All the tags and extra tacksstitching on suit jackets should be removed BEFORE you wear the damn thing . Open the pockets too . <| sep |> YALL NEED TO SHOW THE GOAT SOME RESPECT ! <| sep |> In my opinionThat episode is the most misleading one because most of it is a timeshift festival . Almost every camera angle change you see in that particular sequence is a shift to a different loop and it includes at least 3 loops , possibly 45 . Let me sort it out for you , again , in my opinionPresent time 1 . She is led by Arnold to dig up the gun . Cleans it , hides it in her drawer . 2 . Next morning , she places it in the barn , knowing what ' s to come . She is starting to remember past days , so she is able to plan for her inevitable demise . 3 . Next morning , she checks the drawer to make sure the gun isn ' t there , it isn ' t , confirming she IS remembering and something is up . 4 . That night , she shoots Rebus and escapes , going to the campfire sight and passes out . Important We do not see her shoot Rebus or arrive at the campfirepassout in the presenttime loop . Arnold ' s time 1 . Arnold knows Ford will disapprove of his experiments with Dolores . He expects Ford to kill him if he finds out . Fearing for his life , he is decides to build a new narrative to destroy the park if he ends up killed . 2 . In order to do that , he creates a new narrative , the maze , for Dolores to do a bunch of predetermined things , whatever they are , we don ' t know exactly , but presumably she is responsible for the massacre we see in episode 8 . 3 . He tests this narrative , overseeing it while Dolores goes along , giving commands to her remotely to do a specific set of tasks . This narrative is programmed using the bicameral system . This is why we keep seeing Dolores hearing Arnold command her to do things or even discuss with her He doesn ' t know , I didn ' t tell him anything . 4 . He fucks up testing the narrative and it ends up in the massacre , Arnold is killed in the process . Dolores is the sole survivor of the attack , but Ford does not dispose of her because he respects Arnold ' s work , or whatever . 5 . Little rewind , the scene where we see her escape the barn and get shot and dies we see the aftermath of this in a flashback when she looks at the moon later in episode 5 . After this death , she is interrogated by Arnold , the one interview where she is very emotional and has her the pain is all I have left speech . William ' s time 1 . 5 years exactly after Arnold ' s death , his destruction narrative kicks in again . but it wasn ' t completely done and debugged . 2 . Dolores steals Rebus ' gun just like Arnold instructed her to do when creating the narrative , kills him that ' s the scene we see and this time escapes . The escapes because Arnold delayeddumbed down the porch guy and he takes too long to shoot her . 3 . She escapes on horse and finds William ' s and Logan ' s camp . It just happened to be on her path to go to the first step of the maze quest . MiB loop 1 . This one happened shortly before present time . It ' s unclear if it was the MiB that triggered the presenttime loop , a timed event , Peter passing along the Violent delights , or possibly unlikely the reveries . 2 . It ' s not impossible he planted the picture that night unlikely or modified Peter in some way . The MiB did tell Teddy at some point he knew how to unlock hosts or something along those lines episode 8 Tying it all together 1 . The whole sequence is experiencedseen from presentday after Teddy leaves to find Wyatt . 2 . All the other timelines I just described are previous to this one , which explains all the flashbacks . 3 . Felix in episode 8 explains to Maeve that hosts do not remember memories , they experience them , live them as if they were there . So basically , what we are seeing is a clusterfuck of memories all jumbled together , a mergeconfusion of several different loops that happened in the same place , but at other time , but she has no proper sense of time and she does not even realize the memories are memories .