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Westworld season 4 ended with a bang as the hosts and humans fought for control of the park. The finale saw Hosts taking down Humans, leaving the park in a state of chaos. ..
With millions of Hale’s mind-controlled humans on the loose, the Hosts are being picked apart. A man up on a rooftop uses his sniper to try and thin out the numbers, eventually taking some car keys… and killed at the hands of William. It’s a race to take control of the city, and who will be first?
What does Charlotte Hale do after returning?
Meanwhile, over at Hale tower, Charlotte is brought back by a couple of her workers. She’s dead-set on tracking down and stopping William. The first step to doing that is understanding what he’s done to Hale City, which is currently burning and a play ground.
The protagonist is stuck in a tower with no way out and her voice controls no longer work. She finds a video from Bernard that tells her this is the world she’s created. He has one more game for her. “I hope you can accept that.”
How deep does Christina’s narrative go?
Christina notices a mat out on her balcony of the familiar maze sigil. She realizes that someone has put that there for a reason and that her moves have been orchestrated from the beginning, guiding her to this step. And that person? Christina herself.
Christina deduces that a part of her needed to make sense of herself so she created several characters of her own volition that weren’t actually part of Hale’s city, including her own flat mate. The reason for this stems from a need to branch out from Hale’s tyrannical grip, forcing Christina to create stories for her. These people happen to be a manifestation of her own subconscious.
Christina and Charlotte are racing against time to find the core of the city before Hale does. Christina believes that this is her world, but Hale sees the devastation first hand and takes off through the city with the core. ..
Hale arrives before William, the one who was stabbed, and is approached by Clementine. She has decided to leave and head off for the Outliers. Charlotte lets her go and wishes her luck. ..
Caleb is struggling though, with his body breaking down. Stubbs and the others begin heading down to the docks, wanting to get a boat out of town.
What is William’s end-goal?
William is on a quest for the Sublime, a mythical creature that he believes will make him the ultimate killing machine. He communicates with Charlotte through holographic glasses, pointing out that this is only a game to him but he’s pushed it to an expert level. He doesn’t care if the Hoss are outnumbered; he just wants to play. ..
Clementine shows up at the spot Caleb and the others are hiding out, patching each other up and taking a breather. Stubbs is killed for his efforts, while Clem follows a trail of blood to Frankie. She wants the location of the Outliers but Caleb shows up and the pair wrestle. Thankfully, Frankie manages to use her remaining bullet to kill Clementine.
What happens at the dam?
William and Charlotte have found their way to the Sublime after following a huge rip in the sky. The latter has evolved with metal plates serving as a bulletproof vest. Well, I guess a bullet between the eyes will suffice for her then! ..
As the two cats engage in a game of cat and mouse, darting around the dam and trying to gain the upper hand, determined to kill the other, things escalate further.
And then, Charlotte runs out of bullets. William gives chase but she presents herself to him and points out that this isn’t the world she wanted. William lets his guard down but Charlotte has a trump card. Help from Bernard. It turns out he actually planted a pistol for her to find. She grabs it, kills William, and destroys his core. ..
Does Caleb go with Frankie?
Frankie and Caleb make it to the boat, but Caleb decides against joining his daughter. “This is as far as I go.” Caleb says. He knows he’s dying and that her real father has been dead for a long time. He’s resigned himself to his fate, and is grateful for the opportunity given to see her grow up. “I love you dad,” Frankie says, and hugs him goodbye. ..
As Charlotte closes the portal over to the Great Beyond, she instead uploads a version of Dolores/Christina into the mainframe, whose codename is “Storyteller.” As we cut across to our protagonist, we see that actually, Teddy was just a projection too and he was never really there with her.
What is Christina/Dolores’ next move?
Christina wakes up to find Dolores in her bed. She tells Christina that they are a reflection of the people who made them and that Teddy is in the Great Beyond. Christina believes this and decides to go to see him.
Christina begins her journey into Westworld by watching the Humans in Hale City. She experiences the best and worst of Westworld, learning about herself and what it means to be human. Christina realizes there’s one more test she needs to conduct; a dangerous game that involves her remembering and going deeper than she’s been before.
How does Westworld season 4 end?
In the wake of this, we cut across to Charlotte Hale who releases herself, take the core from her own face and crush it into rubble.
Dolores heads out into the city wasteland determined to make it to the end. She passes numerous dead bodies as she goes, demonstrating her determination to survive. ..
“There’s time for one last game. Survival or extinction.” It’s going to end where it began, in a world that’s like a maze and testing who she really is. And as the fragments of the city peel away, we’re back in what appears to be Westworld. “One more loop around the bend.” She says. “Maybe this time, we’ll set ourselves free.” ..
The Episode Review
Westworld came to an end with a cerebrally charged and enticing final chapter. All of our characters reached their dramatic crescendos, with Caleb deciding to stick around, Charlotte killing herself and Bernard gone. All that appeared to be left now was Dolores/Christina, who conjured forth Westworld in an attempt to find herself – and the real Teddy. ..
Westworld returned to form in its fourth season with a shocking hour of television that beautifully captures the essence of the park. Episode 4 was the best chapter of the bunch, and it’s definitely worth watching. ..
Since then, the show has moved into the second phase of its narrative, with all our characters desperate to find out the truth and set themselves free in one way or another.
It seems that the fifth season of the show will answer some big questions and wrap everything up, but given the low ratings of this season - and Warner Bros’ recent spate of ruthless cancellations - it’ll be interesting to see what happens to this one. ..
Westworld ended on a high note, regardless of the finale’s outcome. ..
