Piggybacking on another shoe connection . in the pilot episode after the Sizemore reveals the new narrative to Ford , ford dismisses it and then either says to Lee or one of the hosts , what size are those boots ? I think it was at that moment after Lee ' s lame story , Ford got inspired to reopen the church town . He immediately puts on those boots and heads to the old buried lot where he runs into his younger robot self and remembers what happened there and how he should bring it back . We also see the snake there too . The church has to be the end of the maze . <| sep |> You can paint silicone with oilbased primer , then paint over with latex ! Source Grabbed the wrong tube when installing a door casing . Googling how to paint silicone saved me a lot of time . Looks fine 10 years later .