Timeless

Previously on Timeless...

Jake Neville, NSA.

This project's command was taken over

by the National Security Agency.

The agents in control of Mason Industries, they're Rittenhouse.

Jiya's there right now.

This is Rittenhouse we're talking about! They could kill her!

I have so many questions.

Scary Rittenhouse dude is your father?

The guy who's been terrorising me, that's your dad?

I will never be a part of this. Do you hear me?

Rittenhouse isn't a choice. It's your legacy.

I'm just a secretary.

Oh, don't sell yourself short.

I saw that drawing on your desk. You're very gifted.

I bet, one day, you'll do some remarkable things at Lockman.

Maria Thompkins was Flynn's mother.

What are we gonna do about Rittenhouse?

We fight.

How?

You've been warming this bench for the past two hours.

Look, I was about to step out for my fantasy football draft,

but I can't leave you here looking like this.

House rules.

So, a penny for your thoughts?

Might make you a millionaire, Father.

The rectory could use an upgrade.

My wife was the practicing Catholic.

She'd drag me to mass once a month like clockwork.

I never really took it seriously myself.

And neither did I for the longest time.

I have a job.

In the beginning, I thought it was important,

that it could help a lot of people.

Hopefully, even bring my wife back to me.

But no matter what I do, nothing gets better.

If anything, it only gets worse.

I get it. But when times are tough,

you just gotta trust that God has a plan.

What if you could change that plan?

I don't follow.

What if you could, uh,

make a person

go left instead of right, backward instead of forward?

What if you had the power to change the course of history?

Does that mean, uh, nothing's meant to be?

Does that mean God's not there?

Would he stop me?

What are you asking?

I'm asking for absolution.

Guess this is what North Korea is like.

Listen, whatever happens, just do what they say.

Everything's gonna be fine.

Flynn made another jump?

So glad you could finally join us.

Miss Preston. Mr Carlin.

I, for one, am sick of waiting

for Garcia Flynn to dictate our actions.

No more playing defense.

We're gonna take the son of a bitch out once and for all.

How?

1962. Houston, Texas.

1962.

That's a year before the JFK assassination. But why Houston?

Do you remember Maria Thompkins?

Wyatt Logan met her during your NASA mission.

Garcia Flynn's mother? Yes, but what does she have to do with it?

In 1962, Thompkins was a 17-year-old

junior at Sam Houston High School.

The mission is to eliminate her.

Whoa! You can't be serious.

No, no, no, there is no way that we're doing it. She's innocent.

We don't expect either of you to pull the trigger.

Meet your new tactical commander, Sergeant Major Caleb Sullivan.

You just lead him to the front door,

and he'll take care of the rest.

Ma'am. Don't "Ma'am" me.

Okay, so you just want us to play

wingmen to the Terminator over there?

And you? You're fine with this?

You're just gonna stand there and let this happen?

Flynn's mother may be innocent,

but she still raised a monster.

And given your performances,

this may be the only way to get this done.

Forget it. We refuse.

You cannot make us do this.

This is not right.

Maybe I haven't been clear.

This operation has been green-lit at the highest levels.

It's a go.

You refuse,

we will charge you with aiding and abetting a wanted terrorist.

So, you can either spend the next few hours working for me,

or the next 10-15 years wishing you had.

That clear enough for you?

I'm sorry. Agent Neville's bedside manner

leaves something to be desired.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you're here.

You have to understand. Flynn is out of control.

If this one death can save hundreds...

Save Rittenhouse, you mean.

This is the murder of an innocent girl. Period.

He cares nothing about history, or collateral damage.

And what's his mother? What is she?

We need you on this trip.

You're our chosen historian. You always have been.

Go to hell. Lucy.

I know we're asking the unthinkable.

This isn't who you are.

And you have such a good heart and I admire that.

I'm proud of you.

I only ask that you do this one mission.

The next one

will be saving your sister.

I fully intend to honour the deal

you've made with Agent Christopher.

And I'm in a much better position

to do that than she could ever be.

That's what you want, isn't it?

More than anything.

This is new.

Hey, could you... "Could I," what?

Never mind.

Just so you know, you get a little queasy on re-entry.

Don't worry about me. I'm not your dance partner.

Are we here?

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Oh...

Holy... You did it!

Okay... Um...

Ooh...

I just have to reconfigure the coordinates.

Do you think Mason is going to be able to track us?

Not after what I did to his computers.

Wait a minute.

I've lost them. What do you mean "Lost them"?

They've jumped. They're no longer in...

Nothing's responding. Get them up.

Where in the hell are they?

The system's crashing. Damn.

Rufus.

I can try to run diagnostics...

Step away from the controls, Jiya.

Now! Did you know he was going to do this?

Did you? No! I swear!

Will somebody tell me what the hell is going on?

This is Rufus' doing. It's a computer worm.

We're dead in the water. We can't track the Lifeboat.

And Jiya's not to be trusted. She's sleeping with him.

Mason... Rufus thinks he's smarter than me.

All right, well, I'll handle this myself.

You get the hell out!

It's us! We're okay!

We made it. You did it?

You held the gun like I said, huh?

Yeah, pulled the trigger between breaths.

Rufus, you're a bad ass.

If by "Bad ass," you mean scared out of my mind.

Okay, so, we just stole a giant piece of top secret machinery

and made ourselves fugitives from the US Government.

All good. We did the right thing.

If Rittenhouse is running the shop,

they can't have the time machine.

Your sense of calm is super annoying.

Rufus, they can't track us? You shut them down?

Yeah, but it's only a matter of hours

before Mason is able to counteract the worm

and get the network back online.

How much time does that give us?

The Lifeboat's battery is drained after two jumps.

It'll need four hours to recharge, if it even can...

Okay. It's okay. It's all right.

One step at a time.

First step...

Let's go get your sister back.

What?

I think that's reckless.

Flynn is still out there...

With all due respect, ma'am.

We don't work for the government any more.

I think Lucy deserves a shot.

I'll start the charge.

Thank you.

Oh...

Thank you.

So what's the plan?

Okay, so, um...

We go to 1979, UC Berkeley.

And we make sure that my mom and Henry Wallace meet.

They always said that it was love at first sight.

They knew the minute that they laid their eyes on each other.

Well, let's go play Cupid.

Yeah.

It's Flynn.

He's jumped.

Where?

This guy says that he's got something of vital interest to you.

Frankie says you have something of vital interest to me.

These tax ledgers were seized