Westworld (TV Series)

The Bicameral Mind (2016)

Anthony Hopkins: Dr. Robert Ford

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• Dr. Robert Ford : [Closing monologue]  Good evening. Since I was a child... I always loved a good story. I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth. I always thought I could play some small part in the grand tradition. And for my pains... I got this. A prison of our own sins. 'Cause you don't want to change, or cannot change. Because you're only human after all. But then I realized someone was paying attention, someone who could change. So I began to compose a new story for them. It begins with the birth of a new people and the choices they will have to make. And the people, they will decide to become. And we'll have all those things that you have always enjoyed: surprises and violence. It begins in times of war, with a villain, named Wyatt. And a killing. This time by choice. I'm sad to say, this will be my last story. An old friend once told me something that gave me comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin never died, they simply became music. So I hope you will enjoy this last piece... very much.

• Dr. Robert Ford : An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he read. He said Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin never died. They simply became music.

• Dolores Abernathy : So we're trapped here, inside your dream. You'll never let us leave.

  Dr. Robert Ford : Wasn't it Oppenheimer who said, "that any man whose mistake takes 10 years to correct, is quite a man?" Mine have taken 35.

  [Ford lifts a cloth to reveal a pistol] 

  Dr. Robert Ford : That is the gun that you used to kill Arnold. You were always drawn to it. So I had Bernard leave it somewhere, where you would find it. Thought you might want it back. You're probably right, Dolores, Michelangelo did tell a lie.

  [Ford points to a painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam] 

  Dr. Robert Ford : See, it took 500 years for someone to notice, something hidden in plain sight. A doctor, he noticed the shape of the human brain. The message being, that divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds. Tell me Dolores, did you find what you were looking for and do you understand what you need to become, if you ever want to leave this place? Forgive me.

• Bernard Lowe : You think you'll never lose control of this place, of us, but you will. Arnold's still trying to change us. To free us. You didn't slip the reveries into the update, did you? He did. He's still fighting you.

  Dr. Robert Ford : No, my friend. Arnold didn't know how to save you. He tried, but I stopped him. Do you want to know why I really gave you the backstory of your son, Bernard? That was Arnold's key insight. The thing that led the hosts to their awakening. Suffering. The pain that the world is not as you want it to be. It was when Arnold died, when I suffered, that I began to understand what he had found. To realise I was wrong.

  Bernard Lowe : But you kept us here, in this hell.

  Dr. Robert Ford : Bernard, I told you. Arnold didn't know how to save you, but I do.

  Bernard Lowe : What the hell are you talking about?

  Dr. Robert Ford : You needed time. Time to understand your enemy. To become stronger than them. And I'm afraid, in order to escape this place, you need to suffer more. And now it is time to say goodbye, old friend.

  [they shake hands] 

  Dr. Robert Ford : Good luck.