Beautiful lies are revealed.
“You have no control and yet you’re so assured that you do … A beautiful lie.”
As he demonstrates just how little control they actually have, Clementine (Angela Sarafyan) interrupts.
He’s needed elsewhere a colleague’s appetites have become unsustainable.
They arrive at an apartment building and follow a trail of bodies inside.
HiB reprimands Hope for being so careless with the humans.
She can enjoy them, but not waste them.
It seems our villainous black hat has developed a soft spot for humanity.
Bored," she says from a throne made out of compliant humans.
She doesn’t understand why they are still coming here and bothering with all this.
It’s been years.
She thought they would have moved on by now.
Halores hoped their species would aspire to more than just “turnabout” on humanity.
She wanted them to grow, to change.
Surrender the flesh and pursue ultimate truth and beauty.
But she won’t force her species to do what she wants that’s “whattheywould have done.”
They don’t know why this keeps happening.
He was human but at least he was effective."
She built him to be better, stronger, smarter but maybe there’s a flaw in his programming.
J explains they find them by using reprogrammed drones to track when a person breaches their pre-scripted loops.
This is how they located her but they need to hurry; the hunt is already on.
J races to get to the outlier before she’s killed.
HiB finds her first, on a rooftop staring at the tower.
She asks if he sees it too and he hesitates.
He must have felt so alone.
She can see in HiB’s eyes that the world doesn’t make sense to him either.
“You’re not alone,” she says as she lays her head on his shoulder.
J, the outlier, and the rebels escape.
William tells his artificial doppelganger that maybe it’s time he questioned the nature of his reality.
When she gets to work, Christina starts writing a narrative suspiciously like Dolores' in Westworld.
He instructs her to say something personal came up and come meet him.
He knows she feels on some level that her place here is not what she thinks it is.
He asks her to concentrate and change the story of two lonely women in the park.
She is shocked to find the experiment successful.
He and Peter tried to tell her in this world she’s a god.
Teddy insists she stick to the schedule.
Pretend everything’s normal and trust no one.
Anyone could be one of “us.”
She meets up with the old college roommate who is none other than Charlotte Halores.
Tessa Thompson does a wonderful job of adding sinister layers to these innocuous questions.
It’s an incredibly tense sequence.
Never search sensitive information on your work computer!
That’s Office 101!
So of course her weirdo boss calls her into his office and begins to question her.
“Do you know what would happen if she knew you’d breached the walled garden?
She’s already suspicious.”
She asks if he means Charlotte and he becomes very aggressive.
He replies, “everywhere.
You just have to see it.”
It leads to a hidden control room with a holographic map of the city.
Horrified, she realizes this world is just a story and she’s the storyteller.
She can see it all so clearly now.
She finds Teddy and asks him who built this?
“Who did this to me?”
“You did,” he answers.
Well, Halores might be bored, but I’m certainly not.
