Westworld continues its gripping third season with the new episode The Absence of Field on Sunday night.
Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) returns alongside new character Caleb Nichols, who she first met at the end of the Season 3 premiere.
In the preview for The Absence of Field, Dolores teased to Caleb that she was going to start a revolution, by destroying the world her human counterparts inhabit.
Dolores return: Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) returns alongside new character Caleb Nichols, who she first met at the end of the Season 3 premiere.
The episode begins with a naked Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) recording a message, before it cuts out and we see a new body being printed.
Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) then tells Charlotte to ‘bring herself back online,’ but Charlotte doesn’t remember anything.
Dolores tells her she is a creature of beauty and power, before asking her to focus, asking her to, ‘remember who you are.’
Charlotte says she remembers who she is, as Dolores says she will show her who she has to pretend to be, while handing her a small mirror.
‘Charlotte Hale? But she tried to kill all of us,’ she says, as Dolores says they’re outnumbered in their fight against Delos.
She shows Charlotte the other cores that she brought with her, revealing that one of them is Bernard (Jeffrey Wright).
Dolores tells her that the way they built this world, it won’t be too hard to destroy it, and when Charlotte asks where she’s going, Dolores says, ‘Home’ as the title sequences begins.
While it isn’t immediately clear what robot’s core was put into Charlotte, it might be Maeve (Thandie Newton).
Another mysterious graphic surfaces revealing there is ‘elevated scrutiny’ in San Francisco, as Charlotte gets back to work at Delos, seeing a large robot being put together.
Charlotte leaves after the presentation, calling someone, saying that person needs to call her right away.
We then flashback to the end of the first episode, where Caleb (Aaron Paul) staying with Dolores as paramedics come to take her away.
The paramedics say she shouldn’t be alive, as Caleb springs into action, putting an oxygen mask over her when the police override the ambulance.
Caleb says they don’t ‘have time for this,’ as Caleb checks the Rico app and sees there is a high value target in the area.
Caleb tells Dolores that if she goes with the cops she will die and she asks him to help her.
When the cops arrive, Caleb questions if they are actually cops, and they seem not to be legit as a firefight ensues and Dolores stabs one of them in the neck and kills the other with a machine gun.
Caleb says he needs to get her to a hospital as she walks off and carries a body into the truck to verify the identity.
She asks him his name, and he tells her his name is Caleb Nichols, but she says, ‘not anymore,’ because he’ll need a new identity.
He asks what her name is, and she doesn’t tell him, saying the less he knows about her the better before driving off.
Charlotte is seen outside at night, as she’s told that Serac is behind the hostile takeover of Delos.
The woman says Serac is a ‘black hole’ and there is no presence of him online, but she says he initiated a data transfer with them two decades ago and now he’s trying to steal their company.
Charlotte keeps listening to a mysterious audio transmission on her phone, before entering her apartment, cautiously.
She finds a man naked Jake (Michael Ealy), who says he used to live there for eight years.
Before he can say anymore, she kisses him passionately before they break it off when she says he wasn’t invited.
He says he’s there because she forgot to pick up their son again, Nathan, as she tries to comfort him, saying her meeting ran late.
She asks him to go to sleep for mommy, but he insists she’s not his mommy (which is technically right) and he doesn’t love her, and she says of course she does, and asks if he said that because mommy and daddy don’t live together anymore, as he nods.
Back at Delos, Charlotte is told they have a ‘leak,’ as she’s told they are missing host control units, one of whom being Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton).
The men she’s with think this was an ‘inside job from the top of the food chain,’ as Charlotte agrees there is a ‘mole inside Delos.’
After her meeting, she gets in a car and tells someone on the phone that she can’t wait and she’s coming to you, possibly referring to Dolores.
Charlotte is seen having a drink at a hotel lobby with a pin in her hand and listening to that recording, when Dolores arrives.
Dolores says she can’t always be there to hold her hand, and Charlotte wants to know who she really is, pulling up her coat showing a bloody gouge.
Charlotte asks ‘what the f**k is happening to me’ and Dolores tells her to turn off her emotional functions as she gets a room in the hotel with her digital assistant.
Dolores gets Charlotte into the room and sees she’s been cutting herself, and when asked why, she says she can’t stop.
Dolores says, ‘they don’t have impulse control, we do,’ as Dolores starts healing her wounds as Dolores says ‘no one knows me like you.’
‘If I ever lost you, I don’t know what I’d do,’ Charlotte says,’ as Dolores says she’d survive because they have to, ‘our kind depends on it.’
Charlotte tells Dolores that someone is trying to take over Delos and he has a mole inside the company, with Dolores saying she will find the mole and kill him and also make a counter offer to stop Serac’s offer.
Dolores says she has to visit an old friend, with Charlotte asking if it will always be like this and if they’ll ever get to be themselves, and Dolores says they will.
Dolores tells Charlotte to rest and she’ll have more clothes sent up, but when Charlotte asks her to stay, Dolores sits on the bed and says, ‘You belong to me, you know that?’
Charlotte says yes, and Dolores says, ‘Don’t hurt yourself ever again,’ as Dolores snuggles up to Charlotte in bed.
The preview for the episode begins with Dolores in an ambulance with an oxygen mask over her face.
‘The way they built their world, it won’t take much to bring it all crashing down,’ Dolores says, as she stabs a technician in the neck.
As they walk out onto a long bridge, Caleb asks what she’s gonna do, and she replies, ‘I’m gonna start a revolution.’
Crashing: ‘The way they built their world, it won’t take much to bring it all crashing down,’ Dolores says, as she stabs a technician in the neck
Dolores managed to escape from Westworld at the end of Season 2 and she has set her sights on destroying the human race, though how Caleb fits into her plans remains to be seen.
In the premiere, Dolores was told that the system she wants to take control of is managed by someone named Serac (Vincent Cassell).
Serac was introduced in the second episode, when he met Maeve (Thandie Newton), who has also managed to escape from the park.
Caleb: Dolores managed to escape from Westworld at the end of Season 2 and she has set her sights on destroying the human race, though how Caleb fits into her plans remains to be seen
At the end of the second episode, Serac tells Maeve he wants her to track down Dolores and kill her, but Maeve insists she doesn’t care.
She says she only does her own bidding, and she tries to stab him but he hits a button and freezes her, proving he can control her to some extent.
He says that, the next time they meet, he hopes he can persuade her that, ‘our interests are aligned’ as the episode comes to an end.
Serac: At the end of the second episode, Serac tells Maeve he wants her to track down Dolores and kill her, but Maeve insists she doesn’t care
The end seems to hint that he has been controlling Maeve for quite some time, trying to get her to agree to do Serac’s bidding.
The preview also teased that the ‘clone’ of Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) meeting with Dolores, who tells her who Charlotte must pretend to be.
In the Season 2 finale, the real Charlotte was killed as one of her robotic clones assumed her place in the real world.
Season 3 of Westworld continues Sunday, April 5 with the fourth episode of the eight-episode season, The Mother of Exiles, at 9 PM ET on HBO.
