Everyone Needs a Hobby
Agent Christopher knitting to keep her anxiety under control while the team is on a mission is information I didn’t know I needed until I have it. To be completely honest I’ve never given much thought as to what the home team does while the time team is in the past. I didn’t stop to think that Agent Christopher, Connor, and Jiya are probably worried sick and terrified from the moment the Lifeboat leaves until the moment it returns with everyone safe. Connor talks about life before he met Rufus, when he love anyone. Life wasn’t better back then, except that now he worries that everyone he loves will be horribly maimed.
“There’s a word for that. Family”
When a show takes time away from the action to remind it’s viewers what the characters mean to each other and what they stand to lose you know you are about to experience major heartbreak.
Rittenbitch
Yes, Emma I’m talking about you.
Despite just executing her superiors, Emma is still cool and collected. Confident. She tells Jessica that they know what they are doing and can run Rittenhouse better than Nicholas and Carol did. She’s the bitch with a time machine, she’s no worried about retribution from the others back home. But first they have work here to do.
Jiya is still trying to convice Rufus that she has an okay life in 1888 and he needs to leave her behind. Rufus is still having none of that shit. The rest of the team shows up and it’s hugs all around, except for Flynn, but Jiya is still adamant that she’s not leaving. Lucy puts her foot down. She reminds them all that none of them have anyone left but each other and they stick together. They are going home together. It’s a terrific speech but it has no impact on Jiya.
Cue Rittenbitch. With Carol dead, Emma can finally take out Lucy, and she means to.
Escape Plan
Wyatt asks Jiya if there’s another way out of the saloon and she tells him the rear door. Flynn grabbing her arm and pulling her back when she tries to step forward and show them is one of my new favourite things. There was a time where Flynn wouldn’t have cared but that time has long since passed. He’s practically family now and he’s not letting Rittenhouse take his family from him again. Which is why he doesn’t hesitate when Wyatt makes a plan that involves the two of them covering the others while they make a run for it to the Lifeboat. Wyatt tells Lucy to get the others home safe and then come back for him and Flynn. Then he and Flynn get to work.
Watching these two men who have been enemies for so long work together as a perfect team was one of the highlights of the episode for me. They still don’t like each other but there’s a grudging respect for each other and there’s a glimmer of trust. I don’t think either of them will ever fully trust each other but there’s enough there to know they can count on the other in situations like this, when the lives of everyone are at stake – especially Lucy’s. Neither of them would ever let anything happen to her and both of them know it.
Jiya agrees to go with them and her vision plays out just as she saw it, except that she does get to the gun in time. She shoots the Rittenhouse goon before he can stab Rufus, saving his life. They all walk out of the saloon together and alive. Where Emma is waiting.
Fixed Points in Time
Rittenbitch (I’m never calling her anything else) fires off shots in their direction then takes off. She hits Flynn – and Rufus.
Flynn is hit in the shoulder, he’s hurt but he’ll be okay.
Rufus, my precious Rufus, dies with Jiya and Wyatt at his side. Jiya changed her vision but she didn’t stop it. Like the pilgrim in Salem, like JFK, Rufus still died. Somethings are fixed and can’t be changed. Some things are meant to happen. I didn’t cry. There was into much shock for that.
I barely even registered the fact that Lucy grabbed a gun and went after Rittenbitch, or that Wyatt had Flynn chase after her, until Lucy starting shooting. She’s a terrible shot but does manage to hit Rittenbitch in the leg taking her down. As Lucy was standing over her, gun to her head, I honestly wasn’t sure if I wanted her to pull the trigger or not. Part of me was screaming for revenge and the other part was screaming that Lucy isn’t this person. I don’t know if I was disappointed or relieved when Lucy pulled the trigger but was out of bullets. Then Flynn showed up and I was disappointed that Rittenbitch took off before he could shoot her.
The way Flynn shouted Lucy’s name and he way he pulled her into his arms, despite a BULLET WOUND, and held her has me going back to the WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE from earlier. I really, REALLY, need to know what is up there.
The Loss is Sinking In
The shock is starting to where off and watching Connor run towards the Lifeboat, not knowing that Rufus wouldn’t be there, started my tears. Seeing his eager face then his and Agent Christopher’s excitement at seeing Jiya turned the tears into sobs. And did I sob. We’re talking ugly crying. I lost it completely when Connor said he’s fly the Lifeboat himself to get Rufus back.
And Jiya, my poor Jiya. She takes her anger out on everyone for making her leave despite what she told them but deep down the person she’s angry with is herself. That breaks my heart more than losing Rufus does. She’s going to blame herself for this for the rest of her life.
Alone in her room Jiya lets herself go in her visions, searching for Rufus but she can’t find him. He truly is gone. Connor comes in and takes her hand asking her to tell him that she doesn’t have to worry about her losing herself inside her own head – like Stanley Fisher. He tells her he can’t lose her too. They hold each other, the two people who loved Rufus most, and mourn their loss together.
By this point if you aren’t emotional you don’t have emotions.
THOSE THREE WORDS
“I love you Lucy.”
We’ve been waiting so long to hear them. It’s all we’ve wanted for a long time. But to hear them now, to hear them because Rufus is gone, that’s just too painful. This is not the Lyatt reunion I’d hoped for and I’m okay with Lucy not saying them back. There’s still too much for these two to work though and declarations of love aren’t going to change that. I’ve talked about the Lyatt journey before and the steps each of them needed to take for them to really be together. Wyatt admitting his feelings is part of that journey but they still have so far to go. I just hope we get to see it happen because I still firmly believe that Lyatt is endgame.
WIBBILY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY
Season 1 ended on the cliffhanger of Lucy’s mother being Rittenhouse. The middle of season 2 ended with a cliffhanger of Wyatt’s wife not being dead. You HAD to know that season 2 was going to end on a WTF moment!
I would say that Lara Croftesque Lucy and desperately needs to shave Wyatt appearing in the bunker in an upgraded Lifeboat qualifies as WTF! The only person who didn’t look surprised was Flynn so I’m assuming this is the Lucy who gave him the journal.
I mentioned before that I thought that figuring out how to travel back in your own timeline might be the key to saving Rufus and it appears that I was right. Now we just need another season to see how exactly that is going to work. I NEED a season 3! The fate of Rufus’s life (and my sanity) depend on it. Who can put me in touch with the devil so I can sell him my soul to make this happen?
That’s it for this season of Timeless. At the time I’m writing this review for the Timeless Season 2 Finale, a renewal is still up in the air, but I remain hopeful. If we do get a renewal, I’ll see you next season for more reviews! Catch up on my previous Timeless reviews here. And you can follow my person twitter @brynn5xox.
Safe travels Clockblockers! It’s been fun!
Keep connected for more great TV content:
Previous So Many Shows Stuff:
NO MERCY! A Cobra Kai Vidcast!
TV Shows Cancelled or Renewed?
Leave a Reply