5 questions we need answered in the Westworld season 2 finale

What exactly is the Door?

Throughout this season, several characters have made references to the Door, the Valley Beyond, Glory, and now the Forge. Are all these places the same? Dolores believes the Valley Beyond is the way out of the park and that only a select few hosts are worthy of traveling there. Akecheta believes the Door is the way out, and he’s leading his people the Ghost Nation tribe there. What’s interesting is that Akecheta directly opposes Dolores, who he called “Deathbringer,” and tried to keep from reaching the way out of Westworld. It’s clear Dolores’ Valley and Akecheta’s Door are one in the same and serve as a way to the outside world.

Oddly enough, the Man in Black is also searching for the Door, and since he already knows the way to and from Westworld, the Door he is searching for has to mean something else entirely. Unless, of course, the Door serves as both a way off the island where the park is located and a place where Dr. Ford is keeping a secret meant for the Man in Black to find as an ending to the final game he sent him on in the season 2 premiere.

If the Forge is the human equivalent of the Cradle for the hosts, then having William/the Man in Black find his wife, daughter, brother-in-law, and father-in-law resurrected in the unaging body of a host, could be Dr. Ford’s last act of revenge.