Which hosts did Dolores smuggle out of Westworld? Now we know

At the end of Westworld’s second season, the misanthropic Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), a lifelike robot who had very much turned against her creators, finally escaped her programmed prison, taking advantage of the chaos at the park to smuggle herself into the “real” world, our world.

She managed this feat by implanting her “pearl” — basically her robot brain — into another robotic “host,” this one modeled off Delos executive Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson). Once on the mainland, Dolores made herself a new body and implanted her brain back inside it. But she didn’t escape alone. She brought five others pearls with her, five other host brains. Ever since the second season ended in 2018, fans have debated which hosts she took into our world. We got especially curious watching last week’s new episode, “The Absence of Field,” which focused on Charlotte…or whatever host is now occupying the robot who looks like her. Who’s in there? Teddy? Peter Abernathy? Someone else?

Well, in tonight’s new episode, “The Mother of Exiles,” we finally learned the truth. Brace for SPOILERS.

The big answer is…Dolores didn’t bring any other hosts out of the park with her (well, she brought Bernard, but he was the one exception). Rather, she made several copies of herself, and somehow uploaded those copies onto the pearls. We already know where several of those pearls have gone. One is inside the host who looks like Charlotte Hale, who’s still a senior official at Delos; one is inside the host who looks like Martin Connells, the head of security for tech firm Incite; and one is inside a host Dolores put in charge of the Yakuza, which helped her establish her identity. And of course one of the pearls is inside Dolores’ new body.

So Dolores is building an army made up of clones of herself. By our count, that still leaves a couple pears unaccounted for. It looks like she may be trying to make a host who looks like Liam Dempsey Jr., another player at Incite, and put a pearl inside him. Basically, Dolores is trying to get ahold of the world’s tech infrastructure to do lord knows what, unless Maeve and Bernard can stop her.

I never know whether I’m supposed to root for Dolores or hope for her downfall.  Maybe it’ll become clearly when Westworld continues next Sunday with “Genre.” What twist do you have for us next, show?

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