Trompe L'Oeil (Westworld)
| "Trompe L'Oeil" | |
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| Westworld episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 7 |
| Directed by | Frederick E. O. Toye |
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| Featured music | Ramin Djawadi |
| Cinematography by | Brendan Galvin |
| Editing by | Andrew Seklir |
| Production code | 4X6157 |
| Original air date | November 13, 2016 |
| Running time | 57 minutes |
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"Trompe L'Oeil" is the seventh episode of the HBO science fiction thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on November 13, 2016.
The episode received very positive reviews from critics, and in particular for the ending. The title comes from the art of Trompe-l'œil.
Theresa meets with Charlotte, and it is revealed that Theresa is colluding with the Board to steal a copy of Dr. Ford and Arnold's code and research so the Board can force Dr. Ford into retirement without fear that he would erase the code in anger. Since Theresa's plan to transfer the data out of the park through the stray host was a failure, Charlotte instead suggests they stage a demonstration to humiliate Dr. Ford. Using Clementine as a guinea pig, Theresa and Charlotte demonstrate that Dr. Ford's recent "reverie" updates can make the hosts violent towards humans, when Clementine violates her core programming and kills another host designed to represent a human. As head of the Behavior department, Bernard is forced to take the blame for the code and is fired by Charlotte.
William and Dolores continue to travel with Lawrence by train through dangerous Ghost Nation tribe territory. They begin to have a romantic attraction, culminating in them having sex. William has an epiphany that the park is not meant to cater to a person's base desires, but to reveal their true character. He also sees an impromptu painting of a canyon that Dolores made, which she had apparently seen in a dream. The train is then stopped by the Confederados, who want revenge for Lawrence double crossing them. After distracting the Confederados with a nitroglycerin-filled corpse, William, Dolores, and Lawrence flee on horseback. They are saved when the pursuing Confederados are ambushed by Ghost Nation warriors. Dolores then sees the canyon she saw in her dreams, and she and William part ways with Lawrence to follow it despite his warnings that nobody who has gone that way has ever returned.
In Sweetwater, Maeve attempts to test if Clementine is capable of becoming self-aware when park staff arrive and take Clementine away. Maeve kills herself and enters the lab to find out what happened to Clementine, only to witness her being retired by the staff following her programming violation. Angered, Maeve concludes that merely surviving in the park is just another loop and decides to escape the park for good. She threatens Felix and Sylvester into helping her, and when Sylvester points out that it's a suicide mission, Maeve responds that she's already died countless times and that she only needs to kill him once.
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