Looking for more Ford? You’ll get it when MiB and Teddy, pumped full of Lawrence’s blood, show up in a bar and get a surprise visit from the man himself. I didn’t tell him anything.” We already established in episode two that Westworld is pretty lax about office surveillance, so fine, we’ll give Dolores a pass on the potential security breach. She also reveals that the last thing Arnold said to her was that she would help him “destroy this place.” Later, when Ford leaves the room, Dolores says aloud, “He doesn’t know. She answers 34 years, 42 days, and seven hours ago, the day Arnold died. Ford interrogates Dolores about when her last conversation with Arnold occurred. If Dolores is in Pariah, where and when is this conversation happening? (More in a moment.) Regardless, we get some key info here. The timing feels even more off than in the Bernard-Dolores conversations we’ve seen. And he didn’t even get a sticker.īack in the luxurious basement offices of Westworld, we get a Dolores-Ford conversation that functions as an aside from the Pariah storyline. Now he’s convinced that Teddy is the necessary one, and that Lawrence was needed simply to donate blood. MiB had been convinced that Lawrence was needed to reach the Maze. Yes, the MiB-Lawrence bromance - or as close to a bromance as you can get when one party has killed the other’s wife - ends tragically as the former sacrifices the latter to keep Teddy alive. It also is apparently the home of Lawrence, whom we just saw get drained of blood and killed by the Man in Black. Pariah appears to be where those orgies that SAG-AFTRA warned you about happen. Or is it?Īnyway, the gang of four is at the doorstep of Pariah, an outlaw village that Evan Rachel Wood described, when she spoke to Variety this week, as “the Vegas of Westworld.” It clears that bar by a mile. The voice she hears sounds like Bernard’s. In the moment she’s actually standing in said graveyard with Logan, William, and the generic robot gangster whose name I won’t bother to recall until the show proves to me that doing so is worth the effort.
Also to have Ford tell a story that is a little bit like the plot of “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” Between Santa’s Little Helper and Ford’s dog, it’s been a big half-century for fictional TV greyhounds.Ĭut to Dolores standing in a graveyard, hearing - as Dolores is inclined to - voices.
(Stubbs’ claim in episode one that Dolores is the oldest host in the park should be taken to mean that she is the oldest active host.) Regardless of who came first, Ford and Old Bill share a drink, one that leaves a wistful Ford visibly dissatisfied and that seems to exist primarily to set the table for a Ford-heavy episode. There have been strong implications, particularly in this week’s episode, that Dolores may have been the first, though no confirmation. You will recall from the extensive notes you’ve been taking that Old Bill was the second host ever built.
“Contrapasso” begins, in fact, with a very different duo - Ford and Old Bill. You’ve won whatever prize comes with guessing which episode of “ Westworld” would be the first to open with something other than Bernard speaking to a semi-conscious Dolores. If you had episode five in your office pool, congratulations.