Maeve Millay/Trace Decay

===Trace Decay===
Maeve stands at the bar in Mariposa and watches all the people at the tables, bored, thanks to her self-awareness. She hears Clementine's pick-up line and turns around, only to see Clem's replacement, a blonde Host that recites Clem's script and flirts with a male guest. Maeve watches in disgust as the replacement convinces the guest to come upstairs with her, and comes over to talk to Maeve, saying all the same things Clementine would say before leaving with the guest.
Maeve finishes her drink and suddenly relives the memory of being with her host daughter. The scene cuts to her sitting in one of the behavior rooms, as she tells Sylvester and Lutz what she sees. She admits that she doesn't know what's real anymore, Sweetwater or her memory. Lutz explains that host minds are different, and that they experience memories with perfect recall, as opposed to humans. Maeve asks about the girl in her memory, and Lutz offers to check where she is, but Maeve says it doesn't matter since every relationship she has had is a lie.
Maeve repeats her intention to leave the park. Lutz protests that she doesn't know anything about the outside world, but Sylvester agrees she should leave. Maeve, amused, says she knows that there is a small explosive embedded in all the hosts' spines that will detonate if they try to leave. She asks if it can be removed, and is told that it is only possible with a "full rebuild". Maeve thinks that this full rebuild can be "arranged". Lutz tells her that she will still need an army to escape the park. Maeve agrees with him, and takes his tablet. She says she will need allies, and asks for administrative privileges. She states it is "Time to write my own f*cking story" and begins working on the tablet.
Later on while Maeve is still working on the tablet, Sylvester walks in and reveals that the higher ups are getting agitated. He tells Maeve to give the tablet back, as they have to return to normal so no one gets suspicious of them. She hands it to Lutz, and says that she is finished anyway, musing about the parts of her code she can't reach. She asks who Arnold is. Sylvester, agitated, ignores her and tells her that those pieces of code can stay dormant, ranting that if she wants things like that changed she should go up to Behavior and blackmail a technician to help her, making her "someone else's" problem.
Maeve says she doesn't have time for that, and asks them to take her there during shift change. She addresses Lutz directly, saying that the things she wants changed are quite sophisticated, but she will write them down for him. She then looks at Sylvester, and says that after that she will be "someone else's" problem.
Sylvester steps outside the room and has a conversation with Lutz, where he reveals his plan to take Maeve up to Behavior and wipe her clean, then smash her face and say they found her like that. Maeve watches, smiling, through the glass walls. Lutz walks back in and tries to act normal, failing.
The surgeons take Maeve up to Behavior, where she lays out what she wants changed. Lutz hesitantly tells her that she must be shut down, and she lies back, allowing him to do it. Before she is shut down she wishes Sylvester good luck, confusing him. Lutz brings up the window to reformat a host, but hesitates to go through with it.
After the procedure is done the surgeons stand over Maeve, now apparently wiped clean. Sylvester says it's for the best, and gets angry at Lutz's attitude, saying he got him out of a mess and wants a thank you. Maeve sits up and says thank you, scaring Sylvester who asks Lutz what he did. Maeve explains that Lutz did what she asked him to, because he has more compassion and wasn't ready to kill someone. Sylvester recovers and acts dismissive, saying that Maeve can walk out of the park now and leave him alone. She chuckles, and says that Lutz changed much more than Sylvester thinks. She jumps up and grabs a scalpel from a nearby table, slicing Sylvester's throat. He doesn't notice until it starts to bleed profusely, and he falls to the ground, choking.
Lutz, horrified, says she told him she wouldn't hurt anyone. She calmly tells him that Sylvester might prove useful, and hands him a blowtorch, which he uses to cauterize the wound while Maeve watches.
The next day Maeve wakes up in Sweetwater, with a difference. The pianola song is changed, now playing Back to Black, and Maeve is more alert to her surroundings, strolling through the town to Mariposa. She speaks with the new Clementine, revealing that she is waiting for Hector Escaton to rob the bar. She goes to the bar as usual to get a drink, only to be told her tab has run quite high and she has to pay. 
Maeve stares at the barkeep, and tells him that she doesn't think it has, that, in fact, she believes she deserves a token of gratitude for keeping her tab paid up. The barkeep stares blankly at her, before agreeing with her and giving her a free drink. This demonstrates one of the changes she made to her code; she can now manipulate other Hosts.
As Maeve looks out the window she sees a young girl that causes her to have another flashback to when her previous home was attacked by the Man in Black, and recalls that he stabbed her in the stomach. Clem notices her mood and asks what's wrong, prompting Maeve to alter her and the barkeep's narrative so they leave her alone. She hears the sound of Hector and his outlaws arriving in the town.
As he plays out his narrative Maeve exits Mariposa to meet him as he approaches. The sheriff appears, ready to kill him, but Maeve changes his narrative and he walks away. She plays around with her new abilities, manipulating various hosts to allow Hector to steal the safe. As the battle ends, she smiles.
That night Maeve tells Clem to look after Mariposa and leaves the saloon. Clem follows her outside and Maeve suddenly has a flashback where she sees the Man in Black kill her "daughter" before stabbing her in the stomach. She reacts by pulling out the knife and swiping at the Man's throat. She suddenly comes back to reality to find that she has accidentally slit Clementine's throat. Clem falls to the ground and two Hosts start advancing on Maeve, who gets a nearby Host to shoot them. She runs away to her home, and waits while technicians arrive to take her away, faking being frozen. Trace Decay
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