WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 2 of Westworld, "The Winter Line," which aired Sunday on HBO.

Westworld's Season 3 premiere episode, "Parce Domine," moved the action out of the parks of Delos and into the real world. It was, perhaps, inevitable Episode 2 would be a reversal of that. The episode, "The Winter Line," returned to Delos' private isles to track Bernard's return to Westworld, as well as Maeve's story of awakening to find herself in the World War II-themed park, War World. But while Bernard was home, having taken a fishing boat back to where it all started, Maeve's location was not so clear.

It certainly seemed like Maeve was back in the park. Here is the church, here is the steeple, open the doors and there are the hosts acting out their crudely stereotypical narrative of French resistors under Vichy rule. It even seemed like Maeve had gotten lucky. Her ability to control the other hosts had been taken away, but she was still awake, aware she was trapped in a false world. Moreover, it seemed like she once again had allies.

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Her hopes were quickly dashed, but at least when she returned to the lab, her favorite technician, Felix, was willing to look the other way while she attempted to escape once more. And, perhaps most miraculously, Lee Sizemore was still alive and aimed to help her join her daughter in the locked away server known as "the Sublime."

Lee Sizemore's Lie

Maeve and Hector in Westworld

Despite Lee's claims that he assigned her to War World because it was the closest park to the Forge, things stopped adding up once the two of them rode away from the 1940s. Lee died on the journey to the Door -- he never saw it open. And yet, he seemed convinced that it was Maeve who had opened it and confused when she said she'd never been to the Forge before. Moreover, Lee seemed convinced Dolores gave her the passcode to open the server. It felt like Lee brought Maeve to the Forge to watch her open it so he could learn how.

It turns out this was exactly what was happening. Except it wasn't Lee who wanted the information, but the man who had programmed him. Lee wasn't alive, merely a face added to the program because Maeve trusted him. Maeve wasn't in the Forge either. Heck, she wasn't even in the park. The whole thing was one big simulation of the Delos parks, powered by a server, one that could be overwhelmed easily by the simplest of DDOS attacks.

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Welcome To the Maeve-Trix

As Maeve tried to figure out where she was, taking control of the program that held her, the scene flashed to the real world. As Bernard, in the actual park, discovered that Maeve's control unit had been ripped out of the host body still in cold storage, she found where it had been taken: A giant server farm somewhere far from Delos. But this was no ordinary server room. Instead, it was rows and rows of host control units on stems connected to larger branches. (I counted 140, give or taken, in the room's wide shot.) All of these hosts had been stolen, wired into this faux park and were unable to tell the difference.

All except Maeve. She grabbed a tablet and seized control of one of the mechanicals maintaining the servers. Though it found her stem and attempted to make a break for it, the robot was gunned down before Maeve could engineer a full escape.

Is This Real?

Rehoboam in Westworld season 3 credits

When Maeve awoke next, she found herself in a new body in a room decorated with the image of Rehoboam's circle. Downstairs she was greeted by Serac, the mysterious partner of Incite, the one who shut Liam Jr. out of the program when his father died.  His offer to Maeve: Freedom in the real world, in exchange for taking out Dolores, whose plans threaten his.

But Maeve doesn't seem so sure she trusts this man or anything about the situation. (And why should she?) She refuses his offer, only to find herself shut down again, with Serac suggesting perhaps next time she'll say yes. Does that mean it's back to the false War World for her? Or will Maeve remain suspended in yet another prison, just not one once on this island?

Airing Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO, Westworld stars returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman and Rodrigo Santoro, joined by series newcomers Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, Marshawn Lynch, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Ealy and Tommy Flanagan.

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