'Westworld' surprises fans with a major revelation about Ford's plan for the robot revolution

Jeffrey Wright stars as Bernard on HBO's "Westworld."

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Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Westworld" season two, episode six, "Phase Space."

The second season of "Westworld" doubled down in its complexity by introducing us to the Cradle — a simulation technology which stores all of the hosts' data and storylines.

Bernard had his own control unit pearl (those little red balls which contain each hosts' entire "soul") placed into the Cradle, and found out why its been able to improvise and fight back against the Delos attempts to bring the systems back to normal working order.

Last chance to turn back before major spoilers for Sunday's "Westworld."

Bernard looked shocked to see Ford inside in the Cradle.

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When Bernard entered the Cradle, he found a simulation version of Sweetwater where Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) was sitting at the player piano.

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"Hello, old friend," Ford said to Bernard.

This implies that the pearl unit Ford sent Bernard to create sometime during the time frame of season one's events was likely Ford's own mind. Bernard placed the pearl into the Cradle, and now Ford's consciousness is controlling the Cradle even though the real Ford was killed by Dolores.

Anthony Hopkins' Ford made a brief appearance at the end of the episode.

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The last thing Ford said before his death at Dolores' hands on the first season finale spoke to this idea — though at the time we didn't realize how it would play out.

"An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort," Ford said to the crowd of Delos guests. "Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music. So I hope you will enjoy this last piece very much."

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Ford has now become music, and is living on through the park's coding thanks to the Cradle.

The episode also shed new light on the opening scene of the second season between Dolores and "Bernarnold," which was continued in Sunday's episode.

This scene has many layers of confusion built into it.

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At first, we weren't sure if this was Dolores and Arnold or Dolores and Bernard. But an important clue now has us thinking it's actually Ford impersonating Dolores and a new Arnold human-host hybrid.

The scene between Dolores and Arnold is cut in a different aspect ratio than the rest of the episode. The Cradle scenes later were in the same aspect ratio:

The aspect ratio of "Westworld" changes when we're seeing something in the Cradle.

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Bernard's Cradle scenes matched the Dolores/Arnold aspect ratio.

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This likely means that the Dolores and Arnold conversation is taking place inside the Cradle. Ford seems to be trying to build a host-human hybrid of Arnold — which is why "Dolores" is testing his conversation pattern for "fidelity" the same way we saw William test the host-human James Delos on the fourth episode of this season.

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On the "Westworld" subreddit, several fans are already exploring this possibility. The reason Ford might be using a Dolores foil is because that's the only way to test the preciseness of the Arnold-bot. The real Arnold had that conversation with Dolores before he uploaded the Wyatt narrative into her and orchestrated his own death and the host massacre before the park was opened.

We don't yet know why Ford wants an Arnold host-human hybrid, but at least we have an apparent answer to the mystery of who Ford had Bernard print onto a new control unit.

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