? Westworld S02.E06: Phase Space

It's yet another Chair Chat with Dolores and...Arnold? Bernard? "You frighten me sometimes," he tells her (again), as she gives a Mona Lisa smile. It's the standard conversation, where she asks why he would be, and he responds that he fears what she might become. But this time, we get a left turn: after he launches into his lines about the choice he has to make, he pauses. "I'm not sure it's my choice to make," he mutters. What happens next is surprising, yet feels inevitable. "No," Dolores responds. "He didn't say that." Oh, we're with Bernard, then. Of course, Bernard doesn't know what he is, and asks, "What?" "He said, 'I'm not sure what choice to make,'" Dolores tells him firmly. "He didn't question whether or not he had agency, whether or not he had the right to end me or himself, but whether he should." Bernard still doesn't get it, asking if Dolores's dialogue is improvised. "Freeze all motor functions," she says. And here we were thinking Maeve had broken new ground! Apparently not, as Dolores (still clad in her blue dress) orders Bernard to sit and pulls the tablet from his hands. "This is a test, one we've done countless times," she says. "What are you testing for?" Bernard asks robotically (ha). "Fidelity," says Dolores, and we go to black. The show plays this like they never "What doored" us in Season 1, but I'm not sure what the news hook is here. Is it that Arnold didn't have any friends to do the Delos Instagram Cell test besides his favorite bot Dolores? (Sad!) Is it that someone was keeping the tech that successfully allows a real person to be made into a host from Delos and William? Is it that Dolores knows how to use a tablet already and doesn't actually need Phil? Beats me.

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