So in episode 1, we see the robots first begin to glitch out of there programming, generally super subtle, but also going bonkers such as ignoring bullets to the chest, or swatting a fly dead(which they cannot do). Delores is established as a damsel who is regularly violated, and Maeve is just a brothel owner. Both are scripted and both are made to die over and over again. But delores is directly fed a line "These violent delights have violent ends" from another robot who see's a picture of the world outside the park and has begun glitching tremendously. In the end, the park maintenance cleans up the mess, but Delores deceptively lies her way through the examinations and is seen swatting a fly dead(when initially they couldn't even hurt a fly).
In episode 2, we see Maeve wake up, litterally, in a maintenance bay when she wasn't supposed to, with her guts cut open. She walks through the facility, seeing things no android was ever meant to see. All the while, Delores starts hallucinating mildly, and glitching herself, but seems to keep it to herself.
In episode three, we see delores take the first step towards rampancy, breaking out of her own code somehow and shooting another host in self-defense when she was not programmed to. Considering her loop was her getting violated at the end of the day every day, it was nice to see her break out. But besides the voice egging her own, something begins to tell me something bigger is going on.
Episode 4, we return to Maeve, who discovers more and more clues that her world is a lie but has yet to really realise it. She discovers a doll shaped like men in hazmat and, at first is told it's just an indian story(likely to keep the robots confused), but due to her acquired ability to remember(just as delores had in episode 3), she asks another host to cut herself open and discovers a bullet that was accidentally left inside her. This will prove a major disaster later for the park.
Episode 5, Delores turns into a max-agility gunslinger/bandit. She breaks out of her loop entirely and is effectively going "along for the ride" with a few guests. But she see's a deplorable side of "humanity", and ultimately decides to take control of her destiny, persuing a puzzle that was set before her in episode 4. She begins hallucinating malkavian style, seeing herself and even self-mutilating herself in hallucination-land before returning to reality, and stumbling on a mad-bomber plot and, at first attempting to escape, but ends up joining in on it herself, if entirely by accident in a fully mad-woman stumbling through life way. She initially holds the bomber(and indirectly the guest) hostage with a gun to the crate of ...ahem...nitro...before accepting an offer of help.
And now the terrifying consequence of Maeve's discovery of that bullet in her chest. At the end of episode 5, she wakes up in the lab and BREAKS THE FOURTH WALL. Maeve begins manipulating the maintenance technicians(by seducing one and blackmailing the other) while learning what the real world is really like, from what she an see in a laboratory/maintenance bay, seeing for the second time the hosts being repaired/cleaned and new hosts being built. Her world effectively coming crashing down, she manipulates the maintenance guy and his jerk of a co worker into manipulating her own "stats" to max her intelligence(or as the show called it, "Bulk Apperception", and lowering her ability to feel pain and lowering her loyalty, making herself into a sociopath(all the while the tone darkens, because we all know what max intelligence+zero empathy makes, this scene actually scared me more than the endings of episode 2 and 3 combined) Likewise, one of the park behavior troubleshooters discovers someone else had been hacking the robots to be much more dangerous already.
