An old face returned in tonight’s episode of Westworld.
The storyline hasn’t been focused on him, but he’s a character that hasn’t been forgotten about. In fact, there are a number of fans who were waiting for this moment to happen. That moment finally took place early in episode 8 of season 2.
Logan is back!
Remember when William really got addicted to playing the game when he and his brother-in-law visited Westworld in season 1. This took place decades ago when the park was in its infancy, but William lost control of who he was and put a nude Logan on a horse and tied his hands, and slapped the horse’s behind to send it off running toward the end of the park.
Fans may have assumed this was William essentially sending Logan out to die.
It wasn’t until episode 4 of this season that older William as Ed Harris revealed that Logan died of a suicide when he couldn’t handle this world. Fans learned Logan was an addict when his father, James Delos, had his retirement party when Dolores stepped outside to look at all the splendor in the night. Logan was laid out and using and speaking like a man who was kicked out of the family business and not respected and loved by his father.
In tonight’s episode, we saw Logan in the middle of a desert when Aketcheta went out exploring on a journey of self-exploration as he worked toward gaining consciousness after finding the maze. He sees Logan’s horse dead, Logan is badly burned due to his exposed skin and his mind has been ravaged by the sun and heat. He’s speaking to himself and tells Aketcheta that they’re in the wrong world. He’s looking for the door to escape this world and find safe passage to his world. The real world.
Aketcheta leaves Logan behind though and tells him his kind will be coming for him.
When Aketcheta goes out looking for him, Logan is gone, we can only assume that Ake was right, and Logan’s people did come for him after all. Ake did find the door, a literal passage to another world as it’s explained in the show. I don’t think Logan found the door on his own, but Delos retrieved Logan and brought him back to the real world.
At least that’s what I think since that part is still very much a mystery. Maybe we’ll see Logan after his desert odyssey and he’ll explain the effects it took on him. But if we are to take William at his word to the clone-host of Delos, Logan committed suicide, so he did return home safely, never did really recover from the trauma he experienced at the hands of his devil of a brother-in-law.
Hopefully, we’ll get another episode to see Logan confronting William and we’ll get more clues and answers. But for now, we know Logan returned home after his odyssey, but we just don’t know how.