“Westworld” Theory Connects Wyatt Arnold Dolores MiB

While they don’t find the maze, they do find an armored dude in a soldier’s uni and minotaur horns. Ford says, and it feels like it’s both a subtle dig at the new narrative Bernard has in his mind and a meta-commentary on the plot contrivances of fiction, too.

Granted, it can still be argued that the Man in Black could simply recognize the Host because he’s visited the park so many times in the past 30 years – many repeat guests probably recognize her. Nah, that was just a narrative fabrication, created to anchor his personality. She resembles Yul Brynner in the original “Westworld”, who is a robot designed for destruction, but a lot smarter and more evil. Ah, now there’s the thing. As “Trace Decay” opens, we see Bernard dealing with the consequences of what he’d done.

Rather than provide any sort of sympathy, Ford marvels at the grief and range of emotions his creation is displaying. “Man, are you two f***ed!”

The Past: Angela is the introductory Host who welcomes William to Westworld. His scenes with Bernard go against that “noble” concept, as he deletes Bernard’s memory of his murder of Theresa, with a look of annoyance. Her exact role in Wyatt’s organization remains to be seen.

There are three other narratives dominating this episode, and all are fascinating. With each frustratingly vague conversation, it’s up to fans to try and decipher what’s being said by Dr. Ford, Dolores, Bernard or any of the other characters who have some idea of who Arnold is. Their last scene shows the pair caught by Logan, who has joined the Confederados and is now hunting his soon-to-be brother-in-law.

In Dolores’ flashbacks, such as the one of the massacre, she often sees herself. Westworld viewers start to wonder if the voices she is hearing could be Arnold’s thoughts. Dr Ford previously stated that doing this was for the host’s benefit, so they wouldn’t remember all of the disgusting things that happened to them. Maeve is so deliciously amoral about her quest that even cutting Sylvester’s throat isn’t enough to make the audience turn against her. Now Bernard only remembers he and Theresa were only ever distant colleagues, until she went out to the park to smuggle more data, and fell and bashed her head in. While watching MiB drag one of their attackers, he remembers Dolores being dragged in a similar fashion, off to have bad things done to her. When she so chooses, she can become the omnipotent narrator, essentially giving stage directions to the hosts in this production. After the show’s latest episode was released, it was uncovered that “Westworld” theories may be more focused on what Arnold may bring for the system-gamers at the center of the maze. With only two episodes left in the season, we’re hoping for more answers to come. When The MiB and Teddy come upon Armistice injured in the woods, we see that she was also the host who first greeted William in episode 2 (allegedly 30 years before). Ford says, “One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire”. Does this mean he remembers her from his first trip into the park (if the MiB is indeed William, in a later timeline)? IBT reported that the star of Westworld is someone we don’t have a “face” for just yet-Arnold. Specifically, memories of the Man in Black killing him and dragging off his love Dolores.

But here’s where it gets really delicious. At all. First, as the Man in Black pointed out, the Riley robot could have been a victim of exactly what he suggested: just one more busy bee set loose to help build Ford’s new storyline. The test is to kill Maeve and her daughter, possibly the most heinous act he could perform, and this causes quite a few problems.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Westworld”, including speculation of future events. We know that Arnold died in some accident; however, Ford later stated that it wasn’t like Arnold to make “that kind of mistake”.

There are a couple of things at work here.

But the park survives the “incident” (barely), which happened 30 years ago. This week Angela made a reappearance, however this time she was on a totally new narrative – something which nearly certainly couldn’t have happened within the time William entered the park.