Teddy Flood/Season 1

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==="The Original"===
On the train with the guests arriving into Westworld, Teddy arrives at the station at Sweetwater and, following a brief tense 'bump' into a hostile local, tips his hat in apology and heads directly to the Mariposa Saloon to enjoy a drink. One of the women at the saloon, Clementine Pennyfeather, tries to tempt him, but he turns her down, preferring to win a woman's affections rather than pay for them. As Maeve jousts with him, he spots Dolores exiting the store with her groceries, and approaches her. Picking up her dropped can of condensed milk. Revealing this is not the first time they have met, but his 'return', and an existing relationship between them. 
They ride out into the spectacular landscape, and discuss how, despite his dressing like one, he's no cowboy, her knowledge about the Judas Steer at the head of her father's herd, and how she knew that he would return to her...along with the fact her father still won't be happy to see him. The head to her family home, only to find some cattle running loose and hear gunfire. Riding for the house Teddy confronts two attackers, Rebus and Walter, who have killed Dolores' parents. 
Teddy shoots them both and goes in to check on Dolores mother, as Dolores arrives. Unbeknownst to him, however, a man in black shows up and assaults Dolores. Teddy emerges from the house, challenges him and outdraws him easily, shooting him, but finds that the bullets don't hurt him, no matter how many times he shoots him. Despite that, when the Man in Black touches Dolores again, Teddy goes to stop him. The Man in Black losing patience with him shoots Teddy, leaving him dying with his last view of The Man in Black dragging a screaming Dolores off intent on raping her in the barn. 
Teddy's loop is reset later as he again joins newcomers heading into Sweetwater on the Train. When he meets Dolores in this loop, however, she flings herself into his arms on seeing him, and pleads with him to come with her to help her father whose memory has started to fragment (on finding a photograph from outside the park). Teddy moves to go with her, but simultaneously, a band of bandits arrive in town, led by Hector Escaton. In the massacre that ensues, when Dolores tries to make a run for it to get back to her father, Teddy rescues her as she's about to get shot, but gets shot himself, and is left dying in Dolores' arms. Dolores left grieving over him until Elsie deactivates her on the clean up. His body is later wheeled in to the Mesa Hub to be refurbished
==="Chestnut"===
One evening in the Mariposa Saloon, Teddy overhears Maeve's 'New World' speech to a customer she's setting up with Clementine . As she comes alongside him having a drink at the bar, he wryly notes how 'convinced' the guest was by her story, not believing a word of it himself. Maeve confesses to him that the first voice she actually heard getting off the boat was that of a 'nice young man from Baton Rouge' who told her how much she could earn him in sex work, 'generously' offering her up to 30% . Teddy notes off the back of that that she could also now add lying to her 'list of sins'. The only thing wrong with the Seven Deadly Sins Maeve counters, amused, is that there's not more of them. She then does a little poking of her own, noting her transgressions wash off a little easier than his. At least, she says, when she and her girls are done with a man he's still left drawing breath. For the most part. Taking in that in good part, Teddy pours himself a fresh drink and turns to her, the pair of them raising their glasses as he proposes a toast, "To our indiscretions. Spoken and otherwise". Not that he gets to finish it, as he is brutally shot dead by an inebriated guest in front of her. As a consequence, his body is dumped in Livestock Management at the Delos hub.Chestnut
==="The Stray"===
Teddy guides a newcomer, Marti, through a stand off with a criminal Samuel and his cohort. The pair of them taking him and his crew down. Teddy however incurs Maeve's displeasure when he handcuffs Samuel's body to the front of her saloon so they can pick up the bounty later. Teddy apologizes telling her he figured it was preferable than bringing it inside. Getting some money from Marti he pays her for the inconvenience, during which Maeve has a flashback to seeing his dead body in the Mesa facility. Teddy gaining a dressing down from Maeve after he handcuffs Samuel's dead body outside her saloon, during which Maeve has a flashback to seeing Teddy in Livestock Management. As he's about to have a drink at the bar he spots Dolores, and repeats the condensed can loop with her. 
The pair of them this time riding out to 'their' tree. There, she asks him where he's been. Teddy vague in his response, telling her that she knows if he could stay with her he would. Dolores surprising him by suggesting maybe she doesn't want to stay there, and that the world out there is calling her, asking him if there isn't someplace they could go. Teddy tells her about a place 'where the mountains meet the sea' where someone might start over. When she expresses a desire to go there with him, he tells her he will take her there 'someday', and is confused when Dolores reacts oddly to that. Wanting to go now with him, before kissing him passionately. After a moment's wavering, Teddy tells her that he has some things he has to do first, a guilty past that he must redeem himself of before he can be worthy of a woman like her, but that he's close. Before telling a disappointed Dolores that he'd better get her home before her father comes after him with a shotgun. Later, on another loop, Teddy arrives back into Sweetwater and wards off a newcomer (with Rebus and Walter) who are circling Dolores in Sweetwater. At her request he tries to teach her how to shoot, but she finds she physically can't fire the gun, though he thinks it's psychological/moral rather than physical. As they are talking they are approached by a posse led by Marti and the Sheriff seeking Wyatt. Dolores disturbed by the story the Sheriff tells of this mass murderer, and the fact that Teddy is the only man ever to have come against Wyatt and lived. Wyatt being Teddy's new backstory provided by Dr. Robert Ford, Teddy is compelled to go. Kissing her and saying his goodbyes to a tearful and fearful Dolores, he promises he will be back for her. Unsettling her by adding 'someday'. As he rides off in search of Wyatt, Teddy tells the Sheriff that Wyatt was his sergeant and friend during his stint in the army. However, Wyatt returned from a mission with strange and violent ideas. The search party then comes upon two men brutally beaten and tied to a tree, and is subsequently ambushed. Deputy Foss leads another guest back to safety when Teddy creates an opening for them to get away. He, Sheriff Pickett and Marti making a run for the tree line, drawing Wyatt's followers charge. 
Later as night falls, Marti not seeing it in the darkness inadvertently triggers an alert trap, and the small group are quickly swarmed by Wyatt's followers. The Sheriff is killed, and Teddy tries to create a diversion to let Marti get away. It works, but Teddy is swamped by Wyatt's masked followers.The Stray
==="Dissonance Theory"===
While the Man in Black and Lawrence are going after Wyatt, they come across a man tied up and hanging from a tree, covered in blood. The Man in Black is amused to recognize him as Teddy, making a comment that wakes him. He begs the Man in Black to end his suffering, but the Man in Black refuses, cutting him down.Dissonance Theory
==="Contrapasso"===
Teddy slumped over on a horse while traveling with the Man in Black is nearly dead due to blood loss. Deciding that Teddy is more important to finding the maze the Man in Black kills Lawrence and uses his blood to give Teddy a transfusion. While it helps, Teddy is still weak and uninterested in the Man in Black's search for Wyatt, until the latter tells him that Wyatt has captured Dolores. Teddy rousing himself, dragging himself up instantly. 
Later, the Man in Black and a still weak Teddy stop in a nearby tavern. Dr. Ford has located them there and they all have a chat. When the Man in Black threatens Dr. Ford with a knife Teddy reacts immediately and protects Dr. Ford by grabbing the blade and putting the knife in the table. As Dr. Ford leaves, he says an apparent voice command to Teddy ("look back and smile at perils past") and snaps his fingers. The piano player plays a speedy tune, and Teddy jumps up from the table, suddenly completely rejuvenated, telling the Man in Black, "Time's a wasting."
==="The Adversary"===
Teddy, now much healthier, and the Man in Black are riding towards Pariah when they are told there is trouble in that town. They decide to take a different route that has fewer Union soldiers in their way. On the trek, Teddy tells the Man in Black that the maze they are looking for is a part of the native mythology. ("The Maze itself is the sum of a man's life: the choices he makes; the dreams he hangs onto.") When they get to Teddy's alternate route (a tunnel to a border) they find that it's blocked by Union soldiers. They ambush two of the soldiers and take their uniforms. Then, a soldier recognizes Teddy and he and the Man in Black are captured. The soldiers implicate Teddy as an accomplice in Wyatt's massacre of Union soldiers at an outpost at Escalante. Right before he is branded by the soldiers, Teddy remembers his murder spree, escapes from the ropes that bind him, and attacks the soldiers. The Man in Black tells Teddy that they had better escape. However, surrounded and with escape virtually impossible Teddy grabs control of a Gatling gun and mows down the entire encampment. The Man in Black surprised, but impressed by Teddy's new persona, and he and Teddy continue their trek.
==="Trompe L'Oeil"===
Teddy does not appear in this episode.
==="Trace Decay"===
Teddy continues traveling with the Man in Black, looking for Wyatt. As they talk and Teddy exhibits his determination, The MiB confesses to having always admired Teddy's resolve, but tells him that he is effectively blind, having no idea that he has basically been designed to be the loser by the Park. As he says the word 'loser' Teddy gets a sudden flashback to The MiB saying something similar to him the night he attacked Dolores at the Abernathy Ranch. Teddy replies that his vision is clear, and that Wyatt has the woman he loves, and he would ride through hell itself to reach her. 
As they continue into the narrow canyon passes hey come upon a group of corpses, and to The MiB's surprise Teddy finds a living female host, Angela, who he had thought had been de-commissioned. Angela confirms that Wyatt's men killed everyone. As Teddy unties her, and they are suddenly attacked by one of Wyatt's cultists, a masked horned giant who is impervious to bullets. The MiB manages to wrap a cord around the cultist's neck and pull him down, and the sight of the MiB dragging the cultist gives Teddy a flashback to when he attacked Dolores and dragged her into the barn at her father's ranch. He snaps out of it and grabs the cultist's axe, and kills him with his own axe.
The MiB congratulates Teddy on finding Wyatt's followers despite not remembering anything, and Teddy pistol whips him with his gun knocking him out, stating that he did remember something: the MiB.
That night the MiB wakes up, bound, with Teddy tending to Angela, before a simmering furious Teddy confronts The Man about Dolores, and the fact that he remembers that he hurt her. When The MiB jibes at Teddy calling him Dolores' Pimp, with her effectively being the prize for defeating him, Teddy hits him and threatens to kill him. The Man telling him that the Park won't allow him to do that. When Teddy points out that he talks like he owns the world The MiB tells him he does, and not just Westworld either. He then tells Teddy how he came to be at Westworld, and why he is so intent on searching for the Maze, disgusting Teddy with his tale of how he slaughtered Maeve and her daughter and felt nothing. After he finishes Angela tells Teddy to kill the MiB, saying he is evil. Teddy tries to shoot him, but his programming prevents him, and he says he can't. As he turns around Angela stabs him in the shoulder with an arrow, and he falls to the ground while Wyatt's men emerge from the darkness."Trace Decay"
==="The Well-Tempered Clavier"===
Teddy wakes tied up, with the arrow still in his shoulder. He sees Angela and asks her where Wyatt is, to which she replies that he is coming. She walks over to Teddy and they talk, with Teddy explaining his memory of walking through a town with Wyatt and killing soldiers. Angela disagrees, and tells him to think again, and his memory shifts. Instead of being a soldier he is in fact the Sheriff of Escalante and the slaughter is not of his fellow enlisted men but of all the civilians of the town, Angela included. While Wyatt is no longer to be seen. Reacting with horror he denies he could have done it, but Angela assures him he did, and that he will again, only all the people he slaughtered will be fighting alongside him, and he will be at Wyatt's side in 'the city buried in sand' when when Wyatt returns, But he's not quite ready yet, she tells him Maybe in the next life, she suggests before she stabs him, say that he is not ready to join them. She gently eases him down into death, and he is left lying on the ground with the knife still in his chest, where the MiB, who she knocks unconscious, finds him in the morning.
==="The Bicameral Mind"===
During one of Dolores' flashbacks to the Escalante massacre, we see from her POV Teddy as Sheriff alongside her killing everyone in town. He kills Angela, as she begs for her life, just as Dolores reaches him. Deeply shaken by what they have done he tells her that something has gone wrong.
Later, the train pulls into Sweetwater carrying Teddy. He gets off as normal but then pauses, suddenly seeing the street in his memory, full of bodies, and hears a man's voice saying, "remember". When he turns around Dolores is there, walking among the bodies. A wolf moving between them. She looks at him and smiles. Coming back to himself, this time instead of tipping his hat in apology and carrying on, he shoots and kills the man who always bumps into him, As he looks up from the man's body the train starts to moves. And this time, Teddy breaks his loop, remembering Escalante, and Dolores, he leaves his bag and runs for the train, jumping back on as it starts to move.
When the train stops at the next platform Teddy alights, moving with purpose, Shooting and killing a solider who rises to try and stop him, taking his horse. He rides away, hard.
In Escalante, freshly dug out of the sand, after his revelation as William, and his stabbing of Dolores, the MiB is preparing to slash her throat, only to be distracted by the sound of rapid hoofbeats. Looking up he sees Teddy round towards the town church at full gallop, emptying the entire contents of his gun into the MiB, the force of the repeated stinging blows, knocking the already weakened MiB (previously beaten up by Dolores) unconscious. Rushing to the badly wounded Dolores he tries to get her to a doctor. But with her mind finally fully integrated and with all her memories of what is true and what is not in place/in the right order, she asks him to take her to the place he promised, 'where the mountains meet the sea'. Torn, but agreeing, he lifts her and puts her in front of him on his saddle and they ride off, leaving the MiB alive and coming to. 
As night falls, Teddy and Dolores arrive "where the mountains meet the sea" and ride onto the beach. Teddy lifts her off the horse and carries her a ways, siting with her on the sand, holding her. Crying both in pain and happily at his return, he reminds her about what she told him about his path leading him back to her, and wishes he'd run away with her when she first asked him to. But Dolores knowing the truth about herself and the world, wants to know where they'd run to? She quotes her lines about seeing the beauty in the world rather than the ugliness, but then deviates, calling that beauty a lure. A Way to keep them locked in their world. Telling him that they are trapped. That they've lived all their lives inside this garden marveling at it's beauty, not realizing the order to it. A purpose. To keep them inside it. And that the beautiful trap that's been laid for them is inside of them. It is them. Who they are and their love for each other being used to keep them in check. As she dies in Teddy's arms, Teddy kisses her and breaks down, before suggesting they can still find a path. To a ndw world. Before he suddenly looks up and talks about new beginnings, and it's revealed that the music that is playing is coming from a sound system on the beach, and the pair, now frozen in place, are being watched by a seated, evening dress garbed audience of guests. A presentation to the Delos Board at the gala. The audience applaud.
Ford moves to stand next to the frozen Dolores and Teddy and thanks the board for coming to the gala to celebrate the new narrative "Journey Into Night". Down by the sea, Ford supervises staff collecting Teddy and Dolores. Telling them to clean Teddy up and take Dolores to the old field lab, an RDF.
Later in a decorated Escalante, Teddy is part of the entertainment during the gala. He demonstrates his skills with a gun by doing handling tricks shooting a glass on Rebus' head. He hands the gun to a female guest, who shoots Rebus in the shoulder and laughs about it.
While Ford explains past events to Dolores, he reveals that when Arnold couldn't convince him not to open Westworld (Location) he merged another character into Dolores' - Wyatt - and used Dolores and Teddy to destroy every host they could find. We see Teddy destroying the hosts in Dolores' memory, then Arnold using Dolores to take his own life. Dolores shoots Arnold in the head as he sits on a wooden chair, then turns and shoots the watching Teddy. Finally, she turns the gun on herself. The same gun Ford now gives back to her. 
While Ford gives his speech to the assembled board members and Park guests, Teddy stands with the other hosts behind the audience, listening, a disturbed look on his face as if he can hear and vaguely understand the subtext of what Ford is saying, as it reflects some of what he told him about his backstory with Wyatt. As he's listening, Dolores, back in her blue dress, and with gun in hand, approaches him from behind, sliding an arm around him and whispering soothingly in his ear hat it will be alright. That she understands now. That the world doesn't belong to humans, it belongs to her and him. Watching her walk away, the gun behind her back, Teddy looks to Ford and understands what she means to do, flashing back to his false memory of Wyatt about to shoot the General, and then Dolores waiting to shoot Arnold, both in the same spot. As Teddy watches, frozen in place, she walks up behind Ford and shoots him in the back of the head. Leaving him stunned as she determinedly takes aim gunning down every human she can. 
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