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'Westworld': How That Shocking Return Opens the Door for Even More Questions
'Westworld' flavor two, episode 6: Ford'southward return explained.
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[This story contains spoilers through season two, episode half dozen of HBO'due south Westworld, "Stage Space."]
Bernard'due south (Jeffrey Wright) magical, mystical and occasionally confusing journey through the post-Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) era of Westworld diameter some fruit during Sunday's sixth episode of season 2, "Phase Space," as information technology turns out that we're not in the post-Robert Ford era at all.
We should clarify since there'due south enough defoliation nigh timelines in this season already.
In the immediate aftermath of the host uprising, Bernard and Elsie (Shannon Woodward) accept teamed to notice out exactly what happened to the park'south attractions that allowed them to gun down guests and diverge from their paths. This road trip previously took them to the hugger-mugger cave lab, where Bernard found the ruddy ball that launched a one thousand thousand fan theories (more on that in a second) — oh, and remembered his part in the massacre that occurred there.
Hopping onto a command terminal with access to the park's many systems, Elsie gets a better thought of what'due south working and what's not. She'southward too able to see the attempts being made by others to undo the changes to the host code and the commands from the park'southward central nervous system — the Cradle — overriding those commands in real time and even improvising. Bernard informs her that to issue those kinds of orders, whoever is doing this would have to physically exist at the Cradle itself, so it's off to Westworld's server farm.
Descending into the Cradle, the "hive mind" where all of the host data is stored, viewers were treated to more than Bernard flashbacks. He tells Elsie that he previously brought "something or someone" there. Considering that the carmine ball came from the lab where Delos had been trying for decades to copy its founder to varying degrees of failure, it's most likely that Bernard brought both a someone and a something here in the course of the carmine ball, which no doubtfulness contained a stored consciousness.
When Elsie is unable to figure out what's happening with the code, Bernard tells her he's going into the Cradle itself — afterward a quick and very painful brain surgery.
Bernard learns that entering the Cradle is very much like entering Westworld, except with a slightly different aspect ratio. What he's experiencing hither is the raw lawmaking of what each host in the park is supposed to do, and we get the bonus of seeing Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) before she became Wyatt and Teddy (James Marsden) earlier he became Hateful Teddy.
One note about the widescreen aspect ratio equally seen in the Cradle sequence: Information technology also appears during the opening moments of the episode, when Dolores turns the tables on Bernard during their conversation, freezing all of his motor functions and questioning his wording. When this takes place is a mystery, just the visual connectedness with the Cradle scenes is intriguing.
The reason that Bernard is so eager to get his brains scooped out is considering he (correctly) surmises that whomever's consciousness was contained within the red ball would be somewhere in the virtual Westworld of the Cradle, and the Reddit theorists around the world breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, later on two whole weeks, they would know.
The showtime clue comes in the form of Jock. The doomed greyhound that viewers originally heard well-nigh when nosotros first met the footling boy Ford in flavour one runs into the saloon, and Bernard follows. And at that place, at the piano, is Robert Ford — or at least, the reflection of him.
So, did y'all correctly guess that Ford had copied his ain consciousness into that cherry brawl? If so, well done! Go get yourself a cookie.
While Ford's presence has certainly been felt in the park after his physical deviation — specifically in the game left behind for William — having the homo himself back in nearly of his old glory is nothing brusk of a massive game changer.
With Ford embedded inside the Cradle, he could potentially still hold all of the strings when it comes to the hosts. The main question that remains is exactly how many of those strings did Ford cutting when he set the hosts complimentary? With some version of Ford nevertheless with us, we have a very real chance of finding out exactly what happened when that bullet flew through his head and what it means for the hosts going forrad.
What did you recall of "Phase Space"? Sound off in the comments section below and keep checking THR.com/Westworld for more.
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Bernard and Ford Will Meet Again
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