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“Legends of Tomorrow” recap (1.04): Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, Kronos the bounty hunter was after our group of Legends, Sara’s bloodlust reared its head, and Kendra had a hard time coming to terms with everyone telling her she was a reincarnated ancient hawk priestess.

By the way, since this is an ensemble cast show, I’m going to focus on the ladies only, because that’s why most of us are here, and otherwise my recaps would be way too long. So this recap is on the shorter side because Sara and Kendra had their own side story going on outside the main action, but some weeks will be longer than others, depending on how central the girls are. Which hopefully is very central very often, but we’ll see.

Okay, let’s go, DC, 1986. Before you get excited, Sara Lance will not be dressing up like 80s Madonna in this episode, despite my wishing and hoping and dreaming.

They have to break into the Pentagon to get a file about Savage to find out what he’s up to, and though the guys have to dress as janitors, the ladies get to be military.

The mission goes a little sideways, and the girls end up having to fight their way out, and somewhere mid-punch, Kendra goes full Hawkgirl, but more rabid than we’ve ever seen her, teeth bared, eyes glowing red.

Kendra goes BERZERK. Sara is super confused; they’ve got the situation under control, there is no reason for Hawkgirl to be scratching people’s eyes out right now. Firestorm swoops in and scoops her up and brings her back to the ship before she can turn anyone into pulled pork.

When they regroup, the team agrees that the mission was kind of a hot mess. Jax blames himself, but Sara blames “Big Bird” which, while not being very empathetic, is freaking hilarious.

Next stop is the Soviet Union because that’s where Savage and a scientist lady are developing some kind of weapon. Snart wants to kill her, Ray does not, but either way, how are they going to get any information from her if neither of them speak Russian? Russian is probably one of the hundred languages Sara speaks, but no one asks her, so she doesn’t say anything. Instead, Rip gives the boys ingestible translators. Which…okay, fine. None of the scientists on board question it, so we’re just going to go with it.

When the boys head off to the ballet to meet up with their Russian, Sara goes to talk to Rip about Kendra’s psycho priestess side. She says Kendra needs help, and Rip agrees, saying he knows a little Canary who would be perfect for the job. Sara’s all, “I hope you mean my sister, because HELL no.”

But Kendra has a bloodlust of sorts and needs help keeping her warrior under control. Who better to help her than a resurrected assassin with a heart of gold dipped in steel?

Meanwhile, at the ballet, Ray asks the Russian woman, Valentina, out, but she is not having it.

Also this woman plays a delicious villain in Mr. Robot, and I will never get sick of watching her manipulate people.

On the Waverider, Sara brings Kendra her fighting sticks. She tells her that warriors train every day, but Kendra isn’t in the mood to play. Kendra is straight-up freaking out; she was a barista with a crush on a lab tech just a few weeks ago, now she’s an Egyptian bird warrior with an infinite love who is now dead in this lifetime? Sara wasn’t ready for feeling; she just wanted to hit things. But she gives in. She says that running away from the rage inside her won’t help; Kendra has to control her inner monster. Sara throws her a stick and says lez go.

They spar, and it’s a beautiful thing.

Kendra doesn’t think so, though. She actively hates it and keeps yelling at Sara to cut it out. But Sara is provoking her, trying to help Kendra keep the monster at bay, push down her emotions, channel her anger, find her center, do the hokey pokey and turn herself around, etc. But Sara takes it one kick to the chest too far, and Kendra’s wings flare out in a fury.

She kicks Sara clear across the room but then snaps out of it, apologizing. But she had already triggered Sara’s bloodlust, and she growls and pounces and wraps her hands around Kendra’s neck. After some pleading and desperate noises, Sara finally comes to and realizes what she did, feeling horrible.

Kendra goes to talk to Rip, miffed that he failed to mention this little bloodlust to her before. (Which I would like to interpret to mean that Kendra spoke to Sara after this, otherwise she would have called it something different. Like a blind rage or something.) He hoped they would be able to help each other, but maybe that’s something he should have let both sides in on. Kendra asks how she can help, and he says that between being in the League of Assassins and being in literal hell, Sara’s having a hard time holding on to her humanity. And since Kendra has lived countless human lifetimes, she’s the best gal for the job of helping Sara.

So Kendra goes and throws Sara’s stick right back at her.

Sara’s not exactly keen to try to kill her friend again, but Kendra says they need each other. Kendra needs to embrace her Hawk Goddess, and the White Canary needs to embrace her Sara Lance.

Sara’s afraid it’s not possible, but Kendra knows there’s only one way to find out. She taunts and teases her until finally Sara starts to fight back.

Let’s check in on the boys quickly. Firestorm is absorbing a big ball of terrible while Snart is trying to save Valentina from getting radiated to death, but as it turns out, she might be a damsel, but she’s sure as hell not in distress.

She kidnaps Stein, Ray, and Rory, and plans to get plenty of info out of them so she can help Savage finish building their own version of Firestorm.

Back on the ship, Sara is PISSED that Rip had her and Kendra sparring when they could have been legitimately helping. But they’re call in now, so surely they’ll save the day.

BUT that will have to wait until next week.

What did you think of “White Knights”? Still digging the show as a whole?

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