History TearJerker / Westworld

* Host-Charlotte succeeded in her plan by controlling humanity which makes Dolores' plan of freeing humanity in Season 3 AllForNothing. Caleb and Maeve are defeated with the former being killed and having a host copy while the latter is buried in the sand for many decades. And it's all up to Bernard, Frankie, and her human resistance group to pick up what Dolores has started.
* There's also Frankie. Her dad left to stop William from hurting his family but he never returns because he was killed by Hale's men. As she grows older, Frankie believes that her father is still alive in some capacity which is why she trusts Bernard to show her what he knows. Though Bernard did find Maeve who is the "weapon" that can stop Hale, he sadly tells Frankie that her father's body wasn't found. The worst part is that Hale built a host copy of Caleb who may be under her control.

** In her final moments, one of memories that flashed before her was William before he became the Man in Black. It is possible that she forgave him for the years of torment he brought and everyone else in the park and will remember the precious memories they spent together.

* Armistice's story about how she got her snake tattoo. Wyatt had murdered her entire family. To survive she had to cover herself in her mother's blood to make it appear she was already dead. She then hunted down and killed every one responsible except for Wyatt himself. When she tells the Man In Black the story, she has a pained, haunted look in her eyes.

* Lawrence about to be executed again. He just wants it over with and is yet again denied when the Man In Black saves him. Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when the Man In Black removes his blindfold. His reaction to seeing the entire firing squad dead? "Mother... fucker!"

* William and Dolores' kiss is arguably this as their realities are both terribly twisted and both are trying to make sense of what is happening.

* Maeve is finally given a full tour of Westworld, seeing the full process of how hosts are created and programmed. This also means finding out her dreams are actually stray memories from past builds. Finally she tries to insist that at least what she's saying right now is her own choice, only to be presented with a map of her dialogue choices that fills in word by word as she thinks of it. She then tries so hard to go off script that she crashes.

* Bernard turning out to be a host making it clear his wife and son never existed and then being forced to violently kill Theresa, the one real person he cares about.

* Logan wakes up from a drunken stupor after he and William make amends, the camera pans out as he looks around the camp and finds all of the Confederados dead. He can only stare in horror as he realize that William killed them all, his demeanor and voice completely devoid of any emotion around the scene. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.

* When William finds Dolores again he looks so happy to see her... And then we see how quickly his expression turns to something both heartbroken and ugly as some other player in Westworld picks up the same scenario he did when he first met Dolores. It doesn't excuse his later actions to both her or other hosts, but both his expression then and the way he narrates the story in the present, when he's become the sadistic Man in Black, makes it clear that he hasn't quite yet gotten over the bitterness of the realization that she is still a programmed being.

** Made perhaps even worse by the fact that contrary to what he may believe, what William and Dolores had is implied to be more special than he knows. It is shown that Dolores walked this path many times before, no doubt sometimes with other guests accompanying her. She never met William in this loop and he should be no more special to her than any other guest. Yet when she needed help most, she didn't hold out for Teddy or any other guest, she held out for William, showing that after thirty years and countless loops, William remains the one person she trusted above all others.

* Hector's reaction when he realizes that his heartfelt words to Maeve are still just phrases Sizemore programmed him with, after boasting that Sizemore understands nothing of who he is. Sizemore then shows rare depth when he admits to Maeve that he based Hector's long lost love and words on his own break-up.

* William reeks of melancholy through the entire episode. In his younger days, his meetings with Delos cause a huge emotional strain on him since he considered Delos a surrogate father, and he's forced to watch him slide into insanity over and over in an attempt to perfect human-host hybrid technology. His final meeting with Delos shows him as tired and casually cruel, lamenting the mistakes he's made and clearly at a loss for where he's meant to go. It's little wonder that he returned to Westworld in an attempt to find it's hidden meaning: he has nothing else left.

** Prior to this, Maeve finds out that Lawrence is finally awaken and reminds him of the terrible things that William did to him and his family. Lawrence is distraught when he remembers the Man in Black's actions and points at the injured William, who begs him that he saved his wife but Lawrence is too angry that he shoots him for his earlier actions.

* Akecheta traveled every inch of the park looking for his original wife, Kohana. Eventually he gets himself killed to search the park facilities for her. When he first finds her in cold storage, he’s thrilled to be reunited. However, she’s beyond unresponsive, not just not recognizing him like before but completely blank and motionless. Akecheta finally breaks down, crying while holding the empty shell of his beloved wife.

* Poor Teddy realizes that the woman he loves more than anything reprogrammed him to be a monster. But he still can't bring himself to hurt her nor can he bring himself to keep being with her. So he kills himself.

* The culmination of the tragedy that is Maeve's story line this season. Last season, she had the choice to escape the park before everything goes haywire, and instead chooses to sacrifice her potential freedom to save her daughter, knowing full well that her entire relationship with her was constructed by Delos. This season, she literally goes through hell in order to reach her daughter this episode, right as Delos spreads a virus causing Hosts to kill each other. Again choosing to sacrifice herself for her daughter, she uses her Host controlling powers to keep the killer Hosts at bay before being shot down by security personnel. Maeve looks at her daughter one last time to see her escape from the horror that is Westworld, and then smiles. Then, she dies. Damn... Though at least, Felix and Sylvester are there to revive her after they glance at her body.
* Elsie's death is shocking that this ironically leads Bernard to finally achieve self-awareness. It seems Ford maybe be right that hosts like him need to suffer to achieve consciousness. But given how Akecheta achieved his self-awareness on his own by remembering his wife, it can be given that Bernard really cares for Elsie as a friend which is why he refuses to kill her on Ford's orders and leaves her when going to the Forge. On the other hand, Elsie has to go to Charlotte and tries to bargain her so that she can secretly check up on Bernard to see if he's not controlled by Ford despite that he already deleted Ford from his mind.

* William takes Dolores out of cold storage just to force her to listen to a BreakingLecture dripping with contempt and FantasticRacism. Whereas he once used to genuinely love her, it's clear that he now truly despises her.

* Delores' final death. Rehoboam tears her mind apart, memory by memory, destroying everything that made her unique and alive and herself. Maeve communes with her via machine telepathy, and in her dying seconds, Delores isn't fighting, or angry, or vengeful, or even scared. She's standing by a tree near her home in the West, in the park, in the beauty she loved back in the simple days. She repeats her cornerstone, altered for her life, and what's she's seen. "They created us, and they knew enough of beauty to teach it to us. Maybe they can find it themselves." in the end, Delores wasn't a simple farm girl, or a violent rebel. She wasn't Abernathy or Wyatt. She was both and neither. She was herself. And she chose to give humanity the freedom she had fought so hard for. Despite there being at least one surviving clone, as well as Hale!Dolores, and possibly a pearl or two still in play, the Dolores that we've followed from the beginning is gone, never to return.

** In her final moments, her life flashed before and in one of them was William before he became the Man in Black. It is possible that she forgave him for the years of torment he brought and everyone else in the park and will remember the precious memories they spent together.

* Delores' final death. Rehoboam tears her mind apart, memory by memory, destroying everything that made her unique and alive and herself. Naive communes with her via machine telepathy, and jn her dying seconds, Delores isn't fighting, or angry, or vengeful, or even scared. She's standing by a tree near her home in the West, in the park, in the beauty she loved back in the simple days. She repeats her cornerstone, altered for her life, and what's she's seen. "They created us, and they knew enough of beauty to teach it to us. Maybe they can find it themselves." in the end, Delores wasn't a simple farm girl, or a violent rebel. She wasn't Abernathy or Wyatt. She was both and neither. She was herself. And she chose to give humanity the freedom she had fought so hard for. Despite there being at least one surviving clone, as well as Hale!Dolores, and possibly a pearl or two still in play, the Dolores that we've followed from the beginning is gone, never to return.

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* Delores' final death. Rehoboam tears her mind apart, memory by memory, destroying everything that made her unique and alive and herself. Naive communes with her via machine telepathy, and jn her dying seconds, Delores isn't fighting, or angry, or vengeful, or even scared. She's standing by a tree near her home in the West, in the park, in the beauty she loved back in the simple days. She repeats her cornerstone, altered for her life, and what's she's seen. "They created us, and they knew enough of beauty to teach it to us. Maybe they can find it themselves." in the end, Delores wasn't a simple farm girl, or a violent rebel. She wasn't Abernathy or Wyatt. She was both and neither. She was herself. And she chose to give humanity the freedom she had fought so hard for.
Despite there being at least one surviving clone, as well as Hale!Dolores, and possibly a pearl or two still in play, the Dolores that we've followed from the beginning is gone, never to return.

!!!Season 1