At least the Man in Black elucidated his goal for us this week: to burn this whole enterprise to the ground.ĭolores and Teddy's recruitment drive made up the other half of "Reunion." With one of the park's engineers in tow, she's forged herself into a literal Jesus figure for the hosts who still remain un-woke. Clearly Ford anticipated Bill's moves, setting up safeguards like the mass suicide in Pariah to ensure Bill wouldn't have too much help. What's really unclear is why Bill needs Lawrence at all in this new game. And the situation in Pariah has not improved as Bill puts it, "This is what happens when you let a story play all the way out." The biggest surprise of this episode, however, was definitely the appearance of Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito, who in the present day is playing the character Bill's friend Lawrence used to play in the past: El Lazo.
What happened to her in the present day? And is the briefly mentioned "Argos Initiative" simply a code name for Westworld, or will we find out more about that later? (The word has many roots in ancient mythology.) We see William's wife (Logan's sister) for the first time, for example-we learned last season that she kills herself at some point, but we hadn't met her before.
These flashback scenes are great, not just for revealing new sides of these characters-Jimmi Simpson's young William acting more like Ed Harris's version of the character, and Logan spiraling after Season 1's events-but for the other new tidbits they provided in Westworld's never-ending trail of blood-soaked bread crumbs. William clearly took the lessons he learned in the park to heart, and he's acting much more like the Man in Black-his future self, Bill-here than the William we got to know in most of Westworld Season 1 (although William very intently checking out the host Angela as they pass at the party is definitely a hint of things to come for him). It can be deliberately tough to track the timelines on Westworld, but in this episode it's clear that the initial party-at which the hosts put on quite a display for Logan-takes place before William and Logan's adventure in Season 1, while William's later scenes take place afterward. "Reunion" also introduced us to Logan's father (and William's father-in-law), Jim Delos, who at some point before the present day, but after these episodes, is going to salvage Westworld with a huge influx of cash thanks to William's shrewd influence. That probably answers the question of where Logan is in the present, at least, though not in the way you might have hoped Logan is a dick, sure, but it's still sad. This is before the transformation both characters undergo throughout Westworld's first season, which, as we learned this week, will apparently lead to Logan's eventual descent into addiction. When the episode returns to the party later, it's to catch up with William and Logan as we first met them: Logan, a cocky, brash businessman, and William, his emasculated soon-to-be brother-in-law. Was Arnold planning to move his family into the park itself? Or is this simply a mainland city within reach of the island on which Westworld and the other parks lie? Maybe we'll find out later, or maybe I'm reading too much into this scene.
I need to have my two worlds at least within reach of one another." The under-construction zone where Arnold is apparently building a house seems oddly placed in the middle of what's apparently a city, and then there's what Arnold says: "My wife says I live in the park. There is one mystery here, depending how you read the scene: Is this really the outside world, or is it just another park? The exterior shots as Arnold leads Dolores across the street look uncanny, too clean, and filled with unnatural, robotic-looking people.
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