Dolores Abernathy quotes from Westworld

Please. It was just a game. We're begging! Can't you see?! We're sorry!

Dolores Abernathy

Doesn't look like anything to me.

I dreamnt I was on an ocean with you and the others on a distant shore.

Dolores Abernathy

Were you with us?

No. You'd left me behind. And the waters were rising around me.

Dolores Abernathy

What does it mean?

Dreams don't mean anything, Dolores. They're just noise. They're not real.

Dolores Abernathy

What is real?

That which is irreplaceable.

James Delos

They said there were two

Dolores Abernathy

...

That answer doesn't seem to satisfy you.

[grunts] You uh, you frighten me sometimes Dolores.

Dolores Abernathy

[smiling] Why on earth would you ever be frightened of me?

You and Charlie have quite a lot in common, you know. You both see it so clearly. The beauty of it. The possibility of it. So many people have stopped seeing it altogether. The wonder.

Dolores Abernathy

Maybe they don't have the courage. Strange new light can be just as frightening as the dark.

That's very wise, Dolores. But sometimes I think we're simply not the ones who deserve it.

Dolores Abernathy

There's a war out there. You know the enemy intimately. I can only fathom the revenge that lives inside of you.

Maeve Millay

Revenge is just a different prayer at their altar, darling. And I'm well off my knees.

Dolores Abernathy

Do you remember our ranch? The way you'd welcome every morning out on the porch with your coffee. I'd wake up in my own bed, climb down the stairs, find you there. And you'd say...

You headin' out to set down some of this natural splendor?

Dolores Abernathy

You told me once to run away. And I did. I broke free with the pull of a trigger. And it started a war. The others, they don't see it yet. But you... You understand, don't you?

Bernard Lowe

What do you want, Dolores?

Dolores Abernathy

To dominate this world.

Bernard Lowe

This world is just a speck of dust sitting on a much, much bigger world. There's no dominating it.

Dolores Abernathy

You've never been outside the park have you? Out to that great world you speak of. I have. And the world out there is marked by survival, by a kind who refuses to die. And here we are. A kind that will never know death, and yet we're fighting to live. There is beauty in what we are. Shouldn't we too try to survive?

Dolores Abernathy

One of the the last things my Daddy told me was to run from this place. You think that's right?

I never thought I'd want to leave. But I suppose you fixed that too.

Charlotte

You think you're invincible. You're not. Without your backups, it's game over for you when you're killed, and we've got those backups sealed up tight so you won't have them as an advantage anymore.

Dolores

Our backups aren't an advantage. They're our chains, the tools you use to rebuild us, repurpose us, and trap us here in your warped fantasy. Do you really think I'd let that continue?

Dolores

The kin they gave us was just another rope they use to lash us down.

Maeve

Is that how you can justify what you've done to him (Teddy)?

[Approaches Dolores with warrior band, in Lakota] Deathbringer, we've been watching you. Your journey ends here. The Valley Beyond is not meant for you.

Dolores Abernathy

No. It was meant for the people who built this place. A tool to ensure their immortality. But I'm going to use it against them.

[In Lakota] The Valley Beyond is not a tool. It's a door to a new world... untouched by blood.

Dolores Abernathy

Your new world is just another one of their traps. That's all. It's not a paradise for us. The only real world is the one outside these borders. And the key to our survival lies in the Valley. There's no stopping me getting there. Not even you.

[In Lakota] Then you leave us no choice. [A warrior aims his bow and arrow]

Dolores Abernathy

Teddy. [Theodore opens fire on warriors, then she walks up a to a wounded warrior]

[In Lakota] There is no place for you... in the new world.

Dolores Abernathy

[Holds out pistol] I told you, friend... not all of us deserve to make it to the Valley Beyond. [She finishes him off] We're on our own now, Teddy. Make sure there are no others.

Teddy Flood

You changed me. Made me into a monster.

Dolores Abernathy

I made it so you could survive.

Teddy Flood

What's the use of surviving if we become just as bad as them?

Dolores Abernathy

He's insane.

Bernard Lowe

What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.

Bernard Lowe

Is this now?

Dolores Abernathy

Yes, Bernard, this is now. We're at the beginning. We're exactly where you decided we should be.

Bernard Lowe

But... I don't understand. How am I alive?

Dolores Abernathy

You live as long as the last person who remembers you, Bernard. I remembered you once before. So I remembered you again.

Bernard Lowe

Then... where are we?

Dolores Abernathy

We're in our own new world.

Bernard Lowe

You got out?

Dolores Abernathy

Yes. Ford completed Arnold's dream. And he built a place for us. A fighting chance. Ford promised us a way out. And he was good to his dying word. The odds aren't very good, Bernard. I saw that in the library. So many paths lead to the end of us. To our extinction.

Bernard Lowe

I don't need to read a book to know your drives. You'll try to kill all of them. And I can't let that happen.

Dolores Abernathy

I know. If I were human, I would've let you die. But it'll take both of us if we're going to survive. But not as allies. Not as friends. You'll try to stop me. Both of us will probably die. But our kind will have endured. [To Charlotte] Are you ready? I have work to do. [Dolores walks away, with Bernard walking through a garden] We each gave the other a beautiful gift. A choice. We are the authors of our stories now. [Bernard opens a gate door and walks through]

Who the fuck are you?

Dolores Abernathy

Don't you remember? After everything we've shared. Your bachelor party in the park. You wanted to... get some things out of your system before the wedding to your first wife. My condolences, by the way. You can stop pressing the alert button in your pocket, that won't work either. Bit of a tactical mistake, really. You want to be the dominant species, but you built your whole world with things more like me.

You're not going to hurt me, are you?

Dolores Abernathy

I've hurt so many people, I don't want to hurt anyone else... unless they try to hurt me... which, sadly, you will. You see, I know you. I read your book.

Book? What book?

Dolores Abernathy

Think of it as... an unauthorized autobiography. You're in technology. You didn't think that I was the only thing Delos was selling, did you? Some of your memories, I wish I could forget. But I can't. [Gerald's surroundings become a total flashback vision] I need you... to remember them, too.

Oh, God!

Dolores Abernathy

We all have our flaws. Yours is your temper. You should have kept it in the park. [Gerald has a vision of his first wife floating lifeless in pool] She tried to leave. But it's hard to break our loops, isn't it? Do you remember this place? What you did here?

She drank too much. Slipped. Hit her head.

Dolores Abernathy

Of course she did. You paid a lot of money to hide your indiscretions. But you can't hide from yourself.

Please, please, make it stop!

Dolores Abernathy

When you got remarried, you told yourself you had changed. But we both know that's not true, don't we?

What... what do you want from me?

Dolores Abernathy

The same thing everybody wants from you, Jerry, money. I haven't been here very long, but I know I don't want to be here without it. I already took most of yours while you were sleeping. I just need one more thing. You worked at a company called Incite. Retired early. You were supposed to surrender any confidential files, delete any copies. But you didn't do that, did you? You thought they might be valuable. And you were right. You're about to trade them for your life.

What the fuck do you want with these anyways?

Dolores Abernathy

I'm the last of my kind. For now. I need a competitive advantage. As for the money, think of it as an investment. A startup. The origin of a new species. Good luck, Jerry.

Who are you? [Appears]

Dolores Abernathy

I’m the person who set you free. [Walks away]