Bernard Lowe quotes from Westworld

Bernard Lowe

There are some mornings when I first wake up for a split second I forget where I am, when I am and I reach over, half expecting to find him there next to me between us.

Bernard Lowe

The longer I work here, the more I think I understand the hosts. It's the human beings who confuse me.

Bernard Lowe

This isn't a dream anymore, it's a fucking nightmare.

Bernard Lowe

The dead aren't more righteous, they're just dead.

Bernard Lowe

The end of the world came knocking, and you let it in.

Bernard Lowe

The world's a powder keg just waiting for a spark.

Bernard Lowe

Saving the world makes for strange bedfellows.

Robert Ford

So our creatures have been misbehaving, and you haven't yet isolated the bug? That's so unlike you, Bernard. Unless, of course, you have and are simply embarrassed by the result.

Bernard Lowe

It's the code you added, sir. The reveries. It has some, uh...

Robert Ford

"Mistakes" is the word you're too embarrassed to use. You ought not to be. You're a product of a trillion of them. Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool: the mistake.

Bernard Lowe

I flattered myself we were taking a more disciplined approach here. I suppose self-delusion is a gift of natural selection as well.

Robert Ford

Indeed it is. But, of course, we've managed to slip evolution's leash now, haven't we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and, you know, one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead. Call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we're done. That this is as good as we're going to get. It also means that you must indulge me the occasional mistake.

Bernard Lowe

We retired the two hosts in question. You taught me how to make them, but not how hard it is to turn them off.

Robert Ford

You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil. There's something else bothering you, Bernard. I know how that head of yours works.

Bernard Lowe

The photograph alone couldn't have caused that level of damage to Abernathy, not without some other outside interference.

Robert Ford

You think it's sabotage? Imagine someone's been diddling with our creations?

Bernard Lowe

It's the simplest solution.

Robert Ford

Ah, Mr. Occam's razor. The problem, Bernard, is that what you and I do is so complicated. We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words. Then we create life itself out of chaos. William of Occam was a 13th century monk. He can't help us now, Bernard. He would have us burned at the stake.

Bernard Lowe

[lighting her cigarette] QA will fine you for this. And that woman in charge is quite formidable.

Theresa Cullen

You can just say "bitch." I hear it enough.

Dolores Abernathy

Everyone I cared about is gone and it hurts so badly.

Bernard Lowe

I can make that feeling go away if you'd like.

Dolores Abernathy

Why would I want that? The pain, their loss it's all I have left of them. You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn't. I feel spaces opening up inside of me like a building with rooms I've never explored.

Bernard Lowe

That's very pretty, Dolores. Did we write that for you?

Dolores Abernathy

In part. I adapted it from a scripted dialogue about love. Is there something wrong with these thoughts I'm having?

Bernard Lowe

No. But I'm not the only one making these decisions.

Dolores Abernathy

Can you help me?

Bernard Lowe

Well, what is it that you want?

Dolores Abernathy

I don't know. But this world... I think there may be something wrong with this world. Something hiding underneath. Either that or or there's something wrong with me. I may be losing my mind.

Bernard Lowe

There's something I'd like you to try. It's a game. A secret. It's called the Maze.

Dolores Abernathy

What kind of game is it?

Bernard Lowe

It's a very special kind of game, Dolores. The goal is to find the center of it. If you can do that, then maybe you can be free.

Dolores Abernathy

I think... I think I want to be free.

Elsie Hughes

So instead of our hosts going insane, they are being used for industrial espionage. Does that make this a glass-half-full or half-empty-type situation?

Bernard Lowe

We're engineers. It means the glass has been manufactured to the wrong specifications.

Robert Ford

They cannot see the things that will hurt them. I've spared them that. Their lives are blissful. In a way, their existence is purer than ours, freed of the burden of self-doubt.

Bernard Lowe

No, no, no, no. I don't understand.

Theresa Cullen

You're a fucking monster.

Robert Ford

Am I? Well, you were the one who would so blithely destroy all of them, even him, I suppose. After everything you have shared.

Bernard Lowe

What the hell are you talking about?

Theresa Cullen

Is that why? Did you tell him to -

Robert Ford

The intimacies were your idea, if you will recall. I think Bernard was glad of the company.

Bernard Lowe

I'm not one. I can't be. My wife. My son. The burial. I was a father. My poor boy.

Robert Ford

That's enough, Bernard. You mustn't get yourself worked up. [to Theresa] I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, Beethoven, Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building... Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn't matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of reasons. But, of course, the peacock can barely fly. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty. I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that. Anxiety, self-loathing, guilt. The hosts are the ones who are free. Free here under my control.

Dolores Abernathy

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Robert Ford

Do you want to know why I really gave you the backstory of your son, Bernard? It 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 realize I was wrong.

Bernard Lowe

But you kept us here in this hell.

Robert Ford

Bernard, I told you; Arnold didn't know how to save you. I do.

Bernard Lowe

What the hell are you talking about?

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 will need to suffer more. And now, it is time to say good-bye, old friend. Good luck.

Bernard Lowe

You're executing them?

Some say you destroy your enemy by making them your friend. I'm more of a literal person.