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“Legends of Tomorrow” recap (1.15): Time is a Cruel Thief

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, Rory was taken to the Vanishing Point to become Chronos, Jax was aging rapidly, so Stein sent him back to 2016, Rip found out that the Time Masters were in league with Savage, and Sara and Snart hid when the Waverider was invaded.

We start at the very beginning (a very good place to start) with Rip giving his legend-wait for it-dary speech to try to rally the team.

This time, when the gang splits up to think about joining (or how they’re definitely not going to join), we follow Stein and Jax and their argument about whether or not to go. Jax storms off, absolutely sure he wants no part in this, but almost as soon as he’s out of sight, he walks back in from the other direction wearing a brand new outfit. Stein is confused, but this new Jax explains that he’s from the future, and he needs Stein’s help.

At the Vanishing Point, Stein is dying, Rory is giving in to the fact that they’re going to make him Chronos again, and Kendra is trying to keep up her sense of humor.

Rory tells them that the only thing that kept him from going full Chronos last time was thinking about how much he hated each and every one of Team Legends. What he doesn’t say is that might be harder to do this time.

The Time Masters come and take Rory, as predicted, but they take Kendra, too. As soon as she’s out of her cell, she hawks out, easily knocking down the guards. But one stray guard takes her out with a laser and her escape plans are thwarted.

Rip is also taken out of his cell and lead to the head Time Master. We’ll call him TM, because why not. TM explains to Rip that the only reason he and his team are alive is because they can’t find Snart and Sara and need his help finding them.

TM tries to explain that the reason they put Savage in charge was to unite the world so that when aliens attack in the future, Earth stands a chance at survival. Rip calls him insane, but TM says there was no other way.

On the Waverunner, when the coast is clear, Snart and Sara pop up from their hiding spot under the floor.

Snart is ready to get the hell out of dodge, but Sar won’t just leave her team behind. She left her life, her family, her love behind for this mission, and she’s not going just to throw it all away because things got tough. Snart points his gun at her, saying if she won’t run he’ll force her to, but Sara stands her ground and is like, “You won’t.”

She’s right, of course, he won’t. As he resigns to this fact, they hear a phone ring. Sara hesitates before answering, probably never having noticed the old-timey phone on the ship at all, but it’s Gideon! Gideon was uploaded somewhere else after getting dislodged from the ship, and is A-okay! Gideon tells Sara that the team is in a cell block in the Vanishing point, and alive for the moment. Sara doesn’t love the “for the moment” clause, but she’ll take it.

TM takes Rip to the Oculus Viewing Chamber (which does not mean he wanted to Netflix and Chill while watching that Amy Pond movie) and says that the Time Masters on the High Council use it not only to view all of time, but to manipulate it. He says that free will and choice are illusions and that everything Rip has ever done has been to serve their purpose. Rip stakes a peep in it and sees it all, sees too much, including Ray getting blown to smithereens. The Time Masters even had Savage kill Rip’s family so he would go rogue, just like they wanted him to.

When Rip gets back to his cell, he immediately tells his team what he learned. Which is kind of terrible, if you ask me. Why would you tell someone that? What good does it do for them to know their free will doesn’t exist? But Rip is nothing if not selfish, so, of course, he shared this burden without a second thought. He even tells Ray that he saw him die, which I suppose it fine, and his right to know. But would have been received a little better if Ray still believed he could change the outcome.

Somewhere else in the vanishing point, Rory is tortured until he says that his name is Chronos, and is immediately sent after Sara and Snart. Speaking of the Terror Twins, they are running around a hangar, putting tiny devices on the Time Masters’ spaceships before scurrying back to the Waverider.

Once they’re back on the ship, Sara stops Snart from banging his ring against metal over and over again. She asks about the ring, and he explains that it’s from his first job with Rory. It’s a reminder that sometimes you can’t prepare for everything; he researched that job for three weeks and only has that ring to show for it.

Finally, Gideon tells them that what they’ve been waiting for has happened and the time drive is back online, so it’s time to get a move on. Sara straps into the pilot’s seat, looking like this is what she was born to do.

A guard comes in to tell TM that the Waverider time jumped, so he launches all his captains at once. But when they try to take off, their AI systems frazzle and refuse to take off, singing “Love Will Keep Us Together” instead.

TM tells Rip that now he doesn’t need to keep his prisoners alive, but before he can kill them, his guard tells him that Sara and Snart only time jumped a little to the left, so Snart jumps in, gun blazing (well, freezing).

The Time Master that trained Chronos orders him to shoot, but instead of shooting Snart, Chronos shoots the Time Master, then stomps on his skull. Because he’s not Chronos after all, just good ol’ Mick Rory.

Everyone runs onto the Waverider, and Gideon says they have a problem. Sara automatically responds, having gotten comfortable in the pilot seat, then apologizes to Rip, realizing he should probably take back over now.

But Rip knows a natural when he sees one, so he tells her to keep (wo)manning the Waverider while Ray uses Chronos’s glove to break free of the Time Masters’ tractor beam.

In 2016, Stein and Jax fix the jumpship, and say their goodbyes, even though they will both be reunited with the correct version of their counterpart soon.

On the Waverider, Snart comes in from tucking Stein in over in the med bay, where he made the Professor promise not to blow up, and the team from the Vanishing Point tells everyone who missed it about the whole fate/lack of free will thing.

Rip tells them about the Oculus, and how he saw Ray die, and they don’t know how to make a move without knowing if it’s their own choice or if it’s the Time Masters controlling them like little marionettes. They have to destroy the Oculus, and they realize that the reason Snart and Sara were able to sneak attack is because the Time Masters can’t control fate within the Vanishing Point since it exists outside of time.

Everyone’s in for this plan, a lot faster/surer than the first time Rip asked them to band together, and even Snart is in, making Sara smirk despite herself.

Rory finds Ray in a weird little bar that I didn’t realize the Waverider had, and he’s shoving cupcakes into his mouth because he might be dying soon. Because he IS a cupcake. Most people would be drinking themselves blind, but he just wanted some chocolate. Rory gives Ray some rare words of encouragement, but tells Ray that if he mentions this to anyone, he’ll shave his head. And coming from someone who just bashed a dude’s head in with the heel of his boot, it’s a pretty adorable threat.

Snart finds Sara and wants to play cards to kill time before they risk their lives to save the world, again, but she’s not in the mood. He thinks she’s still a little salty about the whole gun-to-the-head situation, but mostly she’s feeling pretty defeated about the whole fate thing. If nothing she ever did was her own choice, why does the weight of her choices make her feel like she’s drowning? Why do the things she’s done haunt her like ghosts? Snart says for him it’s not the things he’s done, but the things he hasn’t done, including wondering about them being together. Like, together together. Sara says this is all very out of left field, and they were doing fine with their bromance and to stop being the Laurie to her Jo and GTFO.

Stein, looking a little worse for wear, gives Rip something that will give him a fighting chance against the Oculus, because science. So Rip leads his team to the Oculus Wellspring, where Stein nerds out so hard he almost keels over. When he asks why no one else seems excited, Sara offers that they are only excited insofar as they get to blow it up.

Team Legends comes face to face with TM, and he thinks he has them cornered and beat, but Jax swoops in with the jumpship, and bonding with Stein to form Firestorm once again. The Team splits up and gets to work saving the fate of the world.

All this time, Savage has had Kendra hostage on his ship while he flies through time to kill Rip’s family. But he says technically it’s already done, and as he steps off into the mayhem to do it, Kendra yelled a multi-layered, “Savage!” at him.

In the Oculus room, Ray takes off his helmet to fiddle around, and Rip warns him that this looks just like how Rip saw him die. But Ray says it’s okay; he’ll die for this, to give them their free will back. Ray realizes there’s a failsafe that he’ll need to hold down while they destroy the Oculus. Rory decides that now’s as good a time as ever to start changing the future, so he takes Ray’s place at the Oculus. Rip makes Ray tiny and puts him in his pocket to save him, but Snart won’t let Rory die for them. Maybe to make up for leaving him to get kidnapped by Time Masters, maybe just because he cares for these misfits.

Sara doesn’t want him to do this.

But when it’s clear his mind is made up, she kisses him goodbye. She runs off, and Snart goes boom. (His final line: “There are no strings on me.”

Back on the Waverider, the team is sad and call Snart a hero. Ray says he would hate being called that, but Sara says he was one.

And I don’t know; I would be sadder about this if I believed he was dead. But I don’t, because so far almost everyone on this show has “died” and then not been dead. But anyway, time is unmapped now, and Rip’s family is dead, so “the battle’s done and we kinda won?”

Ray says that they have to use their new free will to make sure Snart didn’t die for nothing and sets Rory’s angry sights on killing Savage and saving Kendra and Carter.

On his little evil ship of doom, Savage finds out that the Time Masters lost the ability to manipulate time, and Kendra thinks this is just swell.

But Savage is cocky as ever. He has a time chip, so he can still change the world.

What did you think of “Destiny”? Do you think Snart is really dead or did he just get propelled through space and time a bit? How do you feel about the Captain Canary ship?

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