Waverider arrives in Norway, and Gideon brings them in to
land. The team confirms that they're still in 1975, and Rip goes through
Aldus' notebook. Kendra suggests that they go back in time and save
Aldus, and Rip warns that they can't go back and change events that they
were involved with. Gideon confirms that there is a large terrorist
meeting looking to buy illegal arms. The team figures that Len and Mick
can earn their keep, and Rip directs them to the fabrication room to get
suitable clothing.
As the team goes to the fabrication room,
Ray wants to come up with an infiltration plan. Len points out that he
doesn't have any experience in infiltrating criminal gatherings, and
insists on calling the shots. When Rip insists that he's in charge, Mick
reminds him that half of what he told them about the mission was lies,
and leave with Ray and Len.
The team approaches the warehouse
where the meeting is being held, and Sara points out that they don't
have credentials to get in. Len secretly takes another attendees invite
and presents it to the guard, and when the guard questions him, Martin
bluffs him and insists that they're very important people. The guard
lets them in and Len calls Jax, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl, who are outside.
Len contacts them by radio and says that once they get eyes on Savage,
they'll get him out when the sale is over. Among the attendees is Damien
Darhk of HIVE.
Len and Mick go one way, and Martin and Sara go
the other. They fail to spot Savage, and prepare to move out when the
seller calls everyone's attention. Savage takes the stage and they
realize that he's the seller, not a buyer. The immortal villain brings
out a nuclear missile and the auctioneer starts the bidding. The bidders
start shooting guns into the air to register their bid, while Savage
senses Hawkman and Hawkgirl. He wonders where Len's group is from, and
Martin realizes that they're attracting attention. Mick fires his gun
into the air, and they end up winning the bid. Damien comes over and
congratulates them, and wonders who Martin is. Savage comes over and
asks if there is a problem, and the auctioneer demands payment. Martin
questions whether the missile is workable, referring to "this era," and
Savage notices. The professor dismisses it as a figure of speech.
Outside, Jax and the others prepare for battle and charge in.
Meanwhile, Savage offers a 25% discount to the organization that brings.
Mick opens fire as his teammates attack the terrorists. The guard grabs
Martin, and the miniaturized Atom flies out of his pocket and attacks
the guard. He fights his way through the crowd and then enlarges and
knocks out more terrorists. Savage watches the fight from the stage and
smiles, and Hawkman and Hawkgirl fly down at him. He warns that they
can't apprehend him and stop a nuclear explosion at the same time, and
triggers the missile.
As Savage runs off, Jax runs in and
merges with Martin to become Firestorm. Atom enters the bomb and the
timer speeds up. Sara calls Firestorm down while Atom holds off the
guards, and it knocks off a piece of his suit. Meanwhile, Firestorm
flies the missile away and Martin tells Jax that they'll have to absorb
the nuclear explosion. The missile goes off and Firestorm pulls most of
the energy into himself.
Back on Waverider, Len
insists that he had everything under control until Martin screwed up.
Rip sarcastically applauds them on failing to capture Savage. He tells
the team that they now have bigger problems: Savage has sent a man back
to the warehouse to recover the component that fell off of Atom's suit.
Ray realized what happened, and Rip explains that Savage's technicians
used the component to develop a weapon letting him take control of
Central City in 2016. They have time before the new timeline becomes
permanent: the time until the technicians develop the weapon in the
present.
In their quarters, Carter looks through Aldus'
belongings. He promises Kendra that they will give their son a proper
burial, and shows him an article about an ancient Egyptian dagger sold
to a private collection. Kendra remembers that it was the dagger that
Savage used to kill them in their first lives.
Rip tries to
work out a way to change the course of events, and ray says that they
just have to find the piece of his suit. It shrinks and emits Alpha
Particles, and Martin figures that he can track them even with the
lesser technology of the 1970s... by consulting his younger self in
1975. Kendra and Carter come in and show them the newspaper clipping
about the dagger, and figure that they can use it to kill Savage. An
incantation has to be recited when the dagger is used, but Kendra can't
read the language. Carter offers to help her remember, and Len agrees to
steal the dagger from the new owner, Sasha Mahonvski. Ray offers to go
with Len, and reminds him that he doesn't trust either criminal. Rip
agrees but tells Ray not to take any of his future tech with him. Martin
wants to go to his old lab, and Rip tells him to take Jax and Sara with
him
Waverider arrives in Ivy Town and Martin warns
Sara and Jax that they have to make sure not to give away that they're
from the future. They spot Young Martin--Marty--talking with a girl, and
Marty comes over and thinks that Martin looks familiar. Martin gives
him a fake name and says that he's familiar with his work. Marty assures
them that he's an expert in Alpha Particles, and Sara starts flirting
with him. He leads her off to smoke a doobie and rap about physics.
On Waverider,
Carter tries to get Kendra to concentrate. The language was only known
to the clergy, and Carter has Kendra relax and open her mind to her
previous lives. Kendra remembers the two of them making love in their
first life, and shoves Carter away when he insists that it's their
destiny to be together.
Savage and his aide go to a warehouse
in Central City, and Savage figures that the team is from the future.
The technicians are working on the technology, and the chief scientist
reports that it contains a miniaturized missile guidance system. Savage
gives him 24 hours to reverse engineer it, and uses the device to kill
the scientist. He then tells the other scientists to get to work.
Len, Mick, and Ray approach Sasha's manor and pick out the alarms and
armed guards. Ray goes forward and overrides the security system,
explaining that his parents had the same system. Len points out that
it's a dummy box and the armed guards arrive. Len and Mick easily knock
them out.
At his dorm, Marty offers Jax and Sara marijuana, and
Martin warns against the long-term health consequences. He turns the
conversation to the detection of Alpha Particles, and Marty boasts that
he has worked up a prototype particle tracker. Once he leaves, Martin
looks for Marty's particle tracker. He complains that Sara is flirting
with Marty, and points out that he soon meets his future wife.
Len and the others find the dagger in Sasha's collection. Mick breaks
open all of the cases and then goes to find the safe, and Ray refuses to
let Len jeopardize the mission. Len punches him and says that it's his
mission, and Ray punches him back... and sets off an alarm. A cage
slams down, trapping the two men.
Martin finds the tracker and
Marty comes in and tells him to put it down. He insists that they
shouldn't fool with it, and threatens to call the campus police if they
don't tell them the truth. Martin says that they're there to profile a
potential Nobel candidate, and asks to borrow the tracker for a few
hours to use for a photo cover. Marty refuses to let them walk away with
it, and Sara clubs him over the head. Martin sets the alarm to wake up
Marty so he meets his future wife on time at a faculty mixer later that
night.
Mick returns and Len sends him to trigger a system
default. He then finds the control panel for the security system and
goes to work, and ray points out that in another life Len could have
been an electrical engineer. Len says that he doesn't want to be like
Ray: a tech billionaire who can shrink and tries to save the world. He
says that he's a survivor and there'll come a day when Ray wishes that
he was. When Len can't override the system, Ray takes over and Ray
concedes that he isn't completely useless.
Kendra apologizes to
Kendra, refusing to believe that he's her future. The more he insists,
the more she wants to prove him wrong. Carter assures Kendra that he's
been taking her for granted and they're not destined to be together in
every life. He tells Kendra that she's worth the wait and has her focus
her mind again.
Khufu gives Chay-Ara the dagger as a gift,
and explains that he was told only a high priestess can read the
inscription. Chay-Ara is able to translate the love poem, sets it aside,
and kisses Khufu.
Kendra says that the inscription is a love poem prophesizing that the two of them will be together always.
Using the tracker, Martin, Jax, and Sara trace Ray's tech to Savage's
hidden warehouse lab. They sneak in and Sara jumps down to fight them.
Once she takes out the guards, she grabs the tech and leaves.
Savage enters the exhibit room, holding Mick at gunpoint.
Martin and the others return to Waverider,
and Martin realizes that his wedding ring has disappeared. He figures
that he didn't go to the mixer after all... just as Marty enters the
timeship and demands to know who they are.
Savage figures that
Len and the others know that he's immortal, and Len promises to kill him
anyway. The immortal realizes that they've come after him for something
he'll do in the future, and knocks Mick out. Ray says that the rest of
the team will show up, and Savage takes the radio off of Mick and tells
Ray to contact his friends, particularly Carter and Kendra.
On Waverider,
Martin starts arguing with his past self. Jax pulls him away and tells
him to get control of himself, and Martin admits that he has realized
that he's just as big a jerk in the present as he was in the past. His
other self points out that Martin is arrogant, but also kind and
selfless. He says that neither Martin is a bad guy, and Martin admits
that meeting Jax is one of the greatest moments in his life.
Marty demands an explanation and Martin tells him to get off the
timeship immediately. Rip comes in and complains, and Martin admits to
Marty that they've met before. The professor wishes him a wonderful
life, and Jax escorts Marty out. Len calls in on the radio and explains
what Savage wants. Carter and Kendra come in, and Carter says that once
he gets close enough, he'll do what he has to do.
Savage
becomes impatient when the team doesn't arrive, and prepares to shoot
Mick. Firestorm flies in and blasts Savage back, and then frees Len and
Ray. They go outside and give the waiting Hawkman the dagger. Hawkman
and Hawkgirl fly in, while guards arrive and Ray, Len, and Mick go to
fight them.
The Hawks confront Savage, who recognizes the dagger as Hawkman tackles him.
The team opens fire on the guards.
Hawkman recites the incantation and rives the dagger into Savage. He
doesn't die, and Savage pulls it out and jams it into Hawkman's chest.
Savage says that it must be Hawkgirl who wields the dagger because it
belongs to her, and advances on Hawkgirl. He easily knocks her down, and
she crawls to Hawkman. He says that he will wait through eternity for
her, and asks her to come back to him as he dies. His sol essence leaves
his body and enters Savage.
Hawkgirl charges at Savage, who
grabs her and plunges the dagger into her side. He insists that he loves
her and always will, and then tosses her to the floor. Savage prepares
to strike the final blow... and the team arrives. Captain Cold blasts
Savage back, and Rip says that they have to get Hawkgirl out because
she's the only one who can kill savage. They get to Waverider
and Gideon treats her wounds. Kendra starts screaming for Kendra, and
says that she finally remembered how she felt about Carter in the past
and never had the chance to tell him that she feels the same way. Gideon
sedates her while Rip holds her down.
Ray tells Martin that
Kendra is stable, and expresses his condolences about what is happening
to Martin's wife Clarissa. Martin admits that he never considered the
consequences of time travel. Rip comes out and says that Kendra is
stable, but another time jump could aggravate her conditions. He takes
Martin back to the college and points out that Martin's wedding ring is
back. Rip explains that he contacted Marty and encouraged him to attend
the mixer. Marty and a young Clarissa come out together, and Rip says
that he has learned that while time changes, people don't. He tells
Martin to be glad that he can still learn, and Martin thanks him for his
help.
On Waverider, Rip says that now it's up to
them. Len points out that everything they've done has failed, and Rip
assures them that they've prevented Savage from developing his weapon
from Ray's technology. He admits that his family will still die, and the
team figures that they should become legends and save the world. Len
insists that if someone takes out one of his crew, then the killer will
pay the price. Martin asks Jax what he wants to do, and Jax says that
they should kick Savage's ass for Carter. The others agree and Martin
asks Rip where they're going next.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 23, 2019