Dolores, being Dolores, attempts to wipe the guests' data. This is part of the Delos corporation's experiments with human immortality. The Valley Beyond is also the location of the Forge, a database which houses replicas of the minds of every guest to the park. It's a virtual heaven created by Ford where the consciousnesses of hosts can live freely away from humans. She ends up in the storied Valley Beyond, aka the Sublime.
Despite using her new abilities to find a way out of the park, she's halted by yearning to reunite with her daughter.ĭolores, aka "the death-bringer," spends this season gathering a small army and blowing things up on her quest to take over the human world. Maeve wades through her confused state with the help of a sympathetic technician named Felix Lutz ( Leonardo Nam) who bumps up her intelligence to the point where she essentially has mind control over the other hosts. Whenever Maeve is killed by guests, sometimes by her own design, she wakes up in the underground lab used to restore damaged hosts. On his philosophical rampage, the Man in Black murdered her child, leaving Maeve so profoundly distraught Ford was forced to reassign her a new role.īut the memory has stuck, triggered by certain images and phrases. We first meet host Maeve ( Thandie Newton) as the Madame of Sweetwater, but in an earlier narrative, she was a homesteader with a daughter.
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The maze is a representation of Arnold's theory that hosts can't reach full consciousness on a linear path. He searches for the center of a fabled "maze" until Ford informs him the maze isn't for him, it's for the hosts. Intent on finding more to Westworld as well as meaning to his own life, the Man in Black obsessively returns to the park over many years. This triggers something dark in William and his transformation into the sadistic Man in Black begins. When William and Dolores fall in love, William's future brother-in-law Logan Delos ( Ben Barnes) cuts Dolores open to remind William she's just a machine and his real fiancee is waiting back home. Bernard confronts Ford to find the truth of who he is, resolving to rebel against Ford and help release all the sentient hosts from the park.Įd Harris plays William, aka the Man in Black.Įn route to Escalante, Dolores encounters William ( Jimmi Simpson), future collaborator with the Delos corporation, which runs Westworld operations. This leads him to the revelation he's really a host - "Bernard Lowe" is an anagram of Arnold Weber.
Unbeknownst to Bernard, he's an exact replica of Arnold, created by Ford to assist him following the real Arnold's death.Īt the end of season 1, Bernard reels from a murder he's forced to commit under Ford's control. Jeffrey Wright plays Bernard, aka Arnold.īernard Lowe, the park's head programmer who helps create the hosts, is Ford's right-hand man. But little does she know this was Ford's plan all along: He wanted to play gamemaster and facilitate the robot uprising. In Escalante for the second time, and having reached full consciousness and gained autonomy, Dolores shoots Ford. Yet despite this massacre, Robert Ford ( Anthony Hopkins having way too much fun playing the other founder of the park) revives Dolores and opens the park anyway.