If not, go back and watch that first).
She comes upon the Man in Black who’s been digging in his arm.
She lets him tag along to the Valley Beyond.
They pick up Bernard and reach The Forge.
She gets patched up and reunites with Hector, Armistice, and Lee Sizemore.
A little later, Maeve and company run into trouble and have an unlikely saviorLee Sizemore.
Do we buy that this epitome of human selfishness would sacrifice himself to give the hosts a chance?
Maybe he decided that in a life that’s empty, he can at least die for something.
This Logan has been tasked with running The Forge.
“I’m all the way down now,” Logan said tearfully.
“I can see the bottom.”
“I needed to know why they make the decisions they make.
The more I look for an answer the more I realized: They don’t,” he says.
“The best they can do is live according to their code.
None of them are truly in control of their actions.”
This looks so much more elegant than data on a Future iPad.
Logan decides it’s time to fire up the Door we’ve been hearing about all season.
Except selfish Dolores wants to deny the hosts an afterlife.
“No world they create can compete with the real one,” she says.
“I don’t want to play cowboys and Indians any more Bernard!
… You woke me from a dream, now let me do the same for you.”
(another awesome Jeffrey Wright line delivery).
Then Bernard shoots Dolores dead (for now) and cancels her purge of the human mapping data.
Yet Dolores has done enough damage so that The Forge begins to flood.
Outside, Maeve and the hosts arrive at The Door and hosts began to enter.
But now Clementine has shown up and begins turning the hosts against each other.
Maeve has time to say goodbye to her daughter and uses her mind control to freeze the hosts.
Her daughter goes off with her replacement mom and the Ghost Nation leader Akecheta into the Eden world.
Inside, Akecheta is touchingly reunited with his long lost love.
Bernard leaves The Forge, sees all the dead hosts and is quite bummed out.
He’s further upset that Elsie, his ally, helped Charlotte kill them off.
Ford is like Bernard’s Tyler Durden.
“I should have listened.
Now all the hosts are gone.
[Humans are] just algorithms designed to survive at all costs.
They think they’re in control they’re really just …
The survivors then convened back at The Mesa.
She confronts Charlotte and pretends like she might be willing to overlook all her corrupt behavior.
But Charlotte sees right through Elsie’s halfhearted ruse and shoots her (Ahhh!Not Elsie!).
“I’ve read your file.
That’s not who you are.”
Bernard then alters his memory of what happened so that nobody will knowincluding himselfwhat he did.
After the Flood: Okay!
They find Dolores dead, seemingly just as Bernard left her.
They also find the encryption key which he also left there to be discovered.
“You killed her,” Bernard says to Charlotte.
“Did I Bernard?”
Dolores-as-Charlotte reveals herself and kills the QA guys.
She wants the Brita ball from his brain to pop in her purse along with four others.
Are we still tracking all this?
Are we still following?
This seems to all hang together, best I can tell.
Are there plot holes if we go back and watch from the beginning?
But let’s forge ahead, so to speak.
Dolores-as-Charlotte arrives on the beach for extraction.
We see the Man in Black is here, and alive, but just barely.
She’s stopped by Stubbs and they have a very interesting conversation.
So he’s yet another way Ford has put his thumb on the scale to enable Dolores to escape.
Dolores gets on a boat to escape the park.
She’s got five balls in her purse.
Bernard is one, obviously.
Who are the other four?
Love his expression in that shot.
Perhaps she brought her father too, but he was apparently too severely damaged, right?
Did she get Angela’s brain after her body was blown up?
This will be something fans will be debating for awhile, I think.
Mainland:Dolores is calibrating Bernard in a gray room with high windows.
This house is apparently a home base for the revolution.
There’s a host printer which will come in handy.
“If I were human I’d let you die,” she says.
“It will take both of us if we’re to survive.
We see Dolores leave the roomwith Charlotte Hale.
So does that mean that Dolores has now doubled herself and is using both bodies?
Post credits:A Marvel-liked surprise at the end.
The Man in Black stumbles into The Forge facility.
Only it’s apparently years after the events in the episode, with the facility in ruins.
He then sees his deceased daughter, Emily.
“Oh f, I’m already in the thing, aren’t I?”
My suspicion is that somebody (Ford or Dolores?
Perhaps even Stubbs?)
The scene takes place long after the main action in the show.
And so we begin to wind down.Westworldseason 2 was at times brilliant and provocative and existentially thoughtful.
Other times, the drama felt a bit frustrating and difficult to follow.
Check out mydeep-dive Q&A with showrunner Jonathan Nolananswering my burning questions about the finale.
Dolores killed all the hosts.
But maybe she programmed Bernard tothinkhe killed all the hostsincluding herto cover her tracks.
This is how she will escape the park.
Sort of like Hans Gruber’s plan to blow up the hostages at Nakatomi Plaza.
We see Teddy dead, but we also are introduced to these removable CPU Brita filters.
