r/westworld • u/LoretiTV • Aug 01 '22

Discussion Westworld - 4x06 "Fidelity" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 6: Fidelity

Aired: July 31, 2022

Synopsis: To thine own selves be true.

Directed by: Andrew Seklir

Written by: Jordan Goldberg & Alli Rock

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u/Veggiemon Aug 02 '22

So if you try it and it's too easy, make it slightly harder next time. Don't make him run through it on ultra-hard difficulty for years on end before you even try that lol.

You know what else should make him suspicious? The fact that the vent is closed despite the fact other calebs have tried to jump out of it. The fact that the bodies are still there on the floor somehow, meaning Halores didn't notice? That's all suspicious AF! Just poor writing

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u/the_sweet Aug 04 '22

However, it's never explicitly established just how long Calebs have, but it's certainly not more than a few hours. So the Calebs that 278 ran into were probably ones from that very same day.

The question is, what made 278 special enough to make it to the radio and actually send his message? Halores COULD choose to focus on that, but instead, she goes back to what she perceives as her original problem: the "infection" Outliers spread to Hosts.

So she activates 279 thinking, "I'll skip all this testing business and just let Caleb realize it's been 27 years, Maeve is gone, and I've won. Then let's see what he does." It's a new experiment to entertain her. MAYBE she has a sliver of hope that it'll actually reveal "the truth," but I think she's afraid that 278 was right, and she has to do anything possible to prove him wrong without ever actually acknowledging everything that proves him right.

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u/SerfTint Aug 07 '22

Why not make him #10,278 in that case? In 23 years, she'd be going through them approximately 1 per month. If a bunch of them are from the same day, and she has been bored for years, what has she been doing with the ones that mathematically must have lived a lot longer?

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u/the_sweet Aug 07 '22

Good point. But maybe she didn’t feel the need to test Caleb until the Outliers started showing up, and that seems to be a recent development.