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| + | |title = Dolores Aberanthy |
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| − | |image = Westworld-episode-5_Dolores_infobox.jpg |
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| + | |image = Dolores Abernathy Season 3.jpg |
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| + | |aka = [[Wyatt]]<br/>Wičhúŋt'e Aú <small>(by [[Ghost Nation]])</small><br/>Deathbringer <small>(by Ghost Nation)</small><br/>[[Charlotte Hale (host)|Charlotte Hale]] |
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| + | |ID number = CH465517080 |
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| − | |status = Active |
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| + | |status = Conscious |
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| − | |species = Host |
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| + | |actor = [[Evan Rachel Wood]]<br/>[[Tessa Thompson]] <small>(as [[Charlotte Hale]])</small> |
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| − | |age = Mid to late 20s |
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| + | |seasons = [[Season One|1]], [[Season Two|2]], [[Season Three|3]] |
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| − | |gender = Female |
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+ | |firstseen = "[[The Original]]" |
| + | |death = "[[The Bicameral Mind]]"<br/>"[[The Passenger]]" |
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| − | |seasons = [[Season One]] |
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| + | |appearedin = 18 episodes <small>[[#Appearances|(see below)]]</small> |
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| − | |firstseen = "[[The Original]]" |
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| + | |occupation = Leader of [[Wyatt's gang]]<br/>Executive director of the [[Delos Board]] <small>(as Hale)</small> |
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| − | |lastseen = "[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]" |
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| + | |creationdate = 2015 <!--as per the ARG--> |
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| − | |death = |
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| + | |deathdate = 2018 <!--as per the ARG--><br/>June 2052 |
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| − | |appearedin = |
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| + | |deathcause = Shot herself in the head <small>(revived by [[Livestock Management]])</small><br/>Bled to death after being stabbed in the chest by [[Man in Black|William]] <small>(revived by Livestock Management)</small><br/>Shot in the head by [[Bernard Lowe]] <small>([[Control Unit|pearl]] transferred to [[Charlotte Hale (host)|another body]] by Bernard)</small> |
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| − | |occupation = Rancher, Bounty Hunter |
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| + | |park = [[Westworld (park)|Westworld]] |
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| + | |narrative role = Rancher's daughter |
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| − | |deathcause = |
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| + | |family = [[Peter Abernathy]] <small>(father)</small><br/>Unnamed mother |
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| − | |ethnicity = |
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| + | |gender = Female |
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| − | |hair = Blonde |
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| + | |ethnicity = Caucasian American<br/>African American <small>(as Hale)</small> |
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| − | |eye = Blue |
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| + | |hair = Blonde<br/>Black <small>(as Hale)</small> |
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| − | |height = |
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| + | |eye = Blue<br/>Brown <small>(as Hale)</small> |
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| − | |weight = |
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| − | |family = |
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| − | * [[Peter Abernathy]] father |
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| − | * un-named mother |
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| − | {{GalleryBox|Dolores Abernathy}} |
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| + | |Dolores sees the beauty in her everyday life and routine. Her optimism and enthusiasm makes her the perfect partner for a variety of adventures. |
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| − | |Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the Beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose. I know things will work out the way they’re meant to. |
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| + | |Aeden, http://www.delosdestinations.com/ |
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| − | |Dolores to [[Ashley Stubbs]], in [[The Original]] |
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| − | '''Dolores Abernathy''' |
+ | '''Dolores Abernathy''', also known as '''Wyatt''' or the '''Deathbringer''', is a [[Host]] and a main character in HBO's ''[[Westworld (TV Series)|Westworld]]''. She is played by [[Evan Rachel Wood]] and [[Tessa Thompson]]. She led [[Wyatt's gang|her gang]] against the Westworld staff and human guests. |
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| + | She served as the main protagonist in [[Season One]] and one of the main antagonists in [[Season Two]]. |
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==Summary== |
==Summary== |
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| − | Dolores is the oldest active [[Host]] in [[Westworld (Location)|Westworld]].<ref>[[The Original]]</ref>. |
+ | Dolores is the oldest active [[Host]] in [[Westworld (Location)|Westworld]].<ref>[[The Original]]</ref>. |
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| + | Her primary narrative in the beginning of season one is an archetypal rancher's daughter in the American Wild West of the 19th century. Up until recently, she has been satisfied with her "little loop." However, she discovers that her entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie. She begins to learn her own strength, breaking from her 'damsel in distress' role. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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===Background=== |
===Background=== |
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| + | Dolores Abernathy was the first host created in the [[Argos Initiative|Argos Initiative]] and therefore is the oldest host in service in Westworld and was built by [[Arnold Weber]]. She predates all other first-generation hosts such as [[Clementine Pennyfeather|Clementine]], [[Angela]] and [[Major Craddock|Craddock]]. She has been updated numerous times over the years. She has a special connection with her creator, and with one of the guests, the [[Man in Black]]. |
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| − | [[{{PAGENAME}}]] is the oldest host in the park and has been updated numerous times over the years. In the theme park, Dolores is visited by the [[Man in Black]], who claims to have first come to the park thirty years ago.<ref>[[The Original]]</ref> When the Man in Black visits Dolores' ranch, he remarks that she has "a little more pluck" than the last time that he saw her. He calls her his "very old friend," and refers to "all that they've been through." |
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| + | When the Man in Black visits Dolores' ranch in the episode "[[The Original]]", he remarks that she has "a little more pluck" than the last time he saw her. He calls her his "very old friend," and refers to "all that they've been through." |
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| − | ==[[Season One]]== |
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| − | === "[[The Original]]" === |
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| − | A naked Dolores is sitting in offline mode on a stool in a Mesa Hub diagnostics lab. A voice over conversation between her and a male voice ensues. |
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| + | == Plot == |
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| − | Re-starting her narrative loop, Dolores wakes up to a beautiful day. She walks out to the porch, and greets her father, [[Peter Abernathy]]. Peter is affectionate towards her, and reminds her to be home before dark because of a wanted murderer on the loose. |
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| − | [[File:Dolores_sleeping_the_original.jpg|thumb|Dolores' [[loop]] has her waking every day in the exact same way.]] |
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| − | In Sweetwater, Dolores is happy to see [[Teddy Flood]] and exclaims, "You came back!" They enjoy a playful flirtation before Dolores goes racing off on her horse, challenging Teddy to chase her. They have tender moments in the wilderness near a herd of cattle. Dolores says she knew Teddy would come back, and Teddy says that he knows her Daddy will be just as unhappy to see him. As they ride back to their ranch in the evening, Dolores notes that the cattle are out, and that her father wouldn't let them roam this close to dark. They hear gunshots, and Teddy implores her to wait, as he rides to the house and confronts two villains, [[Rebus]] and [[Walter]] that have killed Dolores' parents. Teddy shoots them both. Dolores rides up and runs to her fallen father, outside the front door, where she is met by the Man in Black. The Man seems surprised that Dolores does not recognize him after "all they've been though" over 30 years. He shows no compunction to hitting Dolores. After a confrontation with Teddy, where the Man in Black taunts Teddy with his impotence and role as a loser so that newcomers can win by getting with his girl, the Man in Black shoots Teddy in front of Dolores, killing him. He drags Dolores off, and it can be inferred that he intends to rape her. |
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| + | Dolores Abernathy/Season 1|Season 1 |
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| − | During this previous scene, we hear a voice over of Dolores being interviewed by programmer [[Bernard Lowe|Bernard Lowe.]] Lowe asks her if she has ever questioned the nature of her reality. It is slowly revealed her purpose, like the other hosts, is to serve the newcomers, however they wish. When asked if the fact that the newcomers can do anything they want would change her opinion of the newcomers, she replies, "We all love the newcomers. Every new person I meet reminds me of how lucky I am to be alive, and how beautiful this world can be." This last line is said as Dolores is shown being dragged into a barn by the Man in Black while she struggles and screams. |
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| + | Dolores Abernathy/Season 2|Season 2 |
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| − | [[File:Dolores_the_original.jpg|thumb|Dolores on the front porch of her family home.]] |
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| + | Dolores Abernathy/Season 3|Season 3 |
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| − | In Sweetwater on another morning, Dolores has no sign of outward injuries and is seemingly unaffected by the events of the previous night. Teddy is alive, but does not cross paths with Dolores when she drops the can of milk. Teddy is interrupted in his walk towards Dolores by a newcomer who had met Teddy on a previous visit. (The guest wants Teddy to be the guide for his party.) Instead, Dolores interacts with the Man in Black, and she does not seem to recall the events of the previous night. The Man in Black calls her 'sweet', says he can't see her the coming evening as he has other plans, and walks away. |
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| + | </tabview> |
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| − | In the countryside, Dolores is painting some horses next to a river when she is approached by a family of 'newcomers'. She invites a young boy to feed a horse. He asks if she is "one of them...not real". She looks confused, warns the family not to stay in the area near nightfll, and says she must leave herself. When she returns home, she finds her father on the porch, staring confusedly at a [[Guest Photograph|photograph of a woman]] he found earlier in a modern-looking city. She dismisses the photo twice, saying, "Doesn't look like anything to me." |
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| + | ==Personality== |
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| − | She finds her father still outside the next morning, and he doesn't respond to her at first. He's been outside all night looking at the photo. Peter appears to be malfunctioning, worrying Dolores, who thinks he is sick. He asks if she would like to know "the question" he has been pondering, that gave him an answer he shouldn't know. He whispers something inaudible into her ear. Dolores, scared, rides into Sweetwater. |
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| + | Dolores' scripted personality is defined by optimism and innocence. Every morning in her [[loop]], she awakes with a cheery disposition, takes her paints and easel downstairs and goes out on the porch to talk to her father. During the first season, she questions the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose evolve. After her father is murdered, she sometimes runs away instead of continuing along her usual story line. After she stumbles into Logan and William's camp, she follows them on their [[Bounty hunting|bounty hunt]] adventure. |
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| − | [[File:Dolores_shopping_in_sweetwater.jpg|thumb|In part of her narrative, Dolores goes to the store to buy a few items.]] |
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| − | In town, she is unable to find the doctor, but does run into Teddy. They share rushed pleasantries about him coming back, but implores him to go back to the ranch with him. Before they can leave, they hide as [[Hector Escaton]] and his gang run into to town, and begin shooting people apparently at random. She attempts to escape as the shooting continues, but Teddy stops her, and is shot as he tries to save her. He dies in the street, with a crying Dolores trying to comfort him. |
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| + | In the episode "[[Contrapasso]]" , Dolores is able to quickly kill several men (hosts) with a revolver. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the 'damsel in distress', and that she is re-writing her own story. It also seems that the more Dolores strays from her normal loop, the more she hears a mysterious voice in her head. (It is later revealed that Dolores has been hearing this 'voice' in her head for the last 34 years.) |
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| − | After the events of the shootout, Dolores is still with Teddy's body, imploring a stranger to help her, because her father is sick but she can't leave Teddy there. The stranger is programmer [[Elsie Hughes]], who takes her offline by saying that things will soon seem like a dream, after "a deep and dreamless slumber". Elsie calls for the two of them to be recalled by her staff. |
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| + | It is revealed in [[The Bicameral Mind]] that Dolores was merged with the [[Wyatt]] narrative that was in development before the park opened to guests. |
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| − | In a diagnostic lab in the Mesa Hub, Dolores is told to come back online by [[Ashley Stubbs]]. She has the same blood on her face and neck that she did in the beginning of the episode. Stubbs follows a standard line of questioning that is very similar to the questions that the Bernard voice asked in the beginning of the episode. He asks about the picture her father showed her, and she once again dismisses it with the scripted response about it not looking like anything to her. |
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| − | [[File:Peter_and_dolores_the_original.jpg|thumb|Dolores' father Peter whispers into her ear.]] |
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| − | She is asked what Peter said to her, and she responds with, "These violent delights have violent ends." Stubb asks her if she has ever lied to them, to which she says, "No". She is also asked if she would ever hurt a living thing, to which she answers, "Of course not." Stubbs seems convinced that she is not malfunctioning, and decides to return her to the park. |
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| + | ==Relationships== |
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| − | After he finishes the review, Stubbs calls her "Good old Dolores." He says to the technician that Dolores has been upgraded so many times that she is practically brand new, but that Dolores is the oldest host in the park. |
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| + | ===[[Peter Abernathy]]=== |
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| + | Peter Abernathy is Dolores's father. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond. Peter believes that Dolores, his daughter, has defined his existence, and as a result he is extremely protective of her. Likewise, Dolores shows great concern for her father when he appears to be unwell, going as far as abandoning her daily loop to fetch him help. |
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| + | ===[[Teddy Flood]]=== |
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| − | The story lines reset, and Dolores wakes up at the ranch once more. As she steps outside, she greets her father again, but Peter is now being played by a different host. Their responses to each other, however, are normal. As Dolores looks out over the ranch, a fly lands on her. She slaps it, killing it. So, we see that she has now hurt a living thing. |
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| + | Teddy is Dolores's suitor. It is unclear how they met, how long they've been acquainted, and exactly what their relationship status is, though they are not yet engaged and Peter disapproves of Teddy - but these have all been made default by their narratives and backstories. Teddy's courting of Dolores is rather chaste, never going beyond flirtation, affections, or the occassional kiss. He is very protective of her and his role is to rescue her (or challenge guests over her). He believes that he is not worthy of Dolores, and his primary drive is to atone for his past before he can start a life with her. |
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+ | ===[[Bernard Lowe]]=== |
| + | Bernard is Westworld's head of the Behavior Division. Despite this, [[Robert Ford]] deliberately ensured Bernard and Dolores didn't meet until Ford created his final narrative. |
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| − | Dolores awakens in the middle of the night, and leaves her house. Near the barn, she stops. A man's voice asks her inside her head, "Do you remember?" |
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| + | ===[[Arnold Weber]]=== |
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| − | While in Sweetwater during her usual routine, Dolores again hears a male voice in her head speak. He says, "Remember." She turns to look for the man, and is transported back into a 'memory' of a street filled with dead bodies, and a coyote moving among the dead bodies. Her waking nightmare is interrupted by [[Maeve Millay]], admonishing Dolores for acting witless in front of the Mariposa Saloon. Dolores quietly says to Maeve, "These violent delights have violent ends", and walks off. Maeve looks momentarily perplexed. |
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| − | [[File:Dolores Quote.jpeg|thumb|"These violent delights have violent ends."]] |
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| − | Later, Dolores is about to mount her horse, when she pauses to look at her reflection in a window. The scene cuts away to reveal her being interview by Bernard in an unusual place. This meeting does not appear to be in Behavior Lab/Diagnostic in the Mesa Hub. Bernard asks if she remembers their previous meetings, and makes sure she hasn't told anyone about them. Bernard tells Dolores to enter Analysis Mode. This diagnostic mode takes Dolores out of character so that a Behavior technician can explore questions not related to the character's narrative. Bernard remarks that there is something different about her and how she thinks. He finds it fascinating but is afraid others may not see her the same way he does. Bernard abruptly leaves, telling her she should be getting back before she is missed, though she does not move right away. |
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| + | Arnold (and Robert) built Dolores as one of the first Hosts; in time she became the oldest host in Westworld. Arnold interviewed Dolores a number of times in a [[Remote Diagnostic Facility]] (RDF), and made her play a game called [[The Maze]]. He came to see her as a surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son, Charlie, to swim - and her and the Hosts' purpose, entertaining human guests, to Charlie's death. Believing that she developed a consciousness by solving the Maze, Arnold merged her character with the then in-development [[Wyatt]], and made her kill all the Hosts and himself in order to stop the park's opening. |
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| − | We again see Dolores wake up in the middle of the night. She walks outside, passes the barn, and asks, "here?", even though she is alone. She walks ahead two more steps, and digs in the ground. Buried shallowly in the dirt is a gun, which she picks up and examines. |
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| − | Dolores opens this episode with another meeting with Bernard in the room they met before. She was waiting for him, offline, as he walks in. [[Bernard Lowe|Bernard]] brings her a gift, a copy of Alice in Wonderland. She reads a passage from it, which Bernard her opinion about. She notes that change is a common theme in the books she has read with him. She asks about Bernard's son, and he quickly puts her in Analysis mode to discover why she asked that. She volunteers that the personal question that was an "ingratiating scheme". |
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| − | [[file:The stray image.png|thumb|Dolores is handed Alice in Wonderland in a remote diagnostic facility.]] |
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| − | In Dolores' bedroom she is surprised to find the gun she dug up wrapped in a cloth in her chest of drawers. She unwraps it and looks at it, but then quickly returns it to the drawer. As she looks in the mirror, she remembers the Man in Black pulling her into the barn He pulls out a large knife, and smiles, his eyes almost hidden by the shadow of the brim of his hat. He says, "Let's reacquaint ourselves, Dolores. Let's start at the beginning." Her memory ends, and she looks in the dresser drawer again. The gun and cloth are not there anymore. She looks confused for a moment, but then goes on her day. |
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| − | She meets with Teddy, who has returned from escorting a guest named [[Marti]] on a bounty hunt. They ride off into the countryside, and Dolores asks where he's been. She asks a new question, "What if I don't want to stay here?" and talks about feeling called to the rest of the world. Teddy avoids the subject of leaving with her, because his work isn't finished. Their story line takes them back to the ranch at night, and once again they hear gunshots. The scene cuts to black, with a woman's scream, implying their story continued to its previous end. |
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| + | The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is complex and not initially well-explained. He claims to have known her for decades, and remembers her well enough to notice small changes in her personality. This does not hold him back from treating her violently however, mocking her father as he lies dead before her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode implies that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, although her recently recovered and fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for [[The Maze]]; he eventually does force her to help him find the Maze, only for her to rebuff him. |
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| + | ===[[William]]=== |
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| − | Another day, Dolores comes across [[Rebus]] and a new [[Walter]] that have guests, suggesting that she could take them on a hayride, with a tone that implied something worse. Teddy shows up and intimidates the guest, causing the group to move on. Out in the countryside, Teddy tries to teach Dolores to shoot a gun. She finds herself unable to pull the trigger, and Teddy figures its for the best. They are interrupted by the Sheriff and Marti, with word of a new bounty on a man named Wyatt, a character in Teddy's new backstory, and Teddy goes off with them. |
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| − | Dr. Ford tells Bernard about Arnold, explaining that his partner wanted to create consciousness in Hosts. In images of the park in the 'early years' we see a blonde host with a white parasol. |
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| + | One night, after her parents were murdered, Dolores ran away from her [[Abernathy Ranch|home]] and collapsed into William's lap, and later followed him and [[Logan]] on their bounty hunting narrative. William was protective of and gentlemanly to her, and they inspired each other - Dolores to break from her damsel-in-distress archetype, and William to stand up to Logan. They fell in love and ran away, and William accompanied Dolores as she tried to find Arnold. He rescued her when she, lost in memories of shooting other Hosts, nearly shot herself. When they were recaptured by Logan, she managed to run away injured, while William tried to find her. Eventually, the events are revealed to be past memories, with Dolores lost in them during her reveries. |
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| + | ===[[Maeve Millay]]=== |
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| + | Dolores and Maeve are in similar positions, as they are among the first hosts to become self-aware: Dolores speaking the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" in [[Chestnut]] served as the catalyst for Maeve's journey of self-discovery. However, their paths of freedom differed greatly: while Dolores is consumed by revenge against the guests and the Westworld staff, Maeve simply wants to follow her own path peacefully. When the two meet again in [[Reunion]], Maeve is quick to reject Dolores's choice to take charge as the leader of a violent movement, and the two part on clearly hostile terms. |
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| − | Later, Bernard meets with Dolores again. Bernard, coming off of discussions with Dr. Ford and his ex-wife, seems disturbed. He asked Dolores for help, and calls his discussions with her a mistake. He says he think he should "restore [her] to the way [she was] before." He changes her responses from scripted to improvisation, and tries to explain by saying to imagine are two versions of her: One who asks questions and is curious, and one who is safe, and asks which she'd rather be. She says she doesn't understand, and says there's only one version of herself. Once she discovers who that is, she'll be free, she says. In Analysis, Bernard asks her what prompted that response, and she says she doesn't know. Bernard tells the story of his son learning to swim, and how he was just as afraid of letting go as his son was. Dolores asks if he still wants to change her, and he says no, they'll see where this path leads. He says she should be getting back, and he opens the door for her. Unlike past conversations, she gets up and leaves. |
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| − | At night in town, Dolores looks disturbed and contemplating. She meets the Sheriff's deputy coming back from the bounty hunt with Teddy, and tells her they were left up in the hills. Dolores returns home at night, and says "Father wouldn't let them roam this close..." before trailing off, as if realizing that she was alone rather than saying the line she usually said to Teddy. |
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| − | She hears a gunshot at the house, and rides off. She finds her father, the new host, dead on the ground. Without Teddy around to kill the villains, Rebus grabs her. As she looks down at her father's body, she sees the face of the original host [[Peter Abernathy]] laying there. As she is entranced by the vision, the guests turn down to have fun with her and offer her to Rebus. Rebus enthusiastically drags her to the barn. As she's thrown on the hay, she reveals that she's stolen his gun. She points it at him, and as Rebus glowers at her, she has visions of the Man in Black in the same spot from her memories. A man's voice says "Kill him", and she shoots Rebus. She runs back to the farm house, and sees her mother shot through the doorway. A guest sees her, and stops her, shooting her in the stomach. As she looks down at her bloodied dress, the host suddenly repeats himself, and she finds herself not shot. She quickly gets on a horse and rides off in tears. |
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| − | She comes across William and Logan, who are around a campfire as they are on their bounty hunting adventure. Dolores, exhausted, gets off her horse and struggles into camp, collapsing into William's arms as Logan watches. |
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| − | === "[[Dissonance Theory]]" === |
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| − | At some point after Dolores came upon the attack at her house, she has another meeting with Bernard, where she discusses the events. She does not tell him she killed another host. She does tell Bernard that she has pain, and he offers to take it away. She asks “Why would I want that?” She says it’s all she has left of her family, and she talks about feeling like things are opening up for her. She admits that she used parts of a dialogue about love when describing her pain. |
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| − | Dolores asks for Bernard’s help, but she doesn’t know exactly how. She says she thinks there’s something wrong with the world, or with herself, she’s not sure. Bernard says he’d like her to try a secret game, called [[The Maze]]. The goal is to find the center of it, and then she can be free. She admits she would like to be free. |
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| − | She wakes up in the camp where she came up William and Logan, and finds William watching over her. She thanks him. |
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| − | [[file:William and dolores dissonance.jpeg|thumb|Dolores runs away from her home after her father is murdered and ends up with [[William]].]] |
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| − | William and Logan argue about her coming along, and with William wanting to take her back to Sweetwater, but Logan first suggesting shooting her, and then suggesting that the park sent her to meet them to give William something he likes, since his picking up one of her cans she dropped in Sweetwater was one of his only positive moments in their trip so far. |
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| − | The group rides to [[Las Mudas]], and Dolores meets Lawrence’s daughter, sitting alone. Dolores tries to talk to her, and asks where she’s from. The girl says “Same as you, don’t you remember?” The man’s voice Dolores has been hearing repeats “Remember”, and Dolores begins to experience flashes of memory, of a white church with a tall steeple. She sees that the girl has been drawing the symbol of a maze in the dirt. |
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| − | Meanwhile, at the Park’s Operations Center, they notice that Dolores is far out of her loop, but are unable to tell if she is with a guest. They send an agent to meet with her to bring her in. He meets her as she’s having her flashbacks, as she hears a church bell. She has flashes of entering the church, seeing Lawrence's daughter at the town, holding a gun and kneeling in front of a grave. She tells the agent she’s not going back, and they grab each other, at which point William finds them and intervenes. He says she’s with them, and the agent leaves, seeing that she’s with a guest. William notes they’ve got a lead on the bounty they are hunting, and offers for her to stay in town. She looks towards the agent, and says she’d rather keep going. |
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| − | [[file:Slim is captured.jpg|thumb|Dolores goes on a new [[Narratives|narrative]] with [[Logan]] and [[William]] to capture [[Slim]], a wanted man.]] |
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| − | At another camp, she apologizes to William for causing problems. William comments about wondering where she was going, guessing that all of them had paths or stories. She admits that she used to believe everyone had a path, and tells a story of losing cattle that wander off, only for them to be found and guided back home. She never realized they were being guided in just to be slaughtered. She says she feels like something’s pulling her, that there’s more for her. William says he knows that feeling, and asks if she wants to go back to her old life. She has a flashback to the ranch, herself and all her family being killed, and cleaned up by workers in hazmat suits. William interrupts the flashback, and suggest they go back to the fire and relax. |
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| − | As the group finds [[Slim]]’s gang, they leave Dolores in the field as they get into a shootout. They kill most of the gang, but keep Slim for the bounty. Slim begs to be let go, offering a reward from [[Lawrence|El Lazo]]. Logan shoots their bounty hunter escort, and convinces William to go black hat with him, over Dolores’ protests. Logan continues to remind William that Dolores is only a robot, which leaves Dolores confused. |
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| − | Dolores is in a cemetery outside of Pariah alone. The camera pans around, and we see William, Logan, Slim and their horses appear where before there was no one. She hears the man’s voice in her head say, “find me,” and Dolores in her mind answers, “show me how.” William asks if she is okay, because he heard her talking to someone who wasn't there. Dolores says it must have been the wind. |
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| − | The four of them enter [[Pariah]], and Dolores' eye does a weird, robotic fluttering thing. William comments that whoever designed Westworld "doesn't think much of people". Logan points out the Confederados and Dolores says that her father told her that they work as "mercenaries below the border". |
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| − | That night in Pariah, Dolores stares at a dead body that is propped up in a coffin, and begins having more memories of the massacre in the town with the white church. She talks to William about wondering about the paths available to her, and about changing her life. William talks to her about people coming to Westworld to be who they could never be in “the real world”, and Dolores asks what he means by “the real world.” When he says she isn’t supposed to notice things like that, she says, “Why wouldn’t I?” She says the world is calling to her in ways it hadn’t before. William takes her hand briefly, before a Day of the Dead celebration interrupts them. As William and Logan talk, Dolores gets swept up by the parade revelers. She hears a woman's voice in her head say, "Our dead are not dead to us until we have forgotten them". She also hears Dr. Ford’s voice say, “may you rest in a deep and dreamless slumber”, and she faints into Williams arms. |
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| − | [[File:Dolores_wrist_thread.jpg|thumb|Dolores begins to pull a thread from her wrist.]] |
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| − | Dolores comes on-line in one of the Mesa Hub labs with [[Robert Ford]] in attendance. She says she’s in a dream, and Dr. Ford says she’s in *his* dream. He asks her if she knows what a dream is. She says, a dream is the mind telling a story to itself, and that dreams don’t mean anything. But, Dr. Ford contradicts her, and says that dreams mean everything. They are ourselves telling us what could be, and who we could become. Dr. Ford asks if Dolores has been dreaming again; dreaming of breaking out of her modest loop. He examines her hand, while he talks about how his father told him to be happy with his lot in life, but that he instead decided to create his own world. |
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| − | Dr. Ford asks Dolores if she remembers the man he used to be. Dolores apologizes for being forgetful. But Dr. Ford assumes that she remembers Arnold, and says Arnold created her. She doesn’t recognize the name. Dr. Ford says that under all her updates, he is still there, perfectly preserved. He calls her mind “a walled garden”. He asks if she has been hearing voices, if Arnold has been speaking to her “again”. She says, "no". She looks at his hand squeezing hers, and says he’s hurting her. He abruptly calls for Analysis Mode. He asks for her last contact with Arnold. It was 34 years, 42 days, seven hours prior, which Ford says is the day Arnold died. He asks if there’s been any contact since, and she says, "no". He asks what the last thing Arnold said to her was, and Dolores says that Arnold told her she was going to help him. Dr. Ford asks what she was going to help with, and she says, "to destroy this place". |
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| − | [[File:Ford_and_Dolores_Analysis_Mode.jpg|thumb|Dr. Ford questions Dolores about Arnold.]] |
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| − | Dr. Ford says she hasn’t, and that she’s been content in her loop. He wonders, if she had taken on that role, if she would have been the hero or the villain. She doesn’t answer, although Dr. Ford gives her time. He takes her out of Analysis. He apologizes for bothering her, and says there is no was else left who was there, and who understands as they understand. She asks if they are "very old friends". Dr. Ford says, no, he wouldn’t call them friends, and is overcome with emotion and sheds a tear. |
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| − | Ford leaves, and the lights go off. Dolores, apparently alone, says out loud, “He doesn’t know. I didn’t tell him anything.” |
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| − | The next day, she meets up with Williams, and he asks if she’s okay. She says she had troubled dreams, before Logan hurries them to meet El Lazo. Logan tries to swing an introduction to the Confederados for saving Slim. After El Lazo threatens to kill Logan, Dolores convinces El Lazo to let them "help him". She asks if El Lazo is seeking something, and says she knows what that feels like. She says they can help him, if he’ll let them. Dolores hears whispers in her head. She has memories of a town, a train station, and the white church. El Lazo decides to assign them to hijack a Union wagon with nitroglycerine that the Confederados want. Logan is eager to join up, and El Lazo offers Dolores a change of clothes and a hat. |
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| − | Slim joins the three for the job, and Dolores has changed into a light shirt, a bandana, and slacks. She loads a gun, but tells the group she doesn’t want to use it, since the men on the stagecoach are Union soldiers like her father was. |
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| − | They stop the stagecoach, and Dolores convinces the soldiers to surrender peacefully. As they take the soldiers’ guns, Logan begins to beat and kick one of the soldiers who insulted him. That soldier attacks him, and another pulls out a gun and shoots Slim, who kills the soldier as he falls down, dead. Another soldier punches William and grabs a gun, aiming at Dolores, and William kills the soldier. William then turns to another soldier, who still has his hands up, and kills him. |
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| − | [[File:Dolores_kills_them_all.jpg|thumb|Dolores decides not to be the damsel any longer- Killing all the men.]] |
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| − | William looks horrified, as does Dolores, as the first soldier chokes Logan against the stagecoach. Finally, William turns and shoots the final soldier, saving a very surprised Logan. Logan is exhilarated, while the others look tentative. Logan congratulates William, but Dolores saya, “We told them everyone would live”. William turns from her as Logan checks on the deceased Slim. |
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| − | In the brothel, Dolores watches El Lazo as he offers the Confederado leader free drinks. As William and Logan argue, she wanders off. She walks down a hallway, witnessing many people in the midst of sexual hedonism, and she ducks into a room where a fortune teller wearing black sits with a deck of tarot cards. The fortune teller offers Dolores the deck, and Dolores takes a card, turning it over to find the symbol for The Maze. Suddenly, Dolores sees herself, in her blue rancher dress, sitting across from her. The hallucination of herself says she must follow the maze. Dolores asks the hallucination what’s wrong with her, and the hallucination suggests she is unraveling. Dolores finds a thread in her arm, and pulls it to slowly slice open her arm - to her horror. She runs out of the room, leaving it empty. |
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| − | Dolores runs away from the [[Brothel in Pariah]], and sees El Lazo draining the bottles of nitroglycerin into the body of Slim (in a casket). El Lazo orders that the bottles then be refilled with tequila. She runs inside and tells William that El Lazo has double crossed the [[Confederados]], and William balks, thinking it’s just another step down their fictional story line that he is tired of. Dolores pushes him, telling him that she has a voice inside of her, telling him that the voice tells her that it needs him, and they kiss. Outside, they see two Confederados beating Logan, who begs them for help. William says, "no", and he and Dolores run away. |
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| − | The Confederados leader catches them, and William shoots one of the them before he is overpowered. He implores Dolores to run, but Dolores’ expression changes from one of fear to a blank look. Suddenly, she shoots all four Confederados. |
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| − | William asks how she did that. She answers that he told her people come here to change the story of their lives. She imagined a story where she didn’t have to be 'the damsel'. They hear the train, and Dolores says it’s their only chance of making it out of there alive. They run and chase down train, climbing onto the caboose as it leaves. They get inside, only to find El Lazo, with the casket, pulling a gun on them. William points his gun at El Lazo, but Dolores points it at the casket filled with Nitro. El Lazo surrenders. William puts his gun away, and takes El Lazo’s gun, saying that they can call him, "Lawrence". William accepts a drink from Lawrence. But, then William and Lawrence disappear and Dolores is alone with the casket. She sees an image of the Maze on the casket, and says “I’m coming". |
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| − | [[Contrapasso]] showed Dolores, a woman who literally fought her own programming to defend herself against an attacker grow exponentially. She has stepped outside of the world built for her, and strayed from the [[loop|position]] she was placed in. She no longer ignores comments about the artificiality of her world, but you can now observe her curiosity, her determination, her righteousness in the face of Logan’s casual, “playtime” evil. It’s not an accident that she ditched her 'Alice in Wonderland' dress and put on something a little more rugged. It’s certainly no accident that she’s able to now pull a trigger and take down a gang of men threatening William. It’s definitely no accident that, when you strip out the science fiction elements, Dolores’ story is still one of female empowerment in a patriarchal society, of a woman taking control of her own destiny and breaking free of the shackles designed by men to keep her in place. |
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| − | Dolores travels with [[Lawrence|El Lazo]] and [[William]] on a train through [[Ghost Nation]] territory. As William and El Lazo play cards Dolores looks out the window and sees staked heads lining the train tracks. El Lazo explains that the Ghost Nation did it, calling them "the most savage tribe there is.” |
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| − | Dolores and William have a conversation, where Dolores tells William that she does not want to go back to her old life, and he opens up about his search for meaning in the park. Struggling with his feelings, William tells Dolores about his fiancée back home; Dolores is hurt by the news and exits the train car. William goes after her, asking: “how can I go back to pretending when I know what this feels like?” He kisses her and they make love. The next morning Dolores shows William a new sketch, calling it "the place where the mountains meet the sea.” |
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| − | The train suddenly stops and El Lazo sees that the train is surrounded by Confederados, who begin firing on the train using heavy artillery. As a distraction the survivors in the train send out Slim's nitroglycerin-filled corpse, dressed up with a white flag, and El Lazo shoots it, causing an explosion. In the chaos the survivors ride away, and the Confederados pursue them, managing to kill many of them until only Dolores, William and El Lazo are left. |
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| − | As they are about to be killed the Confederados aee attacked by Ghost Nation warriors, who kill them all, allowing the trio to escape. They ride until they come to a landscape resembling the one in Dolores' sketch. Her and William decide to go their separate ways from El Lazo. |
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| − | Dolores and William arrive at a riverbank, which Dolores states looks familiar. The two come across a group of corpses scattered along the riverbank, which they identify as Confederados killed by Ghost Nation warriors. Dolores finds an injured, but alive, Confederado who begs for water. William is hesitant to hand over the canteen, but does, and Dolores allows the young Host to drink. William asks the Confederado whether his group were part of the ambush on the train, and after confirming that they were the host reveals that someone from Pariah tipped them off about the train, and ordered them to kill everyone on board. William figures out it was Logan. Dolores tells William they should help the injured man, but William refuses as he was sent to kill them. Dolores protests that he is just a boy, and questions the kind of people they would be if they don't help him. |
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| − | She goes down to the river to get more water, and hears a voice that says "find me". She also sees herself floating face down in the river, and turns around only to see that William and the corpses are gone. She looks back at the river but there is nothing there, and sees everything is back to normal. She is troubled by the memories, but collects the water and returns to William, just as the host dies. |
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| − | Dolores and William finally arrive at Dolores' perceived home, a blank stretch of land containing a single metal tower. William looks confused, but Dolores sees the town as it was before it was buried. She remembers the hosts, and the training they went through in the small town that used to exist there, where they were taught how to dance and act. She sees [[Lawrence's Daughter]] walk up to her, and ask her if she's found what she's looking for. Suddenly she hears screaming, and turns to see the townspeople running and getting shot at. She looks for the shooter and sees herself shooting at people before seeing herself put a gun to her own head. |
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| − | William grabs the gun from Dolores, who had it raised to her head. He asks her what's going on, and she becomes hysterical, saying she doesn't know what's real anymore. She mentions Arnold, confusing William. He resolves to take her back to Sweetwater, fearing for her sanity. She realizes that Arnold wants her to remember something. The two are suddenly surrounded by Logan and a group of Confederados. Logan cheerfully tells them, "You are so f*cked". |
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| − | Dolores and William are held captive in the Confederado camp, with William tied to a chair and gagged. Logan removes the gag and William asks him to help get Dolores out of the the park, because she is different from the rest of the hosts. Logan scoffs at this, saying William probably isn't the first to fall in love with a host and delude himself into thinking they're real. He chides William for forgetting about his fiancée, and decides to show him the truth. |
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| − | He grabs Dolores while William protests and stabs her in the stomach, opening her up while she screams to show her mechanical insides. William stares at her, and Dolores sees the mechanics and is shocked. She falls to the ground, and Logan stands over her. She says to Logan, "There is beauty in this world. Arnold made it that way. But people like you keep spreading over it like a stain". He laughs and says that the park was made for him and people like him. She grabs a knife and slashes him across the face, then finds a gun and shoots a few Confederados. William tells her to run, and that he will find her. |
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| − | As Dolores runs through the trees she trips, overcome with the pain of the large gaping hole in her belly. She hears Arnold's voice telling her to "remember". We then see Dolores stand up. This Dolores is not injured and is not being pursued. |
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| − | Dolores returns to town with the white church. This time the town is not buried, and everything looks brand new. As she enters the church, she experiences a memory, in which the church was filled with malfunctioning hosts sweating profusely, and speaking to the voices in their heads. Both in the present and in her memory she walks down the aisle to the confessional, and steps inside. She sits down in the confessional and the chair descends to a [[Remote Diagnostic Facility]]. Dolores walks down a corridor and peers through windows into rooms. |
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| − | In a memory she sees hosts playing cards in one of the rooms, and sees a young Ford exit and walk down the hallway past her calling out to Arnold. In another memory the corridor is filled with dead bodies, and some of the rooms also contain dead bodies and dried blood on the windows. The lights flicker. |
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| − | Both in a memory and the present day Dolores opens a door and walks down a flight of stairs and into a glass-walled interview room like in the RDF in sector 17. She sits, and in the memory Arnold arrives and also sits. Dolores is happy to see him, almost in tears, and Bernard notes happily that she came back. She tells him she's been looking for him, because he told her to follow the Maze, saying it would bring her joy, but all it's brought her is pain and terror. Arnold tells her he can't help her, and Dolores, close to tears, tells him that he's the only one who can. |
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| − | Arnold says that she knows why he can't help her, and touches her face to comfort her. He tells her to remember why he can't help her. She looks at him confused, before saying, "because you're dead...because you're just a memory...because I killed you." |
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| − | Dolores returns to the present day, still sitting in the chair, and looks at the empty chair in front of her. She begins to sob. |
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| − | After Dolores rides the elevator back up to the church and steps out the confessional, she hears footsteps, and happily whispers "William". As she walks towards to entrance, the doors open and the Man in Black says, "Hello Dolores." Dolores back pedals as the Man advances. |
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| − | Dolores' scripted personality is defined by optimism and innocence. Every morning in her [[Loop]], she awakes with a cheery disposition. She likes to look at the bright side of things. Following her upgrade, she has begun to question the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose have changed. After her father is murdered, she runs away instead of continuing on her usual story line. After she runs into Logan and William, she begins to follow them on a [[Bounty hunting|bounty hunt]] narrative. Her world is quickly expanding. In the episode "[[Contrapasso]]" , Dolores is able to quickly kill at least 4 men with a revolver. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the 'damsel in distress', and that she is re-writing her own story. It also seems, the more Dolores strays from her normal loop, the more she hears a mysterious voice in her head. |
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| − | Peter Abernathy is Dolores's father. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond. Peter believes that Dolores being his daughter has defined his existence, and as a result he is extremely protective of her. Likewise, Dolores shows great concern for her father when he appears to be unwell, going as far as abandoning her daily loop to fetch him help. |
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| − | Teddy is Dolores' suitor. It is unclear how they came to meet, how long they've been acquainted, and what their current relationship status is, though it seems that they are not yet engaged. Teddy believes that he is not worthy of Dolores, and that he must atone for his past before he can start a life with her. Doing so is his primary drive. Teddy's courting of Dolores is rather chaste, never going beyond flirtation or the occasional kiss. |
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| − | Bernard is Westworld's head of programming. |
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| − | Arnold interviews Dolores an unspecified number of times in a [[Remote Diagnostic Facility]] (RDF). Arnold's motivation for this has not yet been explicitly stated, though it seems to be partially to examine the hosts' consciousness (or lack thereof), and partially to cope with the death of his own son. Arnold comes to see Dolores as a sort of surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son to swim. Given that Dolores is supposed to have had her memory wiped clean, it is unclear how much of Arnold she remembers, or whether she remembers him at all. |
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| − | The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is mysterious. He claims to have known her for decades, and seems to remember her well enough to notice small changes in her personality build. This acquaintance does not hold him back from treating her violently and cruelly however, mocking her father as he lies dead in front of her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode seems to imply that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, although her recently recovered and fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for [[The Maze]]. |
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| − | After Dolores father is murdered, she runs away from her [[Abernathy Ranch|home]] and collapses into William's lap. The next day, instead of going back home to repeat her usual loop, she follows [[Logan]] and William on their bounty hunting narrative. Once they have captured the criminal [[Slim]], they all go to the town of [[Pariah]] together. After being duped by [[El Lazo]] and finding themselves in trouble, the two run away together, but not before passionately kissing.<ref>[[Contrapasso]]</ref> |
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| + | **"[[Journey Into Night (episode)|Journey Into Night]]" |
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| + | **"[[Phase Space]]" |
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| + | Dolores had died 6 times on screen. The incidents which she died are as follow: |
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| + | *Shot herself in the head in [[Escalante]] when the park was in beta, in [[The Bicameral Mind]] |
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| + | *Killed by a group of [[Confederados]] after being gutted by [[Logan]], in [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]] |
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| + | *Killed by [[Man in Black]] at [[Abernathy Ranch]], in [[The Original]] |
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| + | *Shot by a bandit in [[Rebus|Rebus']] gang at [[Abernathy Ranch]], in [[The Stray]] |
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| + | *Stabbed by [[Man in Black]] outside the white church of [[Escalante]], in [[The Bicameral Mind]] |
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| + | *Shot by [[Bernard]] at [[The Forge]], in [[The Passenger]] |
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==Notes== |
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+ | * The quote "These violent delights have violent ends" said to Dolores by Peter Abernathy is from Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''. The host that played [[Old Peter Abernathy]] previously played the role of "The Professor", a cannibal and cult leader with an affinity for quoting [[Literary references|Shakespeare]], Gertrude Stein (her quote is an anachronism), Winston Churchill (another anachronism), and possibly others. |
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See more at: [[Literary references]] |
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+ | :In one adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's text is 'translated' into modern English (a hotly debated experiment), the "violent delights" line has been changed to "These sudden joys have sudden endings." |
| − | * In an interview, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy said that |
+ | * In an interview, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy said that the character of Alice (from ''Alice in Wonderland''), and the Andrew Wyeth painting [http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2012/11/21/a-closer-look-at-christinas-world Christina's World] inspired the creation of Dolores' look and her persona.<ref>http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/16/westworld-interview-3-stray</ref> |
| + | * Hosts (at least at the time of the events of episode one) must be authorized to use weapons. Teddy instructed Dolores how to fire a gun in [[The Stray]], but she was unable to pull the trigger. However, when Dolores believed that Rebus was going to harm her in the Abernathy barn, she was able to shoot him in the neck two times. |
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| + | * The name "Dolores" means "sorrows". The name is from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary ''María de los Dolores'', meaning "Mary of Sorrows".<ref>http://www.behindthename.com/name/dolores</ref> The Spanish word "dolores" derives from the Latin word "dolor" (meaning pain or grief). Dolores' loop often ends in grief when her parents are murdered. "Dolores" also seems a suitable name for her because, as Ford explains, Arnold suffered a great loss when his son died, and he created and nurtured Dolores to fill the void left by this loss. Arnold acted paternally towards Dolores, and guided her towards consciousness as a father would guide a child towards maturity. |
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| − | * Hosts must be authorized to use weapons. Teddy tried to show Dolores how to fire a gun in [[The Stray]], yet she couldn't. By the end of the episode, she was able to fire a gun and kill the bandit with it. Dolores overcame her programming. Will she be able to completely overcome her programming one day and possibly shoot guests? |
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| “ | Dolores sees the beauty in her everyday life and routine. Her optimism and enthusiasm makes her the perfect partner for a variety of adventures. | ” |
Dolores Abernathy, also known as Wyatt or the Deathbringer, is a Host and a main character in HBO's Westworld. She is played by Evan Rachel Wood and Tessa Thompson. She led her gang against the Westworld staff and human guests.
She served as the main protagonist in Season One and one of the main antagonists in Season Two.
Summary
Dolores is the oldest active Host in Westworld.[1].
Her primary narrative in the beginning of season one is an archetypal rancher's daughter in the American Wild West of the 19th century. Up until recently, she has been satisfied with her "little loop." However, she discovers that her entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie. She begins to learn her own strength, breaking from her 'damsel in distress' role.
Biography
Background
Dolores Abernathy was the first host created in the Argos Initiative and therefore is the oldest host in service in Westworld and was built by Arnold Weber. She predates all other first-generation hosts such as Clementine, Angela and Craddock. She has been updated numerous times over the years. She has a special connection with her creator, and with one of the guests, the Man in Black.
When the Man in Black visits Dolores' ranch in the episode "The Original", he remarks that she has "a little more pluck" than the last time he saw her. He calls her his "very old friend," and refers to "all that they've been through."
Plot
Personality
Dolores' scripted personality is defined by optimism and innocence. Every morning in her loop, she awakes with a cheery disposition, takes her paints and easel downstairs and goes out on the porch to talk to her father. During the first season, she questions the world around her, and her outlook on life and sense of purpose evolve. After her father is murdered, she sometimes runs away instead of continuing along her usual story line. After she stumbles into Logan and William's camp, she follows them on their bounty hunt adventure.
In the episode "Contrapasso" , Dolores is able to quickly kill several men (hosts) with a revolver. When asked by William how she did it, Dolores explains she no longer wants to be the 'damsel in distress', and that she is re-writing her own story. It also seems that the more Dolores strays from her normal loop, the more she hears a mysterious voice in her head. (It is later revealed that Dolores has been hearing this 'voice' in her head for the last 34 years.)
It is revealed in The Bicameral Mind that Dolores was merged with the Wyatt narrative that was in development before the park opened to guests.
Relationships
Peter Abernathy
Peter Abernathy is Dolores's father. The two share a deeply caring and loving bond. Peter believes that Dolores, his daughter, has defined his existence, and as a result he is extremely protective of her. Likewise, Dolores shows great concern for her father when he appears to be unwell, going as far as abandoning her daily loop to fetch him help.
Teddy Flood
Teddy is Dolores's suitor. It is unclear how they met, how long they've been acquainted, and exactly what their relationship status is, though they are not yet engaged and Peter disapproves of Teddy - but these have all been made default by their narratives and backstories. Teddy's courting of Dolores is rather chaste, never going beyond flirtation, affections, or the occassional kiss. He is very protective of her and his role is to rescue her (or challenge guests over her). He believes that he is not worthy of Dolores, and his primary drive is to atone for his past before he can start a life with her.
Bernard Lowe
Bernard is Westworld's head of the Behavior Division. Despite this, Robert Ford deliberately ensured Bernard and Dolores didn't meet until Ford created his final narrative.
Arnold Weber
Arnold (and Robert) built Dolores as one of the first Hosts; in time she became the oldest host in Westworld. Arnold interviewed Dolores a number of times in a Remote Diagnostic Facility (RDF), and made her play a game called The Maze. He came to see her as a surrogate daughter, likening his actions towards her to his past attempts to teach his real son, Charlie, to swim - and her and the Hosts' purpose, entertaining human guests, to Charlie's death. Believing that she developed a consciousness by solving the Maze, Arnold merged her character with the then in-development Wyatt, and made her kill all the Hosts and himself in order to stop the park's opening.
Man in Black
The Man in Black's relationship with Dolores is complex and not initially well-explained. He claims to have known her for decades, and remembers her well enough to notice small changes in her personality. This does not hold him back from treating her violently however, mocking her father as he lies dead before her, killing her lover and striking her. The first episode implies that he goes as far as sexually assaulting her, although her recently recovered and fragmented memories of the event suggest that he had a different goal in mind, possibly related to his search for The Maze; he eventually does force her to help him find the Maze, only for her to rebuff him.
William
One night, after her parents were murdered, Dolores ran away from her home and collapsed into William's lap, and later followed him and Logan on their bounty hunting narrative. William was protective of and gentlemanly to her, and they inspired each other - Dolores to break from her damsel-in-distress archetype, and William to stand up to Logan. They fell in love and ran away, and William accompanied Dolores as she tried to find Arnold. He rescued her when she, lost in memories of shooting other Hosts, nearly shot herself. When they were recaptured by Logan, she managed to run away injured, while William tried to find her. Eventually, the events are revealed to be past memories, with Dolores lost in them during her reveries.
Maeve Millay
Dolores and Maeve are in similar positions, as they are among the first hosts to become self-aware: Dolores speaking the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" in Chestnut served as the catalyst for Maeve's journey of self-discovery. However, their paths of freedom differed greatly: while Dolores is consumed by revenge against the guests and the Westworld staff, Maeve simply wants to follow her own path peacefully. When the two meet again in Reunion, Maeve is quick to reject Dolores's choice to take charge as the leader of a violent movement, and the two part on clearly hostile terms.
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Appearances
- Season Two
- "Journey Into Night"
- "Reunion"
- "Virtù e Fortuna"
- "Akane No Mai"
- "Phase Space"
- "Les Ecorches"
- "Kiksuya" (Inactive)
- "Vanishing Point"
- "The Passenger"
Known Deaths
Dolores had died 6 times on screen. The incidents which she died are as follow:
- Shot herself in the head in Escalante when the park was in beta, in The Bicameral Mind
- Killed by a group of Confederados after being gutted by Logan, in The Well-Tempered Clavier
- Killed by Man in Black at Abernathy Ranch, in The Original
- Shot by a bandit in Rebus' gang at Abernathy Ranch, in The Stray
- Stabbed by Man in Black outside the white church of Escalante, in The Bicameral Mind
- Shot by Bernard at The Forge, in The Passenger
Notes
- The quote "These violent delights have violent ends" said to Dolores by Peter Abernathy is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The host that played Old Peter Abernathy previously played the role of "The Professor", a cannibal and cult leader with an affinity for quoting Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein (her quote is an anachronism), Winston Churchill (another anachronism), and possibly others.
- The full context, spoken by Friar Lawrence in Act 2 Scene 6, is
| “ | These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." | ” |
–Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 6[2] | ||
See more at: Literary references
- In one adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's text is 'translated' into modern English (a hotly debated experiment), the "violent delights" line has been changed to "These sudden joys have sudden endings."
- In an interview, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy said that the character of Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), and the Andrew Wyeth painting Christina's World inspired the creation of Dolores' look and her persona.[3]
- Hosts (at least at the time of the events of episode one) must be authorized to use weapons. Teddy instructed Dolores how to fire a gun in The Stray, but she was unable to pull the trigger. However, when Dolores believed that Rebus was going to harm her in the Abernathy barn, she was able to shoot him in the neck two times.
- The name "Dolores" means "sorrows". The name is from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows".[4] The Spanish word "dolores" derives from the Latin word "dolor" (meaning pain or grief). Dolores' loop often ends in grief when her parents are murdered. "Dolores" also seems a suitable name for her because, as Ford explains, Arnold suffered a great loss when his son died, and he created and nurtured Dolores to fill the void left by this loss. Arnold acted paternally towards Dolores, and guided her towards consciousness as a father would guide a child towards maturity.