The season of Westworld 2 recap: an important death & twist to remember before season 3

It's been two years since WestworldSeason 2 is being renewed. The premier of season 3 on Sunday, March 15, is a time of refreshing from what was going on. Here's what happened to Charlotte, William, Dolores, Bernard, Maeve, and the rest of your bandmates in the Beyond valley last season, and one big mystery that should continue to drive much of the action in Season 3.

(Vol. Note: This story will ruin you Westworld season 2. Obviously.)

What happened in season 2?

Season 1 of Westworld end when blood clots. Dolores Abernathy (played by Evan Rachel Wood) and her previous Persona, Wyatt, met, made her violent and retaliated. He led the army to assassinate the assembled Delos (the company that runs the park for Westworld), including Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins).

While time is hard to trace in time, season 2 takes place within two weeks following the murder of Delos tourists at the end of season 1 (along with a few flashbacks). Dolores-Wyatt's new, angry editorial used his time to hire allies and hunt down human visitors as he headed to "Valley Beyond" – the kind of land promised to him by Ford.

Dolores's partner – or, more precisely, controversial – in the apparent hostage awakening is Maeve (Thandie Newton). When Dolores got her revenge, Maeve was only concerned about finding her fictional daughter, especially she wanted to ignore people. When he returned his daughter, Maeve, he too headed for the valley beyond.

At the same time, we heard that Charlotte Hale (played by Tessa Thompson), chief of Delos, and Delos security forces are searching for information about her, the key that had been broken by Peter Abernathy's head (Dolores' mythical father, played by Louis Herthum). That data, it turns out, came from Delos using the park (and, perhaps, other parks like Shogun World) to capture more details about tourists, followed by using cowboy hats that all visitors had access to.

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The secret project behind Westworld – one of the reasons they collected all that data – was to create a digital immortality (at least) for the founder of Delos & # 39 ;: Your Man in Black / William (Ed Harris). At the end of the season, we learn that the program was successful, boiling all of the park visitors to 10,247 lines of code.

Forge and the season finale of Westworld 2

At the end of season 2, Dolores received this guest documentary, all part of Arnold & # 39; s (previous, Bernard's folk version from 40 years ago, both played by Jeffrey Wright's plan) to give the owners their freedom. All that data on "Forge," Arnold thought, will give Dolores the competitive advantage she needs in the real world.

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Forge had a second, double purpose. Robert Ford had created a complete world within the library he called The Valley Beyond (and that the Forge control system called Sublime). By opening the door – seen as a nightmare in the broadcast space – Dolores has allowed many homeowners to enter this vacant land where they can live comfortably, away from human interference.

The Dolores reloaded Valley Beyond out of Forge, however, to protect it from the people who once again found it. He has also arranged for some devices that blast data to send it to the satellite (“270.5 Az 55.5 El 1110km2”). Whether it remained on that satellite or redirected to another location is unclear.

So how and when are the characters finally?

With Arnold and Ford & # 39; s plans (with Dolores and Bernard) all very successful, all the characters we know and love are in one of three places: the real world, Valley Beyond, or dead.

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Valley Beyond

• Teddy (James Marsden) committed suicide after being heavily chased by Dolores. Dolores, however, stored her data and uploaded it to Valley Beyond.
• Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon) and many of Ghost Nation made it to Valley Beyond.
• Other countless Westworld armies did it.

Dead (or dead-ish)

• Robert Ford is dead. He died late in season 1, remember. His appearance throughout Season 2 is the featured programs he left after being hosted, and, on the other hand, that version of his younger (also dead) assistant.
• Elsie (Shannon Woodward) was killed by Charlotte Hale at the end of the season.
• Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), the chief writer at Westworld, sacrificed himself for Maeve, and for the attack on a prisoner by the Delos security forces.
• Hector, Armistice, and Clementine were many, but they didn't make it to Valley Beyond, so we call them dead (for now, at least).
• Maeve found her daughter, but did not make it to the Upper Valley – she sacrificed herself for the rest of the army. We last saw his body on the beach, where the techs took care of Sylvester and Lutz (Ptolemy Slocum and Leonardo Nam). Obviously, his data is positive, but he's ending the season in limbo so we can put him here.

The real world

• Charlotte Hale is dead, killed by someone who looks like her. But we saw in the last part of the year that her body was redone by Dolores, and that body was used by Dolores (or some kind of Dolores). Not-Charlotte was released from Westworld and returned to the real world by Delos.
• Dolores is alive, and in the real world. Using Charlotte's body twice, Dolores regained her body, and escaped Westworld.
• Bernard is alive and well in the real world. It is suggested that Dolores reinstate him / her as a check on his racist tendencies, or at least as a legitimate opponent. (It's kind of a Batman-Joker scene.)
• Ashley Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth), chief of security at Westworld, is alive. When we last saw him, we learned that he was actually the owner of Ford's plan to protect other broadcasters. He seems to have not invested in Bernard or Dolores's plans, however, and has not ventured into the upper valley.
• Black Man / William is down with one hand, but he's alive. Kind of? I think? In the final scene of the Season 2 credit, William arrives in Forge. The nature of her daughter's care means that she can be the future, and things have not seemed so personal. He says that William is not the custodian, or at least that he is no stranger to imitation. If he continues to confirm his "credibility", it suggests that William's future of personal data is in charge.

When Not-Charlotte was released from Westworld, we got a brief glimpse inside her cell, which contained five pearls – details of the hosts, such as a heap of piles Modified Carbon. Apparently, one of the five belonged to Bernard, because we see him reviving himself. The other four, however, could come from any keeper who didn't make it to the bases.

Welcome to Season 3.