"Generation Loss" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of Westworld, and the thirty-second episode overall.
Synopsis[]
| “ | Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? | ” |
–HBO | ||
Plot[]
What Happens Next[]
"Caleb?" Maeve's voice cuts through Caleb's pain as the flies crawl inside him, flashing him back to a loan building on a coastal outcrop. He and Maeve climbing the dunes, trying to keep out of sight in bright sunlight, planning an infiltration, as his voice asks "You ever think about what happens next?" As they both drop to the sand, he adds "What happens when this war is over?" The moment some seven years earlier 'The Riots' still in progress. Thinking about it for a moment, Maeve moots that they go back to their regular lives. Caleb wondering what that looks like for them. Gathering herself, Maeve hopes they have the luxury of finding out. Looking through his binoculars Caleb counts 4 maybe 5 guards at the perimeter. Maeve telling him 12 total, 5 outside, 7 in, able to tap into the security feed. "Show off," he mutters, Maeve confirming as this is the last 'Rehoboam' they are bound to have pulled out all the stops, as they make their move.
Outside the building one of the guards is distracted by what looks like a malfunctioning security camera, Caleb taking him out. Maeve taking out the one who comes out at the sound of shots. Inside, Caleb deploys explosive charges around the Rehoboam sphere as Maeve keeps watch. As he makes the charges live, two guards see them and open fire, Maeve taking both down, before Caleb tells her to run. As the explosives go off, they take out the pylons holding up the sphere, the massive computer smashing down into the depths below it the final explosion blowing Caleb and Maeve out of the door they entered through. Both of them landing heavily, Caleb on his back sees a guard rounding the corner and shoots him, but takes a shot in return. Maeve taking a moment to notice.
Dragging him up she gets him back to the relative shelter of the dunes, pulling up his body armor and clothes to have a look at the bullet which has pierced his side, the wound bad. Putting some wadding on it she gets him to put pressure on it but he starts to cough up blood. Trying to cover her worry, she gets him to talk, wanting him to be more specific when he says "I guess I'll never know." Life after this, he answers meaning the war, "You. Freedom" Her hand pressing down with his, she keeps him focused on her telling him if he wants to know what freedom feels like she can show him. Using her abilities she tells him she can hack into his limbic implants, and show him what she felt long ago. Caleb seeing the Homestead in the Park, the peace as her daughter's hand finds hers. And then he hears her voice again "Caleb?"
No One Wins[]
Lights coming into blurry focus above him, a face appears, and both it and the voice resolves into that of. Hale.
Back on the floor of the Underground Lab in the Golden Age Park, an electronic band around his head, Caleb slowly comes to as Hale, leaning on a table looks down at him. Feeling the band he wants to know what she's done to him? "What I plan to do to all your kind," she tells him, "I made you my pet." Monitoring the spread of the infection she tells him in a little while everything will be so much easier, he won't even want to resist. Weak, he pulls off the band and sees the still open face of the host Frankie. Trying to get up to attack Hale, he slumps back down again and instead asks about his family, Hale telling him they are still out there, alive. For now. As a fly lands on her finger, she adds that soon it won't matter where anyone is, they will all be under her control. Caleb realizes this was never about the new Park it was all about her spreading her disease. Everyone who goes to the Park will become a carrier. "I prefer the term, host." she replies, but confirms he's correct, they'll leave with their debauched memories, and her parasite. The super spreader event of the Century. He's the first wave, she tells him. Wanting to know if she's going to make him kill himself like the others in the lab, she assures him that was just her ironing out the kinks. She has better plans for him. Besides, she adds, Maeve and Dolores were so fond of him, she's inclined to keep him around just to see what all the fuss is about. As he manages to drag himself up with the help of the table, she is able to tell the parasite is taking effect, and tells him not to fight it, no one wins.
Last One Standing[]
Outside, still on the floor, Maeve looks up at William and realizes "You're one of us." But he tells her there is no 'us' anymore, there's just her. All the other hosts, him included, are Hales. All her friends are gone, he took care of them, himself. Drawing herself up, she appears a mixture of grief stricken and shaken, before her features harden and she attacks him. After a brief struggle he knocks her down again, and then walks back to get his gun to finish her. Pulling herself up, Maeve limps rapidly away and makes her way back into the room with the graphic of the Tower, and the Audio Transmitter. Following her into the room he finds that she's hiding and heckles her for being reduced to 'a scared child hiding in the shadow' Hiding behind some crates, Maeve closes her eyes, and William can hear her voice in his head. Laughing he tells her she can't control him, Hale made some upgrades for them. Her eyes opening, she smiles a little, telling him "You're not the one I was trying to control."
The display screen beside him flickers as the computer announces "Access Granted." Maeve's details appearing on the screen her Auditory Levels dropping to Zero. Right as the Transmitter beside him starts to emit it's chimes at a booming level, everything starting to quake, while Maeve sits there in perfect silence. The Transmitter's power levels shoved right to the top everything goes critical as the Sonics have a devastating effect on everything mechanical around it, Host William included, who clutches at his head in agony. While further away Hale starts to wince and grimace...all the lights quaking, the sonics vibrating until every bit of glass on the floor explodes in the sonic boom, blasting William away and sending Hale and Caleb flying to the floor.
Freed from the control of the Transmitter, Caleb seizes his chance, grabbing a piece of broken glass and pressing it to the half stunned Hale. Dragging her up he pulls her forward as Maeve comes for him. Telling her the parasite is in him and that Frankie was a host trap, she tells him she knows, looking at Hale commenting "And there I was thinking that Wyatt was Dolores's dark side." Demanding to know how to get the parasite out of his head, Hale refuses to give up her leverage to Caleb. Maeve grabbing her angrily, pulls her after her, happy to dig it out of her. Pulling her into an elevator, Caleb tells Maeve they've both seen what this parasite does, they have to stop her. But even as the elevator door closes, the flies are flying free. And back in the control room, William's eyes open.
Doesn't Look Like Anything To Me[]
In a dark rainy New York City, Christina appears to be having a nightmare, flinching in her sleep, as Maya's voice calls for her, wondering if she's home, before opening the door, half waking her, surprised to find her still asleep. On entering she see's Christina's painting on the easel mostly covered in a cloth, and wonders what's been going on. Sitting up rapidly, Christina realizes she's overslept. "That's an overstatement," Maya comments wondering how late Christina was up painting? Still groggy she doesn't remember, but knows she couldn't fall asleep. Neither could she, Maya admits, Christina asking if it was more nightmares? Maya recounts how it was one about when she was a kid, on a picnic with her family. But there was a fly that kept landing on their food. They'd chase it away but more would come. Then they were everywhere. They got her father first, and he was screaming and her mother tried to help, but they got her too. She watched them scream and flail and then go absolutely still. Christina, dressing, pauses to ask her what happened next. Feeling emotional at the recall, Maya tells her, then the flies came for her. And everything went black. Stating how terrible that sounds, Christina empathizes with her, and Maya says that while she's had anxiety dreams before this one felt very real.
Turning around Maya pulls back the cloth covering Christina's paining and sees a black swirling monstrous representation of the Tower. Frowning at it disturbed, she asks Christina what it is supposed to be, but Christina can't tell her, asking if it looks like anything to Maya? Inhaling Maya slowly turns back to her saying it 'looks like' she's dragging her out with her that night to blow off some steam. Christina immediately grimaces, saying No, definitely not wanting to go on another set up, but Maya begs her, telling her "I will find someone perfect for you, I promise!" Christina shakes her head vigorously, but Maya begs telling her that she, herself, needs a night off, and asks her to come with her. Caught and concerned by her friends need, Christina agrees, both of them leaving the room, Maya glancing back at the image of the Tower and shuddering.
Most of the Time[]
In the Outliers camp under guard, Bernard watches drones flying over the desert in the distance before he and Stubbs watch as a truck draws up with a huge fan on it's flat bed, Stubbs wondering what it's for. Bernard telling them they'll need some help to find what they're looking for under the sand. 'C' meanwhile confronts Jay reminding him that he his approval for the search. That, he says, was before they got word of another Outlier, her extraction takes priority before she gets hunted down. They can't waste time on what he feels to be a misguided treasure hunt. And what about Bernard and Stubbs she asks. Stubbs looking over at the discussion wonders what they're talking about, Bernard brutally frank saying "Deciding our fate," C wants to know what if they really are on the Outliers side, but Jay tells her they don't take chances on strangers. C argues that if there really is a weapon here the two could be their best chance to free everyone. Jay feels this is too personal for her, that she's lost all objectivity and they're not going to waste time on a myth. As Jay gives orders for everyone to get ready for the extraction, C says nothing, until he adds that it' best to 'travel light' and draws his gun heading for Bernard and Stubbs intent on killing them. C gets in his way and drawing her own weapon points her gun at him. The pair in a standoff. Stubbs looking for reassurance from Bernard gets told they live, mostly.
The stand off is ended when another Outlier, Odina, intervenes calling them both out. Telling Jay he's being an asshole, she says she'll cover C for the extraction team. Turning to C telling her to go see where this leads if she wants, but if Bernard & Stubb are bullshitting them, shoot them. Jay agrees but says he'll take Stubbs with him, for collateral. C finally agreeing, the standoff ending. Stubbs looks to Bernard and asks if he has to go with the extraction team, and Bernard says 'For safety', but he doesn't mean Stubbs'. The two of them are separated taken to their disparate teams, C walking with Odina to tell her to be safe, Odina also C's girlfriend.
Knock Off Narrative[]
In the Golden Age Park, an FBI man is trying to drum up info on the Hector-alike, bootlegger 'Heckie Armand', before Maeve appears from a side alley knocks him out and drags him behind a truck. Taking his cuffs she tosses them to Caleb to use on Hale, while she takes the lawman's gun. Caleb says they have to get to an extraction point, his men will pick them up from just outside the border of the park. Hale jibes at Caleb that he'll never get that far, but Maeve alone, she says, she might make it. In fact, she adds, if Maeve hadn't been so sentimental she could have lived on in peace, undisturbed. Caleb wants to know what she's talking about, but before any response is forthcoming, chimes echo that Maeve can hear but Caleb can't. Caleb starting lose focus. Maeve telling him they've turned the machine back on. Hale confirming the parasite will take control of him soon, if the guests in the park don't kill them first. Tired of listening to her, Maeve shoves her on to the street, her gun at Hales back. As they walk Caleb sees people walking parallel to them on the far side of the street, and tells Maeve he thinks they've been made. But Maeve recognizes the patterns of the narrative of the Park, and it transpires to be another one from the Sweetwater play book, a fight breaking out that has nothing to do with them. She does however spot their ride, a bootlegger's truck. They cross towards it, but the chimes ring again and this time Caleb is more affected.
Getting the bootleggers away from the touch by telling them some of the guests are after their hooch, they walk out and start firing, get shot down. One of their machine guns landing by Caleb's feet. The chimes sounding once more he picks the gun up and points it Maeve, who tries to get him to fight it. Seeming to no avail. Maeve lurching forward yelling No, but in fact it is to try to stop a guest from stabbing Caleb, but too late. The knife driving into his side, before Maeve can shoot him, the bullets not killing him as he's human. Knocking Hale out, Maeve throws her in the back of the truck and goes to help Caleb get in to the passenger seat. Telling Caleb to hold on she drives away with bullets bouncing off the vehicle.
Push Forward[]
The Way Forward
Against the backdrop of a defunct, giant Park Excavator like those Ford used in Westworld, C's convoy with Bernard heads further into the desert. Getting out Bernard tells C they're close, she telling him they better be. If it turns out to be a wild goose chase she'll have no choice to to shoot him. He knows, he replies, she's done it plenty before. Which confuses her. Spotting the drones patrolling the area, she says they're right on time, and her team start to pull out specialized tarps to cover the vehicles as C countdowns the amount of time before the drone locks on their position. As she does though, Bernard spots something on the ground and walks away, out into the open. Spotting him at the last second, C grabs a tarp and chases after him, knocking him to the ground and covering them both just before the drone locks on him. Losing sight of him as they meld into the sand, the drone moves on. Bernard though hasn't even been distracted, reaching out to what it is he spotted. A small black beetle that he gently picks up, and releases, watching it fly away towards a nearby ridge. "That's it," he tells a perplexed C, "Over that ridge, time to push forward."
"Someone Perfect For You"[]
New York City at night, and Christina emerges from the elevator to the same bar and restaurant she went to on her disastrous date with Henry. Already tense and clearly not wanting to do this, she walks out and moves to the bar, catching Maya's attention with a brush of her arm. Joining her at a table, Maya sees the look on Christina's face and chuckling, tells her to relax. Using her lipstick, she touches up Christina's, then hands it to her for her to have. Christina fumbling and dropping it, the lipstick rolling across the floor the feet of a man who bends to pick it up, Revealing, Teddy. Dressed in a sharp grey suit and crisp white shirt. The sight of him seeming to strike home with Christina, who finds herself staring at him.
Approaching her with a smile, he hands her back the lipstick with, "Don't mind me. Just trying to look chivalrous." Still caught like a deer in headlights, Christina only snaps out of it when Maya grins triumphantly saying "Told you!" Feeling she's come through on finding the 'perfect someone' for Christina. Looking back at Maya, who looks smug, Christina double checks with him, "You're my date?" His smile growing he asks if that's a problem? Shaking her head, he steps back gallantly ushering her ahead of him with a "Shall we?" Maya waving them off, pleased.
Drinks ordered, they sit not far from where she had dinner with Henry, but unlike Henry, Teddy kicks things off by asking her about herself. Having recovered from her unexpected reaction to him, she is back to being cautious and a little reticent, telling him there's not much to tell. Teddy insightfully taking from, that that answer, he knows she is either extremely modest, or extremely private. Gauging that she lightly points out that they've just met, and he doesn't know anything about her. Gazing at her, he tells her earnestly, "I feel like I've known you lifetimes." Caught a little unawares by that, she replies, from that, she knows that he is 'extremely cheesy'. Grinning, he laughs, and suggests that perhaps she could write him a better line. Which immediately puts her on her guard again, wanting to know what he means by that. "Well, you're a writer, right?" That only making her more nervous wanting to know how he knows that? From Maya he answers, saying she told him she is very dedicated to her work. He understands that, telling her he used to live like that, getting up, do your work, going home. "Like a train circling the smallest track." His words putting her more at ease, she asks him what kind of work it was he did. Laughing to himself he tells her if he told her she wouldn't believe him. But she presses it, and he tells her he was 'A bounty hunter with a heart of gold'. Arching an eyebrow, she tells him he was right, she doesn't believe him, both of them laughing.
Easy, natural.
"Well that's the thing about this world," he says, "some of the most unbelievable things turn out to be true. And the things that feel the most real are nothing but stories that we tell ourselves." His words resonating deeply with her, leaving her gazing at him again, until finally she asks if they've met before? "There's just something about you that's...very familiar." He teases her, asking her now who is using the cheesy pick up lines? She blushes, trying to say she didn't mean to, but he's more than happy for her to hit on him. Figuring its her turn. Full on bashful now she tries to deny she was hitting on him, only for him to catch her again, with "No? Shame." That being the case, he suggests they have a toast instead, Toasting her, and her path. Wherever it leads. Finding it a little odd at first, she grins and touches her glass to his, their eyes meeting over the top of their glasses. Christina looking genuinely relaxed and happy for the first time.
Something to Fight For[]
Driving as fast as he can to get to the edge of the Park so Caleb's team can find and extract them, Maeve can see that Caleb is bleeding out, The moment causing her to think back to the similar wound he had on their last Rehoboam mission, watching the medics try to resuscitate him after she got him to a hospital. Something he is obviously thinking on too, asking if she's going to disappear on him 'this time too'. Using faux indignation to hide her worry, she tells him it's typical of him to use the gravity of the situation to dredge up the past. But he is serious. Making her so as well, telling him she didn't. As we see it, she tells him that she sat at his beside for weeks, holding his hand, fearing the worst. Confronting something she had never confronted before. Mortality, the finality of death in humans.
She reminds him that he asked her once what regular life would look like for him, and as we see her watching him awake in the hospital bed being nursed, she says that she had a vision of how it could be for him to be free. The person tending to him in bed, Uwade. It was, she says, Extraordinary. Turning she walked away, leaving Caleb to look and see her gone, while she continues to say that hosts and humans are locked in a perpetual struggle, and she wanted him to do more than 'fight to survive' she wanted him to have something to fight for. She had already known the love of a daughter and planned on spending eternity holding it dear. Struggling, he realizes she has been alone all this time. Emotional, she tells him she knew he'd be safe if she stayed hidden, that he deserved to have something real to hold onto. And it would have been fine, she says, if one day she hadn't gotten curious and reached out through the grid to find him...and we see how she blew the power in her cabin and the entire town, in the first episode...and how Hale found them. His blood soaking his hands, he tries to speak about his family, if he dies, but she swiftly tells him not to worry, that she promised she'd get him back to Uwade, and she will.
The Last Face[]
Night closing in she brings the truck into an area marked as an Action Demolition Site with live explosives, as part of a Park Expansion Project. Pulling the truck in by a small control cabin. Grabbing the machine gun, Maeve and Caleb open the truck doors, and force Hale out. Maeve assuring Caleb they're almost there. Only for a bullet to ping off the truck door. William having followed them. As they shelter behind the truck, Maeve says she'll handle him, telling him to take Hale and call his team, handing him the other machine gun. Warning her she can't trust him with that, she tells him she just did. "We keep getting interrupted!" William calls to Maeve. As the two of them start firing at each other, Caleb forces Hale into the control shed and shoves her into a chair, tying her to it. Initiating the communication panel he calls desperately to see if his people are out there. A relieved voice finally answering, saying they were about to give up on him. Sending them his coordinates, he tries to patch himself up asking about his family, and is told they're fine, they lost Carver, but Frankie & Uwade are safe.
Relieved he turns back to look at Hale, only to feel the sway of the parasite again. Hale murmuring that he feels it now, "All your struggle, the burden of your so called consciousness released. Your will is no longer your own. It belongs to me." Outside the chimes ring out, and Hale tells him to pick up the gun. "Lets end this shall we?" Ordering him to aim it at Maeve, who is playing cat and mouse with William outside. Caleb struggles with himself, but keeps the gun trained on where Maeve his hidden, William emerging, Maeve breaking from her spot to fire at him, giving Caleb a clear shot at her. Only to shoot William instead. and shoot Maeve in the back. Caleb resists, and instead shoots the Man in Black. Maeve looking back up at him.
Always insist on mutual satisfaction
Stunned and furious, Hale wants to know how he disobeyed her? Seeing an approaching pick up craft in the sky, Caleb looks back at her, "Because I have something you don't have..." he answers, But before he can finish, Maeve is shot in the chest. William still alive. Caleb looks out distraught as Maeve staggers, William pulling his knife and getting up to walk towards her. "You think this is over? You can't stop us. You're still going to die back in the Park by my hand," he tells Maeve, before driving his knife into her stomach. But instead of trying to get away she grabs a hold of him and wraps her arms around him not allowing him to move. In the control cab, Caleb and Hale hear the computer say the system has been accessed, and explosives armed, issuing caution. Looking down seeing the lights for the explosives arming across the board, Caleb realizes with horror, what she's doing. William pulls back enough to tell her to take a good look, his is the last face she'll ever see, but can't get himself free of her grasp, "One lesson the Park taught me," she tells him, "Always insist on mutual satisfaction." Trying desperately to stop what she's doing from the control cab, Caleb calls out to her repeatedly, asking her to stop. But Maeve grabs a tight hold of William again, the sirens going off around them, as she quietly says. "See you in the next life, Darling." Not to William, but to Caleb. Caleb hammering at the window as she closes her eyes and smiles, the area around her and William exploding, burying them both, as Caleb screams her name, and then again in grief.
A Short Nap[]
To the sound of Caleb's men trying to reach him over the communication system, telling him they are almost there. Caleb in pain and almost passing out, hears Hale telling him to wake up. Looking over at her, she tells him that he dozed off for a minute, before spinning around still bound to her chair. Looking out, Caleb sorrowfully takes in the mound of sand and rubble under which Maeve is now buried. Taking him in, Hale tells him he doesn't look so good, but he feels she should be more concerned about herself. The lights of the approaching transport fill the room, Caleb saying they are here for her and he won't rest until everything she's built is destroyed. He doesn't care if he lives or dies. The only thing that matters is making sure his daughter doesn't grow up in a world where she is controlled by Hale.
Trial & Error[]
In the Desert, C sits with the Maze symbol in her hand while the the group aims the massive fan at the area Bernard has pinpointed. As Bernard approaches, C asks him how he knows this is the place they are supposed to dig, his answer of "Trial and Error" confusing her. "I dug everywhere else first," he says not illuminating her at all, before he initiates for them to start, the fan kicking up vast amounts of sand and dirt.
Memento Mortis[]
As Caleb tries to stay awake through the pain and the parasite, Hale's echo-y voice asks him if he even remembers how he got there? Of course, he answers, Maeve. "Afraid she's a gonner," Hale sighs, then says of William "Took out my man too. But I can always rebuild. Maeve on the other hand she...was something special." Her words angering him, Caleb swearing he will kill her, but Hale looks supremely unconcerned, and Caleb experiences another bout of grogginess, hearing his men's voices asking him if he's there? Does he see their lights? As lights come through the control cabin's windows. Hale gazing up at him with a slight smile, asks if he remembers what happened...now? Frowning at her, he looks slowly to the window and the lights,
"Do you remember *this* moment?" she asks. He doesn't understand what she's talking about, and she urges him to 'think'. Closing his eyes trying to clear his head, he gets some clarity, looking back at her "We got to the shed...Maeve died...the lights came." As he glances to the door, she tells him the lights weren't his men, they were hers,
And he remembers. The door bursting open, her armed men entering. And opening fire on him. Riddling him with bullets. Killing him.
Jerking from his memory he looks disbelieving, but Hale tells him, "You died. Right here."
Buried Truth[]
As the fan dies down in the desert, Bernard grabs a shovel and heads down the area cleared, to finish by hand. C standing over him. He knows that most of the others don't believe there is a weapon buried there, C answering that she has her own reasons for digging. And they're not about a weapon are they, she's looking for her father. Her father is dead, she tells him curtly. That's what she's told herself since she was a child, but she can't really make herself believe can she, he asks. "They say it happened here," she tells him, "If it's true there'll be a body."
Baseline[]
Shaken by his memory and what Hale has said, Caleb asks where he is? But Hale tells him it's not where he should be asking about, but...when. "How long have you been here?" He wants to know why she is asking him that? "It's part of an interview," she tells him, "to establish a baseline." For what he asks. Hale stands up, revealing that she was never restrained at all, and answers "Fidelity" Realization flooding him, Caleb rebels at the idea, pulling open his shirt and pulling off the bandage he used to stall his bleeding, finding the wound gone. "I'm me," he insists, he is still himself. "Well you're certainly a version of you," she notes placidly. The 278th version in fact. Caleb looks at her in horror, but grasping his face, she tells him not to look at her like that, that this kind of experimentation was started by *his* kind. As she moves away, Caleb makes a further realization, about his family.
As he sinks to a chair, his head jerking in reaction to trying to deal with this, she explains that the parasite worked on adults initially but there was always resistance. At a certain point human brains become more rigid, difficult to change. But their children was easy, seamless, the parasite growing in perfect symbiosis with them. It took a generation for them to mature, for her to gain complete control over the World. How long has it been he whispers. "For you? 23 years since you died in that Park." As she says that he begins to see it. The truth. The control cabin resolving itself into a sleek RDF style glass interview room, Caleb in off white scrubs, and Hale fashionably dressed with an entirely new hairstyle. Caleb traumatized, tries to take this in, his head jerking sporadically again.
Resurfaced[]
In the desert, Bernard gets down into the shallow hole he's dug having struck something. Watched by C, sweeping the sand away he reveals an old sign with the word Construction, Demolition and A Delos Park on it. Shifting it out of the way he tells C that he's sorry, bringing her to tears, saying there is a bod...his fingers gently brushing away the sand from around buried features...but it's not her father. Caleb isn't here, he says, revealing C to be the grown up Frankie. But the weapon he promised her, is. Maeve's desiccated, sand encrusted face revealed. Frankie recollecting her face from her childhood.
This World[]
Shaken to his core, Caleb gets up and looks out at the New York skyline through the windows, as Hale tells him it's time for a new narrative. But Caleb refuses, and makes a run for it, Hale watching him calmly, not even rising from her chair. Getting downstairs, running from the Elevator, Caleb leapfrogs the security turnstiles into the foyer of the building that is revealed to be Christina's place of work, Olympiad Entertainment. No one attempting to stop him as he runs outside.
Racing through the people on the streets he looks up to see a massive white Tower in the distance, built around the same audio device in the Golden Age Park, only vastly increased in size. And now he hears the signal chimes that Maeve was able to hear. Distracted by it he collides with a man who tells him to watch where he's going, before he and everyone else around Caleb freezes. Caleb turning around taking in the hundreds in the pedestrianized zone entirely still. Silence, until from behind him, Hale quietly asks if he understands now? Turning he sees her, her hand up, one finger raised, in control over every one.
"You won," he says, realizing the war has already been fought. And lost. "Welcome to my world," she confirms, and before he can react further her men grab him from behind, placing a bag over his head, and drag him away. Watching, Hale lowers her finger, and the Tower chimes again, everyone around her immediately resuming as normal. While out in the bay, where the Statue of Liberty would be, the massive Tower looms over the City.
Trivia[]
- The title of the episode 'Generation Loss' refers to the loss of quality when something is copied. Anything that reduces the quality of the representation when copying, causing further reduction in quality on making a copy of the copy, can be considered a form of generation loss. In this case, referring to Hales copies of the original hosts or in host William's case, William himself. Then latterly, Caleb.
- When William tells Maeve she is the only one left of her kind, that he took out all her 'friends', it can be intimated that he means not only Clementine, but Lawrence/remaining copies of Dolores, and all the hosts that were helping Dolores in taking down Serac. Though he has no awareness of Stubbs or Bernard.
- Christina's 'Does it look like anything to you?' is a paraphrased nod to the Westworld's host's "It doesn't look like anything to me," when presented with something from the outside world/outside their programming.
- Teddy's date and conversation with Christina is peppered with callbacks to Season 1.
- "Just trying to look chivalrous." - opening line and pick up (of her lipstick rather than the can of condensed milk)
- The train on the loop - that he arrived on that started their loop.
- A bounty hunter with a heart of gold
- Her 'path' - Both of whom have stated leads back to the other.
- Maeve's goodbye to Caleb "See you in the next life, darling," Is a call back to Hector's goodbye to Maeve in the S1 Finale "The Bicameral Mind"
Music[]
Pink & White - Frank Ocean (Played at outset of Christina & Teddys Date)
Deaths[]
Cast[]
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Quotes[]
Maeve to Hale - "And there I was thinking that Wyatt was Dolores's dark side."
Christina to Maya - "Does it look like anything to you?"
Bernard to Stubbs - "We live....most of the time."
Teddy to Christina - "Don't mind me. Just trying to look chivalrous."
Christina to Teddy - "Have we met before? There's just something about you that's very...familiar."
Hale - "It's part of an interview, to establish a baseline." Caleb - "For what?" Hale - "Fidelity"
Image Gallery/HBO Episode Stills[]
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External links[]
Generation Loss at the Internet Movie Database (rating 9,1/10) - Generation Loss на Rotten tomatoes (rating ?%)
