Season four episode four of Westworld, titled Generation Loss, was quite an eventful episode,
revealing that instead of a multi-timeline twist like in previous seasons, everything
was actually taking place in the same timeline.
What?
Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know about Charlotte’s plan, Caleb’s
death, Caleb’s daughter, what’s up with Christina, and more!
We’ll pick up where episode 3 left off, with Caleb being infected by Charlotte’s
mind control flies.
He and Maeve manage to escape the park with a kidnapped Charlotte, but Caleb is seriously
injured and bleeding out.
Charlotte’s Man in Black host pursues them and fights Maeve, and Charlotte tries to use
her new mind control powers to turn Caleb against Maeve.
But Caleb manages to resist Charlotte’s mind control, likely thanks to his oral drip
implant that Maeve had previously used to give him a peaceful vision during a prior
close brush with death.
Ultimately, Maeve ends up sacrificing herself to blow up the Man in Black.
And that’s when it’s revealed that Caleb was then murdered by Charlotte’s team.
Charlotte then restarted an old Delos experiment to place human consciousness in a host body
as a form of immortality.
Back in season two, we watched as the Delos company tried to place its founder James Delos’
consciousness in a host body, but they could never achieve fidelity, meaning they could
never perfectly recreate the real mind of the original human.
James Delos’ son-in-law William, aka the Man in Black, gave up and shut down the experiment
after decades of failed attempts.
Now, it appears that after 23 years and nearly 300 attempts, Charlotte has achieved fidelity
on the host version of Caleb, meaning everything we’ve seen of Caleb and Maeve this season
was all a part of Caleb’s memories on his path toward fidelity.
Charlotte also explains to Caleb that her attempt to use the flies to control all humans
was only a semi-success, as adults resisted the mind control.
And so, Charlotte used the flies to enslave children, and 23 years later, those now mind-controlled
adults all lived in Charlotte’s new future park, controlled by a mysterious tower that
only hosts and older humans could see.
For example, that older homeless man from episode 2 who tries to warn people about a
tower they can’t see.
Because this man would have been an adult 23 years ago, the mind control flies didn’t
work on him, meaning he could still see the tower.
So what does this mean for the Dolores look-alike Christina?
Well, it would appear that Charlotte has created a twisted inverse of the human/host relationship
of the Westworld parks.
Now, humans were the mind-controlled beings living out pre-written storylines for the
hosts to interact with.
In the season 4 premiere, a group of tourists enter the city and marvel at its sights.
This echoes back to how guests marveled at the sights of Westworld upon first entering
the park.
But while guests of Westworld were humans interacting with hosts, the guests of this
new Futureworld were hosts interacting with humans.
Hosts like Christina write the storylines of humans’ lives, although she is unaware
that her writing is having such a tangible impact.
How does the reappearance of Teddy play into things?
Well, Teddy’s goal seems to be to draw out Dolores' memories from Christina.
But to what end?
Could he be a trick by Charlotte as an attempt to run a fidelity test on a host?
Or maybe Bernard pulled Teddy from the Sublime to help reawaken Dolores’ memories to join
his cause.
Although season 4 episode 4 revealed a lot of answers, the true nature of Christina is
one we’ll still have to wait to fully uncover.
And that brings us to Bernard, who spent 23 years in the Sublime, giving him the power
to see infinite futures and outcomes.
Using this knowledge, Bernard is attempting to set in motion the events necessary to prevent
the destruction of all of mankind.
He and Stubbs team up with a human rebel group, who have all avoided being infected by Charlotte’s
mind-control flies.
The group of rebels split up, with Stubbs going with the group’s leader, Jay, to save
a female “outlier.”
In season 3, outliers were the name given to the humans who posed a threat to the AI
Rehoboam’s master plan.
Rehoboam’s founder, Serac, hunted down those outliers and imprisoned them in a cryogenic
sleep.
One of those outliers, you might recall, was Caleb, who was brainwashed to work for Serac
and hunt down other outliers, before being reprogrammed and set to live a dead-end life.
But that was 23 years ago, and this is now.
Are outliers humans who have resisted Charlotte’s mind control?
Or could hosts be considered outliers?
Either way, it certainly seems likely that Stubbs, Jay, and the rebels will most likely
be attempting to extract Christina from the city.
And if the all seeing Bernard was prepared for this extraction, it certainly seems like
sending Teddy to help out would be a great benefit to their plan.
Meanwhile, Bernard takes C, revealed to be Caleb’s now adult daughter Frankie, to the
site of Maeve and Caleb’s deaths.
Bernard promised to deliver the rebels a weapon to use against their oppressors, and it turns
out that that weapon was in fact the long buried Maeve.
So, to recap: We’re now 23 years in the future.
Caleb was killed by Charlotte’s men, but his consciousness was successfully placed
inside a host body that was currently imprisoned in a future city.
Most of the inhabitants of that city are humans that have been unknowingly enslaved since
childhood by Charlotte’s army of parasitic flies.
Dolores look-alike Christina is writing the storylines that these mind-controlled humans
live out.
Bernard can see the future and is attempting to ensure mankind’s survival by teaming
up with Maeve and a group of human rebels to defeat Charlotte and achieve true freedom
for all.
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