This week on HBO’s Westworld, a well-known face lastly resurfaced, whereas issues turned lethal on the new theme park.
The episode “Annees Folles” lastly checks again in with Bernard, who has been “asleep” for seven years. Final time we noticed him, he was slumped ahead on a mattress gathering mud whereas the world went to hell round him. Fortunately, he’s had a buddy (and watchdog) in Ashley Stubbs, former head of safety at Westworld and simply essentially the most loyal sidekick within the present. Extra on that shortly.
The episode begins with Bernard opening his eyes within the Elegant. His son, Charlie, whispers to him, tells him to get up, and snatches the miniature maze — the one we’ve seen all through the present — from his arms. Bernard follows his son by way of a close-by door and into an enormous expanse of sunlit hills. Atop the closest ridge is a tree that bursts into flames earlier than his eyes, main him to a spot resembling Westworld. Our bodies litter the dusty streets. Flames lick at deserted carts. A wolf darts out of a close-by store to examine the lifeless. As Bernard takes within the sobering scene, a white horse gallops by way of the carnage. None of this makes a lot sense at current, however it wouldn’t be Westworld if any a part of this story was clear from the get-go.
The scene modifications once more, this time placing Bernard face-to-face with the identical horse as large screens flicker round them. He trudges by way of the imaginative and prescient and ultimately arrives at… a tower. The writers have dropped hints about this all through the season, and this construction resembles the drawing Christine glimpsed on the psychological well being clinic.
Bernard advances into the constructing and finds that the horse has led him to Akecheta, who explains the place he’s and why he’s taken the shape he has. Bernard returns from the Elegant and hits the street with Stubbs.
In the meantime, Maeve and Caleb navigate Delos’ flashy new Twenties-inspired theme park. (“They spare no expense on their prisons” is without doubt one of the saltiest Maeve quotes but.) The narrative set-ups within the park are acquainted: each alternative you make, each host you assist, units in movement a sequence of occasions that feels natural however is in actual fact meticulously plotted and managed. This will not be a Wild West simulation anymore, however it’s nonetheless a Delos enterprise. Which means manipulation and shameless self-indulgence will abound. Caleb reaches for a can rolling previous him on the street however Maeve stops him, steering him away from one of many park’s pre-set storylines.
Bernard and Stubbs cease at a roadside diner. Bernard assessments the integrity of his actuality and instructs Stubbs to order a tuna soften. Stubbs asks Bernard what he’s as much as. Bernard replies, “Making an attempt to discern which right here is right here.” He explains that the Elegant confirmed him numerous realities that might come to be; by triggering a selected collection of occasions, Bernard hopes to place the world on a path to survival slightly than destruction. He kills two diner patrons earlier than a girl pulls into the car parking zone. In accordance with Bernard, she’s key to saving the world. Bernard reveals her a drawing of the Maze on a coaster and she or he tells them to come back along with her.
Again on the park, Maeve and Caleb wait at The Butterfly Membership. A gaggle of mobsters storm the bar, permitting Maeve and Caleb to cover amongst the piles of lifeless hosts introduced again to the Delos facility for restore. As they navigate the constructing, they combat themselves caught in one other degree of the sport initiated by this park’s Dolores. Maeve is injured, however the two handle to achieve the decrease degree. There, they uncover that the corporate is creating a type of parasite. Additional in, they see clouds of the flies that William and Dolores-Hale used to deprave and kill their victims.
Caleb’s spouse, Uwade, and their daughter, Frankie, discover themselves in peril as the lads guarding them seem like compromised. Uwade kills one among them and escapes with Frankie.
Within the desert, the mysterious lady blindfolds Stubbs and Bernard, leads them into the desert, and guides them by way of a collection of traps and safeguards earlier than introducing them to different members of her group. Bernard says there’s a weapon hidden within the desert and that he will help them discover it.
The episodes leaves us on an agonizing observe: William and Maeve combat briefly however brutally (the previous gaining the higher hand), and Caleb discovers that Delos is controlling prisoners. He saves a number copy of his daughter, solely to comprehend he has fallen right into a entice. Host Frankie’s head then opens, and a cloud of these bastard flies assaults Caleb….
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