind, openly saying that she can get hurt by Slim but he can’t. They easily mow down Slim’s whole gang, and Logan gets especially violent with Slim himself, stealing his better gun afterwards.

Lawrence complains about the Man in Black dragging him to take on Wyatt alone, when they run into Teddy, who’s been badly beaten and tied to a tree after Wyatt ambushed him.

Slim tells Holden his boss El Lazo in Pariah will double the pay the authorities are offering, to which Logan unhesitatingly shoots Holden in the head to William’s shock. He reminds William they’re all just robots, and Slim’s offer is an Easter egg to the more complicated story Logan wanted all along. Dolores objects so Logan pulls his gun on her, to which William threatens to kill Slim and end the story. Logan is again happy to see this side of him, and encourages him to go “black hat,” even saying that Dolores will still like him no matter what as she was presumably sent to them as a love interest.

Hector’s robbery of the Mariposa gets going again, and since this time he has guests in his gang, Stubbs orders some of the soldiers to fight so they have something to do. And thanks to the evolution Maeve has been going through, she’s able to get the drop on Hector as soon as he walks in. They go right to the safe, where Maeve offers the combination for information about the hazmat suits. Control gets an alert that a family is heading back to Sweetwater early, so they cut off the violent scene by remotely jamming everyone’s guns, with the guests headed to spend a night in jail before a prostitute smuggles them a key. As Armistice is brutally gunned down by the new Sheriff Reed, Maeve tells Hector what’s been happening to her, and her says the Natives call the men in the suits shades, sent from Hell to keep watch on the world, and it’s considered a gift from the gods to see one. Finally, Maeve gets his help in cutting open her abdomen, where they find the bullet she was shot with. Maeve declares that it means nothing in their world matters, and they kiss as Reed and his men shoot them both.


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Dolores’ next interview occurs right after the deaths of her parents, and she rejects an offer to stop feeling the grief of that loss as it’s all she has left of them, just like Bernard had said about his son’s death. She goes on that she can feel herself changing and becoming more real because of the grief, as the Man in Black had said. Finally, she departs from her usual optimistic view of the world, saying something may be wrong with it, or her. She’s offered a game called The Maze, like the Man in Black is searching for, and upon hearing that winning it will set her free, says she wants that. She wakes up at the campsite with the gun still in her hand, and William watching over her.

Maeve and Clementine make small talk, when seeing a drunken guest nearby causes Maeve’s hearing to glitch. She then gets a flashback of the same guest killing everyone in the Mariposa, and even some brief memories of being retrieved and repaired. She runs back to her bedroom, where she finds no bullet wound in her stomach like she remembered, but there is a small blood patch on her shirt that the techs missed. She draws a picture of the hazmat suits they wear during retrieval, but when she goes to hide it under a floorboard, she finds several other similar drawings, revealing this has happened to her several times before and then been erased by a memory wipe.

Elsie tries to downplay the woodcutter incident in her report to Theresa, saying it didn’t hurt her or Stubbs, but Theresa accuses her of covering up a mistake and announces that QA will be taking over the investigation of the malfunctions. Bernard quickly agrees, and Elsie follows him to complain, as there’s clearly a larger issue that Behavior needs autonomy to figure out. Bernard replies that she’s ascribing human behavior to the hosts where there isn’t any, and the carving she kept isn’t even a constellation like she thought.

William wants to take Dolores back to Sweetwater, upsetting
Logan as it would make decides to finish the bounty hunt story even more of a waste of time. He also suspects she was specifically sent to them due to the connection and mocks William made for bringing Dolores along. They capture the fugitive, but Logan decides to have a better adventure by taking him to his boss. Meanwhile, the Man in Black, accompanied by Lawrence, is hunting snakes and finds Armistice with her on their first meeting, to get snake tattoo. He breaks Escaton out of prison for her, and she tells him more invested in the park. He goes on that their company needs to increase its stake in the park, to William’s dismay as he was hoping the trip wasn’t about business.

tattoo represents all of her victims, who were Wyatt's men. The Man in Black and Lawrence reach the Blood Arroyo, and he continues about how the Maze represents the last page of the park’s story. They spot Armistice bathing in the distance, revealing leave for Wyatt, rescuing a large snake tattoo that’s been added all tortured Teddy. Cullen takes over her body. Tenderloin and some other members of Hector’s gang ambush them, and Armistice explains that they’re on a mission for something valuable. The Man in Black promptly shoots two of the gang members and offers himself in their place.

Stubbs is alerted that Dolores seems to have gone rogue, and with all the changes Ford is making in preparation for his new story, it’s impossible to tell if anything is wrong with her. Stubbs orders her flagged for retrieval.

Dolores walks into Lawrence’s hometown and meets his daughter, now just sitting in place and drawing in the dirt with nothing to do now that the rest of her family is gone. She tells Dolores they’re both here for the same reason, to which the voice again tells her to remember, and she gets a flash of a church, whose steeple matches the frame that’s part of Ford’s new story. Dolores sees that her drawing is the same Maze pattern, when a man accosts her to try to get her back home. After more flashes of walking
investigation into the church as well as her gun, William interrupts stray, not trusting Elsie and gets the man to back off. He’s found a lead on their bounty target Slim, and Dolores decides to keep going with him.

The rest of Hector’s gang watches from a hilltop as Armistice
Bernard. She meets with two men who have information she needs. After a few seconds she kills both of them, and the gang keeps riding on their mission.

William talks with Dolores, but has trouble not bringing up her artificial nature. She responds similarly to the interviews, saying she’s never before questioned her life but now she feels a call to go somewhere else. Then the moon triggers a flashback of spotlights as a retrieval team examines her after being shot, causing her to feel faint.

A guest with Hector’s gang named Todd excitedly greets the Man in Black, saying his sister’s life was saved by his foundation. The Man in Black curtly rejects the overture, insisting that he’s on vacation as he needs to keep all thoughts of the outside world away during his search for The Maze. Upon hearing their plan to steal a cannon to break into a prison, the Man in Black declares he doesn’t have time for this and says he’ll do it himself in exchange for the story behind Armistice’s tattoo. He also brings up Arnold, showing just how high level he is in the company to know the story. He believes Arnold had one more story to tell at the time of his death, which will make the stories of the park have the true danger of death so they can have real meaning.

The Man in Black gets arrested stealing horses along with Lawrence to get into the prison, and on the way discusses how Lawrence can’t comprehend that he’s never made any real choices for himself, but will soon be set free. Lawrence is taken off to be executed while the Man in Black is thrown in a cell with Hector. He again openly discusses the park’s true nature, saying that Hector had always seemed overly manufactured as a melodramatic gunslinger. Hector replies that he’s always believed everything in the world will end badly and only truly brave people can accept that, bringing the Man in Black up short as it’s strikingly close to his own worldview. He uses a trick cigar to send a request for explosions to Stubbs, letting him blow the door open, and he and Hector rescue Lawrence.

On returning to the gang, the Man in Black turns down an offer to join, and gives them advice that the Mariposa safe they’ve all been programmed to want will never actually give them anything. As agreed, Armistice shares her new backstory: Wyatt’s men massacred her entire village when she was a child, and ever since she’s been tracking them down and killing them one by one, using their blood to fill in her snake tattoo. Now only Wyatt is left.

A group of soldiers escorts Native Americans through Sweetwater, and a little girl drops a doll modeled after the staff’s hazmat suits. Maeve recognizes it and asks what it means, but a soldier tells her it’s part of their religion, which they never reveal to outsiders. At the Mariposa she recognizes Tenderloin from a wanted poster as the robbery storyline is being set up, and Clementine reminds her that Hector is said to live alongside the Natives, causing Maeve to wonder if he can be her way to learning more about the doll.

After her latest tryst with Bernard, Theresa brings up how she needs to talk to
Ford about the problems his new story is causing. Despite her best efforts, Bernard’s experience with the hosts lets him pick up on her innate fear, and narrative, but he advises her in how to carry herself to demands she not show it.

Theresa meets Ford at a spot in the desert where he’s supervising a massive excavation and demolition to prepare for his story, with hosts providing the labor. They go to a nearby restaurant for their conversation, where Theresa shares that her parents took her to this very spot as a child, where she was struck by the beauty of it. Ford shares how at the beginning he had a very optimistic view of what the park would bring out in its guests, while Arnold knew better. He also advised Ford not to let Delos become such a major stakeholder, to no avail, then “lost his perspective.” Ford then makes several shows of power for Theresa: freezing all the hosts in their tracks on no apparent command,
interfere, revealing that he’s purposely put them at the very same table where she sat as a child and even knows his knowledge about her relationship past and affair with Bernard, and Lowe. Maeve is even more well-connected with Delos themselves as they told him but not her they were sending a representative. He concludes by having visions, and during Escaton and Armistice's attack on the view town she loved so much bulldozed as he says this is all him asking nicely for finds a bullet in her not to interfere unscarred belly with his plans.

William and Logan reach Slim’s hideout, and William urges Dolores to stay behind, openly saying
assistance, proving that she can get hurt by Slim but he can’t. her visions are real. They easily mow down Slim’s whole gang, and Logan gets especially violent with Slim himself, stealing his better gun afterwards.

Lawrence complains about
kiss passionately as the Man in Black dragging him to take on Wyatt alone, when they run into Teddy, who’s been badly beaten and tied to a tree after Wyatt ambushed him.

Slim tells Holden his boss El Lazo in Pariah will double the pay the authorities are offering, to which Logan unhesitatingly shoots Holden in the head to William’s shock. He reminds William they’re all just robots, and Slim’s offer is an Easter egg to the more complicated story Logan wanted all along. Dolores objects so Logan pulls his gun on her, to which William threatens to kill Slim and end the story. Logan is again happy to see this side of him, and encourages him to go “black hat,” even saying that Dolores will still like him no matter what as she was presumably sent to them as a love interest.

Hector’s robbery of the Mariposa gets going again, and since this time he has guests in his gang, Stubbs orders some of the soldiers to fight so they have something to do. And thanks to the evolution Maeve has been going through, she’s able to get the drop on Hector as soon as he walks in. They go right to the safe, where Maeve offers the combination for information about the hazmat suits. Control gets an alert that a family is heading back to Sweetwater early, so they cut off the violent scene by remotely jamming everyone’s guns, with the guests headed to spend a night in jail before a prostitute smuggles them a key. As Armistice is brutally gunned down by the new Sheriff Reed, Maeve tells Hector what’s been happening to her, and her says the Natives call the
sheriff's men in the suits shades, sent from Hell to keep watch on the world, and it’s considered a gift from the gods to see one. Finally, Maeve gets his help in cutting open her abdomen, where they find fire through the bullet she was shot with. Maeve declares that it means nothing in their world matters, and they kiss as Reed and his men shoot them both.

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Logan decides to finish the bounty hunt and mocks William for bringing Dolores along. They capture the fugitive, but Logan decides to have a better adventure by taking him to his boss. Meanwhile, the Man in Black, accompanied by Lawrence, is hunting snakes and finds Armistice with her snake tattoo. He breaks Escaton out of prison for her, and she tells him that the tattoo represents all of her victims, who were Wyatt's men. The Man in Black and Lawrence leave for Wyatt, rescuing a tortured Teddy. Cullen takes over the investigation into the stray, not trusting Elsie and Bernard. She meets Ford about his new narrative, but he demands she not interfere, revealing his knowledge about her past and affair with Lowe. Maeve is having visions, and during Escaton and Armistice's attack on the town she finds a bullet in her unscarred belly with his assistance, proving that her visions are real. They kiss passionately as the sheriff's men open fire through the door.

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Dolores’ next interview occurs right after the deaths of her parents, and she rejects an offer to stop feeling the grief of that loss as it’s all she has left of them, just like Bernard had said about his son’s death. She goes on that she can feel herself changing and becoming more real because of the grief, as the Man in Black had said. Finally, she departs from her usual optimistic view of the world, saying something may be wrong with it, or her. She’s offered a game called The Maze, like the Man in Black is searching for, and upon hearing that winning it will set her free, says she wants that. She wakes up at the campsite with the gun still in her hand, and William watching over her.

Maeve and Clementine make small talk, when seeing a drunken guest nearby causes Maeve’s hearing to glitch. She then gets a flashback of the same guest killing everyone in the Mariposa, and even some brief memories of being retrieved and repaired. She runs back to her bedroom, where she finds no bullet wound in her stomach like she remembered, but there is a small blood patch on her shirt that the techs missed. She draws a picture of the hazmat suits they wear during retrieval, but when she goes to hide it under a floorboard, she finds several other similar drawings, revealing this has happened to her several times before and then been erased by a memory wipe.

Elsie tries to downplay the woodcutter incident in her report to Theresa, saying it didn’t hurt her or Stubbs, but Theresa accuses her of covering up a mistake and announces that QA will be taking over the investigation of the malfunctions. Bernard quickly agrees, and Elsie follows him to complain, as there’s clearly a larger issue that Behavior needs autonomy to figure out. Bernard replies that she’s ascribing human behavior to the hosts where there isn’t any, and the carving she kept isn’t even a constellation like she thought.

William wants to take Dolores back to Sweetwater, upsetting
Logan decides to finish as it would make the bounty hunt and mocks story even more of a waste of time. He also suspects she was specifically sent to them due to the connection William for bringing Dolores along. They capture the fugitive, but Logan decides to have a better adventure by taking him to his boss. Meanwhile, the Man in Black, accompanied by Lawrence, is hunting snakes and finds Armistice made with her snake tattoo. He breaks Escaton out of prison for her, and she tells on their first meeting, to get him more invested in the park. He goes on that their company needs to increase its stake in the tattoo represents all of her victims, who were Wyatt's men. park, to William’s dismay as he was hoping the trip wasn’t about business.

The Man in Black and Lawrence leave for Wyatt, rescuing reach the Blood Arroyo, and he continues about how the Maze represents the last page of the park’s story. They spot Armistice bathing in the distance, revealing a tortured Teddy. Cullen takes large snake tattoo that’s been added all over her body. Tenderloin and some other members of Hector’s gang ambush them, and Armistice explains that they’re on a mission for something valuable. The Man in Black promptly shoots two of the investigation gang members and offers himself in their place.

Stubbs is alerted that Dolores seems to have gone rogue, and with all the changes Ford is making in preparation for his new story, it’s impossible to tell if anything is wrong with her. Stubbs orders her flagged for retrieval.

Dolores walks into Lawrence’s hometown and meets his daughter, now just sitting in place and drawing in the dirt with nothing to do now that the rest of her family is gone. She tells Dolores they’re both here for the same reason, to which the voice again tells her to remember, and she gets a flash of a church, whose steeple matches the frame that’s part of Ford’s new story. Dolores sees that her drawing is the same Maze pattern, when a man accosts her to try to get her back home. After more flashes of walking
into the stray, church as well as her gun, William interrupts and gets the man to back off. He’s found a lead on their bounty target Slim, and Dolores decides to keep going with him.

The rest of Hector’s gang watches from a hilltop as Armistice meets with two men who have information she needs. After a few seconds she kills both of them, and the gang keeps riding on their mission.

William talks with Dolores, but has trouble
not trusting Elsie bringing up her artificial nature. She responds similarly to the interviews, saying she’s never before questioned her life but now she feels a call to go somewhere else. Then the moon triggers a flashback of spotlights as a retrieval team examines her after being shot, causing her to feel faint.

A guest with Hector’s gang named Todd excitedly greets the Man in Black, saying his sister’s life was saved by his foundation. The Man in Black curtly rejects the overture, insisting that he’s on vacation as he needs to keep all thoughts of the outside world away during his search for The Maze. Upon hearing their plan to steal a cannon to break into a prison, the Man in Black declares he doesn’t have time for this
and Bernard. She says he’ll do it himself in exchange for the story behind Armistice’s tattoo. He also brings up Arnold, showing just how high level he is in the company to know the story. He believes Arnold had one more story to tell at the time of his death, which will make the stories of the park have the true danger of death so they can have real meaning.

The Man in Black gets arrested stealing horses along with Lawrence to get into the prison, and on the way discusses how Lawrence can’t comprehend that he’s never made any real choices for himself, but will soon be set free. Lawrence is taken off to be executed while the Man in Black is thrown in a cell with Hector. He again openly discusses the park’s true nature, saying that Hector had always seemed overly manufactured as a melodramatic gunslinger. Hector replies that he’s always believed everything in the world will end badly and only truly brave people can accept that, bringing the Man in Black up short as it’s strikingly close to his own worldview. He uses a trick cigar to send a request for explosions to Stubbs, letting him blow the door open, and he and Hector rescue Lawrence.

On returning to the gang, the Man in Black turns down an offer to join, and gives them advice that the Mariposa safe they’ve all been programmed to want will never actually give them anything. As agreed, Armistice shares her new backstory: Wyatt’s men massacred her entire village when she was a child, and ever since she’s been tracking them down and killing them one by one, using their blood to fill in her snake tattoo. Now only Wyatt is left.

A group of soldiers escorts Native Americans through Sweetwater, and a little girl drops a doll modeled after the staff’s hazmat suits. Maeve recognizes it and asks what it means, but a soldier tells her it’s part of their religion, which they never reveal to outsiders. At the Mariposa she recognizes Tenderloin from a wanted poster as the robbery storyline is being set up, and Clementine reminds her that Hector is said to live alongside the Natives, causing Maeve to wonder if he can be her way to learning more about the doll.

After her latest tryst with Bernard, Theresa brings up how she needs to talk to Ford about the problems his new story is causing. Despite her best efforts, Bernard’s experience with the hosts lets him pick up on her innate fear, and he advises her in how to carry herself to not show it.

Theresa
meets Ford about at a spot in the desert where he’s supervising a massive excavation and demolition to prepare for his new narrative, but he demands story, with hosts providing the labor. They go to a nearby restaurant for their conversation, where Theresa shares that her parents took her to this very spot as a child, where she was struck by the beauty of it. Ford shares how at the beginning he had a very optimistic view of what the park would bring out in its guests, while Arnold knew better. He also advised Ford not interfere, to let Delos become such a major stakeholder, to no avail, then “lost his perspective.” Ford then makes several shows of power for Theresa: freezing all the hosts in their tracks on no apparent command, revealing his knowledge that he’s purposely put them at the very same table where she sat as a child and even knows about her past and affair relationship with Lowe. Maeve Bernard, and is even more well-connected with Delos themselves as they told him but not her they were sending a representative. He concludes by having visions, and during Escaton and Armistice's attack on the town view she finds a bullet in loved so much bulldozed as he says this is all him asking nicely for her unscarred belly not to interfere with his assistance, proving plans.

William and Logan reach Slim’s hideout, and William urges Dolores to stay behind, openly saying
that her visions are real. she can get hurt by Slim but he can’t. They easily mow down Slim’s whole gang, and Logan gets especially violent with Slim himself, stealing his better gun afterwards.

Lawrence complains about the Man in Black dragging him to take on Wyatt alone, when they run into Teddy, who’s been badly beaten and tied to a tree after Wyatt ambushed him.

Slim tells Holden his boss El Lazo in Pariah will double the pay the authorities are offering, to which Logan unhesitatingly shoots Holden in the head to William’s shock. He reminds William they’re all just robots, and Slim’s offer is an Easter egg to the more complicated story Logan wanted all along. Dolores objects so Logan pulls his gun on her, to which William threatens to kill Slim and end the story. Logan is again happy to see this side of him, and encourages him to go “black hat,” even saying that Dolores will still like him no matter what as she was presumably sent to them as a love interest.

Hector’s robbery of the Mariposa gets going again, and since this time he has guests in his gang, Stubbs orders some of the soldiers to fight so they have something to do. And thanks to the evolution Maeve has been going through, she’s able to get the drop on Hector as soon as he walks in. They go right to the safe, where Maeve offers the combination for information about the hazmat suits. Control gets an alert that a family is heading back to Sweetwater early, so they cut off the violent scene by remotely jamming everyone’s guns, with the guests headed to spend a night in jail before a prostitute smuggles them a key. As Armistice is brutally gunned down by the new Sheriff Reed, Maeve tells Hector what’s been happening to her, and her says the Natives call the men in the suits shades, sent from Hell to keep watch on the world, and it’s considered a gift from the gods to see one. Finally, Maeve gets his help in cutting open her abdomen, where they find the bullet she was shot with. Maeve declares that it means nothing in their world matters, and they
kiss passionately as the sheriff's Reed and his men open fire through the door.
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* MisplacedWildlife: The vulture, perched on the tree Teddy is tied to, is not a native of the American Southwest. Of course, since this is Westworld, its species was probably chosen strictly for RuleOfCool.

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* MisplacedWildlife: The vulture, [[CirclingVultures perched on the tree Teddy is tied to, to]], is not a native of the American Southwest. Of course, since this is Westworld, its species was probably chosen strictly for RuleOfCool.
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* GodGuise: This episode reveals that Native Americans within the park revere the staff, believing them to be the creator gods. Apparently, insufficient memory wipes have led them to remember {{Cleanup Crew}}s in hazmat suits as "shades" who ferry the dead to the afterlife.
* HealItWithFire: Maeve uses a cigarette the sterilize the edge of Escaton's knife, takes some big swigs from a bottle, then shoves the blade into her belly.

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* GodGuise: This An inadvertent version; this episode reveals that Native Americans within the park revere the staff, believing them to be the creator gods. Apparently, insufficient memory wipes have led them to remember {{Cleanup Crew}}s in hazmat suits as "shades" who ferry the dead to the afterlife.
* HealItWithFire: Maeve uses a cigarette the to sterilize the edge of Escaton's knife, takes some big swigs from a bottle, then shoves the blade into her belly.
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** Season 2 reveals that the Lakota hosts are actually [[spoiler: way ahead of the curve when it comes to waking up.]]
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** Season 2 reveals that the Lakota hosts are actually [[spoiler: way ahead of the curve when it comes to waking up.]]
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* YoureNotMyType: Second-hand version when Lawrence and the Man in Black notice Armistice bathing herself by the side of a river, and the Man in Black mockingly chides his recently-married prisoner for checking out another woman. Lawrence recoils at the idea, claiming that [[DarkActionGirl someone like Armistice]] is too psychotic for him.
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* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: On seeing Armistice bathing topless, Lawrence rejects the idea that he's attracted to to this cold-blooded killer.

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* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: On seeing Armistice bathing topless, Lawrence rejects the idea that he's attracted to to this cold-blooded killer.

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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Averted; when a host tries to force Dolores to return to her usual loop at the Abernathy farm, Dolores refuses to budge and replies with a KubrickStare.

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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Averted; when a host tries to force Dolores to return to her usual loop at the Abernathy farm, Dolores refuses to budge and replies with a KubrickStare. William then breaks the deadlock by saying she's with him. The host backs down before the guest's wishes.

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* ClickHello: Lampshaded when Escaton finds Maeve's derringer at his head. "Interesting way to start a conversation."

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** The Man in Black is eyeing the bathing outlaw when he hears a gun cock. He turns to find her gang has snuck up on them.
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* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: On seeing Armistice bathing topless, Lawrence rejects the idea that he's attracted to to this cold-blooded killer.
-->"I like a little fire in my women. The only thing she's ever mounted are [[DecapitationPresentation dead heads on sticks]]."
* OutdoorBathPeeping: The Man in Black sees the tattooed snake lady bathing and is impressed, though more so because he's never encountered her before (presumably she's one of Ford's recent modifications).

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* AnachronismStew: Logan helps himself to a double-action Colt Model 1917.

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* AnachronismStew: Logan helps himself to a double-action Colt Model 1917. The armoured wagon carrying our {{Trojan Prisoner}}s has a Browning water-cooled machine gun, also from the same year.
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* MisplacedWildlife: The vulture, perched on the tree Teddy is tied to, is not a native of the American Southwest. Of course, since this is Westworld, it's species was probably chosen strictly for RuleOfCool.

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* MisplacedWildlife: The vulture, perched on the tree Teddy is tied to, is not a native of the American Southwest. Of course, since this is Westworld, it's its species was probably chosen strictly for RuleOfCool.
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* JailBake: Lampshaded when the robbers are captured; it's decided to have them sprung from jail later by having one of the girls sneaking them a key in their food.

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* JailBake: Lampshaded when the robbers are captured; it's decided to have them sprung from jail later by having one of the girls sneaking prostitutes sneak them a key in their food.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Clementine has fond memories of a cowpoke who poked her quite skillfully.

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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Clementine has fond memories of a well-endowed cowpoke who poked her quite skillfully.

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* MotivationalLie: The Man in Black tells an injured Teddy that Wyatt kidnapped Dolores, convincing him to power through his injuries. When he's called out on this by Dr. Ford, he says he was just making the story a little more interesting.

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* RunningGag: Lawrence is again saved JustInTime from being executed, with another BattleDiscretionShot.

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Lawrence is again saved JustInTime from being executed, with another BattleDiscretionShot.BattleDiscretionShot.
** More SoundtrackDissonance during the saloon robbery, this time Habanera from ''Carmen Suite No.2''.
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** Cullen finds Ford supervising a giant earthmoving machine. After their conversation takes a sour turn, it's shown advancing on the restaurant.

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-->'''Ford:''' In here we were gods. And you, merely our guests.

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