You are right . It is a license plate . <| sep |> I hadn ' t thought of that possibility but I find it very unlikely . It was either Ford or Arnold or someone acting as Arnold . After all Ford still found out about Theresa but apparently not about Arnold using the transmitter . So either Ford set up the transmitter to send messages from Arnold ' s account or someone else did , and this person also sent Bernard there to cover up for him . He sent Bernard to kill Elsie , log her into the system as on vacation , and wipe his memory of doing it . If it wasn ' t Ford then it must mean Ford doesn ' t have a live feed of Bernard but instead he access ' s Bernard ' s memories . <| sep |> Male here . WHAT AM I TO DO ! ? You are so lucky it ' s socially acceptable for you to wear makeup