![]() Teddy internalizes this entirely new backstory without blinking-reuniting with Dolores and telling her all about his years of dark history without Wyatt, which were spun out of whole cloth, just a few hours later. Teddy's new motivation? Killing Wyatt, a friend-turned-killer who "heard the voice of God" in the exact same manner that Arnold's experimental robots eventually descended into self-mutilating madness. Ford programs an entirely new backstory for Teddy. Ford's recollection of Arnold's work seem to have inspired him to change that apparently on a whim, Dr. Ford later reveals that the programmers never even bothered to fill in the actual narrative for his past, because nobody actually cared. ![]() As if to call attention to the absurdity of Teddy's non-specific tragic past, Dr. ![]() So what is Teddy’s big reckoning, anyway? Like all the other Westworld backstories, it's total bullshit-a narrative dodge designed to keep Teddy's story in perpetual stasis. He has a "reckoning" to make before he deserves a woman like her, he claims, finishing his soothing speech with the word she just asked him not to use: ""Someday, soon, we will have the life we've both been dreaming of." Let’s go now." But Teddy, who is nowhere near Dolores' state of robotic enlightenment, slips right back into the old conversational patterns. "'Someday' sounds a lot like the thing people say when they actually mean never," she says. It's a promise Teddy must have made a thousand times before-but this time, it makes Dolores pause. ![]() In short: she's successfully mimicking the same way that human bonds are forged-or if you're inclined to be more generous, simply forging a human bond. ![]() It's "an ingratiating scheme," she monotones-designed to increase his sense of trust and intimacy. When Bernard is surprised that Dolores asks him about his late son, he switches her over into analytics so he can ask her about the complicated algorithm that drove her to ask such a personal question. Is it possible that Dolores has gained the ability to lie, or hide her true intentions in half-truths? At the very least, she's capable of mimicking both the rhythms of human conversation and the greater patterns that can run underneath it. When Bernard asks Dolores if she has mentioned their secret meetings to anyone else, she replies, "You told me not to"-a response that implies an answer to his question without actually answering it. And as we hang on every word, we might even catch something Bernard misses. As Bernard scrutinizes Dolores closely, so do we, in an effort to figure out what's really happening inside her artificial mind. ![]()
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