In Legends of Tomorrow season 1, episode 13, “Leviathan,” the team travels to 2166, which is the height of Savage’s power.
With the team running out of places in time they know Savage to be — as well as time to prevent the timeline where their younger selves were taken from the time stream from setting — they travel to 2166, just a few months before Rip loses his family and goes on his mission.
Legends of Tomorrow executive producer Phil Klemmer tells Comic Book Resources, “The Legends are at their best when they are doing the one thing they’re told that they shouldn’t do. This would be attacking Savage at the height of his powers, where we don’t have a means to kill him. What makes this time different is, we discover a new kind of vulnerability.”
That vulnerability is that “he’s made the mistake of having a daughter and very much loving her. Just as he’s ready to take over the world, he’s made himself vulnerable to our team by allowing himself to love another human being. That’s never a good idea when your goal is world domination. Basically, our team will set out to exploit his love for his daughter by trying to turn her against him.”
Of Savage’s daughter, Cassandra, Klemmer explains that “all she knows of the world is what Savage has decided to share with her. Her father has carefully shielded her from the realities of his ruthlessness. Like any child, she sees her father as a good man.”
In order to weaken Savage, “our team will pull Cassandra out of her cloistered existence under her father’s watchful eye and give her a different vantage on history and a new way of looking at her father. He’s not the benign and necessary tyrant — he’s just an immortal son of a bitch, who did horrible things to their family.”
Klemmer adds that “Leviathan” is “like the fall finale. If you were to change five seconds of 113, it could effectively be the finale. The stakes, production value, the VFX of giant robots fighting, and it’s taking place at the end of the world, on the eve of Vandal’s rise to power — it’s really crazy. If not for those five seconds, it could have happened differently. This season could have ended with this episode. The fun is the corner we back ourselves up into for the next three episodes, which is, ‘Oh, if it didn’t end there, how on Earth is it going to end?'”
The synopsis for Legends of Tomorrow season 1, episode 13, “Leviathan,” reads:
“LONDON 2166 — Rip (Arthur Darvill) takes the team to London in the year 2166, three months before his family is killed. He believes this to be their final opportunity to take out Savage (Casper Crump) who is, unfortunately, at the height of his power. However, the team discovers two key elements to defeating him — Savage’s daughter (guest star Jessica Sipos) and the means to kill Savage once and for all. Gregory Smith directed the episode written by Sarah Nicole Jones & Ray Utarnachitt (#113).”
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