Westworld season 3 episode 6 recap: The Man in Black finds a new purpose

In a relatively Dolores Lite episode this week WestworldWe meet again with Maeve, the man in black and Charlotte. As Maeve gathers help fighting Dolores and the man in black goes to a twisted group therapy session, Charlotte, aka Halores, has the cool fight sequence of the week that inevitably ends in tragedy.

The sixth episode of season three is called Decoherence and was written by Suzanne Wrubel and co-creator of the series, Lisa Joy. It looks like Maeve is facing Dolores in the big stalemate in the promo trailer, but it’s not the big showdown you expect. In a darker episode compared to last week Tessa Thompson She is finally allowed to take Halores to compelling places, and this is her outstanding episode. Get the overview below.

warning: Spoiler ahead.

Maeve needs help

We open up to what the sublime looks like, a virtual sky for the consciousness of the hosts. Maeve (Thandie Newton) who could not be stabbed Episode 4 keep her down, have a moment with her daughter who has been living in sublime since the end of last season.

But that’s not real and Serac (Vincent Cassel) strolls into the scene and offers Maeve a reward for hunting Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood): He will bring her back to her perfect memories of living with her daughter.

Instead, Maeve, as shrewd as ever, says all she wants is what Dolores has: “Help.”

The man in black in therapy

We meet a group of patients, all wearing white overalls, in a mental hospital. Just as they start discussing God and His plan for everyone – boom! – Look who shows up: The man in black (Ed Harris).

It was not clear if we would see him again after episode 4 revealed his tortured state, which was hallucinated by his dead daughter Emily. But he’s back, thinking about his favorite subject – existentialism – while fellow patients break into tears and undergo expanded reality Therapy.

Halores, Serac and more murder

Halores (a copy of Dolores in Charlotte Hale’s body) sees further effects of the world get out of control after Dolores has released all of the “life projection” files last episode.

After Halores takes her son Nathan home through a devastated street in San Francisco, she discovers Charlotte’s ex-husband Jake (Michael Ealy) with his profile. But instead of figuring out what will become of their relationship, he decides: “It is not a machine that makes a decision; it is our choice.” This clearly affects Halores and more than ever suggests that their beliefs could dissuade them from Dolores’ plans.

After Serac’s thug fired one of the Delos board members, Halores calls Dolores to admit that she didn’t take Delos privately. The Serac company will be in less than two hours.

Dolores instructs Halores to back up all Delos host data before Serac destroys it. Halores pushes Dolores back because she asked to put her life at risk – that will have ramifications for her family. “They’re not your family,” Dolores replies promptly.

Delos was officially acquired by Incite

Serac instructs the Delos board to delete most of its intellectual property. The only thing he wants: the encryption key, which unlocks the guest data and the sublime.

In other news: He knows that Dolores made several copies of himself and suspects there is one in Delos. He orders all employees to check for aberrations. Halores swallows.

While quickly making a copy of the host data, one of the board members gets caught in the middle. He makes the mistake of telling Serac about it and Halores breaks his neck. This is just a taste of Tessa Thompson’s fantastic fight scenes.

Williams twisted group therapy session

In an explosion from the past, William encounters several AR versions of himself, The Man in Black, a dinner suit version (possibly from Season 2, episode 9 if Ford gives him a card with all the data the park has collected about him), the child version and the Jimmi Simpson Execution. That’s right, he’s back!

James Delos, whom William tested last season to see if his consciousness can survive in a host body, also joins as a kind of moderator and urges William to explore the key to his “dark instincts” – something traumatic, that happened in his parental home.

William’s father interrogates the child William about something that happened at school. William broke a child’s arm and knocked out three teeth – all because the boy described his father as drunk. “What the hell is going wrong with you?” his father asks.

But the different versions of William conclude that her father was drinking there of William’s violence. He never had a choice, his path to becoming a sadistic man in black was always what it would turn out to be.

William realizes what he has to do and murders his other self, which should be cathartic – say goodbye to Jimmi Simpson. Now that William is free from his past, he claims he finally understands his purpose: “I am the good one.”

Interesting. Even if that’s a delusion, it seems that William will play a bigger role in events with Dolores.

Maeve and Dolores face each other

Maeve wakes up in Warworld. While waiting for Serac to print a new body for her and build her a few hospitable friends to fight Dolores, she releases some steam by beating up a whole troop of Nazis.

Accompanied by Lee Sizemore and a restored Hector, a “gift” from Serac, Maeve comes across a version of Dolores that Serac has included in the simulation. In the same glass room where Dolores once interviewed Bernard, Maeve brings Dolores back online and they talk.

This is kind of a big standstill, except that the Dolores simulation is a quieter version that hasn’t yet attacked everyone. She tries to assure Maeve that she will never hurt her daughter, even though she has the key to the sublime in her head.

Maeve asks for the key, but Dolores can’t trust her because she joined Serac. They come to a standstill and find that they both have no choice but to fight each other.

Halores uploads the Delos data

Halores, who is still working on Delos ‘systems, uses a tracker she put in Williams’ blood when she signed him on to find out where he was – apparently a place Dolores was looking for. After Halores has safely stolen all of Delos’ data, she calls her husband and says she’ll be home in half an hour.

Serac holds another board meeting, in which he exposes Halores to who she really is, pointing out that the real Charlotte Hale would never have taken the time to look after her son. What a heartless way to unmask someone.

When Serac Dolores uttered her catchphrase – “These violent delights have violent ends” – Halores proves again that she is smarter than everyone else and lets go of a gas canister that kills the board members.

Cue cool fight sequence too Ramin Djawadis pulsating synthesizers as Halores uses her now iconic cape jacket to choke a security guard. On the way to the host’s printing lab, she executes Dolores’ plan to prevent Maeve from gaining allies and crushes Hector’s pearl to pulp.

Just before she is captured, Halores brings the Transformer-like counterinsurgency robots to her rescue. It would have been a waste if we hadn’t seen her again – a hulk smashes a wall to put a guy to death. Another hurls a guard like a rag doll into the nearby artificial lake. Stupid fun.

Bernard and Stubbs to the rescue

William, who murdered his past self, emerges from his augmented reality. Who comes to the rescue except Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) and said something about the doctors who had forgotten William in all the chaos. Does this relate to the chaos caused by the Delos data breach from the last episode? Or something else?

Maeve unleashes itself in the real world

Maeve’s body is finally complete. She steps out into the real world, but the printer isn’t finished yet: Hector may have disappeared forever, but Maeve sees another body in the middle of creation. What pearls are left? Could Maeve make a copy of Dolores since Serac made one for the simulation?

A tragic end

Miraculously, Halores escapes and takes Jake and Nathan back. But wait, this is Westworld and there is no happy ending.

Intending to go somewhere where no one will find her, Halores says to her husband, “I can protect you.” Big mistake. The next moment – BOOM. The car explodes, attested by a lackey from Serac, who then reports the news through his earphones and leaves the scene.

What he doesn’t see: Halores survives and pulls her body out of the fiery wreckage. Her hair and skin are burned to a red, charred layer. A tear drops from her eye, her expression says it all: she will take revenge.

Will that be on Serac? Or Dolores because she put her family in danger? Anyway, what a setup for the last two episodes of Westworld.

Deeper into the labyrinth

• In what is becoming a favorite motif for Westworld, we are again opening a wheat field.
• AR therapy is a fascinating application for something that has not really established itself in real life.
• Can we agree that Halores’ blushing wrap jacket is a fashion moment?
• The Jimmi Simpson Cameo is an unexpected gift.
• Young William reads a book called Sir Rowan and the Lady of Sulon. It doesn’t seem to refer to anything in real life …
• The man in black is now the man in white.
• The order in which we get close-ups of the formation of a host body is beautiful to look at: the details of the eyebrows and the blood that is pumped into the body are really something.
• The Hale family car is an absolute beast. It’s like this world version of a minivan tank.