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Previously on Timeless. Letting Flynn murder through time?

That's madness.

In the beginning, I thought it was important that it could hopefully even

bring my wife back to me. But no matter what I do, nothing gets better.

Hello, beautiful.

You're engaged to some doctor you don't even know. Britain House is in control

of Mason Industries.

We'll have the capability to pinpoint anyone, anywhere.

Anytime you want. What you are a part of is inhuman. Rittenhouse isn't a choice.

It's blood. Your grandfather, Ethan Cahill, he's still alive.

He ran away when he was told.

His father was an aide in the White House. I remember that.

Did he happen to mention Rittenhouse? Yeah, something about a summit in D.C.

in 1954.

Oh, my God.

Rufus. We gotta get him to a hospital.

You have to get us back. We don't know how. You got this, Rufus. Come on. What?

Oh, my God!

All clear.

No monsters.

Safe to go to sleep, okay?

But I'm not tired. Oh, what else is new?

But what if the monsters come when I'm sleeping?

Well, then I'll protect you, okay?

I'll always protect you.

Two guys just bailed. Which ones?

Carl and the guy with the big neck.

Well, can you blame them? Just one more mission was all I asked. All of

Rittenhouse in one room, and we end this.

Like we did in Paris in 27 and Chicago in 31. So what?

You want to walk out on me too?

No.

Just want to make sure you don't kill me like you killed Anthony.

You did it, Rufus.

You got us home.

He's lost a lot of blood.

That bullet's pretty deep.

Maybe we should have taken him to a hospital. No, no hospitals.

I've written a house.

They could find us.

I know who we can call.

All right.

Amazingly, from what I can see, it looks like there's no serious damage to his

internal organs. He's gonna be okay?

He was shot.

Lucy, I treated him in a warehouse in Oakland without a medical history, blood

work. He's stable, but you need to get him to a hospital. Gotta talk soon as we

can. As soon as we... I think you gotta do better than that, actually.

So I am seriously not supposed to ask any questions right now? I get that

you're pissed you have every right to be, but... You disappear for days. Your

mother calls me nonstop. We didn't know if something... We were checking local

hospitals, Lucy.

I'm sorry.

And then when you do call, you're dressed like friggin' Jackie O. You got

someone's blood on you. And even then, it's like, patch this guy up and get the

hell out of here. It is not safe for you to be here right now, and I just... You

have to go. I'm sorry. Stop saying you're sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know

what else to say. Explain it to me. I can't.

I can't.

What happened to you, Lucy?

It's like someone stole my fiancé and replaced her with... whatever this is.

Lucy, this isn't you. See, that is the thing, Noah.

This is me.

That person that you knew, that person that you fell in love with, that wasn't

me. That was someone else. And I wish that I could explain how or why, but I

can't. But I will never be that person.

That's because of that guy.

Wyatt?

No.

No.

Noah, you are incredible.

And you deserve to be with someone who makes you happy, but... It's just, it's

not me.

When did you guys get here?

Just now. Were you followed?

Wasn't easy getting Gia out of there, but no, we're all right. Hey, guys?

We have a problem.

The CPU just lit up like a Christmas tree. Flynn just jumped to 1954 DC.

What's 1954 DC?

That's what Capone was talking about. Some Rittenhouse summit.

Flynn figures he'll get all these Rittenhouse dicks in one place, take him

out once and for all.

He knows without Rufus, we can't chase him.

You sure we shouldn't just let Flynn do it?

Believe me, part of me wants to. Really?

This is the guy that just tried to have Rufus killed. He's rabid. He needs to be

put down. But it doesn't mean that he's wrong.

Okay, well then, how do we stop them?

Rufus? Are you okay to drive?

Totally. Awesome.

I was only spinning a little. No. Okay.

What about you?

Can you help Rufus be his co-pilot? What?

I've logged over 60 hours in the simulator.

But I've, like, I've died a lot. Oh, my God. Forget about it. The lifeboat's

only meant to carry three people. Okay, well, what happens with four? Oh, well,

let me just check Wikipedia for sending additional organism through a wormhole.

Got something on the security camera. I thought you said you weren't followed.

Those aren't government vehicles.

It's Rittenhouse.

Get in the lifeboat. I'll hold them off. Rufus, I'm sorry. We gotta go.

I'm coming. You can't. You can barely stand, much less fly. We don't have a

choice.

It's funny how things work, Ed. Days ago, you were strutting about my

offices, treating me like a peasant in my own kingdom.

How does it feel to be on the other end of the stick?

Unlike my attorney.

I'll get right on that.

I can't believe you made it.

That was...

Everyone all right?

What? Yep.

No more seasick than usual.

Okay, uh, any ideas where this Rittenhouse summit could be?

If I had to pick a place to start, I'd start with Joe McCarthy.

McCarthy thought that there were communists everywhere.

State department, writers, journalists.

He's in the middle of his most famous hearings looking for Reds in the Army.

The guy's practically wearing a giant neon sign that says Rittenhouse.

Okay, Rufus, you stay here.

Hey, guys, not to sound like my mom, but is that what you're wearing?

Listen, I'm a busy man.

You know a communist spy in the military, you tell one of my aides.

Well, I'll tell you what I told them, that I only trust the great Senator Joe

McCarthy himself.

Where's that accent from, son?

Look, I'll tell you what I know, but first I need to find out something from

you where the Rittenhouse Summit is tonight.

What are you talking about? Oh, come on. I think you're, uh... How do you like to

put it? A card-carrying member?

I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't have time for this nonsense.

Well, if you'll excuse me... I wouldn't.

Unless you want your enemies to find out you faked 32 aerial missions to get that

fancy flying cross on your wall. That's a lie.

Not so fun being on the other side of a witch hunt, is it?

Now, the address, please.

If I tell you... I'm a dead man. No one will ever find out.

Scout's honor.

On the other hand, if you don't give it to me...

I

don't deserve this.

Crooked press attacks me. People laughing at me.

Enemies everywhere.

I'm a patriot.

Everyone's the hero of their own story.

Like you?

Going after Rittenhouse?

You'll never win, son.

I won't see about that.

I think we're done here.

Not quite.

I promised you some information.

Ah, man, on my word.

Here are your spies.

I dig the 50s.

I don't know. A bunch of racist, repressed war cleavers. This whole place

is a powder keg.

But the cars are cool.

Oh, yeah.

A word, please.

Yeah, can I help you?

FBI.

Russian. Okay, you just planted that on me. We heard two commies were here to

disrupt the McCarthy hearings.

So, I guess this is what recycling looks like in the 50s.

Sorry I'm missing the fun part with Wyatt and Lucy.

What? Your eye.

It's red.

I was rubbing it. No, no. It's like super, like, spaghetti sauce red.

What if this is because we put four people in the lifeboat? Or it's a

bloodshot eye.

Don't worry.

Your Wyatt's fine.

And I take it Rufus has recovered, too.

I just wanted you to know when... I destroy Rittenhouse tonight, and I will.

That also includes your grandfather, Ethan Cahill, which means, honestly,

I'm not sure what's going to happen to you, but whatever it is, it's probably

not good.

Why are you telling me this?

I thought you deserved the truth.

So you told me. What do you want from me, my blessing? I don't want anything

from you. You don't want anything from me.

Because I think you do. I think deep down there's some part, some human part

of you that wants me to stop you.

God, I swear this game that we keep playing.

Nobody wins, nobody loses, people keep dying. What's the body count so far? And

for what? Okay, now's the time where you tell me what a monster I am. I don't

think you're a monster anymore. I used to.

But now I just think that you're sad.

And you're lonely.

I think you're a broken person.

Who misses the people that they love just like me, just like Wyatt.

Don't talk about my family like you know them.

You want to stop written house, we'll help you, but not like this.

How?

You don't know.

Because there is no other way.

Goodbye, Lucy.

I'm Senator Joseph McCarthy.

You're a communist spy.

Where's the woman?

Your wife is fine.

I've suspected a communist infiltration among our troops for some time now.

Never imagined one would be so bold as to...

Walk right up to my front door. Really?

The man with the Eastern European accent told you I was the communist?

Communism.

It's like a cancer.

Something funny?

No, no, it's just cancer.

Who are you working with?

You cooperate now, you give us their names.

You give us those names, or I'll put you up in front of a Senate subcommittee.

No, you won't.

Because you're a coward.

You're arrogant and loudmouthed and terrified people will find out you're a

fraud.

Just like every bully.

Gentlemen.

Why don't we show our red friend here some manners?

We should go.

Do I even want to know what happened to McCarthy?

Well, he'll be fine in an hour or two.

This is the only way out, so they gotta be here.

What?

Only problem is, now we're gonna have to find a new way to the summit.

I saw Flynn.

He said that my grandfather was going to be there.

Ethan Cahill?

My mother told me that she met him once, that he was a White House aide.

I mean, if he's going to the summit... We can follow him.

Go ahead.

Glow it away. It'll pass the time. I'd love to, but time isn't something we

have a lot of right now.

You need to come with me.

Why the hell would I go anywhere with you? Because I've disabled the security

systems, and the guards still work for me. They'll look the other way.

Trust me. I'll take my chances.

With what?

There's no due process here.

Please, come with me, or let your family spend the rest of their lives wondering

what happened to you.

What is all this?

Right. In their haste to find our rogue team and get the lifeboat back,

Rittenhouse handed me an all-access pass to government servers.

I am the government, remember?

Not your pathetic servers, which, by the way, get hacked by the Russians on a

regular basis. No, the other servers.

The ones no one talks about. You mean the NSA?

That's... Illegal.

Immoral, yes. Well, you can thank me later.

But... Instead of searching for our intrepid time travelers, I found this.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Benjamin Cahill.

Enough to convict him seven times over.

See, anyone, even you, can play the crusading cop, but I was playing the

long game.

Rittenhouse thinks we were playing checkers while I was playing 3D chess.

Why are you telling me all this?

Because you're dull, but honest.

So you can take this to the dull, honest authorities? Why should I believe you

after everything you've done?

Because once Gia can pilot the lifeboat, Rittenhouse are going to eliminate

Rufus. See, I have no illusions about

who I am.

Whatever's coming, I richly deserve it.

But Rufus...

Rufus deserves better.

Rufus is a lot faster at that by the way.

Okay, grandpa, where are you going?

Is it just me or is Rittenhouse way more gay than I thought it would be?

I don't think this is a Rittenhouse summit.

I think this might be a gay bar.

Well, then what is your grandpa at home?

Wyatt.

Do you copy, Wyatt?

Would you sit down? You're gonna bust your stitches.

I can't reach Wyatt. Yeah, that's because he's got more important things

to worry about than me. Look, it's not even right anymore, see?

What do you think Lucy and Wyatt are doing right now? It's probably a lot

like Grease, just super violent.

Gia. Gia!

So if you exist, that means Grandpa was, like, way deep in the closet.

It's 1954.

You'd be arrested for being gay.

He's looking at me like I'm a piece of meat.

I can't imagine what that's like.

Excuse me, are you Ethan? Ethan Cahill?

No, sorry, you're mistaken.

No, we're not cops.

I don't know what you think you saw here, but I have a wife and a son to get

back to. We know.

His name is Ben?

And how do you know that?

Okay, how much do you want? I've got about $50.

We don't want any of your money.

We need you to take us to the Rittenhouse Summit.

So you're the one always begging to time travel. How's that working out for you?

Gia, please.

You know, since all this started, I have almost died.

A lot.

Every time I think about you.

I swear, each time that when I got back, I would tell you how I felt that.

That I love you.

Then I'd come home, and something stopped me. I'd get stupid.

Scared.

So how about we make a deal?

Okay?

You promised to hang on.

And I promised to stop holding back.

Just... Please.

You look familiar to me.

My father is in Rittenhouse.

Maybe you've met him before.

This man, Flynn, he wants to kill everyone at Rittenhouse.

Why? Rittenhouse murdered his family.

If Rittenhouse finds out the truth about me... They'll kick you out? They'll kill

me, too.

I love my wife.

I love my son. It's just...

It's a bad habit.

It's a sick habit.

I keep trying to stop. I tried the shock therapy.

It's just... There's nothing wrong with you, Nathan.

Nothing.

No, she's right for what it's worth.

Who are you people?

The people you can trust.

When I was 18, my father caught me with a friend.

And after he spent the better part of an hour whipping me with his belt, he sat

me down and told me all about Rittenhouse.

At the time, I thought I'd rather he beat me all over again than be part of

something like that.

If this man does destroy all of Rittenhouse, I might thank him.

This is it.

Where do you think Flynn is?

I hope he's trying to take out the police.

Probably the basement.

I need you to distract the guards.

Just the ones at the back door. You think you can do that?

Yeah.

Flynn.

Lucy! Wyatt, please.

I'm not here to fight.

I want to help you.

Drop it, Flynn. I'm going to blow this place up with all of us in it, and it'll

be worth it. Stop! Stop! Both of you, just stop it.

I know that you're not a bad man.

I know that you're hurting.

I know you don't want to kill a room full of people upstairs.

I don't want to kill them. I have to kill them.

To put my wife and child back on this earth.

It won't work.

You don't know that, and both of you do the same.

You're right.

You're right, we would.

We are all so caught up in our grief, in our past, in our pain, and we can't let

go.

So we just continue to hurt more people.

I prayed to God for answers.

And he led me here to this.

What if he led you to me?

I know a way that we can really...

Take out Riddenhouse.

We have to stop trying to fix the past and focus on the present.

I need you to hear me out.

I know what to do now. Please, before it's too late.

The journal... didn't say that I was going to help you one day.

Well, maybe today is that day.

Wyatt, do you trust me?

Thank God.

Thank God you're here. We gotta get Gia back home. She's in a lifeboat.

Something happened to her. What?

What are you talking about?

What the hell is Flynn doing here?

No, no, Rufus. It's okay. No, it's not okay.

All right? He had Al Capone shoot me. Rufus, he's not here to hurt you. No,

not this time. I'm not.

Rufus, this is Ethan Cahill.

Ethan, this is Rufus.

He pilots the time machine.

And we're from 2017.

Is this a joke?

It's a film prop, right?

You're all insane.

Look, we gotta get Gia back home now.

Okay, you guys, go ahead, get Gia back. I have to stay here.

What are you talking about? What do you mean? I'll go with Flynn and the

mothership.

I need Ethan to see this thing in action. Lucy, no.

No way.

Look, we already lost you once. I cannot lose you again.

You trusted me this long.

I just need you to do it a little longer, okay? Get Gia back.

If you hurt her... What?

Try and kill me again?

Be careful.

Okay.

It'll be okay.

That's a time machine.

It's real, Ethan.

All of it.

But there's more.

More than that.

Ethan.

I'm your granddaughter.

That's why I look so familiar to you.

I know that sounds even crazier. My mother.

You're the spitting image of her when she was young.

Your son, Ben, is going to grow up to be my father.

He's also going to grow up to do terrible things in the name of

Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse wants that time machine.

Can you even imagine what they do at something like that?

What are you asking?

No one can take out Rittenhouse. We believe that we can, but we need your

help.

It's not going to be easy.

You have to stay inside Rittenhouse. You're going to have to live a double

life, your whole life.

What do you want me to do?

Ethan never mentioned a granddaughter before.

Well, we haven't seen each other in a few years, but it seems like no time at

all.

Go ahead.

Hi, Ethan.

Remember us?

Lucy.

I didn't think you'd come.

I'd almost given up.

Sorry it took us so long.

Oh, this is incredible.

You look exactly the same.

Both of you.

The 60s rolled by, the 70s. Sometimes I wondered if I had dreamt it all.

You have no idea how often I considered running.

So what stopped you?

Well, the day my son told me that he'd fathered a child. A little girl named

Lucy.

That must have been so hard.

You want to know if I did what you asked me to do?

Son, can you pick up that clock over there?

That's all?

Open it.

I didn't just keep records of Rittenhouse.

He built this entire case.

Yeah.

I come in peace.

It's all right.

He's with us.

Yeah? Are you sure about that?

I didn't believe it either at first, but he got me out of Mason Industries.

Somewhere underneath all that smarm, there's an actual heart.

Oh, that's lovely.

Thank you.

Lucy, you weren't kidding on the phone. Look at all this stuff.

Everything that we could possibly need.

But just sort it, to authenticate it with hard evidence that...

Could take years.

Or hours, with my software.

You give me the Rittenhouse names, I'll give you every phone call they've made,

every email they've ever sent, every willy-pick they've ever sexted.

Would that help?

How you doing?

Uh, we both know whatever happened to me isn't anything they can fix here.

Okay, take it easy there, tough guy.

We're just gonna sit and watch season two?

The 18 minutes entirety, you got it?

Your roof was back in 54.

I couldn't open my eyes, but I heard everything you said.

What'd I say?

I've been waiting 60 years to tell you.

I love you too.

Shia?

Shia?

Shia?

Shia, Shia, Shia!

Where'd you go?

Excuse me, gentlemen.

You've been reassigned.

But thank you for your service.

You have the right to remain silent. What is this?

You alone?

I said I would be.

Did you have it?

It was in Ethan's files.

It's the name of the person who put the order out to kill your family and the

men who carried it out.

Go on one last trip, get your wife and your daughter back, and then surrender

the mothership or destroy it. I don't care.

This... It's over.

Once I get my family back, I never want to see that machine again.

I almost forgot.

This is for you.

You know, you never told me where you got it from.

You gave it to me.

Uh,

no, I didn't.

Not yet.

Take it from me.

You age surprisingly well.

What are you talking about? On your knees!

Let me see your hands.

Hands behind your back.

You followed me? He's a terrorist, Lucy. Just think about what he's done. Think

about what we've done.

No, no. I trusted you, Lucy. I trusted you with my family. I trusted you with

my child. I had no idea.

Are you sorry?

You're sorry?

You have no idea what you've done?

Good news.

We've made 42 Rittenhouse arrests across the globe just today. Brings our total

to 150.

A few are in government. A surprising number are corporate lawyers.

And our agents are on their way right now to pick up the mothership.

We should both be very proud.

And Glenn?

I mean, in the end, he did do the right thing, too. He'll be tried in a private

military court.

Everything will be by the book, you have my word. God, we couldn't have at least

let him save his family first.

I'm not going to apologize for doing my job, especially considering the lengths

I had to go to to keep our bargain.

But a deal is a deal.

I've secured permission for you to take the lifeboat out one more time.

Get your mom and Henry Wallace together.

Get your sister back.

So, what about you? You just go back to Pendleton and take up another mission?

That's how it works.

Hey.

Thank you.

Thank you for everything.

Yeah, we'll stay in touch.

I'll call you if I ever need a bossy know-it-all.

Yeah, I was thinking about texting you the next time that I need a reckless

hothead. Sounds good.

You know, maybe, um, maybe Pendleton can wait a little bit.

You think I'm gonna miss the chance to help you get your sister?

See what all this fuss is about?

I'm really sorry that you won't be able to get Jessica back.

Maybe we do need to stop trying to fix the past.

Start looking at the present.

Maybe I do need to be open to the possibilities.

Possibilities? What?

I don't know.

I just know I'm not really ready to say goodbye yet.

Ah, the lifeboat will be charged and ready to go in three hours, my friends.

We told Rufus I'll be back in an hour. There's just one thing I have to do

first.

Hey, Mom.

Oh, Lucy.

Oh, thank God.

It's been days. Where have you been?

I have to tell you something. You can tell me anything.

Come here.

Here, just... Here.

Here you go.

All right.

You're gonna think I'm insane, but you deserve the truth.

I'm listening.

Connor Mason invented a time machine, and it's real.

Time travel is real.

And when I went on my first mission, I went to the Hindenburg in 1937, and when

I left...

I had a sister, and when I came back, she was gone.

Lucy, a sister? Yes, I have a sister. You have another daughter, and her name

is Amy, and she is smart, and she is funny, and she has a degree in sociology

and a black belt in karate, which is super weird, and she has no idea what

she wants to do with her life, but oh, my God, does she know how to live it,

and she is my best friend.

Lucy, this person doesn't exist. Yes, this person does exist.

If you could remember the way that we were as a family, if you woke up one day

and I was suddenly gone, you would have to do the same thing. Do what?

I have to get her back.

I have to get her back. And the problem is that in the timeline that Amy

existed, you were sick. You were very, you were very sick.

And I am going to do everything that I can to save you, but time travel is

super unpredictable, and I don't know if I'm going to be able to, so I just

wanted to tell you that I... I love you.

Sweetheart. Lucy, you won't lose me. I promise.

Rittenhouse would never allow it.

What? Wait, what?

Wait, what did you say?

Rittenhouse would never allow you to take the lifeboat to make me sick.

All to get back some girl that no one but you knows or even cares about? What

are you talking about?

How do you know the name Rittenhouse? Just listen. Just listen.

How do you think I met your father?

We both come from good, strong Rittenhouse families.

And that almost makes you royalty.

Sweetheart, you've made me so proud. You've made everybody so proud, and you

have such, such an incredible future.

And as we speak, Rittenhouse has an operative on the mothership, and soon

they will control everything.

The past and the present.

The future.

And together...

We will change history.