Timeless hit The Las Vegas Strip this week with a trip to 1962 when Vegas was in its heyday at the height of the Cold War.

Vegas, the bomb, the president oh my!

Well hello 1962, the question is what is Garcia Flynn’s target? Is it the fact that JFK is at The Sands Hotel, and it’s assassination time a year early? Is the target one of JFK’s celebrity or political hangers on. Does it have something to do with affecting the upcoming Cuban Missile Crisis? Perhaps it’s nothing to do with Vegas so much as the atomic test happening nearby.

Moral ambiguities

According to Connor Mason (Paterson Joseph), thirty minutes before Flynn stormed Mason’s lab, the lab’s supervisor Anthony (Matt Frewer) made an untraceable call. Did Anthony tip off Flynn?

Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) was willing to give Anthony the full benefit of the doubt until he realized that Anthony wasn’t exactly being kept hostage. Oh Anthony, how you have crushed Rufus’ innocent and naive heart, not once but twice when you later gave him an empty suitcase.

The question is who is the real Anthony? Is he the unassuming lab supervisor? Is he a mastermind? Is he a reluctant co-conspirator? Are Rufus and Jiya now in danger from Flynn because of Anthony’s revelations?

The smart money is on whatever Flynn and Anthony are up to, it has to be motivated by something horrific. They don’t seem to be motivated by personal greed. They seem to be motivated by allegiance to a cause or ideal that is as of yet unknown. They have lost seeing their loved ones ever again because of their actions. Clearly the situation as they perceive it is dire.

Ms. Judith Campbell gets around

It seems that our Ms. Campbell has unlimited access to all levels of influence: the mob, the president, the military. In the end, it’s her ability to get Flynn on a military base where they are doing atomic tests that’s key (Seriously, how is anyone born in Vegas in the 1960s not walking around with 10 heads and 16 arms?).

Flynn wants to tamper with the Christy Pitt that is a nuclear core, not a person. The result will be a catastrophic nuclear accident that will wipe out the U.S. hierarchy if it goes off in Vegas in 1962. It’s practically a page out of the Designated Survivor series playbook over on ABC.

Flynn is thwarted again, sort of

History is not altered this time, but now Flynn has a nuke. What is he going to do with it? Was he originally intending to set it off in 1962, or was bringing it to the future the plan all along? For that matter, when and where is he ultimately going to take it?

What is Flynn’s goal? For that matter, isn’t Garcia Flynn the weirdest name ever for a guy with his accent? What about this mysterious Rittenhouse, and how does he/she/it tie in?

Messed up present timeline problems

Lucy (Abigail Spencer) has a hot fiance, Noah, who’s well-off judging by the size of her engagement ring. He’s going to get suspicious because she chose not to come to bed the night of their engagement party, plus she tenses up every time he touches her. Lucy, in the end, comes up with the cold feet and needing time away excuse before he gets more suspicious.

Wyatt (Matt Lanter), who is facing his own demons, attempts to send a telegram to the future hoping to save his wife from the accident in which she dies. Alas, it doesn’t work.

Wyatt’s never ending need to save women in peril who he metaphorically sees as his wife is going to eventually get him into serious trouble.