"Que Será, Será" is the eighth episode and series finale of the fourth season of Westworld, and thirty-sixth episode overall.
Synopsis[]
| “ | Like what i've done with the place? | ” |
–HBO | ||
Plot[]
Blood on the Streets[]
Murder! Gnarly!
Smoke clears on a devastated street on the outskirts of the NY Park. There are vehicles on fire and dozens of bodies everywhere, the sound of gunfire, yelling and screaming coming from everywhere. A fly buzzes to one of the dead bodies, but flies quickly away to another and then on to a 'living' neck, promptly getting swatted. The hand that swats it turning out to belong to a rebuilt 'Rebus'. Bloodied, carrying a blood stained baseball bat, and wearing an Hawaiian shirt, he swears as he hides behind a stone wall and almost brains a fellow host as she rounds the pillar to hide alongside of him. Terrified she asks him what happened, and he has no ideas "Humans just lost it," he answers. They just started killing everyone, and not even with any dialogue. Just "Murder. Murder! Gnarly!" he adds. "A new storyline?" His fellow host asks, terrified and confused. Rebus figures if there is a storyline then "Hale has a lot more sense of humour underneath her Kaftan than I gave her credit for!" She asks should they call for help? Evac? But he confirms how much he's enjoying it, saying "This is awesome!"
He makes a run for a stone pillar across from them, and she follows him, both of them making as others are gunned down in the distance. Handing her a knife he assures her they can take the humans. One or two of them, sure, she agrees but there's millions of them! "Stick with me, friend," He tells her, saying she has no idea how many 'fleshbags' he's killed. Edging back around the pillar, he promptly gets an axe in the back of the head and is killed instantly by a fleshbag. The female host makes a run while the man is trying to get his axe out of Rebus's head, only to be shot in the back by an unseen shooter. The man with the axe turns and walks away, two more men fighting ahead of him, one knifing the other before the victor is also shot by an unseen shooter. The man with the axe moves on looking around, taking cover behind a car when yet another man is gunned down, only to be shot in the shoulder by a girl in a cap nearby. She misses him with her next two shots, and he tries to go after her with his axe, and is promptly shot in the chest by the unseen shooter. The girl in the cap looks to the building across the street where the shot came from, and is shot dead herself. Whereupon we see the sniper taking everyone out was a young man.
The young man, not seeing any more targets, the street now quiet, pulls back and puts his rifle over his shoulder, then climbs back down from his vantage point and exits the building. Moving through the bodies he picks up a handgun from a dead woman, and a set of keys from a man, hitting the alarm button and identifying a powerful nearby pickup truck. Making his way towards it he himself is shot in the chest, falling to the ground, still alive. Out of the smoke down the street, his shooter emerges. The host Man in Black. Derisively calling him a "F***in' camper", stands on his hand as the young man looks up at him, telling him "You know the rules, Winner Takes All" shoots the young man in the head and takes the car keys, hand gun and rifle, and drives away.
The World You Created[]
The Tower and its servers, loom over a smoke filled Manhattan. In the pool at its base, Hale floats, bullet wound from the host MiB in her head prominent. Maeve floating face down nearby her, a Drone Host approaches, and lifts Hale out of the pool, handing her off to a fellow Drone who carries her inside, where they repair her and bring her back online. "Make me stronger," she orders them, but adds leave her scars "I want to remember my past." As two of the Drones cut away her flesh, another retrieves a powerful metal skeleton. She stops them cutting away her face, telling them when she finds William she wants him to know it was her that killed him.
Fully upgraded, with flesh sleeves and gloves cover the parts of her skeleton that are not clothed, Hale tells the Drones to show her what William has done. On arriving in the tower, the red 3D graphic of the city is flickering, while the Tower is constantly emitting the control tones. Walking past Bernard and Maeve's bodies on the floor Hale tells the computer to override the tones, but the computer informs her that access is denied. Realizing that William has locked her out, she tells the Drones that "He's made everyone as insane as himself." The humans will destroy everything in their path she reasons. As she looks around frustrated at what she can do, one of the Drones carries Bernard's pad to her. Taking it she sees Bernard in freeze frame on it and presses play.
Bernard speaks, telling her if she's seeing this it means he and Maeve are dead and it won't belong before she and every other host on the planet are dead as well. Dismissing her Drones she listens to the rest of the message alone. Bernard continuing "This isn't the world you wanted Charlotte, but it's the world you created. The Question is, what happens next?" Her jaw tight she stares at the glitching 3D New York Graphic, the view of it pointing down into the heart of it.
Christina's World[]
Returning to 59th Street, Teddy and Christina make their way through the bodies. Christina pausing to look, pained, at the death around them. Teddy guiding her back inside.
Gazing out her window, Christina is still trying to come to terms with what Teddy revealed to her. That everyone out there is real, except her. That she's just some program running things from behind the scenes. "A machine without a body." Teddy tries to reassure her, telling her that their bodies were never what 'defined' them. "You're real, because your thoughts are real." The effect she can have on the world *is* real. Looking to him, something occurs to her of what he has said. Pointing out to the mat on the balcony and the pattern drawn on it she asks him if he remembers it? "The Maze" he confirms. When she asks him what it means he tells her "It was a map of Consciousness. And it woke Dolores once, long ago." As he speaks, Christina remembers the night she heard someone on the balcony, and her discovering the maze. She asks Teddy if he left it for her, to wake her once again? But he shakes his head, saying it must have been someone else. Who, she wonders? Noting that she is supposed to be in there all alone.
A sudden realization takes hold that she wasn't alone. There were others. People who recognized her. Maybe Hale designed them for her to fool her into believing everything was real, Teddy suggests. But Christina, sitting, thinking, replies "No it was someone else. Someone I've been missing. The people in my life." As she thinks she flashes back to Maya, offering her the black or white shoes "Pick a side, Chrissy." The good. And the bad, she flashes back to Peter's attack and accusations. "Someone put them there for a reason," she tells Teddy. A flashback to her ill fated date, telling him she wasn't doing what she was doing for the players, but herself. Looking out the window she flashes back to the night on the balcony when she wanted to "Write a new story. About a girl. A girl who is searching. And when she finds the thing she's searching for everything will make sense."
As she's recalling that there is a sense of two parts of herself starting to coalesce, rapid images of Maya, Peter and the bad date, shifting into an image of herself, sitting on the balcony, drawing the Maze. "It was me," she realizes. Hale didn't design Maya and all the others keeping her company in her world, she tells Teddy. "I did it!" Showing Christina awakening in her bed, we see her move into the apartment, looking into the empty kitchen, "So I made myself a friend," she realizes. Maya shimmering into being in front of the past Christina, then later greeting Christina as her fully fledged room mate. "I was trying to make sense of myself," Christina reasons, "So I spoke to myself in the voices of others. " A flashback to Elliot her boss saying "You just have to see it." Underlines it.
Climbing out onto the balcony she catches her breath as Teddy follows her out. She needed to wake herself up, she says. To see what this world really is. To understand what she was capable of. But, she adds, she was too afraid to face any of it. Looking back at Teddy she realizes "Until you came along." Moving closer they touch each other, Teddy brushing her hair and caressing her cheek as he used to. Her eyes filling with tears she kisses him, their embrace romantic and passionate both.
What Lies Beneath[]
In the Tower, Hale continues to listen to Bernard's message to her. "There's time only for one more game, but it isn't yours. I hope you can accept that." Turning to look at the 3D graphic of the city, Hale flings away the pad viciously, angry, shattering it into pieces. Exhaling slowly she walks into the heart of the graphic and stands, struggling with herself for a moment before she stamps her booted foot hard into the concrete floor beneath the 3D city.
On the balcony outside her apartment, Christina and Teddy continue to kiss, eyes closed, so wrapped up in one another, they don't see the world around them glitch. Hale stamps viciously again, and again the world around the lovers flickers. Still they don't notice. Hale stamps again, and again, the floor starting to crack at the power of it. Two more powerful blows and the 3D graphic disappears revealing the cracked concrete. Teddy and Christina slowly easing from their kiss to finally notice that the world around them has become digitized. Everything pixelated except for the two of them.
One more crash of her boot smashes open the floor beneath Hale, revealing a Pearl in a cradle. Christina and Teddy look around, unnerved. Christina wondering what's happening. "She's coming for us," Teddy answers "Taking us out of her system." They're alone, Teddy says, but Christina is adamant Hale can't take this away from her. "This is my world." But as Hale reaches in to pluck the Pearl from the cradle the city around Christina and Teddy is plunged bit by bit into absolute black. Everything, including them, disappearing.
Hale removes the Pearl and stands, walking away, the pattern of the broken concrete around where the Pearl was, very much resembling that of the Maze. Leaving the Tower, Hale puts the Pearl into the same kind of bag Dolores once carried the Pearls out of Westworld in.
Bloodied and Broken[]
The tones still chiming in the heart of the city, the smoke hangs in palls over it, Caleb, helping the wounded bleeding Frankie, and backed by Stubbs make their way through the mayhem, ducking down into a side alley. As one man beats another to death with an iron bar behind them, they take momentary rest near a broken down car. With more violence going on further down the alley, Frankie tells them there's no time to rest, Odina can't keep the boat waiting for them indefinitely. They have to get to the docks. Caleb assures her they will, after they fix up her leg. Stubbs though, has seen the quake in Caleb's hand. Checking his ammo status, Stubbs asks for a quick word with Caleb, telling him he's worried they're not going to make it in time. Caleb tells him Frankie is tough, but Stubbs isn't talking about her. Gesturing at Caleb's hand he tells him the old Delos experiments 'never took' the body always rejected the mind.
Caleb is adamant saying he told her they would make it to the boat. "Does she even know what is happening to you?" Stubbs asks him. Caleb tells him that he hasn't been there for her, her entire life. The least he can do is protect her from this. Managing to get some control of his hand back, he gets them underway again.
Clem's Turn[]
Hale moves through the heart of what is left of Times Square, picking her way through the bodies, shaking her head. "Look at what that asshole's done," she rumbles. Behind her, one man, playing opossum tries to ambush her, only for her to effortlessly reach behind her and stab him, without breaking stride.
Walking through the halls of Olympiad, she makes her way to the real William's storage unit, to find it open and him dead. "You finally got what you wanted, didn't you?" she says to his dead body. Behind her, Clementine walks in. Speaking frankly, she tells Hale that she brought William back to keep him as her pet. "You were wrong." Which is why she is going to put him down, Hale replies, noting she could use Clem's help. Clementine agrees that Hale could, and that she is good at helping. Almost as if she's been 'designed' to help people. Approaching Hale, she reminds her that she said she was trying to make a world where hosts could be free. Did she really mean that? Yes, Hale answers earnestly. "Then isn't it my turn to see what's out there?" Clementine asks. Hale tells her that William has made the whole world into his violent game, and it won't be long before even Clementine gets hunted down. Gazing at the dead William, Clem walks to him, saying there are pockets of this world where he won't be able to find her. Places so far off the map even Hale couldn't reach them. "You mean the Outliers?" Hale is quizzical, before warning her that they are out for their own kind, Clementine will not be welcomed there. "Who said anything about cohabitating?" Clementine smiles. Hale smiling with her, then wishing her good luck.
As Clementine leaves, Hale turns her attention back to William, calling up his location as one of her hosts. Then locating hosts who are near him, intent on slowing him down.
Ring of Fire[]
One Pugnacious S.O.B.
The MiB races down a country road in the pick up he took from the sniper, Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire playing. Automatic weapon fire blasts through the side of the truck, smashing the window. The MiB diving down as Craddock and another host continue to machine gun the vehicle sending it careening into a tree. Craddock, even more red-neck than he was in the Confederado's, yips in triumph, telling his cohort about what happened to "Icarus" as they emerge to approach the truck. "He flew too close to the sun!" Craddock jibes at William telling him he got too close to 'her' (Hale) and now it's his time to fall. Telling his cohort to look alive as the MiB is "One pugnacious S.O.B. who never liked to go down without a fight." Craddock himself ignores his own advice. The MiB slamming the door into Craddocks face knocking him on his ass, then shooting his cohort in the head, before shooting Craddock and climbing out to stand over him. Swearing at him for their lack of appreciation of a beautiful machine, he notes of his wrecked truck, he shoots Craddock in the head.
Holstering his gun he notes a pair of glasses on the ground by Craddock, and picks them up to put them on. He immediately sees a 3D holographic image of Hale 'sitting' on a tree stump nearby. "Charlotte, good to see you again. Like what I've done with the place?" he smiles in enjoyment. When she accuses him of turning her world into a game, he answers it was already a game "I just cranked it to expert level." Survival of the fittest, he says, for every person on the planet. The violence, she notes will spread to hosts too. Outnumbered they'll be annihilated. But William maintains the hosts are "Fruit from a rotten tree." and wants to burn it all down. But Hale knows what his real aim is. To set the fire not just in this world, but the next. He's going to try and take down The Sublime. William's smile grows, stating he's always been ambitious. Hale is determined though, telling him she will not let them destroy the hosts world like he's done this one. This just makes William even happier. "So you're joining my game! I'm delighted."
"See you at the finish line," Hale tells him, deadly earnest, before William, still grinning takes off his glasses, ending the conversation. In flight, to try and head him off, Hale takes off hers, tossing them away. Looking back at his wrecked truck, the MiB ponders what to do until he sees a pair of horses (black and white) down the road in a pen,
The Future's Not Ours to See[]
As Stubbs blocks the front entrance, Caleb raids the shelves of a looted store for what medical supplies he can get. Moving back to Frankie with bandages and hydrogen peroxide, he tells her there's no pain killers left and hands her a fifth of whiskey to dull the pain. Taking a swig himself, he declares it his first drink with his daughter. Seeing his hand shake she asks him what's wrong but he brushes it off, and tears open her jeans around her wound to get at it. Watching him, Frankie tells him he can ask. About what, Caleb replies unconvincingly. Her mother, she answers. She tells him it wouldn't have mattered even if he had made it back. Caleb breaks down as Frankie tells him her mother hung in as long as she could. She had a mission, Everyone who wasn't infected or who woke up and got out, owed it to her mother. She carried his torch. Red eyed, Caleb tells her her mother was Extraordinary. So were you, Frankie agrees.
Managing to thread the needle for her wound, he tells her he needs her to think 'happy thoughts' as he cleans the wound with the peroxide. Frankie grits her teeth. Outside the store, the chimes ring again, and in the alleyway a leather clad heavy of a man goes door to door, checking entrances. As Caleb tries to close up her wound with the needle, Frankie tells her father he can't sew for s**t . The heavy finds the back door held ajar by a dead woman's foot. Pulling an an automatic weapon from inside his jacket, he makes his way in. Nearing the end of sewing her up, Caleb starts to hum. Frankie wondering what song that is, she knows it. He used to sing it to her before bed, he tells her. She remembers. It's been decades. But not in his mind he tells her. For him it's only been a few days. He was just reading her a story and then... he look sup at her with tears in his eyes. Near tears herself she starts to sing the song. Que Sera, Sera. Caleb joins in, father and daughter singing a few lines together, till a sound jolts them from the moment.
The heavy, gun out, hums the sound of the chimes to himself as he moves through the store, only for Stubbs to grab hold of his weapon, telling him he doesn't want to do this. When Stubbs drags the gun out of his hand the man attacks him hand on hand, Stubbs shoving him up against a shelf. The tones are messing with you're head he tells him, but the man maintains they are just telling him 'the truth' , and if Stubbs can't finish him he's as good as dead. If he doesn't kill him someone else will. He's right, a female voice says from behind Stubbs, Clementine arriving at pace, shooting Stubbs through the shoulder "He should have listened to you," she tells the human before shooting him in the head. As Stubbs tries to rise she grabs his head and drives it against one of the shelving struts, driving it through his eye, killing him.
Moving on through the store, Clementine spots, and on a whim, exchanges her gun for a knife, flipping it expertly through her fingers. Moving towards the pharmacy section of the store, she spots the blood stains and follows them, leading her to Frankie seated on the floor. Responding to Frankie's question, Clem tells her she killed Stubbs, but she should really be more concerned about herself. Frankie pulls her gun on her. But Clementine figures out Frankie has no bullets left. Her bluff called, Frankie wants to know what Clem wants. The location to the Outlier base, she answers. She notes she could keep tracking Caleb, being a host, but she doubts he'll make it all the way in his condition. She knows Frankie is taking him somewhere. Somewhere the deranged human's can't find them. She wants to go there too, she tells Frankie. Frankie telling her she'll die before she tells her. No, Clem answers, she'll die *after* she tells her. Frankie refuses to talk and Clementine goes to kill her, only for Caleb to grab her from behind. The two fight, but Clementine's superior skills and Caleb's weakened state means she quickly gets the upper hand. With him sprawled on the ground, she admits to being impressed, most of his predecessors would have fallen apart before now. Bending down to him she tells him he did 'quite well'. Preparing to break his neck she says 'It's time for a deep and dreamless..." but never gets to finish the sentence as Frankie tells her from behind "You were wrong. I had one bullet left" and shoots her through the head. Nice shot, Caleb pants. My Dad taught me, she answers.
Buried Deep[]
Hale still in flight, looks out at the landscape and then down at Christina/Dolores's Pearl in her hand.
If you choose to focus on violence, that is all you will see
In the darkness formed by Hale's plucking the Pearl from the Cradle, a small spot of light forms, revealing Christina, then a park bench, a tree and a park, all digitized "Where am I?" Christina asks, Maya appearing on the bench. "You're nowhere" she answers. Unplugged from the rest of the world. The world expands and resolves to look 'normal' and Christina surmises she is alone again, in the walled garden. You're scared, Maya notes, so you brought me back, encouraging Christina to talk to her. Everything is destroyed, Christina tells her, everyone is dying. She's not sure but she thinks it may be her fault. Maya replies by gesturing to the tree behind them, suggesting that people only think they know what a tree is, but they have no idea. What is above ground is only a part of the story. Underneath there is so much more, and everything is connected. Working together. There is violence and chaos everywhere, and you can choose to focus on all that. And that will be all you see. But if you sit still long enough, you'll sense an ancient order. A deep peace. And that's what she chooses to see. She sees the beauty in the world.
A look of understanding, realization passes across Christina's face, then a smile, "I know the feeling," she murmurs, Maya nodding "I thought you might." Christina reaching for and holding her hand.
If You Can't Tell the Difference...[]
Back in the Saddle
Near the Hoover Dam, the MiB rides to an overlook on the black horse he took. The door to the Sublime in front of the Dam open and visible to him, as a host. As he moves through the tunnels Bernard and Maeve used to enter the facility, Hale lands her craft, and steps out also taking in the open door to the Valley Beyond. In the Dam, the MiB begins to turn off the Turbine Valves powering the data stream, the computer warning of a critical failure, red light warnings indicating the danger of the erasure of all data. As Hale moves through the facility she sees the door to the Sublime start to waver and glitch, transformers starting to spark and overload.
Evolution
Gun out, Hale approaches the MiB from behind telling him she created him from her *own* code. Together they conquered the world. But he's become corrupted, as broken as the man he killed. He doesn't appreciate the way she's talking to him, revealing that living as William day in and day out he has become a better William than the original. William didn't die...he evolved. "I am William." he says, Hale shaking her head, almost pityingly. "No. You're not." William smiles. "Well if you can't tell the difference, does it matter?" She moves rapidly to shoot him in the head, but he shoves the gun away and rams his knife into her stomach only for it it to stop dead, striking metal. "You're not the only one who has evolved," she tells him, smacks the knife out of his head, and kicks him 15 feet away, grabbing her gun and shooting him in the shoulder. By the time he pulls his gun she's gone.
A game of cat and mouse ensues through the facility. The pair stalking each other. The MiB calling out to her, wanting to know why she kept the Sublime safe all these years when she couldn't even open the door. The door, she calls back, can be opened from either side. She hoped if she made a world safe and attractive enough for the Hosts, they might choose to return of their own accord. He however is sure that whatever world the Hosts have created in the Sublime is every bit as messed up as their one. Hale argues that he has no way of knowing that. Of course he does, he answers, based on the fact that she gave her hosts free reign to do whatever they wanted to in her world and they spent it hunting and killing humans. Proving they are as bad as their human creators. "Our whole lineage is damned. Time to wipe the slate clean." Hale is a little incredulous that his end goal is 'extinction." Catching him by surprise she wings him again. They exchange fire as she runs down a staircase, and he hits her, but her metal skeleton protects her again.
Heading back outside she gets him again in the side, before ducking behind some crates, firing at him again, before discovers her clip is empty. Ducking back into the tunnel they both entered by she hides in an alcove as he comes after her. Spotting her, he tells her Bernard, Maeve, Dolores, they all wanted freedom, but she, she wanted more. Transcendence. She was playing the wrong game he says, and now it's time for her to lose. "We all lost." she replies. This wasn't the world she wanted.
As she says that we flashback to the Tower and Bernard's message, continuing from "What happens next?" "Life on Earth is a fire that consumes itself." he tells her, "It's too late now we burned ourselves to the ground." The world he says holds no more hope for them. But there is still hope for the next world. "A test. Run by *her*, if she chooses to. If Hale chooses to give her that choice. "You can't miss," he assures her, "Reach with your left hand." Back in the tunnel the MiB opens fire on Hale, shooting her twice knocking her to the ground. Looking up at him she tells him they are playing a game, but it doesn't end here. A test she tells him, run by *her*. If she chooses to. If Hale chooses to give her a chance. There is a a rapid flashback to Bernard placing the gun in the tunnel in Metanoia, and as Hale reaches back she tells the MiB that she does, pulling the gun out she knee caps him both legs, "I choose to give her the chance." Shooting him in the head, she adds "I hope she takes it." Pulling herself up she takes his knife, cutting his head open and removing his Pearl, and on her way back into the facility she crushes it to dust. Both real and host William dead.
End of the Line[]
Goodbyes
At the docks, Caleb and Frankie help each other down the pier, Odina seeing them and coming to greet her girlfriend. Frankie introduces her to Caleb and the two shake hands, but when the two women get on the boat, Caleb stays where he is. Telling Frankie this is as far as he goes. When she argues that he has more fight in him then that, Caleb, shaking, tells her he wishes that he did. Frankie starts to cry, facing the fact that he's dying. Caleb gently tells her that her father died, long ago. Whatever he is, he has died before, and this isn't so bad. Breaking down she says she doesn't want to lose him again, but he soothes her, saying that he got to live every parents dream. He got to see his child grow up. Telling him she loves him, he takes her in his arms and whispers "I love you, Cookie."
Choices Made and to Make[]
Inside the Dam facility Hale restarts the Turbines, stabilizing the data stream and the door to the Sublime. Opening her bag, she draws out the Pearl, gazes it for a long moment, then says "Goodbye, Dolores." Confirming that the Pearl was Dolores's and Christina was her way of finding her way back, her consciousness, like the tree, running far deeper than what was on the surface/erased. Placing the Pearl in the cradle, she prepares to upload her to the Sublime saying "I made my choice, it's time for you to make yours." Initiating the upload she watches the transfer of "The Storyteller's" consciousness to the Sublime complete. Moving to finish what Bernard started, she closes and locks the door to the Valley Beyond again, the data and the door outside both shutting.
The Storyteller[]
Familiar Touch
Out of the blackness that Christina's, now Dolores's, world had been plunged into, 59th street rebuilds itself. First in digitized then 'real' perspective. Dolores and Teddy both finding themselves back on the balcony together. They're not alone anymore she feels, turning to him, they're somewhere new. "I think we're in the Sublime," she says as the whole city becomes 'real' again, "With the other hosts." Teddy tells her that she saved them, but she says not her, 'a version of her'. But, she notes, she could only do it because Teddy came back. Emotional, Dolores tells him "You are my greatest love. Talking to you is when I see the world most clearly. It is when I am most myself." As she has always done, she closes her eyes at his touch, and smiles when he tells her "You're my cornerstone." "And you're mine," she admits earnestly. "I carry you with me everywhere I go. Every detail of you, I cherish."
As she says it however, a new realization comes to her. The truth of how she left things with Teddy, and what that means. Sorrow passing over her face.
"Which is how I was able to bring you back like this." As she realizes it, so does Teddy. Looking down he sees his hand shimmer. The effect passing over his entire body, leaving him glowing, unreal, and Dolores pained. "I'm not here," he asks knowingly, as she starts to cry. Flashing back to her waking up after she first discovered the truth about her role as the storyteller and the Tower, she relives her conversation with Teddy about the world being like a bad dream, only this time when she says 'Except for you' she finds herself talking to herself, as Dolores in her blue dress. As per her journey to self awareness, the two of them conversing about 'what they are' "Reflections of the people who made us."
Teddy *is* real, she says to the image of him in front of her. "And he's out there somewhere in the Sublime." Crying still, she accepts that 'he' is just her memory of Teddy. 'Teddy' urges her to come find him now she's in the Sublime. Telling her that her whole life Memory has haunted her, and wanting her to let her pain go. Her tears continue to fall as he tells her to let her memories go. Let the humans go. "Don't bring the flaws of their kind into our world." Exhaling, she thinks maybe he's right. That she's watched the people in their world for years. Seen the best of them and the worst of them, and she remembers it all. 'Teddy' asserts they are not like hosts. Their code is written into their cells, they'll never change. As he says it, it occurs to her. The choice that Bernard foresaw.
"We could still see." How? 'Teddy' wonders. One final test, she replies thinking on it. A game of her own making. "A Dangerous Game," she admits. How will you do it? 'Teddy' asks. "The same way I brought you back," she answers taking his face in her hands. "I'll remember." Dropping her eyes from him, 'Teddy' slowly fades from before her and her sight. Dolores climbing back through the window of the apartment.
What Awaits[]
When Dolores emerges from the apartment into the body strewn street below, she is once again in her blue dress, though her hair is still the red of Christina's. Walking through the streets her thoughts are heard over her and others progression.
"This world is a graveyard of stories. Hosts and humans were given the gift of intelligent life."
The scene shifts to the dock as Caleb limps along side the boat Odina is piloting away.
"And we used it to usher in our own annihilation."
Frankie gazing, tearful as the both pulls away from her father, before she finally turns away. Caleb watching till the last possible moment.
"A few may escape death for a few months. Maybe even years."
The scene shifts back to Dolores walking through the silent, death filled streets.
"But ultimately their kind will go extinct. They will only live as long as the last creature who remembers them. And that creature, is me."
Hale & Farewell[]
Finding Peace
At the Hoover Dam, Hale has left the facility and is walking along the riverside in front of the vast Dam. Flexing her hand she reaches for one of the leather sleeves covering her lower arm, and drops it to the ground, reaching for the rest of her clothing, opening it, revealing the mechanical skeleton at the curve of her shoulder.
Further along the river, away from the facility among the natural canyons alongside the river, Hale sits on the riverbank entirely devoid of all clothing, and all flesh, bar her head and upper shoulders. Even her scarred flesh discarded. Gazing out at the quiet beauty around her, she smiles a little. Peaceful, if a little sad. Taking a 'breath' she initiates the opening of her face, revealing the metal beneath. Her Pearl sliding out on its cradle from the centre. In an automated move, her mechanical right hand raises to lift the Pearl from it's berth, rises, and slowly crushes it. Completing her suicide. Hale's body frozen in that position.
"Sentient Life on Earth has ended." Dolores's voice quietly intones.
One Last Loop[]
New York as imagined in the Sublime by Dolores is dark, but lit up by its lights.
"But some part of it," she continues her voice over, "might still be preserved. In another world."
She walks along the darkened streets, dead bodies strewn about.
"My world. There's time for one last game."
She moves into the heart of a glitching Times Square.
"A dangerous game. With the highest of stakes. Survival, or Extinction. This game ends where it began. In a World like a Maze. That tests who we are. That reveals who we are to become."
As she turns and looks around her, the huge screens that surround her, the trees, the streets, everything starts to slowly digitize again. Before it suddenly dissipates. The dark night, turning into blue skies. Dolores, her blonde hair restored, now gazing out over the landscape and vistas of Westworld. A small smile forms.
"One last Loop around the Bend."
In the Mariposa Saloon, the piano starts playing. Heralding what was the initiation of Teddy's loop and the arrival of the Train. The Train appearing out of nowhere in the valley below her, sounding its whistle, and moving down the tracks. Exactly as before the Train, marked 5, pulls into the bustling Station, filled with people waiting both to get on and off.
The Final Test
Dolores walking away from it, moves towards the main street of Sweetwater, full of traffic and people, and all the buildings as per her memory. Half way down the street, near the spot she always hitched her horse, she stops.
Preparing to begin.
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Music[]
- A variation of Vanishing Point from the Season 2 soundtrack plays when Christina realizes that she had created others to keep her company in her own world.
- A variation of Free Will from the Season 3 soundtrack plays when Christina tells Teddy that she had created Maya.
- A variation of Unsubscribe from the Season 3 soundtrack plays when Caleb and Stubbs are conversating.
- Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire plays when the Man in Black is seen driving in a truck and then being shot at.
- A variation of Hope from the Season 3 soundtrack plays when Frankie and Caleb are conversating about Uwade and on how she passed away.
- Caleb hums Que Sera, Sera by Doris Day.
- A variation of Westworld from the Season 2 soundtrack plays when Teddy and Christina are on the balcony talking to each other.
- Bicameral Mind plays when Dolores appears in Christina's room.
- Ramin Djawadi's cover of Pyramid Song plays when Christina wanders the streets.
- A variation of This World from the Season 1 soundtrack plays when Christina talks about one last game, ending where it all began.
- The Sweetwater theme from the Season 1 soundtrack plays when Christina appears in Sweetwater, also plays in the end credits.
Trivia[]
- The episode's title is Spanish for "What will be, will be".
- The body on the floor beside Bernard's in the Tower when Hale visits it with the Drones was confirmed by Lisa Joy to be Maeve's.
- The Man in Black playing Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash (the real world Man in Black) is of course, an in-joke.
- Craddock brings up the Greek Legend of Icarus, who on wax wings borrowed from his genius inventor father, flew too high to the sun in over-confidence melting the wings, sending him plunging back to Earth and death. Icarus's father was Daedalus, the creator of The Maze/Labyrinth in which the Minotaur was kept.
Goofs[]
- When Christina/Dolores and Teddy first kiss, they are standing at the end of the balcony by the drawing of the Maze. However when Hale stamps her foot to try and break through to Dolores's Pearl, they are half way down the balcony, and standing the opposite way to how they started.
- Maeve was shot in the water while her body was found in the tower.
Quotes[]
- Rebus - "Just Murder. Murder! Gnarly!"
- Man In Black - (about human sniper) F**kin' Camper
- Hale (about William's actions) - "He's made everyone as insane as himself"
- Bernard to Hale - "There's time only for one more game, but it isn't yours. I hope you can accept that."
- Maya - "I see the beauty in the world."
- Dolores - "I know the feeling."
- Maya - "I thought you might."
- Dolores - "You are my greatest love. Talking to you is when I see the world most clearly. It is when I am most myself."
- Teddy - "You're my cornerstone."
- Dolores - "And you're mine. I carry you with me everywhere I go. Every detail of you, I cherish."
- Dolores - "There's time for one last game. A dangerous game. With the highest of stakes. Survival, or Extinction. This game ends where it began. In a World like a Maze. That tests who we are. That reveals who we are to become. One last Loop around the Bend."
Image Gallery/HBO Episode Stills[]
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External links[]
Que Será, Será at the Internet Movie Database (rating {{{3}}}/10) - Que Será, Será at Rotten Tomatoes
