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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Did Delores kill Arnold knowingly, or was she programmed by someone(Ford?) to do it?
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Originally Posted by photon
My bet is Arnold himself told Delores to kill him for some dramatic reason.
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I think it will be one of three things...
1. Ford took control of Dolores and had her kill Arnold. The problem with this is that when he was talking to her a few episodes ago, he seemed genuinely curious about what happened when Arnold was killed. Of course, that could have just been a test (like showing Bernard the photo of Arnold) to see if Dolores was properly suppressing her knowledge of Arnold's death.
2. Arnold was distraught after his son's death (I'm assuming that Bernard's backstory was based on Arnold's actual history), was suicidal, and had Dolores kill him. He either couldn't bring himself to do it, or he wanted it to look like an accident either to ensure his wife received an insurance payout, or so that she wouldn't know he had done it.
3. Arnold gave Dolores self-awareness and she realized that the hosts are essentially slaves forced into an unending loop with no chance for escape, so she decided to destroy them all, and herself, as well as their creator/slaver.