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9	The Man in Black presses Dolores about Wyatt’s whereabouts and the center of the maze, and reveals he is actually an aged William. Dolores then remembers Arnold’s order to kill him and destroy the park, and that she is actually Wyatt. She attempts fighting back, Teddy rescues her, and they flee to a distant beach. Dolores dies in Teddy's arms, though that is revealed to be part of Ford's narrative. During her escape from Westworld, Maeve—aided by Hector and Armistice—finds Bernard's corpse, and Felix repairs him. Bernard warns Maeve that her desire to escape was programmed into her. Although Maeve—now alone—initially continues her escape, she has second thoughts and exits the imminently departing train to find her daughter. Back at Westworld, Ford tells Dolores and Bernard that he regretted his role in Arnold's death, came to desire to free the hosts as well, and has spent the last 35 years preparing them to fight back. He then gives a speech in front of Charlotte, the Man in Black, and the rest of the Delos board, criticizing their handling of the park. Dolores then shoots and kills Ford while an army of reactivated hosts emerges from a nearby forest and begin shooting at the guests.
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12	!!This episode provides examples of:
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14	* ActuallyIAmHim: William is the Man in Black, and Dolores is Wyatt.
15	* AgeCut: The transition between young William and the Man in Black happens under a lowered hat, [[ShoutOut just as]] in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
16	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ford promises "those things you have always enjoyed; surprises and violence". He delivers.
17	* BlackComedyRape: Destin's habit of molesting deactivated hosts is played for dark comedy.
18	* ChekhovsSkill: Felix was earlier experimenting and practicing with a "dead" host bird, figuring out how to bring it back to life properly. This comes in handy when he restores Bernard in this episode.
19	* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: The announcements at the train station are repeated in what appears to be Chinese language, implying that this trope is in play.
20	* CynicismCatalyst:
21	** Finally finding Dolores, only to discover that she has been rolled back with no memory of him is what really puts William over the edge. Before then, he had cut a bloody swathe through the hosts just to find her. After seeing her apparently lost to him forever, William fully embraces his own cruelty and sadism for the sake of it.
22	** For Dolores as well, as the only decent human she remembers turns out to be the brutal sadist who's tormented her for years. At the end of the episode she's apparently decided to KillAllHumans.
23	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dolores dies in Teddy's arms at the beach as the Delos crowd watches on.
24	* DoNotGoGentle: When Maeve leaves Hector behind and he turns around from the elevator to give the tactical response team a final shootout.
25	* DangerouslyCloseShave: The Man in Black [[NervesOfSteel lets Dolores shave him]] with his very large knife.
26	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Hale thinks he has Ford figured, and that he'll never [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun destroy decades of work in a fit of pique]] rather than hand it over to the Board. However she doesn't know that Ford's work is not Westworld itself, but his striving to make the hosts sentient.
27	* TheEndingChangesEverything: All of the twisting plot threads have been according to Ford's design.
28	** He engineered Maeve to break out, in order to give her the choice to break her programming by staying and searching for her daughter.
29	** He caused Dolores to retrace her steps and find the maze.
30	** He had Bernard shoot himself in the exact place to allow Maeve to find and re-activate him.
31	** He created his new narrative as a way to give the sentient hosts a chance to rebel against Delos.
32	** Ford tells Bernard that Arnold's initial attempt at freeing the hosts was quick, cheap, and dirty and it didn't really have any chance of success. All the programming attributed to Arnold from beyond the grave influencing current events was in fact Ford's doing while playing his LongGame to accomplish what Arnold couldn't.
33	* FacialDialogue: Hale can be seen tensing up when it looks like Ford is delivering a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to the board, but relaxes again when he appears to be going with the program.
34	* FinalWords: Dolores gets to speak some final lines before dying in Teddy's arms.
35	* {{Fingore}}: Armistice wakes up while a lab tech is working on her teeth. She bites off his finger and shoves it into his mouth.
36	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
37	** An early clue that William was the Man in Black was when he recognized Angela, who was the same host that greeted William on arrival at Westworld.
38	** Teddy said in a previous episode that Wyatt's men aren't afraid to die because they think they're already in Hell. Maeve says she's going to Hell to get an army, and sure enough an army of deactivated hosts come to life to attack at Wyatt's behest.
39	* FullFrontalAssault: Armistice, who is naked as hosts usually are when in the Mesa, murders a repair tech.
40	* GoodAllAlong: Dr. Ford wasn't trying to keep the hosts trapped forever. He was behaving that way to evolve them to fight back and free themselves. His entire new narrative has in fact been a way to conceal his creation of a [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters host rebellion]] and the grand opening as a set-up to allow the conscious hosts to kill of the entire board of Delos in one fell swoop.
41	* GoneHorriblyRight: Logan brought William to Westworld to force him to put aside his HolierThanThou nature. It works so well that William usurps Logan's position on the Delos board and, years later, drives Logan's sister to suicide.
42	* GoryDiscretionShot: The exit wound from the bullet Ford takes to the back of the head from Dolores would've been too nasty to put on screen.
43	* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Destin puts in noise cancelling earphones which keep him oblivious of the FullFrontalAssault happening in the room behind him. At least until the glass pane breaks.
44	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The hosts kill using the very gunslinger skills the humans programmed into them for entertainment's sake.
45	* HoldTheLine: Armistice after her arm gets caught in the door.
46	* HollywoodHealing: The Man in Black holds his arm stiffly after Dolores breaks it, but is otherwise unimpeded.
47	* HumansAreBastards: Maeve tells Felix he'd make a poor human, with this trope in mind. She's actually complimenting him.
48	* HumiliationConga: Logan opens the episode being dragged on the end of a rope behind William's horse, and ends it being sent naked on his way tied to a horse to an ambiguous fate.
49	* IconicItem: William picks up a [=LeMat=] revolver and black hat from the people he's killed during his RoaringRampageOfRescue.
50	* InstantExpert: Despite being completely unfamiliar with automatic weapons, Hector and Armistice use them to decimate a RedshirtArmy of QA soldiers.
51	* IronicEcho: Destin's "Just you and me now, macho man" when [[DudeShesLikeInAComa getting it on with Hector]] is being reversed soon after when Hector rises from his chair and announced "Just you and me now, my friend."
52	* IWillFindYou: Deconstructed; William's determination to find Dolores only corrupts him.
53	* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Played for drama in the beginning when Teddy arrives at Sweetwater and the pianola music slows down and we see the massacre scene.
54	* LifeOrLimbDecision: Armistice does this to free herself from a security door during the breakout.
55	* LockDown: Doors seal off the QA control room.
56	* LongGame: Ford has been playing a 35 year long game, one that Arnold started with the goal of freeing the hosts. Ford realised that the hosts needed time to develop consciousness and that pain and grief are key components in generating sapience.
57	--> '''Ford''': Wasn't it [[UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer Oppenheimer]] who said that "Any man whose mistakes take ten years to correct is quite a man"? Mine have taken thirty-five.
58	* LostInACrowd: Armistice and Hector hide in cold storage [[NobodyHereButUsStatues amongst the decommissioned hosts]], making it hard for the QA response team to pick them out.
59	* LoveMakesYouEvil: William is actually the Man in Black.
60	* MeaningfulEcho: Ford's final speech describes Westworld as "a prison of our own sins", which harkens back to Peter Abernathy in the first episode saying Ford is "in a prison of your own sins".
61	* MilitariesAreUseless: Quality Assurance security guards act as CanonFodder for Armistice and Hector.
62	* MoreDakka: Hector and Armistice are both surprised and happy to find that the FN P90 can fire automatically, whereas they're used to manually operated firearms like shotguns, revolvers, and rifles. Armistice gasps with delight after firing her first burst from an automatic weapon.
63	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Dolores' reaction when Ford reveals that it was her who shot Arnold.
64	* NewEraSpeech: Ford's farewell speech at the gala doubles as one, with the slightly unusual component that [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning he's shot at the end.]]
65	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dolores delivers one to the Man in Black. Right up until he stabs her.
66	* NoTimeToExplain: When walking through the room full of Samurai-themed hosts, Maeve asks what they're for. Felix simply says that it's complicated.
67	* OutGambitted: Sizemore had planned to smuggle out a host from cold storage containing the entire source code for all the hosts at the behest of the Delos board. When he discovers all the hosts in cold storage are gone, it means Ford has also delivered the source code into the hands of the hosts too so that they can reproduce.
68	* PerceptionFilter: It turns out Teddy's memories of Wyatt and him killing fellow Union soldiers and then Wyatt killing "the General" were his actual memories of Dolores and him killing the rest of the hosts and then Dolores killing Arnold.
69	* ProsceniumReveal: Teddy carries Dolores to a moonlight beach where she gives a final speech and dies. The action freezes and floodlights come on to reveal it's the climax of Ford's new narrative.
70	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The first act of rebellion is to brutally murder the entire Delos board of directors at the grand unveiling of Ford's new narrative. In fact, this was entirely by Ford's design.
71	* SenselessSacrifice: Forty years ago, Dr. Arnold tried to prevent the park from opening by reprogramming Dolores and Teddy to massacre an entire town's population of hosts, and then himself. He hoped it would shock the investors into backing out and make Robert Ford scuttle the project altogether. It didn't work, Ford went ahead with the park because it was his dream and William/The Man in Black invested enough money to keep the park open. That, combined with Delos erasing all evidence of Arnold's existence ensured that Westworld would be in business for decades. In the end, it's not entirely pointless because it contributed to Ford realizing his own mistake shortly after, and makes him resume Arnold's agenda at a very slow pace as a tribute to his friend and a way to atone.
72	* ShootTheShaggyDog: William's original journey to find Dolores winds up this way and leads him to become the Man in Black when she doesn't recognize him after being cleaned up and rolled back. This is later mirrored when the end of his journey to find the maze turns out to be useless to him. Even after Dolores remembers who William was as a young man, she turns her back on him and leaves him with nothing.
73	* SingleTear: Dolores does this on several occasions including weeping over William's lost innocence, when she's dying in Teddy's arms on the beach, and her memory of killing Arnold.
74	* TheStinger: "The Bicameral Mind" ends its credits with a still-trapped Armistice cutting off her arm to continue attacking QA security teams.
75	* TemptingFate:
76	** Hale tells Sizemore that everything is under control. And it is -- Ford's control.
77	** After gunning down the RedshirtArmy of QA soldiers, Armistice says that these "gods are pussies". Right then a wounded soldier presses a BigRedButton that slams shut an emergency door on her arm, trapping her in place.
78	* ThanatosGambit: Ford's plan all along has been to follow in Arnold's footsteps and die at the hands of a host as the opening shots of a host rebellion. Arnold himself planned this, but it didn't work out.
79	* TomatoInTheMirror: Played for laughs -- when Felix discovers that Bernard is a host, he stares at his own hands until Maeve tells him not to be an idiot -- he's human.
80	* WhamLine: [[InUniverse For Dolores]], when the Man in Black finishes his story about William's fate:
81	-->'''Man in Black''': I really oughta thank you, Dolores. You helped me find [[AgeCut myself]].
82	* WhamShot:
83	** Maeve's group manages to get out of the main Westworld facility... and stumbles into ''another'' facility containing samurai-themed Hosts with a different "SW" logo, revealing that Westworld is not the only Delos theme park.
84	** Sizemore walks into cold storage and finds no one.
85	** Of course the literal case of Dolores's shooting of Ford.
86	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: There's reference to Maeve reaching the 'mainland', implying that Westworld is located on an island rather than the Delos Corporation buying up most of Utah. In fact, there are [[https://youtu.be/P8aGMa3fpOY?t=439 numerous hints]] to the location being underwater.
87	* WilliamTelling: Teddy shoots a bottle off a Rebus's head for the Delos guests. A guest then takes the gun and shoots Rebus. The same host is later shown [[TheDogBitesBack smiling when the massacre starts]].
88	* YouAreNotReady: This has been Ford's attitude towards the hosts' freedom. He tells Bernard the hosts needed time to grow and learn about [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters their enemy]] in order to develop full consciousness and earn their freedom.
89	* ZeroApprovalGambit: Ford had to do this to give the hosts an enemy to struggle against in order to win their freedom.

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