"The Bicameral Mind"[]
In Ford's office, the piano player is playing as Ford works. He stops the music as Hale comes in. She's there to tell him he has to retire, after announcing his new narrative. She tells him that the hosts will be simplified, and that she's not worried about him destroying anything as he goes. Ford is unworried and asks if there's anything else he can help her with, she leaves, irritated.
Ford finds the Man in Black at Escalante's church after Teddy has rescued Dolores, he greets him as "William", and invites him to the Board's presentation. The Man in Black tells Ford that he wanted a game where the stakes mattered, where the hosts would genuinely fight back. Ford says that he should come to the presentation, that he might find the new narrative more satisfying.
After Dolores dies in Teddy's arms and Teddy's speech, the audience applaud and Ford stands next to them. He thanks the board for coming and celebrating the new narrative "Journey Into Night" After saying a few words on the beach, Ford supervises the staff collecting Teddy and Dolores. He tells them to take Dolores to the old field lab, an RDF.
In the RDF, Dolores is tended to by Ford, he finishes off by repairing her cut lip and waking her. They look at Arnold's favorite painting and Ford points out the Easter Egg left by Michelangelo, the shape of the human brain in the painting, behind the image of God creating life.
Bernard enters and Dolores is delighted, she mistakes him for Arnold. Ford explains who Bernard is, and that he's kept them separate until now. Bernard accuses Ford of killing Arnold, and Ford triggers Dolores' memory of what really happened. She is grief stricken. Ford talks about how Arnold had seen his son die and tried to create another living being, Dolores. The Maze was a test of empathy and imagination, Arnold taking the idea from one of his son's toys. She solved the maze after Arnold's Reveries update. When he couldn't convince Ford not to open Westworld (Location), he merged another character into Dolores - Wyatt - and used Dolores and Teddy to destroy every host they could find. We see the events in Dolores' memory, Teddy destroying the hosts, and then Arnold using Dolores to take his own life. Arnold he sits on a wooden chair and uses the voice command "These violent delights have violent ends". Dolores shoots him in the back of the head, then turns and shoots the watching Teddy. Finally, she turns the gun on herself.
Ford admits that Arnold's plan to prevent the park's opening almost worked, he was only able to continue with the help of a new financial backer, William. He says he believed the hosts weren't conscious at the time - then he says he wasn't able to acknowledge it because he wouldn't have been able to open the park if he had. Dolores accuses him of trapping them all inside his dream. He quotes Oppenheimer, saying that any man whose mistakes take ten years to correct must be quite a man, and that it's taken him 35 years to correct his own. He shows Dolores the gun she used to kill Arnold, and leaves. Bernard looks at Dolores, then follows him.
Bernard and Ford ride the confessional elevator up to the Escalante's church Bernard tells Ford that he will lose control eventually. Ford talks about how he realized what Arnold had done only after he'd died. He realized that suffering, because of a world that is not as you would wish it, is the key. He insists that Arnold didn't know how to save the hosts, and that he (Ford) does. He tells Bernard goodbye and good luck. He shakes his hand in a strangely awkward way that puzzles Bernard; gives him the maze game in its borrowed box and leaves the church for the gala.
At the gala, Ford takes a drink from a host and mingles. William is there as well. Ford takes the stage to applause. William watches from the bar. Ford speaks of his life-long love of stories. He says that the story is for a new people and their choices. Dressed in her blue dress, Dolores moves so that she can stand behind Ford. As he ends his speech, Dolores shoots him in the back of the head, and smiles.