[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Finger Cookin

Were the lights going out just after Maeve left the train the start of a lockdown of the train area?

It was either the daily shut down of the park, or the lockdown. I would guess the former since there weren't alarms going off.

I have a question of my own. Does anyone have a sense of what the urgency was behind William's quest for the center of the maze that Ford alluded to? When they were together in the bar with Teddy, Ford said something along the lines that William's obsession with the maze betrayed an urgency. But I don't get what that might be. I thought it might be something to do with him dying, but I never got that sense as the rest of the season unfolded.

William talks about being the villain and that being his little contribution to Ford's world. Ford says that he couldn't even conceive a character like the MiB, but that the character doesn't fit the urgency. It betrays a certain anxiety, which I took to mean William's apprehensions over the nature of the park - in contrast with his pessimistic views of the "real world" - and his search for a real, visceral experience in the park.

William doesn't know what is at the centre of the maze, but he suspects it is something larger than the nothing and meaningless experience he has had over the last 30 years in Westworld.

He seeks something different, something meaningful, something real in a fake world. This doesn't fit with his black hat villainous persona, and Ford calls him out on that.

Also, I'm assuming the "conscious" hosts, the handful that Ford told Bernard often went insane, are the ones who have recurring appearances in the show. We know Dolores, Bernard, Teddy, and Maeve are. I'm not sure that Hector and Armistice are, since Maeve modified them to be more aggressive and less sensitive to pain - but perhaps her earlier modifications awakened them. I'm assuming the other "woke" hosts are Clementine (shot William in the arm near the episode end) and the handlebar mustache guy who doubles on The Walking Dead. Am I missing any other recurring hosts?

It's difficult, because we have seen "awake" hosts go insane and be decommissioned (Peter Abernathy), and others re-programmed (Maeve). Although there is a slight difference between Abernathy and Maeve, as one truly went insane and the other was unable to cope with faux grief.

I would think that a good portion of the hosts Bernard was talking about were in that leaky storage floor. Speaking of which, there has to be something important about all the water/moisture in those areas and the talk of flooding.

And handlebars mustache guy is named Rebus, and I hope we see more of him in Season 2 as Steven Ogg is proving he can really nail roles beyond Trevor on GTA V and bit parts.