'Westworld' Recap, Season 2 Episode 3: Robot, Human, and Everything in Between

Westworld watchers, we knew this moment was coming. The second season's third episode, "Virtù e Fortuna," opens not in Westworld but in an India-themed park. Where Westworld is an emblem of the colonization of Native American land, this park represents Britain's takeover of the subcontinent, and the racial-social hierarchy is clearly encoded: Women in saris and men in turbans--the hosts--walk amidst people dressed in turn-of-the-20th-century British garb. A white man, Nicholas (Neil Jackson), approaches a woman seated at a lawn table and flirts with her. But she's a seasoned guest, and she's done having flings with hosts--she wants to know that he's a real human with real desire, not a fleshbot programmed to seduce her. She announces that she'll have to shoot him to know for sure.