Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, i'm your host Paul aka the fly kid who isn't Calebs daughter and
this video we're breaking down Westworld Season 4 Episode 3. It's filled with major reveals,
a tonne of easter eggs and lots of things that call back to the first season. However we start
off with Bernard who we last left entering the sublime at the end of the third season. We begin
with him waking up, a motif that starts off several character arcs in the show.
We find him in Arnold's house, a place that Season 2 ended at and it was also where Delores
ran most of her operations from early on in Season 3. He's holding the maze in his hand
which is snatched by his son Charlie who is alive and well in this simulation. You can
instantly tell this isn't the real world due to the aspect ratio going 16:9 which is something
that's always used in a simulation. Bernard follows him out into a great green field,
which is something that we've seen in the sublime at several points.
This is also where Serac took Maeve at the start of Season 3
episode 6 and there's other things that callback to the series here.
We can catch a tree up on a hill and this looks similar to the one that Delores spent her loop
in the park at painting. It's also where she died at in the simulation and running away from
it is a white horse. A white horse was used in the earlier credits sequences but it's meaning
goes beyond that. White Horses are symbolic on a number of levels and they can either mean death
or triumph over adversity. Clementine rode one at the end of Season 2 when she was carrying
a killer virus that made the hosts turn on each other. Akecheta also saw one running through the
graveyard before it hit the town after stumbling on the massacre there in Season 2 episode 8.
The tree itself ends up burning further bringing up biblical imagery and Akecheta also returns.
This idea of a tree also reflects benard who sees several timeline branches,
someone of which can lead to destruction.
However Bernard has to take a couple more trips down memory lane first and he sees
not only the saloon from Westworld but also the massacre carried out by Teddy
and Delores...well...Wya...look it's complicated. The wolf is also there and
this had a number of hidden meanings such as it's tie to native american
cultures and the fact that Wolves mate for life and hunt in packs.
This massacre was later reflected in the westworld massacre at the end
of the first season which gets it's own nod come the end of the episode.
Bernard then steps ithe streets from the end of Season 3 and we can see the word Incite
there which was the name of the company that Serac owned. Bernard also spots the twoer,
an important thing that's popped up in these first three episodes and he walks
along a pathway surrounded by water similar to the entrance to Delos. This
likely hints at the tower being owned by Hale and that she's running it from Delos.
Inside he has a sit down that reminded me a lot of The Matrix and we learn that the other hosts
are off in paradises of their choosing. With this being a programme they can select what's best for
them but Bernard has chose to remain in the past, hinting that he still has ties to the real world.
It's at this point that he's given a gift and we discover that one year in the real
world is a 1000 in the sublime. It's been talked about quite a lot how time moves
slower in the simulation than it does in reality and this was seen in Episode 2
from Season 3 when Maeve monitored Incite's sim farms the level up from where she was.
The hosts inside the Sublime have spent this time mapping out every single choice and outcome which
they give to Bernard. He is now the only person that can save the world as he's seen all the
pathways and knows all the outcomes. He very much becomes a host version of Rehoboam. who,
using a complex algorithm could predict and adjust it's plans to plot a course
for the future in which humanity is saved. It's a complicated concept and the simplest
way I can think to explain it centres pretty much around a video game level.
If you've played the level time and time again then you know where all the enemies
are and how to navigate it. However, you won't play it exactly the same every single
time because it's impossible to do that due to minor variables. Some enemies may pop up
when you're in a slightly different position to how you approached it last time and you
yourself might even try something different. The level is still exactly the same though so
you adjust your route due to the knowledge in order to get the same outcome and complete it.
I hope that makes sense but Bernard basically has the positions of every possible outcome,
he just needs to adjust things in order to stay on certain pathways.
Unfortunately for him, every scenario leads to
his death and though he could stay in the sublime he decides to return home.
Now we're taking a big L here as we thought him waking up was years in the future but
it's probably only been the 8 that's been brought up time and time again.
However this could still be far in the future though we don't quite get it confirmed.
Now I've admitted I'm wrong yeah, and I want you to admit, you find these breakdowns to
be...ok...so as a thank you yeah, just hit the thumbs up button mate you sumoffabich.
Anyway he starts taking stubbs through the motion who's been stubborn and stayed there
guarding over him. In Season 3 Bernard rewrote his programming after finding
him in the park and he's guarded over him ever sense. Bernard now wants to test some
things to see which specific timeline theyre on as theres so many with slight variations
that it would be difficult to decide after just waking up even though he does have some idea.
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After the credits we see Maeve and Caleb arriving in Temperance. This mafia esque trip to the 20s
is set in a recreation of Chicago which was home to gangsters at the time like Al Capone.
The episode itself is titled Années folles which the name of the decade in France. Noted for it's
artistic achievements and cultural significance we see it's still as dirty as Ryan Arey's mom
when she finds out he's out watching Thor and she's got the house free for the night.
Maeve also says.
spared no expense.
This is likely a nod to Jurassic Park in which John Hammond also said the same thing.
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Incase you don't know Michael Critchon was an author that wrote both the
book Westworld and Jurassic park showing that...it's all connected.
Now the entrance to the park is a beat for beat recreation of how it played out in
the first and second epsiode. Theres so much attention to detail here and Caleb
shoulder barges someone which both Teddy and William did in episodes 1 and 2 respectively.
There's also people searching for a bootlegger and in the
original park this was the Sheriff department searching for Hector.
When we get a closeup of the poster we can also see that his name is hector and he later carries
out the saloon robbery similar to how the original did. His gang is exactly the same too and they
arrive much like how they did in episode 4. They shoot one of the authorities upon pulling up and
in the gang is a copy of Armistice who you'll likely recognise because of her snake tattoo.
These are of course archetypes that most of the parks are built around
and we saw similar dynamics when we went to Shogunworld in Season 2.
There's also a can that rolls towards Calebs foot which in Westworld of cours
initiated the Delores side mission. We see that there's a copy of her as well and she
later leads the Westworld massacre mission that Maeve and Caleb find on the fake level.
secret area line
This Brothel In Pariah easter egg she talks about appeared in the
first season as a secret area but ey, can't show it, can't show any of that.
They head to the Saloon which is the exact same layout as how the original one was and we hear
the remix of Badguy by Billie Eilish playing out on the piano. This is called The Butterfly
Tavern and the one in Westworld was named the Mariposa which also means butterfly. In the
Season 3 park that we visitied it was also called Taverna Delle Farfalle which too means butterfly.
Really good work by the creative team and
out with Bernard and Stubs they arrive at the roads end diner.
This is a very foreboding name that means where something can no longer
survive or thrive in it's current situation. This is very symbolic
for pair who now have to team up with a new character in order to progress.
She is being hunted, likely by Hale and William who send hosts out to meet her that Bernard
comes across in the parking lot. To the sound of Call Me by Blondie Bernard ends up kicking
the crap out of them. This time he's doing it by himself due to knowing their moves ahead of time
whereas in the past he had to resort to letting his evil programming come out to take them down.
Got lots of flashes of the scene from Terminator 2 here and across the country we catch Frankie
using a CB radio to contact her father. It shows how much Caleb is trying to live under the radar
as this old tech would likely completely be out of comission due to the decade we're in.
Spoilerman calling Frankie, tell Carver that he's his own worst enemy and the
mother and daughter end up having to leave because he's duplicated.
The first clue for this comes outside when Frankie asks him this.
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He has no idea what she's talking about or he just doesn't remember like Boris Johnson.
We've been over Fidelity a lot in these breakdowns and I did say last week that I
thought the Senator and his wife were likely complete copies. However this kinda debunks
all that due to him not remembering. I'm kinda in two minds about it like
Hale as William did say in Episode 1 that he remembered going to the Hoover damme as a kid.
So I do think that he might have passed the fidelity test and if we look at the episode
names for the series, the sixth episode does have that as a title, possibly hinting at
where we're going but yeah, this at least shuts down the idea that they all have it.
Outside we also see the banksy parody from the first episode and also a new
bit of Grafitti that says Free Free Will. Humanity of course didn't have
it because Rehoboam decided that path that everyone would walk on and it held
people back from getting certain jobs so they could never progress.
This machine was just trying to do what was best for humanity by guiding everyone on the path that
was most likely to avoid destruction. Serac and it were of course painted out as the villains so
it is interesting that Bernard is seen as the hero even though he's basically doing the same thing.
Frankie also has a Teddy...which is a nod to Teddy..
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Now at this point we meet a member of the cause who reside in the condemned lands.
She rocks up in a buggy car that looks like the commercial version
of the ones Delos used to ride round in in the second season.
We learn little about them outside that they've been hiding there looking for
something. Might even subtly hint that we're decades in the future as
we know from episode 1 that William was buying up a lot of wastelands.
The new park was built on this and if it fell again then they could settle out there. There's
also the yellow p*ss filter over the top which wasn't there when we were in the area in season
3. When they reach their location they arrive on quads and we see that they're led by Daniel Wu who
you might recognise from Into The Badlands. Little is known about them but this area could
be out in Nevada near where William was trying to buy up. Bernard has come to warn them theyre
in danger and he promises to give them what theyre looking for in the desert. He says theres a weapon
potentially linking back to his discovery in Season 2 though it could be a number of things.
Now back at the Butterfly we hear some classic
westworld music playing on the piano that was also in the original park.
Maeves copy also uses her dialogue.
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At this point we get the first fly in the episode which, we learn a lot more about
later on. There's copies of Clementine and it all builds to Hectors approach
who rides in to the sounds of Enter Sandman by Metallica. There's also the chain thats
tied to the safe but here it's pulled by a car. Hector sidles up with Maeve by the bar,
reflecting their interaction in Westworld but this is cut short by the real Maeve killing them both.
Great scene in which Maeve and Caleb ride with the dead to sneak into the admin areas of the park.
The blood on Frankies bear makes her follow a trail to Carver and we get a halloween esque
scene where she and her mother hide in the house as he searches for them.
The pair make it out but they do a bait and switch and end up making
it seem like Frankie has been taken to the park.
At the park itself Maeve and Caleb are dumped down and we see the technicians
weraring the same overalls that the staff did in Westworld.
There's several elements of this level that mirror the park
including hosts having...sex...can't show that and also admins on Ipads.
Upon grabbing one, Maeve realises that it's all fake and we see the response
team carrying the Famas like guns that the security team also had in the park.
The woman who mentioned the secret game before arrives and she's brought a crew with her. We
also get the arrival of Delores, Teddy and a version of Angela to the right of them.
Maeve is shot at this point and she of course would still
get damaged because she's technically a host.
Caleb shoots the Delores duplicate potentially foreshadowing how he might end up having to do
this later on. Christina is notably absent in this entry but there are
some minor ties to things we heard last week which i'll talk about in just a bit.
Behind the scenes we encounter the creepy looking Drone Hosts that first appeared in
Journey Into Night. Looking like Lord Zed from The Power Ranger, these hosts were off network
ones that were assigned to carry out super secret tasks that were unfit for most of the staffs eyes.
We see one carrying a tray of maggots which of course eventually grow into flies.
We something them being manipulated on a cellular level and implanted with parasites,
potentially able to alter human behaviour.
There exists some in nature that actually make the animal they're in end their own lives so that they
can go to the animal that eats the one they've just killed. We also see the black goo being
worked on by the Drones and this is what we saw pouring out of Anastias gunshot wound last week.
Turns out that the flies are being infected with this black goo and they are likely used
in the same way that pollination does to carry it from the substance into the human.
Now they clearly also hunt after humans and we see how they're attracted to Caleb behind the
glass. It's at this point that the tower sounds off which Maeve can hear but Caleb can't. Those
infected can also pick up on it too or it may be the parasite whcih then directs it's host.
This idea of being unable to hear something was brought up last week
by the homeless man that Delores came across.
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He talked about how only he could hear the frequency along with the birds. This is very
important as in the next scene, Delores came across several dead ones on the ground who
had likely ended their own lives similar to the people being experimented on here.
These birds were likely guinea pigs for the frequency and outside of the homeless man,
no one can hear the tower.
Amongst the people we can see Jim Navarro who was infected last week.
He's played by Josh Randall who was part of the Navarro cartel
in Ozark which was pointed out by Michael Narres on our last video.
It can get them to do simple tasks like building blocks before they
shoot themselves. Super messed up and Frankie is wheeled out to draw Caleb in.
It's a trap and it turns out she's a host. Her face opens up much like the
child version of Ford and this sprays forth several of the flies which crawl into Caleb.
Now this is obviously something that could be a death sentence for him and judging by
fake Frankie's dialogue Hale wanted him here. I'm very interested to find
out why as he was on the side of the hosts when we look at Season 3. Not only did he
help her original in Delores but he also sided with Maeve and helped to destroy Rehoboam. Now
with Hale being a copy of Delores it means that she shares all of her early memories.
In Season 3 we saw that when he trained with the army that they used hosts for
hostage practice and at the end of the mission that the army basically
let them do what they wanted with the women. Caleb talked down several of
the soldiers from assaulting Delores which Hale would likely remember too.
Gonna be interesting to see if this buys him favour and what Hale actually wants him for.
On the outside of the cell Maeve ends up kicking the crap out of William who
murdered her and her daughter in one of his most sadistic visits. However
he returns and Maeve realises he's a host which leads to the pair both being captured.
Anyway that ends the episode, lots of really nice callbacks and though
it didnt advance the plot all that much I'm still enjoying the journey we're on.
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