Everyone really should have left things Well Enough Alone.
Especially if they didn’t want to join the growing list of people taken over by robot flies.
William (Ed Harris), the Man in Black (or is he the Host in Black?
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It’s quickly revealed that both Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are actually hosts.
“It appears William has upgraded his henchmen,” she tells Caleb.
An old friend is anxious for a reunion.
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“Don Giovanni.”
Maeve kills her as an act of mercy.
He demands to speak with William, but she refuses to let him pass without an appointment.
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His words about “the tower” and how she ruined his life haunt her.
A startled Christina recognizes writing something like this once, and rushes off to work.
It’s very convenient that Maya had this obit already pulled up on her phone.
She asks about the tower and he shouts that “no one can hear its music but me.
Me and the birds.”
When she gets to Olympiad Entertainment, she finds dead birds on the ground outside the building.
Frightened, she chooses not to go inside.
Look, I get it.
I’ve called out of work for much less.
Apparently William is up to something that is making a lot of people nervous.
When William pushes back, the Veep threatens to crush him.
Clementine dispatches the agents, and William takes a swing at the V.P.
with his golf club before we cut to black.
It seems safe to assume he didn’t miss that shot either.
They enter the auditorium and find it empty except for a phonograph playing the opera.
(Sidebar: is this the same auditorium from the opening ofChristopher Nolan’sTenet?
Was there a Nolan brothers discount?)
It leads to a 1920s,Great Gatsby-esque speakeasy.
(Oh look, it’sLiza Weil!)
Did these two hook up in the seven years between season 3 and season 4?
It feels like there’s a history deeper than just the “war.”
If so, I’m proposing the couple name Maeleb.
Before the conversation can go much further, the room begins to shake.
Maeve, distressed, says “I should’ve known… Jim Navarro with the extremely long job title walks to his car in a dark, underground parking structure.
Nothing good ever happens in one of these.
“So who the f is pulling the strings?”
He won’t have to wait long for the answer.
He gets into his car and is zip-tied around the throat by Clementine.
She tells him the hosts don’t plan to replace all of them.
She has plans for his kind.
She exits the car as a fly crawls into his eye.
Not looking forward to more of this as the season goes on.
In addition, Olympiad Entertainment is tracking her movements.
Panicked, she calls Maya, who assures her she isn’t insane and tells her to trust herself.
Maya, who was dressed in white earlier in the episode, is now dressed in black.
He used to say winning doesn’t mean anything unless there is a loser.
She tells him he’s just there to be the loser.
She’s going to control his world just as he and his associates did to her and her kind.
How can I get some of that?
He pulls a lever and lights up Delos’s new park “The Golden Age.”
Their newest fantasy land leaps to life as Maeleb walk into the roaring twenties.
Once again, anotherMichael Crichtonadaptation finds its wayback into the park.
