Wild Wild West Season 2 Episode 2
Decoding Westworld’s Most Confusing Episode Yet. This post contains frank discussion of Westworld Season 1, Episode 8, “Trace Decay,” as well as speculation as to what’s to come over the course of the next two episodes. If you’re not all caught up, now is that time to scurry back to your little loop. Before we get into the meat of the analysis of the baffling “Trace Decay,” I want to lay out some theories I’ve been chewing over all season.
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I don’t want to waste too much time going back over them in excruciating detail in this article so here’s a brief recap. I believe that, unbeknownst to some, this season of Westworld has been exploring multiple time periods in the history of the park.
Wild Wild West Season 2 Episode 24
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This very popular theory is laid out here. I also believe that William (Jimmi Simpson) and the Man in Black (Ed Harris) are actually the same character and we’re watching them traverse the park 3. You can read all about that here and here. And, finally, I believe that Bernard is not only a host, as revealed in Episode 7, but also a clone of Arnold. In other words, both characters are played by the same actor, Jeffrey Wright, and sometimes when we think we’re watching Bernard, we’re actually watching Arnold. You can read about thathere.
You don’t have to agree with me on all of those points, but I wanted to make sure we’re operating with the same information. Now on to the episode, which may have finally revealed the identity of Wyatt as well as made several popular fan theories very hard to deny. Understanding Dolores’s Glitches: There are two female robots in Westworld currently grappling with their senses of reality, and their stories are being presented in starkly different ways. Maeve’s (Thandie Newton) plot in Westworld isn’t without its complications but it has unfurled over the course of eight episodes in a way that makes her journey somewhat easy to track. About a year ago, Maeve was playing a simple homesteader with a daughter. Then, as we learned in this episode, along came the Man in Black with something to prove. After he blew up her world, Ford (Anthony Hopkins) and Bernard reprogrammed Maeve and plunked her into the Mariposa.
Since the hair, wardrobe, and setting of her two loops—the Mariposa and the homestead—are so different, it’s easy to tell when Maeve is flashing back and forth in time. Easy for us anyway.
Maeve, on the other hand, is having some issues with it because, as Felix tells her: “You recall memories perfectly. You relive them.” So, from her perspective, one second she’s slashing the Man in Black’s throat on the homestead, the next she watches in horror (but not that much regret) as the New Clementine suffers the consequences in the streets of Sweetwater. Maeve’s neck thing is just a little bit of history repeating. The same back- and- forth- in- time thing is happening with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood)—only, from an audience perspective, it’s harder to track because her multiple loops (or memories) are nearly identical.
If you’ve known what to look for all season, you may have seen Dolores glitching in and out of time. But in this episode we see it most plainly when she’s by the riverbank with William. Dolores walks down the riverside, canteen in hand, and William on the shore behind her. She sees a dead version of herself in the water, looks around, and William is gone. Eventually, he returns. Here, Dolores—who, in the present time line, is all alone retracing the route she took 3.
William—flashes to different moments in her own life. But since Dolores is wearing the same clothing and is in the exact same place she was 3. Maeve does it. It just looks like she’s having a mental breakdown. But there’s another female host who can help firm up the time line for us: Talulah Riley’s Angela. Thirty- five years ago, when the park first opened, Angela was a resident of the Town with the White Church, which seems to have served as the Westworld home base. We see her both in Ford’s initial Episode 3 flashback about the park’s creation and, again, in this week’s episode when Dolores flashed back to her time there.
Maeve, Armistice (Ingrid Bols. By the time William entered the park five years later, Angela had been promoted to Hospitality.
Thirty years after that, in the present, the Man in Black mentions that he thought Ford would have retired her by now. He recognizes her from her old gig in Hospitality. So, to recap, Angela has had at least three roles: townsperson, Hospitality (and Westworld spokesperson), and, now, a spy for Wyatt . And those, then, are your three time periods. When she walked into the Town with the White Church in this episode, Dolores glitched through all three.
The Truth Behind Teddy’s Backstory: Ever since the character of Wyatt was invented as the cartoonish, monstrous villain of Teddy’s newly created backstory in Episode 3, something seemed off about him. This week we may have found out why.
When Dolores visited the Town with the White Church she had a bloody flashback to a massacre that happened there. If it looked familiar, here’s why. I’d say the real massacre that happened in this town back when the park opened was the inspiration for Ford’s “Escalante/Wyatt” backstory. Teddy’s even there in Dolores’s memory. Blink and you might have missed him striding through the dust with a rifle in his hand mowing down townspeople. As Ford describes it, the Wyatt incident took place in a “time of war.” I’d say that war was the one raging between Arnold and Ford over what the true purpose of the park was. Arnold.)As Teddy describes it, Wyatt “claimed he could hear the voice of God.” Does that sound like a host grappling with the bicameral mind?
In other words, isn’t that exactly what Dolores has been going through? In Episode 3, Teddy also says Wyatt went “missing while out on maneuvers” and “came back with some pretty strange ideas.” When he made that speech, the camera then cut immediately to Dolores walking through Sweetwater. Is Dolores the Real Wyatt? Could it be that Dolores went missing from her loop—perhaps to chat with Arnold, learn all about the maze—and came back with some strange ideas and the voice of god in her head? If we believe the theory that Bernard is a host modeled on Arnold and the scenes of Dolores one- on- one with “Bernard” actually took place with Arnold 3. Arnold tell Dolores about the maze. That remote diagnostics facility where he’s chatting with her could easily be under the White Church Dolores keeps flashing back to.
He’d help us.” In other words, if Dolores went on a killing spree with a revolver 3. Arnold’s insistence, and if Teddy was there too with his rifle . And that makes a lot of sense to me because Wyatt always seemed like an odd part of this narrative. He strikes me as a lot of Sizemore- esque smoke and mirrors to keep everyone distracted while Ford sends the real adversary after the Man in Black. That adversary? Dolores, of course.
The magic word. As Charlotte tells Sizemore, Ford has “dug up some old town.” Perhaps we’ll see that buried, burned- out old church restored to all its white- painted glory once again and a showdown between Dolores, Teddy, and the Man in Black before this story ends. What Westworld Has to Say About Love: Because if we believe the Man in Black is William (and, come on, we do), then Dolores is the perfect adversary for this lovesick little puppy.
This episode, in particular, focused in on the question of what “love” means to hosts, humans, and Westworld as a whole. But Ford’s version of love is a perverse one. He believes you can shut it on and off—as he does to Maeve when she’s grieving for her daughter or Bernard when he’s in anguish over Theresa. Ford considers an “off” switch for grief and love a mercy because, from his perspective, uncontrollable emotions are a terrible inconvenience. Over and over this season we’ve heard a similar phrase repeated: “This pain, it’s all I have left of him/them/her.” Bernard says it of his son Charlie.
Dolores says it of her dead parents.
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