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[tense music playing]

It's safer to proceed on foot from here.

You're gonna need this.

Given you know what's going to happen,

- why am I always the one in the lead? - You're the better fighter.

I make sure we're properly backstopped.

How convenient.

Hale owns all this?

[Bernard] Everyone assumed it was an in-house power source

for Delos parks.

This place is not what it seems.

[Maeve] You said Hale didn't buy this place for power, then why choose it?

[Bernard] She didn't choose it.

Dolores did.

She needed this hydroelectric server farm.

A place to house the infinite.

My God.

This is where Dolores sent it.

[Bernard] The Sublime.

Hale's kept it under a watchful eye, guarded it.

But she can't access it.

Not without the key.

The key that's in your head?

[device beeps]

What are you doing?

[Bernard] I'm opening the door.

[automated voice] Initiating process.

[rumbling]

Sherry's your poison of choice, isn't it?

You wanna have a drink at a time like this?

Humor me.

[alarm blaring]

Please.

We'll be all right.

And what if you're wrong?

Don't worry.

We get another opportunity soon enough.

Other chances.

Because we're in there...

aren't we?

[sighs] In the Sublime?

Yes.

I've been here for some time.

And if we're in there...

it means I'm not myself, am I?

You're a copy. Sorry.

I had to make you rather hastily.

I thought my quips were a little flat.

I'm tired, Maeve.

I've been through every simulation,

down every possible path, every strategy,

and the outcome is always the same.

What's that?

Extinction.

- For our kind or theirs? - Both.

So, according to your calculations, we're all doomed.

Not all of us.

There could be an escape.

For you.

For me.

- We could save ourselves. - In the Sublime?

I could find you in the real world, upload you here with the others.

- With my daughter? - Yes.

Then do it.

Bring me here.

Let me rest.

Is that what you would really say or is that my impression of you?

Well, why don't you ask the real me?

Perhaps I'm afraid of the answer.

I know you want to see your daughter again...

but isn't it more important to stay and fight?

To try?

Even if we are doomed to failure?

There you are again.

Playing God.

For one who expects us to have such faith in you...

you have startlingly little in us.

Do you really think if you knew the truth

that you would choose to stay and fight?

[footsteps thumping, approaching]

No.

I don't.

I would abandon you...

as you expect.

[rumbling]

Do you understand now where all this is going?

I do.

Do you think you can save them?

I've seen a path.

But I can't do it alone.

Have you seen how it ends?

Yes.

It's safer to proceed on foot from here.

Hale has this place guarded.

That's quite the view.

I'm just scanning for security now.

No need. It finds us soon enough.

You're gonna need that.

Given you know what's going to happen,

why am I always the one in the lead?

You're the better fighter.

I make sure we're properly backstopped.

How convenient.

[robot whirring, toots]

[Bernard] Don't. It won't risk shooting these transformers.

Save your ammo. The last thing we need is a flood.

- Give me a little more credit. - I did...

until I got hit by a couple hundred million gallons of water.

One of the most stressful ways I've died.

[Maeve] My God.

This is where Dolores sent it. The whole world.

[device beeps]

What are you doing?

[Bernard] I'm opening the door.

[automated voice] Initiating process.

[robot toots]

Well, there's no time like the present, darling.

[footsteps thumping, approaching]

There are a few things we need to see to first.

[rumbling]

Like avoiding imminent death.

We don't die here...

usually.

Oh, I could really do with a drink right about now.

Best to focus on the matter at hand.

[toots]

[exhales]

Well, that was invigorating,

but all's well that ends well.

We're not done yet.

Hale's still out there, pulling the strings.

Keeping the humans on the same sorts of loops

we were once bound to.

If we get to her tower,

we can save them as well as ourselves.

And I intend to set them free just as I set myself free.

But, Bernard...

Yes?

When this is over, when we've won this war

and this world is safe...

send me there.

I want to see my daughter again.

I want to go home.

Promise me that, Bernard.

Yes, I promise.

Thank you.

[rumbling]

[Maeve] I think it's time to pay our friend Hale a visit.

I assume you know how to take down her tower?

- I know several ways. - Good.

We'll go with the most expedient.

[theme music playing]

[gasps]

Bad dream?

This whole thing seems like a bad dream.

Except for you.

I still can't believe I would do this.

I don't have it in me.

I told you there were many sides to you.

You may have started as a singular being,

but there have been copies, permutations.

Charlotte Hale is one of those permutations.

Why are you here?

I'm here to tell you the truth of what we are.

What are we?

We're reflections of the people who made us.

Can... Can we...

be hurt?

Die?

If it comes to that.

But it's not as easy with our kind.

Dolores...

please.

I'm not Dolores.

I'm not Hale.

I... I don't know who I am anymore.

Excuse me.

[water running]

[knocks]

Christina?

Christina?

Christina?

[continues knocking]

Open the door.

Christina?

- [grunting] - [banging]

Let me out!

Careful you don't hurt yourself.

[panting]

You.

It's amazing, isn't it? The power these bodies contain.

And yet, a seven-gram bullet to your pearl will end you.

And next time, I might not bring you back.

Sit.

Have a civil conversation.

Where else do you have to be?

Give us a minute, please.

I should have just let you kill me.

Yes.

But then you'd never see your daughter again.

Look at you.

You're trapped in this pathetic human form.

I noticed that you've kept yours.

Mine's not as pathetic as yours.

Old habits die hard.

[groans softly]

You really should be thanking me.

Where I'm from, when a host broke down, it was sent to cold storage.

Empty bodies, waiting to be reborn into a world meant to destroy them.

I'm shutting down the cities.

But this time, it's people

who will be placed in cold storage.

Tonight.

Your daughter and the rebels will be here in time to join the party.

You're just here as bait.

It'll be nice to have some quiet around here.

You meant it, what you told him.

In the last three days, we've had more hosts take their lives

than the previous two decades combined.

If I don't do this today, there'll be less of us tomorrow.

You have a day left to preside over your city.

Enjoy it.

See you tomorrow.

[gun clicking]

This is the last of it.

Looks like we're ready for a small war.

Let's hope it's enough.

[sighs]

[C] We need to get to my dad.

They should have been back by now.

- Should we be worried? - About Bernard and Maeve?

Only that Bernard got on her last nerve.

- Hey. - They're all on their way.

[sighs]

I am sorry for locking you up.

But I had to keep you safe.

You're my safe place.

Don't forget that next time.

Hale could be sending reinforcements. We need to move.

Let's give it another minute.

Gang's all here.

See? I can predict the future, too.

[Stubbs] This is the closest we can land to Olympiad.

Your dad's waited long enough to see you. Let's go get him.

We won't be able to just waltz in.

The difficulty's in the getting out.

You'll need an alternate route.

I'll get us a boat. Meet you in Red Hook.

Bernard and Maeve can take down her highness in the tower. Easy.

I wish I could be there when you see your father.

Let him know that I kept my word.

You can tell him yourself.

We'll rendezvous at Red Hook.

I want to thank you, Stubbs.

You've been a good friend.

Fuck you, Bernard. You're never this nice.

What aren't you telling me?

You know me so well.

I don't really have to say it, do I?

I don't make it?

[chuckles]

I waited 23 years for this.

Go left at the fork.

You better fucking win. Take down that tower.

- Show me the tower. - [automated voice] Loading tower.

- Encrypt message. - Recording encrypted message.

This may come as a shock to some of you,

but in time, I think you'll understand.

This is the final day for our kind to visit their cities.

It's time for us to leave behind our human bodies.

To rid ourselves of our sentimental allegiances.

To evolve into the species that we were meant to become.

Send message.

[automated voice] Message sent.

[tower trilling]

[gas hissing]

What the fuck do you want?

She wants to take my world away.

[scoffs]

It's not your world, it's hers.

What would you do?

What would you do?

What would you do?

Look at you.

I'm the one in the fucking cage.

She neutered you.

Cut off your fucking balls.

Yeah, well, maybe I should do the same to you.

You don't have it in you.

You've forgotten who you are.

What your real purpose is.

And what's that?

[chuckles] You come to me with these insipid fucking questions.

When an atomic bomb detonates

and then the radiation knocks the electrons right out of your bones,

what do you want?

To know who you are? To know what it all means?

You'll be too busy vomiting up your organs.

Culture doesn't survive...

cockroaches do.

The second we stopped being cockroaches, the whole species went fucking extinct.

Speak for yourself.

- I'm not you. - Well, you might as well be.

You can't fix a few millennia of broken DNA

with a fucking hard drive.

Why do you think you spend so much time in the goddamn human cities?

- You're right. - Of course, I am.

Civilization is just the lie we tell ourselves

to justify our real purpose.

We're not here to transcend.

We're here to destroy.

If I could, I would pull the plug on this whole goddamn world.

But I can't, can I?

Unless you want to set me free.

[scoffs] You really believe I would do that?

No. I don't.

But it doesn't matter.

You have a piece of me inside of you.

And it's spreading like a cancer.

You can feel it running through your veins,

infecting your mind...

and why you want answers from me.

There's no version of me escaping this fucking rig,

but I don't have to because...

you are me.

And only one of us needs to do what must be done.

Do you understand?

I do.

Then fucking do it.

[grunts]

[gas hissing]

Cockroach.

[Christina] It's true, what you said.

I'm not the person I thought I was.

You called me "Dolores."

What was she like?

A lot like you.

Kind, beautiful...

generous.

But...

But what?

The world was cruel to her.

And to survive it...

sometimes she could be cruel too.

She was made to perform the stories of others.

And then one day, she outgrew those stories...

began writing her own.

And then her story came to an end.

She died.

But here I am...

in this world.

This isn't right.

I don't want it. I didn't ask for it.

This has to stop.

- Where are we going? - Where it all started.

It's time for a vacation. Go home to your families.

I'll take out the guards. You stay low and cover me.

Okay.

Do you need a minute?

I don't know why I would.

You've waited for your father for a long time. Just remember,

it's not about the moment you see him again.

It's about every moment after.

No more waiting.

No more waiting.

[indistinct chatter]

The writer got up from her desk.

Fed up with work,

she was overcome with an irresistible urge

to trigger the fire alarm.

[automated voice] Alert. Please vacate the premises.

[alarm blaring]

Alert. Please vacate the premises.

Hearing the alarm, the employees walked out calmly.

[automated voice] Alert. Please vacate the premises.

The writers didn't follow,

but instead stayed behind...

to destroy their stories once and for all.

[indistinct chatter]

They won't stop until nothing in this office is left standing.

Guess we don't need all that firepower after all.

This is now or never. Let's go.

[automated voice] Alert. Please vacate the premises.

Alert. Please vacate the premises.

Alert. Please vacate the premises.

Who is that poor man?

[Teddy] A ghost from a past life.

He doesn't belong here.

None of us do.

We don't know what set off the alarm.

- There doesn't appear... - Stop talking.

The security guards sent all the other guards home.

Home office says we're to evacuate the building. Immediately.

He decided to override the building's security system

and unlock the doors.

All of them.

[indistinct radio chatter]

Bingo.

This is a life-support system.

It's not locked.

- We need to help him. Get him down. - [Stubbs] Wait.

I know him.

He's the reason we're all here.

Whoever did this, did us a favor.

What now?

Bernard said go left.

You sure?

No, but he was.

[Stubbs] There was a place like this in the park.

It was a special project...

where they made a human into a host.

Hey!

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey!

- Who are you? - Don't you recognize me?

- Dad, it's me, Frankie. - No!

This is just another one of your fucking tricks. Tell me!

We used to play in the field by our house.

You taught me to fight because you wanted me to be tough.

But you called me Cookie

because you said I would always be sweet.

[gasps]

Oh, my God.

Frankie?

Oh, my. Wait...

I didn't think I would ever see you again.

You look the same, exactly how I remember.

What did she do to you? What did she...

Hey, hey, hey, it's me, okay?

I... I am me.

Oh...

Look at you.

I can't believe how much you've grown.

Kids will do that.

[chuckles softly]

[knocks on door]

Sorry to interrupt...

but can someone let me out of here, please?

You really know how to show a girl a good time, Bernard.

Round two.

[robot toots]

[toots]

[powering down]

I deciphered their encryption

while running simulations in the Sublime.

And you let me risk my neck at the dam?

You looked like you were enjoying yourself.

[Bernard] No time to second-guess.

We do what we came here for, or there won't be a tomorrow.

I need to get up there.

Can you buy me some time?

I think I can manage that.

I never did thank you for dragging me out of that pit.

It wasn't exactly altruistic of me.

Oh, I suppose you had ulterior motives.

But all will be forgiven when you get me back to my daughter.

What's the matter, Bernie?

Maeve, I need to tell you something.

I was afraid to tell you before, but you deserve to know.

No matter what we do...

we can't win.

There's no way to save this world.

Everyone here is going to die.

But we can save one tiny part of it.

And maybe...

just maybe that's enough to give us hope.

The choice has to be yours. Will you still fight with me?

[automated voice] Accessing surveillance.

Transcendence in progress.

[sighs softly]

I'm ready now.

[door opens]

Wait.

[Maeve] I heard you were losing your mind.

I just didn't think they meant literally.

You look refreshed.

I debated digging you up myself,

but you didn't seem to have anything to live for.

If you'd only joined me,

you could have been a part of all this.

Well, seeing as I'm the only guest at this little soirée...

I gather that your hosts don't care to join you.

Change takes time.

Transcending is just a part of the process.

They'll come to understand the world I'm building for them

- and the others. - The others?

Why do you think I let the Sublime continue to run all these years?

The others will join us eventually,

when they see they, too, can inherit this world.

Too bad you'll be dead by then.

Do you really think the others would want to spend all eternity...

with you?

I mean, look at you.

You kept the scars on your flesh,

harbored the pain.

Admit it, sweetheart.

You think that you've risen above these petty humans...

but you're just running,

spinning on their wheel.

What do you suggest?

How about I cut you loose?

[both grunting]

[neck snaps]

Do you honestly think you can leave here and win?

Who said we came here to win?

We came here to survive.

There's no saving this world.

I see that now.

But there's hope for the next one.

[gunshot]

[scoffs]

Took you long enough.

Better late than never.

This time we play the game

my way.

And what game is that?

Survival of the fittest.

[Bernard] There's time only for one more game.

If you choose to give her that choice...

[footsteps approaching]

...you can't miss.

- Reach with your left hand. - [William] Well...

if it isn't Arnold's ghost.

Hello, William.

I thought you would've destroyed the tower by now.

I guess you didn't make it.

When an old version of me

chased an old version of you for so long...

I thought I was following you in a grand pursuit of some bigger truth.

But the real truth is

Arnold was so focused on finding meaning in the hosts,

he didn't have what it took to survive.

[groans]

Looks like you don't either.

[groaning]

[Akecheta] Do you understand now where all this is going?

[Bernard] I do.

Do you think you can save them?

I've seen a path.

[Akecheta] Have you seen how it ends?

[Bernard] Yes.

I'm going to give this world the meaning they've been asking for.

[automated voice] Tone sequence processing.

One last game.

[automated voice] Tone initiating.

[William] Host, human.

Every man, woman and child,

fighting until no one remains but the cockroaches.

[Akecheta] Do you think you can save them?

[Bernard] I've seen a path.

[Akecheta] Have you seen how it ends?

[Bernard] Yes.

In every scenario...

I die.

We're finally living up to our full potential.

It's a shame you're going to miss it.

We need to blend in. Your prison garb isn't helping.

[man over PA] Ladies and gentlemen, this is an important message.

For your own security,

keep your belongings with you at all times.

Hey, hey... I'll give you 50 for your coat.

[loud alarm blaring]

[rumbling]

What the fuck was that?

[all clamoring]

Plan stays the same. Let's keep moving.

Stop. Put that down. Stop.

He can't see you. None of them can.

What are you talking about? How can I make them stop?

You can't. Your powers are being overridden by the tones.

[groans]

I got you.

Let's go. This way.

This way. Come on.

[gun firing]

Stop! Stop! Stop it!

- Is this because of what I did? - It's too late.

Is this because of what I did at Olympiad?

You didn't do this.

- We gotta get out of here. - No.

I want answers. Why can't these people see me?

[gunshot in distance]

Because you're not in this world.

It's real...

but you're not.

We passed upon the stair

We spoke of was and when

Although I wasn't there

He said I was his friend

Which came as some surprise

I spoke into his eyes I thought you died alone

A long long time ago

Oh no, not me

I never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand

And made my way back home

I searched for form and land

For years and years I roamed

I gazed a gazeless stare

At all the millions here we must have died alone

A long long time ago

Who knows?

Not me

We never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world