re: Westworld Episode 10: The Bicameral Mind. Photos.

Maybe this would help. Here's the transcript that I found.

MIB: You want to know who I am? Who I really am? I'm a god. Titan of industry. Philanthropist. Family man, married to a beautiful woman, father to a beautiful daughter. I'm the good guy, Teddy.

Then, last year, my wife took the wrong pills. Fell asleep in the bath. Tragic accident. 30 years of marriage vanished. How do you say it? "Like a deep and distant dream."

Then, at the funeral, I tried to console my daughter. She pushed me away, told me that my wife's death was no accident... that she killed herself because of me.

Emily said that every day with me had been sheer terror. At any point, I could blow up or collapse like some dark star or...

Teddy: Did you hurt them, too?

MIB: Never. They never saw anything like the man I am in here. But she knew anyway. She said if I stacked up all my good deeds, it was just an elegant wall I built to hide what's inside from everyone, and from myself. I had to prove her wrong, so I came back here.

Because that's what this place does, right? Reveals your true self.

But that time, I didn't join one of Ford's stories, I... I created my own. A test. A very simple one. I found a woman, an ordinary homesteader and her daughter.

I wanted to see if I had it in me to do something truly evil. To see what I was really made of. I killed her and her daughter just to see what I felt.

Then, just when I thought it was done... the woman refused to die.

Teddy: You're a f*cking animal.

MIB: Well, an animal would've felt something. I felt... nothing.

And then something miraculous happened. In all my years coming here, I had never seen anything like it. She was alive, truly alive, if only for a moment.

And that was when the maze revealed itself to me. The maze.

The dialogue, in my mind, makes the point I made a few pages back: we know William/MIB did not go to the park until after it had been open a few years (dialogue with Logan); we also know MIB was not married when he first came to the park but was married for 30 years from what he tells Teddy. The park has been open for 35 years.

If one were to assume that MIB got married after he returned from his first trip to the park, lets assume it is in year 5 after WW had opened (again, we know Logan has been a few times before he finally talked William/MIB into going -- again, assuming Logan did not go multiple times a year). So in year 35 or so, MIB creates his own story and shoots Maeve and her daughter . . . Then Maeve gets reassigned as a brothel madam . . . then Maeve establishes a memory of being killed multiple times and seeing the tech crew in suits come to get her . . . she makes drawings of the tech crew and hides them, then finds them, then tests her theory by getting killed a few more times, and then starts getting the Asian dude and his dumb sidekick to start letting her reprogram herself . . . all taking place around year 35 after MIB created his own story and killed her. For these reasons, I suggest that the whole MIB killing Maeve was not good writing. It all takes place in a condensed period of time whereas we are led to believe that the storyline with Dolores, with Teddy and with Bernard all take place of a much larger period of time.

I accept that my opinion is in the minority, but I believe it is supported by what is stated above.

I took it as MIB returned right after his encounter with daughter at the funeral, a year or so ago, and murdered Maeve and her daughter in cold blood. We see from her interaction directly after that with Bernard and Ford that she is pretty woke, so they would have to wipe her and change her story right then. That could give her approximately 6 to 12 months to start developing memories and killing herself which seems sufficient to me.

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Delores has been evolving her story from the very beginning

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Watch out they are going to come in screaming DOLORES!!!!!!!!!!!

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solid breakdowns of an intricate story.

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Wait until we get into the resurrection motifs.

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So is it safe to assume this guy is still alive?

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Nothing is certain, but I think both Thor's brother and Elsie are still alive.

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Was it Ford that had him captured before the Maeve/Dolores freak out?

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Depends on who is controlling the ghost nation. My best guess is Ford, because they had their controls altered in advance of the gala.

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If so why?

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Obviously get head of security out of the way to set up the Keystone Cops situation with Escaton/Armistice comedy ( ).

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Could it be that he is now one of the original humans in the park? Role reversal mind frickening.

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Meh - I'm still 50/50 on whether he's a host or not.

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I think it's safe to think he's human, otherwise, there would be no need to capture/kill him when you could just reprogram him.

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That's a good point.

Going to dive into this series Thursday.

I've heard great things. The preview looks fantastic.

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It suddenly made sense in my head that was the only reason he was attacked, specifically for his gun.

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Nice catch. It was indeed the same gun (a POS Beretta Px4 Storm subcompact, awful gun LOL)