DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)

Return of the Mack (2017)

Victor Garber: Dr. Martin Stein, Sir Henry Stein

Quotes 

• Nate Heywood : See, the anachronisms form a pattern.

  Dr. Martin Stein : I should have guessed. Though time may be broken, like all matter in the known universe, it still possesses a mathematical harmony.

  Jefferson Jackson : Not exactly. What about those two?

  Nate Heywood : Those two are outliers. First one, Seattle, 2042.

  Zari Tomaz : When the assassin tried to kill me.

  Nate Heywood : Right. While cool - not the part where, you know, you almost got killed - it's not as cool as the other one. London, 1895. How do I say this? There's a vampire. Half-dozen men snatched off the streets, only to have their bodies dumped three days later completely drained of blood.

  Mick Rory : [brandishing a stake]  Vampires. Waited my whole life to kill one.

  Jefferson Jackson : Do you just carry that around all the time?

  Mick Rory : My whole life.

• Amaya Jiwe : I'm glad you left 2042.

  Zari Tomaz : Actually, I wanted to talk to you guys about going back to 2042. Or, better yet, 2041. I was thinking "why is my family dead when I'm on a time machine?".

  Sara Lance : Unfortunately, that's not how this works.

  Zari Tomaz : I thought you could change the past.

  Amaya Jiwe : We can correct the past, and the future, but we don't change it.

  Zari Tomaz : Why not?

  Dr. Martin Stein : Because doing so can cause unforseen, possibly even disastrous, consequences. It's a... temporal butterfly effect, if you will.

  Zari Tomaz : Try not doing something that would save your brother's life?

  Sara Lance : Does a sister count?

• Sara Lance : Nate, where are you?

  Nate Heywood : I don't know, but I just had a chat with Professor Stein's weird lookalike evil cousin.

  Gideon : Great-great grandfather, to be exact. The famous stage actor, Sir Henry Stein.

  Dr. Martin Stein : Astonishing! The... the chances of us running into one of my ancestors are astronomical. Family lore recalls him as being an eccentric. But then, what can one expect from an actor?

  Nate Heywood : He's also an occult weirdo who kidnapped me to feed his master.

  Rip Hunter : Excellent. The vampire will lead us to Mallus. Stay where you are, Dr. Heywood.

  Nate Heywood : [tied down]  Yeah, that's not gonna be a problem.

• Gideon : Shock missiles away, Captain.

  Nate Heywood : Oh, this is gonna suck so bad.

  Jefferson Jackson : Uh, Gray, if we're gonna die, I don't want us to go out mad at each other. So, uh, I can't remember what for, but I'm sorry.

  Dr. Martin Stein : You were just thinking of me. Actually, I should be thanking you.

  Ray Palmer : Aww. Who wants to hold hands?

  Nate Heywood : Ray, it's not freaking "Toy Story 3".

  Mick Rory : Everyone shut up. I got one page left.

• Ray Palmer : Does Gray... I mean Marty, know that you wanna break up with him?

  Jefferson Jackson : No clue. But if he did, he'd say it was too dangerous.

  Ray Palmer : Well, if you're really determined to do this, severing your psychic connection could give us some much-needed mental space to figure out how to untie the nuclear knot.

  Jefferson Jackson : Well, let's do it.

  Ray Palmer : Okay. Here goes.

  [injecting Jax with a needle] 

  Ray Palmer : Oh, I forgot. There... there might be a... a couple side effects.

  Jefferson Jackson : What side effects?

  Ray Palmer : Um... just, like, you know, facial swelling, maybe a little gastrointestinal upset. Uh... oh, and short-term memory loss. How do you feel?

  Jefferson Jackson : Uh... normal. Except, uh, I'm not craving grapefruit.

  Ray Palmer : Okay?

  Jefferson Jackson : Ray! It's 9:00 a.m. and I'm not craving grapefruit!

  Dr. Martin Stein : [cut to the galley, where Stein is eating half a grapefruit]  Mm. Delightful!

• Sir Henry Stein : "Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!'".

  Nate Heywood : Professor Stein?

  Sir Henry Stein : No. Shakespeare, actually. And it's "Sir Stein" to you. It's not every actor who is knighted.

  Nate Heywood : Oh, god. This can't be happening.

  Sir Henry Stein : Thanks to your lifeblood, my master will finally make his return. But there's much to be done in the meantime.

  Nate Heywood : [to himself, as Stein leaves]  Yeah, well, that wasn't creepy.

• Zari Tomaz : What's that?

  Rip Hunter : It's, uh... it's some of my research on Mallus. "Beware the blood-red moon, when the door that separates death from life will be opened." It's the first line of an oath taken by the Order of the Shrouded Compass, an infamous secret society of London's aristocracy obsessed with the occult.

  Amaya Jiwe : That sounds like the perfect place for an out-of-time vampire to take refuge.

  Rip Hunter : Yes, well, the Order also believe in the magical properties associated with... a total lunar eclipse.

  Dr. Martin Stein : Which is set to occur right here in London tonight.

• Sir Henry Stein : Ladies and gentlemen, if I could have your attention, please.

  Rip Hunter : Truly uncanny.

  Sara Lance : It's that 'stache that's

  [mimicking Stein's tone] 

  Sara Lance : astonishing.

• Jefferson Jackson : Gray, don't take this out on Ray. He was just helping me figure out a way we could, uh... break up Firestorm. So that you could go home, and I could stay on the ship.

  Dr. Martin Stein : Oh, I see.

  Jefferson Jackson : So are you cool with this?

  Dr. Martin Stein : [sarcastic]  Why wouldn't I be? After all, you've only been... been here tinkering in secret with how to split up a walking, talking, living nuclear reactor. Of couse I'm cool with it.

  Jefferson Jackson : Okay.

  Dr. Martin Stein : After everything we've been through, how could you attempt something of this magnitude behind my back?

• Dr. Martin Stein : Oh, it seems we both share a craving for solitude.

  Rip Hunter : Is everyone aboard the ship?

  Dr. Martin Stein : As far as I'm aware. Is there something I can do for you?

  Rip Hunter : In fact, there is. Could you please tell Captain Lance... I'm sorry.

  [he shuts the blast door] 

  Dr. Martin Stein : What are you doing?

  Rip Hunter : Gideon, initiate Gentlemen's Dreadnought.

  Gideon : Command code recognized. Are you sure, Director Hunter?

  Rip Hunter : [to Stein]  She left me no choice.

• Dr. Martin Stein : It's Mr. Hunter.

  Nate Heywood : What's he done?

  [a protective steel shield covers the Waverider] 

  Ray Palmer : All the exits are locked.

  Jefferson Jackson : And I can't override the command.

  Sara Lance : Damn it, Rip.

  Mick Rory : Told you we should never have trusted the Englishman.

  Amaya Jiwe : Where's Zari?

• Jefferson Jackson : [sharing a grapefruit with Stein]  Mm. Not bad. A little tart.

  Dr. Martin Stein : If you can believe it, Clarissa prefers to eat her grapefruit...

  Jefferson Jackson : With salt. Yeah, I remember.

  Dr. Martin Stein : How...

  Jefferson Jackson : I got Ray to restore our psychic connection. I can feel how much you're missing your family. Ever since baby Ronnie was born, it's only gotten worse. It's like there's a hole in my chest.

  Dr. Martin Stein : I'm so sorry. I never expected the birth of my grandson would make being away that much more painful. And I certainly never wanted you to share this burden. But with this new Mallus threat, and the return of Damien Darhk, the team needs Firestorm more than ever.

  Jefferson Jackson : Yeah, and the team can get Firestorm, and you can go home, if we can stabilize the matrix into my body.

  Dr. Martin Stein : T.S. Eliot once said "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." So, when do we start?

  Jefferson Jackson : As soon as I, uh, fix that giant hole in the cargo bay.

  Dr. Martin Stein : Well, good luck with that.