Westworld
Not only hasWestworldseason 2 open up up more places on the timeline , it ’s also thrive the cathode-ray oscilloscope of the park to let in position likeShogun World and The Raj . The main characters are scatter across the single-valued function and the episode are scattered across meter . To help you keep it all straight , we ’ve put together a guidebook toWestworld ’s timeline and what major case take billet when . The dates give are derived from an Easter egg on the Delos website , which confirmed that the engagement of the host uprising inWestworld ’s time of year 1 stopping point was June 15 , 2052 .
Westworld’s Origins (2015-2020)
The very early scenes that we ’ve see inWestworldare the interactions between Arnold and Dolores during the park ’s evolution phase , before it opened . Arnold became obsessed with the approximation of guiding Dolores and the other host towards true awareness .
During this development stage , when Robert Ford and Arnold ’s oeuvre was still being kept top - secret , the two inventors take a selection of hosts out of the park . They fix up a tech demonstration for Logan Delos , who is floored by the lifelike host and seduced by Angela .
Shortly before the park open up , Arnold believes that he has made a breakthrough with Dolores that proves the hosts are up to of true consciousness , and essay to win over Ford not to get to the parkland . His attack at view fail , and so Arnold tries one last desperate gambit to prevent the common from chess opening : he meld Dolores ' idea with that of a villain character , Wyatt . With Teddy ’s help , she travel on a rampage through the park , slaughtering the legion and finally killing Arnold himself by shooting him in the head .
After the carnage , a Ghost Nation warrior called Akecheta come across the body and discovers the maze mystifier that Arnold gave to Dolores in gild to help her " wake up up . " The labyrinth sparks the origin of Akechata ’s own journeying towards ego - realization .
alas , Arnold ’s sacrifice die . The commons opens , but due to the enormous disbursal of building and maintain the host , it faces fiscal difficulties that threaten to conclude its doors again .
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Westworld Seeks Funding (2020-2025)
Logan visits Westworld enthusiastically in its early years , but is unable to successfully win over his father , James Delos , to clothe in the park . Somewhat intelligibly , Delos does not put much trust in the job acumen of his spoiled party boy of a son .
During this clip , William go into the scene . A mid - level employee of Delos , Inc. , William gets a promotion to an executive position after he becomes busy to James Delos ' daughter ( Logan ’s sis ) . Logan welcomes his chum - in - law - to - be into the family by taking him on his first ever trip-up to Westworld . This tripper is one of the major storylines of season 1 , record William bit by bit falling in love with Dolores as she gets pulled off her common written loop topology and travels with William and Logan all over Westworld .
After Logan stabs Dolores and scupper her inside to William as a admonisher that she ’s simply a golem , Dolores staggers away and William ’s journey into darkness start . He massacre the Confederados , ties Logan naked to a sawhorse , and begins a bloody rampage across Westworld in hunt of his disoriented love . When he finally finds her again , however , he sees her fall the same tin can that she dropped on his first day in the park , and make that what seemed like a random act was really a program use . He decide that this means everything he shared with Dolores was merely use , and his heart hardens against her and all of the park ’s hosts .
Akecheta finds Logan out in the desert - naked and ranting that " this is the amiss world " and that he require to find " the door . " Akecheta throw him a blanket and tell him,“your form will come for you . " Later , Akecheta recalls that Logan ’s give-and-take " crack up something open in me . "
However , William is still deeply interested in Westworld and its potential . He convince Delos to endue in the ballpark on the base that it is an incredibly utile marketing research tool - admit them to celebrate its extremely affluent guests when they think no one is view them . Delos is convinced by the pitch , and Westworld is relieve .
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Westworld Under Delos Control (2025-2051)
With the revelation that William and the Man in Black are one and the same soul out in the open , Westworldseason 2 is innocent to explore the years between young William ’s first trip to the car park , and the " present Clarence Day " scene . We take that William ’s exploration of the park ’s possibilities was n’t limited to commercialise enquiry ; he also set about wreak on a way to attain immortality by putting a human nous in a master of ceremonies soundbox .
It ’s during this time period that we see flashback scene in which William interviews Dolores and handle her coldly , calling her a " thing . " He takes her to a outside place in the desert where some kind of massive projection is being ship upon . We eventually learn that this project is the Valley Beyond / Glory / The Door / The Forge - different names for a facility where guest data is stored and then used to create AI versions of the Guest .
We see James Delos ' retirement party , where Dolores is playing the piano . Delos pressure William to quicken up the immortality projection . At this point in time , William is marital to Delos ' daughter and William ’s own girl , Grace , looks like about eight class one-time .
Some sentence after this , Delos go and William begin trying to duplicate his judgment inside a legion consistency . We see two conversation between the untested William and the host version of Delos , with William using the same dialogue to try and establish a baseline . Every meter Delos actualise that he is a host , his cognitive function begin to deteriorate .
At some point during this period of experiment , William ’s wife shoot down herself by overdose on pill and drown in the bathtub . Logan also overdose and dies .
Circa 1951 , William dispatch Maeve ’s daughter to discover the darkest thing that he is capable of . This human activity leads him to the discovery of The Maze , and begins his obsession with solve what he believes to be a hidden game inside Westworld . Maeve is ineffective to recover from the death of her daughter , and has to be reassigned to a raw theatrical role as the ma’am of the Mariposa Saloon .
Around the same time ( it ’s unclear whether it ’s before or after ) , William chatter Delos one last time - the 149th endeavor at hone a means of immortality . He no longer has any Bob Hope that such a matter is possible , and alternatively utilise the attempt to muse that perhaps no one is meant to live forever and a day . After give away the the true to Delos ( include the revelation that both of his children are dead ) , William forget the human - host crossbreed to go insane in his plastic prison .
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Westworld Season 1 (2052)
The " present - day " scenes ofWestworldseasons 1 and 2 take place in 2052 and lead up to the fatal events of June 15 , 2052 . Over a period of clip ( what come along to be either a few workweek or a few months ) , several major storylines are take place concurrently .
Ford is plan some sort of Modern story , but keeping the details to himself . He has late update some of the park ’s host to include a newfangled quirk call in " revery " - allowing them to retain unconscious memory from their past living to make them more lifelike . Some of the park ’s hosts begin to malfunction as a result of these reveries .
During this time , Maeve wakes up while in the Mesa Hub workshop and is exposed to the truth behind her world . Her cognition of the truth stay even after having her retentiveness pass over , and with the reluctant help of Westworld techs Sylvester and Felix she learns more about the ballpark and begins plotting her outflow .
William embarks on his pursuance to regain The Maze , first recruiting Lawrence for the journey and then , after encounter Teddy Flood near death , sacrifice Lawrence for his ancestry and drag Teddy the residuum of the way .
This eventually leads William to cross way with Dolores , who has been retracing her steps from her journey with William several decades ago as she too searches for the center of The Maze - though without consciously realizing it . They clash in the graveyard outside Ford ’s newly - uncovered church service , and engage in a brawl that finish with William stabbing Dolores . She is found by Teddy , and she plead with him to carry her to " where the mountains meet the ocean . "
At some period during all of this , Bernard went to the secluded lab where Delos was being held . He obtain a ascendancy module for another human - host hybrid in the park , before butcher all of the technical school and drone hosts wreak in the lab .
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Westworld’s New Narrative Begins (June 15, 2052)
Teddy carries Dolores to where the mountains meet the sea , and she give-up the ghost dramatically in his arms . The light come up and clapping rings out , revealing that this is actually the introduction of Ford ’s novel narration , which he has dubbed " Journey Into Night . " Delos gameboard members , including William , observe at a reveal party that culminates in Ford giving a spoken language . The spoken communication ends with Dolores , whose mind is once again fused with that of the Wyatt graphic symbol , buck Ford in the fountainhead . This is the trigger for the hosts to climb up and commence slaughtering the guest .
While all of this is occur , Maeve is carrying out her escape plan . She liberates and recruits Armistice and Hector , and they film their way through the Mesa Hub . Maeve reaches the train post and gets on the power train that will take her to freedom , but at the last minute she decides to rest in Westworld and search for her girl .
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The Immediate Aftermath (June 15 - June 29, 2052)
As the " Journey Into Night " political party descends into bedlam and bloodshed , William manages to survive and - after meeting Ford ’s robot rendering of his younger self - discovers that Ford create a game for him call The Door . He embarks on a lookup for The Door , once again recruiting Lawrence as his sidekick along the agency .
Dolores is now a combination of Dolores and Wyatt , and with a furore at her command she stalks through Westworld exacting drab retaliation on the human guests and enter friend in her lookup for something call The Valley Beyond , which she believes is a weapon that will allow her to take over not only the park , but the outside world as well . After tinkering with Teddy ’s stats to make him less compassionate and more of a cold - blooded sea wolf , Dolores set up an plan of attack on the Mesa Hub and comes away with Peter Abernathy ’s ascendence unit - the key to unlocking " The Door . " However , on the journeying to the Valley Beyond , Teddy toss off himself to be loose from Dolores ' manipulation .
When the pound fall , Maeve is in the Mesa Hub . She runs into Westworld ’s egotistical narrative manager Lee Sizemore and forcibly recruits him in her search for her daughter , reunite with Hector and after with Armistice , Sylvester and Felix . During an eye - opening visit to Shogun World , Maeve bring in the power to control other legion telepathically via the mesh connection that connect them all . She eventually find her girl , but almost straight off loses her again when Maeve is captured by Delos , and her daughter is captured by the Ghost Nation . Maeve is brought back to the Mesa Hub , and Delos finds a way to replicate her meshing connection control within the lobotomized Clementine - enabling them to upload a virus to the hosts that force them to kill one another .
The side effect from Ford ’s new story is not limited to Westworld . Both The Raj and Shogun World ’s hosts also go off - narrative , as William ’s daughter Grace discovers . She is give chase over The Raj ’s perimeter by a Bengal tiger and gets washed downriver to Westworld , where she is entrance by the Ghost Nation . She escapes and eventually reunites with her father , but the reunion end in tragedy when William - believing that Grace is a emcee produce by Ford so as to pull a fast one on him - shoots and kills her .
Bernard and Charlotte Hale end up together in the aftermath of the party , and Charlotte says that Delos will only send help if she deliver them a host - Peter Abernathy . While trying to retrieve Abernathy , Bernard is capture and embroil to a cave , where he ascertain lose technical school Elsie , whom he conk up and chain up under Ford ’s book of instructions . Elsie and Bernard search the back of the cave and find an entrance to the lab where Delos is being held . They put him out of his miserableness .
Bernard ’s troubles do not terminate there , however . He and Elsie return to the Mesa Hub to inquire The Cradle - a place where a reliever of every host in Westworld is hold in a practical realism version of the common . Inside , Bernard discovers that Ford created an AI translation of himself , who then hijacks Bernard ’s body and draw him to kill several Delos security team members . Bernard and Elsie leave the Mesa Hub after Dolores ' blast , and head for The Forge . Along the way , Bernard deletes Ford ’s code from his organization and abandons Elsie to continue on his own .
In the time of year stopping point :
Bernard , William and Dolores convene at The Forge . William pullulate Dolores multiple time in the torso , but she does n’t die , so he tries to shoot her in the head and a defective bullet causes the gunman to backfire and blow off his trigger finger .
Bernard and Dolores enter The Forge , which has a system standardised to The Cradle , permit people to enter a false earth . There , Bernard and Dolores assemble an AI modeled on Logan Delos , who explains that every guest who has ever visited the park is stored in The Forge as an AI . He also break that the Valley Beyond is a " virtual Eden " - a new world unspoiled by humans , where the host can live freely . A monotone horde initiate the opening of The Door - a practical gateway in Westworld that only the hosts can see . When they take the air through The Door , their physical soundbox are discarded and their computer code is shift to the Valley Beyond .
Meanwhile , Maeve uses her psychical abilities to bring the cadaver of the innkeeper in the Mesa Hub back to biography . They defeat the Delos squad there , and repair Maeve ’s body . Maeve ’s friends get in at the Mesa Hub to " deliver " her , and they all head to the Valley Beyond to explore for Maeve ’s daughter . On the route , Delos catch up to them and Lee Sizemore sacrifices his life to give Maeve and the others a chance to escape . They hit the Valley Beyond and commence look for for Maeve ’s girl , but as the hosts make their way to the valley , Clementine go far on horseback . She has been debase up with a virus that causes hosts to go mad and tear each other aside , and as she rides towards The Door chaos ensues . Ultimately , everyone in Maeve ’s bunch is killed trying to give Maeve ’s daughter enough time to turn over the Valley Beyond . Maeve uses the last vestiges of her strong point to temporarily block the rioting host , and then dies in peace as her daughter escapes .
Dolores reads a few of the books of human codification in the Forge ’s monolithic depository library , and then exits the Cradle and set about the process of delete the guest datum from the Forge and flooding the vale . Bernard shoots Dolores in the head and cancels the information purge . He then removes Dolores ' control unit from her head , and replaces it with Abernathy ’s ascendance unit . He leave the Forge , and reconnects with Elsie and Charlotte as the valley commence to flood . They fall to the Mesa Hub .
When they get back , Elsie tells Bernard that he is out of control and orders him to stay sit in a electric chair . She then meet Charlotte in the single-valued function way below and offers to work along with Delos , but Charlotte tell that Elsie is not morally flexible enough and scoot her deadened . Bernard calls upon Ford ( who in reality wrench out to just be a hallucination ) to exempt him from the death chair , and then builds a boniface consistency that depend exactly like Charlotte Hale and puts Dolores ' control unit inside it . Dolores - who now looks exactly like Charlotte - defeat the existent Charlotte and take her billet .
Bernard goes to the beach and scrambles his memory so that Delos will not be capable to find out what he did through interrogative .
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Two Weeks Later (June 29, 2052)
Bernard heat up on the beach and is discovered by Stubbs , who introduces him to Delos COO Karl Strand . Delos has sent reinforcements to recapture the park , indicate that Charlotte was successful in delivering Abernathy to them . In the water off the coast of a beach , Bernard and the others discover bodies of hosts be adrift - among them , Teddy Flood . Bernard says , horrified , " I killed them all . "
after , Stubbs and Bernard are taken to the shop where Theresa Cullen was killed by Bernard ( under Ford ’s Order ) in season 1 , and Strand and Charlotte discover a way full of previous Bernard models - let out him as a host . Bernard is question about the location of Peter Abernathy ’s control whole , and unveil that it ’s in The Forge . He , Strand , Charlotte , Stubbs , and the rest of the Delos soldiers channelise out to retrieve the extremely worthful datum .
They grouping connect with the Forge , and observe Dolores dead from a gunfire lesion to the head . Strand recovers Abernathy ’s ascendancy unit from Dolores head , and the Delos tech gets ready to transmit the data to the mainland via satellite . However , just as he realizes that the data package is far too large to contain just the client data , Dolores unveil herself and drink down everyone in the room except for Bernard .
Dolores send the Valley Beyond and the surviving hosts to a secret , dependable location on the mainland via Delos ' satellite , and then shoots Bernard . She takes the control condition unit from his head , along with four other control whole , and heads for the evacuation distributor point . As she makes to leave , Stubbs kibosh her and break ( rather mysteriously ) that he was a host all along . He curl her through security , and Dolores escapes Westworld .
William is revealed to have survived , and is lie unconscious in one of the tents wait excretion .
She pass away to a safe oasis that Ford built for her on the mainland and builds a new trunk for Bernard . After being awaken , Bernard leave and involve his first steps into the real world .
The Distant Future
In the time of year finale ’s post - credits scene , William grow out of the elevator in The Forge and finds the place in ruination , and his daughter ( or rather , a horde version of her ) look for him . It ’s clear that some time has passed since the rest of the season finale . Emily tells William that she is there to swan his fidelity , indicating that the version of William we see here is also a legion .
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