The Waverider arrives in Star City 2016. Because of the
randomness of time without the oculus, Rip has decided to bring everyone back
to the meeting point. The team argue that the mission isn’t finished if Savage
is still alive, but Rip states that since they can’t find Savage, and can’t
kill him with Carter and Kendra, they are better off returning to their regular
lives. However, because of the randomness of time now, he could only get them
to May 2016, five months after they left. They continue to argue on staying,
but Rip reveals he already made the choice by showing that the Rip they were
speaking to was a hologram. The real Rip takes off on the Waverider, leaving
the others behind in the present. Each member then returns to their old lives.
Sara returns to the Arrow lair where she finds her father
waiting by the computers. He informs her about an attack by Damian Dahrk, which
Sara remarks is business as usual. However, Lance tearfully informs her that in
the time she was gone Laurel has been killed by Dahrk. Sara breaks down as she
hugs her father.
Rory returns to crime, giving a new partner Snart’s old cold
gun. However, he finds that the new recruit wastefully uses the weapon and
therefore incinerates him. The crime is interrupted by Ray who asks for a talk.
Ray formally apologizes for what happened to Snart, believing that he was the
one destined to die. Rory thinks nothing of the situation, but Ray sees it as
an opportunity for them to have a new partnership, especially when they both
have the same goal in mind. Meanwhile, Stein reunites with his wife, though she
notices that he has been noticeably quiet about his sabbatical. Stein reveals
that he believes that his work was not yet done.
The team then reunites at the meeting point where both Ray
and Stein come up with a machine to contact the Waverider. Rip, listening to
recordings of his wife and children, receives the message from Gideon and
returns to recruit the team, despite his previous reservations.
In 1944, Kendra escapes from Savage and runs into a French
soldier. She implores him to escape but then recognizes his helmet. Kendra
takes the soldier’s helmet and writes down a message to place inside the
lining. Savage then arrives and kills the soldier to take back Kendra back to
the ship.
Back on the Waverider, Sara immediately attacks Rip for
knowing about Laurel’s death. He warns her about messing with the timeline, but
she demands that Rip takes her back to save her sister. Moving quickly, Rip
knocks her out and has Rory takes her to her room to sleep it off. The rest of
the team then try to find a way to locate Savage without the oculus. They
notice an old World War II helmet that was moved from its original spot. Rip
understands it as a temporal change when something occurs in the past that
ripples in the future. Inside the helmet, they find Kendra’s message with her
location in France of 1944.
In 1944, Kendra wakes to find herself strapped to a chair in
the ship. Carter wakes up next to her, still disoriented but seemingly
recognizing Kendra. Savage interrupts the two to take blood from Carter. Kendra
orders him away from Carter, but Savage explains his plan. Kendra and Carter’s
blood arise from the meteorites that fell upon the region in 1700 B.C. Those meteorites,
he reveals, contained Thanagarian materials which granted Carter and Kendra
powers. Now, with their blood, Savage plans to erase time back to 1700 B.C.
where he can ultimately rule.
Rip finally confronts Sara on Laurel’s death. Sara once
again asks to go back to save her sister, but Rip further explains. Taking Sara
resulted in Laurel’s death, but returning Sara to the timeline would have
resulted in Laurel, Lance, and Sara’s death. Sara argues that he can’t be sure
that it will happen, but Rip insists that they can’t risk it. Sara tearfully
states that she can’t continue knowing that Laurel has died. This leads to Rip
admitting that she can because she is the strongest woman he knows. She the
agrees to help save Kendra.
The team arrives just as Savage attempts to attack some
soldiers. Firestorm meanwhile finds the ship and rescues Kendra, freeing Carter
in the process. The rest of the team fights off against Savage, holding their
own while Firestorm leads Kendra and Carter to the Waverider. When a soldier
confronts them, Firestorm takes hold of his weapon, causing it to dissolve in
his hands. Jax marvels at what occurred which Stein explains was transmutation,
changing the molecular structure of an object. The team escapes to the
Waverider, except for Kendra who was shot by a soldier and fell to the ground.
Stein: Concentrate!
Jax: Why are you always saying that like I'm not concentrating?
On the Waverider, Carter attempts to explain what he knows
to help the team. He recalls Savage describing the meteors as Thanagarian
technology and how Savage stole their blood. Whatever Savage has planned, they
also realize it involves the meteor that was spotted in 1958. Meanwhile, Jax
hopes to practice the transmutation move with Stein since he was shocked at the
action earlier. Using Ray and Kendra’s lucky vase, the two as Firestorm attempt
to transmute the material, but the vase instead shatters to pieces. Stein encourages
Jax to keep trying since the third time’s usually the charm. From that
revelation, Stein realizes just what Savage wants to do.
Rip and Stein discover that Savage wants to detonate the
Thanagarian meteors in three different time periods using a ritual with Carter
and Kendra’s blood. With the power from the meteors and the paradoxical actions,
he could effectively send the time stream back to 1700 B.C., the time of the
first temporal displacement. Using coordinates from the distance between Earth
and Thanagar, Stein figures that the three time periods to find and set off the
meteors would be 1958, 1975, and 2021. With Savage’s power of immortality and a
time machine, he can effectively set them off at the same time using his past
selves. As they speak, Savage meets with his past self from 1958 to plot to
detonate the meteor from that period. Fortunately, the radiation from having
contact with the meteor should be enough for the team to kill him once and for
all.
In order to stop Savage, the team breaks up into three
groups to stop the meteors. Ray and Rory track Savage to Harmony Falls 1958,
the site of the crash. Sara and Firestorm follow Savage to Norway in 1975.
Finally, Rip and Carter find Savage and Kendra in St. Roch 2021. Once Savage
activates the ritual, the team attacks. Ray and Rory take on Savage together
while Sara fights Savage one-on-one. Carter tries fighting Savage on his own but
struggles in the fight. Seeing Carter hurt, Kendra bursts from her restraints
and takes on Savage, stabbing him. The fight continues across the three
timelines, leading to Rory torching Savage and Sara snapping his neck. In 2021,
Savage starts to bleed out, but he still taunts Rip on how killing him will not
bring back his family. Rip tosses him into an electrical system, effectively
killing the dictator.
Although the fight is finished, the meteors begin to go
critical. Ray stops the meteor in 1958 by using his new technology to shrink
the blow. In 1975, Firestorm combines Jax and Stein’s concentration to transmute
the meteor into water. However, when the team meet up in 2021, neither are able
to stop the third meteor as their power has been spent. The team believes that
they could fly the meteor out, but none of them have the speed or power to eliminate
the threat. Rip then arrives with the Waverider to drag the meteor out on its
tractor beam. Unfortunately, his idea is to fly the meteor into the sun with
him on the ship.
Sara: Aw, man. You got my boots wet!
The team try talking him out of the mission, but Rip simply
thanks them for their dedication and states his was proud to be their captain.
As he flies into the sun, he sees a vision of his wife and son one last time.
However, he later emerges and converses with Gideon who is as unprepared to die
as he is. He then prepares for one last time jump.
Twenty minutes before he left, Rip returns with the meteor destroyed
in a temporal displacement. He picks up the team and agrees to take them back
to where they desire. However, he plans to stay with the Waverider. With the
oculus destroyed, someone needs to protect the timeline. As a former Time
Master, Rip sees himself as an ideal guardian. With that in mind, he offers the
rest of the team the opportunity to rejoin him.
In the present day, everyone considers the offer as they
return to their lives. Sara visits Laurel’s grave with her father, offering
flowers in her honor. Sara believes that she should stay and fight Dahrk in
Laurel’s name, but Lance helps to remind her that Laurel was the reason for her
to go on the Waverider in the first place. Stein returns to his wife, but she
and a returning Jax then convince him that he is meant for bigger things, such
as protecting the timeline. Rory, however, arrives in a 2013 Central City bar
to see Snart alive and well. Snart is confused as to why Rory called him, but
Rory simply tells him that he is the best man he knows, a hero even if he doesn’t
know it. Snart shrugs it off, so Rory returns to Rip and Ray outside a bar. Rip
reminds Rory that he could visit Snart anytime he likes in the past to see him
again.
The team meet up once again in 2016 to rejoin Rip’s mission.
However, Kendra and Carter decline the offer, desiring to live a life without
Vandal Savage following them. They come to say their goodbyes and fly off,
leaving the team for a new adventure. Just then, a second Waverider appears in
the distance and lands near them. A man emerges from the ship and asks them for
the date. Confirming that it is May 2016, he warns them against getting on the
ship for the risk of death. Rory is skeptical of the man, but the figure states
he was sent by Rory himself. He introduces himself as Rex Tyler, a member of
the Justice Society of America.
Notes of Tomorrow
- The three different timelines of the fight also take place in "Pilot, Part 2" and "Night of the Hawk."
- Rex Tyler is also known as Hourman, a hero with a chemical drug that grants him superhuman beings for one hour at a time.
- Rex also references the Justice Society of America which, as we all know, is the precursor for the Justice League!
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