(Um, OK.) She pesters him about her mother’s death, saying that she feels like she is missing a piece of the puzzle.īut her father’s mind takes a paranoid turn. He tells her that they had embedded brain scanners into the cowboy hats that all guests wear.
She quizzes him about the immortality project, specifically how they managed to collect information about the guests’ internal states. In this episode, Emily has dragged her badly injured father to a rally point, where she awaits a rescue team. That’s far from shocking, so we’re left unsettled, wondering if that’s all there is to her tale.Įarlier episodes intimated that after Juliet died, the Man in Black fled to Westworld Emily then followed him, seeking answers about her mother’s suicide. What we seem to have learned is that she took her own life after discovering her husband’s true nature. It’s a dreadful scene, but ultimately it adds little that’s new. "For a self-portrait, you may find it’s not very flattering," he says as the Man in Black pockets the information. He slides a data drive resembling a metal playing card over to him. "When was the last time you took a good look at your creation and what it is learning about its subjects?" Ford asks. Ford hints that the project of capturing guest information has progressed faster than the Man in Black might realize. But seated at the bar is Ford, waiting for him. He steps away from the gala to grab a drink at a bar alone. If he cut deep enough into his arm, he seems to be thinking, would he eventually strike metal? He looks stricken as he massages his right forearm. He describes it as a fragment of a dream or a mental convolution, a thing that showed up in his mind one day and ended up consuming his character.
He wonders when it was that a "tiny fleck of darkness" crept into his soul. As the accolades pour in, his mind turns to a mystery that has haunted him for years. This week's episode begins with the Man in Black at a gala honoring his philanthropic work.