The Legends of Tomorrow season 2 premiere, “Out of Time,” introduced a new character with a special interest in the Legends.
We know Legends of Tomorrow season 2 will be introducing quite a few new heroes, including the Justice Society of America, and we met our first new character in “Out of Time.” Dr. Nate Heywood arrives in Star City, asking Oliver Queen (who he knows is the Green Arrow) for help rescuing the Legends, as they’ve been lost to time.
Oliver reluctantly helps since Sara and Ray are friends, and they find the Waverider at the bottom of the ocean with only Mick Rory, who has been held in stasis, aboard. Mick telling Nate and Oliver what happened to the rest of the Legends serves as the present day frame of the episode while we get flashbacks to the team’s adventures prior to their disappearance.
I automatically liked Nate when he used normal person logic to deduce that Oliver is the Green Arrow. His personality is also quirky enough to fit among the rest of the misfits that comprise the Legends. And, as a historian, he brings a new specialty that no one on the team currently has. So far, he seems like a good fit.
In the flashbacks, we see the team trying to protect historical events, some with more success than others — like Sara sleeping with the queen of France before she consummated her marriage to Louis XIII — when they discover a major aberration: the Nazis nuking New York in 1942. However, Rex Tyler warned them not to go to this specific time in history.
The team can’t just let the Nazis get the atomic bomb three years early and use it on the Allies (though the Allies would still win, just in 1947 and 12 million more lives later), so before the new history cements itself, they decide to act.
During this time, we also learn Sara has been hunting Damien Darhk through time for the last six months; if she kills him before 2016, he won’t be able to kill Laurel. And since he is involved in the Nazis getting the bomb, he is directly in Sara’s cross hairs.
Just as Laurel’s death isn’t sliding easily off of Oliver on Arrow, Sara isn’t taking it well on Legends of Tomorrow. I am 100% here for a vengeful Sara Lance proving why she was one of the League of Assassin’s best before she defected. And since Darhk was also one of the League’s best, pitting them against one another for Laurel’s life is intense.
Plus, I wonder, once Darhk realizes who Sara is, if her attacks on him in the past are the reason he encourages Quentin to kill her after her resurrection via the Lazarus Pit in 2015.
Anyway, the team assumes there is a correlation between Albert Einstein and the Nazis so kidnap him before the Nazis can. It’s always fun when Legends introduce famous historical figures. It’s a banner moment for Dr. Stein, who gets to meet one of his heroes — though as we’ve learned, we don’t always want to meet our heroes.
It turns out the Nazis got their bomb from Einstein’s ex-wife, who was Albert’s silent collaborator for many years. The team rescues her and put the Einsteins under protection. However, Darhk still has the bomb on a U-boat, so the Waverider heads underwater.
When Darhk fires the bomb, Rip puts the ship on a collision course with the bomb to protect New York. Since the ship may not withstand the explosion, Rip scatters the team, except Mick who was injured, through time. He then puts Mick into stasis just before the bomb hits.
Mick and Nate take the Waverider through time to recover the team: Ray 70 million years ago, being chased by a T-Rex; Jax and Stein in England in 821, serving as court wizards about to be executed; and Sara in Salem in 1693 about to be hanged for witchcraft.
They can find no evidence as to whether Rip scattered himself as well. He leaves a final message for the team, which makes us, I guess, assume he’s dead. But that makes little sense since he was on the ship, which remained in tact underwater for decades, when the bomb exploded.
I’m not entirely sure what to make of this development, but if we’re going without Rip for a while, I confess I won’t mind. His story was among the weakest parts of season 1 for me.
Anyway, the team decides to continue on in their mission to protect time with Nate now on the team. And we find out Damien Darhk is working with Eobard Thawne, aka The Reverse Flash. Because evil attracts evil, I guess.
The episode closes with the Legends being confronted by the Justice Society of America.
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