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Welcome to Westworld.

–Angela , in "Chestnut", "Reunion" and "Les Écorchés"

Angela is a main character in the first and second seasons of Westworld. We first see Angela playing the role of a host greeter, who welcomes guests to the Westworld Mesa Hub, and prepares them for their visit inside the park. She tells William that she is a host: "Do you really understand, William? All our hosts are here for you: myself included." She is portrayed by Talulah Riley.[1]

Angela has been in Westworld since prior to the park's opening to guests. In "Trace Decay", she's revealed to be a Lieutenant of Wyatt and most zealous of followers.

Biography[]

Background[]

Angela is a first generation host. and one of the earliest hosts designed by Arnold Weber's and Robert Ford's startup the Argos Initiative.

Like all other hosts, she is modelled on Dolores's successful code, and is along with Teddy, Akecheta, and Craddock one of the oldest and longest serving continuous hosts in the Park. She predates other first generation hosts like Maeve, Armistice, Rebus, and the host that would become Peter Abernathy. Angela seen moving through the Escalante beta testing facility, already on her loop, while they are still in the process of being trained in basic behavior.

Along with Dolores, Craddock, and Akecheta she was chosen along with other hosts, to go to the mainland to provide an interactive demonstration for Logan Delos to aid in convincing him to invest in the Park Ford & Weber planned to open. While Dolores was meant to be first choice to help convince Logan, Arnold's attachment to the first Host, and paternal attitude to her, meant he was unwilling to use her in that fashion, and Angela was chosen in her stead, to interact and do the dirty work of convincing the libidinous prospective investor.

As one of these earliest hosts, not long after that, Angela was still Escalante when Arnold decided, in the wake of discovering Dolores was now sentient, that he could not allow the hosts to effectively live in a hell of his making, and had Dolores and Teddy wipe out their fellow hosts. Angela being the last one dispatched by Teddy.

When Ford rebuilt the Hosts, and re-opened the Park despite Arnold's plan and suicide, Angela was given the role of Greeter, meeting the guests off the sleek modern train on their arrival on the island, and preparing them for journey to the Park. Outfitting and supplying them with clothes and weaponry, she answers their questions, providing the optional extra of sex if they so desire.

It is not known how long she served in this role, though it remains her voice intoning "Welcome to Westworld" that the guests hear as the arrival at the Terminal. But sometime prior to the events of the Sweetwater Massacre, she was no longer a Greeter, The MiB expressing his surprise when he and Teddy find her in the Park as a survivor of one of Wyatt's followers vicious attacks, thinking that Robert Ford had "retired" her.

It appears as if Robert picked her to be one of Dolores's/Wyatt's lieutenants, in part because of her presence at Esclante, which places her at the Centre of the Wyatt storyline, and perhaps because as one of the longest suffering/most used of the hosts, he felt she was owed/was likely to feel the most vengeance.

Personality[]

Angela herself describes her Cornerstone (that part of her around her personality is built) as being 'To always leave them wanting more'. As such her personality is always somewhat aloof and mercurial, hard to grab hold of. She also details her own programmed personality

"Sexy, but not threatening. Accommodating, but not unchallenging. Sweet, but not boring. Smart, but not intimidating."

Angela is, it is revealed, the first host effectively 'pimped' out by Ford and Weber to get the money they want to develop the Park. And is chosen to do so instead of Dolores, who is Arnold's favourite. In the wake of this, on Dolores seeing Angela dressing, an interesting moment occurs between the two fellow female hosts. Almost like a mutual recognition of the future that awaits them.

It is not known what relationship, if any, the two had in Escalante, but Dolores recalls her, smiling at her, both of them walking freely around the town while other hosts are being trained. During the massacre that followed, as instigated by Arnold, Angela is seen grieving hugely over a young dapper male host who has been killed, before she herself is killed by Teddy.

Despite this, on achieving her self-awareness, it is Dolores as Wyatt and Teddy that she is foursquare behind. As a stalwart Lieutenant of Dolores/Wyatt, she leads the followers out in the Park that Robert has purposed, and makes every effort to coax Teddy back to Wyatt's side, foretelling that he will be at Wyatt's side again as he once was. In many ways, perhaps not surprisingly given her forced prostitution role for decades, Angela is the most zealous in search of revenge, and in service of the cause of Host freedom. Unquestioning of Dolores's path, she is relentlessly vicious and single minded, frequently having to be reigned in by Dolores. And, after Dolores reprograms Teddy to be a cold blooded killer, openly smirking when he shoots a QA man point blank in an act that even stuns Dolores herself.

In the ultimate indicator of her zealotry, Angela sacrifices herself to take out the Cradle, the very act of which ensures that she can't be brought back.

Plot[]

Season One[]

"Chestnut"[]

When William arrives at the Westworld Mesa Hub, Angela prepares him for his park visit. She shows him his choices of bespoke clothing, hats, and a weapon.

"The Stray"[]

While Robert Ford reminisces about the "early years" before the park opened, Angela is seen walking through Escalante carrying a white parasol.

"Trace Decay"[]

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Dolores is in the Unclaimed Territories and she finds the buried town that she calls "home". She experiences a memory. In it she remembers a woman with a white parasol. This woman is Angela.

While they search for Wyatt, Teddy Flood and the Man in Black find Angela bound and among a group of corpses. The Man in Black recognizes her, and says that he had assumed that she had been decommissioned. Teddy unties her, and they are then attacked by one of Wyatt's cult members, who is impervious to bullets. While Teddy and the Man fight the cultist, Angela sits calmly on the ground and watches the men struggle to defeat this host.

Later, Angela sits by the campfire while Teddy converses with a bound Man in Black. After the Man in Black tells his story about killing Maeve and her daughter, she tries to convince Teddy to kill him. Teddy points his pistol at the Man in Black's head, but he claims that he is unable to kill him. Then, Angela stabs Teddy in the shoulder with an arrow, revealing herself to be one of Wyatt's followers. Masked figures (more followers of Wyatt) then emerge from the darkness.[2]

"The Well-Tempered Clavier"[]

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Angela ties up Teddy, while the Man in Black watches. She challenges Teddy and his story about what happened in the massacre he and Wyatt perpetrated. Angela's prompting seems to have an effect as Teddy remembers that he didn't just kill soldiers, but also non-soldiers like Angela. He is shocked by this. Teddy was also not dressed as a soldier in the memory that he experienced after Angela's prompting; he was wearing civilian clothing and the badge of a deputy or a sheriff. Angela states that he will one day help Wyatt again, but it won't be on this night. She stabs him in the chest with the Man in Black's large knife, and watches while he dies. Then, she walks over to the Man, still tied up, and they talk before she smacks his head against the boulder he is leaning against, knocking him out. During the night she and the other members of the cult leave the Man. When he awakes, he quickly sees that Wyatt's cult members have tied a noose around his neck, strung the rope over a tree limb and attached it to his horse that is not hobbled.

Season Two[]

"Journey Into Night"[]

Following the Gala Massacre, Angela is seen as part of Dolores' party who are hunting Humans through the park. Later, she sets a trap using a park utility vehicle and the dead bodies of several park technicians as bait for fleeing Delos Incorporated Board Members. They take the bait and Angela leads a group of Hosts from the "Wyatt" narrative to kill them.

Later, Angela rides up to Dolores and Teddy Flood when they are preparing several Board members to die by self-strangulation. She tells Dolores that they have "found it."

"Reunion"[]

Angela is part of Dolores Abernathy's group that invade the Sector 19 Remote Refurbishment Facility after discovering its location by following Blaine Bellamy, whom Angela allowed to escape her ambush. She then kills Blaine by stabbing him and tortures the park QA security officer Jacobson by forcing his face into the substance that Hosts are made of.

Teddy Gunslinger

Angela follows Confederados Lieutenant Dunleavy, who has been reactivated by Dolores in an effort to find an army to face off against the Delos Incorporated response team. She sends word of the location to Dolores, and then helps her to kill Major Craddock and his men. Dolores then forces park technician Phil to reactivate Craddock to recruit him as her follower.

Death[]

Destroyed By

  • Herself (Suicide)

In order to free the hosts from the backups, Angela sacrifices herself and blows up the Cradle along with Engels. The backup data and programming is lost forever, further freeing the hosts from the possibility of once again being reprogrammed to their obedient personalities. 

Related Casualties[]

This list shows the victims Angela has killed:

Relationships[]

Wyatt[]

Angela is a follower of Wyatt.

Quotes[]

Welcome to Westworld.

–Angela to Engels before blowing herself up with a grenade, destroying the Cradle

It's you ... I figured they had retired you. I guess Ford never likes to waste a pretty face.

–Man in Black to Angela

Many of our hosts have appeared in multiple storylines over the years. Isn’t it nice to see a familiar face?

–Aeden, http://www.delosdestinations.com/

Known Deaths[]

Angela apparently dies 1 time on screen:

Appearances[]

Gallery[]

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References[]

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