(Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Sunday’s “Westworld.”)
After almost three seasons of being the Man in Black in a world full of gray, William (Ed Harris) realized his “purpose” on Sunday’s episode of “Westworld” — and that’s to be “the good guy” now.
This revelation came after a very intense AR therapy session in which William literally had to take a closer look at himself — five versions of himself, actually — to get to the bottom of why he is the way he is and who he wants to be going forward.
Led by his hard-ass, late father-in-law, James Delos (Peter Mullan), this multi-William group chat included the real William, who is stuck in a mental facility thanks to Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), along with virtual versions of his Man in Black persona, the “good guy” philanthropist/Delos exec he presents himself as to the world, Young William (played by Jimmi Simpson), and a much younger, pre-teen William (Zayd Kiszonak), who we have never seen before.