William's 'Westworld' Journey Led to a Huge Personality Transformation (SPOILERS)
William (Jimmi Simpson, Ed Harris) is among the most changed characters on 'Westworld.' What came about to take him from naive to the Man in Black?
Spoiler alert! This article comprises spoilers for Westworld Seasons 1-3.
The HBO Max ruin hit TV display Westworld is returning for Season 4, so it is time to bear in mind what our favorite characters were doing for three earlier seasons. William (Jimmi Simpson), higher known as the Man in Black (Ed Harris), has a tumultuous journey of self-discovery, grief, and rage all the way through the show. What took place to take him on such a trail of destruction? Let's revisit his past.
William and the Man in Black are the similar person at different points in their lifestyles.
Thoughtful, docile William (Jimmi Simpson) is first presented as relationship Juliet Delos, the sister of Logan (Ben Barnes), who is concerned about investing in Westworld. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) and Arnold Weber (Jeffrey Wright) make a presentation that comes with their earliest/first host, Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood). It's important to observe that William does now not attend Ford and Weber's preliminary pitch.
William goes with Logan to the park after becoming engaged to Juliet. During his seek advice from, William and Logan in finding Dolores as she starts an awakening of consciousness. William and Dolores begin to forge a courting, however Logan reappears and mutilates Dolores to remind William she is not "real." Dolores disappears to get her memory wiped, and William massacres other hosts looking for her. Thus starts William's spiral into the Man in Black.
Later, William returns to the park along with his better half's father, James Delos, explaining his pastime in the park revolves around seeing the truth about human nature. William's wife and daughter are fearful of him and his now-volatile nature, main Juliet to dedicate suicide. James retires, and it's later revealed he's terminally ill. Logan dies of a drug overdose shortly after James' dying, leaving Delos to William.
When James retires, William returns to the park and presentations Dolores a mission he began. To get money for his venture, William sells some (no longer all!) of Westworld's guest data to Serac. The undertaking William is trying to fund is a new version of James Delos' awareness, turning his better half's father into a host. He works on perfecting the James-bot for seven years.
One day, William visits James and reveals the events of the past seven years, including his son's death and his daughter's suicide. Host-James flies into a rage, and William tells the technicians tracking his development to let him deteriorate. It's additionally revealed that Juliet is driven to suicide via the knowledge her husband struggles with the loss of Dolores and his dark deeds in the park itself.
Before her dying, Juliet leaves a reproduction of William's park knowledge for his or her daughter Emily to to find. During his journeys to the park, the Man in Black has been pursuing the idea of a "maze," but Dolores confronts him after realizing he is William and says the maze is not for him — it's for the hosts to reach awareness. However, the Man in Black learns of a new "game" known as the Door, which used to be created by Ford in particular for him.
The Man in Black finds to Lawrence, some of the hosts he visits, that he plans to make up for his previous mistakes by burning Westworld to the ground. However, he rescues Lawrence and his family from different hosts and, in the process, reunites along with his daughter Emily (who have been in a neighboring park). Emily and the Man in Black in brief reconcile, and he or she urges him to return house. However, he defies her request and gets shot through Maeve, who he prior to now tormented within the park.
Emily rescues her father but finds she is aware of about Delos copying the visitors' consciousnesses and plans to have him uncovered and arrested. She mentions his "profile," and he kills her, considering she's a host. Sadly, when he realizes she isn't a host, the Man in Black questions his humanity, wondering if he is a host. After briefly grieving, the Man in Black runs throughout Dolores and Bernard, who go away him for lifeless after he attempts to kill Dolores.
Miraculously, the Man in Black makes it out of the destroyed park for the mainland. He returns house and hallucinates his dead family members when Dolores (Dolores' awareness in Charlotte Hale's frame) commits him to a mental establishment to take over Delos and make it a private company. She also injects him with an unknown substance. At the institution, the Man in Black begins a new "game" — to rid the world of hosts and give protection to humanity.
Bernard and security agent Stubbs rescue the Man in Black, who has been declared "dead." The Man in Black attempts to kill Bernard and Stubbs to free himself, escaping to contact a legal professional and announces himself legally alive (and get a checklist of Delos' property). Far into the longer term, Emily appears within the Forge (the thing used to assemble hosts in Westworld) as a host, and the Man in Black is implied to be a host.
During a post-credits scene in the season three finale, Charlotte-Dolores confronts human William with a host William, which slits human William's throat. For all of William's questioning of his humanity, it sort of feels like viewers in the end know the reality: William/the Man in Black has transform that which he sought after to eliminate.
Westworld Season 4 premieres on Sunday, June 26, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.
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