We see the woman from the IndiaWorld park captive with the Wild-Men, and she joins Stubbs, who apparently was also taken captive with a bunch of other humans. While Stubbs assures her rescue is imminent, she informs him she has no intention of leaving the park. They realize the Wild-Men are only killing hosts not humans but they are still wary when they are dragged to the waterfront and lined up, execution style. The woman from the IndiaWorld park manages to make her own escape leaving the rest behind, but Stubbs is still caught and now has a knife to his throat. Right before they kill him, the Wildmen instead switch from their own native tongue to English and tell Stubbs that he and his people only live as long as people remember them. Then they disappear, leaving the humans alone on the waterfront alive and well.

As for the Man in Black (aka William) and Lawrence, they discover the Hosts are rerouting a railroad line to go west (using human corpses as building materials). William realizes Ford is giving him a clue and finds it suspicious that Lawrence’s hometown is in that direction. They head there and run right into the Confederados that Teddy let free in the last episode. They have taken the town hostage and want their supply of weapons and ammunition. Lawrence is especially terrified as they have his wife and daughter hostage and begs William not to let the Confederados kill him in front of his family, a sentiment which strikes a cord with William especially when Lawrence brings up the fact that William would understand as he himself has a daughter, something William did NOT share with Lawrence on this trip (but did in a past life with Lawrence). Eventually, he goes full MIB on the Confederados and kills them all, saving the leader for Lawrence himself. He makes the guy drink an explosive concoction and then allows Lawrence to shoot him, making his ending particularly bloody and explosive.

Due to his “heroic” actions, Lawrence and a gang of men from the town are more than willing to follow William now, and they head out of town to complete Ford’s game, but not before Lawrence’s daughter, who we have seen go all “prophet” before, approaches William and delivers a Ford-esque statement about William not truly understanding the game. As he heads off into the sunset, a lone rider approaches, and we see the woman from the IndiaWorld park approach. She nods at the MIB, and says “Hi Dad,” and we realize she came to the park looking for her father during the revolution. Things just got a lot more interesting.

WORLD OF THEORIES:

  • Could the Delos Host have survived his encounter with Elsie and Bernard somehow? And if so, is it really Delos’ human mind in there after having been copied to a computer? Or just a virtual simulation of his mind?
  • Why did William once tell people that his wife died of taking too many pills when we see in this episode that he remembers her dying in a bathtub, presumably after slashing her wrists?
  • How did Lawrence know about William’s daughter? Is the Ford program leaking information to the Hosts to get into William’s head?
  • Why was Bernard so protective of the surviving drone and trying to calm down Elsie so she did not kill it?
  • Could the control module that Ford sent Bernard to get be for the MIB (William) that is currently running around the park? It would make sense, as the man had no right to survive Dolores’ revolution, and replacing him with a robot with William’s “human” mind would be fitting after what William did to Delos Sr., and would be exactly the kind of revenge Ford would delight in taking on the man.
  • Another thought, could that control module (still being William’s mind) eventually be placed inside Bernard, making the Bernard that washed up on the beach ACTUALLY WILLIAM?
  • Is it actually William’s daughter? Or is it Ford messing with him?

SO MUCH GOING ON in this episode! It was amazing! Confirming that Delos was trying to get human consciousness transferred into host bodies was enough, but also learning that Logan died from OD’ing, that the MIB’s daughter is in the park (and apparently her name is EMILY), Bernard can control the Drone Hosts (Bernard’s Zombie Drone Host Army!), and the return of Elsie  was enough to make this one of the best episodes of the season so far, not to mention one of the longest, clocking in at around 1 hour and 13 minutes. Cannot wait to see what they have in store for us when we return to the Maeve storyline next week (and/or Dolores storyline), and I cannot wait to finally see Shogun World and see how it will fit into the overall story. See you back here next week!