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Westworld

I'm no legal expert, but surely if someone dies at a park, whether its an accident or not, the police should show up?
 
Perhaps not if the park has its own jurisdiction - ie. It is its own municipality, not just a workplace or venue. The next handoff might be to the county, then to the state.

With such a large, well-funded park in such a remote area, that might be quite plausible.

And sometimes there are screw ups. West Yellowstone National Park has a section where nobody has jurisdiction to hold a trial as guaranteed by the Constitution's 6th Amendment, which reads:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law,
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The catch with west Yellowstone is that the district is in a different judicial district than the actual state, just to simplify things, so it's impossible to have a trial in the state and district wherein the crime was committed. That area also doesn't have enough residents to impound a jury.
 
Mmm. I don't like the idea of it being in orbit or something, but you can definitely see it being the final dramatic twist of the season. Maeve and her robot army escape the mesa, only to find they're trapped on the moon.
 
gturner said:
Perhaps not if the park has its own jurisdiction - ie. It is its own municipality, not just a workplace or venue. The next handoff might be to the county, then to the state.

With such a large, well-funded park in such a remote area, that might be quite plausible.

And sometimes there are screw ups. West Yellowstone National Park has a section where nobody has jurisdiction to hold a trial as guaranteed by the Constitution's 6th Amendment, which reads:



The catch with west Yellowstone is that the district is in a different judicial district than the actual state, just to simplify things, so it's impossible to have a trial in the state and district wherein the crime was committed. That area also doesn't have enough residents to impound a jury.
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This is why I do all my murders at Disneyworld.
 
I do too. I stalk my victims for years until I can finally catch them on a particular ride in the park and then pop out at them brandishing a scimitar and bellow "My, my! It really is a small world after all!"
 
:rofl: I dress up as animatronic John Wilkes Booth and hide out at the Hall of Presidents. Before they realize what's happening, I've shouted "Sic Semper Tyrannus" and buggered off. (I don't wear spurs just to be on the safe side.)
 
Fuddlemiff said:
Mmm. I don't like the idea of it being in orbit or something, but you can definitely see it being the final dramatic twist of the season. Maeve and her robot army escape the mesa, only to find they're trapped on the moon.
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There was mention of a train out of there, but it could be a SPACE TRAIN of some kind.
 
Aw fuck, BERNARD!

Okay so at least we know the "Bernard" and Delores interviews were the real Arnold and in the past. Seems the rest (besides memories) are in the present.
 
Hosts get shot in the head all the time, why should this be the end for Bernard?

Also how the fuck did William kill all those hosts without waking up anyone?
 
Hosts get shot with the park's revolvers, whose physics still remain mysterious because they don't hurt humans. Bernard had a semi-automatic carried by the park's security people. Those only make sense if they really can put down a malfunctioning host (instead of triggering some kind of automatic shut down/death simulation).

And the only other real human with William was the jerk who was passed out.
 
And I assume Ford won't have Bernard repaired and he's the only one who knows about Bernard being a host so no one else will do it...

The photo of Logan's sister (William's fiance) was the same photo Dolores' father found that drove him insane.

I wonder if Elsie is hiding out in the park somehow and she reprogrammed the Indians to capture Third Hemsworth to help her.
 
Didn't Bernard kill her too?

BTW, was nice to hear Meave use the correct pronunciation of Bernard.
 
They didn't make it clear if she is dead or not, which makes me think they've something tricky going on.
 
They've strongly implied that Elsie's dead, but we've only really seen her pass out. Not sure how she would have survived though. What would have stopped Bernard from following through?

The only thing I don't get about Bernard being Arnold is that surely someone would recognise him. I know it's been 30 years since Arnold died, but if a robot duplicate of Steve Jobs showed up in 30 years working at Apple it wouldn't take long for the resemblance to be noticed.
 
What if Ford didn't just kill Arnold? What if he literally killed everyone else who worked there, replaced them with robots, and the only real people working there were hired since then?
 
It's possible the park had very few employees until the systems were up and running. Constructing the little town where we saw Delores and the rest learning to dance would have been done by some hired carpenters. There were no guests to watch over, and the robots were being made by 3-D printers. Arnold was mostly off by himself writing and testing code (he's not a people person). The few employees who had interacted with Arnold are long since gone, and nobody except Ford even remembers him.

An intriguing possibility is that Ford thought Arnold's physical presence might be keyed into some of the base routines in the hosts. Were there secrets or special internal modes that hosts would only reveal to Arnold, some well hidden back doors? To find out, make a new Arnold.

I'm guessing that it was Elsie, the loyal underling that Bernard strangled on Ford's order, who was being duplicated down in the basement. She would now be a logical replacement for Bernard, whose sudden departure can be blamed on the board's lack of trust in his abilities. But of course duplicate Elsie would be easily sniffed out by her coworker, the one who already had a potentially revealing encounter with Bernard in which Bernard didn't seem to know much about Theresa. So they picked up a signal from Elsie's phone (and Ford controls everything that happens in the park) which sent him to an unused area where he got wacked by Indians. So he'll be duplicated along with Elsie and they'll cover for each other, both in a position to interfere with any machinations from the board.
 
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