With its second episode of Season 4, HBO’s Westworld superior its labyrinthine plot with extra Man in Black savagery, Maeve and Caleb banter and indignant androids than even Anthony Hopkins may deal with.
The episode “Effectively Sufficient Alone” kicks off with William/the Man in Black attacking Clementine in her house. He shoots her and calls for she inform him the place Maeve is hiding. That mentioned, it isn’t a given which William assaults Clementine and which one had that cartel massacred on the Hoover Dam final week. (Do not forget that Season 3 ended with Dolores-Hale seemingly changing human William with a host-copy.) The present is already dropping visible clues that counsel Dolores-Hale is taking a “divide and conquer” strategy with this William copy. The Man in Black we glimpsed in the course of the premiere sported spiffy formal put on as he took management of a hidden information financial institution; this episode places him again in his cowboy getup from the primary two seasons. A wardrobe change isn’t out of the query, however we’re betting that Hale has deployed a number of Williams.
Christina is reeling. After we left her final week, she was handing over after ending a sentimental meta-monologue on her balcony. The person who had stalked her for weeks and blamed her for his struggling had simply killed himself and now she desires to know why. As Christina investigates, Maeve and Caleb cope with their very own thriller.
The 2 head off to go to Senator Ken Whitney, William’s former affiliate. They arrive on the man’s house and rapidly uncover that William and Dolores-Hale changed the senator and his spouse with host-copies. After killing one of many hosts, Maeve makes use of her capability to manage different hosts to tug solutions from the opposite. Armed with what they want, she and Caleb head to an opera home. They rapidly uncover that the huge theatre is empty… and that it’s a entice. Moments later, they’re whisked away on a prepare — one not not like the one which carried trigger-happy visitors to a theme park stocked with androids. That’s proper: Maeve and Caleb are on their option to a brand new Delos attraction.
At Delos HQ, Clementine meets with Justice Division officers. They’re investigating Delos and demand time with firm management, however Clementine holds her floor. When threatened with “the total energy of the US authorities,” she responds evenly: “Sure, however do you’ve an appointment?” Later within the episode, Clementine and Dolores-Hale ambush the lead Justice Division official and kill him.
Christina’s investigation yields complicated outcomes. Her quest for solutions leads her to the Hope Middle for Psychological Well being, the place she finds a complete wing devoted to the lifeless man she’s wanting into, Peter Myers. She remembers his obituary noting his current contributions to the clinic, however realizes that the wing was devoted to him years in the past. As she tries to make sense of this, she notices drawings of a tower in one of many rooms. And this isn’t the primary point out of a tower. Earlier within the episode (and briefly in the course of the premiere), Christina ran right into a homeless man ranting about “the track with no sound” that’s “coming from the tower.”
In the reduction of to William, who’s enjoying golf on his non-public course when the vice chairman and his Secret Service element arrive. The interplay ends in William hanging the VP along with his membership, whereas Clementine, preserving watch close by, kills the 2 Secret Service brokers.
Elsewhere, Dolores-Hale wakes (the true) William from his compelled slumber in a cloning machine, then calmly tells him that she goes to eradicate his sort earlier than placing him again to sleep.
Season 4’s second episode then closes on William wowing a crowd with a brand new amusement park modeled after America within the Thirties.
So to recap our recap: Christina remains to be not Dolores (but), and Maeve and Caleb start to uncover the exquisitely twisted machinations of Dolores-Hale. The Man in Black turns into extra pawn than participant and neither Teddy (James Marsden) or Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) makes an look. Oh, and a few fairly high-ranking politicians meet violent ends.
It’s shaping as much as be a busy (however fortunately extra coherent) season of Westworld, don’t you assume…?