# Westworld S2E6 — The Ghost in the Machine (Phase Space) **Episode index:** [[wiki/Westworld Series S2E6 — Phase Space|Westworld Series S2E6 — Phase Space]] **Entity class:** Episode-scene analysis **Source:** [[wiki/Westworld|Westworld]] **Season 2 — Episode 6 — “Phase Space”** **Speakers:** [[wiki/Robert Ford|Robert Ford]] and [[wiki/Bernard Lowe|Bernard Lowe]] **Scene:** Bernard enters the Cradle’s simulation and encounters Ford at the piano. ## Verified Dialogue Boundary > “Hello, old friend.” > **— Robert Ford**, *Westworld, Season 2, Episode 6, “Phase Space” (2018)* This is the entirety of Ford’s dialogue in the Episode 6 reveal. The former local page continued the scene with invented explanations about becoming a story, surviving “in the phase space,” and maintaining a comprehensive file. Those lines do not occur in the episode and have been removed. Ford’s substantive explanation begins in [[wiki/Westworld S2E7 — The Last Analog Device|the following episode]]. ## Technical Interpretation The episode establishes an observation, not yet an explanation: a Ford representation is running in the Cradle and can interact with Bernard there. Whether that representation constitutes survival, copying, emulation, or continuity remains unresolved at this cut. The distinction is preserved through [[wiki/Model-Subject Boundary|Model-Subject Boundary]], [[wiki/Substrate Independence|Substrate Independence]], and [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Complete episode transcript for “Phase Space”](https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?episode=s02e06&tv-show=westworld-2016) — used to establish the exact endpoint of the reveal. - [Westworld — Warner Bros. Discovery Pressroom](https://press.wbd.com/us/property/westworld) — official series context. ## Relationships - **Episode boundary:** Episode 6 reveals Ford in the Cradle; Episode 7 supplies the explanation. - **Architecture relationship:** The Cradle is a simulation environment capable of running host-control-unit data. - **Continuity relationship:** Presence of an interactive model does not alone resolve personal continuity.