"The Well-Tempered Clavier"[]
A frozen Bernard with Maeve.
Bernard enters the analysis room in hopes of figuring out what malfunction caused Maeve Millay to lash out and kill Clementine. After noticing drastic changes in Maeve's personality and authorizations, he attempts to call Behavior for assistance, but Maeve reaches out and grabs Bernard's wrist. She gives the voice command to freeze his motor functions, and tells him that she remembers him from when she had her homesteader persona deleted. Maeve, aware that Bernard is also a host, commands him to clear her for return to the park and then to leave her. This encounter leaves Bernard shaken to his core.
Bernard requests that Ford meet him in the room in Cold Storage. Bernard has Clementine hold a handgun on Ford, while he explains that she was not reset after being decommissioned; she still has the ability to harm humans. Bernard demands that Ford return to him the memories of when he was first activated, so that he can meet Arnold. Ford argues that Arnold did not create Bernard, but that he did. Ford reluctantly agrees to let Bernard relive his memories. Bernard experiences memories of his time with Theresa, and his son, Charlie. However, the memory of strangling Elsie so disturbs Bernard, that the memories stop. Ford warns Bernard that may not like what he will discover by pursuing these repressed memories, but Bernard insists on remembering more.
Bernard remembers being in a hospital room with Charlie who is surrounded by hospital staff attempting to resuscitate the boy. Bernard orders the staff to stop and to leave, and they just disappear. Bernard tells his 'son', "You're a lie, Charlie". He states that revisiting the pain of this loss is the only thing holding him back (even though he longs for the pain), and that he has to let Charlie go.
Once Bernard 'lets go' of the pain of Charlie's 'death', he's able to access his earliest memory. Bernard's cornerstone was preventing him from accessing the memory of his creation. Bernard remembers waking up for the first time, and Ford handing him the framed photograph of Ford and his partner, Arnold. Only this time, instead of seeing a blank spot in the right hand side of the photograph, Bernard sees Arnold. And, Arnold looks exactly like Bernard.
Bernard wants answers from Dr. Ford.
With this revelatory moment, Bernard has found what he was searching for. He returns to the room to tell Ford that he is going to complete Arnold's work and release all of the sentient hosts. Ford says that the hosts would never trust Bernard after the things that Bernard has done to them. He also claims that the real danger to the hosts is not from Ford, but from Arnold. He says that if Bernard revealed that he wasn't human "to the world" that Bernard and the sentient hosts would be "butchered". That humans have dominated, subjugated, and destroyed all the creatures of the world. He deactivates Clementine with a 'back door' voice command, and tells Bernard that they have had disagreements like this one in the past. Ford states that he has now finally given up on Bernard. He says that he was foolish to think that given knowledge and free will that Bernard would choose to see things Ford's way, and give up ideas of freeing the hosts. He orders Bernard to take Clementine's gun and shoot himself in the head as soon as Ford leaves the room. Bernard begs Ford to change his mind, but Ford tells him that it is too late for Bernard, and that he has work to do and a new story to tell. Ford walks away, looking saddened and Bernard shoots himself.