A much needed recap of Westworld season 2 before the season 3 premiere

It’s been about two years since Westworld’s second season aired. With season Three premiering on Sunday, March 15, it’s a time for a refresher on what the heck was happening. Right here’s what occurred to Charlotte, William, Dolores, Bernard, Maeve, and all the opposite hosts you traveled by the Valley of the Past final season, plus one large thriller that ought to wind up driving a lot of the motion in season 3.

[Ed. word: This story will spoil Westworld season 2. Clearly.]

What Occurred In Season 2?

Season 1 of Westworld resulted in a little bit of a massacre. Dolores Abernathy (performed by Evan Rachel Wooden) and her earlier persona, Wyatt, merged, making her violent and vengeful. She led a military of hosts to slaughter the assembled Delos (the corporate that runs the Westworld park) higher-ups, together with Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins).

Whereas the timelines are laborious to parse, season 2 takes place over the roughly two weeks following the bloodbath of Delos’ human friends on the finish of season 1 (plus a couple of flashbacks). The brand new, indignant Dolores-Wyatt hybrid spent her time recruiting allies and searching down human friends as she made her approach to the “Valley Past” — a sort of promised land provided to her by Ford.

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Dolores’ counterpart — or, extra precisely, counterpoint — within the sentient host rebellion is Maeve (Thandie Newton). Whereas Dolores was vengeful, Maeve was solely involved with discovering her in-fiction daughter, largely desirous to ignore the people. When she reclaimed her daughter, Maeve, too, headed for the Valley Past.

On the identical time, we discovered that Charlotte Hale (performed by Tessa Thompson), a Delos govt, and her Delos safety forces are looking for a cache of proprietary info, the important thing to which had been squirreled away within the head of Peter Abernathy (Dolores’ in-fiction father, performed by Louis Herthum). That knowledge, it seems, got here from Delos utilizing the park (and, presumably, the opposite parks like Shogun World) to seize loads of details about the friends, tracked utilizing the cowboy hats each visitor obtained upon entry.

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The key undertaking behind Westworld — one of many causes they have been gathering all that knowledge — was to create a kind of digital immortality for (at the very least) Delos’ founder: The Man In Black/William’s (Ed Harris) father-in-law. By the top of the season, we study that the system was profitable, boiling each visitor who visited the park right down to 10,247 strains of code.

The Forge And The Top Of Westworld Season 2

On the finish of season 2, Dolores discovered this cache of visitor info, all a part of Arnold’s (the earlier, human model of Bernard from 40 years in the past, each performed by Jeffrey Wright) plan to present the hosts their freedom. All of that knowledge in “the Forge,” Arnold thought, would give Dolores the aggressive benefit she’d want out in the true world.

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The Forge had a second, double-secret goal, although. Robert Ford had created a wholly digital world contained in the library that he known as The Valley Past (and that the system controlling the Forge known as The Chic). By opening the door — that appeared as a tear in house to hosts — Dolores allowed lots of the hosts to enter this pristine digital world the place they may stay freely, away from human interference.

Dolores additionally uploaded the Valley Past out of the Forge, although, to guard it from people ever discovering it once more. She reprogrammed some data-beaming units to ship it to a satellite tv for pc (“270.5 Az 55.5 El 1110km2”). If it stayed on that satellite tv for pc or was redirected elsewhere is unclear.

So The Place And When Are The Characters Ultimately?

With Arnold and Ford’s (and Dolores and Bernard’s) plans all largely profitable, all of the characters we all know and love are in considered one of three locations: the true world, the Valley Past, or useless.

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The Valley Past

• Teddy (James Marsden) killed himself after being pushed too far by Dolores. Dolores, nonetheless, saved his knowledge and uploaded him to the Valley Past.
• Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon) and lots of the Ghost Nation made it to the Valley Past.
• Numerous different Westworld hosts additionally made it.

Lifeless (or Dead-ish)

• Robert Ford remains to be useless. He died on the finish of season 1, keep in mind. His appearances all through season 2 are implanted packages he left behind in hosts, and, in a single case, that host model of his youthful self (additionally useless).
• Elsie (Shannon Woodward) was killed by Charlotte Hale on the finish of the season.
• Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), the top author for Westworld, sacrificed himself for Maeve, and was gunned down (off-screen) by Delos safety.
• Hector, Armistice, and Clementine have been hosts, however they didn’t make it to the Valley Past, so we’re calling them useless (for now, at the very least).
• Maeve discovered her daughter, however by no means made it into the Valley Past — she sacrificed herself in order that the opposite hosts have been secure. We final see her physique on the seashore, within the care of the hapless techs Sylvester and Lutz (Ptolemy Slocum and Leonardo Nam). Presumably, her knowledge is unbroken, however she ends the season in a sort of limbo so we’ll embrace her right here.

The True World

• Charlotte Hale is useless, killed by somebody that appeared precisely like her. However we noticed within the season 2 finale that her physique had been reproduced by Dolores, and that physique being was operated by Dolores (or a model of Dolores). Not-Charlotte was evacuated from Westworld again to the true world by Delos.
• Dolores is alive, and in the true world. Utilizing the Charlotte physique double, Dolores recreated her personal host physique, and escaped Westworld.
• Bernard is alive and in the true world. It’s implied that Dolores introduced him again/restored him as a examine on her genocidal tendencies, or at the very least as a worthy opponent. (It’s sort of a Batman-Joker state of affairs.)
• Ashley Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth), head of Westworld’s safety, is technically alive. After we final see him, we study that he’s truly a bunch programmed by Ford to guard different hosts. He doesn’t appear invested in both Bernard or Dolores’ plans, although, nor did he enter the Valley Past.
• The Man in Black/William is down one hand, however alive. Sort of? I believe? Within the post-credit scene of the season 2 finale, William arrives on the Forge. A number model of his daughter explains that it’s the longer term, and issues didn’t appear to go within the human’s favor. She says that William will not be a bunch, or at the very least that he isn’t a bunch in a simulation. When she goes on to confirm his “constancy,” it’s implied that this Future William is human knowledge in a bunch physique.

When Not-Charlotte was evacuated out of Westworld, we additionally obtained a quick glimpse inside her satchel, which contained 5 pearls — the info cores of hosts, that are sort of like stacks from Altered Carbon. Presumably, considered one of these 5 was Bernard’s, since we see her revive him. The opposite 4, although, may very well be from any host that didn’t make it to the Valley Past.

Welcome to season 3.