Ford has Bernard stage Theresa's death to look like an accident. Then, Ford wipes Bernard's memories after Bernard has a vision of himself attacking Elsie. Stubbs becomes suspicious of Bernard's behavior. Hale recruits Sizemore for her cause. Maeve convinces Felix to give her the ability to control other hosts, and slits Sylvester's throat for attempting to kill her; though she has Felix save him. Maeve then suffers more visions of her past life with her daughter and reflexively kills another host, prompting the park staff to retrieve her for a diagnostic. William and Dolores finally reach their destination, Ford's church, where Dolores has more disturbing visions and realizes that Arnold wants her to remember something before they are captured by a band of Confederados led by Logan. Teddy receives a flashback of the Man in Black attacking Dolores and interrogates him. The Man in Black explains he started searching for the maze to find purpose after his wife's suicide. Teddy is wounded by a female host before they are captured by Wyatt's cultists.
This episode provides examples of:
- Ambiguous Situation: It's left ambiguous as to whether William delivered a Mercy Kill to a young Confederado to avoid wasting time tending to his mortal wounds.
- Almost Dead Guy: At the banks of a river, William and Dolores find a young man who is alive long enough to tell them that Logan planned to ambush them and El Lazo.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Angela turns out to be a follower of Wyatt.
- Chekhov's Gun: Bernard told Theresa that her reprogramming of Clementine was blatantly obvious. Ford has used this to put the blame on Theresa, purge her department, and reinstate Bernard, bringing Westworld firmly under his control.
- Chekhov's Gunman:
- Peter Abernathy, the host who was shut down in the basement in the first episode, has now been reactivated by Hale for her own scheme.
- Angela is the same host that introduced William to Westworld in the second episode.
- Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Theresa is posthumously blamed for faking Clementine's supposed defect and spying on the company, allowing Ford to reset the status quo with Delos. This forces them to find an alternate means of smuggling the data they want out.
- Decoy Damsel: Angela setting up Teddy and the Man in Black. Given that they didn't find her mutilated or tied to a tree to die like Wyatt's previous victims, they should have suspected something.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Even though the Man in Black was careful to keep his Dark Side restricted to Westworld, his wife was constantly afraid he would turn on her and so eventually killed herself under the strain.
- Past Maeve puts a scalpel into her throat when Ford says he's going to reprogram her.
- Explosive Leash: Every host has an explosive charge in their spinal column if they attempt to leave the park.
- Flashback Effect: The pianola tune slows down when Maeve is having a Loved Ones Montage early on.
- Foreshadowing: When Teddy is interrogating the Man in Black, he asks if the Man in Black thinks he owns "this world." The Man replies, "Not just this one."
- Heal It With Fire: Felix uses a device to cauterize Sylvester's Slashed Throat, and it really hurts.
- Horns of Villainy: Wyatt's cultists.
- I Know You Know I Know: Hale and Ford's Facial Dialogue over Theresa's body.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Ford assures Bernard that he's never been used to hurt anyone else. Cut to a flashback of Bernard choking Elsie in the abandoned theater.
- Immune to Bullets: The horned cultist shrugs off several bullets to the chest, eventually falling to a knife In the Back. This suggests he was wearing some kind of Improvised Armour under his clothes.
- Insult to Rocks: The Man in Black inflicts one of these on himself, after Teddy calls him an "animal.""No, an animal would have felt something."
- Interrupted Suicide: William grabs the gun off Dolores when a flashback memory makes her put it to her head.
- Kick the Dog: Maeve reprograms the sheriff to ignore Hector's gang, but Armistice shoots him In the Back anyway.
- Killer Robot
- Bernard was used against Theresa, but also Elsie.
- Maeve slices open Sylvester's throat to demonstrate she's no longer Three Laws-Compliant, then has Felix patch him up.
- In her flashback memory, Maeve tries to cut the throat of the Man in Black, as his attack on her child caused a breakdown in her programming.
- Averted with Teddy, who's unable to kill the Man in Black despite now remembering what he's done to Dolores.
- Kubrick Stare: Bernard shoots a blood-curdling one at Ford as the latter explains what went into the murder of Theresa and what he wants Bernard to do. Then Ford turns Bernard off, freezing him right in the middle of his Stare.
- Lodged-Blade Recycling: Maeve pulls a huge Bowie knife out of her gut and attacks the Man in Black to protect her child.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Theresa's murder is set up to look like an accidental death by falling.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Bernard utters these words when realizing that he just killed Theresa.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Felix's reaction when Maeve slices open his co-worker's throat.
- William and Dolores are captured by Confederados with their latest recruit Logan, who is eager for revenge.
- Override Command: Having been given "admin rights", Maeve can dictate the actions of other hosts as if she were a member of the park's staff.
- Prop Recycling: In-Universe; The Man in Black recognizes the host playing Angela, expressing surprise that she wasn't deactivated years ago. "I guess Ford doesn't let anything go to waste."
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: After gaining the ability to control hosts through voice commands, Maeve tests this out by, among other things, making two deputy hosts shoot each other.
- Slashed Throat:
- Sylvester gets one courtesy of Maeve, though lucky for him he happened to be in just the right place for it to be sealed before he could bleed out.
- Maeve slashes New Clementine's throat while having a flashback of doing the same to the Man in Black. The wound was superficial on him, but not on her.
- Soundtrack Dissonance
- During the saloon robbery, as usual, this time the Swan Lake Waltz.
- During Maeve's memory wipe of her daughter being killed in a previous build.
- Spanner in the Works: Ford uses Bernard to destroy all evidence of Theresa's murder, then erases Bernard's memory of their secret affair. But Stubbs knew of the affair as he was head of security, so Bernard's Lack of Empathy regarding her death only makes him suspicious.
- "They Still Belong to Us" LectureAngela: You've been gone a long while, Theodore. It's time you came back to the fold. Wyatt will need you soon.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: While Sizemore is programming a cannibal host, he boasts that Ford asked him to secretly create a villain for his new narrative, implying it's the cannibal host. Charlotte is quick to laugh at him, saying that Ford would never entrust him which such an important job.
- Treasure Chest Cavity: Hale plans to smuggle out the data by purging a host's mind, getting Sizemore to add a veneer of personality, and smuggling him out on the train disguised as a guest. She chooses Peter Abernathy for this. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Would Hurt a Child: The Man in Black decided to kill Maeve's child as a supreme act of evil, to see if he was truly capable of it. He kills the child and feels nothing.
