Warning: Main spoilers for Westworld coming in three, two…
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. Another epic revelation? Human William remains to be within the land of the residing.
Here is a useful abstract of what went down on this week’s info-packed version of Westworld. There shall be eight episodes on this season of HBO‘s mind-bending sci-fi sequence, that means we’ve six extra weeks to make sense out of all of the insanity. (I am attempting to attach the factors on my conspiracy board as we converse.) Lets swimsuit 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 she or he’s masterminding some kind of plan. We just about knew this already — the tip 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 workforce Hale changed California Senator Ken Whitney and his spouse, Anastasia, with host variations, killing the true senator and assigning a distinct grotesque 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.
I am not digging the soulless William copy working for Chalores… #NotmyWilliam.
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Workforce Hale’s subduing of high-profile individuals would not cease with Whitney. Later in episode 2, the vice chairman convenes with host William at a golf course. Their dialog is cryptic, however it looks as if William is attempting to get his park enterprise going once more after the Westworld bloodbath, and the VP is not jazzed in regards to the thought. (It appears Hale killed and changed the senator due to an analogous obstinance.) After sinking one-too-many eerily spot-on golf photographs, scaring the VP, William whacks him with a golf membership.
Jim Navarro, the deputy assistant legal professional basic for counterterrorism, additionally tries (unsuccessfully) to intrude with Delos. Workforce Chalores zip-ties him in a automobile, and Chalores introduces herself because the individual operating the present. She says she’s planning one thing for his sort, however it’s to not exchange 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 swap 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 (Delores can be type of inadvertently in charge for his or her deaths). Chalores is within the automobile too, however survives. She presently 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 individuals 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 she or he’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?
The Peter thriller deepens this episode.
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What’s ‘the tower’?
On her commute to work, Christina often 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 exterior of her workplace.
Startled, Christina skips work and pays a go to to the Hope Heart for Well being, a clinic Peter’s obituary says he donated to after his dying (a reminder: Peter is the persistent caller who mentioned Christina wrote him right into a recreation after which jumped off a constructing). Perplexingly, she finds the place 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 dying (he says he is aware of each Christina and “the tower” are actual). Time to begin working in your theories if you have not already.
William is alive!
What a reveal. William — who acquired 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 joyful to see him. Actual William is unquestionably flawed, however his “dying” final season was unsatisfying. Seeing host William this season as a soulless, pure-bred villain additionally made me miss the true factor.
Oh yeah, let’s discuss in regards to the scene. Chalores wakes human William up from a cryosleep and tells him she’s holding 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 — be sure to individuals would by no means have the ability 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.
Caleb has by no means been to a Delos park.
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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 conflict). William welcomes us to “the Golden Age,” and Maeve and Caleb stroll out right into a metropolis bustling with shiny lights and old-timey vehicles.
Stray ideas
- I am having fun with the Maleb scenes.
- Chalores’ new hosts are robust. 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 Delores 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 related 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 every part else that occurred in season 3 of Westworld.
