Ben Barnes (Logan Delos) won’t return for Westworld season 3

The third season of HBO’s killer robot drama Westworld is still a ways off, but between a spiffy trailer and the announcement that Breaking Bad alum Aaron Paul will be coming onboard as a regular, the hype train is picking up steam. I wasn’t a giant fan of the show’s second season, but the trailer is cool enough that I’m willing to take another look.

So Aaron Paul is joining the cast. Who’s leaving it? Speaking to Digital Spy, actor Ben Barnes made it pretty clear that his character, Logan Delos, would not be returning for a third go-round. “I think I’m definitely dead,” he said. “It felt pretty definitive the last time.”

If you remember, Logan Delos is the son of James Delos, the self-made jillionaire behind the Westworld theme park. His end goal was to create a new, immortal robotic body for himself to inhabit, but that didn’t work out. As we saw in season 2, Logan eventually died of an overdose.

Then again, does death really mean anything on this show? Did you absorb the sentence about James Delos trying to create an immortal body for himself? There’s all kinds of ways for dead characters to come back — Barnes himself appeared in season 2 as a kind of digital guide taking the form of Logan Delos, so however “definitive” Logan’s death felt, there’s ways around that.

We’re also not sure if James Marsden is returning to the role of Teddy Flood, the affable host whom Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) reprogrammed into a killing machine so she could better fight her human masters. He shot himself in the head towards the end of season 2. Now, Teddy was a robot, so death means even less for him than it does for Logan, but still, I’d say that was pretty “definitive.”

Marsden may also have a new gig. According to Deadline, he’s in talks to play lead character (well, one of them — there are a lot of characters in this thing) Stu Redman in CBS All Access’ adaptation of The Stand, Stephen King’s beloved post-apocalyptic novel. Gary “Lieutenant Dan” Sinise played him in ABC’s 1994 miniseries. Can Marsden match his everyman charm? And if he can, does that mean Teddy is permanently out?

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We’ll find out for sure when Westworld returns sometime in 2020.

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