The Legends were finally able to locate Commander Steel in the latest installment of ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’. The episode kicked off in Manhattan, NY 1965 where Rip left Commander Steel and the last remaining fragment of the spear of destiny. Henry Heywood (Commander Steel/Nate’s Grandpa) had to leave his wife and son behind in order to complete this mission and save the fate of the world. The remainder of the episode took place in 1970 at NASA Headquarters and in space.

1970 NASA Headquarters

The Legends locate Commander Steel and aren’t greeted with the warmest welcome. Especially Rip who took a left hook to the face. However, the Commander settled down once Amaya informed him of the death of Dr. Midnight and her visit with Stargirl. Commander Steel then informs the team that he hid the fragment in the flag pole Neil Armstrong left on the moon.

Unfortunately for The Legends, Eobart Thawne was already in route to the flag pole as he infiltrated the Apollo 13 mission. Thawne knocked out his fellow astronauts in order to change course and make his way to the flag pole. This forced Martin, Jax and Mick to go undercover as British flight pilots while the rest of the team and Commander Steel headed into space to take back Apollo 13 and stop Thawne.

1970 SPACE

On the Waverider Nate got Henry to open up about his disdain toward Rip. He was angry that Rip forced him to leave his family while Rip got to keep his. Nate informed his grandfather that Rip’s family was in fact killed. Commander Steel then gets the idea to head back to his time period and reunite with his family after the spear fragment is located, therefore making his mission complete. Nate encouraged the idea even though he knew it could alter the timeline and create an aberration.

Sarah then sent Ray (as The Atom) on to Apollo 13 to stop Thawne. Ray has no stealth and was immediately spotted by Thawne and the two fight. Luckily for Ray Thawne didn’t have superspeed as there was no gravity. During their tussle Ray hit a button that dislodged the limb from the command module and forced Ray to crash land on the moon.

1970 NASA Headquarters

Back at headquarters Martin and Mick were tasked with creating a distraction so that Jax could disconnect the mission feed to Apollo 13. Martin took the opportunity to grace us with his rendition of Day O (The Banana Boat Song) by Harry Belafonte. It worked and added some great comic-relief for the episode.

1970 SPACE

Ray retrieved the fragment after trotting on the moon and was informed by Sarah that they don’t have the power to pick him up. He needed to get the limb moving in order for the team to intercept them with the command module. Unfortunately for Ray this wasn’t a one man job and he was forced to team up with Thawne in order to get back home. Thawne then opened up to his fellow scientist and told Ray that he wants the spear in order to live.

While those two were figuring out how to work together, Amaya informed Commander Steel about the consequences of returning to his timeline and basically threw Nate under the bus for not fully informing his grandfather of those consequences. In retaliation Nate tells Amaya about her future and her granddaughter.

Shortly after this conversation Ray and Thawne are reconnected with the command module and make their way to the Waverider. However, The Legends would once again need Thawne’s help. He told the team that they need to reenter the atmosphere at 38 degrees in order to successfully get back home. Unfortunately Commander Steel had to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to get the Waverider at that angle. The Commander had to open the cargo bay and once it was opened it he was sucked into the atmosphere.

1970 NASA Headquarters

The Legends and Apollo 13 return to Earth safely. Thawne phased through the brig he was being held captive in and made a quick escape before Black Flash could find him.

Timeship Inside the Vortex

The Legends then all jump aboard the timeship and Rip told Sarah that she is a much better captain then he ever was. Poor Rip is still trying to find his place on the Waverider now that he is no longer captain.

Amaya then asked Gideon to show her future to her. She learns of the future of her village and gots to see what her granddaughter looks like.

NEXT WEEK

The crew runs into Captain Cold and heads back to World War I.

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After capturing and detaining Captain Hunter on the timeship The Legends headed off to find the last piece of the spear of destiny currently in possession of Commander Steel. Unfortunately for the team their trip was halted before they could launch as Captain Hunter initiated an override on Gideon and took control of The Waverider.

Rip set off the self-destruct (spaniel broad tricycle) mode, successfully blew up the medallion and attempted to jump ship but was caught before he could escape. However, Jax had to completely shut down the ship in order to reboot its system and stop it from self destructing. This caused the ship to lose control and crash land into the cretaceous period. During the crash the delineator was lost which sent Ray, Amaya and Nate on a mission through prehistoric times to find it while Sarah and Jax went on a tour of Rip’s mind.

Using cognitive intrusion Sarah and Jax enter Rip’s subconscious. Once inside Jax and Sarah are attacked by evil versions of themselves and the other Legends. Evil Ray destroyed Sarah’s escape route during an attack and captured her. They then threw her into the brig and that is where she found Rip huddled in a corner. Rip thinking it was evil Sarah sent her flying into the wall using his mind. He doesn’t realize he has control of his subconscious yet.

Luckily Gideon, now in human form, was able to convince him otherwise. Gideon, Sarah and Jax take Rip to the parlor to try and jog his memory. He slowly begins to remember who he is. In the parlor they were once again greeted by the evil versions of themselves. As Sarah and Jax begin to lose their battle against the evil Legends, Gideon convinces Rip that he is in control here. Captain Hunter uses this new found confidence and is able to eliminate all evil versions of The Legends.

Jax and Sarah escape Rip’s subconscious as does Captain Hunter. But before he leaves he thanks Gideon for always being there for him and the two kiss. Once he let her go he woke up.

Back in prehistoric times Ray, Nate and Amaya are greeted by Gertrude the T-Rex. Ray stole one of her eggs when he was living there and she wasn’t happy with his return. Luckily Amaya used her powers to talk some sense into Gertrude and the team was able to recover the delineator.

Upon their return to The Waverider they are greeted by Captain Hunter. The reunited team then set off on a mission to gather the last piece of the spear. Unfortunately it looks like Eobart Thawne (Reverse Flash) beat them to it. Thawne is already in 1970 at Nasa Operations.

OTHER THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THIS EPISODE:

• Nate and Amaya decide to give their relationship the good ‘ole college try
• Ray warns Nate not to steer Amaya off her path otherwise her Granddaughter may not become Vixen and save countless lives
• Mick tells Martin to start treating Jax like a partner and less like a kid. He agrees to do so and tells Jax that he will start treating him more like an equal.

NEXT WEEK:

The Apollo 13 needs to be intercepted before it lands. Is this where the final fragment of the spear lies?

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Last night’s [Thursday November 10^th] episode of DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow took us back to 1987. Big hair, shoulder pads, Cutting Crew and Obsidian’s triumphant return set up the mood for the “Compromised”. Even Damien Darhk channeled his inner Miami Vice while collecting a fasces, an ancient Imperial Roman symbol of power featuring a bundle of sticks with an axe, indicating the power over life and death, from a buyer in Miami. Looking for his Sonny Crockett to go with his inner Ricardo Tubbs, Eobart Thawne (Reverse Flash) asks Darhk to be his partner with an added bonus of real power. Darhk turns down the offer as he prefers to work alone.

Timeship Inside The Vortex

After what he experienced in the last episode, Jax wants to make small changes to the timeline that he can control; he wants to create small aberrations in order to make the world a better place. Martin warns Jax about the effects even a small change can have on the timeline and reminds him that they are there to restore history not tinker with it.

Speaking of tinkering, Ray begins his cold gun training with Mick. After ruining a few of Mick’s beers, Mick tells Ray to channel his inner anger and rage.

As all this is going on Nate creates a way to track timequakes. A timeseismograph of sorts. Moments after Amaya (Vixen) names his invention it starts tracking an aberration in Washington DC 1987.

Washington DC 1987

Nate and Amaya head to the JSA (Justice Society of America) headquarters to reach out to current JSA members while the rest of The Legends sneak into the White House. After arriving at a warehouse where the JSA training facility is hidden, Nate and Amaya discover no members of the JSA. The facility has been abandoned.

Back at The White House Martin runs into his younger self as Ray channels his inner Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) and steals some of President Reagan’s jelly beans. At least he was nice enough to share them with Mick. Seconds later Darhk crosses their path; he is in The White House as an advisor on the Reagan administration. Sarah learns of his presence and goes on the hunt. She goes after Darhk and subsequently gets the team kicked out of the White House.

Turns out the JSA facility was not exactly abandoned. Obsidian, the same JSA member we saw in 1942, finds Amaya and Nate. Nate knocks him out thinking he is going to attack the duo. After waking up Obsidian tells Amaya that after she left the JSA went on mission and they never made it back. He wasn’t allowed on that mission because he couldn’t be trusted.

After getting kicked out of The White House, the team had to come up with another plan to figure out what Darhk is up to. Hence, Ray and Mick’s stake out during Darhk’s meeting with a KGB agent. A naive young Martin introduces himself to Darhk after following him there. He then questions him for having a meeting with a KGB agent outside of The White House scheduled meetings and gets himself into some hot water. He is then stabbed by Darhk. Mick and Ray can’t get to him in time and therefore present Martin begins to bleed out just as his younger self is. Ray and Mick bring young Martin back to the ship and Gideon proceeds to fix him and save his life.

Timeship Washington DC 1987

Throughout the episode Nate had been trying to get information from Amaya on what his grandfather, Commander Steel, was like. After some prying he learns that the Commander loved to sing and also gets Amaya to open up about her relationship with Rex; Rex and Amaya were going to leave the JSA to start a new life together. Amaya once again uses Obsidian and his connections to get the team into the state dinner. She is proving to be a real asset to the team.

Washington DC 1987

Young Martin is M. I. A. once again and present Martin steps in; He dances with the younger version of his wife, Clarissa. Soon after Darhk arrives to the party and heads to a basement meeting. In said meeting he hands the KGB a cd-rom with government information and gets a box in return. What’s in the box?

The Legends arrive to try and break up the meeting but soon learn Darhk planted a bomb in the room where the state dinner is being held. Mick and Ray go on the hunt for it while Sarah goes after Darhk and the rest of the team takes on his henchmen. Ray tries to channel his inner Snart again and Mick finally realizes he is nothing like Snart was, which is a good thing. He apologizes to Ray for trying to make him like his long-lost friend and tells him to science his way out of disarming the bomb. Ray proceeds to dismantle the cold gun to overload the bomb.

Amaya and Obsidian find Darhk who fires bullets at Obsidian to no avail. Disappointed he shoots at Amaya but Obsidian takes the bullet for her. Sarah then hits Darhk with a ninja star and tells him about his future demise. She chooses to let him live and he is scooped up by Thawne moments later. Sarah tells the team that the time traveler is a speedster and shows them that she was able to swipe the box off Darhk. Seriously, what’s in the box?!

Timeship Washington DC 1987

The team heads back to the timeship and Martin knocks some sense into his younger self. He makes young Martin realize Clarissa is the most important thing in his life. He makes him promise to show that to her. Young Martin sees the error of his ways and agrees to prove his love to Clarissa each and every day.

Gideon heals Obsidian’s wound and we learn that he is gay and that is why he wasn’t trusted to go on the mission back then. He then goes on to tell Amaya that he found true love and that she shouldn’t turn away from love if she finds it again. Will the friendship between Amaya and Nate blossom to something more?

Washington DC 1987

At the close of the episode Thawne created a timeship for Darhk and they head into the speed force. Where are these two headed now? Is Thawne the reason Darhk gained his dark magic?

Next Week:

Wild West and Jonah Hex.

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Last season The Legends were left to take the place of the Time Masters that were destroyed. The season premiere of Legends started in Star City 2016 and uses flashbacks to tell the story of what happened to the Legends.

Star City 2016:

Dr. Nate Heywood comes to Oliver Queen to tell him that the Legends are in trouble. Heywood is a time detective/historian who found the Legend’s timeship in the bottom of the ocean. Queen and Heywood enter the ship and see that it is still keeping Mick in stasis. They wake Mick up and he begins to tell the story of what happened to the rest of the team.

France 1637:

The team is trying to save the King of France. Well most of the team. Sarah is busy fornicating with the Queen while the men are battling. They end up saving the King and restore a small portion of history.

Once the team heads back to the ship they experience a time quake; an unusually large aberration in NYC 1942. NYC was nuked by Nazi’s in 1942. The exact place Rex Tyler told them not to return to as this would be the year the team is killed. The team then discovers that WWII last two more years and Einstein goes missing. Putting two and two together the team realizes Einstein was kidnapped to create the atomic bomb.

NYC 1942:

The team kidnaps Einstein only to discover his ex-wife was the one who helped the Nazi’s create the atomic bomb. Mick’s love for “roasting Nazi’s” and Sarah’s quest to kill Damien Dhark costs the team greatly. They are unable to get the bomb and it makes its way onto a submarine.

Rip Hunter decides to take matters into his own hands. He has been secretly teaching Jefferson about the timeship and uses the time scatter he created to send the team into different parts of history. All except Mick of course who was too injured to travel. Mick is placed in stasis as Rip and the timeship make a collision course for the torpedo with the bomb and stop NYC from being nuked. Rip presumably goes down with his ship.

Star City 2016:

Mick and Heywood team up to find the other Legends.

South Dakota 70 Million Years Ago:

Ray is a caveman being chased by a T-Rex.

England 821:

Jefferson and Martin are Jesters that are about to have their heads taken off.

Salem 1693:

Sarah is corrupting women as usual and is deemed a witch to be burned at the stake.

After the team is reassembled they hear Rip’s final message. “History is yours now, my dear Legends.” The team is still unable to locate him.

Columbia 1942:

We then head to 1942 Columbia where Einstein acknowledges his ex-wife’s contributions and in turn restores history. We also learn that Damien Dhark and Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash) are working together. The Legends are then confronted by the Justice Society of America (JSA).

The JSA is made up of Commander Steel, Dr. Mid-Nite, Hourman (Rex Tyler), Vixen, Stargirl and Obsidian.

JSA Headquarters 1942:

The Legends are held in a cell at the JSA headquarters while Thawne is out there giving a serum to Hitler that creates super soldiers. After pleading their case the Legends are let go and oddly enough Martin is appointed interim captain of the ship.

Both the JSA and Legends team up (well The Legends intrude on the JSA’s undercover operation…. same thing) to go after Krieger aka Captain Nazi to save the JSA members from dying. Martin sings for his life and Ray causes a fight after he won’t salute Hitler. Stargirl shuts down the fight with one blast from her staff.

The teams head back to the ship and that is where Sarah discovers Heywood is a hemophiliac; his blood doesn’t clot and he could die from a minor injury.

Fountainbleu Forest 1942:

Captain Nazi injects himself with the serum and becomes a hulk-like figure. The teams are forced to pull back and leave behind Vixen and Ray. However, Rex does recover the amulet.

Captain Nazi and tow capture The Atom (Ray) and Vixen. Rex is willing to sacrifice the two to end the war a day earlier, however Sarah (now the new captain of the ship) won’t allow that to happen.

Back in the bunker where Ray and Vixen are being kept Ray discovers the serum and tweaks it in order to give him superpowers. Unfortunately before he is able to inject himself he is stopped by the JSA and Legends rescue.

Outside the camp Commander Steel and Dr. Mid-Nite are being attacked by Captain Nazi. Heywood to the rescue! Nate rescues his grandfather via motorcycle and watches Captain Nazi be decimated by an airstrike. However, the celebration doesn’t last long as the grandson-grandfather team are also hit by the airstrike. Nate suffers severe internal bleeding and is basically dying until Ray sacrifices his chance at superpowers and gives the serum to Nate, saving his life. They return to NYC 1942.

NYC 1942:

Commander Steel’s dog tags return around Nate’s neck signifying the timeline has been restored.

JSA Headquarters 1942:

Rex meets Thawne face to face and learns that Thawne erased him from the timeline. Thawne then kills Rex and steals the amulet.

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The team heads to Japan and faces off with Shogun.

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