

Park QA director Theresa orders all hosts with Reveries to be brought in and checked, using a temporary narrative of a bandit massacre to hide this from the guests. That night, the bandit Walter, also updated with Reveries, turns violent on his men.

Robert Ford, but lead programmer Bernard suggests they leave the other hosts with Reveries in place to help debug. At the operations center in the central Mesa, they find the problem due to the recent Reveries update from park creator Dr. The next day, the Sweetwater sheriff host malfunctions.

The Man in Black reveals he is a guest, kills Teddy, and then drags Dolores off, upset she does not recognize him after thirty years of visits. Teddy shoots and kills the bandits but finds he cannot kill a third approaching figure from elsewhere, the Man in Black. They find Peter beaten by two bandits, Walter and Rebus, bragging about raping and killing his wife. They rekindle their old flame, and she invites him back to her farm, but when they arrive they hear shooting inside the house. They can be put to hibernation or to other special states by code phrases said by park operators.ĭolores says goodbye to her father Peter and travels into Sweetwater for supplies where she meets Teddy. Hosts are artificially manufactured and don't exhibit some normal human reactions, for example, don't react to flies crawling over their faces. As hosts are unable to harm guests, guests often live out their darkest desires, including violent and sexual ones. Westworld is a huge Western-themed park where human guests can interact with lifelike android "hosts", programmed to run through a daily narrative, without memory of prior days' events, and interact with guests. It received positive reviews from critics. "The Original" introduces the eponymous Western-themed amusement park from the perspectives of both the androids and the humans. The episode was directed by Nolan, and is dedicated to the memory of Eddie Rouse, who played Kissy. The teleplay was written by series co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who also receive story credit with Michael Crichton, writer and director of the 1973 film upon which the series is based. " The Original" is the first episode in the first season premiere of the HBO science fiction western thriller television series Westworld.

Bradford Tatum as Bartender / New Peter Abernathy.
