WESTWORLD Season 4 Episode 2 Breakdown & Ending Explained | Review, Easter Eggs, Theories And More

Westworld Season 4 Episode 2 knocks it out of the park as we end up going into a new one.

Whether you’re out of the loop or just getting into one we’re gonna be breaking down all the easter eggs, hidden details and our big theories over whats’ coming next time.

Catch up with Clementine

We open with Clementine Pennyfeather who we see is living a lowkey life by herself.

We last saw her in episode 7 of Season 3 when she appeared in Jakarta at the beginning of the entry. She went head to head with the Delores copy that was in Musashi and this could explain why Halores ends up sending the Man In Black after her.

He wants to know where Maeve is and though this is thought to take place in the present, it could have happened at any point during the 8 years after the fall of Rehoboam. They would of course be searching for her and Clementine actually ends up getting reprogrammed so that she becomes part of their forces. Clementine was revealed to be one of the very first hosts in the second season and the end of that one also revealed she had a deadly virus within her that made the hosts attack each other. Potentially this could have been studied by Hale to figure out a way to alter the human consciousness so we turn on one another like what we saw with the cartel.

Theory Confirmed

We also got our theory right that this version of William is the copy that was introduced at the end of season 3. As we pointed out in our last breakdown, the real William lost his fingers in the park whereas this one has all his digits. We’ll talk later on about what’s happened to him and we get way more of the plan laid out.

The Senator

Elsewhere we see Maeve and Caleb who travel out to the Senator’s house that we saw in Brigham’s memory last week. We discover that both the Senator and his wife are duplicates and that, similar to William, they also carry the same personalities. I believe that this is because Halores managed to crack the fidelity issues that ended up making James Delos’ immortalisation programme break.

In the second season, we watched as they attempted to place his consciousness into a machine but this failed over and over again. However, Season 2 had a post-credits scene in which William returned to a room to test for Fidelity. Though humans were unable to crack the code on how to copy someone it makes sense that the machines would be able to as they’ve existed in host bodies their entire lives. Therefore I think that Hale made this breakthrough and now she’s attempting to replace high-ranking citizens such as The Senator, the vice president and as many VIPs as she can.

We discover that Hale has been hard at work and how many she has in her army.

The Senator and his wife Anastasia are played by Jack Coleman and Saffron Burrows who you might recognise from Heroes and Deep Blue Sea respectfully. Jack Coleman also played a Senator in the Office and in my headcanon it’s all connected and this is the woman that he ended up using as a cover after he and Angela split up.

He was also a Senator in Castle and ey, you need a guy to play a politician, he’s your host.

This leads to a great fight and interestingly Maeve’s suspension of the hosts doesn’t immediately work on them. She does the old.

But it initially fails, meaning that she’s no longer the overpowered host that she once was.

We discover that Anastasia’s sister was part of the original park massacre that happened all the way at the end of Season 1 and throughout Season 2. Therefore he doesn’t want to grant William his proposal to reopen the park which is where we end the episode.

The real Anastasia walks in and she says “I’m having the strangest dream.”

This is similar to the Cartel member last week and as we discussed, flies were actually omens in dreams that meant escaping one’s reality. In that, we watched as the Cartel member woke up and attacked his boss but here she’s stabbed in the back by her duplicate before she potentially attacks her husband.

Hale’s Dress 

At this point, Hale enters wearing a black dress that’s similar to the one she had in the post-credits scene of Season 3. However, here she’s covering up her burned arm whereas there it was out on display as a reminder. Later on, she ends up bringing it out making me think that she hid it here because she was appearing in public.

They’re using Anastasia as a guinea pig and they take her to the barn “with the rest of the livestock”.

They are of course now farming humanity and from here we cut to the titles.

Also forgot to point out last week that the skeleton is an actual human skeleton instead of the hosts we’ve seen being put in.

This ends up getting put in the same device that William later is and we see the clouds of gas shooting out at it that he gets as well. The entire set-up with the real William and this opening is very similar to the drawing of the Vitruvian man by Leonardo Davinci and he of course ends up as a literal man in black due to the suspension suit they place him in.

Delos

Cut to Delos headquarters which we last saw in Season 3. This is the exact same location and we now see that Clementine is working as a member of staff there. Jim Navarro has arrived from the Justice Department to investigate counter-terrorism in the company. There’s lip service paid to William’s very public breakdown and in Season 3 he was assigned to an asylum which he then escaped from. Dunno how they covered up him murdering someone in Dubai Delos but it’s all been brushed under the rug, likely because of William’s connections.

In the barn, Maeve and Caleb discover Anastasia re-enacting the God Father and there are lots of similarities here to the cannibal tribe that we met in Season 1. Potentially Hale took across someone of the programming in that and used elements of it to hypnotise Anastasia into following a similar narrative but yeah…I’d be lying if I said I knew what was going on.

She delivers a message that they’re invited to opening night to a new park and this sends the pair off on a mission to investigate what’s going on. Also can’t show it as the vid will probably get demonetised but after Maeve shoots her black goo oozes out of the wound, juxtaposing the white fluid that came out of the hosts.

This could further hint at this idea of reprogramming that Hale seems to be carrying out.

Cut to Christina who’s waking up in bed. This of course not only mirrors her entrance last time but also the several scenes throughout the season in which characters woke up in their bed to start the day.

Huge shoutouts to Think Story for pointing out last week that the name Christina also derives from Christ, making her the potential saviour of wherever this place is. On the opposite side of this, Delores means Sorrow and we see how these different names apply to the character.

Our Editor Matt also pointed out last time that Delores’ painting is called Vanishing Point which itself is named after a Westworld Episode.

Theory Time

I think the main theory going around at the moment is that Christina is stuck in a park and that we’re actually watching one based on New York. This is backed up by the comment that she overheard last week with the three men saying “this place is f**king wild, I can’t believe it’s your first time”.

There’s also the fact that the logo for Olympiad is similar to the Delos one and that she picked up an item with Peter last week similar to how guests in the park picked up a can to start a loop with her.

Now though this could all be done by the creative team to make us go down the rabbit hole on this idea like what they’ve done to us in the past I think it’s worth exploring. At the end of Season 3, Delores’ brain was uploaded into Rehoboam and the creative team all confirmed that she is quote-unquote dead.

Now her brain could still be in the machine and as we know this was capable of predicting human behaviour through its algorithm so that Serac could plot out the future with it as his guide. This would explain how she’s able to tell the destiny of characters like Peter as it’s now built into her. She could also subconsciously be similar to a character like Lee Sizemore who wrote plotlines for the park.

Now she may, and I’m saying may be in the Sublime and she could possibly end up running into Bernard who travelled there at the end of Season 3. This would allow him to warn her about the war in humanity, she could exit and then he could continue into the future, namely the post-credits scene of Season 3.

This story could also be set in the future as well and as we know, parks tend to be versions of things from the past so this would be why they’d stylise it on a modern New York. The tower could simply be the control hub in the middle that everything is run from and I call this throwing as much s**t at the wall as possible to see what sticks.

Christina Human Theory

Now another interesting theory comes from Papa Whiskey in our last video. They said that they think Christina might actually be the basis for Delores and that this could be set far in the past. She was a writer who pretty much created the origin story Delores had in the park with her father and again that can thing happened. A young Robert Ford could’ve plucked up this aspiring young writer and along with her boyfriend Teddy they could’ve created the basis for the two hosts in the park.

There’s also the fact that Delores wakes up and she still has the cut on her arm. In the park, they would take any damaged hosts and heal them overnight but here we see that it still remains behind.

So potentially she is actually human.

I love this idea but that’s the end of theory time.

Is He a Story?

Now Maya pulls up his obituary and Christina somewhat recalls writing a story similar to his life. This is later confirmed when Delores listens back to the pitch she created for him.

This talks about him losing his wife, and job and also becoming obsessed with a girl that he stalked which of course is exactly what happened last time. This makes it seem like this story was written and he was then created by who could be building the hosts if this is indeed a park. This would also mean that if she wrote one for Teddy he’d be created too which would allow him to return.

The obituary lists the home at which he was cared for due to his mental health issues and she heads out there.

However, on the way she bumps into the homeless man once more who says “the noise, it’s killing them. Do you hear it? It’s coming from the tower. No one can hear its music but me and the birds.”

Moments later she sees several dead birds on the ground which the rest of the people in the area don’t pick up on. Very much comes across like she’s Neo, realising he’s in The Matrix and yeah, love trying to figure out what’s going on with her.

William

Cut to a golf course where William meets the Vice President.

I love how William wears all black, including his hat which resembles his outfit in the park. Again he’s got two fingers and he constantly hits a hole in one over and over.

Guy went from shouting Ford…to shouting Four. Uuurrrrrgggh.

The Senator also drops this line “all yours, huh? As far as the eye can see? Suns not setting on you my friend.”

This is a play on the British Empire which used to rule so many countries that it was said the sun would never set on the domain because of how vast it was.

William says that the park has already been built and the government obviously don’t want it to go ahead because as we learned last week, robots have been outlawed.

Also huge shoutouts to everyone on that video who pointed out that on the My Brain my Choice picture that the AI part of ‘brain’ had been crossed out. Really appreciate you guys sending it and awesome job.

Anyway, it’s the most intimidating round of golf I’ve ever seen and it ends with William smacking him over the head. William implies that he’ll grow just like he has and at the park at the end we see him once more, likely a copy.

Opening Party

Maeve and Caleb end up attending the party which is revealed to be the launch of this destination. It is weird that Delos would launch a new one and there has to be another reason for this. As we learned in Season 2, the hats at Westworld ended up scanning someone’s brain and this mapped out their entire consciousness. Delores even entered a library that housed every guest’s brain transformed into a code but this data was likely lost due to Hale’s death. Last week Ford discussed this at the Hoover Dam and how they couldn’t access the servers.

So they’re potentially having to remap a lot of the data that they can’t access which is why they’re opening up new parks.

The episode is titled Well Enough Alone and this could be applied to not only Caleb and Maeve but also Christina/Delores. They were perfectly fine not getting wrapped up in this but they had to dig deeper into what was going on.

They enter an art decor room which is our first hint towards the new park being set in the 20s.

Caleb hints that his wife didn’t really recognise him when he returned home and this could further back up the idea that he did indeed die here. I don’t think that’s the case but it was weird how they edited the scene to show him seemingly dying before he was then revealed to be fine in the next scene.

They’d have some ‘splaining to do about his daughter but this is interrupted by the room moving.

Turns out they’re on a train which was the same way that guests used to enter the park in Westworld.

We also get a play on this line by Maeve: “and when I finally set foot back on solid ground, all I found was the same old shit.

Flies Meaning

Cut to my dude Jimmy Navaro from the Justice Department who we can hear saying that the VP has had a big change of heart.

In his car, he’s attacked by Clementine and then Hale enters and unleashes the flies.

The flies are a major mystery in the show and they of course showed up last week with the Cartel boss.

The intro shows them being created much like a host and I think at the moment they’re likely able to control and alter someone’s brain. Perhaps they crawl into the body like what we see here and they scramble someone’s mind so that they can be manipulated.

This shot of a fly crawling across someone’s eye has also callbacks to Delores who had one scuttle across hers in the first season. Flies also appeared in the barn but they were there because of the horse bodies rather than being machines.

At least I think so, f**king show got me nitpicking everything, haven’t seen my wife for 6 weeks man.

On The Train

Anyway, on the train, they’re greeted by Sofia who is played by Lili Simmons. This is the same actress who ended up playing the new Clementine in Westworld after she was taken out of the park due to her malfunctioning.

They’re then dressed in a room similar to the one that William was taken to on his first visit to the park. Sofia asks if they have any mental health issues which Caleb wants to clarify and this is likely because he suffers from several due to what he’s been through.

She also asks them to sign a waiver that their personal data can be used and this has got a hefty list of terms and conditions that neither of them read. Clearly, this is taking their brain patterns and it’s gonna use them for what we theorised before because theory time never misses.

Even when we throw 100 theories out there that all contradict each other they’re all right, every time.

There are also some lines reused from William’s entrance to the park: “everything is bespoke to your size.” She also asks if Caleb wants any help getting dressed, similar to the seduction techniques used on William.

Lastly is the hat choice, black and white which was also mirrored in the shoe choice Maya gave to Christina last week. The pair turn this down because they know what’s really going on.

Christina

Christina arrives at the Hope Centre for Mental Health which again hammers home the idea that this is a park, potentially Future World. In Westworld, we had Fort Forlorn Hope so this name has likely been repurposed from that.

Future World was actually the sequel to the original Westworld movie and there are rumours that it’s one of the many parks that will be popping up this entry.

Inside Christina finds the Peter Myers Wing showing that the character has been dead for a long time, whereas to her it just happened recently. The hospital has been shut down for a long time and it also has sketches of the tower.

Season 1 Delores had issues with time and due to the hosts having perfect memories she constantly jumped back and forth between her time with young William and the present.

Maya calls her home and she acts as someone who doesn’t really want her to get to the bottom of it, similar to the AI recreation of Caleb’s bud in Season 3.

Original William

Jump across to the original William and this may take place just after the post-credits scene of Season 3. Again, lots of timey wimey wibbly wobbly stuff but it seems like he’s just being introduced to the plan here which would’ve probably been told to him 8 years ago when they first started rather than in the midst of it.

White lights shoot up his suit, mimicking the lights that ended up on Delores at the end of Season 3 when she was plugged into Rehoboam.

We cut to host William’s speech at the park. This mirrors Ford in Episode 10 in which he introduced the new narrative with Teddy and Delores.

The train arrives in Chicago whilst he drops it and we watch the park start up similar to how Westworld did upon guests entering it.

Theory Evidence

Everything starts up on its loop with the city coming bustling to life. Brilliant episode again and I’m fully on board for this season, been brilliant so far in my opinion and lots of awesome things going on with it that I absolutely love. Got such a great style and mystery to it that constantly keeps you guessing over what’s going on.

Now I wanna talk some more about the trailer which might potentially back up the theories. However, spoiler alert for that because I know some of you just don’t wanna know.

Backing up the idea that Delores is inside a simulation, there is a shot in the trailer that shows a 3d map of New York. This is the same place where Delores is and it’s similar to the maps of the park that popped up in season 1.

Delores stands over this at the end of the teaser, showing that she has potentially discovered it.

We also get Caleb wandering the streets of the city whilst everyone else is frozen which too is something that happened in the park. This idea of people frozen of course was there before the hosts started up in the Chicago recreation.

So lots of things going on with that but again, what I love about the series and what’s come before is that you can never out and out say your theory is right.

We can do Theory Time until we’re blue in the face, cos I had to run 2 miles down the road and shout in the mic to get that effect, but yeah, wild.

Anyway, that’s it, go relax, it’s time to unplug.

But before you do, drop a comment below with your thoughts below on what exactly is going on.