Be aware there are spoilers through Westworld Season 3, Episode 7.

There's a lot to process in any given episode of Westworld. A heady show with plenty to say about technology and society, the hit HBO sci-fi series also jams in new twists and character reveals with each new episode -- especially in Season 3, an ambitious soft reboot that leaves the park (mostly) behind and heads out into the world of the future.

So, who's human? Who's a host? Who's alive and dead? And who the heck are all these new characters? We've got you covered with a handy character guide to keep you up to speed on everything we know so far about all the key characters, where we last saw them, and if they could be coming back.

Check out the Westworld character guide below and for more, check out Adam Chitwood's recap of the last episode.

Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy

Human or Host? Host

Alive or Dead? Alive and thriving in a new body.

Evan‌ Rachel Wood heads up the lead in Westworld’s massive ensemble as Dolores Abernathy, the oldest host in the park, created by Arnold Weber (who subsequently helped Dr. Robert Ford re-create him in the form of Bernard Lowe). Dolores solved the maze Arnold made her and reached consciousness, but when Robert refused to cancel the park opening, he programmed the personality “Wyatt” into her and Dolores slaughtered the hosts and killed Arnold in an attempt to prevent it.

Dolores was our first entry point into the perspective of the hosts, following her journey as she achieved consciousness in two-fold – in the past where she journeyed and fell in love with young William and in the present, where she confronts the Man in Black. After learning her full truth and killing Dr. Ford, Dolores and Wyatt’s personalities fused into a vengeful revolutionary for Season 2, which saw her leading a violent revolt against the park guests and Delos chairpeople on a mission to find freedom. At the end of the Season 2 finale, Dolores escaped out of the park in Charlotte Hale’s body with a bag of mystery pearls (essentially the brains of the hosts) and Season 3 sees her back in the “real world,” continuing her fight to free her kind.

What exactly does that mean? Nothing good for humanity. Dolores came back to the mainland with a vengeance, quickly dismantling Delos rival Incite from the inside and using humanity's algorithmic overlord "Rehoboam" against them, revealing that every human's path has been pre-determined, and in doing so, driving the world towards anarchic chaos.

Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay

Human or Host? Host

Alive or Dead? You think she's scared of death? She's done it a million times, and she's fucking great at it. (So yeah, alive.)

Thandie Newton stars as the series’ resident scene-stealer Maeve Millay, a first-generation host who we first meet as the resident brothel manager in Westworld. Season 1 sees Maeve reach consciousness seemingly on her own, leading her to experiment with her own deaths and ultimately waking up inside the host processing facility, where she commands/earns the loyalty of two technicians, Lutz and Sylvester, who help her reprogram herself to untap her full abilities and make her immune to commands. She also learns that she was originally programmed to woman living in the country with her daughter, until the Man in Black slaughtered them both and triggered her first awakening. At the end of the season, she makes her first true decision, deciding to stay in the park to find her daughter rather than escaping as she was programmed to by Dr. Ford.

In Season 2, Maeve leads a counter mission to Dolores, teaming with Hector, Armistice, and head writer Lee Sizemore to find her daughter, and ultimately, to lead as man hosts as possible to The Valley Beyond, a virtual paradise that Ford snuck into the park programming. Maeve’s journey leads her through Shogunworld dead into conflict with both Dolores and Delos park security, who ultimately gunned her down at the end of the season as she held off hoards of violently reprogrammed hosts. Her sacrifice allowed her daughter, along with many other hosts, to escape into the Valley Beyond before the upload rift closed. However, Maeve is back in Season 3 and after a misadventure in a Warworld simulation, she's got a new (if mush less superpowered) body and Serac put her on a warpath towards Dolores.

Ed Harris as William, aka The Man in Black

Human or Host? Who knows?

Alive or Dead? Couldn't tell you!

Ed Harris has absolutely lived it up in the role of The Man in Black, the mysterious but fitting moniker given to his character before the reveal that the big bad antagonist is none other than William (last name still unkown, leading some to believe there’s another reveal in store there.) The very same young man (played by Jimmi Simpson) who ventured into Westworld for the first time with a white hat and a determination to treat hosts with kindness, who fell in love with Dolores and watched her fight for self-awareness, becomes the host-slaying big bad who offers a human antagonist amid the great societal ills and technological terrors that fuel Westworld’s narrative.

Naturally, the Man in Black was stoked as heck about the host rebellion because it made the game “real” and spent Season 2 on another misadventure with his buddy Lawrence that put him on a collision path with Dolores and his own worst nature once again. In the Riddle of the Sphynx, we learned how William worked with James Delos to create host clone copies of human consciousness, failing again and again, and ultimately leaving a Delos-bot to go mad for decades in their fidelity testing room. We also met his wife Juliet (Sela Ward), and learned that she killed herself after seeing evidence of who he really was in the park. William’s tragic arc bottomed out towards the end of Season 2, when he got caught too caught up in Dr. Ford’s mindgames and his quest to prove that no system could tell him and believed his daughter was a host. This being the Man in Black, he obviously killed her.

Dolores leaves the Man and Black to die at the end of Season 2, but the post-credits scene to the season finale presented one of Westworld’s most baffling riddles yet. William takes an elevator down from the park into the inner-workings below and sees his daughter, who tells him this isn’t a simulation but what’s left of his world, before leading him to a very familiar room where she sits down and starts a baseline interview to verify… fidelity. What does it mean?‌ When does it take place?‌ Is it even real? TBD! What we do know is that in the current timeline, William wound up in a mental hospital thanks to some handy work by Haleores, where he was left strapped into an AR therapy session for way too long during the chaos Dolores and Caleb caused. After battling all the past versions of himself, William is back in action and rearin' to bring down all of A.I. kind, including his current traveling companions Bernard and Stubbs.

Aaron Paul as Caleb Nichols

Human or Host? Human

Alive or Dead? Alive

Aaron Paul joins Westworld as a new co-star in Season 3, taking on the role of Caleb Nichols, an everyman stuck in his own sad little loop far removed from the walls of Westworld. A veteran who can’t find a place for himself in the world, Caleb works construction by day before clocking out to tend to his ailing mother and reluctantly chat about his trauma with a remote voice on the phone. That voice belongs to his deceased best friend Francis, who died during combat while they were at war, a trauma that weighs heavily on him. Caleb also works “the night shift,” aka doing petty crime for quick cash via an app, which leads him to Dolores, a whole world of trouble, and possibly the “something real” he’s been searching for.

It also leads him to some real ass-kicking truths about his past. Turns out Caleb isn't just a veteran who can't get a job, he was essentially designed to be that way by the all-knowing A.I. Rehoboam, including the pre-determined ending that he'll take his own life. And that's just the start. Caleb helps Dolores reveal Rehoboam's grand design to the people, sparking chaos in the process, and she takes him to a facility where he discovers that he was an "Outlier", aka a person who could not be controlled or predicted, and was first used by the system to eliminate other outliers before being reconditioned to forget his crimes. What's worse, Francis didn't die in the war. Caleb killed him. He was Caleb's literal partner in crime until they learned the truth about what they were doing and Rehoboam made them both offers to assassinate each other. Francis was quicker to turn on his friend, but Caleb was quicker on the trigger. Learning the truth about his past ensured that Caleb would become the perfect weapon in Dolores' revolution -- a human who wants to destroy his own kind -- which is why she chose him in the first place.

Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale

Human or Host? Human Host

Alive or Dead? Charlotte Hale is dead, long live the Hale-bot.

Tessa Thompson stars as Charlotte Hale, the executive director of Delos. And as far as main characters Hale is still a bit of a mystery, mostly swaggering through a recurring role in Season 1, where she proved a temporary thorn in Dr. Ford’s side. Charlotte was in the park for the host massacre and while she survived the initial attack, teaming with Bernard briefly and later killing Elsie, Hale was ultimately killed by Dolores – but not before Dolores and Bernard made a Hale-bot host body, which Dolores used to upload her consciousness and escape out of the Park, taking a bag of mystery Pearls with her.

So where does that leave Hale for Season 3? Thompson returns in a starring role, but it’s a mystery who exactly she’s playing. At the end of Season 3, Dolores made herself a new body and puts one of the mystery pearls in the Hale-bot, which put Dolores and her mystery co-conspirator in a key power position at the company after the park massacre. Turns out that mystery conspirator was Dolores herself -- the revolutionary A.I. put copies of herself in all the mystery pearls.

What we quickly learn, however, is that transplanting a host's consciousness into another person's body and life doesn't mean they are the same "person" they were before. Haleores grows attached to Charlotte Hale's family and begins to identify with the dead woman, but when she tries to make a grand escape with her husband and son, they're executed in a car bombing. Which means we've got one extra pissed off and emotionally traumatized host on our hands.

Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe

Human or Host? Human Host

Dead or Alive? Alive

Jeffrey Wright stars as Bernard Lowe, the former head of programming at Westworld who became the series’ first big “secret host” reveal towards the end of the first season. When we meet Bernard, he is focussed on sussing out why the hosts are malfunctioning, haunted by dreams of his long lost son and romancing the park manager Theresa Cullen. Turns out his son’s death was his cornerstone memory, something he realizes when he discovers he’s a host, created by Ford in the image of his old partner Arnold (whose torment over the loss of his son led him to create the first host Dolores). Ford forces Arnold to kill Theresa, one of many times his creator used him for devious deeds and not the last.

Season 2 finds Bernard on a scrambled mission to solve some new blackouts and patches of missing time, which found him brain-scrambled laying on a beach at the start of the season. In a very confusing, time-slipping narrative, we learn that Bernard teamed up with Hale after the slaughter at the park, got split up, teamed up with Elsie, got hijacked by Ford’s ghost in the machine, and ultimately ended up helping Dolores create the Hale-bot. Ultimately that Bernard body was killed, but Dolores snuck his pearl off the island and rebuilt him a new body in the outside world, where’s he’s now public enemy #1, framed for the slaughter at Westworld. Since then, Bernard has teamed up with Stubbs and, surprisingly, the Man in Black to help stop Dolores.

Vincent Cassel as Engerraund Serac

Human or Host? Human (supposedly, I have doubts)

Alive or Dead? Alive

Vincent Cassell stars as Engerraund Serac, the primary antagonist in Season 3. A tremendously powerful figure in the world outside the park walls, Serac is the co-creator of Rehoboam, the A.I. that predicts/writes the future of the human race. Serac created the omnipotent machine with his brother after the pair escaped the mysterious destruction of Paris. Unfortunately, their system had no room for "outliers" -- those who would subvert the grand design -- and Serac's brother was one of those outliers. In response, Serac created a program to reprogram the outliers. However, unlike Caleb, most of them aren't able to be successfully reprogramed yet. We learn that Caleb's "success" in the program is one out of nine. The other nine? Frozen in little coffin-like holders for the time being. That includes Serac's brother and that is the reason he needs Dolores and Delos, so that he can use their genetic information to fix and "save" his brother.

Serac is also responsible for bringing Maeve back to the mainland (though he took away some of the superior controls from her previous body), pitting the host up against Dolores. And despite Dolores' best efforts, Serac was able to accrue a majority stake at Delos, giving him the opportunity to destroy all the remaining hosts in the park, but not before bringing back some friends for Maeve.

Luke Hemsworth as Ashley Stubbs

Human or Host? Human Host

Alive or Dead? Alive

Luke Hemsworth stars as Ashley Stubbs, the head of Westworld’s QA Security team. For most of the show, Stubbs has been depicted as a pretty straightforward guy doing his job, running tests on the hosts, checking perimeters and other security stuff – though he did disappear mid-way through Season 1 before turning up totes fine in Season 2. However, in the Season 2 finale, Stubbs heavily indicated he himself was a host, letting the Dolores/Hale-bot slip off the island with some sly dialogue about how the old man hired him to protect the park and all the hosts. And protect he shall. Ever since Bernard made his way back to the park for a quick data download, Stubbs has been tagging along and playing muscle.

Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton

Human or Host? Host

Alive or Dead? Dead, for real this time.

Rodrigo Santoro stars as Hector Escaton, the resident park bandit and most wanted man in Westworld, Hector was created by Lee Sizemore as the rugged, heart-breaking nihilist anarchist who brought a dash of violence, romance and chaos to the narrative. Hector was seen briefly in the, ahem, services of Hale in Season 1 and Ford used him to spy on her. His regular loop saw the bandit robbing Maeve’s brothel for the safe and tearing up the town with his right-hand assassin Armistice, but after Maeve achieves consciousness and shows Hector the safe was empty all along, she convinces him to die with her and see the other side.

Hector suffered took heavy gunfire aiding Maeve’s escape in the finale, but he survived into Season 2 and once again fought by her side, joining her on the search for her daughter along with Lee. While Hector has accepted the “nature of his reality,” Lee reveals that he hasn’t fully achieved consciousness when he interrupts Hector mid-speech and finishes the script for him (also sacrificing his life so Hector and Maeve can escape in the process). However, Hector remains faithful to Maeve til the bitter end, and goes down with the rest of his gang, kicking up a row against a mob of infected hosts to protect those running to the Valley Beyond. That said, we do see Hector and his gang’s bodies on the beach at the end of the season, so it's likely we haven’t seen the last of those particular hosts just yet. Maeve sees Hector in Warworld, but it's not really him -- that is, until she makes some demands of Serac and revives Hector's consciousness... just in time for him to be killed for good when Haleores has his brain pearl destroyed into dust.

Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore

Human or Host? Human

Alive or Dead? Dead

Simon Quarterman stars as Lee Sizemore, the head of Narrative and Design at the Delos parks, including Westworld and Shugunworld. A braggart and a bit of a blowhard, Lee regularly sparred with Ford in the first season over the storylines. He’s caught in the mesa during the host uprising and is almost killed by one of his most grotesque creations (a cannibal, no less) when he’s saved by Maeve and offers his help to find her daughter if she’ll protect him. Season 2 follows him on the journey with Maeve and Hector, which takes them through Shogun world – a particularly humbling moment when the hosts realize he recycled some of his narratives between the two worlds. Later, he reveals that Hector was inspired by the great love he lost, and picking up the words to a speech he wrote for the host, he sacrifices himself so that Maeve and Hector can escape. In Season 3, Maeve sees Lee again in a simulation, but he's part of the programming, not the real Lee. However, when we see him again, the Simu-Lee is still aware he's in a simulation so there are some interesting questions about A.I. within simulations that still need to be answered!

Hiroyuki Sanada as Musashi

Human or Host? Host

Alive or Dead? Dead

Hiroyuki Sanada stars as Musashi, another host introduced in Shogunworld. Musashi is Hector’s counterpart host, who regularly robs the Geisha House. He used to be the second in command in the Shogun’s army and was replaced by the cruel Takana after he left. Ultimately, he kills Takana in combat. Like Sakura, Musashi choses to stay in the park rather than going with Maeve.

In Season 3, Musashi made a return (kind of) as one of Dolores' copy bodies on the mainland. He didn't get much to do, however, before Clem and Hanaryo thoroughly kicked his ass and cut his dang head off.

Angela Sarafyan as Clementine Pennyfeather

Human or Host? Host

Alive or Dead? Alive

Angela Sarafyan stars as Clementine Pennyfeather, one of the hosts created, who worked as a prostitute at Maeve’s saloon. To be technical, Clementine is actually a role played by a variety of hosts (as promised by the Delos tourism website), but we don’t have a proper name for the host outside the character. Maeve has a close, motherly relationship with Clem but when Maeve deviated from her script in Season 1, it causes Clem to glitch and she was ultimately decommissioned. In Season 2, she winds up in Wyatt’s army for a bit, before ultimately being turned into a walking host plague by Delos. She’s taken down by a shot from Armistice at the end of Season 2, but as suspected, that wasn't the end for Clem. While we haven't seen much of her in Season 3, Maeve had her revived and restored before Serac destroyed the hosts in the park and she made quick work of dispatching Dolores' Musashi-bot.

Tao Okamoto as Hanaryo

Human or Host? Host

Alive or Dead? Alive

Tao Okamoto stars as Hanaryo, a host who fights alongside Masushi, Shogunworld’s counterpart to Armistice, except where Armistice has a snake tattoo spiral up her body, Hanaryo has a dragon. Unlike Akane and Musashi, Hanaryo choses to go with Maeve and her crew into Westworld and fights alongside them to find Maeve’s daughter and protect the hosts going to the Valley Beyond. She went down in the fight, but in Season 3, Hanaryo was one of the hosts that Maeve had Serac revive before he destroyed the hosts in Westworld. She and Clementine confront Dolores' Musashi-bot at a fancy restaurant and leave with his head.

Katja Herbers as Emily

Human or Host? Human (maybe)

Alive or Dead? Dead (maybe)

Katja Herbers joined the Westworld cast in Season 2 as Emily, daughter of none other than the resident big bad, the Man in Black. We first meet Emily in another park called The Raj, where she was in the middle of romancing a host when the host awakening happens. She had to fight her way past several formerly friendly hosts, including a dang tiger, before she made her way to Westworld and to her father. Unfortunately, that turned out to be the least safe place in the park, since her bad dad was suffering a supreme existential crisis, and when she confronts him about her mother’s suicide, he shoots her dead under the mistaken belief that she’s a host.

The Man in Black definitely shot and killed his daughter, according to what Herbers told Vanity Fair. However, that’s not the last we saw of Emily. The character reappeared in the Season 2 post-credits scene, where the Man in Black wandered into an underground facility and came face-to-face with his “daughter”. Host? Simulation? Ghost? Too soon to tell, though Emily insisted William was in his own world, leading him to the abandoned fidelity testing room for what she indicates is one of many, many attempts. Emily pops up briefly in Season 3, where we see she is tormenting William like a ghost in his head. I suppose that could explain what we saw at the end of Season 2 (and the AR therapy William was forced into could definitely explain it) but. I have suspicions that post-credits scene was a longer play that won't pay off until future seasons.

Scott Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi, as Francis

Human or Host? Human

Alive or Dead? Dead

Kid Cudi joins Westworld Season 3 in a recurring role as Francis, Caleb's old friend from war. We first meet Francis through his voice, which is an A.I. assuming his personality as a form of therapy for Caleb. Next up, we got a bunch of traumatic flashbacks and the reveal that Francis died serving in the war alongside Caleb. Not so. In "Passed Pawn" we learned that Francis and Caleb were both "Outliers", according to Rehoboam, and after their service in the war, they were used by the system to become assassins that eliminated other Outliers. But when they learned too much, Rehoboam sent them both offers to assassinate each other. Thus, it was actually Caleb who killed his own best friend and that revelation is what sets him off to become the weapon of revolution Dolores needs for her endgame.

Jean Mi Serac

Human or Host? Human -- too human, in fact.

Alive or Dead? TBD

When Serac escaped the destruction of Paris, he didn't do it alone. And when he created Solomon, then Rehoboam, he didn't do it alone either. So where the heck is Serac's brother Jean Mi? Well, extreme TBD on that one since the whole mystery persona seems primed for a classic grand Westworld reveal, but here's what we know so far: Jean Mi was a schizophrenic genius, who also happened to be one of the "Outliers" spotted by the omnipotent A.I. he helped invent. As a result, Serac keeps his brother frozen and stored in his warehouse in Mexico until he can get the genetic information he needs to successfully reprogram his long lost (or perhaps more accurately, misplaced) sibling.

John Gallagher Jr. as Liam Dempsey Jr.

Human or Host? Human

Alive or Dead? Dead

John Gallagher Jr. stars as Liam Dempsey Jr., a newcomer to the series in Season 3 who promises to be a key player in Dolores’ plan… even if he doesn’t know it. Liam is the CEO of Incite – the a new tech world power player and rival to Delos – though he’s kept in the dark about the company’s inner workings. The son of Incite’s mysterious founder, Liam oversees the omnipotent, algorithmically driven AI Rehoboam without fully understanding what it does. But that doesn’t mean he’s not a powerful pawn, which is exactly why Dolores starts romancing (and spying on) him. Obviously, that doesn't go well for lil' Liam Jr., who is forced to reveal the truth of Rehoboam and ultimately killed by Ash for his cruel indifference towards those the system writes off.

Tommy Flanagan as Martin Connells

Human or Host? Human Host

Alive or Dead? Dead, Replaced by a Copy-Bot, Also Dead

Tommy Flanagan stars as Martin Connells, a high-ranking associate and resident fixer at Incite. Aaaaand he’s gone. So long, Connells, we barely knew ye. In the first episode of Season 3, Connells catches wise to Dolores’ fake identity and attempts to assassinate her, but m’dude messed up bad and Dolores sicks his own clone host on him, killing him. That means Dolores had yet another copy of herself stationed in a power position, this time at Delos’ rival company, Incite. Unfortunately for Dolores, her allies are dropping like flies and the Connells bot blew himself up, taking a lot of Incite with him, in order to help Dolores reveal Rehoboam's plan for humankind to the world.

Lena Waithe as Ash

Human or Host? Human

Dead or Alive? Alive

Lena Waithe joins Westworld in Season 3 as a mysterious new character named Ash. Unconnected to the park (at least so far, it’s Westworld so who knows,) Ash is introduced in Episode 1 of Season 3 as one of the people working with Caleb on the jobs he gets from the Postmates-for-Crime App Rico. She gives him a little guff about his “stats” being shit before they pull a quick ATM robbery. Later, she re-teams with Caleb and Dolores to help them pull off the Rehoboam reveal and she kills Liam Dempsey Jr. to prove she still has a choice.

Marshawn Lynch as Giggles

Human or Host? Human

Alive or Dead? Alive

Marshawn Lynch also joins in Season 3 as Ash’s cohort Giggles, a giant man we know absolutely nothing about except that he commits crimes while outrageously high on drugs and wears a light-up shirt that spells out his mood in block letters. One of Westworld Season 3’s more delightful mysteries I’d say.