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“Legends of Tomorrow” recap (1.10): The Future is Shiny

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, three of the Legends got stranded in 1960, where Ray thrived, Kendra got declawed, and Sara rejoined the League of Assassins, but everyone got saved, including Mick Rory, who turned out to be Chronos.

This week’s side mission is to get Rory to be human again, starting with Rip, who tries to convince him that Snart is not to blame for what happened. Rip had ordered Snart to kill Rory, so really he did him a favor. Rory is unmoved.

The team goes to 2147, to the Kasnia Conglomerate, a few years before Savage took over the world. Rip says that Savage is about to go into a meeting, and Sara sasses him about how terrifying it all sounds. But the plan is to stop Savage BEFORE his rise to power. Snart and Sara, still my favorite bromance, joke about needing the nerds if they’re going to survive in this bright and shiny future.

Rip tells them that the people milling about around them will be mostly dead in five years time because a virus will kill them all. A man tries to steal a purse and a bunch of robots swoop in and stop him. Ray recognizes these robots…they’re autonomous versions of his very own Atom suit.

Rip leads Sara and Snart into the meeting Savage will be in, and uses contacts to get clearance. Rip starts to introduce his associates and came SO CLOSE to calling Sara his personal assistant but remembering that she can hit someone harder with a sneeze than he can with his fist, calls her his bodyguard instead.

Alas, it’s still only him that’s allowed in.

In the meeting, Vandal Savage is pitching his armageddon virus, saying the population must be thinned for it to be a sustainable number. He gets shut down, for what sounds like the umpteenth time, and heads off to tutor a little boy…and it’s Aden from The 100. *sob*

But really it’s Per Degaton, the young son of the head of the Kasnia Conglomerate. And being named Per Degaton might be a crueler fate than beheading, if we’re being honest.

Rip tells the team that in the future, after the death of his father, Per Degaton releases the armageddon virus, which is the beginning of the end, the reason Savage was able to rise to dictatorship. But not before killing Per Degaton. (Every time I type this I want to shout, “It’s morphin’ time!”)

Kendra asks how they can stop Savage’s rise to power, but Snart knows what Rip was implying -they have to kill the boy now. The girls do not love this plan.

In fact, no one is okay with this plan except Snart. Ray says that maybe the kid’s future isn’t inevitable. Rip compares him to Hitler, even though I’m pretty sure they laid out very specifically why they couldn’t kill Hitler in the very beginning of this time travel adventure. Anyway, they compromise and say maybe they can just take him.

They get into position, and Snart complains about this crimeless future. Sara has a sniper rifle, though, so she likes the future just fine.

Snart puts on his Google Glass specs and suddenly feels differently, as the lenses tell him everything about everyone and everything around him. They spot Perdido, flanked by guards, and Sara takes one out so Rip can slip in, a fact that he shouts, but luckily all the other guards and also the kid are temporarily deaf, so they don’t hear him.

Ray and Stein head to the HQ of the Atom soldiers to ask the leader of the company how they evolved the suit and the head of the company is none other than Jewel Staite aka Kaylee from Firefly. She’s the great-great-great-great granddaughter of the founder of this company. She points to a bust labeled PALMER and points out that Ray looks just like him…

Ray starts freaking out because this means he might have a kid who doesn’t know about and that kid raises a kid who raises another kid and so on until a supervillain is born. (This freakout is stupid because they’re in the future-oof course he could have a kid he doesn’t know about.)

Sara goes to see Permetheus and wonders aloud what the little future monster is dreaming about. Gideon says he’s dreaming about cookies, and Sara is mildly alarmed that she knows what they’re dreaming. Gideon proves this is the case by reminding Sara of her-AND I QUOTE-“rollicking fantasy” about Nurse Lindsay.

Gideon also has some bad news. They haven’t changed the timeline, and Gideon can’t see any outcome that doesn’t result in Savage rising to power.

They consider killing him again. Rip is willing to sacrifice him to save billions, but Stein asks if it’s really worth the stain on his soul. The poor kid was already beheaded on another show. Jax suggests maybe just talking to him, but Rip scoffs at the idea. Sara says that it’s not too late for little Persimmon to change, just look at her. She’s twice an Assassin and was saved from being feral.

Sara goes to talk it out with Rory, and he’s excited to see her because he thinks she’s the only one brave enough to kill him. But that’s not why she’s here. She’s here to appeal to the humanity left in him and to tell him that while she was dying with Snart, his last words were about him, about their friendship.

Rory pretends not to be moved, but Sara just smirks knowingly. She tells him she just wanted to remind Rory that Snart was a loyal friend to the bitter end.

In Kasnia, Peridontal’s father notices people on the CCTV that aren’t traceable, which is unheard of, and Savage recognizes the time travelers. He promises that these Legends won’t kill the little boy and heads out to save him.

Meanwhile, Rip wakes up the future villain and takes him to the dropship. When the team learns Rip has run off with the boy, Sara knows exactly why.

Perdenticles is incensed at being taken, being the son of the most powerful man in the country, but Rip tells the boy he’s taking him home.

Throughout the episode, Kendra has been remembering snippets of her life with Hawkman, back when they were Aldus’s parents. She remembers having to constantly be on the run from Savage, and how eventually Aldus caught on and they had to tell him about their lives -all of them.

Kendra tells Ray about these memories, these feelings rushing back to her. Ray, entitled as he is, says it must feel weird feeling like she’s cheating on him with Hawkman, but Kendra says it’s the other way around. Kendra says it’s his turn to share his feelings and he tells her about Kaylee and how he’s thinking about what having a kid in the future even means for him. So neither of them know where they stand now.

The next stop on Sara’s “Do I Have to Do Everything Around Here” Tour is Snart.

She tries to help him understand where Mick is coming from, and does her best to get the duo back together. She speaks fluent Snart, telling him to stop being an ass, suck it up, and do what needs to be done.

Rip takes Persephone to a riverside and points a gun at him, talking to him like an actual psychopath talks to his kidnapped victim. The boy stands tall and firm, unafraid. He says Vandal Savage taught him what a killer looks like, and he can see in Rip’s eyes he won’t pull that trigger. Rip, bluff called, puts the gun down.

Rip agrees that he’s not a killer, but says this move isn’t weakness, it’s goodness. He tries to get Persnopoles to channel whatever goodness is left inside him and be the man his father would be proud of, not Savage.

Meanwhile, the Waverider is being attacked. Gideon says their weapons system is down and Sara straight up sasses the spaceship.

The Legends finally remember they have superpowers though and run out and have a nice big group fight.

Ray and Kendra break into the robot suit building, and Kaylee comes in with a gun trying to stop them, insisting that the robots are peacekeepers. Ray says he knows, because he is the founder of all this.

She looks at him dubiously, asking if he’s sure he’s Sydney Palmer. And Ray’s fragile male ego cracks just a bit. All of this is from his brother, who he thinks must have taken over when he disappeared in 2016. (Which would imply he never makes it back? Because they were supposed to go back to where they started? I could be trying too hard to make sense of all this.)

Kendra uses her sweet, sweet voice to convince Kaylee to help them stop the robots from taking over the world and she does.

Down on the ground, Savage grabs Sara and Rip grabs Pertifalus, causing the boy’s father to tell everyone to stand down. They exchange prisoners, Sara spitting fire with her eyes at Savage for daring to touch her perfect self.

Back on the ship, Kendra goes to talk to Ray and all the things she loves about him, like his optimism and sticktoitiveness. Ray says he won’t give up on them, but it’s hard, knowing he’ll always be second best. Kendra says Carter is her past, but Ray could be her future, and kisses him to prove it.

In Kasnia, little Persnickety goes to see Savage, who teaches him about Oedipus Rex (kind of) and gives him a big knife that the boy promptly uses to kill his father.

Gideon tells the team that actually all they did was bump UP the timeline, and now the disease is released even sooner than anticipated. Rip is starting to wonder if sparing the boy was truly the right decision.

Snart finally goes to see Rory and the two men grunt at each other until Snart finally proposes that they fight it out with their fists. They fight, and Mick bests Snart (having had extra lifetimes to train), but when it comes down to it, he can’t kill Snart. So the two of them go back to the team, and Rory offers insight. Now that he failed, the Time Masters will send in Hunters, who are even more ruthless killers than he was. Their main objective is kill, and his only advice for the Legends is to run.

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