The hosts from Delos begin to activate their plans out in the real world, and there’s far more synchronicity than initially believed.

I’m going to skirt round a big spoiler in this episode, which while not completely surprising, is nicely played out and continues this season’s theme of not being too mysterious and willing to give up its secrets along the way. After three weeks of establishing the main players, they are all now in play, but considering this is a shortened season of only eight episodes, it was time to so.

The story progresses in couplings – Dolores and Caleb are committing subterfuge to strip financial assets off their victim; Bernard and Stubbs close in on the same man, but with different motives; and Charlotte Hale catches up with Ed Harris’ William/ Man in Black, who is struggling with apparitions of his dead daughter and whether or not he is human.

Everything comes together at an Eyes Wide Shut-style sex auction which culminates with a top fight between Dolores and Stubbs to the strains of Ramin Djawadi’s orchestral version of The Weeknd’s Wicked Games. And while Thandie Newton’s Maeve’s involvement this week is primarily involving a sub-plot involving the Singapore underworld, she gets to show her action chops in another well-choreographed fight.

Verdict: Action, a clever set of twists and a killer soundtrack, Westworld is running like a well-oiled synth – what could go wrong? 9/10

Nick Joy