Thx ! It always helps to get peptalks ! Even from strangers <| sep |> Maeve only recently heard that from Dolores , after she became the madame . She heard the line in episode 2 . suffering cruelty thing by the MIB happened before she became the madameYes , this is correct , that was certainly sufferingcruelty , but regardless , Maeve didn '' t start her journey of selfdiscovery until Dolores said the violent delights line to her way back in episode 2 . That ' s when shit started getting weird for Maeve and she started questioning things knew what was about to happen , the drawings in the floor , finding the bullet in her gut , etcBefore hearing the line , Maeve functioned perfectly normally as the madame and showed no signs of deviating from her loop .