About a dozen minutes into “Chestnut,” the second episode of Westworld, Ed Harris’ Man in Black rides up on a posse that’s bout to hang a man named Lawrence (Clifton Collins Jr.). Lawrence doesn’t recognize the Man in Black, or but the Man in Black knows Lawrence; later he’ll joke that he even knows the tune he likes to whistle when he takes a piss. Only two episodes into this series,we’ve already seen Harris’ character carry out this a couple times; he approaches everyone with familiarity, something that probably shouldn’t be surprising whether, and as the Man in Black claims,he’s been coming to Westworld for 30 years and the park recycles the same day with the same stories and characters on an endless loop.
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Source: screencrush.com