Westworld Episode Guide

Episode 1: The Original

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Dolores Abernathy follows her familiar routine in Westworld until an unexpected discovery begins disturbing the park’s carefully programmed order. As more hosts behave unpredictably, programmer Bernard Lowe investigates whether a recent update has produced something more significant than a technical fault.

Episode 2: Chestnut

New visitors William and Logan enter Westworld and choose very different approaches to its violent possibilities. Maeve Millay experiences disturbing fragments that do not fit her current life, while Dolores begins departing from her established loop.

Episode 3: The Stray

Elsie Hughes and Ashley Stubbs track a host that has wandered away from its assigned narrative. Teddy receives a darker new backstory involving the mysterious Wyatt, and Bernard quietly tests the limits of Dolores’s awareness.

Episode 4: Dissonance Theory

Dolores is carried into unfamiliar territory alongside William and Logan after violence disrupts her storyline. Maeve searches for evidence that her recurring visions are real, while the Man in Black continues following clues connected to the maze.

Episode 5: Contrapasso

William, Logan and Dolores reach the decadent town of Pariah, where a dangerous mission promises access to the park’s outer reaches. Ford discusses Westworld’s purpose with the Man in Black as Dolores’s understanding of her world becomes increasingly unstable.

Episode 6: The Adversary

Maeve receives an astonishing look behind Westworld’s illusions and decides to take control of her own design. Elsie follows evidence of unauthorised host modifications, while Bernard investigates a threat hidden within the park’s systems.

Episode 7: Trompe L’Oeil

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Theresa and Charlotte prepare a demonstration intended to expose the hosts as dangerously unreliable. Bernard’s investigation brings him closer to the truth behind Ford’s work, while William and Dolores continue towards the centre of the maze.

Episode 8: Trace Decay

Westworld’s staff attempt to contain the consequences of a devastating incident without drawing further scrutiny from the Delos board. Maeve recruits Hector for an audacious plan, and Dolores struggles to separate present events from resurfacing memories.

Episode 9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Bernard demands answers from Ford about the nature of his existence and the history of the park. Dolores returns to a place buried within her memories, while Maeve makes final preparations to leave her assigned world.

Episode 10: The Bicameral Mind

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The park’s oldest stories and newest rebellion converge as Dolores searches for the source of the voice guiding her. Maeve puts her escape plan into action, the Man in Black reaches the end of his quest, and Ford unveils his long-awaited new narrative.

Episode 1: Journey into Night

In the aftermath of Ford’s final presentation, Dolores leads a violent campaign against Westworld’s human operators. Maeve searches for her daughter, while Bernard awakens with fragmented memories and tries to reconstruct what happened.

Episode 2: Reunion

Flashbacks reveal how Westworld’s technology first attracted the ambitions of William and the Delos corporation. In the present, Dolores searches for the resources needed to take her revolution beyond the park.

Episode 3: Virtù e Fortuna

A guest escapes another Delos attraction as the host uprising spreads between parks. Dolores attempts to recruit a human army, while Bernard and Charlotte search for Peter Abernathy and the valuable information hidden inside him.

Episode 4: The Riddle of the Sphinx

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The Man in Black faces a test of character during his journey across the park. Bernard discovers a concealed Delos facility, and glimpses of the company’s past reveal an experiment with unsettling implications.

Episode 5: Akane No Mai

Maeve’s party enters Shōgunworld, where familiar Westworld narratives have been transformed into new characters and settings. As Maeve discovers another dimension to her abilities, Dolores makes a severe decision about Teddy.

Episode 6: Phase Space

Maeve finally reaches the homestead where she once lived with her daughter, only to discover that the narrative has continued without her. Dolores advances towards the Mesa, while Bernard and Elsie explore the park’s damaged control centre.

Episode 7: Les Écorchés

Dolores launches an assault on the Mesa as Delos forces struggle to regain control of the park. Bernard enters the Cradle in search of answers and encounters an intelligence that has found an unexpected way to survive.

Episode 8: Kiksuya

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Akecheta recounts the experiences that led him to recognise the artificial nature of his world. His moving journey reveals how awareness spread through the Ghost Nation long before the uprising began.

Episode 9: Vanishing Point

The Man in Black relives the collapse of his family while becoming increasingly uncertain about what is real. Dolores, Bernard and their competing allies race towards the Forge as the park approaches another violent reckoning.

Episode 10: The Passenger

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Hosts and humans converge on the Forge, where Delos has stored the results of its secret research. Dolores seeks a route into the human world, Maeve fights to protect her daughter, and Bernard makes a choice intended to shape what comes next.

Episode 1: Parce Domine

Dolores enters the human world and targets the powerful figures connected to Incite, a company capable of predicting individual lives. Her mission introduces her to Caleb Nichols, a construction worker trapped by a society that has already decided his future.

Episode 2: The Winter Line

Maeve awakens in a world modelled on wartime Europe and quickly suspects that her surroundings conceal another layer of control. Bernard returns to Westworld seeking evidence that might help him stop Dolores.

Episode 3: The Absence of Field

Charlotte Hale struggles to maintain her public identity while the host occupying her body begins to fracture under the pressure. Caleb helps an injured Dolores and receives a disturbing glimpse of the system governing his life.

Episode 4: The Mother of Exiles

Maeve searches Singapore for allies who can help her confront Dolores. Bernard and Stubbs follow Liam Dempsey to an extravagant gathering, where Dolores’s strategy becomes clearer and questions of identity take centre stage.

Episode 5: Genre

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Caleb experiences the world through the shifting effects of an experimental drug while accompanying Dolores on a dangerous escape. Meanwhile, the release of Rehoboam’s private predictions throws society into chaos.

Episode 6: Decoherence

Maeve prepares for her coming confrontation with Dolores inside a simulated environment. Charlotte moves against Delos on Serac’s behalf, but threats to the life she has constructed force her to reconsider where her loyalties lie.

Episode 7: Passed Pawn

Dolores takes Caleb to a reconditioning facility where suppressed memories reveal why Rehoboam considers him dangerous. Maeve closes in, forcing the two hosts into a battle shaped by radically different ideas about freedom.

Episode 8: Crisis Theory

Caleb carries out the final stage of Dolores’s plan as Los Angeles descends into disorder. Bernard searches for another path forward, while Maeve must decide whether humanity deserves the opportunity to choose its own future.

Episode 1: The Auguries

Seven years after the fall of Rehoboam, Caleb has built a family life while Maeve remains isolated from the world. A writer named Christina begins questioning the strange influence of her stories, and a familiar enemy pursues valuable machinery at the Hoover Dam.

Episode 2: Well Enough Alone

Maeve reunites with Caleb after discovering evidence of a growing host conspiracy. Their investigation leads towards prominent political figures, while the host version of William uses intimidation and violence to expand Hale’s power.

Episode 3: Années Folles

Maeve and Caleb enter a new Delos park styled after 1920s America and search for the machinery behind Hale’s plan. Christina investigates the unsettling connection between her writing and the people around her.

Episode 4: Generation Loss

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Caleb and Maeve attempt to prevent Hale from deploying her new method of controlling humanity. Their mission reaches a decisive turning point as the series reveals that events may not be unfolding exactly as they appeared.

Episode 5: Zhuangzi

Hale presides over a transformed city where humans follow narratives written for host entertainment. A resistance team attempts to rescue an outlier, while Christina’s investigation exposes increasingly impossible aspects of her reality.

Episode 6: Fidelity

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Caleb is subjected to repeated tests as Hale tries to understand the source of human resistance. Frankie confronts the wounds left by her father’s disappearance while searching for a prisoner who may finally provide answers.

Episode 7: Metanoia

Bernard puts the final stages of his plan into motion, knowing that very few possible futures offer any hope of survival. Maeve confronts Hale, Christina explores the boundaries of her world, and William decides to create a game of his own.

Episode 8: Que Será, Será

Host William unleashes chaos as the survivors race to determine what remains of both humanity and host civilisation. Christina learns the full nature of her existence, while Hale undertakes one final mission that points the story towards an unmade concluding chapter.

Westworld ends with the suggestion that one last test could determine whether intelligent life deserves to continue. HBO’s cancellation means that promised final chapter was never produced, leaving several character journeys and the ultimate outcome deliberately unresolved.