"The Winter Line" is the second episode in the third season of the HBO science fiction dystopian thriller television series Westworld.
She further discovers that her entire experiences so far have been part of a virtual reality simulation to gain information on accessing the data in the Forge.
While Stubbs protects him from Delos guards, he uses the park systems to check his own code to ensure Dolores did not contaminate it when she made him a new body.
Maeve awakes in the real world home of Engerraund Serac, who reveals the system he built is helping to write humanity's future, until it recently stopped working correctly.
There had long been discussion between showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy with Game of Thrones' Benioff and Weiss as well as the series' original author George R. R. Martin, a fan of Westworld.
[1] As Futureworld, the sequel of the original Westworld film, featured a Medieval World setting, fitting this into the show was "just irresistible", according to Nolan.
The site's critical consensus reads: "In 'The Winter Line', Westworld's muddled timelines start to surface, but by continuing to put character development center stage the episode avoids confusion and takes Maeve and Bernard on an exciting new journey.