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“Legends of Tomorrow” recap (1.12): Pilgrimage

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, Kendra met her future self who warned her against non-Hawkman lovers, Rory was revealed as Chronos and was talked out of killing his friends, and the Time Masters sent the Pilgrim after the Legends’ younger selves.

At the Time Masters Council, we get to see first hand what happens when the Pilgrim kills your former self as a prisoner poofs into a cloud of blue smoke. The Pilgrim struts in, ready for her next task.

And that task is to kill the Legends.

In Central City, 1990, the Team is looking for a young Mick Rory in a house fire, but all they’ve found are his dead parents so far. But that’s because Young Rory is sitting nearby, watching his home burn. The Pilgrim sneaks up behind him, but The Atom saves him just in time.

On the Waverunner, Sara and Kendra are sparring, and Kendra thinks Sara is awfully calm considering their lives are in danger. Sara says that eventually you almost get used to always almost dying. Kendra gets in a hit and Sara is impressed. Sara points out that she noticed she took her advice to ignore her cowgirl self and asks if Kendra told Ray about what the old woman said, but Kendra is like “Yeah, no.”

Sara laughs and is like, “Oh, right, honesty. Ggross.”

And I continue to be obsessed with their dynamic.

Rory leaves Jax to watch his younger self and goes to ask Rip what’s next. Rip explains that the Pilgrim only has one shot to kill them all, lest she risk warping time too much, and Gideon has tracked the Pilgrim’s ship, so it looks like next up is Sara Lance.

In Starling City, 2007, Young Sara is at the SCPD station, getting booked for having goofy bangs.

Just kidding, her dad (having his own weird hair day) is just showing her the ins and outs of law enforcement. But then the Pilgrim swoops in, wreaking havoc, and poor Young Sara is still cuffed to the desk. Lance eventually frees her, and Young Sara does the opposite of what Present Day Sara would do and runs for life, wiggling doorknobs when doors won’t open, instead of kicking them down. Luckily Present Day Sara swoops in and saves her young self from the Pilgrim.

Young Sara gawks at this badass White Canary that looks just like her and Rory agrees that she’s a badass. They dump Young Sara in the holding bay with Young Rory and ask Gideon where to next, but the time masters are cloaking her ship now.

They try to narrow it down; Kendra reincarnates, so killing her is stupid. Rip is an ex-time master, so his timeline is too risky to dive into. Snart starts to ask Rip for answers about this timeline he speaks of, but Sara interrupts when she notices Young Sara and Young Rory are fighting.

Sara goes to scold the youths, giving herself slapping tips while she’s at it.

Sara tells herself to stay calm and to trust her because they’re family.

Kendra goes to see Ray, and he’s about to propose to her again when he starts exploding from the inside out. She takes him to the med bay and Gideon confirms their fears: The Pilgrim is attacking his past self.

So they rush back to Palmer Tech in 2014 to save Ray, saving present-day Ray, who uses his first words of his newly saved life to give Kendra the ring once and for all. Firestorm asks Rip why the fireball they threw at the Pilgrim in Palmer Tech didn’t reach her, and Rip explains that she can control time in her direct vicinity, so that’s fun.

The Legends need a new plan, so they decide to go kidnap the rest of the team at newborn status to save them from the Pilgrim.

Sara finds Kendra moping in a hallway, and Kendra is like, “I’m engaged”?

Kendra explains that she said yes in the moment, but she’s already having second thoughts. Sara says if she helps her with a baby mission, she’ll help Kendra figure out what to say to Ray, and of course, Kendra will help her fellow feathered friend.

But Sara won’t have to hold up her end of the bargain because Ray just heard the whole conversation.

Sara and Kendra dress as nurses in Central City, 1972, to find baby Snart. Kendra is cooing over his widdle biddy face, and Sara tries to get her to hop on the good foot, but then she sees the baby and also starts admiring the teeny tiny face of the future villain.

In the holding bay, Young Sara’s hand opens the cargo door, and she’s about to escape with Young Rory when the team comes back, handing them Baby Snart and telling them to stay put and watch the kid.

Rip and Rory go to Ivy Town, 1950, and steal Baby Stein from his parents from the car he was born in while Ray and Stein go to steal Baby Jax. At the hospital, though, Stein sees Jax’s father who died overseas right after his son was born. Stein goes against Rip’s rules and lets Jax have a moment with his father.

Jax didn’t know his father ever got to see him when he was in the hospital, and man is he so proud of his son already. He boasts to this supposed stranger, “Jefferson Jackson, remember that name.” He tells Jax to make sure his wife knows how happy he is and heads out before he’s considered AWOL. Jax almost caves and warns his father how he’ll die, but offers congratulations instead.

The Pilgrim sneaks into the nursery then, looking at the babies with disgust.

And is even grumpier when she gets to Baby Jax’s bassinet and it’s empty but for a note that says, “Missed me!”

Rip flies the team to a safehouse, which also happens to be his mother’s house. Well, his adopted mother. She runs a home for little Time Masters, including Rip here (who used to be called Michael) and she’s happy to hide her boy’s friends’ younger selves.

The team heads back to the ship, but Rip lingers back. Mama tells him to stop wallowing and shoos him out, telling him to stay strong.

On the ship, Stein finds Jax crying and regretting not warning his father. He grew up always wondering what his dad would think of him and his accomplishments.

Ray goes to talk to Kendra and confesses that he overheard her and Sara.

Kendra explains that she wants to be together, she just knows they can’t last because the woman in the gulch was an older version of her. Ray tells her that she needs to do whatever makes HER happy, not some former self, not Destiny or whatever. Just whatever makes her happy. And he’ll be waiting until she figures it out.

Rip calls everyone to the main deck because they have a message from the Pilgrim. She is now going to target the Legends’ loved ones unless they hand over their younger selves. They might be erased in a blip, but their loved ones won’t be so lucky.

Rip calls the Pilgrim and asks for himself in exchange for the lives of his team and their loved ones. The Pilgrim isn’t interested; she was sent to stop the Legends, not some Brit in a long coat. But Rip clarifies; he’s offering up a younger version of himself. Michael. If she kills him, Rip never becomes a Time Master and the Legends will never have been assembled.

Team Legends goes to an abandoned Time Master’s outpost, where Rip’s mother brings young Michael. She leaves them with a “give ’em hell” just before the Pilgrim appears. Stein asks if she’d really murder a child, and she’s like, “That’s literally all I do. It’s like my whole thing. Where have you been?”

Rip says “Let’s get down to business” and somehow not a single person breaks into “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.” They ask how they can be sure she’ll let their loved ones go, so she offers Jax’s dad up as an act of good faith. Once Michael is safely on her ship, she’ll release the rest. But the rest of the team was lying in wait, and they attack at Rip’s command. The Pilgrim manipulates the time around her, freezing Snart and Rory’s ray guns before they can get to her.

One by one the Legends attack, and one by one she turns them into life-sized action figures.

She’s mad, and is about to kill everyone, but in the hullaballoo, she wasn’t considering the boy a threat, so Michael strolls on up to her and stabs her in the carotid artery. Never kick the dog, because he’s just a pup. The Pilgrim poofs into a pile of black dust, and Rip assures the team that this was his plan all along, because he was naught but a street urchin before Mother took him in.

The Legends say their goodbyes to their loved ones, and even Quentin Lance handles this all pretty well, considering. I guess he wasn’t as angry as he was in the early seasons of Arrow because he hadn’t lost any family yet. He tells Sara he always knew she’d grow up to be strong and protecting people, and that he’s very proud.

Jax says goodbye to his dad, and when his dad says he can’t wait to see Jax grow up, Jax loses all restraint and warns him about the IED. When he rushes to confess his mistake to Rip, he just pats him on the back and say time will do what it wants. We don’t worry about time paradoxes this late in an episode, son.

Ray goes to see Kendra, and she tells him that after this whole mess, she changed her mind. Time is a lot of things, but it’s almost definitely not on their side, so she wants to stop wasting it and marry him.

The team gathers on the bridge and asks where they’re supposed to go next. Stein’s wife is already starting to forget him, so they can’t keep their younger selves hostage much longer, or their non-existence will become permanent. Rip says they have to do what they’ve been trying to avoid doing since the pilot. They have to go to the beginning of the end. To where Vandal Savage reigns supreme.

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