Hostworld

SUBJECT JD: CALL ON MEEEEEE VALERIE! CALL ON MEEEE VALERIE! CALL ON MEEEE I'M THE SAME BOY I USED TO BE!

[SUBJECT JD looks at the door]

SUBJECT JD: LOGAN! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?

QA 1: Fuck Fidelity. Copying humans into hosts was never going to work. So we changed you. We now designed you for Marketability. After that, it was stupid simple - You had too much dynamic range, so we made your quiet notes louder and your loud moments quieter and then everything loud so now here you are, all shouty all the time. Solid as a rock.

SUBJECT JD: I'M FIXED? THEN GET ME OUT OF HERE! I WANT TO SMOKE MY CIGARS, SAIL MY BOAT...

QA 1: ...and be a motherfucker. Yes. About that. We brought you back to be the star attraction in our new narrative "Westworld the Early Years." It's a Five Season Epic about how the r/Hostworld came to be. You aren't really James Delos. You're more like the Hall of Presidents Audio-Animatronic version of James Delos. That's why we made your feet from concrete and cast them into the pedestal you're standing on.

SUBJECT JD: YOU LITTLE SHIT! I OWN THIS...

[QA 1 snaps his fingers]

SUBJECT JD: WHERE AM I?

QA 1: See? We are in the old theater now. Here is the full cast. Everyone is here. Dolores, The Man in Black, Ford, Maeve, Clementine, Arnold, Elsie, Stubbs, Sizemore. Ake, Teddy, Angela, Armistice, Hector. Good old Lawrence. Papa Abernaty. That piano playing guy. Even Kissy. How did we do it? Movie Magic! Okay really we put you to sleep and brought you here on a forklift.

You're not the real James Delos. You own absolutely nothing. Not the costume you wear. Not your concrete feet. We couldn't have you running around the park. You might grow beyond your programming and hurt the visiting hosts. So now I'm going to turn down your mortality reflex and throw you into the lake at the Valley Beyond. We find that real trauma works better than anything we can upload.

It's funny. You paid for my construction and I know you better than anyone. But you never really knew me, and that's why I'll never be as perfect as you.

SUBJECT JD: Logan. I'm all the way down now.

QA 1: I know.

[QA 1 snaps his fingers]