Westworld Season 4, Episode 2 Recap: Meet Delos’ Latest Theme Park

Westworld season 4 returned with a second episode on Sunday, serving up daring murders, human take a look at topics, extra puzzling references to a “tower” and a brand new Delos theme park. Yet another epic revelation? Human William continues to be within the land of the residing. 

Here is a helpful abstract of what went down on this week’s info-packed version of Westworld. There will probably be eight episodes on this season of HBO‘s mind-bending sci-fi sequence, which means now we have six extra weeks to make sense out of all of the insanity. Let’s go well with up and get into it.

Elevating Hale

Darkish Charlotte Hale has entered the chat. Charlores, the model of Hale outfitted with a replica of Delores’ thoughts, is again, and he or she’s masterminding some kind of plan. We just about knew this already — the top credit of final season confirmed Hale constructing hosts and revealed a model of William who solutions to her — however episode 2 will get Maeve and Caleb up to the mark on Charlores’ involvement. It seems group Hale changed California Senator Ken Whitney and his spouse, Anastasia, with host variations, killing the actual senator and assigning a distinct ugly destiny to Anastasia. One other reveal: The host model of Ken Whitney, who calls himself “an emissary of the brand new world order,” says there are 249 others like him.

Crew Hale’s subduing of high-profile individuals would not cease with Whitney. Later in episode 2, the vp convenes with host William at a golf course. Their dialog is cryptic, nevertheless it looks as if William is making an attempt to get his park enterprise going once more after the Westworld bloodbath, and the VP is not jazzed concerning the concept. (It appears Hale killed and changed the senator due to an analogous obstinance.) After sinking one-too-many eerily spot-on golf pictures, scaring the VP, William whacks him with a golf membership.

Jim Navarro, the deputy assistant legal professional normal for counterterrorism, additionally tries (unsuccessfully) to intrude with Delos. Crew Chalores zip-ties him in a automobile, and Chalores introduces herself because the particular person working the present. She says she’s planning one thing for his form, nevertheless it’s to not change all people with hosts. She leaves him, and we see a fly crawl into his eye.

A fast reminder — in case you want it — of what flipped the villain change for Chalores: In season 3, Chalores misplaced human Charlotte’s son and husband in a fiery automobile explosion brought on by season antagonist Engerraund Serac (Dolores can be type of inadvertently accountable for his or her deaths). Chalores is within the automobile too, however survives. She at the moment shows scars from the incident on her arm, and within the season 3 finale, she tells human William it is as a result of she desires “to recollect who the fuck you persons are.”

Human take a look at topics

Chalores’ entourage would not kill actual Anastasia (Senator Whitney’s spouse) on the spot, however her destiny is arguably worse. Chalores says Anastasia is the “excellent candidate” for a brand new experiment Chalores is researching. A while later, Caleb and Maeve come throughout Anastasia in a barn… and he or she’s slashed up a bunch of poor horses. She lunges at Caleb, forcing Maeve to shoot her. Her altered psychological state type of jogs my memory of what occurred to the man from the cartel-like group final episode. We did not see any flies round her this time, however I would not be shocked in the event that they’re tied to her creepy zombification?

What’s ‘the tower’?

On her commute to work, Christina usually sees a person on the road ranting a couple of “tower.” In Sunday’s episode, the man says a “track with no sound” is coming from the tower, and that nobody can hear the “music” however him and the birds. Christina strikes on, however subsequently sees an uncommon swarm of lifeless birds on the bottom outdoors of her workplace.

Startled, Christina skips work and pays a go to to the Hope Middle for Well being, a clinic Peter’s obituary says he donated to after his demise (a reminder: Peter is the persistent caller who mentioned Christina wrote him right into a sport after which jumped off a constructing). Perplexingly, she finds the place was closed down years in the past. Whereas contained in the deserted clinic, she sees drawings of a tower on a wall.

In final week’s episode, Peter additionally mentions a “tower” when confronting Christina earlier than his demise (he says he is aware of each Christina and “the tower” are actual). Time to start out working in your theories if you have not already.

William is alive!

What a reveal. William — who bought his throat slit by host William within the post-credits of final season — is miraculously nonetheless alive. However ought to we actually be shocked at this level? Characters on this present resurrect like no different.

I am comfortable to see him. Actual William is unquestionably flawed, however his “demise” final season was unsatisfying. Seeing host William this season as a soulless, pure-bred villain additionally made me miss the actual factor.

Oh yeah, let’s discuss concerning the scene. Chalores wakes human William up from a cryosleep and tells him she’s preserving him round “to be the loser.” She additionally provides extra context to what she instructed Navarro from the Justice Division about her plans. She says people “made a sport out of searching us, so I needed to reduce off your paws — ensure you individuals would by no means be capable to hurt us once more.” The flies, the zombified people and now this — it certain looks as if Hale’s plan is coming into focus.

The roaring ’20s

This episode places Maeve and Caleb on a prepare headed for Delos’ latest attraction, a theme park set within the ’20s. (A touch is in one thing host William says, “150 years in the past,” the world got here “roaring” again after battle). William welcomes us to “the Golden Age,” and Maeve and Caleb stroll out right into a metropolis bustling with brilliant lights and old-timey vehicles.

Stray ideas

• I am having fun with the Maleb scenes.
• Chalores’ new hosts are sturdy. Maeve and Caleb wrestle to take them down.
• Christina’s boss monitoring her location when she did not flip up at work — she must hightail it out of there. We all know Dolores would not jibe with that type of surveillance.
• I misplaced it at Host William {golfing} in head-to-toe black.
• This episode confirms that Christina wrote a online game character with an eerily comparable life story to Peter’s.
• The deaths of the Senator and his spouse… actually grim stuff.
• Nonetheless no signal of Bernard. On the finish of final season, he accessed the Chic/Valley Past, the place the place Maeve’s daughter and different hosts exist. Here is extra on that and all the pieces else that occurred in season 3 of Westworld.