Wait , he ' s mad the refs were too efficient ? <| sep |> Depends what you mean by off . The hosts cannot just be turned off trivially the routine way to do that kind of thing is they get stepped into various modes , like sleep mode . It ' s not confirmed why Maeve can wake herself out of sleep mode but as near as I can tell she is simply executing the normal wake up command on herself . Obviously she shouldn ' t be able to do that but it also doesn ' t appear to be an isolated incident . Abernathy may have run code by voice command Violent Delights on Dolores and Dolores may have done so on Maeve , but I think what is more likely is Abernathy did it to himself by recallingthinking the words and then he uttered them to Dolores and she thought them and uttered them to Maeve who also thought the words . This matches with Maeve waking herself up by thinking the words to the wake up command while she was asleep . As to what compromised their internal security like this , either reveries , interference with the bicameral mind system or both these things together are my lead suspects .