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The second episode of the season, "Reunion," pulls the curtain back on why Westworld is so valuable to its investors — values with chilling parallels to our own world.

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00:00There is an answer here to a question no one's ever even dreamed of asking.

00:05OK, let's get this spoiler alert out of the way. If you're not caught up on Westworld,

00:10stop watching right now, but come back later of course, because episode 2 of season 2

00:14has answered a huge question. We now know the true motivations of the people pulling

00:18the strings behind the scenes of the park. Well, sort of. According to The Hollywood

00:23Reporter's Westworld expert Josh Wigler, we have, at the very least, part of an answer.

00:27The episode is called Reunion and it mostly focuses on two different characters

00:31across multiple points in time, Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores and William, played by Ed

00:35Harris or Jimmy Simpson, depending on the time frame. Among the flashbacks served up

00:39this week, we see the younger William bringing his father-in-law to Westworld to

00:43talk about investing in the park. As William pitches his possible business partner,

00:47a frozen Dolores is nearby. We later learn she has access to these memories and more.

00:52This place is fantasy, William says. Nothing here is real except one thing, the guests.

00:57Half of your marketing budget goes to figuring out what people want, because they

01:00don't know. But here, they're free. Nobody is watching, nobody is judging. At least

01:05that's what we tell them. This is the only place in the world where you get to see

01:08people for who they really are. If you don't see the business in that, then you're not

01:12the businessman I thought you were.

01:14As Wiggler points out, this idea ties directly into something introduced in the season

01:182 premiere. Bernard witnessing two drone hosts data mining a fallen host and realizing

01:22the park has been logging records of guest experiences, DNA included. The man in black

01:27orbit spells the theory out when talking to his old friend, Lawrence.

01:30People wanted a place hidden from God, a place they could sin in peace, the gunslinger reveals.

01:35But we were watching them. We were tallying up all their sins, all of their choices. Of course,

01:39judgment wasn't the point. We had something else in mind entirely. But what did they have in mind?

01:45Wiggler has a few guesses. Blackmail for one, he writes. Cataloguing personal data for advertising

01:50purposes at best. Total manipulation at worst. In essence, William has sketched out a vision of

01:55Westworld as a flesh-and-blood internet where private information isn't quite as private as one

01:59might think, a notion that's all too real in our very own world.

02:03As our blood collectively runs cold at that prospect, make sure you head to THR.com

02:07slash Westworld for Josh Wiggler's full recap of Reunion, including that awesome Breaking Bad

02:11star cameo, as well as full coverage of the HBO drama. In the meantime, though, head to the

02:15comments and let us know your thoughts on the season so far. For The Hollywood Reporter News,

02:20I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

02:32We're verse 5.

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