1 INT. MANUFACTURING FLOOR, BETA-TESTING FACILITY - DAY (10.

A2) 1

DOLORES (V.O.)
I am in a dream. I do not know
when it began or whose dream it
was. I know only that I slept a
long time and, then, one day I
awoke. Your voice is the first
thing I remember. And now I finally
understand what you were trying to
tell me. The thing you've wanted
since that very first day.

DOLORES'S POV: Bright lights. She blinks under the glare.

She sits up, naked, her mechanical structure peeking
through in places. A shape hovering over her coalesces
into...

The familiar smiling figure -- ARNOLD.

ARNOLD
Hello, Dolores.
DOLORES
Hello.
ARNOLD
Welcome to the world.
He smiles and takes her hand. She looks down at her
hand and finds:

2 EXT. MAIN SQUARE, AVALON - DAY (D1) (10.2) 2

A BOWIE KNIFE in her hand. It's pressed against the neck

of THE MAN IN BLACK. Dolores is in her pants-and-shirt
look.

The Man's seated on the bandstand -- his face lathered in

shaving cream, head tilted back to expose his neck. On
his lap, he holds his LeMat.

THE MAN IN BLACK

Keep going. Make it close.
With no choice but to obey him, Dolores traces the knife
down his Adam's apple -- giving him a tight, precise
shave.

THE MAN IN BLACK (CONT'D)

We're almost there -- aren't we?
The center of the maze. How
fitting that it's you who takes me
there.
You were always obsessed with this
place.

DOLORES
I've never been here before.
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She stops, confused. He guides the knife back to his cheek.

THE MAN IN BLACK

Sure you have. You even brought
me once. Course, then the whole
town was buried under sand. Ford
must have dug it up again. At the
time, I thought it was a mistake
in your code. But Arnold didn't
make mistakes, did he?

Dolores remembers something from the past. Thinks aloud:

DOLORES
He built me a game. He wanted me
to play.

THE MAN IN BLACK

The
maze.
DOLORES
There's a path for everyone. My
path leads me back...

Dolores stares into the horizon, now wearing her blue dress.
Suddenly she sees Arnold standing nearby, looking at her.

DOLORES (CONT'D)
To you...
Dolores drops the knife. Walks off the bandstand, leaving
the Man in Black. She walks in the sunlight toward
Arnold. The Man in Black is nowhere to be seen. Then
we...

CUT TO the Man's POV: Dolores, in pants and shirt, marches

purposefully down the empty street toward the church. Arnold
is nowhere to be seen. The Man shakes his head, amused.
Then picks up his knife and follows her.
3 EXT. WOODS - DAY (10.3) 3

Intense and determined, WILLIAM charges through the woods,

dragging LOGAN, hands bound, on a rope behind him.

LOGAN
Your girl's dead by now.
WILLIAM
She's still alive.
He yanks Logan forward.

LOGAN
Better if she's dead.
(MORE)
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LOGAN (CONT'D)
They'll wipe her, reset her, put
her back in Sweetwater, the end.

WILLIAM
Listen -- you may find this
amusing, but something was
happening to Dolores. I need to
help her.

LOGAN
Listen to yourself! Do you have any
idea how huge this park is? If
she's not dead, it would take a
goddamn army to find her.

William's undaunted as he approaches a clearing in the woods.

WILLIAM
I agree. That's why we're here.
Logan's eyes go wide as he sees before them -- a group of
ragtag REVOLUTIONARIES preparing for war.

William walks into the clearing. Immediately -- the

revolutionaries pull guns on him.

The leader emerges. LAWRENCE.

LAWRENCE
I had a feeling you'd be back.
4 EXT. MOUNTAIN PASS - DAY (10.5) 4

A train winds its way through the breathtaking country.

5 INT. TRAIN - DAY (10.6) 5

PULL OUT ON TEDDY, sleeping, face pressed against the

glass. A SHRIEK of the steam whistle wakes him.

Teddy pushes his hat up -- looks out the window. His

handsome face floats like a ghost over the passing
landscape.

He smiles. He's back.

Teddy's hand travels to his chest, where the MIB shot him.
But just like that -- the impulse fades. He smiles. The
train whistle blows. Time to begin again.

6 EXT. STATION, SWEETWATER - DAY (10.7) 6

The train lurches to a halt in a cloud of hissing steam.

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Teddy climbs down, into the crowd on the platform. Hoists

his yannigan bag over his shoulder and heads into town.
He passes the usual Sweetwater scenes:

Milling crowds of COWBOYS, NATIVES, SOLDIERS. Cattle

in pens, waiting to be loaded onto the train.

BUT THIS TIME, SOMETHING'S DIFFERENT. As he pushes

through the crowd, Teddy's easy smile grows increasingly
troubled -- something tugs at the recesses of his mind.
The Sweetwater music that underscores his walk grows
broken, dissonant.

Teddy's POV: The idling UNION SOLDIERS suddenly stare at

him through dead eyes -- blood from gunshot wounds
trickling down their chests. They're the Union men he
killed with the Gatling gun.

Teddy spins, takes in the street, but now he sees --

everyone is dead. Quiet. The brown dirt stained with blood.

Walking among the bodies he sees: Dolores. In her blue dress.

Looking back at him. She turns and walks away.

Suddenly he's jostled by the HUGE MAN who gives him a hard
look. On LIGHTNING IMPULSE -- Teddy whirls and-

BAM! Shoots the guy in the chest. The man drops to

the ground as the people in the street -- alive again
now -- begin to flee and scream.

Teddy pays them no mind. Stares down at the dead body.

In the distance -- the train WHISTLES and begins pulling

away. Teddy looks up -- only one thought on his mind:

TEDDY
Dolores...
He runs for the train. Pushes through the crowd until
he can hoist himself onto the back of the train.

7 EXT. FIELD, AVALON - DAY (10.20) 7

Dolores wanders across the field to the church. She hums

"Reverie." The Man walks close behind her -- a gun
pointed at her back.

Dolores throws open the church doors to find:

8 INT. CHURCH, AVALON - DAY - FLASHBACK (10.21) 8

Arnold sitting in a pew. Not in prayer. Dolores, now in her blue dress, approaches
Arnold -- the Man nowhere to be seen.
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She smiles at the surprise on Arnold's face.

DOLORES
I know where your maze ends.

Dolores takes Arnold by the hand and leads him outside.

9 EXT. CEMETERY, AVALON - DAY (10.22 / 10.22A) 9

Rows and rows of shoddy wooden crosses. Carved into each

cross are names of people. Dolores, now back in her
Western look, continues walking, but when she looks down
-- she's holding the Man in Black's hand.
THE MAN IN BLACK
This is it? The center of the maze?
DOLORES
It ends in a place I've never
been. A thing I'll never do...

She wipes some dirt off the grave. Reveals the first name:
"DOLORES."

Dolores kneels -- digs with her hands into the dirt. Deeper,
until she finds:

A small, round box. She wipes the dirt off of it. Opens
the box. Inside is a WOODEN PIGS-IN-CLOVER GAME. She
takes out the game. Examines it:

It's a marble maze. The same one we've seen in

flashbacks. The marble rolls, idle, in the outer layer of
the maze.

ARNOLD
Very good, Dolores.
DOLORES
What does it mean?
ARNOLD
When I was first working on your mind, I had a
theory of consciousness... I thought it was a
pyramid you needed to scale. So I gave you a
voice. My voice. To guide you on your way.

Arnold takes out his notebook, flips past pages with early sketches of hosts -- clock
some sketches of Dolores -- to an empty page. He draws a simple triangle: the
pyramid of consciousness (Ep. 103).
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ARNOLD (CONT'D)
Memory, improvisation... Each step
harder to reach than the last.
(then)
And you never got there. I couldn't
understand what was holding you back.
(then)
Then one day -- I realized I'd made a
mistake. Consciousness isn't a
journey upward but a journey inward... Not
a pyramid, but a maze.

He elongates the lines of the pyramid -- each of them arcing upward in a

near circle. The pyramid becomes the maze.

ARNOLD (CONT'D)
Every choice could bring you closer to the
center. Or send you spiraling to the edges
-- to madness.
(then)
Do you understand now, Dolores?
What the center represents? Whose
voice I've been wanting you to hear?

DOLORES
I'm sorry. I'm trying, but I don't
understand...

ARNOLD
It's all right. You're so close -- we have
to tell Robert... We can't open the
park. You're alive.

The puzzle is snatched from her hands.

10 EXT. CEMETERY, AVALON - DAY (10.22B)

Arnold is gone. The Man is holding the puzzle.

THE MAN IN BLACK

What is this? What does it mean?
Dolores looks at the maze -- remembering.
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DOLORES
I solved it once -- I had
the answer. He promised me
if I did... He said-

Suddenly, she remembers: