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But hey, we get a taste of a new theme park!
Is that shiny enough to distract you from the robot uprising?Westworlds villains sure hope so.
First, lets tackle the seemingly standalone Christina story.
Thats impossible for a man who died only the day before, right?
But a lot of the pieces are still missing.
Over the phone, Maya tells Christina to come home.
Is something up with Maya?
Signs point to probably.
I also appreciate how she discourages Christina from pursuing this mystery without saying shes crazy or overreacting.
Its supportive but maybe also sinister.
Next, we catch up with some characters we havent seen in a while.
However, William is waiting for her when she arrives home, and she doesnt escape this time.
He demands to know where Maeve is and then stabs her.
Quick check-in on Hale, since it has also been a minute since weve seen her.
She was supposed to report to the prime Dolores and gain control of Delos by masquerading as Charlotte Hale.
William is replacing members of the United States government with hosts left and right.
He also replaces, presumably because it happens off-screen, the vice-president.
The aforementioned man from the Justice Department, however, meets a different fate.
Clementine zip-ties him to his car in a parking lot where Hale meets with him.
She reveals that replacing humans with hosts is not, in fact, their entire plan.
I want my people to be able to grow; flourish; find their own identity, she says.
I have plans for your kind.
She leaves him in a car with those freaky flies again.
This brings us to Maeve and Caleb, who are on a road trip to find William.
Shes not acting normal, delivering messages from William, and unsurprisingly surrounded by flies.
Why is it always flies?
They then follow a tip from the zombified Mrs. No matter how hard Maeve tries, she cant escape the cyclical nature of her narrative.
She says as much by repeating her new world monologue to indicate to Caleb where theyre headed.
Her programming has become her fate.
But this time, she gets to experience the park from the guests point of view.
Even the opera theyre supposed to be seeing, MozartsDon Giovanni, is apropos.
Its the perfect, deliciously thematically-appropriate apparatus to transport Maeve and Calebs way down to the new park.
My guess is that this park was built on the Nevada land that William seized in the season premiere.
William mentions that Delos Destinations has expanded its footprint in his big opening speech.
It would explain why he needed the Veep on his side.
It also doesntseemlike the train went underwater after leaving Los Angeles.
When Maeve and Caleb step off the train, they are presented with the infamous hat choice.
The smile that escapes Maeve when Caleb refuses the choice entirely is telling.
Hes still one of the good guys, for now, but these parks corrupt people.
They corrupted William, bringing his darkness up to the surface.
the Sweetwater equivalent, not the name of the park itself, as theyre both liquid-themed.
Thats why Maeve isnt exactly thrilled to see her and quips that she got a promotion.
Its reminiscent, in a reductive sort of way, of William and Logans relationship when they were younger.
Maeve and Caleb make a great team as investigators and an undercover fake married couple.
Theyve built a lovely rapport between seasons two and three in the intervening fictional years.
Its making me miss theWestworldseason 3.5 we never got.
What the heck happened at the Lighthouse?!
I know well probably find out soon, but itscompelling.
