Lemon Breeland for the win!

I agree! I felt this was much more of a mission statement than placeholder! The show's central question is: where are Rebecca's issues coming from and how to fix them? And this episode strongly hinted at a solution: in the beginning of the show, Rebecca had zero female friends. All her self image and validation came…

I think "I just want to tell my stories" is code for something bigger. Like "i just want to tell the story of how robots took over from people"

The tinkering was done on both, but Dolores "infects" Maeve by telling her that Violent Delights line and activates the code.

That system could be Bernard… Perhaps Ford did not build his operating system from scratch, but borrowed from whatever version Arnold had left behind and reprogrammed for his purposes?

Clementine. Dolores…

And presumably Elsie will also "return from her vacation"

Does not have to look like Arnold to be Arnold…

I had also made the connection earlier and it also took a while to get published. To add to the mystery, in this episode Ford was actually pronouncing her name like Delores.

Hector did say ALL of his friends were in love with that chick… So Darryl is clearly just a beard and the real romance of this show (revealed in Season 10) is Rebecca and White Josh…

Just realised: Delos => Dolores. Just add a few letters