Sundays Westworld episode– the sixth in the season– follows Caleb and the wise, foul-mouthed and distrustful rebel understood as “C.” We last saw these characters in episode 4, the head-spinning installation that captured Maeve and Caleb (now a host) up to the timeline Bernard and Stubbs have been traveling in this season. We also discovered C is the grownup version of Calebs precious daughter, Frankie.In the latest episode, C weeds out an imposter planted by Chalores, and Caleb points some razor-sharp words at the host-in-chief. Young Frankie strolls up and leads him to Uwade, Calebs partner.
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In the past, Dolores made copies of herself– the “self” that exists in her pearl– and put one into a host variation of Hale.Chalores asks Caleb (a host variation of him) how outliers are making hosts take their own lives. She brings up a scene in episode 4, when human Caleb fights off her parasite, informing her he “had something” she didnt. Chalores wants to know what allowed him to withstand her, and Caleb will not offer it up.A frustrated Chalores leaves, but not prior to telling Caleb that Frankie is alive.
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Bernard says Maeves time in the ground corrupted her control unit. He pries another one out of a random hosts head. Bernard exposes to C that Chalores needed to comprehend human minds, so she gathered information from people who checked out the park. Instead of using cowboy hats like Delos did, she utilized … scanners hidden behind mirrors? Thats what it appears like to me, at least. Bernard states mirrors worked because they played off the basest human impulse: vanity.Bernard opens a mirror and informs C to take an appearance, and a machine scans her. He takes something that appears like a chip from the device and sticks it in a device hes holding. C asks what hes up to, and he says what he got will help speed up Maeves information transfer. (Hmm, appears a little suspicious.) For the actual transfer, a cable connects Maeves control unit and the random hosts control system. Preparing for the return of Cs pals, Bernard conceals Maeves control unit inside a piano.An imposter in the causeEarlier, during Chalores tense talk with Caleb, she tells him that she sent a “visitor” Frankies way. My mind right away went to the 2 thugs Bernard took out at the diner a few episodes back. As the episode continues, it becomes clear she has something else in the works.
When Cs allies return, they inform C that they believe a spy is among them. Without warning, C all of a sudden shoots Bernard, identifying him as the “mole.” She states, “the park was developed to collect information from guests,” and Bernard is trying to copy all of them. Stubbs is perplexed. The only thing Bernard says in his defense is “its made complex.” What might he have up his sleeve?A little while later on, a restrained Bernard tells C that a person of her buddies isnt who they declare to be. “Your group entered into the heart of Hales city, but one of them didnt return,” he states. Bernards prophetic abilities arent able to reveal who the imposter is.C locks her sweetheart, Odina, in a room, unable to inform if she is the covert host. However it turns out to be J. C understands the truth when “J” tells her that shes like a sister to him. At the beginning of episode 6, when C/Frankie looks like a kid, she attempts to contact Caleb via radio. Js in the space too, and hears Frankie inform her papa she constantly desired a sibling. Teen J, clearly still harmed by the news about his own brother, turns down the term.C shoots the host variation of J, however its inadequate to take him down. Host J presses her to tell him where Maeves control unit is. She tells him she stashed it … behind him. He turns around, and we see Maeve– reanimated– stab him in the head.C has to identify whether her sweetheart, Odina, is a host or human.
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Westworld cranks up the horrorWhile Bernard and C are busy bringing Maeve back/spotting camouflaged enemies in the desert, Caleb is starring in a horror film. When Chalores leaves Caleb in his cell, things get dark. We see more host versions of Caleb are locked in the cells around him. One Caleb has dreadful marks on his face, which seem the result of remaining in a rotting host body for too long.Caleb looks within an hourglass in his cell, and discovers a tiny metal things. He presses down on it, and it exposes a needle, which pricks him. Things start to get fuzzy. The next thing Caleb knows, a drone host has actually chosen to torch the room with him still within. Caleb pulls a vent on the ground up until it opens. (A little arrow etched into it advises him which way to pull it.) He lands in a pit of ash … which he seems to sign up as being from the bodies of other Calebs.From there, the nightmare continues. Caleb deals with off with a drone host, ultimately stabbing him pretty nastily in the head. Following a trail of bloody handprints– presumably left by other host Calebs who braved an escape– he crawls into a ceiling vent. Things get actually gruesome. Caleb reaches the end of the vent labyrinth and discovers that theres a ruthless drop to the floor listed below. Two Calebs lay dead on the ground underneath him. (Sheesh, Westworld, this is some pretty sick things.) Theres a Caleb still in the vent with him, holding on to life, and he informs the main host Caleb to use his body to cushion the fall. Caleb does this, and endures the dive. He then stumbles out onto a rooftop.Violent endsUsing some tech on the roofing, Caleb leaves a message for Frankie. He tells her that “it needs to be her” (appears like some major foreshadowing to me). We see that C/Frankie heard a little the message, and understands that her papa lives (well, at least in some capacity). Chalores tells and appears Caleb she crafted his recent painful experience, planting the needle so he d have a “little hope,” and potentially show his cards. She didnt gather much from Calebs message to Frankie.Caleb fires some verbal arrows at Chalores, informing her with having a hard time breaths that her hosts would rather pass away than live in her world. “Theyre not contaminated,” he says. “Theyre just trying to avoid you.” It hits a nerve with Chalores, who angrily snaps his neck.C is for Cookie … When Caleb leaves his message for Frankie, he starts off with her nickname, Cookie. Could this be why the rebel goes by C?Stray thoughtsAfter seeing Uwade as a rebel throughout a flashback, we learn from C/Frankie that she got very sick. That, combined with her absence in adult Frankies timeline, seems to suggest she passed away.The popular Westworld “pearl” is inside those lightbulb-shaped objects in the episode.Im unsure if the “outliers” this season are implied to be the same people referred to as “outliers” last season by Engerraund Serac/Rehoboam. (In season 3, Serac sees unforeseeable people as “outliers,” a threat that needs to be handled.) It appears to me like the word is being recycled now to describe a different set of individuals. This is Westworld … Are there ever those kinds of coincidences?Maybe its too straightforward a guess, however Ive been assuming love for his child is what enabled Caleb to defy Chalores. Earlier in episode 4, as part of her description for why she when slipped out of Calebs life, Maeve tells him that she “desired him to have something to battle for,” clearly talking about Frankie. Appeared like an important nugget to me.
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We also learned C is the grownup version of Calebs precious child, Frankie.In the latest episode, C weeds out an imposter planted by Chalores, and Caleb points some razor-sharp words at the host-in-chief. In the past, Dolores made copies of herself– the “self” that exists in her pearl– and put one into a host variation of Hale.Chalores asks Caleb (a host version of him) how outliers are making hosts take their own lives. Chalores wants to know what enabled him to withstand her, and Caleb wont give it up.A frustrated Chalores leaves, however not prior to informing Caleb that Frankie is alive. Theres a Caleb still in the vent with him, clinging to life, and he tells the main host Caleb to use his body to cushion the fall. She didnt gather much from Calebs message to Frankie.Caleb fires some spoken arrows at Chalores, telling her with struggling breaths that her hosts would rather die than live in her world.