- Elsie and Stubbs search for a missing host; Teddy gets a new backstory; Bernard investigates the origins of madness and hallucinations within the hosts.
- Lowe talks to Dolores again, asking if anyone else has quizzed her since the last time, but no one has. He gives her a book to read and suggests a certain passage, from Alice in Wonderland. Dolores recognizes a theme of Change. She asks about his son and explains a personal question is conversational programming. In the morning she awakes and checks a handgun in her dresser. She remembers a time when the gunslinger took her into the barn.
In Sweetwater Guest William strolls the sidewalk. At the jail he comes across a wanted man being arrested. The outlaw breaks free and starts shooting. William is hesitant, then draws his gun. The bandit shoots Willaim in the arm, but he recovers and kills the bandit. Teddy Flood comes by and congratulates him, Clementine offers herself. His friend Logan comes by smiling. The shot in the arm was only a stinging pellet. William now wants to chase more outlaws.
Cullen and Lowe talk, she is still nervous about the AI and whatever Ford is up to.
Elsie and Lowe study the milk drinking killer. They review video and see that he killed only six AI that had killed him in previous narratives and called out to "Arnold". Lowe sends her with Stubbs to find a host who has taken off. Stubbs takes a handgun.
Teddy and a female guest confront a large outlaw, she kills him with several rifle shots. They go into the Mariposa Saloon, Teddy gives Maeve a generous tip and Clementine takes the guest upstairs. Teddy notices Dolores outside, he goes to meet her and picks up a dropped can of food. Later they chat in the prairie, she wonders where he has been, then throws him for a loop by asking to ride south together. Teddy says "someday". At night they return to her farm, they hear the shots, Teddy moves in with a rifle.
In the lab Ford quizzes Teddy about his aspirations and teases him about his destiny. He gives him an extended backstory program, involving an evil ex-soldier named Wyatt.
Dolores walks the sidewalk and is confronted by some thugs. Teddy comes to her rescue and talks the bullies down. Outside of town he teaches Dolores how to fire a gun, but she can't seem to pull the trigger. A posse comes by and takes Teddy along to get a wild man named Wyatt. Dolores is scared for Teddy as he promises to return.
A group of cowboy hosts sit around a campsite. Stubbs and Elsie arrive, the group is stuck in a loop since the woodcutter was the one who took off. In the missing man's tent they see his woodcarvings.
Teddy and the posse ride along talking about Wyatt and the backstory. They come across dead bodies rotting in a tree. An ambush, shots ring out. The posse includes scared guests, plan an escape.
Stubbs and Elsie track the missing host. Stubbs recognizes the constellation Orion on the small carving Elsie kept from the tent.
Lowe wants a private chat with Ford. Lowe thinks they may have misdiagnosed the situation, he has realized the hosts have been talking to someone named Arnold. Ford explains his original partner was Arnold. Armold wanted to create consciousness using a version of a bicameral mind. Ford says Armold died in the park, Ford hints the man committed suicide. Ford stresses to Lowe the hosts are not real, and mentions Lowe's dead son.
Lowe has a video chat with his wife, they reminisce about the dead boy.
At night Stubbs and Elsie still trail the host. They find the AI struggling in a crevice.
Teddy and the posse are attacked by wraiths.
Elsie tries to call Lowe on a cell about the missing man and his Orion ideas. Lowe is with Dolores, she can't understand his philosophical questions but reveals a yearning for self awareness. He appears pleased with her development.
In Sweetwater, a deputy returns from the hillside and says the posse is lost. Back at her farm she comes across the bandits killing her father. One takes her to the barn, she remembers the man in black then kills the rapist with a gun buried in the hay. Running out of the barn, she is shot at but manages to escape on a horse.
Stubbs goes down in the crevice, he starts to decapitate the AI but the man pushes him away and climbs out and seems to attack a panicking Elsie. He picks up a boulder and crushes his own head.
At a campfire, Dolores staggers toward Logan and William.
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