Loops converge as everyone seeks to dredge up the past.
No cold opening this week onWestworld, we jump right into the main titles.
They accomplish their mission, but not before one surviving guard shoots Caleb, hindering their clean getaway.
“I’ve felt it.
The park is designed to be “the super spreader event of the century.”
Everyone who comes to the park will become a carrier, leaving with their debauched memories and her parasites.
Or as she prefers to call these carriers “hosts.”
While Halores is busy with Caleb, Maeve discovers that William (Ed Harris) is now a host.
Caleb and Maeve regain their footing and take Halores hostage with a piece of broken glass.
They are going to stop this thing before it spreads any further.
I’m a little confused at this point as to how much danger Halores is really in.
If she’s upgraded the hosts in other ways (i.e.
Caleb struggles against it as they are hunted through the streets by hosts and guests alike.
Before they escape in a commandeered bootlegger’s truck, Caleb is stabbed in the side.
Bleeding in the passenger seat, he asks Maeve if she’s going to disappear on him again.
She tells him she didn’t disappear on him last time.
She sat at his bedside for weeks and was confronted with his mortality.
I wanted you to do more than fight to survive.
I wanted you to have something to fight for.”
They reach a demolition site, where the Host in Black is waiting for them.
He and Maeve fight, while Caleb takes Halores to a control room and contacts his team.
Always insist on mutual satisfaction."
Blinding lights shine through the windows of the control room as the extraction team arrives.
“Frankie will not grow up in a world where she is controlled by you.”
Maya (Ariana DeBose) wakes her and shares that she has had trouble sleeping as well.
This is not a good portent of how things are going to turn out for Maeleb’s mission.
“Jesus, what’s it supposed to be,” she asks.
Everyone’s a critic.
Poor Christina, no one seems to enjoy any of her creative pursuits.
Maya uses this as another opportunity to strong arm her friend into a blind date/night on the town.
Just trying to look chivalrous."
The sight of him catches Christina off guard.
There’s something familiar about him.
Are we sure James Marsden isn’t actually a host?
Those cheekbones are not human!
On their date, Christina is apprehensive and resists his “cheesy” pick-up lines.
But still … she can’t shake the feeling they’ve met before.
It’s a charming scene and I’m glad he’s back.
His presence was missed.
They make a toast to wherever her path may lead.
“J” thinks Bernard is taking her on a “misguided treasure hunt.”
They just found another “outlier” and need to extract her before she is hunted down.
This should be her priority.
She’s lost objectivity.
Out in the desert, Bernard leads “C” to what she’s been after.
Bernard tells her he knows she isn’t really looking for a weapon she’s looking for her father.
If it’s true, his body will be here.
After an antagonistic back and forth, she reveals to a disoriented Caleb he died here 23 years ago.
It wasn’t his team that arrived that night, it was hers.
Everything he is experiencing is an interview to establish a baseline for fidelity.
He is the 278th version of Caleb.
She explains that adults were able to resist the parasite initially, but children were much easier.
He begins to see the truth.
Bernard uncovers a demolition site sign in the sand.
He apologizes to “C” who is really the adult Frankie.
There is a body, but it’s not her father’s.
Caleb isn’t here, but the weapon he promised is.
He reveals the damaged face of Maeve.
Caleb makes a run for it.
Caleb pushes past a crowd of pedestrians and sees a giant tower in the distance.
The harmonic tone blares.
The pedestrians stop dead in their tracks, frozen like the hosts in the park.
Halores is in complete control.
The pedestrians resume moving as we pan to the tower off the coast of New York.
This was the best episode of season 4 so far.
We’re at the midpoint, so hopefully this momentum continues.
What did you think?
