Maeve, who witnessed technicians repairing Teddy's body in last weekвЂ™s episode, has a flashback to that disturbing image as soon as she sees him at the saloon, though she manages to hold herself together.Д«ut Dolores, despite Dr. When Elsie tracks down a 'stray' robot who has vacated his usual role and demonstrated an unscripted interest in the stars, he smashes his own head in with a rock, in apparent horror over an incomprehensible reality he was never programmed to understand. Is the ability to commit violence a sign that Dolores is overcoming her programming, or is she merely following a new protocol secretly embedded by Arnold all those years ago? If this 'virus' of cognition is spreading among the robots within Westworld, it's clear that not all of them will be able to take it.

It's not the same as killing a human, but it's still a massive deviation from her standard loop. And as a mysterious voice in her head whispers 'Kill him,' she pulls the trigger and 'kills' the robot outlaw looming over her. When Dolores ends up cornered by the band of outlaws-a variation on the same horror she and her family have been forced to endure over so many violent nights for the entertainment of the guests-she has a flashback to the Gunslinger attacking her in the exact same way. This time, she answers his questions with unmistakable clarity: She will not tell anyone about their conversations, and she will remain safely within her loop.Д«ut whether she intends to lie or not, that last promise might be one Dolores can't actually fulfill.

Ford's warning about anthropomorphizing the robots and has another private conversation with Dolores. Ford, quoting The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: 'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.')Дolores is clearly growing beyond what she was meant to be. Teddy internalizes this entirely new backstory without blinking-reuniting with Dolores and telling her all about his years of dark history without Wyatt, which were spun out of whole cloth, just a few hours later. Teddy's new motivation? Killing Wyatt, a friend-turned-killer who 'heard the voice of God' in the exact same manner that Arnold's experimental robots eventually descended into self-mutilating madness. Ford programs an entirely new backstory for Teddy. Ford's recollection of Arnold's work seem to have inspired him to change that apparently on a whim, Dr. Ford later reveals that the programmers never even bothered to fill in the actual narrative for his past, because nobody actually cared. As if to call attention to the absurdity of Teddy's non-specific tragic past, Dr. So what is TeddyвЂ™s big reckoning, anyway? Like all the other Westworld backstories, it's total bullshit-a narrative dodge designed to keep Teddy's story in perpetual stasis. He has a 'reckoning' to make before he deserves a woman like her, he claims, finishing his soothing speech with the word she just asked him not to use: ''Someday, soon, we will have the life we've both been dreaming of.' LetвЂ™s go now.' But Teddy, who is nowhere near Dolores' state of robotic enlightenment, slips right back into the old conversational patterns. ''Someday' sounds a lot like the thing people say when they actually mean never,' she says.

It's a promise Teddy must have made a thousand times before-but this time, it makes Dolores pause. In short: she's successfully mimicking the same way that human bonds are forged-or if you're inclined to be more generous, simply forging a human bond. It's 'an ingratiating scheme,' she monotones-designed to increase his sense of trust and intimacy. When Bernard is surprised that Dolores asks him about his late son, he switches her over into analytics so he can ask her about the complicated algorithm that drove her to ask such a personal question. Is it possible that Dolores has gained the ability to lie, or hide her true intentions in half-truths? At the very least, she's capable of mimicking both the rhythms of human conversation and the greater patterns that can run underneath it. When Bernard asks Dolores if she has mentioned their secret meetings to anyone else, she replies, 'You told me not to'-a response that implies an answer to his question without actually answering it.

And as we hang on every word, we might even catch something Bernard misses. As Bernard scrutinizes Dolores closely, so do we, in an effort to figure out what's really happening inside her artificial mind.

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