Teddy remembered everything, all the way back to when he first met Dolores in Westworld HQ, and the cognitive dissonance between OG Teddy and killer Teddy broke his little brain pearl.
Yet as the season drew to a close, our sweet cowboy had misgivings about his violent new nature, and those misgivings led to his true awakening. This exercise didn’t quite gin up the rage Dolores was aiming for, so after a torrid night of robot passion, Dolores reprogrammed Teddy with maximum cruelty and loyalty settings, thereby turning him into a lean, mean, conscience-less killing machine. Their Bonnie and Clyde-style pilgrimage to the Valley Beyond came to an abrupt halt when Dolores sat Teddy down and forced him to watch videos of his many deaths.
Dolores deputized Teddy in her scorched earth quest to jailbreak the hosts out of Westworld, but his damn do-gooder programming got the best of him, causing him to set dissidents free and run afoul of Dolores. You know who feels icky about all of this? Theodore Flood, our first-born son. HBO Dolores and Teddy Cosplay as Bonnie and Clyde
After Dolores escaped the park disguised as Hale, Bernard returned to consciousness across from Dolores, pristine in her season one blue dress, who claimed that she rebuilt him from memory, as she believed they both needed to exist in the real world in order for the hosts to survive as a species. Two weeks later, when Bernard was found disoriented on the flooded beach of the Valley Beyond, he was ushered back to the Forge by robotHale, who revealed her true identity, said that she’d changed her mind about burning it all down, and shot Bernard in the head.
Bernard killed the real Charlotte, replaced her with robotHale (for a full body-snatching breakdown, refer to “Whose Body Is This Anyway?” below), and mucked around in his own memories using that nifty iPad to hide his tracks. Bernard called on ghost Ford for rescue, who helped him build a robot copy of Charlotte Hale, into which he could insert Dolores’ consciousness. Bernard then fled to the Mesa, where he watched in horror as Charlotte Hale murdered Elsie in cold blood. To stop her from deleting all the hosts who’d crossed over, Bernard shot and killed Dolores-but not before she activated the failsafe mechanism, which flooded the Valley Beyond. Dolores wanted to burn it all to the ground, arguing that being put out to pasture on Delos’ server farm isn’t true freedom, but Bernard saw her revolution as host genocide. At the Forge, Dolores and Bernard had an ideological showdown about the Door, a virtual portal to Eden for the hosts, where they can upload their consciousnesses to the cloud and live in eternal peace. Abernathy even got a glow-up to fit her new Rebel With a Cause vibe, going full gunslinger in a sleeveless blouse and a bandolier jam-packed with ammunition.) With an ever-growing army of hosts falling in line behind her as they became sentient, Dolores carved a path through human blood and bone to reach the Valley Beyond, which is home to the Forge, Westworld’s supercomputer, where Big Bad Delos stores all of its illegal data (more on that in a bit). Ever since Dolores gained sentience in the first season, she’s sought justice for the abuses she suffered at the hands of humans. In Season Two, our favorite farm girl was out for blood. HBO Are Dolores and Bernard Friends, Enemies, or Both? Feel free to just Ctrl+F your way through-it’s probably easier if you choose your own adventure here. Here’s everything you need to know before you watch Season Three, Episode One of Westworld, ranked from matters of the highest importance to what's just there to confuse you. Now, you’d like to read the bare minimum of plot summary to enjoy Westworld like a normal, television-enjoying human. You’ve realized in the last 15 seconds that you have no chance at enjoying Season Three of Westworld. In the show, right, because she’s a robot, but also in real life, too. Can I ever enjoy moving images again after watching him in Sonic the Hedgehog? And there’s Thandie Newton. Wasn't Jeffrey Wright someone else? He’s two people.