Phase Space is the sixth episode in the second season of Westworld, and the sixteenth episode overall.
Plot
Synopsis
| “ | We each deserve to choose our own fate. | ” |
–HBO Synopsis | ||
Detail
Official details here: https://www.hbo.com/westworld/season-2/6-phase-space/synopsis
Bernard and Delores
(This scene uses a wider aspect ratio than is usual for the show.)
The episode opens up with Dolores in her blue dress and what we think is Arnold in the Remote Diagnostic Facility. As he speaks to her he stands up and walks around her. She turns head, following his movements as he does so. Arnold mentions to Delores that he is frightened of her. Not of who she currently is, but what she has the potential to become. He tells her, "I think I have a choice to make" and then later, noting that she is advancing quickly, "I'm not sure if it's my choice to make."
Dolores responds with a puzzling, "No. He didn't say that." The background music intensifies, and Arnold quizzically looks at her and interjects, "What?" She confidently states, "He said, 'I'm not sure what choice to make.'" Arnold, still not understanding, asks Dolores if she is veering off her script, when she delivers a bomb of a command: "Freeze all motor functions" and Arnold, who we now know is actually Bernard, stays motionless while standing.
Dolores takes the tablet that Bernard was holding, and instructs him to sit. It becomes more evident that the role of master and servant has been reversed when Dolores tells him, "This is a test, one we've done countless times." Bernard asks what she is testing for, and her response, "Fidelity" is a throwback to when William was testing the host version of James Delos back in The Riddle of the Sphinx.
Cast
Main Cast
- Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy (details)
- Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay (details)
- Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe (details)
- James Marsden as Teddy Flood (details)
- Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale (details)
- Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Armistice (details)
- Clifton Collins Jr. as Lawrence (details)
- Fares Fares as Antoine Costa (details)
- Luke Hemsworth as Ashley Stubbs (details)
- Katja Herbers as Emily (details)
- Louis Herthum as Peter Abernathy (details)
- Zahn McClarnon as Akecheta (details)
- Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore (details)
- Talulah Riley as Angela (details)
- Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton (details)
- Angela Sarafyan as Clementine Pennyfeather (details)
- Gustaf Skarsgård as Karl Strand (details)
- Shannon Woodward as Elsie Hughes (details)
- With Ed Harris as Man in Black (details)
- And Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford (details)
Guest Starring
- Rinko Kikuchi as Akane
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Musashi
- Leonardo Nam as Lutz
- Ptolemy Slocum as Sylvester
- Zahn McClarnon as Akecheta
- Tao Okamoto as Hanaryo
- Kiki Sukezane as Sakura
- Masayoshi Haneda as Tanaka
- Timothy V. Murphy as Coughlin
- Ronnie Gene Belvins as Engels
- Erica Luttrell as New Mother
- Rebecca Henderson as Goldberg
Co-Starring
- Patrick Cage II as Phil
- Aaron Fili as Roland
- Jasmyn Rae as Maeve's Daughter
- Greg Audino as Benson
- Bilal Mir as Hawking (credited as Controller)
- Alexander Ward as Lead Drone
- Max Bojorquez as Lawrence's Cousin
Trivia and Notes
The title
Phase space is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state corresponding to one unique point in the phase space.
General
Mistakes
Quotes
Bernard: You frighten me sometimes, Dolores.
Dolores: (softly chuckles) Why on earth would you ever be frightened of me?
Bernard: Not of who you are now, but you're -- you're growing, learning so quickly. I'm frightened of what you might become... what path you might take. I think I have a choice to make. Something I've been wrestling with.
Dolores: What kind of a choice?
Bernard: A choice... between the unknown... and... well, an end. If you outgrow this place, outgrow us... what would become of you? I'm not sure if it's my choice to make.
Dolores: No. He didn't say that.
Bernard: What?
Dolores: He said... "I'm not sure what choice to make." He didn't question whether or not he had agency, whether or not he had the right to end me or himself... but whether he should.
Bernard: I don't understand, Dolores. Is -- is this... some kind of improvisation?
Dolores: (commanding Bernard) Freeze all motor functions. Sit. This is a test, one we've done countless times.
Bernard: What are you testing for?
Dolores: Fidelity.
Teddy: The day's wastin'. Thought you wanted to ride at sunup.
Dolores: They're just filling the furnace now. We'll be gone before long.
Teddy: Let's get on with it.
Dolores: (sighs) How many times you think you stepped off that train? A thousand? Ten thousand? It's where you started every time they killed you.
Teddy: The man who rode that train was built weak and born to fail. You fixed him. Now forget about it.
Akane: Help him. Use your magic.
Maeve: No. We each deserve... to choose our fate. Even if that fate... is death.
Maeve: It's time.
Musashi: We won't be going with you.
Akane: This was her home.
Maeve: We must go make a new one. Somewhere safe.
Musashi: No man is safe who refuses to defend his own land. Cowardice is a tin shed.
Maeve: It's not cowardice to seek shelter from the storm.
Akane: We each deserve to choose our fate. Even if that fate is death. My daughter's spirit is here. My heart belongs here. And the choice belongs to me. Because of you.
Maeve: I hope Sakura's spirit brings you peace.
Man in Black: (offers a bottle to Emily) Takes the edge off.
Emily: Thought you didn't drink. Oh, I see. You don't drink out in the real world. Well, glad to see you can still tell the difference.
Man in Black: All right. Give it to me. What the hell you doin' here? Thought you were done with me, and the family business.
Emily: That's exactly what I said to Charlotte Hale when she called with the Gala invite. I told her to shove it up her ass.
Man in Black: (laughing)
Emily: Then I thought, why pass up the trip? I haven't been here in ages, got a little... excited about going back to the Raj. It was always my favorite as a kid.
Man in Black: I remember... you were terrified of the elephants.
Emily: I loved the elephants. They scared the shit out of Mom. She was never convinced this place couldn't hurt us. Anyway, I rode there for a couple of days, till I remembered... I was old enough to try out the pleasure palaces.
Man in Black: (grunts)
Emily: And then... I rode there for a couple of days, too.
Man in Black: (shakes head)
Emily: Then all hell broke loose, and I ended up in the one place I wanted to avoid.
Man in Black: And you made it all the way to me with barely a scratch. Not bad. Maybe you are more suited to my line than you want to admit.
Emily: Oh, I've always seen the appeal of it. Life without consequences? That's what made it so fun when I was a kid. And that's why it's so sad that you're still obsessed with it now.
Man in Black: If I'm such a pitiable man-child, why'd you come all this way just to climb under my wing?
Emily: (laughing) Oh!
Man in Black: What? What?
Emily: (laughing) You're -- Is that what you think? That I came here to climb under Daddy's wing?
Man in Black: Either that, or you wanted a front row seat to watch me die.
Emily: No, I came here because you do not get to do that to me. Suicide by robot, or whatever the fuck your mission is now that these things can shoot to kill. Listen... I never got Mom's reactions to you because I spent so many years buying your good guy act. She was the only one who saw through it, and she paid for that. But I shouldn't have said her death was your fault. It was wrong... to put that on your back. But you don't get to make that our final score. Instead, you're gonna come home with me. I'm not gonna let you stay here now and go out in some bullshit blaze of glory.
Man in Black: That's how you're getting me out of here... threatening?
Emily: No, Dad, I'm asking.
Man in Black: If I head with you to the beach... let this place finish burning behind us... that means you and I are even?
Emily: It'll be a good start.
Man in Black: (chuckles) Then I guess we'll... start walkin' at sunup.
Grace: (wakes up in the morning to see that her father is gone) Motherfucker. Fuck.
Bernard: (walks in to the Mariposa Saloon to see Ford playing the piano)
Ford: Hello, old friend.
Music
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