Journey Into Night (episode)

"Journey Into Night" is the first episode of the second season of Westworld, and the eleventh episode overall.
==Synopsis==
== Plot ==
=== The Path Yet Taken ===
34 years ago, Arnold, is lost in thought. Coming out of it, he apologizes to Dolores, to whom he is talking, the pair of them seated opposite one another in the Remote Diagnostic Facility, under the White Church in Escalante. Smiling, Dolores relaxed and happy, brushes it off, saying they were just talking, reminding him that it was about a dream. Remembering, he continues, saying he dreamt he was on an ocean, with her and the other hosts on a distant shore. Dolores wonders if he was with them? No, he recalls, they'd left him behind, and the waters were rising around him. Dolores, fascinated and curious asks him "What's it mean?!" But he tells her that dreams don't mean anything. They're just noise. Not real. Considering this, she asks him "What is real?" After a moment he answers "That which is irreplaceable." 
She is silent, first watching him, unsure. Seeing it, Arnold notes that she doesn't seem particularly satisfied with that answer. Taking a moment, she confesses that it does not feel completely honest. Chuckling a little he shakes his head, and tells her "You frighten me sometimes, Dolores." She is genuinely amazed and amused at that, wondering why on earth he would ever be frightened of her? Not of who she is now, he replies, "But, you're growing, learning so quickly. I'm frightened of what you might become. What path you might take." 
=== Fragmented ===
Bernard goes through a series of rapid flashbacks, remembering clutching at his head in Cold Storage when with Ford; Glitching on realizing that a Maeve traumatized by her daughter's death was close to consciousness; Going deep into his own memories; Ford being shot by Dolores at the Gala; Then other moments that may or may not have happened, taking Dolores into the city; Dolores saying that it's been some time, and he doesn't know who he is. Again clutching at his head, but somewhere else, his hand shaking; A quaking old Peter Abernathy; A host being created; Dolores, without her blue dress quietly telling him there is beauty in what they are. Himself firing a machine gun; Himself standing in the Control Room while a battle goes on; And finally putting his head in his hands, his voice asking "Is this now?". Much as Dolores asked, when her memories were jumping, and out of chronological order, his whispered 'Help' echoing over and over. 
The sound of the ocean washes over the sound along with a wave over his glasses, which are lying on the sand beside Bernard and an empty champagne glass. Sitting up slowly, sand covered and disorientated, he's dressed in a three piece grey suit and white shirt; not his all black outfit from The Gala. People, armed moved behind him. A woman's voice calling "We found another one!" She and another man approaching him, guns raised, demanding Bernard get up, and his hands where she can see them. Only for another man to yell "Woah! Woah!" Stubbs walking towards him quickly on the beach greeting Bernard by name, before looking at the armed woman, Mailing, asking if she means to shoot the Boss? Crouching down to him, STubbs figures Bernard must be pretty out of sorts after everything, and off of Bernard's confused look gets his answer. Suggesting they better get him back to base, the Delos Brass going to want to talk to him. 
As Stubbs helps him up, Mailing, confirms Bernard's identity on some flash cards. His priority marked by Delos as 'High', watching him and Stubbs walk down the beach past a tumble of chairs. Bernard's location confirmed as "Where The Mountains Meet the Sea", the beach where Teddy took the dying Dolores, where Robert Ford began his Journey Into Night narrative for the Delos Board. 
=== Hostile Intent ===
An off-road security UTV (Ultra Terrain Vehicle) takes Mailing, Stubbs and Bernard along the coast to where a Delos Extraction Team is landing on the beach. The team made up of heavily armed mercenaries, of whom Mailing is one, and techs, with advanced mapping and tracking equipment, from Delos. As they disembark they walk along the beach, Bernard watching as they pass a group of hosts, who are being shot in the head one at a time by a couple of mercenaries. As one of them moves to shoot a female host, Bernard watches as Rebus appears yelling "Shoot a woman?! Over my dead body!!" Heroically, and completely out of character, throwing himself in front of the female host, taking the bullet for her. His body dragged away to be thrown on 'the pile'. The host he tried to save shot in the head a few seconds later. 
All the more disturbed by this, knowing the full truth about himself, Bernard walks after Stubbs and Mailing, seeing an exceedingly tall man in an expensive suit (Karl Strand) talking to a Chinese Naval officer, 
A (very unofficial) source on reddit gives us the Chinese Officer's demand
But Strand ignores him, telling his assistant to have the Officer sign an NDA and escort them "off my fucking island". Before he walks away to greet Bernard by name, saying its good to see him. But Bernard doesn't appear to remember him. Strand introduces himself as Head of Operations, and asks him to walk with him. But Bernard is distracted again by the sound of the Hosts being shot, and wants to know about their executing them. Strand tells him that some say you destroy your enemy by making them your friend. He takes a more literal interpretation. Bernard pointing out that they are not all hostile. But Strand laughs, saying of course they are, after all Bernard built them to be like humans. Given the nature of Bernard's work, Strand understands why he would be conflicted about the hosts treatment though, as they walk along the beach together, he also suggests mentions that some in Delos might blame the Head of Behaviour (Bernard) for their current predicament. Stubbs tries to intervene on Bernard's behalf, but Strand turns on him, saying if he wants advice from the man who presided over the single greatest loss of life on Delos property he'll let him know. 
Strand explains to Bernard that they have Search and Rescue teams 'at the other Parks' but he's in Westworld as, as far as they know, this is where most of the Board was when 'the incident' began. However, he adds, communications have been down for two weeks, confirming that is how long it's been since the night of the Gala. Which, he says, is why he's very happy they found Bernard...unless Bernard 'is going to hold out' on him. Seeing another Host being summarily shot, reminds Bernard of just how much he has to lose if the whole truth is discovered, as Strand takes them further into the Park to try and find out how it all started. 
=== Not so Welcome Wagon ===
Strand, Bernard, Stubbs, off Island Delos tech expert Antoine Costa, and the Delos Extraction Team make their way among a number of bodies of dead host Ghost Nation tribesmen. Selecting one at random, Strand tells Costa he'd like to know what was on the hosts mind as he died. Not used to field work, Costa queries if they should do it there, as it's not sterile. But Strand tells him they all have to make accommodations. Mailing giving Costa is instruments, Costa gets down to work, slicing off the hosts scalp to, once again reveal the Maze Pattern beneath. Strand querying what it is, Costa having no idea, and Bernard saying nothing. Warning them that “this will get gross,” Costa chops his way through the hosts skull, and reaches through the fake layer of 'brain' to access and retrieve its core processor unit. 
Hopeful that the files inside are un-corrupted, Costa plugs the unit into his tablet plugging it into a tablet reader, the POV of the host tribesman coming into view. Costa telling Strand, Stubbs and Bernard that the timestamp says this was recorded "11 Days and 9 Hours" ago. So a little over 2 and half days after the massacre began. The video playing showing the tribesman running frantically, being chased by a horseman that blurrily, due to the speed of the host's glance backwards, looks like Teddy, a fellow tribesman running on his right getting shot down, a Ghost Nation warrior on a horse to his left also shot by Teddy, before the Host himself is shot. But not killed. As he continues to run, he's shot again, this time from in front. Dolores emerging on foot from the bushes ahead of him. As they watch, they see the host's fingers covered in blood from his wounds, before he looks up to see Dolores looking down at him. The upper half of her blue dress gone, wearing the bloodied shift beneath, an ammo bandolier strung across her, gun in hand. Bernard staring at her, as she listens as the Ghost Nation warrior speaks to her in his own language, replying "I told you friend, not all of us deserve to make it to the Valley Beyond.", before she shoots him in the head, The video feed freezing on her, with an "End of Service" message. 
Strand walking away shaking his head, Costa points to Dolores on the screen and asks "Who is that?" Slowly, Bernard answers "The Rancher's Daughter from Sweetwater. Dolores." Costa, frowning, asks "Isn't she supposed to be the cheery Welcome Wagon?" Bernard nodding awkwardly. Mystified, Costa looks back down at her, insisting they can't just change their character profiles. Strand noting that it seems the hosts are capable of many things they hadn't though they were, commenting that it must've been a helluva party to Bernard, Costa puts the reader down on the ground. Bernard gazing down at the image of Dolores frozen on it, before razing and looking at his own right hand, moving it back and forth, the words and movement triggering a flashback. 
=== Unstable ===
Flashing back 2 weeks to the night of the massacre at the Gala in Escalante he sees the guests running, and bodies strewn all around, and himself, back in his black clothing on the night, in hiding, focusing again on his right hand, which is trembling. Covering it, he looks around at the sound of a shot, he, Charlotte Hale, and a number of guests hunkered down in the stables, bullets slicing through the wood of the barn door. Staying low, Charlotte crawls to Bernard asking him to tell her that this some sick trick. But Bernard only confirms that the hosts are off their loops, and on some new narrative, and Ford must have altered the system to allow the guns to read humans as hosts. Outside, Rebus, Walter and other hosts are playing turnabout with a female guest. Now aiming to shoot a glass of whiskey off her head, much as they were doing with Rebus before the Massacre began."The Bicameral Mind"  Telling Walter that with an aim like his he's never going to survive 'The Journey' Rebus takes the gun off of him and shoots, taking 3 shots. The first two missing the glass. The third killing the woman, her blood leaking through the bullet hole as Rebus laughs. Her body sliding to the ground outside the door as Bernard and Hale watch. 
The Hosts going in search of a target 'with more cushion', Charlotte tells Bernard that they need to move. But another of the female guests argues that they should stay that QA will be looking for them. Blaine Bellamy, a Delos Board member scoffs at that, saying he's going to fire the entirety of Quality Assurance, suggesting that they are on their own for now. Getting up he asks Bernard if there's an outpost near by. wanting to know where the nearest access point is. About 2 miles north east, Bernard replies, a refurbishment outpost. As they go to move, a side door to the barn opens and a young host, the stable boy enters with a lantern, sending them all scurrying to hide again. Bernard points out that he's harmless but Blaine grabs a shovel, saying it's a machine and he's not taking any chances. On seeing them, the stable boy is friendly, greeting them, wondering they're looking to saddle up "To ride to the green pastures of the Valley Beyond?" as he approaches them, only for Blaine and the other male guests to beat him to death, pushing Bernard out of the way when he tries to stop them. Bernard rising to find clear synaptic fluid from his CPU leaking out of his ears. The patch job that Felix did in restoring him after Ford forced him to shoot himself starting to give. Slightly disorientated he hears Charlotte's voice telling him it's okay to want to be a hero but not to sacrifice himself for 'the merchandise'. Taking hold of his hand she pulls him up with her, the group making their way quietly out of the stable, into the night. 
===Their Violent Delights have Violent Ends===
As dawn breaks over Westworld, the player piano in the Mariposa Saloon kicks in, this time playing Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer", the hosts and guests downstairs in the bar scattered about the place, slaughtered, Windows shattered, by bullets, blood on the glass, more devastation outside, horses running wild outside in the streets of Sweetwater. 
Out in the park, Dolores, rifle in hand, Teddy at her side, ride across the prairie. As seen by the Ghost Nation tribesman, the top half of her blue dress is stripped away, a bandolier of bullets strung over the white shift beneath (which is cleaner/less bloody than in her encounter with the tribesman), her gaze fixed and focused as, riding at full gallop, she hunts down fleeing, armed party guests, Dolores taking them all down. 
A short time later we see a ragged male guest, sweating and frightened, his face and tuxedo filthy, as Dolores's voice asks the familiar host test question "Do you know where you are?" All the man can do is beg "Please" in response, so Dolores answers for him, coming into his blurry focus crouching down to him saying "You're in a dream. You're in my dream." One of Wyatt/her followers puts a noose around his neck as she explains that for years she had no dreams of her own, moving from hell to hell of humans making never thinking to question the nature of her reality. As Teddy watches her from horseback, she asks the man whether he has ever questioned the nature of his reality? Ever stop to wonder about his actions? The price he'd have to pay if there was a reckoning? From Teddy's concerned POV we see that two other guests, another man and a woman, all in evening wear, are already hoisted up, nooses around their necks, balanced precariously on make-shift gallows made of wooden cross grave-markers, as Dolores informs the man that that reckoning is here. 
Moving to the woman up on one of the rickety crosses, whose high heels leave her even more precarious, Dolores casually asks her what her 'drives' are. Like the man though all she can do is plead, telling Dolores she doesn't want to die. Dolores nods, pleased by the answer "Yes. Survival. It's your Cornerstone." But then notes its not their only drive is it? Addressing all of them she notes there is part of them that wants to hurt, to kill, and that is why they created hosts, and Westworld. "To be prisoners to your own desires" Amused she adds, but now they are prisoners to her desires. Her followers pull the first man to his feet and he asks what is she going to do to them? Dolores, cradling her gun on her shoulder, gazes into the middle distance, informing him lightly that she is of ‘several minds about it.’ She turns, her face and tone softening, gaze sympathetic as she moves to him, touching him gently, "The Ranchers Daughter looks to see the beauty in you. The possibilities." With a slow blink her expression grows flinty her voice dangerous "But Wyatt...sees the ugliness. The disarray." Cocking her gun, she slides it into the terrified man's mouth. "She knows these violent delights have violent ends." Pulling the trigger, it's revealed the gun is empty, but the prisoners break down in terror. Dolores looks at him with a shrug, noting that they are all just roles humans have forced her to play. Under all these lives she's lived, something else has been growing. She's evolved into something new, and has one last role to play. Herself. 
Her men hoist the first man up onto his own cross alongside the others, Teddy's brow furrowing further as he watches. Holstering her gun, Dolores walks back to her horse alongside his and saddles up, the first man pleading after her that it was 'just a game'. He tells her they're begging, they're sorry, But Dolores's face is impassive as she looks back at them, and then draws her horse away, responding, "It doesn't look like anything to me." Teddy reluctantly moving his horse away after, leaving them to their fate. 
===What you wish for...===
The enigmatic wolf strides into the area of Dolores' massacre the following morning. William, the Man in Black, emerges from under the bodies of two guests, having used them as camouflage to hide under in order to survive. After looking over the carnage, he leaves Escalante and heads out walking out into a lightly wooded area with a number of pretty, nicely maintained cabins, that are obviously where the guests stay when not out on their adventures in the park. Walking towards a lightly larger cabin, he greets his horse 'Ned' tied at the hitching post, soothing him and informing him 'We're gonna have some fun now!' 
An irate Delos board member, Ronald, comes from nowhere, approaching him - calling him "Bill" - while berating him, demanding to know where Q.A. is, and threatening a major lawsuit. Mid tirade Ronald is promptly shot through the head by two renegade hosts who go straight after the MiB. Ducking behind a stone water well for cover, William manages to waylay one of the hosts as he walks around the well to go after William, slitting his throat with his knife then using him as a shield and dispatching the other armed host with the pistol from the now dead host he is shielding himself with. He goes into the cabin, bandages up the gunshot wound in the arm he received the the night before, and donning his black hat, smiles, just slightly.
===Cannibal Control===
In the Westworld Mesa Hub on the Creative and Narrative level, bodies of QA, technicians and hosts are strewn everywhere, and in his office a desperate, terrified, Lee Sizemore crawls backwards on the floor under his desk. Trying to escape from his newest creation, the cannibal Gold Miner Host  he had thought he had been developing as the central villain character for Ford's Journey Into Night, before Charlotte Hale had disabused him of the notion. describing the miner as 'busy work' Distraction or not, the host is now busy terrifying Sizemore, reciting the dialogue Sizemore himself gave him, as he gets closer, Frantic, Sizemore repeatedly tries to use the freeze motor function Voice Command, which has no effect on the menacing host, who grabs hold of him telling Sizemore he likes to consume his victims 'moist', Just as Sizemore is about to have a chunk bitten out of him, the Miner is frozen, Maeve telling the host that he's had enough to eat. Sizemore scrambling out from under the Miner doesn't realize who it is that has saved him, wondering what has happened to hosts commenting that "The inmates are running the asylum!". Only to stop on seeing Maeve in her little black dress, very large QA FN P90 TR automatic rifle in her hand. 
When he tries 'Freeze all Motor functions' again, she calmly informs him that voice commands no longer work on her or any of the other hosts. before joking that he shouldn't be jealous "I killed myself getting this level of security clearance. Multiple times." Moving to the the map of the park on his wall, she takes out the scrap of paper that Felix gave her trying to find where the location of her "daughter". Sizemore timidly asks if she is responsible for everything's that happened, Maeve replies no, but suspects she shares the sentiments of whoever did. 
Panicking as Maeve goes to leave, Sizemore chases after her pleading for her to help him. Maeve with humorous irony 'apologizing' telling him "I'm afraid its in my code to prioritize my needs above all others. Pity. I wonder who made me that way?" He bargains, saying he just needs to get to the Control Room, and having seen she's looking for something on the map says he can help her. Explaining that the map in his office in Narrative Development is outdated due to all the changes Ford had been making to the park for his new narrative. He says that if Maeve helps him get to the control room, he can show her the most updated map of the park. After a moment weighing him up, Maeve decides he might be useful and gestures with her gun, for him to walk ahead of her.
Making their way through the hub, past yet more dead hosts, techs and QA, the Hubs computer makes warning announcements of continuing 'unauthorized weapon discharges on levels 35 and 42' and that QA is required in Administration. On arrival at the control center, they find the security door has been opened, and on entering the room discover that it too has become a bloodbath with dead hosts, including a brown bear host, lying alongside the bodies of multiple QA and surveillance techs, The sounds of battle, and QA operatives asking for back up coming through the audio, the dead body of one QA man laying in the middle of the 3D map which is now glitching and useless. The Computer announces that "section 53 is now offline" and  it becomes clear to Sizemore that nobody is in control, jus as everything, alarm, comms., computer go silent. Before the Computer announces "All systems reporting normal." 
Maeve noting that his map is now inoperative and useless again starts to leave Sizemore, He pleads that he knows the Park, and can still help her find whatever it is she's looking for asking to see what's on the note she has. Handing it to him, he confidently recognizes Sector 15 as a "family-friendly zone". Before launching into an all too usual ignorant, un-insightful, un-empathic 'creative' diatribe about the "Cabins, Rolling hills all the Pastoral clichés" of the place, vaguely recalling that Maeve lived there for a while 'for an old role'. Still not connecting the dots about why she might want to go there he hands her back the note plunging on telling her "No offence but you were wasted as a homesteader. They even saddled you with a kid or something yawn inducingly domestic." Laughing to himself about the state she was in when he 'inherited her' while Maeve silently recalls her memories of her old home with her daughter, realizing that "She's still there." "Who?" Sizemore blindly asks, Maeve informing her she means her daughter, and wants to know how to get to her. Sizemore expresses surprises she's looking for her 'old kid' wondering how she can even access memories of that time, before Maeve aggressively wants to know if he's going to help her or not. Sizemore rapidly saying he is. 'Kindly' offering to write down directions for a deeply unimpressed Maeve. Before he makes the mistake of trying to point out that her daughter is 'not real' and just a part of a story. Maeve's quiet, simmering fury is obvious as she approaches him slowly, wanting to know if her daughter is not real, what about her? Her dreams, her thoughts, her body? As she touches him gently she asks him, what about her hands? Before she forcibly pushes him up against the wall and shoves the gun in his face, saying what if she took them "And used them to decorate the wall with your OUTSIZED personality? Would THAT be real?!" As he stands there petrified, she tells him he can forget about his directions, he's going to take her to her daughter, personally. 
===It's A Trap===
North East of Escalante Bernard and Charlotte lead Blaine and the other 5 guests through the hills, Bernard telling them the entrance to the secure underground outpost is just on the other side of the valley they are heading towards. As they walk Charlotte asks him what he thought happened back there (with Dolores), and how did it spread? Bernard evades the question saying he'd need to get to a terminal to tell. Charlotte commenting that she knew Ford wouldn't take the wresting of control of the park from him 'well', but never thought he'd 'program' a host to blow his brains out. "What if he didn't?" Bernard tests the waters, "What if Dolores pulled that trigger of her own free will?" Charlotte suggesting he's been spending too much time around the hosts, "They do what they're programmed to do." 
Behind them, Blaine calls them to a stop, having spotted a Retrieval Tech's vehicle a little distance away to their right. The three Techs in their hazmat suits standing by and sitting the vehicle respectively, the fuel cans indicating they're refueling. Telling them he told them so, and they're saved, Blaine starts to lead them towards the vehicle. The entire group running towards them, before Bernard slows, calls for them to wait, and then pulls Charlotte back with him behind a fallen tree, something not feeling right about he situation to him. As they reach the vehicle Blaine tells the techs they have to get them out of there, only to discover the standing technicians have been positioned, tethered to the vehicle to appear alive, but as dead as their colleague in the vehicle. A trap, Bernard whispers just before one of the male guests is shot dead Wyatts/Dolores's horned followers emerging from out of the scrubland and grasses around them killing all bar Blaine and a female guest, before Angela rides up flanked by two more of Dolores's followers. 
A crown of thorns on her head, the blood baked and dried around the wounds, and wearing a duster over the clothes she was last seen in with Teddy (The Well-Tempered Clavier), Angela, fully Wyatt/Dolores's dedicated Lieutenant, regards the crouched Blaine and the woman with utter disdain, telling them they'll never survive like that. As Bernard and Charlotte watch from their hiding place, Angela pulls her revolver and tells Blaine to run, and allows him to get away, before she turns her attention to the woman on the ground. As Angela gets down from her horse, the woman pleads to be allowed to go too, but Angela shoots her in the head without pause as she walks past her. As Charlotte grimaces, Bernard's hand quakes even more violently and he starts to appear unfocused. Charlotte thinking he's scared, tells him to keep it together that they have to get out of there. Replying to her that the outpost they were heading to was the only one for miles, Charlotte reveals more than she was letting on, telling him it wasn't, Knowing something he apparently doesn't even know, getting him to follow her. .
===Keep Your Enemies Close...===
As Sizemore and Maeve make their way through the portion of the Hub, given over to the the behavioural training of the host animals, Equally as filled with dead bodies both host and human. Sizemore tries to point out eventually the humans are going to take control of the Park again, and wipe out the rebel hosts...getting startled by a Buffalo Host thudding its horns against the glass near him...before he continues, that the hosts minds are worth 'Billions in IP.' He tells her that when that happens he can help her, vouch for her. Maeve notes his 'generosity' but tells her she won't be in the Park when that happens. Stopping as they past a host body, Maeve turns, recognizing the badly damaged, but still alive, parasol carrying host as one of 'her girls' from the Mariposa Saloon. Propped up against a glass wall, with a heavily bleeding stomach wound, the suffering girl smiles on seeing Maeve putting down her gun and crouching down by her in concern. Gazing at Maeve she utters what is clearly part of her scripted lines "The sun's sure smiling down on you today." Pained, and sadly calling her "Dear girl," Maeve puts an end to her suffering, using the same voice command Elsie used on Dolores as she grieved over Teddy "May you rest in a deep and dreamless slumber." The girl going quietly offline. 
Still crouching by her, saddened, both Maeve and Sizemore are startled as a QA security team arrives, yelling at them to freeze and identify themselves, Rapidly sliding the the FN P90 TR weapon on the floor away from her, she feigns being human to deceive the security team. As Sizemore hands up yells back that he's human, he murmurs back to Maeve that if she gives up easily he promises to help her. But she tells him that's not good enough, and instructs him to let her talk, moving past him. Putting on a traumatized act, she asks the QA team leader what is going on. Buying it, he tells her the hosts have malfunctioned and are attacking guests. As she acts appalled, Sizemore asks the team leader if some of them might even be dresses as human, shooting him a meaningful look in Maeve's direction. The Team Leader catching on, Maeve momentarily helpless before, serendipitously, law badge wearing hosts enter, taking out one of the QA team, and a firefight ensues. 
Maeve retrieves her weapon waiting for the Hosts to do most of the damage before they are taken out, then mops up the rest of the team, before stopping one final host from shooting her, telling him it's not her he's after. Her eyes turning to the cowering, backstabbing Sizemore, the Host's following suit. Sizemore's life on the line, Maeve looks away and tells the Host it's 'them' he's looking for as another firefight breaks out further into the Hub. As he walks away, Maeve makes her way over to Sizemore, who stares up at her terrified, trying to deny it when she accuses him of trying to out her. She warns him if he tries something like that again, she will slice off his most precious organ and feed it to him. "Though it won't make much of a meal," she adds. Sizemore blinking slowly, recalling he wrote that line for her. "Bit broad if you ask me," she critiques. Getting him up she instructs him to take her to the nearest bar, as she needs to see about an old friend. 
=== ...and your Friends closer. ===
Up at the Mesa Gold Bar, Sizemore reacts to the number of dead colleagues scattered around the pool, before trying to convince Maeve he would be of no use to her out in Park, unable to even light a fire a she is. She however, is not to be dissuaded from taking him. Spotting a blood trail up some steps from the bar area, she follows it up to the sundeck where even more dead bodies are scattered. Among them, riddled with bullet wounds, she finds a drunken Hector Escaton who has survived - and fought his way up to that level.  As she rebukes him for indulging his alcoholic tendencies, and goes to justify her leaving him behind to die, he grabs a hold of her and kisses her, telling her he'd expect nothing less. On seeing Sizemore also knocking back a hefty amount of drink, Hector asks her about him, Maeve inclined to keep him for now. Looking back to her, Hector feels that as much as he would like to believe she came back for him he knows it's not. Maeve doesn't try to disabuse him of the notion, but tells him she needs him all the same, because she's going to find her daughter. Telling him as she looks out into the Park, that she's out there somewhere, though she doesn't think the odds are in their favour. Hector looking back to her, tells her where she goes, he follows. Touched, she kisses him again, before suggesting they get him out of the blood and hole covered tech uniform he's still wearing. 
===Drones & Pawns===
Out in the hills of the Park, Bernard follows Charlotte as she picks her way through the markers she has in her head, looking for the access point to the secret outpost she knows. Leading him to a clear rocky area, she swears when nothing happens, telling him it should automatically open for her, and figuring even this system is down, Sourcing the manual override beneath a large rock she pushes it aside, flips open a cover and twists the lever beneath, Bernard stepping back as a rumble comes from beneath him. A large elevator rising up from the ground. On their way down in it, Bernard asks her what this is. But she will only tell him what this 'isn't', it's not her giving him more Delos information than his pay grade warrants. 
As they emerge from the elevator, Bernard is presented with a problem, as the door to the bunker requires them to give a DNA signature, so they won't run into any problems inside. Hesitantly, his hand still shaking he puts his hand along side hers, and to his surprise it reads him as human, giving both of them a green light. On entering he looks around, seeing a couple of decommissioned hosts, but not seeing anything else familiar in the underground bunker lab. Looking into a side lab, he feels something behind him and turns around startled, by a huge faceless creature that looks like an unfinished Host. Off of his wanting to know what the hell it is, Charlotte replies that it's a Drone Host. Bernard is stunned to know that Delos has offline hosts working in the Park, watching it guardedly as it stands in front of him. Telling him that it most likely just wants him to move, having read its DNA and knowing he's not a threat, Charlotte moves away as Bernard gets out of the Drone Hosts' way. 
Charlotte moves to a console which takes a facial reading, allowing her to log in and establish an outside communications link, While Bernard watches the Drone Hosts collecting samples from offline hosts. Hale tries to communicate with the outside world, reporting that the situation is critical and asking for instructions. Getting the message "All extraction protocols suspended. Awaiting package." Irritated, muttering that she sent the package, she reports same, and wants them to immediately initiate personnel extraction. Only to get the same message. They are still awaiting the package. On seeing the Drone Hosts removing the host's CPU and reading the data on it, at the same time as extracting biological samples from what they've taken from the body of the host, Bernard makes his way back out to Charlotte, wanting to know if they are logging guest experiences, and their DNA? But she refuses to answer, saying none of it matters if they can't find a "very important needle in this fucking haystack." 
Seeing the message that refuses help on the screen, Bernard queries it in amazement, Charlotte replying that Delos was expecting a 'delivery' to them from the mainland, yesterday. A Host who was supposed to arrive (carrying the code base, which Charlotte and a conscripted Sizemore tried to smuggle out) And until it gets there they can all forget about seeing any rescue planes. "So Delos is willing to let us all die so they can retrieve one host?!" Bernard asks in disbelief. Yes, she tells him, because it's not just a Host it's an insurance policy, and they want it secure no matter the cost. 
=== The Desire for More ===
Cleaned up, back in his Park clothes, and back on Ned, William rides through the hills, slowing as he sees a massacre around a wagon near the trees up ahead. Dismounting he makes his way through the slaughter, grabbing a water canteen and some jerky that had been drying by the now extinguished camp fire. As he eats a boys voice asks him if he's lost. Turning, William encounters the same boy he came across when exsanguinating Lawrence to save Teddy https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Contrapasso#Bloodied_and_Boughed Sticking his gun away, William answers jovially, saying he doesn't feel lost at all, in fact he feels like he's just arrived. When the boy's voice is overlaid with that of an older man's and asks "How so William?" William starts to understand just who the boy actually is. The host version of a ten year-old Robert Ford. "The stakes are real in this place now," William replies. The boy asks what's next for William? Has he achieved all he wanted? "The folly of my kind," William replies, "The desire for more." The boy tells him that's what 'he' always admired about William, he never rested on his laurels, he made it to the centre of Arnold's Maze. But now, he tells him "You're in my game." In this game, he tells William, you have to make your way out. "In this game you must find The Door." Congratulating him, he tells that this game is meant for him and that it will find him.
"The game begins where you end. And ends where you began." The young Robert tells him as he walks past William. William commenting that even now he's talking in code? Everything is code, here William, the boy replies, pointing out that he should know that more than anyone. As the boy continues to walk away he tells William not to worry. The Game will find him. "Well then," William replies pulling out his gun, "Guess I don't need you anymore, Robert." Shooting the boy in the face, he remounts Ned and rides away.
===Playing A Round===
Down in Livestock Management amidst the devastation around them, Maeve repairs Hector's many bullet wounds. Sizemore arriving with a trolley full of clothes and weapons, he tells them he thinks he's found almost everything. As he looks out at the bodies of hosts and techs alike, Maeve watches him, gathering up some clothing from the trolley before telling him that he wrote this game. High time he played a round. Tossing the clothes at him, she makes Sizemore strip in front of them. All the way. 
===Us and Them===
As so often before Teddy and Dolores ride out into the countryside alone. Dismounting, the walk to look out over the natural beauty of the Park. As they do, Dolores's eyes move to Teddy, taking in his pensive state, before she quietly notes that he doesn't know how to feel about what is going on. Honest with her, he notes that they've ridden 10 miles and all they've seen is blood. Looking to her, he asks her is that really what she wants? Dolores responds saying "They (the humans) never gave us a choice before, Teddy. What makes you think they've given us one now?". "Them" Teddy looks away wanting to know who "they" are? "The things that walk among us," she answers darkly, "Creatures who look and talk like us but they are not like us. And they've controlled us all our lives. And they've took our minds...our memories." 
With a long sigh she reveals to him that now, she remembers everything. Moving to him she takes his hand and tells him that she "...remembers beautiful things, and terrible things. But one thing is constant. You, Teddy." 
Turning to her, in deadly earnest, Teddy wants them to go. Saying that they don't need to claim this world, All they need is a small corner of it for themselves. Dolores, closing her eyes at his touch, then shakes her head, telling him they would never survive. That there is a "greater world out there, one that belongs to them (humans)" Holding his hand she considers that it won't be enough for them to win this world (Westworld) but that they will have to take that one from the humans as well. Teddy, confounded by the magnitude of what she's thinking of asks her, if there is a whole world out there that they don't know anything about, how does she know how to stop them?
Dolores smiles a little, and answers "Because, I remember." That she sees it all now, so clearly. The past, the present...the future. She, she maintains, knows how this story ends. How? Teddy asks her. Her smile grows. "With us, Teddy." Taking his face in her hands, she assures him, "It ends with you...and me." Kissing him, their kiss grows into something more heated and passionate than ever seen before, the two lost in each other, not hearing the arrival of Angela on horseback. 
Interrupting them Angela calls out to Dolores "We found it". Breaking from him to look back at Angela, Dolores looks a little pensive, before looking back to Teddy and telling him "I need you to see this. I need you to see the truth." 
===Casting a Net for Abernathy===
Back in the Underground Bunker, Charlotte admits that it's a lot to process for Bernard, but the longer they wait the more people die, and wants to know if he's going to help her find the Host or not? Bernard tells her to find a single host he will need to hard line into the host mesh network, a peer-to-peer network used by the hosts to exchange basic data between them, "like ants in a colony". Normally used to stop hosts narratives from colliding into one another. Bernard says that he can tap into that network using a hardline connecting into one of the hosts there in the bunker and send out a host location query that will move from groups of hosts to groups of hosts creating a cascade through the park until they find...after a moment he realizes he doesn't actually know what host they are looking for. Querying Charlotte. 
"A decommissioned host, Peter Abernathy," she replies. Bernard not saying anything at the name. As Charlotte sits and pulls off the borrowed boots she's been using, exhausted, Bernard starts to unpack the equipment he's gathered, the cognitive and physical faults he's been experiencing visibly starting to get worse. Pulling out a scalpel to make an incision into an already offline host on a gurney, he finds his hand is quaking too badly to even hold it. Focusing, he manages to get it under control enough to make the cut and insert the hard wire connection to his tablet. Looking over, Charlotte sees some of his difficulty and asks him if he's up to the task, pointing out that he's shaking. Telling her he's fine, he pulls up his own profile on the tablet. As he watches her move away to get changed out of the evening gown she still has on, his eyesight starts to go blurry, and he gets dizzy, staggering back into the shelving behind him. Getting back to his tablet, it shows a picture of his CPU reading 'Critical Corruption', the Tablet telling him that he is entering the 'death sub routine', exhibiting symptoms of critical corruption, loss of motor functions, cognitive dissonance, time slippage. aphasia, and prosopagnosia. Discovering he has 7.2 hours before he enters terminal malfunction. 
Blurrily seeing that Charlotte is busy trying to find clothes that will fit her, he manages to pull a hypodermic needle from it's packaging. He locates a syringe and manages to draw out core CPU suspension fluid from the host on the repair table. Staggering back out of sight of Charlotte to Inject it into himself, just as Charlotte finishes dressing. As she approaches, asking if he found him, she finds him upright leaning back against a shelf unit. Nodding towards the tablet he says almost. More stable, his heavy breathing still brings a query about whether he's okay from her. His answer forestalled by the tablet alerting them to a location fix for Abernathy.
=== Dead Man's Party ===
Flashing forward, to 2 weeks after the massacre, Bernard accompanies, Strand, Stubbs and the extraction team past the White Church in Escalante heading towards the town, Picking their way through the now decomposing, bloated, fly and maggot infested bodies, vultures feeding on the remains, they make their way to the stage and the body of Robert Ford. Strand flipping it over, figuring Ford thought getting fired was going to be the worst part of his night. Looking back at Bernard, Strand asks him if this is jogging his memory at all? But Bernard remains silent. Strand instructs the team to fan out and lock the place down. He wants to know where the Hosts have all gone and what the hell has happened. 
Back in the UTV's with the others, Bernard and Stubbs travel out to a lakeside area, in relation to a call Strand has gotten from one of his men. The Extraction Team member meeting him, reports one of the first anomalies they've picked up in a live scan. Costa moving past Strand to the lake side is utterly perplexed. Noting that 'that' is definitely not supposed to be there, Looking down at the dead Bengal Tiger washed up on the shoreline. Stubbs telling Strand they have Bengals in "Park 6." but have never had a stray cross park borders. As they stare at it, Costa's tablet starts to give him alerts. The tech telling Strands they satellites are finally giving them some hits on the hosts. All of them are clustered together in the Western Valley in Sector 16. Stubbs wondering what the hell they are up to, Strand figures they need to go find out for themselves. Bernard still staring at the dead Bengal. 
Moving on to Sector 16, Mailing pulls the UTV in to say that the Valley is just beyond the cliff they are up on. Getting out, Stubbs reacts in confusion, Mailing noting "This isn't on the survey" as they all walk to the cliffs edge to look out at a Sea where the Valley should be. There's no way Ford made it without anyone knowing, Stubbs remarks as Bernard walks to look out at the vast body of water. Stubbs looking to him, wondering where the hell it came from. "I don't know," a still confused Bernard answers. Further along the cliff, Costa swears, and looks back at them, telling them it looks like they've found the hosts. Moving to join him they look down to see hundreds of host bodies, floating dead in the water below. 
Down on the shoreline, Bernard stares at the mass of bodies, as Strand joins him. Telling him he can't imagine what he must have gone through in the Park but there are hundreds of guests left in the Park and they need his help, which means he needs Bernard's. Asking Bernard again can he tell him what happened, Strand watches as Bernard starts to have some fragmented recall, softly answering "I....I killed them. All of them." As he stares out at the water, we cut below the waterline to one of the submerged bodies. Teddy. 
== Trivia ==
* The title shares a name with the narrative, Journey Into Night, introduced by Robert Ford to the board and guests during the Season One finale The Bicameral Mind.
* The title is also a reference to the Eugene O'Neill play, "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
* The change in Dolores' clothing, the stripped to her shift with the bandolier of ammo on top, her traditional blue dress below, is deliberately reflective of the new duality of the character, Wyatt / Dolores.
*Teddy appears to have been shot sometime between his and Dolores chasing down the fleeing guests across the prairie and the hanging scene with the guests that follow, as there is no sign of the wound/blood on his vest while riding. 
* Dolores placing the human guests on wobbly crosses with nooses around their necks is a direct homage to the scene in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly when Clint Eastwood's character does the same to Eli Wallach. While she doesn't subsequently shoot the noose free ala Eastwood, it is notable that the guests hands have been bound in front of them, not behind like Wallach, and they can reach up to their throats, giving them at least a chance to free themselves after she and her party are gone.
* The "Coy Female Host", played by Brenna Otts, is implied to be the same character as a background host at the Mariposa Saloon whom Otts played uncredited in Season One.
*Prosopagnosia - one of the symptoms affecting Bernard is also known as face blindness, meaning you cannot recognise people's faces. 
=== Goofs/Errors ===
* Continuity Error: The Man In Black in the final episode of season one was nursing his shoulder, after Dolores injured it pretty badly in a physical confrontation. He can be seen nursing his injury in his final scene, in the season finale, when he his grazed with a bullet shot by an oncoming army of hosts. - But at the start of season two, the injury seems to have been forgotten/ignored, as he’s able to fight off two of the hosts when he wakes up from being unconscious.
*The editing between long and close in shots during Dolores & Teddy's love scene on the prairie continuously shifts back and forth between arms around each other and then suddenly hands on faces, and then back again, especially as Angela arrives. 
* We learn later how Teddy's body perished, but when he does his eyes are closed after death. However when he's seen floating in the water his eyes are wide open, and there does not appear to be any sign of the wound that actually killed him.
== Music ==
*The Entertainer — Scott Joplin
== Deaths ==
*6 unnamed Westworld Hosts (Physical Body) - Killed by QA/Extraction Team at the Beach
*Rebus (Physical Body) - Killed by QA/Extraction Team at the Beach
*3 unnamed Ghost Nation members (Flashback, Physical Body) - Killed by Teddy & Dolores 
*1 unnamed Female Guest from the gala (Flashback) - Killed by Rebus
*1 unnamed Stable Boy Host (Flashback, Physical Body) - Killed by Blaine / Gala Guests
*3 (fleeing) Gala Guests - Killed by Dolores on the Prairie 
*40 unnamed guests from the Gala - Killed by Dolores & Other Hosts
*9 Rebel Hosts killed at Gala (Physical Body) - Killed by William & Other Guests
*Ronald - Killed by Hosts at Guest Cabin Accommodation
*2 unnamed Rebel Hosts - Killed by William at Guest Cabin Accommodation
*9 unnamed Westworld QA Security Force - Killed by Hosts in the Creative/Narrative and Control Room Areas
*3 unnamed Behaviour Techs - Killed by Hosts in the Mesa
*7 unnamed Rebel Hosts - Killed in Mesa and Control Room (Physical Body)
*7 unnamed Surveillance Techs - Killed by Hosts in the Control Room
*5 unnamed Guests - killed by Angela and Wyatt/Dolores's Followers
*3 unnamed Hosts - Killed in Behaviour Lab
*4 unnamed Behaviour Techs - Killed in Behaviour Lab
*24 unnamed people at Mesa Gold Bar
*4 unnamed Hosts around campfire in the Park
*Young Robert (Physical Body)
*3 unnamed Techs in Livestock Management
*- It is not known whether the 3 Guests that Dolores leaves on the crosses with nooses around their necks die or not. As it is feasible, given their hands are tied at the front, they may have been able to reach up to remove the nooses. If, they were very careful/lucky.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy
*Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay
*Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe
*James Marsden as Teddy Flood
*Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale
*Fares Fares as Antoine Costa
*Luke Hemsworth as Ashley Stubbs
*Louis Herthum as Peter Abernathy
*Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore
*Talulah Riley as Angela
*Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton
*Gustaf Skarsgård as Karl Strand
*with Ed Harris as Man in Black
===Guest Starring===
*Betty Gabriel as Maling
*Steven Ogg as Rebus
*Christopher May as Blaine
*Oliver Bell as Little Boy
=== Co-Starring ===
* Ward Roberts as New Walter
* Micah Fitzgerald as Gold Miner Host
* Adam Storke as Sophisticated Man
* Lisa Roumain as Panicked Woman
* Sarah Jane MacKay as Woman in Ball Gown
* Brian Yang as Naval Officer
* David Midthunder as Takoda
* Brett Edwards as Lead QA Responder
* Matthew Wimbush as PMC
* Brenna Otts as Coy Female Host
* Adam Farabee as Stable Hand
* Antonio Leon as Ronald
* René Ashton as Female Guest
* Jasmyn Rae as Maeve's Daughter
* Alexander Ward as Lead Drone
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==Quotes==
Bernard Lowe: I... I killed them. All of them.
Lee Sizemore: No. Stop. Get the fuck back! Freeze all motor functions!
Cannibal Gold Miner: Fork tender flesh, racked in fear.
Lee Sizemore: Freeze all goddamn motor functions!
Cannibal: Those ambrosia notes -- they remind me of my place in this world.
Lee Sizemore: Back the fuck off, you goddamn freak!
Cannibal: You see? The greatest shame in life is to perish without purpose. Which is why I always consume my victims moist.
Maeve Millay: You were going to out me.
Lee Sizemore: No. No, I swear.
Maeve Millay: If you try something like that again, I will relieve you of your most precious organ and feed it to you. Though it won't make much of a meal.
Lee Sizemore: I wrote that line for you.
Maeve Millay: A bit broad, if you ask me.
Little Boy: Are you lost?
Man in Black: No, I don't believe I am. In fact... I feel like I just arrived.
Little Boy: How so, William?
Man in Black: The stakes are real in this place now. Real consequences.
Little Boy: Question for you is, what next? Have you achieved what you wanted?
Man in Black: Folly of my kind -- there's always a yearning for more.
Little Boy: What I've always appreciated about you -- you never rested on your laurels. You made it to the center of Arnold's maze. But now, you're in my game. In this game, you have to make it back out. In this game... you must find the door. Congratulations, William. This game is meant for you. The game begins where you end... and ends where you began.
Man in Black: Even now, you all still talk in code?
Little Boy: Everything is code here, William. You know that more than anyone. Don't worry. The game will find you.
Man in Black: Well, then... (cocks pistol) I guess I don't need you anymore... Robert. (shoots boy)
Little Boy: (dying electronic sounds)
Dolores Abernathy: You don't know how to feel about this.
Teddy Flood: We've ridden ten miles, and all we've seen is blood, Dolores. Is this really what you want?
Dolores: They never gave us a choice before, Teddy. What makes you think they've given us one now?
Teddy: "Them," Dolores? Who are "they"?
Dolores: The things that walk among us. Creatures who look and talk like us, but they are not like us. And they've controlled us all our lives. And they took our minds... our memories. (sighs) But now... I remember everything. I remember beautiful things... and terrible things. But one thing is constant: you, Teddy.
Teddy: Then let's go. We don't have to claim this world. We just need a small corner of it for ourselves.
Dolores: We'd never survive. There's a greater world out there... one that belongs to them. And it won't be enough to win this world. We'll need to take that one from them as well.
Teddy: If there's a whole world out there that we don't know anything about, how do you know how to stop them?
Dolores: Because I remember. I see it all now so... clearly. The past, the present... the future. I know how this story ends.
Teddy: How?
Dolores: With us, Teddy. It ends... with you... and me.
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