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Previously on Timeless. That's my handwriting.

I didn't write that. But you will.

I lost my whole family. Because you murdered them.

Rittenhouse murdered them. I asked about Rittenhouse and no one's ever heard of

him. Rittenhouse isn't a him, it's a they.

Really? You do? I have four languages, actually. I don't care if Lucy and Wyatt

trust me. But I am not spying on them.

Car trouble?

You're with Rittenhouse.

If you keep playing your part, it helps us protect everyone.

You.

Your family.

Carol's my mother, but in raising my father, I never was.

My mother's been lying to me my whole life. I just want to know who my father

is. This is his name.

Hey, Ma.

Finals or last night? Second place.

Kevin missed a shot at the buzzer. Hasn't come out of his room since. I

can't believe I forgot.

He's gonna hate me. Don't take on guilt nobody's placed on you. Your brother

understands how important your job is. Still should have been there.

You are there.

This house, his tuition, his damn basketball shoes are causing you,

causing how hard you work.

Speaking of, that's Connor.

Why'd you come to my place?

We thought you could use a ride.

Okay, what is the Rittenhouse guy doing here? Do me a favor.

Don't use that word aloud.

Listen carefully to him.

Whatever this is, I don't want any part of it.

How'd your brother take the loss?

I could have sworn that last shot was going to go in just off the back rim.

There's no need for theatrics.

Close the door.

Flynn took the mothership to Washington, D.C. on June the 20th, 1972.

That's June 20th, 1972.

Really?

Kids today.

The Watergate scandal.

There was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices.

Freeze! It turns out President Nixon was mixed up in it. He had to resign, I know

that part.

Yes, well, he might have got away with it, but he was secretly recording every

conversation he had in the Oval Office.

You know something about secretly recording people?

The tape he made on June 20th, 1972, speaking to his chief of staff, Bob

Haldeman, was special.

Special how? There was an 18 and a half minute gap.

But we have to give the press another story, because the real truth... Erased

by his secretary, lost forever. It's one of the great mysteries.

There's a concern that Flynn has gone back to 1972 in order to steal that tape

before it gets erased.

What do we think's on it? That's none of your damn business.

It's important that no one hears what's on that tape. Not you, or Wyatt, or

Lucy, and certainly not Garcia Flynn.

Understand?

When you get there, call this number.

Make regular reports.

Report what?

To who?

And if I don't?

It's a nice house, Rufus.

Nice family.

He's going to do it. Now back off.

Hey. Lucy, Flynn's taken out the mothership.

Yeah, I'm on my way.

So, just to be clear, you lurked outside your dad's house for hours without ever

knocking.

You know there's stalker laws, right?

Correction. I had a dad. This man is just my biological father.

You're still his daughter. A daughter that he didn't want to see for my entire

life. Listen, I don't know what kind of guy's gonna answer that door, but I do

know at some point, you're gonna have to knock.

Press credentials, completely authentic, should get you into the White House

without too much of a hitch. And we're positive Flynn's going after the Nixon

tapes? No, but it's a good place to start. June 20th, 1972 is a special day.

It's the day that Nixon records the missing 18 and a half minutes. I would

give anything to hear that tape.

Not me.

When you find Flynn, maybe you can blind him with that suit.

I look like Greg Brady.

Well, go find Marsha and Peter and get going.

Ready?

It's gonna have to be a different man.

These colors just don't exist anymore. Like, not even in nature.

That burnt orange, that puke tint between green and yellow.

Jeez, you had to land in a marsh?

I thought it was a bit more private than a South Lawn. There they go, a couple of

Nixon's baby killers.

What the hell did you call me?

Pitchy.

Recognize this room?

You stayed here the night Abraham Lincoln was shot.

A few weeks for us, a century for them.

Remarkable, huh?

Oh, God.

You're gonna talk us to death, aren't you? Had a hunch I'd find you on the way

to the White House, Lucy. I need you to do something for me. We're not getting

the Nixon tape for you.

Not necessary.

I already got it myself.

You broke into the White House basement.

You think you're the only ones who can forge a 1970s ID?

I do own a color printer and a laminator.

The only problem was I had to shoot a White House guard on the way out. Well,

two, actually.

And now I can't really move around the city freely.

Authorities are looking for me.

So I need you.

To find something.

What? Let's have a listen.

But we have to give the press another story. Because the real truth is, this

doc is more important than anyone knows.

If Rittenhouse... Mr. President, we can't discuss Rittenhouse in here.

We need to get the doc back. We need to get the doc back now.

And if we can't? I'm done. I'll see to that. Not just with the presidency, but

with my wife, my girls.

Rittenhouse plays by different rules.

Do you understand who they are? How deep I'm in with Ritten?

Did you hear what President Nixon just said, Lucy?

I'm sorry. I didn't hear that.

Rittenhouse. I guess it's not so much my paranoid delusion anymore, is it?

This document Nixon wants. I don't know anything about it.

I don't know what he's talking about, okay?

I believe you.

I even looked in here. I couldn't find anything about this document.

What's that?

Oh, this is Lucy's journal.

What, she never told you about it?

What's he talking about? I didn't write it. Well, it's complicated. You see, she

is going to write it a few years from now.

What? I know, time travel, right?

It's my guide.

Apparently... She and I are going to be quite the team one day. It's not real.

It's a fake.

Lucy, we've talked about this. You even admitted it's your own handwriting. No.

I said it looked like my handwriting. Not that I ever wrote it or ever will.

But you did talk to Flynn?

When?

Let's see.

Train station in 1865. The Nazi castle in Germany.

Lucy, what have you told him about us?

Is that true?

The truth is not complicated.

I don't know what the truth is anymore.

Okay, the truth is she didn't believe in Rittenhouse until President Nixon just

confirmed it.

But for now, if Rittenhouse wants this document so badly, whatever it is, I

want it first.

How are we supposed to find it? There's one thing you've proven.

It's your resourcefulness.

You'll find a way.

If you don't bring me the document in five hours... You'll kill me.

Why don't you do it now? Save everyone some time.

What's up to you?

Go straight to the lifeboat.

Screw Flynn. Do not give him what he wants.

Five hours don't hurt him. Lucy.

Lucy, damn it, listen to me!

Don't! Lucy!

This is bad. This is very bad. How could you not tell me and Wyatt about the

journal? It's not real. You don't know that. Not with all the mind trippy crap

going on around here. Rufus.

Lucy, if it is, who knows what Flynn knows about us? Maybe we're playing into

his hands right now. You don't think we deserve to know that? Our jobs aren't

dangerous enough. I'm sorry.

I should have told you.

But God, Rufus, it can't be real because... I mean, if it is the things

that it says that I'm going to do... Have you ever had a secret that just

scared the living hell out of you?

Now, please, can we just... Can we just save Wyatt?

What about the documents? How do we even start?

We know they're connected to Watergate.

I have an idea.

Remember how to use a payphone?

We'll call every William M. Felt in the D.C. area until we find Mark Felt. Mark

Felt? Who's that?

Mark Felt, Deep Throat.

Secret informant.

Follow the money, Deep Throat. I know the porn one. Seriously?

He was associate director of the FBI.

Deep Throat was his cover name. He tips off two reporters, Woodward and

Bernstein, about Watergate. Breaks open the entire case. If anybody knows about

this document, it'll be him.

Well, if he's such a secret informant, what makes you think he's going to talk

to us?

Because, except for Woodward and Bernstein, nobody knows his identity for

30 years.

But we do.

Go.

Hi, this is Rufus Carlin. Do you know who I am?

I'm from, um... Jeez, how do I explain this?

Report.

Garcia Flynn stole the tape from the White House. We didn't have a chance to

stop him. Nixon was on it. He sounded terrified about Rittenhouse mentioning

something about a document.

Destroy the doc.

How? I'm not... I don't... I don't have it.

What do you do?

Understand?

Understand.

I found him. He agreed to meet with us. Let's go.

Deep Throat, here we come.

Over there.

Mr. Felt, we're the ones that called you. From the Times?

You said you have some files on J. Edgar Hoover?

Actually, no. We wanted to ask you about the Watergate hotel break-in.

No, I only came... I don't know anything about the Watergate. Yes, you do.

You talked to Bob Woodward at the Washington Post about it just yesterday.

Your secret's safe with him, but not with us.

If you don't answer our questions, we'll blow you cover to anyone who'll listen.

That'll ruin me.

Please, all I want... As president, we're placed by the same rules as

everyone else. Now, is that too much to ask? I know you're trying to do the

right thing. So are we.

But you gotta tell us what you know.

Now, the burglars were looking for a specific document at the Watergate. I

don't know anything about that.

Well, we'll spell your name right on the front page.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

nixon's fingerprints are all over the burglary but they hired total amateurs

to do it now they got caught breaking into the dnc headquarters but first they

broke into a hotel room one floor up what i've never heard that why would you

the investigators find anything at the hotel they barely investigated someone

called them off it i don't know who did they find anything only a crumpled piece

of paper in the trash there's anything written on it nothing written Just had a

weird symbol of a fist with what looked like horns.

Did you recognize it? Never saw it before in my life.

Did it look like this?

Yes.

Who the hell are you people?

It's safer for everyone if we don't say names.

And make sure you keep talking to Woodward, or we'll find out.

It's gotta be hard.

You know as well as I do, a soldier is only as good as the guy beside him in

the foxhole.

And if your own team is lying to you... Mm, yeah.

Wow, you are really Jedi mind-tricking the crap out of me, pal.

You really think this psych routine's gonna work?

Not a routine, Wyatt.

We're two grunts in the same war.

The only difference is, lately, you're fighting on the wrong side.

I just wish you could understand that. Well, make me understand.

No, no, no, I'm serious.

We're just, uh, sitting here.

Two grunts, right? So... explain to me how you're not just some creepy

sociopath. I've got nothing to hide.

Not like Lucy.

Two years ago, my old pals at the NSA outsourced some surveillance to the

group I worked with.

wanted it off the books, standard stuff, evade security, retrieve and review some

corporate financials. Thrilling.

Well, not until I stumbled onto huge sums of money being funneled through the

Caymans to a world-renowned tech mogul, Connor Mason, to help him achieve his

latest ambition, time travel.

Is that so?

Where did the money come from? Hard to tell.

But once I broke the encryption,

One name kept popping up, Rittenhouse.

That's right, Rittenhouse bankrolls Connor Mason.

So I flagged these transfers to my NSA contact, and he

said he'd take care of it.

But he didn't.

Oh, but he did.

Four nights later, I'm home asleep when my

wife gets up.

In the middle of the night, go check on our little girl. She thought she heard

her coughing.

We call them silencers, but they're not that silent.

Not at night.

Not when it's two shots murdering your family.

You didn't fight back.

were flying and i barely made it out alive and then written house framed me

for all of it and i found myself on the run but it was all written house

just because i asked a single question and that's who

they are look if any of this were true

you have a time

Why don't you just go back and save your family?

Like how you want to save your wife?

You know the rules as well as I do. Can't go back to any time I already

exist. And since I don't know who put the hit out to begin with, I'm going to

just wipe Rittenhouse from the map.

And once I do, who knows?

Maybe one day I'll come back and my girls will be there again.

We only have three hours left to get this document.

Are you sure this is the symbol for the Black Liberation Army?

Positive. It's an obscure BLA calling card. See?

Right there. This is the B.C. Chapter's unofficial headquarters.

Ran by Gregory Hayes.

How do you know all this? I mean, I don't even know this stuff.

Gregory Hayes and Eldridge Cleaver, the founder of the BLA, have read everything

about these guys. Kind of went through a militant phase back in college.

Really? Yeah.

As in I had a militant crush on a militant girl.

Ah.

If this document is at all linked to the BLA, Gregory Hayes should know about it.

You should probably wait outside.

You should be fine. Just, um, don't make any eye contact.

Can I get a Miller Lite?

What you mean, Lite?

Hey, uh, Mr. Miller, then.

Listen, man, I need to talk to Gregory.

I never heard of him.

Come on, man. I know he's here.

I'm with you, brother.

What the hell was that, brother?

You better get out of here before I throw you out.

you do that and you'll be making a hell of a mistake now i need to talk to

gregory about the watergate and the duck

hello

hi oh no sir can i just

And what makes you think I know anything about any doc?

What are you accusing me of? No, I am not accusing you of anything, Mr. Hayes.

Stop calling me Mr. Hayes. Sorry. Stop apologizing, Kanye.

Y'all ever hear a name like Kanye?

Sounds made up. You a fed?

No way. Talks like a fed, walks like a fed. No, I am not a fed. Right, like you

would just admit it.

You got ten seconds before we beat you into a coma, Kanye.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay.

Wait.

I'm here for Cleaver.

Eldridge. Eldridge Cleaver, the man we all work for.

He wants the dog.

I ain't talked to him in eight months. Well, that's because he's been laying

low.

He's in exile, so he sent me. That's some first rate. He said Gregory is my

best friend. He'll do anything to help you.

I've known Cleaver since we were peas.

And he ain't never asked me to help him.

Not once.

You don't know Cleaver. Get him out of here. No, wait, wait, wait. No, I don't

know Cleaver. Okay, you guys used to work together back in the Oakland days,

right? How many times did he make you watch that damn Hollywood and Go-Go TV

show? I was reading Voltaire and Netscheth, how he beat your ass in hall.

Remember that?

You made him promise not to tell anybody. Well, he told me.

So, do I know Cleaver or not?

Okay, Kanye.

Let's go.

Where we going?

Let's get you what you came for.

Two hours left.

I wonder if your friends are going to make it. Well, why don't you look in

that magical future book? It should tell you.

Doesn't say.

But it told you to come to 1972.

It has an entry on the erased Nixon tape. Yes. So how's this end?

Do you kill me? Am I rescued?

What's the point spread in the next Super Bowl? Who's playing?

I don't know what happens today because the journal doesn't tell me everything.

Lucy didn't write out everything.

And what is written does sometimes sound crazy, like a different Lucy.

Yeah, Lucy's the one that sounds crazy.

You want to know what she wrote about you?

About your wife?

My wife's dead.

Some big secret. Wow, by the time Lucy writes this thing, she knows a lot more

than that.

Let's see.

You were out with Jessica.

That's her name, right?

At that dive bar.

What is it?

Pelican Lounge in San Diego.

She ran into an old boyfriend at the bar.

You were jealous. You drank too much. As you were driving home, you had a major

fight. Started shouting. She told you to stop the car. She got out right there on

the side of the road.

And you drove off.

Shut the hell up. It took you, what, only 20 minutes until you cooled down,

came back for her? By then, she was gone.

Never came home that night.

Or any night.

Not until two weeks later, when they found her strangled in the bushes.

Never even caught her dead. Shut the hell up!

Listen to this.

Wyatt's obsessed with his wife's death.

He needs to let go, move on. Lucy's words, not mine.

Me?

I understand more than most.

You can't let go.

Because we can change history.

And somehow, some way, we can save the people we love.

White girl's fine and all, but she don't look like she down for the cause much,

brother. Well, that's just my piece on the side.

Hey, get your stuff together.

Folks will see to pick you up.

Meet the doc.

She been in a little rattle here the last few days, but, uh...

Give her a minute. She's all yours.

You weren't supposed to be here till next weekend.

Change of plans.

But you are a Panther, right?

And you are going to drive me to San Diego?

Yes.

We are going to drive you.

Why don't you pick up Lori Partridge?

Good one.

Excuse me.

Um, that's a person.

I see that.

I mean, I guess it makes sense. I mean, Nixon never said document on the tapes.

He said doc.

So what, we're just supposed to turn her over to Flynn? If we don't, Wyatt's

dead.

I'm

closing

the scene.

Can I help you?

I'm Lucy, by the way.

Why did they call you Doc?

I got a PhD in history, University of Chicago.

That's crazy. I worked in that department for a year under Old Man

McNeil. Old Man?

Professor McNeil is 38.

Right. Yeah, that's just a nickname.

But still, the... The way that he points.

To make every point.

Yeah, that's him, all right.

Look at us now.

Sure making the most of our degrees, huh?

So, uh... How long have you been here?

A couple days.

Was staying at the Watergate, but had to split.

Some guys broke in there, looking for me.

Rittenhouse, you mean?

What do you know about them?

Not much.

I'm trying to get more info.

Why are they after you?

Because I left.

Left Riddenhouse.

You're telling me you're a member?

I never joined.

I was born into it.

Most of us are, going back generations.

Why did you leave?

I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have.

Who is Rittenhouse?

Please.

Tell me. I might be mixed up with them, too, and I'm scared. I am.

I am really scared.

You should be.

They control all of us.

Look, I don't know everything.

No one does.

One part never knows what the other parts are doing.

What was your part? Give the roster.

No one knows the full membership rule except for the leadership in me. So you

were the bookkeeper? No books.

Members' names are never written down.

It's all up here.

Every member since the founding in 1778.

Report.

The doc is not a document.

The doc is a woman.

Destroy the doc.

Did you hear me? I said the doc.

It's a person.

The dock needs to be destroyed.

You want me to kill someone?

I can't do that. No way.

Get me the address.

We'll do it for you.

Who the hell was that?

Almost ready.

Maybe I can tell them the recording device shorted out or that it was

destroyed. Maybe they'll believe that. Wait, they who?

Rittenhouse?

You've been taping us for them?

I didn't have a choice.

They're at my brother's basketball game. What? Trust me, it is bad.

Rufus, what do you know about them?

I don't know anything.

They just told me to record our trips. That's all I did, I swear.

and comprehend the trouble that you put us in.

I mean, who knows what they heard us say on those recordings.

I'm not the one who was having chats across history with Flynn. So that makes

it okay? And by the way, you were the one giving me crap when you were holding

out at this all time.

I've barely been able to sleep.

Barely been able to eat. They have been messing with my car while I am driving

it. They threatened my family. You don't understand.

What do you mean?

I don't turn her into Rittenhouse. They're gonna kill me or my family.

If we don't give her to Flynn, he'll kill Wyatt.

Look, we just have to trust each other.

Okay?

Figure it out. Rufus.

Hey, Flynn.

Let's just say, uh, if I believed you, Big If.

And Rittenhouse really is that dangerous.

Yeah? Well, there's got to be a way to take him out without destroying America.

I mean, what you're doing, it's kind of scorched earth, don't you think?

Well, Rittenhouse and America are so intertwined, sometimes it's hard to tell

one from the other.

They're a cancer.

There's no other choice to save the body.

You have to attack the body.

Well, then that settles it.

I guess you really are a creepy sociopath.

Yeah, I have the doc come pick her up

And

that's all

the time we have Lucy called the payphone

What did she say?

I still don't understand.

Okay, there is this scary guy, Garcia Flynn, and he is after you. Why?

Same reason Rittenhouse is, for the things that you know.

So you decided to call Rittenhouse and this Flynn and tell them where I was?

Exactly. Send them both to the house, have them turn on each other.

Which saves us some time, but not much. To do what? Save our friend. Come on,

let's hurry.

What? We've been played.

That's what.

Oh my god, are you okay? Yeah, he's coming back soon. There's a nail in the

trash can. Get it.

Okay, I got it.

What are you doing?

You can't pick a lock. I was just trying to be helpful. Put it in my hand. Okay.

You good?

Yeah, I'll live.

I called Hayes. He should be here any minute.

Thank you for helping me.

You know, you asked me why I was running from, you know... This is why.

Is that your family?

What happened to them?

They're okay. At least I think they are.

Made it to Hong Kong, headed north from there. It's been almost a year.

Once my son was born, I... I just couldn't let him be born into a trap and

a... All this the way that I was.

And now I'm gonna see him again.

You're not so bad.

I mean, if you are a Lloyd Partridge.

I gotta go. Okay.

You good?

Uh-huh.

We should split. Cleaver wants you to drive to San Diego personally. And once

you're there, make sure she makes it on her boat. You dig?

I dig.

Don't stop for anyone. Don't talk to anyone. Don't know who you can trust.

Okay?

Thank you.

Take care.

Garcia Flint found us.

We escaped, but we got separated. We lost Doc. We tried to find her in a

chaos, but no go.

I'm really sorry about that.

Goodbye.

Look, White, you gotta say something sometime.

I'm really sorry, but...

I didn't have a choice. Rittenhouse made me spy on you. You're gonna keep spying

on us. Keep recording Lucy and me. What?

All of us will act like everything is normal.

Why would we do that?

Because Rufus is gonna be spying on Rittenhouse for us.

Whatever you find out about them, you're gonna tell me.

We're gonna figure out what the hell's going on here. You got it?

Like a double agent.

I can barely single agent. Yeah, well, congrats on the undeserved promotion.

Guess you're gonna learn on the job. And you?

You're no better in a fight like this you were only as good as the guy next to

you and you both like me Don't trust either of you

Finding any record of the doc?

Couldn't find a thing.

Hopefully she's still alive out there with her husband and child.

Looks like we're good, right?

Tell me it's all gonna be okay.

Welcome back, Rufus.

Eventful trip, was it?

I've been wanting to ask you a question for 44 years.

What happened that day?

44 years?

I believe he's asking how on earth Garcia Flynn managed to ambush

Rittenhouse security back in 1972.

He may suspect you had something to do with it.

Why did Flynn show up at that house? Why does Flynn do anything he does?

I don't know.

On your final report, are you sure you were being forthcoming?

There was a quiver in your voice.

You heard my final report?

Who do you think was on the other end of that phone?

Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk

with you again Because a vision softly

creeping Left its seeds while I was

Hi.

Is there a Benjamin Cahill here?

Dad, some lady's here for you.

Hello.

I'm Benjamin Cahill.

I'm sorry, I, uh...

I was supposed to deliver something for a friend and I think I got the wrong

address. Sorry to bother you.

Guess

who

just showed up at my house?