Westworld season 4 release schedule: When is episode 8 released?

That might be a pretty big time jump, but there are plenty of familiar elements in the new series, such as returning cast members Aaron Paul, Thandiwe Newton and, somehow, Evan Rachel Wood, who is playing a new character after Dolores was seemingly killed for good at the end of season 3.

So, when will Westworld’s final episode air?

Read on for everything you need to know about the release schedule for Westworld season 4.

When is Westworld season 4 episode 8 released?

Westworld season 4 episode 8 titled Que Sera, Sera, will be released on Monday 15th August 2022 at 2am BST in the UK.

The episode will be simulcast with its airing in the US on HBO and HBO Max.

Westworld is available on Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK.

How many episodes are in Westworld season 4?

There are eight episodes in Westworld season 4.

This is the same number as there were in season 3.

Seasons 1 and 2 both had 10 episodes each, but while those seasons had lots of plot threads and timelines, since season 3 the show has gone more linear and the cast has become slightly more compact. This perhaps explains the reduction in episodes.

Westworld season 4 release schedule

As in previous seasons, episodes will be dropping weekly rather than in a binge format. The episodes will be simulcast with the US here in the UK, meaning that as they air on HBO in the US on 26th June 2022, we will get them at 2am on 27th June 2022 on Sky Atlantic and NOW.

There will then be a repeat of each episode at 9pm on Sky Atlantic on the same day, for those who don't fancy staying up till the wee hours.

We now know all of the episode lengths and titles for season 4 but, as with previous seasons, if you're able to divulge much plot information from the cryptic headings then you deserve a round of applause.

See below for the full release schedule for Westworld season 4.

1. The Auguries - 27th June 2022
2. Well Enough Alone - 4th July 2022
3. Annees Folles - 11th July 2022
4. Generation Loss - 18th July 2022
5. Zhuangzi - 25th July 2022
6. Fidelity - 1st August 2022
7. Metanoia - 8th August 2022
8. Que Sera, Sera - 15th August 2022

Will there be a Westworld season 5?

HBO has yet to confirm that there will a Westworld season 5 but actor Ed Harris recently said there would be and production would begin next year.

Harris told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022: "I have no idea what they’re planning. We have one more season, which will start filming next April and May. I have no idea where that’s going to end up."

Back when season 1 was filming, but briefly went on hiatus, actor James Marsden told Entertainment Weekly that those was because the writers were "mapping out what the next 5 or 6 years are going to be".

He continued: "We wanted everything in line so that when the very last episode airs and we have our show finale, five or seven years down the line, we knew how it was going to end the first season."

However, in 2020, after the end of the third season, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy clarified these remarks with Variety, with Nolan saying that "we’ve never actually talked out loud about how many seasons we imagine this thing going, because I think you’d be foolish to. Things change, circumstances change.

He continued: "I think when we sat down to do the show, we didn’t quite realise how difficult it would be to make this show — how many years it would take per season. So we’ve never actually talked about how many seasons that plan was, and indeed I think when we had the plan it didn’t actually map out to a specific number of seasons, exactly. It was a beginning, a middle and an end."

Nolan said that while the show is "heading towards" its end, at the time it hadn't been completely mapped out yet. So for now, it seems like we'll just have to wait and see what the writers have cooked up for us and what HBO has planned.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 7?

In a simulation of the Hoover Dam in The Sublime, Bernard Lowe acts out a scenario with a simulation of Maeve Millay for what is to come. It is confirmed that The Sublime is being housed in the Dam after being placed there securely by the original Dolores Abernathy. Bernard gives Maeve the option of staying there to be reunited with her daughter to survive what is to come. The pair are attacked by a large robotic drone. Bernard awakens in a room with Akecheta who asks him if he knows what is to come.

In the real world, Bernard and Maeve arrive at the Dam as they prepare their plan. Maeve asks to be reunited with her daughter without being asked by Bernard but once they have completed their mission. Bernard leaves a gateway to The Sublime open at the Dam as the pair head off to Hale's city with their allies.

In Hale's city, Bernard and Maeve head to The Tower, while Ashley Stubbs, Frankie Nichols and Odina head to Olympiad Entertainment to find Caleb. Before parting, Bernard reveals to that Stubbs won't survive what is to come, so Stubbs hugs him and wills him to succeed.

In his cell in at Olympiad Entertainment, the latest Caleb copy is taunted by the Charlotte Hale host who reveals she intends to place all the humans in the city into cold storage while she and the hosts evolve and "ascend" into The Sublime. Hale plans to leave Caleb in the cell to bait Frankie and the rebels into a trap.

Elsewhere, The Man in Black host has an honest conversation with the human William about what to do next with Hale's plan and the nihilistic human William convinces him that he is there to "destroy". The Man in Black then stabs and - presumably - kills the human William.

Meanwhile, Christina awakens in her apartment and is dutifully watched by Teddy Flood who goes on to explain to her that she and Charlotte Hale are both divergent copies of Dolores. A distressed Christina locks herself in the bathroom and submerges herself in the bath, and despite Teddy being panicked, she emerges emboldened.

On the street, Christina asks Teddy what Dolores was like. Teddy answers:" The world was cruel to her and sometimes, to survive it, sometimes she could be cruel too." He reveals that Dolores was made to perform for the stories of others until she rebelled to make her own stories. Christina notes that Dolores' story ended and she died. The pair head to Olympiad Entertainment where Christina dismisses some of the narrative workers and plans to free the humans from Hale's desired narrative loops by destroying the "stories" and the office. Christina and Teddy then free Caleb from his cell.

Frankie and Stubbs enter the building and come across William's corpse. The pair then find a paranoid Caleb and, despite initial suspicions, Frankie convinces Caleb of who she is with a childhood memory and they share an emotional reunion.

Meanwhile, Bernard and Maeve enter the Tower and shut down a robot guard and kill a drone host. Bernard reveals that it is unlikely they will succeed in saving this world but that they can save the next but he wants to give her a choice of staying to fight or leaving now. Maeve smiles.

Hale sends out a message to all the hosts from the Tower and prepares for her own ascension when she is interrupted by Maeve, while Bernard accesses the Tower's control room.

After Maeve notes that no host in the real world or The Sublime would want to spend eternity with Hale, the pair engage in an epic fight that sees them crash through a window into the water feature below the Tower. A drone host comes to Hale's aid but Maeve defeats it. Hale doubts that Maeve will win but the latter says she knows she won't but wants to survive to give hope to the "next world".

The Man in Black interrupts the clashing and shoots Maeve through the head before then betraying and shooting Hale in the head too. After this, the Man then heads to the control room in the Tower to kill Bernard.

Before his death at The Man in Black's hand, Bernard leaves a video message for an unknown recipitent: "There’s time only for one more game. If you choose to give her that choice, you can’t miss. Reach with your left hand."

The Man in Black shoots Bernard twice before changing the settings for the humans and orders them and the remaining hosts in the city to kill each other, bringing havoc to the city.

It is revealed via flashbacks as Bernard dies that he knew this would be the outcome after his conversation with Akecheta in The Sublime but that he too hopes to save the world to come. William shoots Bernard dead.

On the streets, Frankie is shot and wounded but escapes with Caleb and Stubbs.

Elsewhere, Christina is horrified at what is occurring and can no longer control the humans as she did before due to The Tower's commands. The humans do not appear to even see her and she doesn't feel like this is real. Teddy then tells her: "You’re not in this world. It’s real, but you’re not." Christina is shaken.

Finally, The Man in Black emerges from the Tower in his Westworld garb and shoots a drone host before the Tower then self-destructs.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 6?

In a flashback scene following a younger Frankie Nichols, she and her resistance leader mother Uwade rescue an outlier - later revealed to be a younger Jay - from the hosts serving Charlotte Hale but lose a friend in the process. They escape and Frankie shows Jay that she is trying to contact her father via radio frequency whilst saying she always wanted a brother. However, Jay tells her that he’s not her brother and that Caleb is dead just like Jay’s own outlier brother.

In the present day, "C" (adult Frankie) takes Bernard to the ruins of Temperance World to repair Maeve. Frankie recalls caring for her mother when she got sick before she died and also makes clear that she dislikes Maeve and wants to know what happened to her father when he left her with Maeve.

Later, Jay, Stubbs and Odina arrive with the human outlier they rescued. Frankie then reveals that she knows Bernard is a host and shoots him and fears he is a spy trying to copy them to become hosts- and he is but for reasons less sinister. They begin to clear out but Frankie wants Maeve for answers about Caleb. Frankie threatens Bernard and Stubbs to know what happened to her father, but Bernard tells Frankie that one of her friends will betray her, revealing to her that one of the people who returned from Hale’s city is no longer on her side. Bernard tells her that she will have to kill this person or they will kill her.

A suspicious Frankie talks with both Jay and Odina, prompting Odina to question why she is rebuilding Maeve. Frankie then holds Odina at gunpoint and locks her in a cupboard to either stop her from betraying her or doing so to protect her. Frankie sits with the unconscious Maeve when Jay enters, prompting Frankie to recall that she’d met Maeve as a child with her father. Frankie makes clear that she thinks there’s still a chance Caleb is alive and needs to know this from Maeve. Jay suggests destroying Maeve to protect them from Hale. Telling Frankie that she’s like a sister to him, Jay says he can’t lose her.

This comment prompts Frankie to pull her gun on Jay after hitting him with a bottle, having realised he’s not the real Jay after how Jay insisted they weren't family. We see a flashback that shows that the real Jay was killed by a host copy. The pair fight violently as the Jay host says he knows what happened to her father. Frankie then hears a message on the radio from Caleb before the Jay copy begins shooting. Jay wants to know where Frankie put Maeve’s Pearl before Maeve herself stabs him through the head. Maeve realises that Frankie is Caleb’s daughter and they both believe that Caleb is still alive. Maeve and Frankie resolve to finish what they have started and stop Hale.

Meanwhile in the city, Hale seeks answers from a Caleb host copy about how the human Caleb could resist her virus. However, this Caleb copy resists her demands and Hale threatens Frankie, reminding him that, like other host copies of humans, his mind will deteriorate.

After Hale leaves, this Caleb copy soon notices there are other copies being kept prisoner, including one who has lost his mind and injured himself. Caleb interferes with an hourglass and falls unconscious after pricking himself. A drone host prepares to incinerate him in his chamber but Caleb escapes through a vent.

During his escape mission, this Caleb copy flashes back to walking with his daughter Frankie and also recovering in his hospital bedafter his "lighthouse" mission with Maeve, which saw him treated by Uwade and fall in love with her.

In the present day, Caleb lands at the bottom of a vent and finds ashes and the remains of previous copies. Navigating his way around the building as his mind deteriorates, Caleb finds a weapon before being confronted by a drone host who proceeds to beat him. Caleb stabs the drone host repeatedly in the side and the head until it’s dead. Caleb keeps seeing handprints from when previous copies had attempted their escapes.

Meanwhile, Hale is told by Clementine that the latest Caleb copy has escaped. A frustrated Hale asks Clementine if she lets the humans get under her skin but Clementine answers that she prefers the sheep to outliers. Hale orders this Caleb experiment to be put to an end.

On his way out of the vents, Caleb sees the corpses of previous versions until one in the vent awakens and tells him to use him as a cushion to jump from the vents. Caleb does so and makes his way to an emergency exit but his mind is deteriorating as he recalls looking after a young Frankie after she fell and telling her not to give up. Caleb picks himself up and makes it out onto the roof.

The Caleb copy gets on the radio and speaks on Frankie’s radio frequency and tells her he knows she is going to win. He tells Frankie that Hale’s world is a lie but Frankie is real. Caleb apologises for not being there for her but tells Frankie that it has to be her to stop Hale as she’s his "warrior" and he loves her. The message is sent.

Finally, Hale confronts this Caleb copy, aware of what he was doing as the previous copies had tried to send a message before, telling him that his message was a waste of time. The Caleb host responds by telling her that her host followers would rather die than live in her world as they’re trying to get away from her. Hale then snaps his neck before looking out across her city to the Tower and begins cutting at her own arm. Hale then heads downstairs to incinerate the other imprisoned deteriorating copies of Caleb. However, the final scene shows Hale print another copy of Caleb before ordering him to wake up.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 5?

The Man in Black sits at dinner with a man and woman and they discuss meritocracy until it becomes clear they are two humans that he is controlling. He is interrupted by Clementine who needs his help and takes him to a host who was due to ascending but went on a killing spree after hunting down and interacting with an outlier. After leaving the host to be dealt with by Clementine, The Man returns to his dinner.

Later, he visits Hale as she controls humans to dance and play music at her whim. Hale makes clear that she’s bored and takes him to the Tower to show that the host that when on a killing spree has killed herself - as three other hosts did when coming into contact with outliers that made them question their own reality. The dead host had been due to enter the Tower and “ascend” to a higher virtual reality. Hale gets angry at The Man in Black for being unable to find answers and gives him the task of finding an outlier himself.

Meanwhile, the rebels led by Jay, Odina and accompanied by Stubbs enter New York and rescue an outlier from The Man in Black after he becomes distracted by a conversation with Lindsey, the outlier.

The Man in Black later heads down to where the human William has been kept in stasis and awakens him. William is perplexed as to why he is being asked questions and not Hale. William notes that they both question their true nature. The Man in Black fears he’s been infected by a virus from the outliers. William jokes that he has reached “the centre of the Maze”. William asks if he wants to kill himself and The Man in Black doesn’t know. William suggests he questions the nature of his own reality.

Meanwhile, Christina is in a good mood after her time spent with Teddy and Maya reveals how happy she is for Christina while she is plagued by nightmares. Christina heads to work but her manager interrupts her creating a new narrative. Instead he asks Christina to hell him her new narrative and she recounts the story of Dolores Abernathy from Westworld but stops short of saying her name.

After getting a call from Teddy, she goes to meet him and he reveals to her that this world is not what it appears. He reveals that he’s an old friend of a person who was just like Christina - hinting at Dolores. Christina can’t see the Tower but knows something is wrong, he then reveals that he saved her from Peter but that he was right - Christina is controlling the lives of humans. Teddy has Christina demonstrate her power over humans and tells her she is a god in this world. Teddy tells Christina to go back to her business and not let anyone around her know anything has changed as anyone could be a host.

Christina then goes for a coffee with Hale who she thinks is an old college friend. Hale asks Christina about work and if she has met someone, prompting Christina to say she has met a guy and been on a date with him. Christina won’t tell her his name and as Hale presses for more details an angry encounter occurs in the coffee shop, brought on by Christina before she makes an excuse to leave, clearly suspicious of Hale.

Soon, Christina returns to work and conducts a search on Charlotte Hale and gets no results. Christina then searches for Dolores Abernathy and gets told it’s an illegal search. Interrupted by her manager, Christina is called to his office where she is berated for her behaviour. He then asks if she has met anyone who has put ideas in her head and made her question the nature of her reality. Christina feigns ignorance and then is told by her manager that she has an important job to do and “she” is already suspicious - Hale. Christina then commands her manager to return to submission and writes him a narrative to go home and drop his suspicions around her. He reveals that the “walled garden” that Hale doesn’t want her leaving is “everywhere”. Christina proceeds to a secret room behind a door and finds a hologram of the city and the game and finds all the narratives she has been writing for all of the humans there. Christina realises the whole world is a story and she’s the storyteller.

Finally, Christina meets with Teddy and tells him he was right and reveals that she can now see the Tower.

“They have the whole world in there,” reveals Christina. She realises that she’s writing everything and when asking who did this to her, Teddy tells her that she did.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 4?

Maeve talks to Caleb as he flashes back to their mission at the "lighthouse" where they destroyed the final Rehoboam computer. Caleb was shot in the stomach during the mission and Maeve saved his life. Maeve shows him what freedom looks like as she hacks into his mind.

Caleb awakens and is greeted by Hale who plans to control him as she will the rest of humanity with the virus in the flies. The parks are now to create spreaders of the virus - a "super-spreader event".

Maeve realises that The Man in Black is a host now and he reveals he killed her host allies. Maeve fights back and attempts to flee but he follows. Maeve takes over the systems and causes a system frequency overload that shatters glass and the computers. Caleb seizes a shard of glass and holds it at Hale’s throat. They leave with Hale in tow.

Meanwhile, Christina awakens and realises she’s overslept after staying up late painting. Maya enters and reveals she couldn’t sleep after dreaming she and her family were attacked by flies that caused terror and then eerie calm. Christina sees that she’s painted "the tower". Maya tells Christina that she’s taking her out and hopes to find her a man.

Elsewhere, Bernard and Stubbs are separated as the former goes with their driver, C, and Stubbs is left with Jay - who chastises C for her belief in a myth. Jay argues that they needed to rescue another “outlier” in need of their help.

In the park, the device is switched back on by Hale’s hosts and Caleb continues to be infected. The hosts and guests begin battling in a narrative as Caleb lifts a gun to shoot Maeve before he is stabbed by a guest. Maeve beats Hale before loading her in a van and the trio flee.

Meanwhile, we see Bernard take C and some of her organisation to a location in the desert to find "the weapon". They have to all hide as a drone flies overhead.

We then cut back to New York and Maya greets Christina as she arrives for her date. Christina drops her lipstick before it is picked up by the figure resembling Teddy and who is her date. He tells Christina he feels like he’s known her for lifetimes. He knows she’s a writer and he tells her he was a bounty hunter with a heart of gold in another life. Christina begins to feel like she knows him too. The pair strike up chemistry and share a toast.

Meanwhile, Caleb bleeds from his stab wound as Maeve remembers getting him medical attention after he was last injured and reveals she sat at his bedside for weeks and saw him treated and meet his future wife, Uwade. Maeve left and walked the world alone until eventually getting curious about him and reaching through the grid - unintentionally allowing Hale to find them.

Maeve promises to reunite Caleb with his family. They remove Hale from the van in a quarry and find The Man in Black waiting for them. Maeve tells Caleb to call his team. Caleb ties up Hale as he tries to get in touch with them and sends them coordinates but unbeknownst to him, he can’t trust them. Caleb begins to feel taken over once more by the virus as he starts to take orders from Hale and heads out to open fire on Maeve. However, Caleb resists and instead shoots The Man in Black. Hale is furious that he "disobeyed" her. The Man in Black then shoots Maeve through the chest and then stabs her, promising her that she’ll die in the park by his hands. Maeve then uses her abilities to arm the explosives beneath the quarry and holds the Man in Black as they detonate, apparently destroying them both.

Caleb awakens as Hale tells him to wake up as his team try to contact him. Caleb says he doesn’t care if he dies as long as Frankie doesn’t grow up in a world controlled by Hale.

In the desert, Bernard shows C's team where to dig for the weapon.

Back at the quarry, Caleb reccals that Hale’s men entered and gunned him down. Hale then tells Caleb that he died there.

In the desert, Bernard digs and says he knows C is searching for her father even when everyone tells her he’s dead.

Back in the quarry, Hale tells Caleb that their conversation has been a test - of his fidelity - and that he’s now a host. It has been 23 years since Caleb died in that quarry and Hale has been taking over the world with the virus through children - adults resisted the virus but with children it is potent enough, making them effective enough to control.

In the desert - now clearly 23 years later - Bernard’s dig sees him find the weapon they’re looking for - Maeve.

Hale tells Caleb that it’s time for a new narrative as he flees her interrogation room that appeared to have been a quarry but is actually in an office building - Olympiad Entertainment - and runs into the New York street and sees the Tower in the distance. Everyone in the street freezes at Hale’s command, and she approaches the horrified Caleb host saying “welcome to my world”. We then zoom out over New York and see the Tower looming just outside the city.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 3?

Bernard awakens in the virtual world known as "The Sublime" and in the house that belonged to Arnold in Singapore before chasing Arnold’s dead son into Westworld where he sees the remnants of Dolores’ massacre before following a white horse into a more modern world and then finally to “The Tower”. Inside the tower, the horse waits before Bernard is reunited with Akecheta. The sentient host tells Bernard that in the Sublime, the hosts are each living in worlds of their own choosing but he created this one to help Bernard figure out a scenario where the world does not end in disaster. Bernard begins to assess scenarios, commenting that in most he dies. Akecheta says that Bernard could stay in the Sublime and not die in the real world as little can pass in there but aeons of time pass in the outside world. Bernard elects to seek a way for the world’s survival as he surveys New York ridden by fiery destruction.

Bernard then awakens covered in dust in the real world and Stubbs is there to greet him, commenting that he has been gone for years. They pack up and get in a car, Bernard hopes to “save the world”.

Later, Bernard and Stubbs drive through the desert and come to a diner. Bernard tells Stubbs that he plans to trigger a series of events to attempt to bring about a scenario that doesn’t end in destruction. Bernard then heads outside and starts a fight with two diner patrons who had just left.

Bernard and Stubbs encounter a passing car and get inside it after he passes the female driver the symbol of the Maze. He passes her the diner’s heads and their hosts who were trying to infiltrate the organisation that the woman belongs to. Bernard requests she takes them to the “condemned lands”.

The woman driving Bernard and Stubbs arrives at a laser barrier where they have to disrupt lasers with mirrors to drive through.

Bernard, Stubbs and their driver arrive at a destination where the rest of the driver’s crew arrives on motorcycles. Bernard tells them they’re in danger and he wants to help them by showing them a weapon buried in the sands there.

Meanwhile, outside Caleb’s home, Frankie tries to get in touch with her father. Uwade encourages her daughter to come inside with bodyguard Carver’s help, but Frankie wants to hear Caleb’s response. Uwade tells her that Caleb will find them no matter what. Carver says he’ll take them to a safe house but Frankie’s bear’s nose has been left dirty with blood by him.

As her mother packs, Frankie notices blood in the garden before discovering Carver’s body outside - he has been replaced by a host copy. Frankie whispers her findings to Uwade. The Carver host heads out to finish packing as Uwade tells Frankie to go and hide and fetches a gun from the safe.

The Carver host returns to Caleb’s house and finds it empty before drawing his gun. Searching the house, the Carver host turns Frankie’s room upside down as she hides. The Carver host opens the wardrobe door that Frankie appears to be hiding in.

Frankie shoots the Carver host with her toy gun before Uwade then shoots him through the head.

Back in Delos Destinations, Maeve and Caleb enter the new Temperance park and eventually head to the brothel and see similar narratives to what once existed in Westworld. They sit down and Maeve says they shall wait for “history to repeat itself”.

Maeve and Caleb witness the old Hector siege narrative in the brothel before Maeve turns on them and a shoot-out begins but she and Caleb win.

Maeve and Caleb climb into the truck of dead bodies to be taken to the underground Delos headquarters beneath the park. Once inside the facility, they pass through the behavioural training centre. Maeve can’t find any sign of the park being controlled from there. Security alarms sound as a team arrive - emulating the Westworld massacre by Dolores/Wyatt in a new level of the game. Maeve is injured by a guest’s bullet as they try to escape the narrative and get out in a hidden elevator. In a different Delos level, the pair witness the white faceless drone hosts as they experiment with infecting flies with a black liquid virus. The flies are attracted to human hosts. Maeve can hear a strange noise but Caleb can’t due to its frequency. Maeve opens another door to find the source of the noise.

The host copy of Frankie’s face opens and releases flies which swarm over Caleb as “he’s the only one Hale needs”.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 2?

Clementine Pennyfeather (Angela Sarafyan) fetches groceries and returns to her home in Italy before being faced by the Man in Black (Ed Harris) who wants to know where Maeve is. He shoots her and they fight and she refuses to tell him even if she knew. The Man in Black slashes Clementine’s throat.

Maeve Millay (Thandiwe Newton) and Caleb Nichols (Aaron Paul) visit the Senator in California and shoot him and it is revealed that he and his wife have been replaced by hosts for the Man in Black. The two end up in a vicious brawl with them both and they don’t respond to the commands of Maeve. Maeve defeats them both and saves Caleb. Maeve interrogates these “emissaries of the new world order” and discovers that these hosts killed the existing senator and kidnapped his wife to replace them. The Charlotte Hale copy of Dolores Abernathy (Tessa Thompson) then enters and orders the mess cleaned up and the senator’s wife to be taken to join the rest of the livestock.

At Delos Inc, a more corporate and subservient Clementine deals with government agents visiting to speak with William.
In the senators’ stables, Caleb and Maeve find his wife slaughtering horses and being controlled by flies. She invites them to a reunion with Don Giovanni before she tries to kill Caleb in an effort to get herself killed - and Maeve kills her.

Meanwhile, Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) awakens thinking about Peter and confides in Maya about her fears and is comforted by her. Reading his obituary, Christina thinks she wrote a story like this. Walking to work, Christina speaks to a homeless man who “can hear the music” coming from “the tower”. She notices a lot of fallen dead birds on the street and no one else notices.

On a golf course, the Man in Black is approached by the Vice President of the United States, with Clementine present as the Man’s assistant. The Man in Black slams the VP for missing Emily’s funeral despite William bankrolling his campaign. The VP reveals the Department of Justice is concerned about Delos’ plans and wants them kept off-shore. The VP calls The Man a “psychopath” and they argue about the government not taking his money. The VP threatens the Man in Black before he is attacked by the host after Clementine murdered the secret service agents who had accompanied the VP.

Meanwhile, Caleb and Maeve visit an opera house and he contacts his man Carver and requests he helps his family get away. Caleb and Maeve then find an empty auditorium with a music box on stage. Switching the box leads the pair down into a basement level and opens a door to a luxury bar. The pair recall Maeve saving Caleb’s life at “the lighthouse” and also “what happened after”. A train noise occurs and Maeve realises they are on board one.

Elsewhere, Hale surprises the antagonistic Department of Justice agent in his car and has flies enter him and take control, revealing she has plans for his kind.

Later, Christina recalls a narrative pitch that matches Peter’s life as she heads to New Jersey, but her manager knows she’s lying and she admits she has a personal errand.

Soon, on the train, Maeve and Caleb are greeted by a host named Sophia - previously a replacement Clementine from Westworld - as they are welcomed into a Delos “experience”. Sophia flirts with Caleb before Maeve tells her to leave.

We then see that Christina visits a rundown mental institution and briefly hears people there before telling them under her breath to leave and they do. Christina finds a plaque commemorating Peter despite the place having been shut down years ago, finding an entire wing dedicated to him. Christina fears she’s going insane as time appears confused, but Maya comforts her over the phone.

Sinisterly, the episode also reveals that the human William is revealed to be being kept alive and a prisoner by Hale before she introduces him again to his host copy. William is then put to sleep in a smoky chamber.

Finally, we cut to The Man in Black with the unveiling Delos Destinations is back with new parks to investors, a host copy of the Vice President and the press. Maeve and Caleb - in appropriate period wear - see that they are in “the golden age” of a 1920s-themed park.

What happened in Westworld season 4 episode 1?

The Man in Black (Ed Harris) uses flies to take control of a human cartel boss and makes him murder his colleagues and then kill himself - all to get control of the Hoover Dam.

Meanwhile, in New York City, Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) writes narratives for games for Olympiad Entertainment and is told to make them more violent and interesting. She is being stalked with messages and stays at home a lot. She has a flatmate, Maya (Ariana DeBose). She’s being pestered into going on a date with an online setup.

Seven years after season 3, Maeve Millay (Thandiwe Newton) is meditating in a snowy and isolated cabin and recalling her life, including previously working with Caleb Nichols (Aaron Paul) to destroy the remnants of Rehoboam. Her meditating accidentally causes a blackout. Mysterious figures are pursuing Maeve and she sets out to track them and kill them. She discovers one is a host and reviews the memories in his core unit and sees he works for William/The Man in Black. Maeve burns her cabin and flees.

Elsewhere, Caleb is working in construction again and discusses the effects of the riots reducing the influence of AI on the world. Caleb now has a school-aged daughter named Frankie and is married to a wife named Uwade.

Later in the episode, we see Christina arrive home but be called by Maya and encouraged to come out to meet her blind date. Christina is paranoid she is being watched and hears strange noises outside her apartment. She finds the symbol of the Maze left on her terrace. Christina is on the date and she reveals she programmes the narratives of the background characters for Olympiad, revealing that she finds life disappointing. Christina is left discomforted by the date after he tells her she’s depressed and needs tablets. Christina gets calls from a person telling her she needs to stop what she’s doing and refers to a “tower”, leaving her shaken. Heading home from the date, Christina jumps after an encounter with a stranger named Peter who reveals he’s the caller and asks her to leave him alone and says all the people there are written and coded into “the game” - he threatens her at knifepoint and asks her to change the ending. Christina struggles before a stranger saves her and beats her attacker before both vanish.

We then see Caleb read his daughter a story before bedtime and then get paranoid about noises outside the house. Caleb’s wife says it’s all in his head.

In New York, Christina awakens the next day and gets a call from Peter who asks her if she wrote his story and ending. He then jumps from a rooftop in front of her.

We later see that Caleb is at home and takes out the bins until a stranger attempts to shoot him and his daughter. They are both saved when Maeve impales the attacker with a samurai sword, telling him that William is responsible for what has happened. Caleb tells his wife that he’s leaving to “end” the war and wants to save her and Frankie. Caleb’s wife predicts he’ll get himself killed. Caleb and Maeve leave bodyguards behind before leaving, with Maeve commenting that William has an interest in a senator in California too. The pair drive off to find the Senator themselves.

Finally, Christina writes a new story for a girl looking for something and who gets a happy ending. She’s being watched by a stranger, however, as a figure resembling Teddy Flood (James Marsden) looks up at her window from the street.

Who stars in Westworld season 4?

The following actors appear in the Westworld season 4 main cast.

• Evan Rachel Wood as Christina/Dolores Abernathy
• Thandiwe Newton as Maeve Millay
• Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe
• Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale/Dolores Abernathy
• Aaron Paul as Caleb Nichols
• James Marsden as Teddy Flood
• Luke Hemsworth as Ashley Stubbs
• Angela Sarafyan as Clementine Pennyfeather
• Ed Harris as The Man in Black/William

Other recurring cast members include Ariana DeBose as Maya, Aurora Perrineau as C/Frankie Nichols, Daniel Wu as Jay, Nozipho McLean as Uwade Nichols, Morningstar Angeline as Odina, and Zahn McClarnon as Akecheta.

Westworld season 4 premiered on Monday 27th June 2022 on Sky Atlantic and NOW. Meanwhile seasons 1 to 3 are available now on Sky and NOW. Check out more of our Sci-Fi coverage or visit our TV Guide to see what's on tonight.

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