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“Legends of Tomorrow” recap (1.08): 50 Shades of Betty McRae

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, Kendra saved Ray and then kissed him, Snart “got rid of” Rory but the details were vague, and Sara Lance was the best one always. Oh, also they’re on a multi-dimensional quest to stop Vandal Savage from destroying the world.

Next stop is the ’50s, in Oregon of all places.

There are teens drinking and racing, as they did, and the inevitably crash. What’s weird about this situation is that they crash into a blue glowing meteorite and Savage appears, excited about the find.

On the Waverider, Team Legends makes a plan; it’s the ’50s, so Savage doesn’t know a band of time travelers is after him yet, so they’re going to investigate some local murders and hope it leads them to Savage.

Kendra and Ray are going to play married, much to the chagrin of their racist real estate agent.

Stein is playing a doctor, with Sara as his faithful nurse, and they’re hired by a slimy doctor who tries to hit on Sara because he apparently doesn’t like his appendages attached to his body.

Jax is assigned to being just a new kid on the block while Snart and Rip are FBI agents investigating the murders.

Stein loves the ’50s, and calls it idyllic because his memories of it are, and so are all the movies set in that time. But Jax and Sara laugh in his face and are like right sure, it’s a perfect paradise if you’re a white, straight man. Stein says “Touche,” and I punch the air in victory.

Besides the closed-mindedness of the time, Jax also thinks towns like this are TOO perfect, and usually how murder mysteries start. Which is the most exciting thing Sara has heard all day.

Stein takes the doctor/nurse role playing too far when he’s like “Let’s get to work, Nurse!” and Sara reminds him that she’s a highly trained assassin and will happily kill him slowly.

So they head out and Jax flirts with the sad cheerleader whose friends have gone missing.

Once back at the hospital, Stein sends Sara to get files where she sees the same doctor who grossed her out earlier laying it on thick with a nurse who looks just like Betty McRae.

He gets as far as “You need a man to show you a good time” and then Sara decides she’s heard enough and jabs him with a file drawer, causing him to spill coffee all over himself and burn his fragile male ego, so he goes scurrying away. The nurse, Lindsay Carlisle, is very turned on and thanks her. She explains that all the doctors are slimeballs and all the nurses are down with that because they’re girls in a world where their only job is to marry rich. But Lindsay Carlisle isn’t looking for a husband. Sara smiles knowingly and asks for a tour of the hospital.

Stein tries to intercept to get Sara to get him coffee but she gives him HER coffee order and follows a still-very-turned-on Lindsay to Hall H, which is off limits.

Pan to a plaque on the wall that shows that the doctor in charge of Hall H is none other than Vandal Savage.

In suburbia, Kendra answers the door and a very perky woman is being neighborly and inviting her over for a cocktail party. Her husband appears at her side, and it’s the doctor, Vandal Savage. He recognizes her of course, but she pretends not to. To prove he’s truly evil, Savage presents Kendra and Ray with tuna surprise.

At the team regroup, Kendra says that Savage doesn’t know she knows about her powers, so that will give them some time since Savage doesn’t attack until she emerges. They hatch a plot and break off again, finally getting the hang of this teamwork thing.

Rip sends Sara and Stein to Hall H, where they split up to search for clues. Lindsay catches Sara rifling around the doc’s office, and thinks she’s looking for booze, so she invites her for some of the “good stuff.”

Once they’re sitting down drinking, Sara asks if Lindsay has a girlfriend. Sara thought it was obvious, but Lindsay is shy about it.

Sara promises Lindsay that she’s good at keeping secrets, so Lindsay sheepishly confesses that she kissed a girl once. But she didn’t think it made her…and she can’t even say the word. But don’t worry, Sara can say it, and then this happened:

Sara: A lesbian.

Lindsay: *flinches*

Sara: It’s not a bad word!

Lindsay: It is around here.

Sara: Good thing I’m not from around here.

Me: *SCREAMS*

The dialogue in this episode is so freaking good, and it took me almost two hours to watch the episode because I kept rewatching the Lindsay/Sara scenes. I never imagined this show would make me so squealy, but here we are.

Stein interrupts the duo and teases Sara for seducing instead of sleuthing. She says she was liberating her, and that seducing would come later, thank you very much. Stein warns her that she might be doing more harm than good, giving Lindsay something to hope for, then leaving her in this homophobic world. But Sara shuts his straightsplaining down by saying that she would love for someone to tell her the future will be better.

At the cocktail party in the suburbs, Savage gets in Kendra’s face about destiny, but before things can get too weird, he gets a call from the hospital about a breach in Hall H, so he has to go.

And the alarm is because the good doctor has been keeping winged beasts in Hall H and they ate someone.

While he’s at the hospital, Ray uses his suit to sneak into Savage’s mancave and steals his dagger.

Sara goes to see Betty again and asks if she ever gets creeped out, being in an asylum at night.

Lindsay says she gets more lonely than anything, with the exception of Hall H, but she doesn’t like to think about that. Then, Sara “Game for Days” Lance, smirks and says, “What do you like to think about?”

LIKE. WHO COULD RESIST THAT? So Lindsay leans in and kisses Sara and Sara is smiling as it happens because she wanted Lindsay to be brave and make the first move AND SHE DID, OH SHE DID.

But then something stops Sara, and she pulls away, saying she has to go back to work and running away. Poor, sweet, brave, Betty McRae-esque Lindsay Carlisle is so, so confused.

Meanwhile, Jax is getting some smooches of his own from his new cheerleader friend, but he pushes back because he has questions about her dead boyfriend. Racist boys interrupt them but then winged beasts interrupt THEM and all hell breaks loose. The girl recognizes one of the beasts as her boyfriend before getting scratched to bits. A cop pulls them over and ends up knocking Jax out and taking him away.

On the Waverunner, Gideon fixes the girl up and she explains that her boyfriend was a winged beast now, and somehow the team figures out that it’s a meteorite like the one that made Chay-ara a hawk goddess.

Kendra wants to be bait for Savage, but Ray thinks that’s Too Dangerous. Kendra says it’s not up to Ray and peaces out anyway.

Sara says her and Stein have to go to the hospital, and when Stein tries to tease her about Nurse Carlisle but Sara says actually she has to apologize. Stein starts to say I told you so but Sara’s like WHY DO YOU ASSUME YOU’RE THE SMARTEST IN THE ROOM and explains that it was her that freaked out, not Lindsay, and it’s because, for the first time since coming back to life, she FELT something. There are butterflies in her tummy, her heart is doing backflips, and she doesn’t know what to do with all these FEELINGS.

She says that feelings suck, because feelings mean someone could get hurt.

Meanwhile, in Hall H, Savage injects Jax with his blue potion, turning him into a winged beast, and loves his new pet.

Kendra visits and plays it off like she’s just a sexy neighbor who looooves tuna casserole but when he presses a big gross kiss on her, she reaches for the dagger she brought with her. But he had already grabbed it because he made her as soon as she walked in. Savage releases his winged beasts and Kendra hawk goddesses all over his ass.

In the chaos, Sara saves Lindsay from a winged beast like the hero she is.

Ray saves Kendra, Sara saves Stein and Snart, Gideon saves Jax, all is right with the world.

Sara goes to see Lindsay again, to make sure she’s okay. Lindsay is okay, but she’s forever changed. And Sara’s glad for it.

Lindsay thanks Sara for rescuing her, and I don’t think she’s talking about the winged beasts or the man-beasts. Sara says Lindsay rescued her, too. She has to leave now, but Lindsay is understanding. SHE LITERALLY SAYS, “I should have known better than to fall for a ninja.”

Something that Sara can relate to quite well.

Sara says maybe she’ll be back someday, and Lindsay says that if she does, Sara knows where to find her.

Sara, Kendra and Ray head back to the Waverunner, but before they get on the ship, it starts to take off. They’re very confused, highly offended, and trapped in 1958.

AHHH GUYS

How amazing was Ali Liebert? IMDb makes it look like Ali is only in that one episode, but IMDb has been wrong before, and since they’re stranded in the ’50s, I’m wondering if maybe that wasn’t goodbye? Also, kudos to this show for blatantly calling out racism and homophobia without mincing words.

I think this was the best episode of the season, personally. What about you, what did you think of “Night of the Hawk”?

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