‘Westworld’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap: ‘Fidelity’ – CNET

Bernards prophetic abilities arent able to reveal who the imposter is.C locks her girlfriend, Odina, in a room, not able to inform if she is the concealed host. At the start of episode 6, when C/Frankie appears as a child, she attempts to contact Caleb by means of radio. Host J presses her to inform him where Maeves control unit is.
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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 scary motion picture. Things get dark when Chalores leaves Caleb in his cell. We see more host versions of Caleb are secured the cells around him. One Caleb has dreadful marks on his face, which appear to be the outcome of remaining in a decaying host body for too long.Caleb looks within an hourglass in his cell, and finds a small metal item. He presses down on it, and it exposes a needle, which punctures him. Things start to get blurry. The next thing Caleb knows, a drone host has chosen to torch the space with him still inside. Caleb yanks a vent on the ground till it opens. (A little arrow etched into it advises him which method 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, eventually stabbing him pretty nastily in the head. Following a trail of bloody handprints– probably left by other host Calebs who braved an escape– he crawls into a ceiling vent. Things get really gruesome. Caleb reaches the end of the vent maze and finds that theres a brutal drop to the flooring below. Two Calebs lay dead on the ground underneath him. (Sheesh, Westworld, this is some pretty ill stuff.) Theres a Caleb still in the vent with him, holding on to life, and he tells the primary host Caleb to use his body to cushion the fall. Caleb does this, and endures the jump. He then stumbles out onto a rooftop.Violent endsUsing some tech on the roof, Caleb leaves a message for Frankie. He informs her that “it needs to be her” (appears like some major foreshadowing to me). We see that C/Frankie heard a little bit of the message, and knows that her daddy is alive (well, a minimum of in some capacity). Chalores appears and informs Caleb she crafted his current harrowing experience, planting the needle so he d have a “little hope,” and possibly reveal his cards. However she didnt collect 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 reside in her world. “Theyre not infected,” he states. “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 begins off with her label, Cookie. Might 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 really sick. That, combined with her lack in adult Frankies timeline, seems to recommend she passed away.The popular Westworld “pearl” is inside those lightbulb-shaped items in the episode.Im not exactly sure if the “outliers” this season are indicated to be the exact same people described as “outliers” last season by Engerraund Serac/Rehoboam. (In season 3, Serac sees unforeseeable people as “outliers,” a threat that must be dealt with.) It appears to me like the word is being recycled now to explain a various set of people. This is Westworld … Are there ever those kinds of coincidences?Maybe its too straightforward a guess, but Ive been presuming love for his child is what enabled Caleb to defy Chalores. Previously in episode 4, as part of her explanation for why she when slipped out of Calebs life, Maeve tells him that she “wanted him to have something to eliminate for,” plainly talking about Frankie. Appeared like a crucial nugget to me.
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Sundays Westworld episode– the 6th in the season– follows Caleb and the smart, distrustful and foul-mouthed rebel called “C.” We last saw these characters in episode 4, the head-spinning installation that caught Maeve and Caleb (now a host) as much as the timeline Bernard and Stubbs have been traveling in this season. We also found out C is the grownup version of Calebs cherished child, Frankie.In the current episode, C weeds out an imposter planted by Chalores, and Caleb points some razor-sharp words at the host-in-chief. Still, it appears like the heros have actually cleared very little ground in falling Chalores evil empire. (She still commands a whole citys worth of human beings, and holds sway over hosts like William.) Provided that Caleb is secured a waking nightmare, it appears like it will depend on C, Maeve, Bernard (and possibly Christina?) to do something about it.Heres what else you need to learn about episode 6. Only two episodes are left in the season … Im nervously eyeing the hourglass.Js backstoryGiven all the timeline-switching, it took my brain a minute to adapt to todays opening scene. Ah, this is the real-kid Frankie– not the fake one. Its a flashback, OK.The show opens with a teenager sitting near a play ground on a bench. Young Frankie strolls up and leads him to Uwade, Calebs wife. Its exposed that the teen is the young variation of J, and his brother has disappeared. Uwade states nothing can be provided for his bro– an outlier taken by Chalores team. She and Frankie exist so J doesnt satisfy the very same fate. (Last week, Chalores explained her noise manipulation doesnt work on some humans. Shes not amazed theres some “wasting in the crop,” but its causing some huge issues for hosts.) Some drone hosts appear and the group narrowly escapes, minus one of Uwades allies, who gets captured. Last week, Stubbs, Odina and J (right) snuck into the city to rescue an outlier.
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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 version of Hale.Chalores asks Caleb (a host version 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 understand what allowed him to withstand her, and Caleb wont give it up.An annoyed Chalores leaves, however not before telling Caleb that Frankie is alive.
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Bernard states Maeves time in the ground damaged her control unit. He pries another one out of a random hosts head. Bernard reveals to C that Chalores needed to understand human minds, so she collected information from people who checked out the park. However rather of utilizing cowboy hats like Delos did, she used … scanners concealed behind mirrors? Thats what it looks 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 have a look, and a device scans her. He takes something that looks like a chip from the device and sticks it in a gadget hes holding. C asks what hes up to, and he states what he got will help accelerate Maeves information transfer. (Hmm, seems a little suspicious.) For the real transfer, a cord links Maeves control system and the random hosts control unit. 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 informs him that she sent a “visitor” Frankies method. My mind right away went to the two jerks Bernard secured at the restaurant a few episodes back. As the episode continues, it becomes clear she has something else in the works.

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We also found out C is the grownup variation of Calebs cherished daughter, Frankie.In the newest 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 version of Hale.Chalores asks Caleb (a host variation of him) how outliers are making hosts take their own lives. Chalores desires to understand what allowed him to resist her, and Caleb wont provide it up.An annoyed Chalores leaves, but not before telling Caleb that Frankie is alive. Theres a Caleb still in the vent with him, sticking to life, and he informs the primary host Caleb to utilize his body to cushion the fall. She didnt collect much from Calebs message to Frankie.Caleb fires some spoken arrows at Chalores, informing her with having a hard time breaths that her hosts would rather die than live in her world.

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