Westworld recap: Oh William, what have toi done? 

Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, J.J. Abrams

was a dark journey into the corrupt heart of the Man in Black, delving into his backstory and giving us a startling and just plain sad twist. We’re going deep into that, plus touching on a pyrrhic victory for Teddy and more inert table-lying for Maeve. Let’s break down “Vanishing Point,” beginning with…

Dolores: Dolores the Deathbringer confronts Ghost Nation natives (though not their leader, Akecheta, who we fell in love with last week). They warn her the Valley Beyond is “not meant for you,” a phrase I’ve come to associate with Dr. Ford trying to course-correct players in his world. She orders Teddy to gun them down. Yet he decides against shooting a fleeing man in the back, suggesting part of his core personality remains intact despite his girlfriend’s iPad tinkering.

Later, Teddy makes a speech to Dolores: “No matter what happens, no matter how much I change or how much you change me, you’re my cornerstone,” he says. “Which is why this is so hard. You changed me. You made me into a monster.”

And then, in perhaps one of the show’s best examples yet of host freedom and self-determinism — and a great example of why you should either accept your partner or leave, not try to change them — Teddy does the one thing he can think of to reclaim himself. Teddy, who has been killed over and over and over again on this show, has a final life left to give. So he takes out his gun and shoots himself. Oh my God, Teddy killed Teddy!

Westworld this is almost always unclear — is whether Teddy is really dead. The host backups were destroyed at the Cradle. So he’s presumably gone? Unless that bullet somehow missed his Brita filter CPU? Or Dolores backed him up to a flash drive just in case he tried exactly this?

Clementine: The tech team has uploaded Maeve’s host-controlling superpower into zombie Clementine. They test using her to spread a virus command to other hosts. It’s a creepy sequence as Clementine silently orders hosts to brutally slaughter each other. Charlotte Hale is quite pleased. Behold Clementine, destroyer of worlds.

Maeve: Poor Bernard is once again being used as Dr. Ford’s avatar. Ford unlocks her “core permissions” (which we assumed were already unlocked, but I guess there’s always another level), and that will presumably help her do something interesting again at some point.

“Of all the hosts I made, you were my favorite,” Ford kindly tells her, and you can see Maeve silently wanting to scream at him.

“All this pain,” Ford continues, “so [humans] can patch a hole in their own broken code” — which is a good line. Westworld is great at trolling humanity for our imperfections.

Still: Who would have guessed that Maeve would spend three episodes lying on a table?