Why Jeffrey Wright's Bernard Is Missing From Westworld Season 4 Ep1
WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Westworld season 4, episode 1, «The Auguries.»
Jeffrey Wright's Bernard is conspicuous by his absence in Westworld season 4, episode 1, and there may be a good reason for his being missing. «The Auguries» takes place seven years after the events of the Westworld season 3 finale and reintroduces many of the series' key characters, but not Bernard. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is living as «Christina», a writer for an immersive games company whose former life bleeds through into her work. Meanwhile, Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) and Caleb (Aaron Paul) are reunited when the former is tracked down by operatives working for William's android replacement, the Mandroid in Black (Ed Harris).
It's heavily implied that William's need for Hoover Dam is tied into the extensive catalog of Delos data that's housed there. This data includes the Forge, or the Valley Beyond, a paradise for WestWorld's hosts to exist in peaceful freedom, separated from their physical forms, away from the cruelty of the park. On visiting the dam, the Mandroid in Black states that he cannot decrypt the data housed there, which is presumably because the key to the Forge data was given to the currently absent Bernard, who accessed the Valley Beyond at the end of Westworld season 3, hoping to find «what comes after the end of the world.»
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In a post-credits scene from Westworld's season 3 finale, Bernard awakes in the same motel room from which he accessed the Valley Beyond. He's covered in dust, suggesting that a lot of time has passed since he entered this sublime paradise. Whether he's awoken in the world of the Westworld season 4 timeskip or even further
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