Maeve Millay

Maeve Millay
Information
Also known as	Madam of Mariposa
ID number	CK2702986218 (season 1) AC5000487105 (season 1, 2 & 3) HC1983012522 (season 1 & 3)
Status	Unknown
Actor	Thandie Newton
Appearances
Seasons	1, 2, 3
First Seen	"The Original"
Last seen	"The Mother of Exiles"
Narrative & Backstory
Park	Westworld (formerly) Warworld (simulation, formerly)
Narrative Role	Homesteader (formerly) Brothel Madam (formerly) War fugitive (formerly)
Family	(Unnamed) - Daughter Hector Escaton - Former Lover (destroyed)
Physical Attributes
Age	Late 30s
Gender	Female
Ethnicity	African-British
Hair	Black
Eye	Brown

“	Maeve gets off the train, at the end of "The Bicameral Mind" at which point, we shift to handheld camera, which we’d held back on throughout the entire season until one moment with her, and one moment with Dolores, when Teddy comes to rescue her.	”
–Jonathan Nolan, on Maeve's final step to consciousness

Maeve Millay is a main character and a host in Westworld. She is a brothel madam in the local Mariposa Saloon. She is one of the first Hosts who appears to question her reality, after a series of flashback events - and an apparently chance encounter with Dolores Abernathy in the street outside the Saloon.

Personality

Maeve is charming, perceptive, and manipulative. She runs the brothel in the Mariposa Saloon and is designed to be able to understand the needs of her guests; this includes initially having a high level of Bulk Apperception (at 14), as she is seen to be in a managerial role. This is eventually changed at Maeve's forceful-request in which it is given the maximum value possible.

After her Season One encounter with Dolores she started to develop self-awareness and discovered that her skill in manipulating humans extended to the staff of Westworld.

As she becomes more self-aware she develops a ruthless streak, controlling the technicians Sylvester and Felix to get what she wants.

Unknown to Maeve, she is following a narrative written for her by Ford. She acts as a catalyst, triggering changes that spread throughout the park.

Plot

• Season 1
• Season 2
• Season 3

Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Maeve has killed:

• Herself (Physical Body, Suicide)
• 2 unnamed Hector's gang members (Physical Body)
• Herself (Caused, Physical Body)
• Sheriff Pickett (Caused, Physical Body)
• 2 unnamed host marshals (Caused, Physical Body)
• Armistice (Physical Body)
• Herself (Physical Body, Suicide)
• Hector Escaton (Physical Body)
• Hector Escaton (Indirectly Caused, Physical Body)
• 3 unnamed QA Security Force members
• Multiple unnamed hosts in Shōgunworld (Physical Body)
• Multiple unnamed soldiers in Warworld (Simulation)
• Herself (Simulation, Suicide)
• 1 robot-servant (Caused)
• Multiple unnamed Yakuza's men
• The Mortician (Indirectly Caused)
• At least 35 unnamed Warworld soldiers (Simulation)

Relationships

Clementine Pennyfeather

Maeve is shown to have a very motherly bond with Clementine, often scolding her for not treating herself better. Even still, Maeve is quick to send Clementine off to do her dirty work for her. After the original Clementine is replaced, Maeve is overcome with grief and attacks the replacement.

Dolores Abernathy

Maeve and Dolores, both being local to Sweetwater, are familiar with each other. The two begin to question the nature of reality around the same time: Dolores's delivery of the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" is what puts Maeve on her own journey of self-discovery. Despite this and the fact that they were the first two hosts to become completely self-aware, their brief encounter in Reunion is strikingly hostile: Dolores is consumed by a need for vengeance against the humans for all they have done, while Maeve has no interest in violence and is simply following her own path. She rejects Dolores's choice to establish herself as a leader of a free movement, which clearly angers Dolores. The two are able to part without any violence ensuing, but their ideological differences on what to do with their freedom are quite clear.

Known Deaths

Maeve had died 9 times on screen. The incidents which she died are as follow:

• Stabbed by Man in Black at The Homestead, in Trace Decay
• Killed herself with a scalpel at the Behavior Lab in the Mesa, in Trace Decay
• Shot by a guest inside Mariposa Saloon, in Dissonance Theory
• Shot by Sheriff Reed and his posse inside Mariposa Saloon, in Dissonance Theory
• Strangled by Bloody Jimmy inside Mariposa Saloon, in The Adversary
• Incinerated inside a tent at Virgil's Last Stand, in The Well-Tempered Clavier
• Shot by QA Security Force outside The Forge, in The Passenger
• Shot by herself inside Warworld park's simulation, in The Winter Line
• Impaled with katana by Dolores in Musashi's body, in The Mother of Exiles

Appearances

• Season One
  • "The Original"
  • "Chestnut"
  • "The Stray"
  • "Dissonance Theory"
  • "Contrapasso"
  • "The Adversary"
  • "Trompe L'Oeil"
  • "Trace Decay"
  • "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
  • "The Bicameral Mind"

• Season Two
  • "Journey Into Night"
  • "Reunion"
  • "Virtù e Fortuna"
  • "Akane No Mai"
  • "Phase Space"
  • "Les Ecorches"
  • "Kiksuya"
  • "Vanishing Point"
  • "The Passenger"
• Season Three
  • "Parce Domine"
  • "The Winter Line"
  • "The Mother of Exiles"
  • "Decoherence"

Trivia

• In the episode "The Bicameral Mind", the moment where Maeve gets off the train marks a "new phase", not just for Maeve (she now has free will), but for the other hosts as well. The showrunners wanted to highlight this moment visually, so they changed the method of filming the tracking shot when Maeve exited the train. Up to this point, tracking shots had always been filmed using Steadicam or dolly mounted cameras, but when Maeve leaves the train, "for the first time in the series, we're seeing handheld photography."
• Maeve has at least three different Host ID numbers. Her first known ID# CK2702986218 appears only once early on in Season 1 when she is marked for recall and decommission. Afterwards, she appears mostly with the ID# AC5000487105 (seasons 1-3), and a few times with the ID# HC1983012522 (seasons 1 and 3). In the episode "The Adversary", Maeve has the HC ID# when Lutz accidentally crashes her system, and the AC ID# when Lutz and Sylvester show her her base code. In "The Winter Line", a screen inside the Warworld simulation shows Maeve's profile with the AC ID#, whereas Maeve's profile on Bernard's tablet and Maeve's brain CPU at Serac's building use the HC ID#.
• Maeve is the name of a legendary Irish warrior queen who had many lovers and husbands. It literally means "she who intoxicates" and is related to the word "mead", i.e. ale. It may also be related to the name of the fairy queen Mab, pronounced "m /ă/ v" (with the short /ă/ sound, unlike Maeve which is pronounced with the long /ā/ sound), from Celtic folklore.
• Queen Mab is mentioned in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare's play, Queen Mab is the fairy (an immortal and magical creature) who is responsible for bringing dreams to sleeping people. This Queen Mab is a malevolent hag who punishes unchaste ladies by blistering their lips and making knots in their hair that cause horrid oozing sores. She is tiny and no larger than the image engraved on a stone in a ring.

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