Robert Ford/Dissonance Theory

==="Dissonance Theory"===
Theresa meets with Ford, near where a huge excavator digs land for his new story line. Ford then takes her to the restaurant at the Agave Plantation.Theresa mentions that she visited the restaurant as a child with her parents and that she may be sitting in the same seat she did back then. Ford talks about knowing everything possible about their employees Responding to Ford's question about whether she liked Westworld, Theresa tells him that when she started working there, she realized it would be something she would not enjoy. Ford tells Theresa that Westworld was originally intended as something different, and that he had a bet with Arnold about whether the park could be made to be perfectly balanced. The story lines that would have supported that weren't adopted and Ford lost the bet. Ford claimed that Arnold was very cynical towards mankind, preferring the company of hosts to humans. And that Arnold pleaded with Ford to not let a corporate influence affect the park. Ford states that to him, Westworld is not a business venture or a theme park, but an entire world, in which he has designed every detail. This makes Ford a god, and Corporate the guests. While saying this, Ford freezes the waiter with a movement of his fingers. The glass of wine the waiter was pouring overflows and Theresa realizes that every restaurant and plantation worker in sight has also frozen.
Ford explains to Theresa that Arnold lost his perspective and went mad, unlike himself, because he has always seen things very clearly. Ford goes on to say that he knows everything about both the park's guests and its employees. She realizes that she really is sitting in the same chair she occupied as a child, that he must have known that. He reveals to Theresa that he knows about her relationship with Bernard, and follows this with a thinly veiled threat to her to stay out of his way. (He tells her that he's seen her kind come and go and they have "almost always" found a way to get along.) He says that he is asking her "nicely" not to intervene in his plans.
Ford unfreezes the hosts both inside and outside the restaurant with a flick of his finger. He tells the waiter to rejoin the others. Theresa and Ford both hear and see the approaching excavator on the horizon now. Theresa leaves, clearly disturbed.
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