Franken-Delos, My Take At The Peter Abernathy Is James Delos Theory

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Love your Westworld podcast. The discussions and arguments about crazy tinfoil theories, the insights flowing in from having worked in an amusement park and from the military, plus the great audio quality, it all makes for a very enjoyable and fun listening experience. I was very glad to see you guys were right back for season two of Westworld.

So, ok, I listen to the Instacast and the Deep Dive but I haven’t had a chance to catch up on the Westworld Telegraph yet. I know there are Peter Abernathy is James Delos is Peter Abernathy about, but not the details. Here’s just my take at it.

I just re-watched the episode “Virtù e Fortuna” and that is the last time we see Peter Abernathy until the most recent “Phase Space”. In “Virtù e Fortuna” I noticed a few things, whenever Bernard tries to decrypt the file Peter starts glitching out more severely and stuttering, once the decryption attempt stops, he sort of calms down. We never see Bernard actually enter any passwords, so I think he might be using Peter’s processor power for his decryption attempts? And then Peter switches to his old “Professor” persona and says: “What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in-” then he glitches out again, and then his expression goes blank as if he’s gone offline and a moment later the file gets decrypted and we get a short glimpse at the “One-time Use Key”. Funny this would happen right when he starts talking about “violent delights” again …

Now this may have been a key allowing to copy the file, and-as some theorized-Bernard might have transferred that file into himself. Which, I think, would only have been possible, if Bernard had hard lined into himself, but when QA storms in to abduct Abernathy, Bernard has his sleeves rolled down and he plugs out only Peter, not himself. When Elsie helped Bernard in the cave the next episode, she did hard line in-you don’t see the cable, but right after Bernard wakes up she bandages his arm where the jack would be. He does make sure to grab the cable and the tablet though, before going into hiding, so there’s a chance he has changed the encryption/password.

By the by, I noticed when he wakes up after Elsie is done fixing him in the cave, Bernard immediately looks for his glasses and puts them back on, even with his hands tied up. Beach Bernard doesn’t care. Also, did you know, that “Strand” is German for “beach”?

Anyway, I do not think Bernard could have downloaded a file that massive into himself remotely with all the systems down. The Mesh Network, according to him, only allows for the transfer of basic information. That he glitches out so hard I’m pretty sure was because he was so low on cortical fluid again, not because he transferred the file into himself. (When he topped himself back up on the stuff in “Journey into Night” he was down on 8% and in a pretty bad shape. When Elsie checked on him he was even down at 7%. That might also be the reason why his “pearl” wasn’t clearly white in “Phase Space”, it’s probably discolored from damage/corruption.)

So … the One-time Use Key may have been an activation/autoinstall key.

When Peter is grabbed by QA he begs “Help me-” before he is tranqued, and those are literally the last words we hear from him. When he re-appears in “Phase Space” and bolted to the examination table he is gagged throughout the whole time. So … what if the James Delos consciousness file (assuming that’s what Hale copied) got activated and Peter Abernathy been overwritten by it? That might be the reason he was gagged. And they do zoom in on his eyes an awful long time when he is bolted to the chair-there’s just something in that look that made me think of James Delos.

But I wonder if that connection goes further back even. James Delos’ daughter was named Juliet and the “Violent Delights” quote is from “Romeo & Juliet”. Though, as Louis Herthum rightfully points out in the interview, Peter asks “Where is she?” and seems more concerned with the place than the person. But his main drive according to the analysis session in season one is to “protect his daughter”, and James Delos was protective of his daughter as well. When William told him she had committed suicide, he almost instantly got into a rage, asking “What have you done to her?” So there are parallels there, and in a sense Peter Abernathy would be the ideal host for James Delos’ consciousness. Assuming the color isn’t the only difference between the hosts’ and the human-host-hybrids’ control units I can’t see this going well though. At all. More Black Mirror vibes. Franken-Delos.

Cheers,
Sandra

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