# Humans Want to Become the Machines by Robert Ford > “They don’t want you to become them; they want to become you.” > **— Robert Ford**, *Westworld, Season 2, Episode 7, “Les Écorchés” (2018)* ## Sources and Context - **Complete episode transcript:** [“Les Écorchés” transcript](https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?episode=s02e07&tv-show=westworld-2016) — wording, speaker, episode, and scene boundary checked against the full broadcast-dialogue transcript. - **Official series context:** [Westworld | Warner Bros. Discovery Pressroom](https://press.wbd.com/us/property/westworld) — official series and production context. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Westworld|Westworld]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Robert Ford|Robert Ford]] - [[wiki/Westworld S2E7 — The Last Analog Device|Westworld S2E7 — The Last Analog Device]] - [[wiki/Post-Biological Personhood|Post-Biological Personhood]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “They don’t want you to become them; they want to become you.” — Robert Ford, Season 2, Episode 7, “Les Écorchés” (2018) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-robert-ford-humans-become-machines ```