Timeless (TV Series)

The Lost Generation (2017)

Abigail Spencer: Lucy Preston

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• Lucy Preston : How can you be so calm right now?

  Wyatt Logan : Because I've been through a lot in the last couple of days, and I fought it for a long time. You can call it fate or God or the Force, but I am meant to do something. I am meant to protect the both of you. I see that now, and I will.

  Lucy Preston : You realize you sound like a crazy person, right?

  Rufus Carlin : Mmm hmm.

  Wyatt Logan : I sound like you.

  Lucy Preston : Exactly.

• Rufus Carlin : Whoa. Scary Rittenhouse dude is your father?

  Denise Christopher : You shouldn't have talked to him.

  Lucy Preston : I had to see him with my own eyes.

  Denise Christopher : You put yourself in serious danger.

  Rufus Carlin : The guy who's been terrorizing me, that's your dad?

  Lucy Preston : My biological father.

  Rufus Carlin : How about you do me a favor, and next time you and your dad are at a barbecue, you tell him it'd be super great if he didn't kill my family!

  Denise Christopher : Okay, his name's Benjamin Cahill. Squeaky clean record. He's a pediatric surgeon at UCSF, for god's sake.

  Rufus Carlin : Okay, that is so creepy.

• Denise Christopher : Flynn jumped. May 21, 1927.

  Lucy Preston : Paris.

  Rufus Carlin : What's Paris?

  Lucy Preston : That's the day that Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris; the first transatlantic solo flight. But I cannot do this, not now.

  Rufus Carlin : Okay, where's Wyatt? I mean, we're not doing this without him.

  Denise Christopher : After his little stunt, there's zero chance he's going on this trip. My hands are tied. You can either jump into that Lifeboat, or you can sit back and let Flynn torch history.

  Lucy Preston : Maybe we let Flynn torch history.

• Lucy Preston : We know that Rittenhouse is terrible. We know that... that they want to take the Mothership back and destroy everything. So what if we let Flynn take them out? I mean, that's a good thing, right?

  Rufus Carlin : Lucy, I'm gonna go.

  Lucy Preston : What? Why? I mean, after everything that Rittenhouse said they're gonna do to your family?

  Rufus Carlin : Yes, they wildly and extravagantly suck, and I want them gone, but Flynn is going to hurt people. He is going to kill people, change history. You know that. And if we don't stop him... that's on us. I'll go alone if I have to.

  Lucy Preston : [pause]  I'm in.

• Denise Christopher : Lucy Preston, Rufus Carlin, this is Master Sergeant David Baumgardner.

  Rufus Carlin : Bam Bam. Uh, Wyatt mentioned you before.

  Dave Baumgardner : Dave's fine.

  Denise Christopher : We've had him on standby since the Alamo mission.

  Dave Baumgardner : I thought Agent Christopher was yanking my chain when she said "time travel", but...

  [glancing at the Lifeboat] 

  Dave Baumgardner : Holy crap.

  Lucy Preston : I know how you feel.

  Denise Christopher : He's been thoroughly briefed, but show him the ropes. You're the varsity squad now.

  Rufus Carlin : That is not comforting.

• Lucy Preston : Lindbergh is set to touch down any minute. There's about 100,000 people waiting for him to land just west of here.

  Rufus Carlin : Flying what, 3,500 miles in a crappy single-seater? Guy's like Indiana Jones.

  Lucy Preston : He was. Just a nice boy from St. Louis who becomes the most famous man in the world. About a decade from now he becomes a Nazi sympathizer, paranoid and anti-Semitic. Hitler awards him a medal.

  Rufus Carlin : Boy, that story took a dark turn.

• Ernest Hemingway : You really think that there's a chance Lindbergh is still alive? I'm a reporter for the Toronto Star. Name's Hemingway.

  Lucy Preston : Ernest Hemingway?

  Ernest Hemingway : You read my book.

  Lucy Preston : Oh, my god. I've... I've read all of them.

  [he looks at her in confusion] 

  Lucy Preston : I mean... all of the words in your one book, but maybe you will write more.

  Ernest Hemingway : I doubt it, but still, tell me you love whiskey, and I'll marry you.

• Lucy Preston : What's that?

  Dave Baumgardner : It's a 1927 Colt .38.

  Lucy Preston : But where's your modern gun, like whatever Wyatt uses?

  Dave Baumgardner : I was told not to bring anything back from 2017. Those are the rules.

  Lucy Preston : You're supposed to ignore *that* rule.

  Dave Baumgardner : Now you tell me.

• Lucy Preston : Hey, mom. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. I... just had to borrow a book or ten.

  Carol Preston : I see. What's got you reading about Charles Lindbergh?

  Lucy Preston : He still became a word-class a-hole. Isolationist, anti-Semitic, the whole nine.

  Carol Preston : You say that like it's news.

  Lucy Preston : I just don't get it. I mean, he-he gets injured in a... in a crash landing, and then disappears for a few weeks, only to re-emerge to claim credit for the first transatlantic flight. Why?

  Carol Preston : He was an ambitious man. I mean, his father was a Congressman. Maybe the love of the spotlight got passed down. I mean, he had money, adoration, power. How do you walk away from a family like that?

  Lucy Preston : I just thought he'd make a different choice.

• Carol Preston : I know meeting your father has thrown you, and I get it that you don't want to talk to me about it, but what do we do in our family when we go through tough times? When we need to collect our thoughts?

  Lucy Preston : We write them down.

  Carol Preston : We write them down.

  [she offers Lucy a gift; inside is the journal of which a copy from the future is in Flynn's possession] 

  Lucy Preston : It's a journal.