The presence of the data card suggests that Emily had learned everything there was to know about her father before entering the park, just as her mother had. But then he sees it-the data card Ford had given him, clutched in her hand. He strides over to her and pulls out his knife, ready to plunge it into her arm to confirm his suspicions. Emily, in shock, yells out, "Those were real people!" Then in the series’ most gutting moment yet, the Man in Black becomes convinced that she is just another one of Ford’s tricks, and he fires off a spray of bullets that kills her.
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When a rescue team finally shows up, the Man in Black mutters, "You underestimate me, Ford," and guns them down. (Um, OK.) She pesters him about her mother’s death, saying that she feels like she is missing a piece of the puzzle.īut her father’s mind takes a paranoid turn. He tells her that they had embedded brain scanners into the cowboy hats that all guests wear. She quizzes him about the immortality project, specifically how they managed to collect information about the guests’ internal states. In this episode, Emily has dragged her badly injured father to a rally point, where she awaits a rescue team. That’s far from shocking, so we’re left unsettled, wondering if that’s all there is to her tale.Įarlier episodes intimated that after Juliet died, the Man in Black fled to Westworld Emily then followed him, seeking answers about her mother’s suicide. What we seem to have learned is that she took her own life after discovering her husband’s true nature.
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It’s a dreadful scene, but ultimately it adds little that’s new. "For a self-portrait, you may find it’s not very flattering," he says as the Man in Black pockets the information. He slides a data drive resembling a metal playing card over to him. "When was the last time you took a good look at your creation and what it is learning about its subjects?" Ford asks. Ford hints that the project of capturing guest information has progressed faster than the Man in Black might realize. But seated at the bar is Ford, waiting for him. He steps away from the gala to grab a drink at a bar alone. If he cut deep enough into his arm, he seems to be thinking, would he eventually strike metal? He looks stricken as he massages his right forearm. He describes it as a fragment of a dream or a mental convolution, a thing that showed up in his mind one day and ended up consuming his character. He wonders when it was that a "tiny fleck of darkness" crept into his soul. As the accolades pour in, his mind turns to a mystery that has haunted him for years. But MIB is not in fighting shape.This week's episode begins with the Man in Black at a gala honoring his philanthropic work. He's lost his grip on what's real and what's not in Ford's game, which may have been Ford's ultimate goal, considering how sadistically he's treated humans. Of course, he doesn't kill himself, but he does cut his arm, perhaps checking to see if he's really a host. He's just killed (maybe) his daughter, and he rides off, contemplating suicide.
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He's about to dissect her to prove that she's a host when he finds the profile disc in her hand. When QA comes to rescue them, MIB shoots the guards (possibly the first time he's killed humans), and then Emily. When Emily mentions that she has seen MIB's profile from the parks, MIB decides that she's a host, since he never told anyone about it. (But it would just be a copy, not her actual mom, which is why I don't buy the "immortality" part of this whole project.) The company has been scanning their brains through their hats (but what if they choose not to wear one?) and storing copies of their minds in the Valley, which is what everyone is after now.Įmily says she wants the technology to bring her mother back to find out exactly why she killed herself. She wants in on the immortality project, and he explains that Delos has been doing more than just spying on the guests. MIB is suspicious during their conversation that Emily is a host, planted there by Ford to advance the game. We've heard the story of how MIB's wife Julia (the always lovely Sela Ward) killed herself after learning of his sadistic behavior in the parks, but the episode flashed back to the night in question, showing Emily's (Katja Herbers) place in the story, and possibly Ford's (Anthony Hopkins).īack in the park, Emily took MIB (Ed Harris) to a handy first-aid station, where she partially heals his multiple gunshot wounds, at least enough for them to have a heart to heart (I suppose this medicine is believable in a world with robots). It was not a good day to be the Man in Black.