Jay (human)

Jay is a character in HBO's Westworld Season 4. He is portrayed by Daniel Wu and Alec Wang.
== Biography ==
Jay is an Outlier Rebel who lives in the desert. His job is to extract outliers from the New York City park with the rest of his team and bring them to safety.
Jay had a younger brother, Daniel, who disappeared after being found to be an Outlier. He was rescued from the City by Uwade and young Frankie as a young adult, and grew up amongst the Outlier Rebels.
== Plot ==
=== Season 4 ===
==== "Generation Loss" ====
In the Outliers camp under guard, Bernard watches drones flying over the desert in the distance before he and Stubbs watch as a truck draws up with a huge fan on it's flat bed, Stubbs wondering what it's for. Bernard telling them they'll need some help to find what they're looking for under the sand. 'C' meanwhile confronts Jay, reminding him that he his approval for the search. That, he says, was before they got word of another Outlier, her extraction takes priority before she gets hunted down. They can't waste time on what he feels to be a misguided treasure hunt. "And what about Bernard and Stubbs?" she asks. Stubbs looking over at the discussion wonders what they're talking about, Bernard brutally frank saying "Deciding our fate" - C wants to know what if they really are on the Outliers side, but Jay tells her they don't take chances on strangers. C argues that if there really is a weapon here the two could be their best chance to free everyone. Jay feels this is too personal for her, that she's lost all objectivity and they're not going to waste time on a myth. As Jay gives orders for everyone to get ready for the extraction, C says nothing, until he adds that it' best to 'travel light' and draws his gun heading for Bernard and Stubbs intent on killing them. C gets in his way and drawing her own weapon points her gun at him. The pair in a standoff. Stubbs looking for reassurance from Bernard gets told they live, mostly.
The stand off is ended when another Outlier, Odina, intervenes calling them both out. Telling Jay he's being an asshole, she says she'll cover C for the extraction team. Turning to C telling her to go see where this leads if she wants, but if Bernard & Stubbs are bullshitting them, shoot them. Jay agrees, but says he'll take Stubbs with him, for collateral. C finally agreeing, the standoff ending. Stubbs looks to Bernard and asks if he has to go with the extraction team, and Bernard says 'For safety', but he doesn't mean Stubbs'. The two of them are separated taken to their disparate teams, C walking with Odina to tell her to be safe, it is then revealed that Odina is also C's girlfriend.
==== "Zhuangzi" ====
Stubbs and the group of seven Rebel Outliers led by Jay and Odina arrive by boat up the fake Hudson into the New York City Park to find and rescue a female Outlier, who is being tracked by Hale. Stubbs has been kept in the cabin below decks throughout, sarcastically asking Jay if he wants him to swab the deck when Jay opens the door. Noting it's a big city to find one person in, Jay takes out a tablet telling him they have ways of narrowing the search. They captured one of the drones and coded it back to its data feed to them, so it would show any Outliers. The Outlier they are lookingfor , Lindsey, is stood on a roof down town. They can track when they 'breach', explaining that all the people in the City move in pre-scripted loops, following whatever plot has been written for them. That's why the Outliers live in the Desert, because Hale can't track them there. They are the last free humans. The ones in the city are used as entertainment, the loops keeping them compliant by keeping them busy and stopping them questioning their realities. Stubbs jokes that Hale had "learned nothing" from the Park.
Making their way into a subway tunnel, Jay tells Stubbs they better hurry, thinking 'The Game' has probably already begun. Jay explains that 'The Game' is where Hosts hunt a human who has 'breached', for sport. As the group pause to hand out weapons, Stubbs wonders if he gets one. Jay pointedly does not hand him one, saying that's not the role they have for him. Jay asksStubbs if he's ever heard of 'The Canary in the Coalmine'. "Canary", he points to Stubbs, then at the darkened tunnel ahead, "Coalmine". The team puts out what lights there are. On being handed a torch, resigned, Stubbs walks down the tracks, the target for whatever may lay ahead.
Making their way through the streets of the New York City Park with the Outliers, Stubbs keeps a watch around uneasily, but it doesn't stop William from catching sight of them as he closes in on Lindsey himself, instructed by Hale. Setting in motion the chimes, Stubbs hears them, and tells Jay there's something wrong, but Jay doubts him. Until all the controlled humans around them freeze, and then turn to look at them, before advancing on them en masse. Odina knowing they can't help themselves, says they need to fall back. Jay is determined to get to Lindsey, and insists they split up. As they start to fight off the controlled humans, Jay fights his way through them, yelling at them to hold them off, because he's heading to the roof.
Inside the building, Jay makes his way through the corridors, and up the stairs. Hearing a noise at the top of the stairwell he lifts his gun in precaution, then lowers it slightly at the sound of a door opening and closing.
Up on the roof, emerging from the stairwell, William, gun in hand, makes his way towards the female Outlier, Lindsay, who is standing quietly staring into the distance. When she doesn't look at him or react, he lowers his weapon, curious. Finally, tears in her eyes, she looks towards him, and from his demeanor, knows he 'sees it too'. William looks up to the Tower. She tells him her ex-husband used to talk about it, before he was killed. That she thought he was crazy, the intimation being that Lindsey is Arthur's ex-wife, an outlier who was killed in 'The Game'. Guilt ridden, she feels he must have felt so alone. "He was right", she says, "...this world doesn't make sense. Nothing does." William feels that way too, she notes, saying she can see it in his eyes, and that he thinks he's going crazy, but he's not. Nor is he alone. Moving to his side, she lays her head on his shoulder, gazing up at the Tower with him. After a long moment, William starts to get a hold of himself and steps back from her, lifting his gun to shoot her. Suddenly, Jay emerges from the stairwell and shoots William down. He then helps Lindsey make a run for it. Stubbs and the others fall back with them, all of them getting back to the docks and getting out of the city on the boat. William recovers slowly on the roof.
==== "Fidelity" ====
3 years after Caleb's disappearance, in Los Angeles, a young man, Jay, sitting alone watching children play in a park, is approached by a young Frankie, who talks to him about his younger brother Daniel, and reveals that she knows he's an outlier. She brings him to meet her mother, Uwade, and their technician. As they start to leave the city, everyone around them comes to a frozen halt, with the sound of chimes. At Uwade's urging they all freeze, and remain still as two Drone Hosts appear, and begin to walk among the crowd. The Drones examine Jay, Frankie, Uwade, and the technician, who all remain still. They pass the group by, but just as they leave a fly lands on the Tech's face, and begins to make its way towards his eye, making him blink. As soon as he does, the Drone hosts turn to him and grab him, before he can make a run for it. Uwade, Frankie and Jay escape.
Uwade brings Jay back to an old house on the outskirts of the city and introduces him to the a small group of fellow survivors, most of them teenagers or younger. Frankie excuses herself to her mother, telling her it's almost time to talk to her father, Uwade sending her on her way hopeful for her. Down in the basement, Frankie steps up to a table where the radio she and her father had back where they lived in L.A. is set up, and begins her ritual attempt to contact Caleb. As she does so, Jay overhears her and Frankie cheerfully explains what's she's doing. The little girl tells him she's going to tell her father all about him, and that she always wanted a brother. But he bitterly rejects her, telling her he doesn't want to be her brother, before belittling her for trying to record messages for her father on their old contact frequency, claiming that both her father and his younger brother are dead.
In the present day, Frankie and Bernard arrive at the rebel base camp with an inanimate Maeve. The other survivors are shocked to discover Maeve and tell Frankie that someone in their group is a spy for Delos. Frankie shoots Bernard and has him and Stubbs restrained for questioning. Bernard states that while there is a traitor in the group, he doesn't know for certain who it is, only that Frankie will be killed if she can't figure it out. Confused and uncertain of how to deal with the situation, Frankie goes back to check on Maeve. Her girlfriend Odina tries to stop her and Frankie locks her in a closet. Jay arrives looking for Maeve's core, insisting that they destroy it before she can be fully restored. Frankie then pulls a gun on him after noticing that he calls her his "sister", something the real Jay would never do, realising he is a host. The scene provides a flashback to show human Jay being shot and killed by his host version. Back in the present day, the host Jay taunts Frankie and destroys her radio when she hears her father's broadcast. Just as he's about to shoot Frankie, Maeve awakens, and to Frankie and host Jay's surprise, stabs him to death.
== Appearances ==
* "Generation Loss"
* "Zhuangzi"
*"Fidelity"
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