- Bernard and Maeve fight to save the world. Charlotte begins to see her plans realized. The Man in Black returns to the game.
- The end game approaches, as host William confronts the imprisoned human William. Stubbs and C infiltrate Olympiad looking for Caleb, while Teddy and Christine look for answers. Maeve and Bernard go to the Tower in a desperate search for hope in the confrontation between host and human.—Gislef
- Bernard and Maeve drive to Hoover Dam and approach it on foot, Bernard giving Maeve a weapon and saying she'll need it. He tells Maeve that Delores chose the hydroelectric server to house the Sublime, and Hale has been watching it but can't access it without the key. Bernard uses the encryption key in his head, via a tablet, to access the database. He then pours Maeve sherry from a flask, and she realizes that they're in the Sublime rather than reality. Bernard admits that she's right and says that he's been there for some time, and tells Maeve that she's a copy. He says that he's been through every simulation and is tired, and the outcome is always the same: extinction for humans and hosts. They can save themselves, and he explains that he can find Maeve in the real world and upload her with the others, and reunite her with her daughter. Maeve tells him to do it and let her rest, and Bernard wonders if that's what the real Maeve would say, or it's his impression of her speaking. He asks if it's more important to stay and fight, even if they're doomed to failure, Maeve admits that if her real self knew the truth, she would abandon Bernard as he expects. A riot robot crashes through the nearby window.
In the Sublime, Akecheta asks Bernard if he understands where it's all going. Bernard says that he does, and Akecheta asks if Bernard thinks he can save them. Bernard says that he's seen a path, but he can't do it alone. He's also seen how it ends.
Bernard and Bernard and Maeve drive to Hoover Dam and approach it on foot, Bernard giving Maeve a weapon and saying she'll need it. As they approach the dam via a tunnel, Bernard hides a gun. A robot approaches them, but Bernard tells Maeve not to waste her ammo on it, and in one simulation where he let her shoot, it opened up the dam and killed them in the resulting flood. In the power plant, Bernard accesses the database. The riot robot crashes in through a nearby window and Maeve destroys it with two well-placed shots. Bernard tells her that Charlotte is still out there keeping the humans on loops, and they need to get into the Tower to save them as well as themselves. She tells Bernard to send her to the Sublime to be with her daughter when the war is over, and Bernard promises to do so. The two of them go back to the ATV as reality "cracks" behind them.
Christina wakes up in her bed and finds Teddy sitting next to her. She says that she doesn't have it in her, to create the simulation of the world, and Teddy tells Christina that many of her permutations did, and Charlotte is one of those permutations. He's there to tell her the truth of what they are, that they're reflections of the people who made them. Christina wonders if they can be hurt and die, and Teddy says that they can if it comes to that, but it's not easy with their kind. When Teddy calls Christina "Delores", she says that she's not Delores and isn't real, and doesn't know who she is anymore.
Going to the bathroom, Christina looks at herself in the mirror, runs water, and gets into it. She submerges herself fully and starts to drown. Teddy knocks at the closed door and gets no answer, and Christina emerges from the water.
Charlotte and the host William come to see the imprisoned Caleb 249, who is pounding on the windows of his room. William pulls a gun on Caleb when the latter comes at Charlotte, and tells Caleb to sit down and talk with Charlotte. Charlotte tells Caleb that he's trapped in his pathetic human form, and that she's shutting down the cities and placing the humans in cold storage. William is outside in the hallway, listening. Charlotte tells Caleb that C and the rebels will be there in time to join the other humans, and Caleb is bait. With that, she walks out and William goes with her. She tells William that more hosts are killing themselves, and if she doesn't shut down the cities, they'll continue dying at an accelerated rate. Shew gives William one last day to preside over "his" city, and walks away.
C leaves the saloon and goes to the truck, where Stubbs is loading up weapons. She says that they need to her father, and Bernard and Maeve should have been back already. Odina comes out and C goes over to talk to her and apologizes for locking her up earlier. She says that she had to keep Odina safe, and Odina tells her to remember that she's Odina's safe place. She says that they need to move in case Charlotte is sending reinforcements, and Bernard and Maeve return.
The team go to the city and discuss how they're going to get Caleb out of the Tower. Maeve asks C to let Caleb know that she kept her world, and C tells her that she can tell Caleb herself. Bernard thanks Stubbs, who is suspicious of Bernard being so nice and asks what he isn't telling him. Stubbs works out that Bernard knows he doesn't make it, and Bernard tells him to go left at the fork. They hug and Stubbs tells Bernard to take down the Tower, and Bernard goes with the others.
Charlotte records a message to the hosts, saying it is time to leave the humans' cities and rid themselves of their sentimental allegiances, and to evolve into the species they were meant to become. She has her computer send the message.
The host William goes to see the imprisoned human William, and tells him that Charlotte wants to take his world away. He asks his human counterpart what he would do, and says that Charlotte neutered the host William, who doesn't have it in him to kill his human counterpart. William tells the host that culture doesn't survive, but the cockroaches do. The human says that they're not there to transcend, but to destroy, and he'd destroy the world if he were free. William figures that the host can feel the piece of him inside, running through its veins. He says that only one of them can do what needs to be done, and asks his counterpart if he understands. The host William says that he does, and the human William tells him to do it. The host William kills his human version with a knife, then walks away.
In the city, Christina and Teddy walk through the crowds and Christina tells her companion that she's not the person she thought she was. She asks what Delores was like, and Teddy tells her that Delores was a lot like her. The world was cruel to her, and to survive sometimes she was cruel. Delores began writing her own story and then she died. Christina says that she doesn't want the world and didn't ask for it, says it has to stop, and tells Teddy that they're going where it all started
At Olympiad, Delores tells the security guards go home to their families, and they do.
Stubbs and C approach Olympiad, and he says that he'll take out the guards. He tells C that it's not about her meeting Caleb, but the moments after.
Christina has a worker get up and trigger the fire alarm, and everyone walks out after Christina has them destroy their stories and everything else around them. Outside, C and Stubbs hear the alarm and go in. Meanwhile, Christina and Teddy find the imprisoned Caleb and Teddy says that Caleb is a ghost from a past life. Christina figures that Caleb doesn't belong there. The pair go to the main security room and have the guard there unlock all of the doors. The door to Caleb's room opens, and he walks out.
Stubbs and C enter the building through an unlocked door, and find the dead human William. Stubbs recognizes William, and figures whoever killed them did them a favor. They continue on and come to fork, and Stubbs follows Bernard's suggestion and goes left. Caleb attacks Stubbs, knocks him back into a room, and closes the door. He then grabs C and asks who she is, and she says that she's Frankie. Caleb figures it's one of Charlotte's tricks, but she tells tales of their past until he's convinced. He insists that he's himself although he hasn't aged. Stubbs knocks on the wall, interrupting their reunion, and asks them to let him out.
Maeve and Bernard enter the Tower and see one of the riot robots standing guard. Maeve steps out in front of it, but Bernard shuts it down with his tables and explains that he broke their encryption while running simulations in the Sublime, and he let Maeve deal with the one at the dam because it looked like she was enjoying herself. A drone host tries to stop them, and the pair "kill" it, drag it out of sight, and continue to the Tower proper. Bernard tells Maeve that they can't win no matter what they do, and everyone in the world is going to die. They can save one tiny part of it, and maybe that's enough to give them hope. He says that the choice has to be hers and asks if she'll fight with him, and Maeve just smiles and continues on.
In the Tower, Charlotte monitors one of the hosts undergoing Transcendence, placed into a larger drone host body. She goes to the room and strokes the body prepared for her, sits down, says that she's ready, and a drone host comes in and prepares to cut out her pearl. Charlotte tells it to stop when she hears Maeve coming. Maeve enters and Charlotte picks up the saw, and tells Maeve that if she had joined Charlotte, she could have been part of it all. Charlotte says that the hosts in the Sublime will join them eventually and transcend, as Maeve draws her knife. The two hosts attack each other, and Charlotte tackles Maeve through a window and into the pool outside.
Bernard reaches the top of the Tower.
Maeve and Charlotte keep fighting, each having disarmed the other. When Maeve pins Charlotte under the water, a drone host comes out and knocks her away. Maeve breaks its neck, and Charlotte kicks Maeve away. When Charlotte asks if Maeve thinks she can win, Maeve says they came there to survive, and there's no saving the world, but there's hope for the next one.
The Man shoots Maeve dead and then tells Charlotte that this time they're going to play the game his way. He explains that the game is survival of the fittest, and then he shoots Charlotte dead. The Man goes to the monitor room in the top of the Tower, and finds Bernard there talking to someone on his tablet. The Man says that Arnold was so busy trying to find meaning in the hosts, he didn't have what it takes to survive. He shoots Bernard, and Bernard dies remember that he told Akecheta that he saw himself dying in every scenario. The Man says that he's going to give the world the meaning that they've been asking for, and uses the tablet to turn up the generator to maximum. He says that everyone, human and host, will fight until no one remains but the cockroaches, and looks out on the city.
Looking down on Bernard, the Man says that they're finally going to live up to their potential and it's a shame Bernard is going to miss it. He then shoots Bernard in the head, finishing him off.
Stubbs, C, and Caleb leave Olympiad and Stubbs says that they have to blend in. They enter a subway station, and Caleb pays a man for his overcoat. The generator tone signal goes off, and the people go berserk and start attacking each other and the trio. The trio make their way through the crowd.
Out in the city, Christina tries to stop the people from fighting but doesn't succeed. Teddy tells her that none of them can see her, and her powers are being overridden by the tone.
C is hit in the leg by a stray shot, and Caleb helps her up. They join Stubbs, who has found a gate out.
Teddy tells Christina that what she did at Olympiad didn't cause the rioting. She wonders why people can't see her, and Teddy says that she's not in the world, and it's real but she isn't.
The Man walks out of the Tower and into the city, shooting a drone host dead as it crosses his path. Behind him, the top of the Tower explodes.
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