NARRATOR: The violent delights of "Westworld" season 1 gave
way to season 2's violent ends.
But the season 3 premiere may have been just the hard reboot
that the series needed.
That's how it works, right?
NARRATOR: On this spoiler-filled "IMDbrief," we break down
why the bleak futurescape of "Westworld's" third
season has our full attention.
This episode's title, "Parce Domine,"
refers to a Gregorian chant that translates
from Latin to "Spare, Lord, spare your people.
Be not angry with us forever," which
seems to suggest that Dolores, played by Evan Rachel Wood,
and her robo squad have only just begun their rampage
on Neo Los Angeles and the people who
wronged her back in Westworld.
The old-fashioned way?
I kill everyone.
NARRATOR: Yikes.
At least we're pretty sure it's Dolores in that body.
Her pearl, or cyber brain ball, which holds her
robo-consciousness, escaped Westworld in an Android double
of Delos Exec Charlotte Hale, played by Tessa Thompson,
before she found a 3D printer that Dr. Robert Ford--
Anthony Hopkins-- left for Bernard--
Jeffrey Wright.
Now, she's able to duplicate anyone living, dead, or bionic,
and literally jump into their skin suit.
The real gods are coming.
And they're very angry.
NARRATOR: And we welcome our new robot overlords.
Although Dolores was wounded in the fray with Incite's
shady security, she's about to team up
with her new flesh-and-blood friend, Caleb.
I don't do personals.
[SCREAMING IN BACKGROUND]
Let's just call an ambulance.
NARRATOR: Disaffected veteran Caleb Nichols,
played by Jesse Pinkman himself, Aaron Paul,
is a new character who represents
anyone weary of technology's creep
into every facet of modern life.
We're going to have to find something or someone real.
NARRATOR: Whether Dolores is technically real
or not is up for debate.
But her thirst for vengeance is most definitely genuine.
And she has her sights set on whoever controls
the giant cyber brain ball called Rehoboam,
another religious reference, this time to the grandson
of David, the Goliath slayer and King of Israel,
who was punished for what God deemed sins of his father,
Solomon.
You thought that if you could chart
a course for every single person,
you can make the world a better place.
A path for everyone.
NARRATOR: Unless Dolores has something to say about that.
Rehoboam supposedly keeps a climate catastrophe at bay
by piloting every person's earthly course.
Since it's mentioned that Caleb does not
have an implant like most of the population,
Dolores will most likely need his criminal skills
and undoctored mind to steal control of Rehoboam
from the shadowy man known only as Serac.
I want you to track her down and kill her.
NARRATOR: That's French actor Vincent Cassel as Serac.
And he's teamed with Thandie Newton's Maeve host,
who must have just regained her memories after
being rebooted in Warworld, a Nazi-occupation-themed
experience--
because killer cowboys weren't scary enough
for some park-goers?
You're not the only predator here.
NARRATOR: We didn't forget about you, Charlotte Hale--
or at least this robot replica version of you
that is running the Delos company and insisting they
keep building hosts, most likely so she'll have an Android
army to storm Neo Los Angeles once Dolores gains control
of Rehoboam, unless Ed Harris' impossibly
not-dead Man in Black can throw a wrench in her plans.
I'm gonna save the [BLEEP] world.
NARRATOR: We might actually be rooting
for the robots on this one.
Anyway, Bernard, who's been hiding out in the Philippines
under the name Armand Delgado, an anagram for Damaged Arnold--
his human name before Ford turned him into a bot--
promises to take us back to Westworld's island,
possibly to find Ford, or a Ford facsimile, to help
clear his name.
Would you ever lie to me, Bernard?
No.
Of course not.
NARRATOR: And Bernard's now got two
personalities that he switches between with a garage door
opener.
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