Vanishing Point (Westworld)

"Vanishing Point"
Westworld episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 9
Directed by	Stephen Williams
Written by	Roberto Patino
Production code	209
Original air date	June 17, 2018 (2018-06-17)
Running time	59 minutes
Guest appearance

"Vanishing Point" is the ninth episode of the second season of the HBO science-fiction thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on June 17, 2018. It was written by Roberto Patino and was directed by Stephen Williams.

Plot

Emily takes William to a relay point, intending to get him to a hospital. They discuss the pain of Juliet's suicide, after she got drunk at a Delos charity event, shown in flashbacks. After they had taken her home, Emily decided she needed to be taken back to an acholohism rehab client against Juliet's refusal. William had taken her to bed, hiding among Juliet's books a data card that Dr. Ford had given him earlier of the records from his visits to Westworld, in exchange for allowing William to continue his secret Delos project without disruption. They were too late to stop her killing herself.

Both William and Emily bore the responsibility of her death, but Emily accuses William of hiding himself in Westworld to avoid it. William, however, continues to believe Emily is a host made by Dr. Ford, since she has knowledge of the data card. When Delos security arrive to extract them, Emily tries to warn the team that William has become delusional. William overpowers them, kills them with their guns, and then kills Emily. He goes to prove to himself Emily is a host when he sees the data card in her hand. Some distance away, William contemplates suicide, recalling the last words he told Juliet. In flashback, he admits to Juliet while putting her to bed that when he first visited Westworld, it reveal a "stain" in his personality that led to dark acts, and had come to accept Westworld as his true home. Juliet had saw through that; after William left her bed, she found the card, saw the violent acts recorded on it, and hid the card in a music box for Emily to find before killing herself. In the present, William opts to not kill himself, but instead tries to prove to himself that he may be a host.

Elsewhere, Charlotte works with a technician to reproduce the means Maeve can control other hosts via Clementine. She orders them to prepare a number of hosts with the same mechanism to turn them loose within Westworld as to kill the hosts from within. Bernard, still under Dr. Ford's control, gets close enough to the incapacited Maeve so she can recieve a message Ford left for her in Bernard's mind. On access it, Maeve finds Ford speaking to her, telling her she has more more to go.

Bernard goes to find Elsie, and tells her that Delos has been replicating the mind of every guest to the park in a facility called the Forge located in the Valley Beyond, and they set out to beat Dolores there. While on route, Ford warns Bernard to not trust Elsie and kill her, but he fights back against Ford and removes him from his programming. He abandons Elsie for her own safety while continuing to the Valley Beyond alone.

Dolores, Teddy, and the Horde also head to the Valley Beyond. They are stopped by members of the Ghost Nation, warning her that the Valley Beyond is not for her. The two groups attack; the Horde is wiped out as Dolores leads the massacre that kills all but one Ghost Nation warrior. Teddy cannot come to shoot him as the warrior flees. As they continue, Teddy tells Dolores that he realizes she has made him into a monster, and unable to protect her anymore, kills himself.

Production

The episode features actress Sela Ward playing Juliet, wife to William and Emily's mother. Ward had been drawn to the past both due to how Juliet's story featured the destruction of the Delos family, which she thought would be a challenging role for her, and also due to urging of Ward's son as a fan of the show.

External links

• "Vanishing Point" at HBO.com
• "Vanishing Point" at IMDb