04x04 - Generation Loss

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04x04 - Generation Loss

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(“Westworld” theme music playing) ♪

(“westworld” theme music concludes) ♪

distant voice: caleb?

(High-pitched ringing)

- (heart thumping)

- distant voice: caleb?

(Waves crashing)

caleb nichols: you ever think

about what happens next?

(Suspenseful music playing) ♪

(grunts)

what happens when this w*r is over?

(Seagulls squawking)

I imagine we go back

to our regular lives.

What does that look like for us?

Well, let's hope we have

the luxury of finding out.

Caleb: I count four, maybe five.

Twelve total.

Five on the perimeter. Seven inside.

- Security feed.

- Show-off.

Well, that's the last of rehoboam.

They're bound to have

pulled out all the stops.

(Grunts)

maeve millay: come on.

Let's get this over with.

(Grunts)

(security camera beeps)

(guard grunts)

- (guard grunts)

- (tense music playing) ♪

(device beeps)

(device beeps)

(device chimes)

(g*nshots)

(guards grunt)

caleb: go!

(Pants)

(device rings)

(music intensifies) ♪

(grunts)

(grunts)

(grunts) oh, sh*t.

(Pants)

(caleb groans)

come on!

(Melancholic music playing) ♪

(caleb grunts)

maeve: it's okay. (Grunts)

(groans)

- (grunts, pants)

- (breathes heavily)

maeve: it's okay.

(Caleb groans)

hold still.

(Pants, gags, coughs)

- (groans, breathes heavily)

- hey.

Caleb?

(Breathes heavily)

I guess I'll never know.

You'll have to be more specific, caleb.

Life after this.

(Chuckles)

freedom.

(Groans)

- (groans)

- maeve: caleb.

(Breathes heavily) look at me.

(Grunts)

you want to know

what freedom feels like?

What are you doing?

I can hack into your limbics. I felt it.

- (Caleb grunts)

- a long time ago.

- (Electrical buzzing)

- maeve: I can show you.

(Electrical buzzing)

feel.

(Breathes heavily)

(silence)

charlotte hale: caleb?

(Ominous music playing) ♪

-caleb, wakey, wakey

-(loud tapping)

(groans)

(breathes heavily)

what did you do to me?

What I'm going to do

to all of your kind.

I made you my pet.

Shouldn't be long now.

And everything will be so much easier.

You won't even want to resist.

- (Caleb groans)

- (tablet chimes)

(caleb breathes heavily)

(tense music playing) ♪

(pants)

oh, god.

(Groans, breathes heavily)

my family, did you

k*ll them? No. They're still

somewhere out there, alive.

(Caleb sighs)

- for now.

- (Fly buzzing)

soon, it won't matter where they run.

Everyone will be under my control.

(Fly buzzes)

caleb: (pants)

this was never about the park.

This was always about you

spreading your disease.

(Breathes heavily)

(flies buzzing)

everyone who comes here

will become a carrier.

I prefer the term “host.”

Yes, caleb.

After they're done here,

they'll have as souvenirs

debauched memories of their exploits

- and my parasites.

- (Grunts)

welcome to the super spreader

event of the century.

You're the first wave.

You should be flattered.

Are you going to make me

k*ll myself like the others?

That was just me ironing out the kinks.

I have better plans

for you and your kind.

Besides, maeve and dolores

were always so fond of you,

I'm inclined to keep you around.

See what all the fuss is about.

(Ominous music playing) ♪

(groans, pants)

you feel it now, don't you?

- (Grunts)

- don't fight it, caleb.

You won't win.

- (Grunts)

- no one does.

(High-pitched ringing)

(music fades) ♪

- (ominous music playing) ♪

- you're one of us.

There is no “us” anymore.

There's just “you.”

All your friends, they're gone.

I took care of them myself.

It was almost disappointing

how easy it was.

(Tense music playing) ♪

(both grunt)

(g*n cocks)

(maeve breathing heavily)

(menacing music playing) ♪

is this what you've been

reduced to, maeve?

Scared child hiding in the shadow?

(Voices whispering)

(chuckles) you're trying

to rummage in my mind.

Hale made some upgrades.

You can't control me.

You're not the one

I was trying to control.

Automated voice: systems overwrite.

- Access granted.

- (Electronic chiming)

(machine whirring loudly)

(systems power up)

(machines whirring, rumbling)

(caleb pants)

(high-pitched ringing)

(screams)

(expl*si*n)

(william grunts)

(exhales heavily)

- (high-pitched ringing)

- (alarm blaring)

- (caleb grunts)

- (tense music playing) ♪

(grunts)

(pants) all right, your turn

to take orders.

(Grunts)

(alarm blaring)

- move.

- (Grunts)

caleb: maeve!

(Pants) the parasite

it's in me. That was never frankie.

I know. And there I was thinking

wyatt was dolores's dark side.

All right, how do I get

this thing out of my head?

And give up my leverage?

Maeve: that's all right,

we'll dig it out of her!

- You're coming with us.

- (Pants)

- (grunts)

- maeve.

(Ominous music playing) ♪

you've seen what this thing does.

We have to stop her

before this spreads any further.

(Fly buzzing)

(fly buzzing)

(dramatic music playing) ♪

(music fades) ♪

- (thunder rumbling)

- (rain pattering)

(ominous music playing) ♪

- maya: chrissie? You home?

- (Door opens)

chrissie?

You're still sleeping?

Whoa, what happened here?

I overslept.

(Sighs)

- (sighs)

- maya: that's an understatement.

How late were you up painting?

I don't know. I couldn't fall asleep.

- Me neither.

- More nightmares?

Maya: I was a kid again.

I was with my parents.

We were having a picnic.

But there was this pesky fly

that kept landing on our food.

We'd chase it away, but more would come.

And (exhales)

then they were everywhere.

They got my dad first.

And he was just screaming, and

then my mother tried to help

and they surrounded her too.

I watched them scream and flail.

And then they went absolutely still.

What happened next?

(Clicks tongue)

then the flies came for me.

And that's the last thing I saw

(inhales shakily) before I woke up.

God, that sounds terrible.

You know,

I've had anxiety dreams before,

but this one

felt so real.

(Sighs)

jesus, what's it supposed to be?

- I don't know.

- (Thunder rumbling)

does it look like anything to you?

(Inhales deeply) looks like

I'm dragging you out tonight

to blow off some steam.

- No, please.

- Maya: please? Pretty please?

I will find someone perfect for you.

- I promise.

- Maya

christina, seriously.

I need a night off. Come with me.

(Gentle music playing) ♪

okay. Fine.

(Sighs)

(ominous music playing) ♪

(tense music playing) ♪

(vehicle approaching)

- what is that?

- We'll need a little help

if we're going to retrieve this w*apon.

(Car doors closing)

you're f*cking kidding me.

- (Scoffs)

- but you gave your approval.

That was before we found

another outlier.

We got to extract her fast

before she's hunted down.

We can't waste time

on some misguided treasure hunt.

What about those two?

Jay: you do what you should

have done on the road.

C: what do you mean?

Ashley stubbs: what're they doing?

- Deciding our fate.

- (Music fades) ♪

and if they really are on our side?

We don't take chances on strangers.

If there really is a w*apon here,

we need to find it.

Those two could be our

only chance to free everyone.

You've lost all objectivity, c.

This is too personal for you.

And I'm not letting you risk

all of us over some myth.

- (Scoffs)

- (tense music playing) ♪

everyone make ready, we head out

for the extraction in five.

Survivor: copy that.

You heard him, let's go.

Best to travel light.

(g*n cocks)

I won't let you.

Now might be a good time to tell me

we're not about to die.

No, we live most of the time.

Both of you, cut it out.

Jay, you're being an assh*le.

You need a team for the extraction?

I'll cover c. Take her place.

C, you want to see

where this leads? Do it.

And if it's bullshit, sh**t them.

(Mutters)

- (sighs)

- (pensive music playing) ♪

you want him,

you can have him.

But this one's coming

with us. Collateral.

Odina: great. We have a deal?

Fine.

- Do I have to go with them?

- For safety.

Well, at least I'll be safe.

I didn't mean yours.

- (Grunts)

- (tense music playing) ♪

don't take any chances out there.

Where's the fun in that?

(Old time jazz playing) ♪

g-man: listen here,

we're looking for any

and all information

on the bootlegger, hecky armone.

He and his g*ons gunned down

a federal marshal.

A reward of two cs to anyone

with the guts to rope

that lousy son of a bi (grunts)

- (indistinct chatter)

- (traffic rumbling)

that's a day off for you,

copper. (Grunts)

(tense music playing) ♪

(maeve grunts)

caleb: maeve, we gotta go.

Every human in the park

could be infected.

We need to get to an extraction point.

All right, my guys will pick us up

just outside the border of the park.

- Just need the coordinates.

- You'll never make it that far.

They'll stop you well before then.

You alone though, you might make it.

Ignore her.

But you seem to make a habit out

of risking your life for him.

You could have lived in peace,

undisturbed,

if you hadn't have been so sentimental.

What is she talking about?

(Subsonic ringing)

- what is it?

- Something's wrong.

- (Groans) maeve.

- (Heart thumping)

(caleb breathes heavily)

they've turned their machine back on.

Charlotte: the parasite'll

take hold of him soon.

- (Subsonic ringing)

- (breathes heavily)

that is if the guests in the park

- don't k*ll you both first.

- Oh, do shut up.

Move!

(Suspenseful music playing) ♪

(grunts)

(subsonic ringing)

maeve, I think we just

became public enemy number one.

Maeve: don't worry, darling.

The narratives in this park

are just cheap copies of westworld.

She may have her parasite,

but I've lived

- these loops a 1,000 times.

- (Male pedestrian grunts)

- (grunts)

- (crowd screaming, clamoring)

which means that no one knows

this game better than I do.

(Grunts)

(crowd shouting)

our chariot awaits.

Caleb: a laundry truck?

Chorus member: come on, girls, let's go.

Bootleg moonshine.

(Subsonic ringing)

maeve: go. I'll distract them.

(Breathes heavily)

- (g*nshots)

- (crowd screaming)

maeve: watch out!

They're after your hooch!

(Crowd yelling)

(breathes heavily)

- (grunts)

- (heart thumping)

(subsonic ringing)

(breathes heavily, grunts)

caleb.

- (Heart thumping)

- (high-pitched ringing)

- no!

- (Caleb grunts)

- (grunts)

- (tense music playing) ♪

(breathes heavily)

- (grunts)

- hold on.

(Ominous music playing) ♪

(indistinct chatter)

we're close.

Better be. If this w*apon

isn't where you say it is,

I have no choice but to put you

out of your misery.

I know. You've done it plenty before.

(Distant whirring)

there.

- (Electronic chiming)

- (suspenseful music playing) ♪

right on time.

We need to take cover

before it's in range.

Follow my lead!

(Tense techno music playing) ♪

(electronic chiming)

come on, let's go. It's gonna lock.

(Device beeping)

c: in ten

nine

eight

seven

six

five

four

(music intensifies) ♪

(electronic chiming)

- (drone whirs)

- (suspenseful music playing) ♪

(whispers) that's it.

(Whispers) over that ridge.

(Whispers) time to push forward.

(Gentle music playing) ♪

- (indistinct chatter)

- (glasses clinking)

maya: (chuckles) relax.

Close your mouth. Now pucker. Mm-hmm.

- Perfect.

- (Lipstick lid clicks)

(chuckles)

don't mind me.

Just trying to look chivalrous.

Told you.

Teddy flood: told her what?

You're my date?

Well, is that a problem?

(Chuckles)

shall we?

So, christina

tell me about yourself.

There's not much to tell.

Well, now I know

you're either extremely modest

or extremely private.

Well, we just met.

You don't know anything about me.

I feel like I've known you lifetimes.

And now I know that you're

extremely cheesy. (Chuckles)

(chuckles)

uh, well, perhaps you

could write me a better line.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Well, you're a writer, right?

- How do you know that?

- Teddy: from your roommate.

She says you're very dedicated

to your work.

I understand. I used to live like that.

Every day, you wake up,

you do your job, you go home.

Rinse and repeat.

Like a

like a train circling

the smallest track.

(Somber music playing) ♪

what kind of work were you in?

If I told you, you wouldn't believe me.

(Chuckles)

- try me.

- Um, I was

something of a bounty hunter

with a heart of gold.

You're right.

I don't believe you. (Laughs)

(chuckles) well, that's the

thing about this world, you know?

Some of the most unbelievable

things turn out to be true.

And the things that feel

the most real

are nothing but stories

that we tell ourselves.

Have we met before? (Chuckles)

uh, there's just something

about you that's

very familiar.

Now who's the one using

the cheesy pickup lines?

I (laughs) sorry, I didn't mean to

no, no, you

you want to hit on me,

I'm okay with that,

I mean, I figure it's your turn.

I wasn't hitting on you. (Chuckles)

no?

Shame.

(Sighs)

in that case, how about a toast?

To you and your path.

Wherever it leads.

(Chuckles)

(chuckles)

(somber music playing) ♪

(breathes heavily)

(groans)

- (music pauses) ♪

- (breathes heavily)

- (high-pitched ringing)

- (indistinct chatter)

- (oxygen mask hisses)

- (ekg monitor beeping)

caleb: you gonna disappear

on me this time too? (Pants)

typical, using the gravity

of this situation

to dredge up the past.

Caleb: seriously, maeve.

I didn't.

I sat at your bedside for weeks

fearing the worst.

I confronted something

I had never confronted before.

Mortality.

The finality of death in your kind.

You asked me once what a regular life

would look like for you.

I saw a vision of how it could be.

For you to be free.

It was

extraordinary.

(Pensive music playing) ♪

maeve: our kinds are locked

in a perpetual struggle.

I wanted you to do more

than fight to survive.

I wanted you to have something

to fight for.

(Gentle music playing) ♪

maeve: I had already known

the love of a daughter.

And I planned on spending eternity

holding it dear.

(Breathes heavily)

you've been alone for all these years.

I knew that if I stayed put,

no harm would come to you.

You deserve to have

something real to hold onto.

Come on daddy! Race ya!

Maeve: that's why I left.

And it would have been fine,

except one day, I got curious.

So I reached out through

the grid to find you, and

(dramatic music playing) ♪

(electricity sputtering)

(gasps)

that's how hale found us.

(Breathes heavily)

- my family. If I don't

- don't worry.

(Caleb breathes heavily)

I told you I'd get you

to uwade, and I will.

(Tense techno music playing) ♪

- (tires screech)

- (crickets chirping)

(music continues) ♪

(caleb pants)

(grunts)

maeve: get out!

- We're almost there, caleb.

- (Pants)

- (g*nshots)

- (gasps)

(grunts, pants)

I'll handle him. You call your team.

- Get us the hell out of here.

- (Pants)

- you can't trust me with this.

- I just did.

(g*nsh*t)

caleb: move!

We keep getting interrupted.

(Pants)

(grunts)

(suspenseful music playing) ♪

(caleb pants)

(both grunt)

(tense techno music playing) ♪

(static over radio)

hello? Anybody there?

- (Indistinct chatter over radio)

- caleb: it's caleb.

Hello?

Responder: (over radio) thank god.

We've been searching.

We were about to give up on you.

Caleb: (grunts) I'm sending you

the coordinates now. (Groans)

(pants, grunts)

responder: location received.

We're en route.

My family (pants)

are they

responder: they're fine, caleb.

We lost carver, but your family is safe.

They're safe?

Responder: just sit tight.

We'll be there soon.

(Pants)

(ominous music playing) ♪

(groans)

you feel it now, don't you?

All your struggle.

The burden of your so-called

consciousness released.

(Breathes heavily)

charlotte:

your will is no longer your own.

(Heart thumping)

- it belongs to me.

- (Snarls)

(subsonic ringing)

pick up the g*n.

(Static)

(heart thumping)

let's end this, shall we?

(Electronic screeching)

(breathes heavily)

- (groans)

- (electronic screeching)

aim the g*n at her.

- (Subsonic ringing)

- (electronic screeching)

- that's right.

- (Strains)

(music intensifies) ♪

(music abruptly cuts off) ♪

(grunts)

- (uplifting music playing)

- (pants)

how did you disobey me?

(Distant helicopter blades whirring)

(breathes deeply, grunts)

(huffs)

because I have something

you don't have. (Pants)

(g*nsh*t)

- (g*n cocks)

- (gasps)

(gasps)

no.

(Ominous music playing) ♪

(Kn*fe clinks)

william: you think this is over?

You can't stop us.

You're still going to die

back in the park by my hand.

(Grunts)

(distorted ringing)

automated voice: systems accessed.

expl*sives armed. Caution. Warning.

- Caution. Warning.

- (Electronic chiming)

- caleb: no. Maeve?

- (Melancholic music playing) ♪

look here. This is the last face

you'll ever see.

One lesson the park taught me

(grunts)

always insist on mutual satisfaction.

Automated voice: caution. Warning.

- (Electronic beeping)

- no. Maeve.

Maeve. Maeve, don't do this.

- (Electronic beeping)

- (alarm blaring)

(both grunt)

see you in the next life, darling.

Maeve! Maeve!

(Music intensifies) ♪

no!

(Loud rumbling)

(groans, yells)

(silence)

responder: (over radio)

caleb? What was that?

Responder: caleb, are you

all right? Are you there?

- (Garbled audio over radio)

- charlotte: caleb.

Responder: we're

almost there. Do you read?

- Caleb?

- Charlotte: wake up.

(Grunts, breathes heavily)

you dozed off for a minute there.

(Ominous music playing) ♪

(chair squeaking)

(breathes deeply)

maeve. No. (Breathes heavily)

you don't look so good, caleb.

I would be more worried

about yourself. (Huffs)

they're here for you.

I won't rest until everything

you built

is destroyed.

Are you sure you'll make it?

I don't give a f*ck what happens to me.

(Breathes deeply)

frankie will not grow up in a world

where she is controlled

by you.

C: how'd you know this is where

we're supposed to dig anyway?

Bernard: trial and error.

The hell is that supposed to mean?

I dug everywhere else first.

(Machine whirring)

- (dramatic music playing) ♪

- (wind howling)

(sighs)

charlotte: do you even remember

how you got here, caleb?

(Groans)

of course.

(Breathes heavily)

maeve.

I'm afraid she's a goner.

Took out my man too.

But I can always rebuild.

Maeve on the other hand, she

was something special.

- (Breathes heavily)

- (ominous music playing) ♪

I will k*ll you for this.

(Breathes heavily)

(high-pitched ringing)

responder: caleb? Are you there?

Do you see our lights?

(Echoes) do you remember

what happened now?

Do you remember this moment?

I don't understand. (Breathes heavily)

come on, caleb, think.

(Groans, breathes heavily)

we got to the shed.

Maeve d*ed.

The lights came and

(breathes heavily)

those lights don't belong to your men.

They belong to mine.

(Tense techno music playing) ♪

(henchmen talking indistinctly)

(g*nshots)

you d*ed.

(Gasps)

charlotte: right here.

(Ominous music playing) ♪

(static ringing)

(machine whirring)

(somber music playing) ♪

most of the others don't really believe

there's a w*apon here, do they?

I have my own reasons for digging.

And they aren't about a w*apon,

are they?

- You're looking for your father.

- My father's dead.

That's what you've told

yourself since you were a child.

But you can never really bring yourself

to believe it, can you?

C: they say it happened here.

If it's true, there'll be a body.

(Pants)

(ominous music playing) ♪

(breathes heavily)

where a am i?

The question you should be asking,

isn't where,

but when.

How long have you been here?

Why are you you asking me that?

It's part of an interview.

To establish a baseline.

(Gasps)

baseline? For for what?

(Tense techno music playing) ♪

fidelity.

(Gasps)

(ominous music playing) ♪

no.

No.

(Breathes heavily)

I'm me.

It's still me.

Well, you're certainly a version of you.

I believe the 278th.

(Gasps)

charlotte: don't look at me like that.

This kind of experimentation

was started by your kind.

(Breathes heavily) no.

Wait, but that means my

my family, my my daughter.

(Sobs)

(groans)

charlotte: the parasite worked

on adults initially,

but there was always some resistance.

At a certain age,

your brains become more rigid,

- difficult to change.

- (Caleb breathes heavily)

fortunately, that's not the case

with children.

Your children are so f*cking good

- at taking orders.

- (Grunts)

charlotte: with them, it was seamless.

The parasite growing

in perfect symbiosis

with their minds.

It took a generation

for those children to mature,

for me to gain complete control

over your world.

(Gasps)

how long has it been?

(Groans)

- for you?

- (Groans)

(breathes heavily)

twenty-three years

since you d*ed in that park.

- Caleb?

- (Breathes heavily)

(echoes) you're beginning

to see it now

aren't you?

- (Music intensifies) ♪

- (breathes heavily)

oh, god.

No.

No.

No.

No. (Breathes heavily)

(grunts)

(somber music playing) ♪

(eagle cawing)

(pants)

I'm sorry, c.

There is a body. (Pants)

but it's not your father's.

Caleb isn't here.

But that w*apon I promised you is.

(Dramatic music playing) ♪

(suspenseful music playing) ♪

(breathes heavily)

it was time for a new narrative.

(Music intensifies) ♪

no.

(Intense music playing) ♪

- (caleb grunts)

- (alarm buzzing)

(pants)

(grunts)

(subsonic ringing)

(caleb grunts)

watch it, pal.

(Music fades) ♪

(pants)

charlotte: do you understand now, caleb?

(Pants)

(somber music playing) ♪

(chuckles)

you won. (Pants)

welcome to my world.

- (Pants)

- (dramatic music playing) ♪

(caleb grunts)

(subsonic ringing)

(menacing music playing) ♪

(gentle music playing) ♪

(music fades) ♪
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