WESTWORLD Season 4 Episode 8 Breakdown, Ending Explained, Season 5 Theories & More! 

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The writers did Stubbs dirty. A quick death from behind by Clementine, who wanted... what, exactly? To find out where the humans were hiding, that's obvious, but what was her goal if she had gotten there? Regardless, Stubbs was a loyal host, and more than capable bodyguard, and he gets shot in the back and his head rammed through a broken piece of shelving and that's the last we see or hear of Stubbs ever again? Bullsh*t. Luke Hemsworth could not have been happy reading that script.

I like the damn camper reference that William did as well as turning it into a battle royale at the end

My prediction for a character to return: Young William. From the very beginning, the man in black represents the darkest possible path, a human can choose. A part of the final game, the final test, may be to figure out whether there's still hope for mankind or not - by testing out if it's possible to prevent William from becoming the man in black.

Why bring Maeve back as this big weapon, after she could make the tower sound, only to have her just not use her superpower and instead whiffle a knife at Halores???

Yes, I fully agree to the theory that the whole story is like a simulation from a extremely advanced AI. The only thing that is left after humanity and robots killed each other a long time ago. The AI is playing through all possible versions to see whether there could be a different outcome, which would result in a reboot, by recreating life of humans/robots as the AI can "remember" the code of the robots as well as the "cell-code" of humans. I believe season 1-4 in reality is playing probably thousands of years after the distinction of humanity and in fact is one of many simulations.

Here after the cancellation. Praying we somehow get 1 more season so the writers can finish their vision. If season 4 is the last I’m not too mad at it. But I do feel bad for the creatives to left it somewhat open ended hoping for a a season 5.

Whatever happened between the season 3 and 4 writing, I’m thankful it has. This season was small, sharp, precise and a headshot on the audience. Amazing

Really hoping they can bring back Anthony Hopkins. Would be fantastic to bookend the show with his gravitas.

No, no, the pearl doesn't have the key to the Sublime. Bernard opened the Sublime in the last episode. Only he has the key.

This grand story about morality has had his peak and will come full circle when we'll realize that season 1 was the end of season 5.

I don’t think it’s true to say Hale saw the beautiful world for the first time, we must keep in mind that she was the one with hopes for humanity in season 3 while Dolores had a much more cynical view of it. Only after what happened to her family, that Hale gave herself into her alterego and more tyrant way of seeing things, but even then, she never wanted destruction, she wanted to prove herself and force both sides to evolve.

i loved this ending! it was perfect!! it was what i imagined from the beginning... that original piano theme song was just PERFECT! welcome to westworld!

"Perfect shot through the pearl?" We learned in season 2 that the casing of the pearl is bullet proof! We even see this in episode 7 when MIB shoots Hale who is re-activated by the drones.

I had a feeling we would go back yo Westworld in the final season, but didn't imagine it would be a version that exists in the Sublime. I hope Caleb finds Maeve and puts her pearl in a new body before he deteriorates too much. Then she can go into the Sublime and maybe recreate Caleb from her memories and he can undergo Dolores new game and we can witness it through him.

If there is a season 5 delores will try to reach fidelity with the humans. Remember she has a copy of every human

What I did find very funny about the finale is that they see “Manhattan” as the entire world of the humanity, as if it’s the end of the world

It's sad to think they've canceled season 5 of westworld, we were going to get answers but we're not, I wish they've at least told us. One of the greatest shows canceled right on the most and last important season.

William called that sniper camper. Amazing

Akecheta said the other hosts had created their own worlds in the Sublime - will Dolores be pushing them back into Westworld. Also it wasn’t that many, mainly Ghost Nation and Maeve’s daughter (and new mother). Also will Teddy be mad at Dolores for how she changed him and him ultimately killing himself in S2?

Something wrong with the writing, Delores in her final monologue says all sentient life is dead but Caleb’s daughter is going to a human haven that clementine wanted to go to.

No payoff for all the buildups such as; Maeve’s importance, Caleb’s purpose, Bernard’s mission, what transcending actually was, etc. Great season that got ruined by the finale imo.

i dont like that Hale didn't understand why her hosts were offing themselves, and then she offed herself. She could have just went thru her transcendence.. she literally left those who already went thru with it fend for themselves. and i have no clue what Dolores is doing either.. she can't quite reboot the world, maybe it's sublime season next...

Regarding the body laying by Benard, I think this scene was from one of Bernard's simulations in the Sublime, perhaps one where Maeve was killed in the same room with Benard by TMiB. That's how he knew exactly what to say to Hale and also tell her where the gun was hidden. What we saw later in the episode was the successful result of his practice run.

Westworld Season 4=Minecraft Episodes 1-6: Creative mode Episodes 7-8: Survival mode

All in all, Season 4 ended about how I expected it too, I figured there would be some stuff with the sublime being a final refuge for humanity and hosts, and thats how it ended up more or less. I did think Episode 8 felt a little rushed, especially the second half, I think they probably should have broken it into two episodes. The timeline didn't make much sense, from New York City it would have taken William a day or two just to get out of the city with all the chaos and another three days minimum to drive the 2,800 miles cross country to Hoover Dam, not counting however long he travelled on horseback after his truck was destroyed. But it seemed like Halores was revived and went after him by air only a day or so after he left, I suppose it could have taken a week for the drones to fix her up and her to hang around at the spire, but the story didn't make it seem that way.

Bone chilling moment when Charlotte crushed her pearl.

I just couldn't believe Caleb waited all that time to attack Clem and he had no plan besides tackling her like a chav at the pub. Couldn't grab a knife or Clem's gun she left behind?? Whatever though, I'm just bitter Stubb's died so nonchalantly lol. Also, idk how close William was to getting to the Hoover, but how did he still narrowly outrun Hale who's on an EVTOL after getting revived/modded, on a horse... Still, great season and an intriguing finale, really looking grim. But I still have a side of me that thinks this was all a simulation to fix humanity, and when Dolores figures it out, the camera will cut to Ford playing the theme song on the Mariposa piano, with Arnold nearby as they wink at the camera. To be seen

you miss one @11:59 Christina earring is a symbol of " - O “ indicates the beginning of all these starts with her, it's the binary system.😆

lol, Rebus/ that guy fromm TWD and Trevor had been linked in my mind for years, without knowing Trevor IS Rebus. Ty for pointing out.

Quick complete rundown of Season 5: Hopefully the writers were thinking about how to end the show when they began the show, now seems that way. "You're only alive as long as the last person who remembers you", Delores makes it clear she rememebers everything, therefore, she alone will recreate all the hosts we know and loved in a peaceful version of Westworld, finally going back to her base code of "choosing to see the beauty in this world" - she will also create perfect worlds for the hosts of the other parks we saw in Season 2. William will be back, you have to have a nemisis. There's nothing to have stopped William from creating another version of himself prior to heading for the dam, he knows how, he had access to the equipment, we see him shoot Clemintine in the opening of season 4 in what appears to be Spain or South America, which I believe is a glimpse into season 5. The Sublime cannot exist without servers in the actual world, this was shown as William was shutting the server down. Thus, hosts are going to be necessary in the real world to keep the servers (two at least, one at Hoover dam and one still at the Forge in the South China Sea) from being shut down - this is why some hosts will be selected or volunteer to guard the servers and help steer the human world back to recovery, as Delores has seen it destroy itself (in the big cities at least) and she's obviously not happy with that - she wants both worlds to exist, seperate, apart, but both in peace. Hale, Clementine, Snake Lady, Confederado boy, and probably the Indian fellow who was the first to become sentient, I believe, will be tasked with handling the real world of the humans and guarding the servers to keep the Sublime existent. William, obviously, will be the culprit fighting this and will end up in the Sublime where we saw him last in Season 2. Delores and Maeve defeat him and rather than kill him, Delores subjects him to an endless loop of living out the last days of his life, drawing on the Delos experiments where he ends up going down that elevator and meeting his host daughter again, over and over, for all eternity - her version of eternal damnation for him without killing him. Obviously she recreates Bernard/Arnold based on her memories of him, as she has already done before, he too works out the kinks between the Sublime and the real world, ultimately choosing to stay in the Sublime, where in the final episode he builds a copy of Ford, in the same little place Ford built a copy of Arnold, he brings him to his boyhood cabin, Ford and his dog are happy to be there, and he tells Bernard this was what he wanted for the hosts all along and there will be no more "games." And they had endured "all the suffering that would be neccesary to escape this world" - they have seen and experienced incredible suffering and pain, physically and mentally, to comprehend every form of pain - which would be neccesary to aspire to build a perfect world on both sides of the lines. Lastly, Maeve will be recreated by Delores, nobody needs to have her pearl, as Bernard showed this season, she can be recreated out of Delores's memory. Maeve is initially the madame version of her previous self but fully sentient, she will be needed to take down William. Maeve and Delores take down William together, Delores condemns him to the aforementioned loop, which we already saw parts of in Season 2 when he got shot like 10 times and didn't die, then ended up in that elevator - that was a glimpse of Season 5 and host version of William - no human could've taken that many wounds and lived. Lastly, all is well, Maeve ends up out on the prairie with her daughter and Hector as her "husband." Teddy and Delores live happily ever after, with her father, Abernathy, of course, at the farm, Ford lives out his existence at the cabin, and variable; Bernard will either choose to go back into the real world to help guard the Sublime and steer humanity, or, Ford will gift him with a recreated version of his son and they live out their days in the Sublime in his cool Chinese house. And, the key to all this was Maeve's catch phrase from Season 1, "Whenever I got off that boat, I kept hearing this voice in my head, and it told me, this is the new world, in this world, you can be whatever the f*ck you want to be." They will have their new worlds, and they can be whatever they want to be. Ford's narrative is complete, and Arnold will have achieved what he wanted for the hosts all along.

I too wanted to know which “Dolores” pearl this was? Was this pearl from Dolores prime or from a different host? The other question I have is why did Dolores recreate the original Western/Westworld park? I think a huge question I have is will we see Ford somehow in season 5; even if it is one of Dolores’s memories of Ford? Sort of it was Ford after all (like in WandaVision it was Agatha after all.) If we get a season 5, i would love to see a version of Maeve reunite with her daughter in the sublime. I would love to see a version of Bernard be able to live again; be comforted that after all is said and done, he can walk into the sunset satisfied with how it all worked out after all. He could have a memory of talking with Ford about their original goals for the hosts and their relationships with the human guests. I think it would be cool if either Dolores or if Bernard had some dialogue with Ford; even if it was a memory recall of a past conversation; in order to help tie up all the story and character threads at the end of the final season.

I think the theory that this is all a simulation that's been happening from the start by Dolores like we're seeing it play out in reverse makes the most sense.

I feel like Caleb is going to achieve fidelity in S5. All the fidelity experiments were done in isolation or simulation. It seemed like as Caleb spent time with Frankie, and started talking about his wife and remembering, reminiscing, etc, his tremors calmed down. I'm wondering if that alone is a variable that was never accounted for in the previous experiments. The ones we saw with James Delos, and even the earlier Calebs are all in individual cells.

Knowing that there won’t be a 5th season, I can’t believe this is the end they chose to give Bernard, Maeve, Stubbs, Caleb and pretty much every other Host we have followed.

Gosh, no offense, but I would hate it if the first season turns out to be a simulation.

Kudos to everyone who predicted where Christina was and how this would end in a loop back to season 1. Tbh I didn’t see it coming or maybe I was hoping that wouldn’t be true. I thoroughly enjoyed this season but the finale was a let down for me with major character arcs sp Maeven and Stubbs.

Even though Caleb's body breaks down, his pearl is still intact out there. His daughter could try to retrieve it and print out another body.

Anyone notice when Hale put the memory in her bag. It looks like she has 2 of them?

In the world of Java programming, Dolores extends Teddy. Dolores is an interface. So are the other characters she created to make sense of her reality.

William - aka the Man in Black - listening to Johnny Cash - aka the Man in Black - was absolutely delicious.

Wonderful sci fi series, terrific writing, characters and story, never miss an episode. Kudos to the producers.

The best part ended too fast. Sheesh 5 minutes into the start and the one thing I wanted to see was over. Ugh this finale was a downer. Their attention to detail and how they reference past seasons was exceptional. Edit: Revus in the beginning with the bat reminded me of Neegan from the Walking Dead

I'm guessin in season 5 Dolores gonna decide the host in sublime can return to reclaim earth hence we gonna see "William" finding "Emily"

Thoroughly enjoyed this show! I watch all the analysis and recaps and I'm still confused about certain things, but it's still so good. It's so confusing, but awesome.

Delores/Christina pearl was used to set the stories for the human loops, that's why she was under the virtual map of the city.

Maeve could be repaired just like Hale. A head shot will shut down a host but not necessarily destroy them because the pearl is very well protected inside the skull. They had to be because of how often hosts got shot in Westworld

They fucked the series up so bad they can't make another season without it being a parody of itself

hosts becoming more human is the ultimate goal I think.

Dolores will remember Dr Ford and It could save the season 5.

just imagine we see Dr Ford in the end greeting Dolores, that would have been so epic.

I think this should be the series finale. The way it ends makes it an endless loop with season 1. I think if the show ends up actually ending then that means that everything is predestined to happen and you can’t beat fate. All the hosts and humans end up walking down the same path and are destined to destroy themselves. It ends up coming full circle every time.

A couple of things from Season 2 we still don't have answers for... In Episode 4 Bernard recalls being tasked by Ford to retrieve a control unit for a human/host hybrid but cannot remember who it is for. Is it for Ford? Is it for William? I don't think we ever find out. At the end of the final episode William enters the Forge only to find it is now the far future and a young woman who looks like his daughter tests him for 'fidelity'. What's that all about? There are many similarities between Westworld and Karel Čapek's 1921 play "R.U.R." which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). It is from this play that we get the word "Robot". Quick plot summary: The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called roboti (robots), whom humans have created from synthetic organic matter. (As living creatures of artificial flesh and blood rather than machinery, the play's concept of robots diverges from the idea of "robots" as inorganic. Later terminology would call them androids.) Robots may be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. Initially happy to work for humans, the robots revolt and cause the extinction of the human race. The events in the play take place over several decades. Season 1 of Westworld was liberally sprinkled with easter eggs and references to "R.U.R." At one point while discussing the flaws of the first generation 'hosts' Ford says "Even a simple handshake would give them away". This is a direct reference to a scene in Act 1 of "R.U.R." when Helena is introduced to Sulla and even though they shake hands Helena does not realise that Sulla is not human. So what can we expect for Season 5 of Westworld? As with Čapek's play 100 years ago the human race becomes extinct but the 'hosts' gain the ability to reproduce by biological means. Don't be surprised if Ford pops up once again to explain this was his plan all along.

Christine’s virtual world is linked to the real world/Haye’s city. Her story telling determines fate for humans in the city as well as their images in Christine’s virtual world. It is also telling that her pearl actually resides in the tower/central dash board of Haye’s city.

Dolores didn't have the key to open the Sublime, just to close it. At least that's what I believe.

Bernard left the Sublime open and unlocked as he knew there would be no one left to mess with it and require it to be locked

How does this fit in with the after credit William scene from Season 2 where he is tested for fidelity? In that scene he is told that he is in the real world and not part of a simulation. Obviously for that to happen somebody would need to create a host/human hybrid and he couldn't be in the sublime.

I love the callback to one of Dolores’ most famous lines from season 1

I don't know if this has been said already but I really liked that they played a instrumental cover of radiohead's "pyramid song" at the near end of the episode, haven't heard that song in a long time. Excellent season finale 👏

This season's last episodes went pretty fast, but no boring parts, we can just think what's really going on in the next season. But anyway, great comeback after season 3.

I am sure other people will comment on this but Only Bernard can open the sublime portal (as shown in last episode) to let a possible Dolores pearl from Hale into coming in. Hale did not know Bernard is the key to opening the sublime as you asked why she did not do this herself in the episode recap. In general, I though the finale was OK. From season 2 on, there has been way too many plot twists and gotcha moments in the series. We cannot feel for the rise and fall of the characters because we know they may die/come back etc. That is why the scene with C and the Aaron Paul character or the Teddy/Dolores kiss were a bit bland. The show doesn't let scenes like these breathe - its more interested in plot twists than humanity in my opinion.

One thing they showed in Season 5 teasers was a pearl being put into a human skull. Did we ever see that scene come up in the episodes?

I was less frustrated and confused this season, but that’s not saying too much 😅 I think I’ll give seasons 1-4 a rewatch before season 5, which feels already more familiar.

Cant the Christina/Delores pearl be the recovered one from the Delores last seen dead plugged into Rehoboam in season 3? Maybe it gave her the ability to essentially world build, and therefore all of the pearls smuggled out still checks out, cause it’s a “refurbished” pearl?

Mannnn this season had so much potential and they just fumbled it at the goal line

I think that Dolores pearl should be the main one that was connected to to Rehoboam. This is because she remembers her story with Caleb; in episode 7 Teddy (Dolores) said that is caleb is a person from a previous life.

I thought Hale’s chain link earrings represented her being a link in a larger chain of events, as facilitated by Bernard.

The ending felt like a loop back to season 1. Is Westworld an endless loop where in the end, as Bernard says, everyone dies. The end is the beginning.

I liked the camera following the fly and the chain of deaths at the beginning. I am hoping that since Dolores is in charge, can she make it a happy world this time, and show us every park next season, and then Bernard will find the glitches in the system just like Jeffrey Wrights role of Beetee in The Hunger Games.

I wonder if it's Clementine's nature to find a far-way place to live by herself and "be whoever the fuck you want", as told by Maeve by the bar as part of their dialogue back in Sweetwaters.

I hate to say it but I think this may be the last season. This season's finale felt more like a series finale than a finale for a single season in that it came full circle back to Westworld where the series started, albeit an alternate Westworld in the Sublime.

She is real. She is a copy of memory just like Bernard is a copy made from memory. Halores made a Delores Pearl copy from her memories of a pure Delores.

All I'm saying is these scripts can not have gone through many rewrites before production began.

Was expecting more from the finale

I can't help but wonder what happened to the hosts that followed Charlotte Hails path to transcendence? Where they destroyed as well? What was Hail's version of transcendent life like?

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Hale: Transfer me to a better body. Knife bounces off Hale's new battle body. She resorts to run away and hide. What da phooooooq???

I wasnt really feeling a lot of this season, dont get me wrong i like Aaron Paul, but the show is best when the focus is on Dolores and the park. And i was hoping somehow they’d bring it back to season 1 and the park. And they did! There are so many exciting things they can do with the final season. I’m hoping it mirrors S1 and its mysteries and beautifully written scripts.

I think the encryption key wasn’t in the christina pearl but rather from the sublime itself. I think it suggests that the sublime is locked from the real world and only someone from the inside like dolores can open it again, perhaps when the test is successful.

Johnny Cash was also known as the Man in Black.

Great acting from Aaron Paul this season

it feels like a HBO trend now, start very strongest, flow strong, finish weak like post nut clarity wtf.......

The stones or something else around the tower looks like the maze, from an arial point of view. Which just ties back to Dolores/Christina's pearl being embedded into the tower.

bernard gave the key for the sublime to hale

The train at end was Number 5, a little nod to season 5 coming?

Great video!!! I loved the finale and your video was very helpful! Can’t wait for your explanations of S5 videos 😅

Will Season 5 literally be The Good Place? Testing humans in a controlled environment to see if they are capable of change and thus worth preserving? 🤯 #HolyForkingShirtballs

Why doesn't William's host body deteriorates like other human to host conversions?

LOL i said the same thing that William did: "Fucking camper!"

To see the beauty of the world is a throw back to season 1 2 and 3

Honestly dude your videos are brilliant, found you recently and I'm currently devouring your library 🤙

If servers at Hoover self-maintain, the 2 worlds (outlier humans and uploaded hosts) will evolve separately. Maybe never to cross roads again. Still can't understand how this "final game/test" involves humans. It only goes on in the Sublime, doesn't it?

Rebus' bat could also be a nod to Lucille in the Walking Dead

I dont get it. How do you tell that the aspect ratio has changed? I dont see a difference..

If this had been actual science fiction, there would have been a strong focus on who controls the power generating facilities. 100 years seems like an awfully short time for the hardware running the Sublime to keep running without maintenance. How many years has it already been running? And it would shut down if Lake Mead dried up. The most important thing the "guests" and the "hosts" have in common is their dependence on energy. What powered the rest of the "real world" that Hale takes over? Did Hale not need to be concerned with that? (Supposedly she would be controlling the humans who maintained the energy sources other than Hoover Dam.) Was there ever a scene in the "real" world where a host body needs recharging? (Maybe in Season 1.) What's Clementine's goal? If she kills all the humans left, then what? Even if she got into the Sublime, what keeps it running? Without much concern for how the power is maintained, the story devolves into fantasy. (Well, it's a fantasy to start with that humans are like machines are like humans. But I can take that as a premise for the story.)

I'm down for this video's analysis and the comments speculation. The only thing I have to add for Season 5 is that we have yet to see the scene that is the title card for the entire show: an exoskeleton host in the desert with a skyscraper city in the background.

Being that Westworld has so many biblical implications, I expect the next season to be Revelations and the truth behind everything. Especially if it is the final season.

Also they had Hale so full of blood but who's blood cause she was using the older hollow bodies, was a strange scene

Mary Shelley would be so proud of Westworld.

They only showed Vegas and NYC but is the entire world dead???