DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)

Guest Starring John Noble (2018)

Nick Zano: Nate Heywood, Steel

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Quotes 

• Rip Hunter : The Bureau needs backup. Grodd's going after Barry.

  Nate Heywood : Well, that explains the time turbulence.

  Wally West : The Flash is always in trouble. It's kind of his thing.

  Rip Hunter : Not that particular Barry.

• Nate Heywood : Really Wally? You're gonna do this?

  Wally West : It's not like that, Nate.

  Amaya Jiwe : I know why you're here.

  Amaya Jiwe : No, no, you really don't.

  Wally West : Short version: Nora's on the ship, tripping on Mallus juice. Damien Darhk gave us the Water Totem after they saved Barack Obama. And, uh, we are here to help you create the anachronisms so we can release Mallus, and then we can kill him.

  Ray Palmer : Oh, and I met John Noble.

• Nate Heywood : Code 1-3-1! All hands on the bridge!

  Sara Lance : What's going on?

  Mick Rory : Yeah. I gotta get back to "Lord of the Rings".

  Ava Sharpe : You read?

• Wally West : So, what's the backup plan?

  Nate Heywood : Well, according to Ray's song, this is a code 2-2-2.

  Wally West : What's that?

  Nate Heywood : It means we're screwed no matter what we do.

• Amaya Jiwe : This is me.

  Nate Heywood : Of course. You really don't remember, do you?

  Amaya Jiwe : How is this possible?

  Nate Heywood : We were part of a bitchin' team that traveled through time together; I mean, the 1942 you.

  Amaya Jiwe : Why are you here, time traveler?

  Nate Heywood : To keep my promise to you, by making sure your daughter Esi gets the Spirit totem tonight.

  Amaya Jiwe : She didn't even show up to her own ceremony. Her head is always somewhere else. She doesn't know what she wants.

  Nate Heywood : Yeah, you had a hard time figuring that out, too, when you were her age. But, look, if Esi believed you were truly in her corner, she wouldn't doubt herself. She would accept the totem and be unstoppable, just like you.

• Nate Heywood : Code 1-3-1.

  [blank stares] 

  Nate Heywood : Come on, guys, I wrote a whole memo.

  Sara Lance : Yeah, nobody read it.

  Ray Palmer : [entering]  I did.

  Nate Heywood : Thank you, Ray.

  Ray Palmer : Pancakes for breakfast.

  Nate Heywood : No, 1-3-1 is not... is it?

  Ray Palmer : Yeah. Does that mean no pancakes?

• Ray Palmer : I wrote a song to help us remember all the codes. It goes like this. From the top!

  [singing] 

  Ray Palmer : If the code is 1-1-1, Mallus escaped the time dungeon. If the code is 1-1-2...

  Sara Lance : [cutting him off]  All right, Nate, just tell us.

  Nate Heywood : Someone stole the jumpship.

  [looking around] 

  Nate Heywood : Where's Amaya?

  Zari Tomaz : Uh, according to the jumpship logs, Zambesi, 1992. Right before the warlords destroyed her village.

• Sara Lance : All right, people, we're dealing with two anachronisms now, Zambesi and young Obama. Wally, Nate, I want you guys to go talk some sense into Amaya.

  Nate Heywood : You mean convince her to stand down while her village and family is torn apart?

  Zari Tomaz : What if I use my temporal simulator to find some loophole that Amaya can use to help save Zambesi?

  Sara Lance : All right, do it. The rest of us, we're on Obamacare.

• Amaya Jiwe : [finding Nate and Wally in Zambesi]  What are you doing here?

  Nate Heywood : What are you doing here?

  Amaya Jiwe : Preventing the genocide of my people tomorrow.

  Wally West : We know. We're here to stop you.

  [seeing her look] 

  Wally West : Peacefully.

• Nate Heywood : Look, Amaya, I know you're upset about what happened to Kuasa, and all I can say is I am... I'm truly sorry.

  Amaya Jiwe : I don't blame you for my granddaughter's death, Nathaniel. I blame the warlords who draw closer by the minute. And I intend to stop them, so stay out of my way.

• Wally West : What are we even doing here, man? We need to stop Amaya, not party with the village.

  Nate Heywood : [seeing the older Amaya]  There she is.

  Wally West : Okay, great, well, let's get her out of here.

  Nate Heywood : Not our Amaya. That Amaya.

  Wally West : [seeing his expression]  What's wrong?

  Nate Heywood : Nothing. It just means... my Amaya comes back to Zambesi, and we don't grow old together.

• Nate Heywood : What just happened?

  Amaya Jiwe : My daughter rejected the totem.

  Wally West : You sound more excited than I thought you'd be.

  Amaya Jiwe : Esi never bonded with the totem. This is why the warlords were able to destroy my village.

  Nate Heywood : You think you can convince Esi to be a totem bearer.

  Amaya Jiwe : She'll protect the village tomorrow. She'll protect Kuasa. Everything will change.

  Wally West : That's the problem. I saw what happened with Barry Allen when he went back and stopped his mother's murder, a little thing called Flashpoint. We can't change history. I'm sorry. Tell her, Nate.

  [seeing Nate is reluctant] 

  Wally West : Nate?

  Nate Heywood : I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but screw history for once.

• Nate Heywood : Okay, so you go talk to your daughter, and I'll go talk to you. The older you.

  Amaya Jiwe : Hmm. You always had a way with her.

  Nate Heywood : [to Wally]  Come on.

  Wally West : Wait, we doing what?

• Nate Heywood : All right, you fathwoom into Amaya's hut, grab the totem, and we'll give it to her daughter.

  Wally West : Nate, I... now that you have some space from her, I need you to come to your senses. Amaya can't see this, she's too close. But she's going to cause more harm than good if this releases Mallus.

  Nate Heywood : We don't know that.

  Wally West : We do. You do.

  Nate Heywood : I can't not help her, Wally.

  Wally West : I love you, man, but I will stop you if you take this too far.

• Nate Heywood : [sneaking into Amaya's hut]  Like stealing candy from a very old baby.

• Nate Heywood : [getting caught trying to steal Amaya's totem]  Ow! Oh, Amaya, wait. It's me. You know, I didn't think this would do it for me, but it actually kind of does.

  Amaya Jiwe : Who are you?

  Nate Heywood : Oh. It's me, Nate.

  Amaya Jiwe : Who?

  Nate Heywood : Nate. I know it's been a while, but we used to travel through time together. You know, do other things...

  Amaya Jiwe : If this is some kind of joke...

  Nate Heywood : It's not a joke. I have pictures of us on my phone.

• Amaya Jiwe : Esi's embraced her destiny. Tomorrow when the maraduers come, she'll be ready.

  Nate Heywood : And if she's not, we'll be right there to fight alongside her.

  Amaya Jiwe : You don't have to stay, Nathaniel. I know that what I did was selfish.

  Nate Heywood : You couldn't be selfish if you tried. Now, you see that boomin' granny over there? She doesn't remember me, or the Legends. You know why that is?

  Amaya Jiwe : I must have erased my memory.

  Nate Heywood : And why would you do that?

  Amaya Jiwe : Because if I chose to come back here, after everything we've been through, then erasing you would be the only way that I could be the protector my people deserve. Otherwise, I'd always be split in two. And part of me would be in love with you.

• Amaya Jiwe : This place has been sacred to my people since the dawn of time. The totems will be strongest here.

  Nate Heywood : Well, they'd better be, 'cause mine's not turning on.

• Amaya Jiwe : [Nate saves her older self and Esi from Grodd]  Nathaniel. I-I didn't take you for a totem bearer.

  Nate Heywood : That makes two of us.