Timeless (TV Series)

The Kennedy Curse (2018)

Abigail Spencer: Lucy Preston

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• Lucy Preston : Oh, my god. Please tell me that's not who I think it is.

  Rufus Carlin : It's not who you think it is, unless you think it's a young JFK. Then it's definitely who you think it is.

• Lucy Preston : [learning JFK escaped from the bunker]  Oh, my god. If we don't put JFK back where he belongs, he doesn't become president, no JFK, no Peace Corps, no Civil Rights Act...

  Jiya : No immigration reform.

  Lucy Preston : But there is nuclear war with Cuba.

• Jiya : Hey. You're awake. Fever dropped. That's a good sign.

  Lucy Preston : Wyatt?

  Jiya : He's on a mission.

  Lucy Preston : He went without me?

  Jiya : You were stabbed with a knife full of 17th century germs and running a fever of 105, remember?

  Lucy Preston : [Jiya tends to her wound]  Ow. I don't care. He shouldn't have gone without me.

  Jiya : Flynn's pinch hitting. I'm sure he and Wyatt have everything under control.

  Lucy Preston : [sarcastic]  Sure. What could go wrong?

• Jessica : Oh, hey.

  Lucy Preston : Hey.

  Jessica : Lucy, right? How you feeling?

  Lucy Preston : Not that great, actually. I think I'm gonna go back to bed and rest.

  Jessica : Do you want some tea?

  [Lucy can't say no] 

  Jessica : Sit down. I tend bar for a living, so it's, like, physically impossible for me to let someone else serve their own drink.

• Lucy Preston : You said you're a bartender?

  Jessica : Yeah, yeah, yeah. At Gilroy's in the Mission. Drinks suck, but management's cool.

  Lucy Preston : Uh, is that where you and Wyatt met?

  Jessica : No, Wyatt and I met in high school. Yeah. We've, uh... we've been together since senior year, if you can believe that. He didn't tell you this?

  [Lucy shakes her head 'no'] 

  Jessica : Yeah, he's not much of a talker. What about you? Are you married?

  Lucy Preston : No. Me... not married. I mean, I, uh... I was engaged once, kind of. For, like, a moment. I don't know. It's... It's complicated.

  Jessica : It always is, isn't it? Wyatt and I have been in counseling for two years. I mean in my reality.

  [laughing] 

  Jessica : I, uh, guess not in his. Or yours. It's, uh... this time travel stuff really messes with your head.

• Denise Christopher : John F. Kennedy? You brought President Kennedy? Are you out of your minds?

  Rufus Carlin : Well, he was knocked out, okay? He doesn't know where or when he is.

  Wyatt Logan : They were gonna kill him. They chased us all the way to the Lifeboat. This was our best option.

  Rufus Carlin : It was our only option.

  Wyatt Logan : Besides, we-we have a plan. Flynn's gonna take care of Rittenhouse in '34. We're gonna recharge the Lifeboat and take JFK back.

  Lucy Preston : And pick up Flynn.

  Rufus Carlin : Yeah, sure, that, too.

• Lucy Preston : Okay, so let me get this straight. Uh, we just need to keep John alive long enough so we can return him so he can become arguably the most beloved president of the 20th century. No big deal.

• Wyatt Logan : It's hard to imagine that skinny kid grows up to bang Marilyn Monroe, huh?

  Lucy Preston : Hmm. Kennedy's intern and mistress, Mimi Alfred, said that he had a way of making a woman feel like she was the only one that mattered, even when he was married to someone else.

• Denise Christopher : It's been a tough week for you.

  Lucy Preston : I'm on the mend.

  Denise Christopher : That's not what I meant. You've been quiet since you got back from Salem, and I have a feeling I know why.

  Lucy Preston : You do?

  Denise Christopher : Your mother tried to have you hanged as a witch. I imagine that'd be just a little bit upsetting. Do you want to talk about it?

  Lucy Preston : Not really, but thanks for asking.

• Wyatt Logan : Rufus, what do you mean you lost 'em?

  Rufus Carlin : There aren't cameras on every street. They drove out of range.

  Wyatt Logan : Well, what direction were they heading?

  Rufus Carlin : South on Willow.

  Wyatt Logan : All right. What's in the area?

  Jiya : There's a Chinese restaurant, Starbucks, Bailey's Bar and Grill, a hospital, a park...

  Jessica : I don't know much about JFK, but a bar sounds right up his alley.

  Lucy Preston : No, no, no, I bet he's going to the hospital.

  Wyatt Logan : What makes you say that?

  Lucy Preston : Well, John suffered from health issues his entire life. Spent most of his childhood in and out of hospitals. I mean, Bobby even joked that if someone ever were to write a book about his brother, it would be titled "John F. Kennedy: A Medical History".

  Wyatt Logan : Doesn't mean he's sick now.

  Lucy Preston : Stress probably makes his conditions worse. And I'm imagining he's probably pretty stressed right now.

  Wyatt Logan : If we're wrong...

  Jessica : Hey, I'd go with the historian on this one. I mean, she's kept you alive this long, right?

  Wyatt Logan : Hospital it is.

• Jessica : God, I hate hospitals. Remember Hawaii?

  Wyatt Logan : Ugh, don't remind me.

  Lucy Preston : What happened?

  Jessica : Uh, we were on a surfing trip.

  Lucy Preston : You surf?

  Wyatt Logan : Yeah.

  Jessica : Eh, not as well as he thinks he does.

  Wyatt Logan : No.

  Jessica : You wiped out. Hit himself in the head with a board, got a concussion.

  Wyatt Logan : Ended up in this awful hospital.

  Jessica : You remember that?

  Wyatt Logan : I remember that you never left my side. You slept in that uncomfortable chair for days. I remember that.

• John F. Kennedy : I know about my siblings' deaths. My own assassination.

  Rufus Carlin : Well, maybe you can change your fate. Don't go to Dallas on November 22nd, 1963.

  John F. Kennedy : What about the curse? Everyone I love is going to die a tragic death.

  Lucy Preston : You may not be able to save everybody, John, but you are going to make the world a much better place. There are worse fates.

  John F. Kennedy : Was I a good president?

  Lucy Preston : One of the greatest.