What Happened with Abernathy? This is also a little unclear. It seems like Dolores’s old father must be in the forest with Clementine and the rest of the former cold storage residents. When Sizemore and Charlotte are conferring on the train platform at the beginning of the finale, they have yet to put Abernathy on the train. During Ford’s beach-side show, Charlotte reminds Sizemore he has something important to do—i.e. put Abernathy on a train while Ford is otherwise occupied. But when Sizemore gets to cold storage, it’s empty. I would say with more certainty that Abernathy had been busted out of cold storage (by Maeve? by Ford?) before Charlotte and Sizemore had a chance to use him, were it not for the fact that the character didn’t appear on camera during either Maeve’s jaunt into cold storage or the Clementine-led gun attack on the Man in Black. Why else would Sizemore go to cold storage if not to retrieve Abernathy? I’m sticking by this interpretation.

What Happened to Elsie and Stubbs? Here are two tantalizing threads that the show left dangling. Did Ford have Elsie and Stubbs bumped off because they got too curious about what he was working on out in the fringes of the park? Well, Ford certainly proved that he was willing to bump off humans who got in the way of his robot liberation plan. (R.I.P. Theresa.) And Ford’s entire arc this season presumes that he decided human life is not worth preserving. Still, Elsie, at least, was friendly to the hosts and might be sympathetic to their cause. There are some cutesy behind-the-scenes extra features that indicate she may still be alive. If you visit delosincorprated.com, you’ll find the website in full glitch mode, as if Maeve has had her way with it. But some clever Redditors followed some Easter Eggs on the site to find a hint or two that Elsie is alive and well, and may live to fight (or help?) the robot uprising in Season 2. Perhaps Ford spared her as a favor to Bernard.

Odds and Ends

Jimmi Simpson (who plays William) told Vanity Fair in an interview that he will not be returning for Season 2 of Westworld, but Ed Harris has said he will be “involved.” Whether that means just showing up to die at the hands of Clementine et al in the premiere is not clear. Evan Wood and Jeffrey Wright have also said they will be back for Season 2. I imagine Thandie Newton and James Marsden will as well. Significantly, we did not see Charlotte Hale die in Dolores’s hail of bullets. (I rewound and watched several times.) So Tessa Thompson may return as well!