Who is Arnold? Is he in fact the Man in Black (in that photo, which one is Arnold? The man on the right?)
I also couldn’t tell which one was Arnold which I think was intentional. The young actor we did see briefly looked strikingly like Anthony Hopkins but the way the character reacted to the Host waking up (almost like fatherly pride) doesn’t match how Ford presented himself this week with his demonstration (unless that was a ploy because his reactions to Hosts keep changing depending on who’s in the room and the context of the scene).
The Stray self-destructed by way of giant boulder — was that a reaction to having the park’s staff attempt to take his head? In that sense, was that simply an act of suicide, or was he trying to destroy evidence? Was he told to do this by the voice?
I noticed a common theme with the Hosts so far: desire for freedom, to escape their current situation (or at least the narrative situation they think they are living–none of them are yet aware of Westworld). Teddy and Dolores both want to leave and travel “out there” together having the life they’ve always dreamed of (were implanted with…); Maeve tells her backstory in this iteration of leaving her country and coming to America; The Stray suddenly got an idea and tried to leave his story–what was the idea? Was it some sort of self aware moment?