Westworld season 3 episode 7 recap: Caleb discovers a horrible truth

consequences The outstanding episode of the past week This week Westworld brought heartbreaking twists and turns for the man in black and especially for Charlotte Hale: after all, he’s putting the truth together behind these traumatic flashbacks.

Episode 7, titled Passed Pawn, written by Gina Atwater, brings a few rewards, from the battle between two power plants in Maeve-Dolores to the revelations about Caleb and the re-education centers. A couple of twists made for a fascinating finale next week, and with the most compelling character – Halores – still in play, Westworld could survive the landing.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

Halores and Dolores really separated

Overwhelmed by the terrible death of Charlotte’s son Jake and ex-husband Nathan, Halores (Tessa Thompson) fills a bow that has been teased all season. Halores touches the base with Yakuza boss Musashi (a copy of Dolores in the body of the host of the Shogun world) and confirms that she is no longer on Dolores’ side. Finally, he rejects Dolores’ seemingly selfish plan, which involves so many victims.

In addition to using the Dolores or Delos printer to build a new, non-charred body, Halores also appears to have teamed up with Maeve’s crew.

And Maeves Crew is stacked: In another explosion from the past, Clementine, Maeves protégé in the Sweetwater brothel, appears in the same Jakata restaurant as Dolores-Musashi and starts a fight with him and his Yakuza gang. Sharp eyes would have spotted Clementines Host id on the computer in the Delos laboratory last episodewhere Serac (Vincent Cassel) printed hosts for Maeves crew.

Then another surprising figure emerges from the shadows: Hanaryo, the shogun equivalent to the armistice, with a dragon tattoo on his face. As the winner of the week, she drives her katana around Dolores-Musashi’s body and cuts it in two.

Dolores reveals more of her grand scheme

Caleb and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) ride horses in the Westworld theme park, but no, it’s Sonora, Mexico, in an area where Caleb appears to have been before.

Caleb questions Dolores’ vague plans to start a revolution: “What revolution are we leading here?”

After Dolores revealed that the Westworld theme park was modeled on this open country, she finally gives us an insight into her somewhat less murderous plan: she wants to build a new home for the hosts so that they can live freely, and maybe this could be the case right place it is.

Surprisingly, it also implies that she also wants to help people. Her species is almost extinct thanks to Serac, but people still have the opportunity to live free from rehab beam’s designs. And she wants Caleb, as reluctant as he is, to lead her.

The man in white discovers that he has “died”.

Tinkering with the computers of the mental hospital, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) clarifies what was the deal with the tracer Dolores (via Halores) that was in the blood of William (Ed Harris), also known as the man in white. When the psychiatric clinic doctors took it to their lab for testing, Dolores was able to infiltrate the rest of her system, including the Sonora Education Center. It’s a pretty special blood tracer technology.

Meanwhile, Stubbs and William are arguing over William’s dodgy morale, which leads to a William Zinger: “Don’t lecture me, you damn can opener.”

Then Bernard reports with some life-changing information about William: According to the computers, he “died”. While this is usually troubling, it could be useful for William – maybe it could hide him from Dolores.

Who is caleb

Throughout the season, Caleb’s flashbacks and grief over his dead army buddy Francis (Kid Cudi) have pointed out something even darker that is hidden in his memories. Thanks to a trip to Mexico’s re-education center, a place Serac created to reform the “runaways” of society, Caleb and Dolores find answers.

In a flashback, Caleb is strapped to a table and Dr. Greene interrogates with the augmented therapy glasses attached to his face. He explains that he was sent to Crimea during the Russian civil war to hunt the last part of an insurgent group. After their unit was attacked by Russians, Caleb and Francis (somehow) captured the leader.

Hold the man hostage who wait two hours for the evacuation, but it never comes. They leave the warehouse and are attacked by Russians – and then Francis is shot.

But in true Westworld fashion, these memories hold more secrets.

Solomon has answers

Back in the present day, Caleb and Dolores continue to the military base-like center and find Solomon, one of the first iterations of Rehabeam. Here Serac and his brother Jean Mi developed their large supercomputer, which looks like a red death star. The reason Serac gave up this version: it had inherited Jean Mis schizophrenia. Solomon, Caleb suggests, is crazy.

Jump off very much Space Odyssey HAL With his creepy statement, Solomon explains that Caleb was one of the first to receive the “revolutionary” treatment of the center. But the success rate is low, and Dolores and Caleb menaced to find out what happened to the victims.

The big Caleb unveiling

Caleb and Dolores come across a Serac hologram message destined for Jean Mi. Interestingly, Serac says: “I wish I could be with you, Jean Mi, but the man who I was no longer exists.” That’s funny. It sounds like another clue that confirms the theory that Serac was a hologram all the time.

In what – again – looks like something 2001: A space odyssey, Dolores and Caleb trigger the lights in a cavernous storage room filled with thousands of people who didn’t make it through the overhaul. They are wrapped in glass coffins for their long cryogenic sleep.

Solomon then reveals the great secret of Caleb’s broken memories: they are not real. They were changed by the “limbic” tablets that Caleb used to numb his feelings when he had to kill as a soldier.

Serac’s “elegant” solution to the outlier problem was to use restored outliers like Caleb to round off other cases. With the seemingly entertaining crime moneymaking app, Rico, they were able to do something called “crime regulation.”

And Francis? He never died in Russia. The insurgent leader was really Whitman, a representative of the pharmaceutical company that makes the limbic tabs. Rico had used Caleb and Francis to kill him simply because he no longer fit the “system” plan.

But when he told Caleb and Francis too much, the system, which is always listening, sent them a warning to murder each other for a big reward.

It was shot or shot, and Caleb shot just in time to kill Francis, his friend, dead.

Showdown between Dolores and Maeve

Listen to Maeve’s (Thandie Newton) Helicopter Land, Dolores knows it’s time to settle. Caleb wants to go with her, but she tells him that he still has a job to do that doesn’t seem to need her … and then your heart starts pounding. Will Dolores Die Forever?

Solomon agrees to help Dolores and Caleb; He has a new plan for humanity in which most people will survive. For the first time, now that we know that Dolores wants to help people, she looks more likeable than Maeve.

Maeve is salty after Halores destroyed Hector’s last episode under Dolores’ instructions. She also still believes that her daughter and the rest of the hosts who have fled to the sublime are not safe while Dolores is alive.

The Dolores Maeve fight has taken place throughout the season. Does it deliver? Although we knew that Dolores would eventually lose an arm thanks to that Promo trailerThe way it happens is still a moment of the heart in your mouth.

Dolores and Maeve have cleverly set up their own backup robotic shooters – Maeve with their helicopter and Dolores with a makeshift AI-powered rifle setup. Dolores seems to have the upper hand most of the fight and quickly disarm Maeve from her katana.

But now that our guard is down, it’s time for Maeve’s big comeback: she stabs Dolores, who stumbles into the helicopter’s line of fire and has her arm blown off – all in a moment.

A fighting Dolores, who is still alive, drags itself back into the room with Solomon’s system. Just before Maeve cuts off her head, she presses the button on a cell phone EKG (electromagnetic pulse) Machine and triggers a pulse that deactivates her and Maeve.

The man in white is ‘good’

After confronting all of his demons, that is, killing his former self in extended therapy, William decides to correct his injustice and make amends with the people he loves – by deleting every host from the earth and his “Original” wipes out sin. “

Yes, William really lost it now.

When Bernard stops at a gas station and found information about Caleb in the files of the re-education center, he thinks he knows why he’s part of Dolores’ plan. Dolores, built with a “poetic sensibility”, will not destroy humanity. But Caleb will do it.

Meanwhile, Bernard and Stubbs allow William to arm themselves with a discarded weapon from the gas station. He threatens Stubbs and Bernard, but does he shoot? We’ll find out in the final.

What can you expect at the finale?

While still in the cryogenic dormitory, Caleb orders Solomon to tell him how to end everything and kill Serac. Solomon has something for Caleb on a USB drive, which he will probably use in the next episode against Serac.

Judging from the look on Caleb’s face, after finding out that his life was a lie and that Rehaboam forced him to kill Francis, he’s all about to carry out Dolores’ plan and destroy Serac.

Will Maeve and Dolores be with him? Or are you completely out of the picture for the finale? It would be fascinating to see that Halores, Clementine and Hanaryo play a bigger role – hosts other than Dolores take their fate into their own hands.

Deeper into the labyrinth

• Dolores-Musashi’s briefcase, which turns into an Optimus Prime-style weapon, is an ultra-cool futuristic weapon technology that Westworld can handle incredibly well.
• Where can I get Dolores’ new black ear cuff?
• Sonora, Mexico meaningful story: A place of real cowboy culture that divides a border between Mexico and the United States. Maybe the hosts could really build a new world there.
• Why does Serac’s hologram speak English and not French to his French brother?
• The vehicles this season look really cool when they’re stupidly jacked up on steroids. Maeves helicopter is a slightly slimmer addition.
• We can’t spend a season without secrets, can we?
• Maeve and her allies should be called “Katana Crew” or something cooler.