w e s t w o r l d Episode 110 “The Bicameral Mind” Written ...

1 W e s t w o r l d Episode 110 The Bicameral mind Written by Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan Directed by Jonathan NolanFINAL SCRIPT Emmys1 INT. MANUFACTURING FLOOR, BETA-TESTING FACILITY - DAY ( )1 DOLORES ( )I am in a dream. I do not know whenit began or whose dream it was. I know only that I slept a long timeand, then, one day I awoke. Yourvoice is the first thing I remember. And now I finally understand whatyou were trying to tell me. Thething you've wanted since that veryfirst 'S POV: Bright lights. She blinks under the glare. She sits up, naked, her mechanical structure peeking throughin places. A shape hovering over her coalesces familiar smiling figure -- , Dolores.

2 To the smiles and takes her hand. She looks down at her handand finds:2 EXT. MAIN SQUARE, AVALON - DAY (D1) ( )2A BOWIE KNIFE in her hand. It's pressed against the neck ofTHE MAN IN BLACK. Dolores is in her pants-and-shirt Man's seated on the bandstand -- his face lathered inshaving cream, head tilted back to expose his neck. On hislap, he holds his MAN IN BLACKKeep going. Make it close. With no choice but to obey him, Dolores traces the knifedown his Adam's apple -- giving him a tight, precise MAN IN BLACK (CONT'D)We're almost there -- aren't we? The center of the maze. How fittingthat it's you who takes me there. You were always obsessed with 've never been here stops, confused.

3 He guides the knife back to his cheek. THE MAN IN BLACKSure you have. You even brought meonce. Course, then the whole townwas buried under sand. Ford musthave dug it up again. At the time,I thought it was a mistake in yourcode. But Arnold didn't makemistakes, did he?Dolores remembers something from the past. Thinks aloud:DOLORESHe built me a game. He wanted me MAN IN BLACKThe 's a path for everyone. Mypath leads me stares into the horizon, now wearing her blue dress. Suddenly she sees Arnold standing nearby, looking at (CONT'D)To drops the knife. Walks off the bandstand, leavingthe Man in Black. She walks in the sunlight toward Arnold.

4 The Man in Black is nowhere to be seen. Then TO the Man's POV: Dolores, in pants and shirt, marchespurposefully down the empty street toward the church. Arnoldis nowhere to be seen. The Man shakes his head, amused. Then picks up his knife and follows WOODS - DAY ( )3 Intense and determined, WILLIAM charges through the woods,dragging LOGAN, hands bound, on a rope behind girl's dead by 's still yanks Logan if she's dead. (MORE) (CONT'D)They'll wipe her, reset her, put herback in Sweetwater, the -- you may find this amusing,but something was happening toDolores. I need to help to yourself! Do you have anyidea how huge this park is?

5 If she'snot dead, it would take a goddamnarmy to find 's undaunted as he approaches a clearing in the agree. That's why we're 's eyes go wide as he sees before them -- a group ofragtag REVOLUTIONARIES preparing for walks into the clearing. Immediately -- therevolutionaries pull guns on leader emerges. had a feeling you'd be MOUNTAIN PASS - DAY ( )4A train winds its way through the breathtaking TRAIN - DAY ( )5 PULL OUT ON TEDDY, sleeping, face pressed against the SHRIEK of the steam whistle wakes pushes his hat up -- looks out the window. His handsomeface floats like a ghost over the passing smiles. He's 's hand travels to his chest, where the MIB shot him.

6 But just like that -- the impulse fades. He smiles. Thetrain whistle blows. Time to begin STATION, SWEETWATER - DAY ( )6 The train lurches to a halt in a cloud of hissing steam. climbs down, into the crowd on the platform. Hoistshis yannigan bag over his shoulder and heads into town. Hepasses the usual Sweetwater scenes:Milling crowds of COWBOYS, NATIVES, SOLDIERS. Cattle inpens, waiting to be loaded onto the THIS TIME, SOMETHING'S DIFFERENT. As he pushes throughthe crowd, Teddy's easy smile grows increasingly troubled --something tugs at the recesses of his mind . The Sweetwatermusic that underscores his walk grows broken, 's POV: The idling UNION SOLDIERS suddenly stare at himthrough dead eyes -- blood from gunshot wounds tricklingdown their chests.

7 They're the Union men he killed with theGatling spins, takes in the street, but now he sees -- everyoneis dead. Quiet. The brown dirt stained with among the bodies he sees: Dolores. In her blue dress. Looking back at him. She turns and walks he's jostled by the HUGE MAN who gives him a hardlook. On LIGHTNING IMPULSE -- Teddy whirls and-BAM! Shoots the guy in the chest. The man drops to theground as the people in the street -- alive again now --begin to flee and pays them no mind . Stares down at the dead the distance -- the train WHISTLES and begins pullingaway. Teddy looks up -- only one thought on his runs for the train.

8 Pushes through the crowd until hecan hoist himself onto the back of the FIELD, AVALON - DAY ( )7 Dolores wanders across the field to the church. She hums"Reverie." The Man walks close behind her -- a gun pointedat her throws open the church doors to find:8 INT. CHURCH, AVALON - DAY - FLASHBACK ( )8 Arnold sitting in a pew. Not in prayer. Dolores, now inher blue dress, approaches Arnold -- the Man nowhere to smiles at the surprise on Arnold's know where your maze ends. Dolores takes Arnold by the hand and leads him CEMETERY, AVALON - DAY ( / )9 Rows and rows of shoddy wooden crosses. Carved into eachcross are names of people. Dolores, now back in her Westernlook, continues walking, but when she looks down -- she'sholding the Man in Black's MAN IN BLACKThis is it?

9 The center of the maze?DOLORESIt ends in a place I've never been. A thing I'll never wipes some dirt off the grave. Reveals the first name:"DOLORES."Dolores kneels -- digs with her hands into the dirt. Deeper,until she finds:A small, round box. She wipes the dirt off of it. Opensthe box. Inside is a WOODEN PIGS-IN-CLOVER GAME. She takesout the game. Examines it:It's a marble maze. The same one we've seen in flashbacks. The marble rolls, idle, in the outer layer of the good, does it mean?ARNOLDWhen I was first working on yourmind, I had a theory I thought it was apyramid you needed to scale. So Igave you a voice. My voice. Toguide you on your takes out his notebook, flips past pages with earlysketches of hosts -- clock some sketches of Dolores -- to anempty page.

10 He draws a simple triangle: the pyramid ofconsciousness (Ep. 103). (CONT'D)Memory, Each stepharder to reach than the last.(then)And you never got there. I couldn'tunderstand what was holding you back.(then)Then one day -- I realized I'd madea mistake. Consciousness isn't ajourney upward but a journey a pyramid, but a elongates the lines of the pyramid -- each of them arcingupward in a near circle. The pyramid becomes the (CONT'D)Every choice could bring you closerto the center. Or send you spiralingto the edges -- to madness.(then)Do you understand now, Dolores? What the center represents? Whosevoice I've been wanting you to hear?