Westworld fans react to game-changing season 4 episode

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*Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Westworld season 4*

Westworld is no stranger to flipping the script on its audience, but the latest episode of season 4 proved that and then some – and fans can't get enough. After episode 4, titled 'Generation Loss', aired in the US on Sunday, July 17, many viewers took to social media to praise the game-changing installment, admitting that they hadn't been this excited about the HBO sci-fi series since the first season.

In it, Tessa Thompson's Charlotte Hale – a vengeful version of Dolores – reveals to Aaron Paul's Caleb Nichols that he isn't actually a human, he's a host, and that he's been dead for 23 years. The timeline which sees Bernard, Stubbs, and their new acquaintance Frankie – who we now know is Caleb's grown-up daughter – is set in the apocalyptic future, while everything that's been happening with Maeve and Caleb was technically in the past, as the latter was forced to relive the events leading up to his death. (We're still none the wiser on Evan Rachel Wood's Christina).

Anyway, Caleb was actually killed by Hale's goons when he and Maeve later tried to stop her from using parasitic flies to control the human guests of the Delos parks. In a brawl with the Man in Black (Ed Harris), Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) blew herself and the rival host up – a visual so shocking, it causes an onlooking Caleb, who was already bleeding out from a stab wound admittedly, to pass out. When he comes to, Hale starts goading him as to what happened after, which prompts Caleb to remember that he didn't actually make it out alive despite Maeve's sacrifice.

"I'm me,” a bewildered Caleb states, as Hale chillingly replies: "You're certainly a version of you. The 278th, I believe." It