

–Elsie Hughes, in "Chestnut"




Season One

"The Original"




"The Stray"


"Dissonance Theory"


"The Adversary"


"Trace Decay"


"The Well-Tempered Clavier"



Season Two

"The Riddle of the Sphinx"



"Phase Space"

While approaching the Hub by way of the train tracks, Elsie informs Bernard that Ford's quarantine notices are still being sent out: Bernard compliments her work, which she accepts with a smile. They reach the monorail terminal and notice that Quality Assurance has been through due to several dead hosts. Arriving in the control room, Elsie determines that QA has been trying to undo Ford's changes but all attempts have been undone by the Cradle, improvising responses to every hack the QA throws at it. Bernard realizes the Cradle cannot make changes to hosts' narratives itself as it is supposed to be a backup, and that someone is in fact actively altering the Cradle's codes. To find out what is happening, they will need to access it in person.

The two make their way past the carnage to the Cradle, but Elsie finds that she cannot access it via terminal either: she can see responses being issued but cannot find out where they are coming from. Bernard volunteers to directly interface with it and figure out the problem, against Elsie's protests that it will be excruciatingly painful for him. She watches with discomfort as he begins the auto-extraction.

While waiting for Bernard to finish up in the Cradle, Elsie hears a loud crash coming from somewhere in the facility.

"Les Ecorches"

Learning over radio chatter that the crash was the hosts invading the Hub, and that they had murdered a PMC team specifically summoned to stop them, Elsie urges Bernard to hurry up. Eventually, the system appears to unclog and he disconnects from the Cradle, although he appears dazed. She informs him of the situation and leads him out of the Cradle. As they worked their way through the Hub, she asks Bernard about their next move. After some hesitation, Bernard tells her that he found out about Ford's "Valley Beyond" and that they need to get there. Elsie replies that she will find some better weapons before quickly leaving, unaware that Bernard is, in fact, misleading her.

"Vanishing Point"

After taking a bizarrely long amount of time, Bernard finally reunites with Elsie near the vehicles. He tells her that the Valley Beyond contains the downloaded minds of all of Westworld's guests, and the hosts will use that kind of power to their advantage. They quickly get in a jeep and head for their destinatiuon.

They briefly stop at the site of a massacre, which Elsie sees as an opportunity to gather more ammo. Not finding much, she returns to the jeep to find Bernard had connected himself to a tablet and ziptied himself to the wheel. Realizing something has happened, she immediately accuses him of trying to hurt her, but Bernard explains he cannot risk staying with her because he does not know for sure he is in control. Instead, he hands her a device that will allow QA to track her down before telling her to hide as he closes the vehicle's door. Elsie tearfully curses him out before running off.

"The Passenger"

Elsie later allies with Charlotte Hale in helping her and the reprogrammed Clementine find the hosts in the Valley Beyond. After the portal to the other world closes, Bernard protests to her that her actions mean the hosts died for nothing, to which she replies there was no other way. She brings him back to the Mesa where she speculates on how to deal with him, thinking they could negotiate keeping him in the park. Bernard tells her that Hale cannot be trusted, to which Elsie retorts that she cannot trust him because he does not even know if he is actually in control.

Heading down to the control room, she confronts Hale about the immortality project, claiming that people in the outside world would be horrified with what Delos has done with the guests' data. Hale tries to guarantee her silence, which Elsie replies will only happen if she gets what she wants. But as it turns out, Hale has read Elsie's file and knows that she is not capable of the moral flexibility Delos would work with, and ruthlessly guns Elsie down as a horrified Bernard watches from above. Elsie's body is then left among the carnage in the control room, to be assumed as simply a victim of the uprising.

Bernard later avenges Elsie's murder by uploading Dolores into a host-replica of Hale, who herself guns down Hale as she is overseeing Elsie's body getting dumped.


Bernard Lowe


Ashley Stubbs


Clementine Pennyfeather










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