HBO returned to Westworld this Sunday night, kicking off its fourth season with new mysteries, new threats, and the return of a fan-favorite character we haven’t seen since Season 2.

Season 4 opens on a seemingly unscathed William/The Man in Black (played by Ed Harris), who may or may not be the host-copy from the closing minutes of “Crisis Theory”/the Season 3 finale.

The focus then shifts to new character, Christina (series vet Evan Rachel Wood), a video game writer whose aversion to fun annoys her outgoing roommate, Maya (Schmigadoon!‘s Ariana DeBose).

It isn’t unreasonable to assume that Christina is just another Dolores copy; Hector said it best last season: “Death is overrated for ones like us.”.

While it seems unlikely that Dolores survived the events of Season 3, there’s a layer to Wood’s performance here suggesting just that.

She’s cycling through many of the memories we know she struggles to cope with, including the first set of memories from way back at the park in the first season.

Circling back to Christina, we find out that she’s being stalked by a man pleading for her to “stop doing this to us.” Not an abundance of clarity there, but that’s not the show’s way.

After a night out with Maya, Christina encounters the stalker in person, and he attacks her before disappearing.

The episode closes on a teary Christina monologuing on her balcony about how empty she feels, how she doesn’t know why she feels so lost, and that she wants a happy ending to her story?