Westworld: Human Emily?

Published June 23, 2018 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hey Guys,

I changed my mind about the Emily killed by
the Man in Black being a Forged Emily. Emily
told him Juliet left his profile card for
her, and that appears to be the truth
assuming the reliability of the flashback
that showed Juliet placing the card in the
ballerina music box. However, a Forged Emily
would have no obvious way to know Juliet ever
had the profile card, because the real Emily
hadn’t visited the park in years.
Unfortunately, Emily’s humanity means her
incredible pistol marksmanship is implausible
and too convenient, and thus bad writing.

On the other hand, a Forged Emily could know
about the profile card if the real Emily’s
visit to RajWorld lasted long enough to have
her memories copied (by a hat scanner or
whatever) and then quickly constructed into a
new control unit. Perhaps the nutritious
parts of the real Emily ended up in the
stomach of the Bengal tiger. Perhaps the
profile card in dead Emily’s hand was a
duplicate cleverly supplied by Ford. I don’t
believe any of this, though, because there’s
no reason why the Forged Emily should have
been introduced dressed in the same clothes
the real Emily had been wearing when she
encountered the tiger, or had to drag herself
from the river into the path of a Ghost
Nation brave. If it was a Forged Emily who
was killed by the Man in Black, she would
have been introduced either in RajWorld
before the encounter with the tiger, or in
Westworld after the real Emily escaped from
Ghost Nation.

I’ve two possible explanations of how Emily
found the Man in Black so quickly. One is
with the assistance of the journal she
studied in RajWorld. From it she might have
learned his typical travel habits, and
deduced the path he might follow if his goal
was to destroy the project. I’m unsure when
she would have first learned his goal was to
destroy the project, but she could have
learned it very early if Ford’s ghost told
her. The other explanation is simpler:
Ford’s ghost guided her to the Man in Black.
If the journal and/or Ford were involved, she
might have thought it unwise to reveal that
when the Man in Black asked her to explain
how she found him.

–Steve

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