Westworld (TV series): "Les Écorchés"

Westworld (TV series): "Les Écorchés". Season 2, episode 7 (3 June 2018).[1]

Important episode, usefully summarized, correctly, and giving correct quotations on The Verge.[2]

Bernard’s [i.e. Bernard Lowe][3]half of that story begins inside the simulation world of The Cradle, right when he sees [Robert] Ford[4] again for the first time. Bernard quickly puts the pieces together — Ford had created a copy of his own consciousness, and tasked Bernard with uploading it to the Cradle — but Bernard’s biggest eye-opener is about the park itself. Westworld hasn’t just been a theme park, he realizes; it’s been an experiment and observation chamber, allowing Delos, Inc. to gather all the data it needs to duplicate the consciousness of its various guests. Data gathering in the name of marketing may have been the starting point that William (Jimmi Simpson) initially suggested, but the project has become something much more sinister. “The humans are playing at resurrection. They want to live forever,” Ford tells his protege. “They don’t want you to become them. They want to become you.”

RDE, Initial Compiler, 5/6Ap19