Westworld Recap: Trompe L’Oeil

Season: 1 / Episode: 7 / HBO **Spoilers riding Hector into the sunset** Previously on Westworld: Maeve entered the void, nobody cared what William and Dolores were up to, Westworld employees who actually do their work get got, Lee angled for a pink slip by letting his little pink slip, Tessa Thompson showed up to shut shit down, and the internet agreed that none of these folks is safe.

Who's getting fired first? #Westworld #SetsInTheWest — Black Nerd Problems (@BlkNrdProblems) November 7, 2016

That’s real We jump immediately into a flashback of Bernard and his son, Charlie. Bernard’s reading Alice in Wonderland (y’all real on the nose sometimes) to his son, who’s recovering from what looks like brain surgery. It’s all really sweet and Bernard’s being a great dad then Charlie flatlines mid-question. Oh, I’m sorry, you didn’t want to be sobbing 10 minutes into this episode? Writers say TOO BAD! Bernard wakes up in his big old empty bed and just to turn the loneliness up to 9000, looks at a happy picture of he and Charlie. Yeah, keep sobbing. Writers Halley Gross and Jonathan Nolan (also co-creator) ain’t done with you yet. Hydrate and let’s keep going. Cut to Bernard questioning everyone’s favorite bandito, Hector, to make sure he hasn’t picked up any information about the world outside of the park. Hector runs an all-clear, possibly because he’s a newer model. Another employee shows up to give Bernard a status update and ya mans finally asks about Elsie like she h…