‘Westworld’ star Aurora Perrineau talks Frankie’s fate after the catastrophic events of the season 4 finale

HBO’s “Westworld” ended its fourth season last weekend with a human extinction event, described by main character Dolores as “annihilation. ” “Sentient life on earth has ended,” Dolores said in the final moments. “But some part of it might still be preserved in another world.

” By the time the credits rolled on the recent season finale, all but a few humans on Earth had been murdered by Halores and her host minions. So where does that leave Frankie, the human who was last seen boating away from the massacred and back to her secret group of survivors? “She is on the way to the rest of the outliers, because obviously there were other people with us in the beginning,” Aurora Perrineau (who plays Frankie) told Insider during a recent Zoom call, theorizing about what the human extinction means for her character. “I think they’re trying to make a life with all of the other outliers,” she said.

“They’re going to have to go wherever the hosts don’t know to find them. ” Frankie, her girlfriend Adina, and the rest of the outliers are still going to die eventually, of course. “Westworld” cocreator Lisa Joy separately told Insider that Frankie and Adina will have “meaningful time” together before succumbing to the end of humans’ time on Earth.

Joy also said she hopes the show gets a fifth and final season to tie up all the Easter eggs and play out the final “game” of host vs. human survival in a new virtual setting called the Sublime. Perrineau sees the season four finale as a fictional version of the “end times.

” “It feels a little bit true to how things are going in the real world,” she said. “I think Lisa and [cocreator] Jonah [Nolan] are really good about throwing in ideas of what’s happening in the world. Obviously it’s not that extreme in real life, but it did feel like, ‘Oh, that could be where things land, if certain things aren’t taken care of.

‘” She continued: “When I read the script it was a little shock in the way of ‘Oh, I guess that’s it. ‘ But it also made complete sense to me. ” Frankie was one of the last humans we saw on the show who had her entire body and brain scanned by a machine in one of the old Delos parks.

In season four, episode six, Bernard (played by Jeffrey Wright) showed Frankie the data he had collected on a tablet. Translating human brain data into functioning hosts has been a failed experiment within the show’s universe, as we saw with Frankie’s dad Caleb (played by Aaron Paul). But the setup for season five focuses on Dolores recreating digital-only copies of people and hosts inside the Sublime.

We asked Perrineau if that scene might have been included so that Frankie would be able to appear in the Sublime — the virtual world controlled and protected by Dolores and other hosts. “They tell us very little,” she said, referring to Joy and Nolan. “So I think that could definitely be an option in the future, and I would love to come back.

” HBO has yet to announce plans for a fifth season of “Westworld,” leaving fans wondering if this is the last they’ll see of the indelible theme-park setting. Perrineau hasn’t had word yet, either. “I wait to hear like everyone else,” she said.

The season four finale of “Westworld” is streaming now on HBO Max. You can read our full interview with cocreator Lisa Joy here. .