Spoiler Warning: Westworld Season 3

Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the showrunners of Westworld, yet again did a phenomenal job with the third season of the critically acclaimed HBO series. The finale episode was an action-packed, eye-opening storyline that we still can’t get over. With the Westworld season 4 premiere date just a little over a month away, we couldn’t be more excited to see what happens next. Just like the previous seasons, the third season also ended on a major cliffhanger, leaving viewers with more questions than answers.

However, the third season was a bit different from the previous ones. We saw the storyline taking a huge turn by shifting the focus from Westworld to the real world. We saw Dolores and several other hosts trying to infiltrate human life to achieve their different goals, which we still aren’t clear about. We also saw the season introducing several new characters as well as many old ones presumably dying.

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But there are so many questions on our minds for the upcoming season. Let’s find answers to some of them.

What Will Happen Now That the Host and Humans Are Free?

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The stage is evidently set for a new world order in the alternate version of our planet on Westworld. It’s a high possibility that billions of people have figured out that they were puppets to an extremely powerful AI that completely got rid of their free will. We can expect governments to be overthrown, cities continuing to get burned, and even hierarchies to be up-ended.

The new season of Westworld will likely get political, with brand-new factions and dogmas arising from all of this backlash and revolt. We’re not sure how the hosts will handle all of this, but it will be interesting to see it. Serac (Vincent Cassel) and his cronies were aware of this outbreak. However, regular folks still don’t seem to be aware that the hosts that controlled them now roam among them. Quite surely, this won’t continue for long. With Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) as the appointed leader of humans, Caleb (Aaron Paul) will definitely be in favor of the hosts. But the question arises, will hosts and humans be able to live alongside each other on the same streets?

The Man in Black - Another Hale-Controlled host or a Copy of William?

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In the shocking scene during the post-credits, we see the real William’s (Ed Harris) throat being slit by his own cybernetic doppelgänger. Hale’s agenda involves using the Man in Black to set the hosts free. However, what comes to our mind is who’s heading the robotic replacement of the former Delos owner. Is this one yet another copy of the Dolores-Hale host set to carry the new plan out, or is this the proof we were looking for to know that Delos’ immortality project actually works?

Ever since the epilogue in the second season, where we saw William performing a fidelity test with a host version of his daughter, many viewers have been contemplating where his character will be subjected to the same test Delos had failed to get through. Either way, we’re glad to see that there will be more Man in Black coming in the upcoming season.

Did Dolores Really Die This Time?

So far, we have always seen that Dolores never actually dies. Back in the last season, in the seventh episode, all it took was 45 minutes for Caleb to look for a spare Dolores body in a lock-up close by. But, of course, we did see that her Pearl this time around was wiped off completely. With that, we can assume that the version of Dolores we have known so far may be truly done for. Unless a copy of it still exists in the Delos HQ somewhere.

We know so far that some version of Dolores still resides in the Charlotte Hale-shaped host. This is not the kick-butt, revolutionary Dolores we have a love-hate relationship with but a version changing rapidly and establishing a new psyche and personality.

What Is Bernard Up to?

The one question that we definitely need an answer to in the fourth season is what exactly was happening with Bernard in the finale. The last we saw him was shut down inexplicably after he put the head unit left to him by Dolores. A little later, he was shown completely covered in dust in the exact position, which we believe was a way to say that a long while had passed since then. At this point, we saw him waking up and looking more determined than before. Is this a contingency plan that Dolores kept in place or another move to a much bigger plan?

The fourth season of Westworld is set to premiere on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, June 26, 2022. Like the previous seasons, we will see every episode dropped on the network weekly until August 14, 2022, when the season will conclude.