The same back-and-forth-in-time thing is happening with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood)—only, from an audience perspective, it’s harder to track because her multiple loops (or memories) are nearly identical. If you’ve known what to look for all season, you may have seen Dolores glitching in and out of time. But in this episode we see it most plainly when she’s by the riverbank with William.

Dolores walks down the riverside, canteen in hand, and William on the shore behind her. She sees a dead version of herself in the water, looks around, and William is gone. Eventually, he returns. Here, Dolores—who, in the present time line, is all alone retracing the route she took 30 years ago with William—flashes to different moments in her own life. But since Dolores is wearing the same clothing and is in the exact same place she was 30 years in the past, it’s not as obvious as when Maeve does it. It just looks like she’s having a mental breakdown. “It’s like I’m trapped in a dream,” Dolores says to William. “Or a memory from a life long ago.”

Angela Is a Time-Period Anchor

What’s happening with Dolores is confusing, and not just for her. But there’s another female host who can help firm up the time line for us: Talulah Riley’s Angela. Thirty-five years ago, when the park first opened, Angela was a resident of the Town with the White Church, which seems to have served as the Westworld home base. We see her both in Ford’s initial Episode 3 flashback about the park’s creation and, again, in this week’s episode when Dolores flashed back to her time there. Maeve, Armistice (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), Lawrence’s daughter (Izabella Alvarez), and Angela all lived in this town with Dolores as they all took their first shaky steps towards becoming hosts. By the time William entered the park five years later, Angela had been promoted to Hospitality. Thirty years after that, in the present, the Man in Black mentions that he thought Ford would have retired her by now. He recognizes her from her old gig in Hospitality. So, to recap, Angela has had at least three roles: townsperson, Hospitality (and Westworld spokesperson), and, now, a spy for Wyatt . And those, then, are your three time periods. When she walked into the Town with the White Church in this episode, Dolores glitched through all three.