Bernard And Elsie’s Cave Timeline

Hello again guys and maybe Kerri! I wasn’t going to spend countless hours on speculation this week…but then I did.

So this is long and ridiculous and probably not important but…

I went back through a few season 1 episodes to see if I could pinpoint when Bernard goes to the pappa Delos lab. In the lab Bernard is wearing a light grey or white shirt, black tie, and black jacket. Normally I would just assume this is a regular outfit but westworld seems pretty intent on following through with clothing, scars, his glasses etc. so run with me on this.

In s1e3 Ford finally tells Bernard the story of Arnold and Bernard is wearing this exact outfit. I think perhaps Ford sends Bernard to retrieve the pearl after this conversation. In the same episode Elsie is tracking down the stray woodcutter host, finds out its transmitting data, and even though she pretty quickly goes to find the abandoned theater where his commands were coming from, this scene isn’t actually shown til episode 6, making it seem longer. When Bernard flashes back to abducting Elsie he’s wearing the same white shirt black tie combo. This means Bernard could learn about Arnold, retrieve the pearl, and capture Elsie in about a day.

I’m of course following the idea that all of the season 1 “current” timeline (i.e. Old Ford, MIB, Elsie, board member massacre) happens throughout the course of about 2 weeks. So that would give MIB time to visit and destroy Delos #149 before entering the park for the last time according to him, Bernard to get the pearl and destroy the hosts and techs, choke out and leave Elsie at the front of the cave, then come back before the bodies inside decompose or Elsie gets left too long to survive. This would put Elsie’s cave time around 3-4 days.

Also, I think Ford is still in control of Clementine or perhaps Bernard gave her instructions he doesn’t yet remember. In s1e9 Bernard holds Ford at gunpoint with Clem and says he’s reprogrammed her to only respond to him. Ford shows she will also respond to him thanks to the “backdoor” Bernard built into all the hosts. Sure maybe Dolores also reprogrammed her but Bernard says in front of the cave that “maybe Ford had Clementine bring me here for a reason” fully knowing that Ford is already dead because he tells Elsie about it in the lab.

Shannon Woodward said in an interview that she *might* have been in the cave over a week, a significant amount of time. But maybe she didn’t know for sure and just knew a significant amount of “things” happened while she was in there…

Steph C

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