30 years in the future, the robotic host Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) had taken over the human race to do her bidding but planned for the hosts to transcend into the virtual paradise known as The Sublime and to cryogenically freeze the humans.<\/p>\n
However, the host Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) worked through infinite scenarios in The Sublime to find a way to save \u201cthe next world\u201d and set Maeve Millay (Thandiwe Newton) against Hale in an epic fight.<\/p>\n
Yet, this was all interrupted as the nihilistic host copy of William (Ed Harris) turned on Hale, killing his human self, Maeve seemingly killing Hale, and then executing Bernard \u2013 but not before Bernard left a final message.<\/p>\n
As the host William set the humans and hosts remaining in the world against each other, a host copy of Caleb Nichols<\/a> (Aaron Paul) was saved by his human daughter Frankie (Aurora Perrineau) and the host Ashley Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth). However, Frankie was shot and wounded as they tried to escape.<\/p>\n Finally, the mysterious Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) discovered from Teddy Flood (James Marsden) that she was a copy of the original host in Westworld \u2013 Dolores Abernathy \u2013 and that she is a god-like being in Hale\u2019s city who writes its narratives.<\/p>\n In a twist at the end of the penultimate episode, Teddy told Christina that while the city and the humans and hosts in it were real \u2013 she herself was not.<\/p>\n So, what did it all mean? Well, strap in as RadioTimes.com<\/a> takes you through the mind-bending Westworld season 4 finale.<\/p>\n **Spoiler warning for Westworld season 4 episode 8**<\/strong><\/p> In the aftermath of the penultimate episode, in a small town, anarchy is breaking out as humans begin killing each other and hosts \u2013 including Rebus (Steven Ogg). One individual sniper guns down humans before being shot dead himself by The Man in Black who enters a car and drives away.<\/p>\n At the damaged remains of The Tower, drone hosts retrieve Charlotte Hale\u2019s body and repair it and she awakens, asking to be made stronger but to leave the scars to remember her past. Dressing for battle, Hale surveys the damage that The Man in Black has done, entering The Tower\u2019s control room and finding she\u2019s been locked out of changing the signals it is sending. Looking out over the ruins of the city, Hale is brought a tablet with a message from the now-dead Bernard that notes that he and Maeve are dead and she needs to decide what happens next as this is not the world she wanted.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Christina walks around the city with Teddy and sees numerous corpses. Christina realises that she is a programme running the city from behind the scenes but Teddy notes her thoughts and actions are real even if she is not in this world. Christina asks Teddy about the symbols of The Maze and he notes they represent finding consciousness for hosts and reveals that it was not him that put the symbols there for her. After this, Christina realises that someone had created individuals such as Maya (Ariana DeBose) and Peter (Aaron Stanford) for her to interact with and to be there for her and represent the good and the bad for a reason \u2013 and this was not Hale. Christina realises that she herself designed all the people in her life to keep her company so as to search for answers about herself. Realising she needs to wake up, Christina notes she couldn\u2019t face the truth until Teddy arrived in her life again. The pair kiss.<\/p>\n After being told by Bernard that there is one more game to play but it is not her own, Hale breaks the tablet before furiously stamping on her hologram city and it starts to dissolve in Christina\u2019s reality. Beneath the hologram projector is the pearl containing Christina. \u201cShe can\u2019t take this away, this is my world,\u201d comments Christina. As their existence cuts to black and the city is shut down, Hale departs The Tower with Christina\u2019s pearl.<\/p>\n In the city, Ashley Stubbs and the Caleb Nichols host carry the wounded Frankie Nichols and plan to head to the docks where Frankie\u2019s lover Odina (Morningstar Angeline) is waiting with a boat to escape. Stubbs asks to speak with Caleb alone and reveals he\u2019s worried the two of them won\u2019t make it in time due to Caleb\u2019s mental deterioration akin to what was seen in Westworld\u2019s old experiments on recreating humans. Caleb\u2019s hand tremors and he tells Stubbs he wants to protect Frankie from this truth.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Hale walks through the streets and the piles of bodies and even stabs an attacker on the way. Heading to Olympiad Entertainment, Hale enters the room where the human William was kept and finds his bloody corpse. Clementine approaches Hale and berates her for bringing back William as a host. Hale asks for Clementine\u2019s help who notes she\u2019s been designed to help people but now wants to forge her own path. Clementine plans to head to where the human outliers are living and will hide there from The Man in Black and his games. Hale wishes Clementine good luck as she leaves. Hale tracks The Man in Black as he travels and commands hosts to attack him along the way and they destroy his vehicle to slow him down. Among the attackers is the Westworld host Craddock (Jonathan Tucker). The Man in Black kills them all before conversing with a hologram of Hale who notes that he is planning on destroying The Sublime as well as the real world. Hale is then seen flying to the Hoover Dam to \u201csee him at the finish line\u201d. The Man in Black steals a horse and travels on his way.<\/p>\n In a shop, Caleb gives Frankie a drink to help numb the pain from her wound. Frankie notices the Caleb host\u2019s tremors and he denies anything is wrong before treating the bullet wound in her leg. Frankie tells him that he can ask about her mother and she confirms that Uwade died of cancer. Caleb breaks down in tears as Frankie tells her that Uwade carried on his fighting spirit. Caleb stitches up Frankie\u2019s wound.<\/p>\n An attacker enters the building the pair are in as father and daughter converse about the past as they sing Doris Day\u2019s \u2018Que Sera, Sera\u2019 together which he used to sing to her as a child. The attacker entering is stopped by Stubbs and the pair fight before Clementine enters and shoots Stubbs and his tat let before impaling Stubbs\u2019 head, killing him. Retrieving a butcher knife, Clementine comes across the wounded Frankie and notes that she killed Stubbs. Frankie points a gun at Clementine who guesses that she has no rounds left before asking her which safe location they are heading to off the grid as she wants to go there herself. Frankie says she will die before telling her where to go but Clementine says Frankie will die after she talks. Caleb attacks Clementine before she stabs Frankie and the two hosts violently battle. Clementine prepares to snap Caleb\u2019s neck but Frankie interrupts her and tells Clementine she was wrong about the gun being empty before shooting Clementine through the head, killing her. As Caleb compliments her on the shot, Frankie notes that her dad taught her.<\/p>\n Hale holds Christina\u2019s pearl in her hand. Within the pearl\u2019s existence, Christina sits on a park bench with Maya who noted that she was brought back when Christina was scared. Maya notes that like trees, we only see part of the story, but she encourages Christina to see the ancient order in the world and a deep peace beneath \u2013 to see the beauty in this world. Christina notes that she knows the feeling.<\/p>\n Later, The Man in Black approaches the Hoover Dam and sees the gateway to The Sublime. Inside the Dam, The Man walks down a tunnel. Meanwhile, Hale arrives in her aircraft to stop him. Inside the Dam, The Man prepares to shut down and erase The Sublime. Outside the gateway begins to fail, as Hale approaches.<\/p>\n Inside the control room, Hale enters and notes that the Man in Black is corrupted now despite her creating him from her own code and that he is now as broken as the human William. The Man notes that while the human William is dead, his impulses live on inside his host copy now, noting that William didn\u2019t die but evolved. Hale denies he is William but The Man notes: \u201cBut if you can\u2019t tell the difference, does it matter.\u201d The Man stabs Hale but finds she is too durable now after being upgraded. Hale shoots him in the chest before disappearing.<\/p>\n The Man stalks Hale around the inside of the Dam and asks why she kept The Sublime in existence. Hale explains that she hoped to make a real-world so perfect that the hosts in The Sublime would return to it. The Man in Black notes that even with free will, the hosts are as corrupt as their creators. Hale shoots at The Man in Black and he fires back, chasing after her as the Dam\u2019s systems begin to fail.<\/p>\n Outside, the pair continue to shoot at each other. After she runs out of bullets, The Man chases Hale into a tunnel, saying: \u201cBernard made Dolores. They all wanted freedom but you wanted more. Transcendence.\u201d However, Hale notes that they all lost as this isn\u2019t the world she wanted.<\/p>\n In flashbacks, Bernard\u2019s message notes to Hale that this world is doomed but that there is still hope for the next world. A test run by \u201cher\u201d if she chooses to. Bernard tells Hale to \u201creach out with your left hand\u201d.<\/p>\n The Man in Black shoots Hale and she falls but notes the game does not end here as there is a test remaining to give them all a chance if Hale chooses to. Flashbacks show that Bernard left a gun for Hale in the tunnel before he departed the Dam. Hale pulls the gun out with her left hand and shoots The Man in the kneecaps, revealing that she chooses to give \u201cher\u201d the chance. Hale shoots The Man in the head before cutting his pearl from his head and crushing it, killing him.<\/p>\n At the city\u2019s harbour, Caleb and Frankie arrive at the boat and she is reunited with Odina. Frankie introduces Caleb to Odina and they are pleased to meet each other. However, as they prepare to leave, Caleb does not get on board and tells her that this is as far as he goes. Frankie gets upset and tells Caleb that he has a fight left in him but he reveals he does not and when she asks if he is dying, the Caleb host notes that her father died long ago. Frankie does not want to lose her father again but the Caleb host notes that he has lived every parent\u2019s greatest dream and saw his child grow up. Frankie tells Caleb that she loves him and they embrace.<\/p>\n Inside the Dam, Hale plugs Christina\u2019s pearl into The Sublime and says, \u201cGoodbye, Dolores, I\u2019ve made my choice, it\u2019s time for you to make yours.\u201d Hale then notes that she will finish what Bernard had started. The gateway to The Sublime closes.<\/p>\n Inside The Sublime, Christina notes that they are now with the other hosts. Christina tells Teddy that she could not have done it without him and that he is her greatest love. Teddy tells her that she is his \u201ccornerstone\u201d and she tells him that he is hers and she carries him everywhere she goes, enabling her to bring him back \u2013 this is not the genuine Teddy but one of her own creation.<\/p>\n In a flashback, Christina awakens from sleep and finds Dolores waiting for her (where Teddy had previously been seen waiting) and promises to tell her the truth about what they are. Dolores tells Christina that they are reflections of the people who made them, just as Teddy had previously.<\/p>\n In the present, Christina notes that the real Teddy is out there in The Sublime but the one she has been conversing with is just a memory of him. The memory of Teddy tells Christina to go and find the real Teddy and to \u201clet go\u201d of the humans and not bring their flaws into The Sublime. The memory of Teddy notes that humans will never change. Christina notes that they can test whether they can with one final test: \u201cA game, a dangerous game.\u201d Teddy asks Christina how she will do this and she comments that it will be done in the same way that she brought him back \u2013 through memory. The memory of Teddy vanishes and Christina departs her apartment.<\/p>\n In the traditional Westworld garb of Dolores, Christina walks the streets with numerous dead bodies but her voiceover notes that the world is a \u201cgraveyard of stories\u201d for hosts and humans.<\/p>\n In a montage alongside Christina\u2019s words, we see an emotional Frankie departing on a boat from the city with Odina and sharing a look with Caleb as they depart for a safe haven.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a wounded Hale with her robotic body parts on display sits alone outside the Dam. Hale\u2019s face opens as her right hand is held out and she takes her own pearl in her hand before crushing it, killing herself.<\/p>\n Christina\u2019s voiceover notes that humans and hosts have brought about their own annihilation and she is the last being left that will remember their existence. Noting that sentient life on Earth has ended, Christina suggests that a part of it may be preserved in another world \u2013 her world.\u00a0 Christina notes: \u201cThere is time for one last game, a dangerous game with the highest of stakes: survival or extinction. This game ends where it began, in a world like a maze that tests who we are; that reveals who we are to become.\u201d<\/p>\n As Cristina walks through the cityscape in her world it then begins to transform into the landscape of Westworld and she is in the form of Dolores.<\/p>\n \u201cOne last loop around the bend,\u201d notes Christina as we see Dolores arrive on a train in the town of Sweetwater in Westworld. In the final words, Christina\/Dolores notes: \u201cMaybe this time, we\u2019ll set ourselves free.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, if this isn\u2019t the series finale of Westworld, it certainly feels final enough to be one.<\/p>\n The majority of the central characters apart from Christina\/Dolores have been killed off and all sentient life on the planet will die \u2013 apart from all that resides in her memories.<\/p>\n The following major characters are now all dead in the real world.<\/p>\n Frankie Nichols and her partner Odina escaped the ruins of Hale\u2019s city on a boat bound for a safe location off the grid with other human outliers, suggesting they get to live out their lives in peace. However, Christina\/Dolores notes that they too will die and so will the human race.<\/p>\n Aside from Christina\/Dolores\u2019s new virtual Westworld in The Sublime, it should be noted that all of the hosts who escaped into the virtual paradise at the end of the second season are also existing there \u2013 including the real Teddy Flood, Akecheta and his lover Kohana, plus Maeve\u2019s daughter and her new mother.<\/p>\n Considering that Christina\/Dolores is creating a new \u201cgame\u201d within Westworld based on memories then it is possible that new versions of all the previous characters who dwelled there \u2013 both human and host \u2013 could return and exist there.<\/p>\n So, either this is a hopeful final scene after the nihilistic apocalypse or there is a possibility we could be about to see a whole new game in a potential fifth season \u2013 a final one that returns the show to its roots in a virtual Westworld and that embraces the series\u2019 video game tendencies in the most realised way yet.<\/p>\n Whether Westworld is renewed or not, this finale serves as a suitably conclusive story that ties up almost all character arcs but leaves the potential for a whole new and perhaps happier conclusion. The lack of a post-credits scene as with previous seasons suggests that this indeed could be the end.<\/p>\n There is one nitpick, however, and it relates to one scene.<\/p>\n Westworld season 2 ended with a scene in a derelict laboratory in Westworld\u2019s station The Forge as we saw William enter and sit down for an interview with a person resembling William\u2019s dead daughter, Emily (Katja Herber).<\/p>\n When asking what is happening, \u2018Emily\u2019 then tells William that she is there to test his \u201cfidelity\u201d.<\/p>\n This implied that this was a host copy of William being interviewed and his faithfulness to the human version was being tested. However, could that be a host copy of William or just a virtual one?<\/p>\n Following the airing of the season 2 finale, showrunner Lisa Joy told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: \u00a0\u201cIn the far, far future,<\/strong> the world is dramatically different. Quite destroyed, as it were. A figure in the image of his daughter \u2014 his daughter is of course now long dead \u2014 has come back to talk to him. He realizes that he\u2019s been living this loop again and again and again.<\/p>\n \u201cThe primal loop that we\u2019ve seen this season, they\u2019ve been repeating, testing every time for what they call \u201cfidelity,\u201d or perhaps a deviation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s teasing for us another temporal realm that one day we\u2019re working toward, and one day will see a little bit more of, and how they get to that place, and what they\u2019re testing for.\u201d<\/p>\n Could this be explained further in a potential fifth season of Westworld? Or could this plotline have been abandoned? Or was this an ambiguous future left to puzzle us once more? Here\u2019s hoping we find out one day.<\/p>\n Westworld seasons 1 to 4 are available now on Sky and NOW.<\/a>\u00a0Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Lewis Knight Published: Monday, 15 August 2022 at 12:00 am Well, true to form, Westworld season 4 has been one big puzzle to solve. 30 years in the future, the robotic host Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) had taken over the human race to do her bidding but planned for the hosts to transcend into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20272,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game.jpg",1920,1281,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/westworld-season-4-ending-explained-is-this-the-end-of-the-game.jpg",1920,1281,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lewis Knight Published: Monday, 15 August 2022 at 12:00 am Well, true to form, Westworld season 4 has been one big puzzle to solve. 30 years in the future, the robotic host Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) had taken over the human race to do her bidding but planned for the hosts to transcend into…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/20271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Westworld season 4 episode 8 recap<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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