Rip: I’ll require the services of…
Rory: Killer Klepto and Pyro!
The group reconfigure at the Waverider, though Rip is still
upset about Snart nearly outing him to the soldiers. Kendra then informs the
team about the bracelet. She believes it to be the same one from her first
life, which means they could use it to kill Savage. However, neither she nor
expert-assassin Sara can think of a way to kill the dictator with a bracelet. With
this new plan, Rip sends Snart and Rory to steal the bracelet while he, Ray,
Stein, and Jax search for resistance refugees.
The four come across some resistance forces who, although
originally hostile to strangers, take them into their base. With the
destruction of a nearby base, they’ve taken in the last refugees of London
where everyone is living in poverty. Ray inquiries about Rip’s family since he
knows that they are days away from their deaths. Rip informs him that he had
previously attempted to save his family after traveling to ancient Egypt, but every
time he tried, his family died regardless. Time seems to want them to die. The
resistance leader finally confronts Rip since she does not recognize Rip’s name
on the register nor anyone else he traveled with here. He instead says he’s
only here to kill Savage, but the assassination attempt forced him into hiding.
The leader warns him against fighting and then shows him the destruction of the
last resistance base which was reduced to rubble and craters.
From this finding, Ray and Stein plan to examine exactly
what superweapon was used to destroy the resistance base. Meanwhile, despite
going over them several times, Kendra decides to go through her professor son’s
old research to find a way to kill Savage. When Sara takes out the research,
Kendra spots Carter’s old suit and weapon, his mace. As soon as she touches it,
she witnesses a flashback to Iowa City in 1941. She had come to visit him for
their anniversary since they’ve only been married in eight of their lifetimes.
As a gift, he gives her his mace. She replies that it’s his weapon, but he
persists that they rarely are given the luxury of dying together. She must
learn to fight Savage, even if it means living without him. From that vision,
Kendra believes she knows how to defeat Savage.
Rory and Snart sneaks inside Savage’s base to confront the
woman as she trainse fellow soldiers to fight resistance forces. Although she puts
up a fight, they manage to kidnap the woman and take her aboard the Waverider. Once
they hold her captive, however, she reveals that she is not only Savage’s
lieutenant but also his daughter Cassandra. With this information, the team
debates on how to handle her. While Snart suggests sending her back to Savage
piece by piece as a threat, Sara instead suggests pumping her for information
since she is aware of all of the security provisions. Snart then goes to speak
with her, first by leading in with a story on his own rotten father. Cassandra,
however, remains loyal to her father since she believes him to be the right
force in the world following Per Degaton's Armageddon virus. While she
expects to be tortured, Snart says he has another idea.
Rory begins melting the bracelet around Carter’s old mace
for Kendra to use as a weapon. While she now has a weapon to use against
Savage, Rory warns her that she must have the conviction to finish the kill.
Meanwhile, Ray and Stein discover the true cause of the resistance destruction.
It was not an explosion so much as a giant footprint. The footprint actually
belongs to a giant robot under the command of Savage known as Leviathan who is
now sent to destroy the rebel base.
Rip prepares to take off on the Waverider, but Stein insists
on saving the refugees by taking them aboard the shift. As they prepare to
escape, they are then caught by the robot and tossed aside to the ground. The
ship is now damaged with no hope of instant travel. Rip says they could still
use the escape pods to leave, but Stein wants to protect the people.
Unfortunately, he succumbs to a piece of shrapnel in his gut. Gideon manages to
keep him sedated to heal, though he manages to ask Jax to protect the people.
Snart: I was wrong, your dad’s a gem!
In this chaos, Snart releases Cassandra to have her witness
the people she fought for her father: mothers, children, and people who can
just barely survive. She refuses to believe that refugees are innocent, so
Snart shows her footage from their last trip to the future where Savage reveals
his plot to release the virus. Meanwhile, Rip despairs over his inability to
repair the Waverider before the next attack, just like his inability to save
his wife and child. Ray then encourages him not to believe in faith but in his
own choices and reveals his own plan to stop the robot. Before he enacts his
plan, he gives Kendra a send-off as the two kiss.
Using Jax’s help, Ray reverses the polarity of his ATOM
suit to instead allow him to grow to giant size. With the playing field even,
Ray runs and faces Leviathan. As Ray fights the robot, Cassandra returns to
Savage, only to have him notice that her bracelet is missing. He immediately
recognizes that she has turned against him, and the rest of the team arrives to
face him. Savage orders his guards to even the odds, but Kendra arrives to
fight him one-on-one.
The fights continue with Ray holding his own against the
machine until he is knocked out. Kendra finds her weapon working perfectly
until she is attacked by another soldier. She knocks him aside and hits his
helmet off, only to find the soldier to be 2166 Carter. Savage reveals that he
found the reincarnated Carter and had him brainwashed to follow his orders.
Without Savage alive, Carter can never regain his old memories. Out in the
field, Jax manages to reach Ray out of unconsciousness for him to finish the
robot and save the Waverider.
Rip arrives to Kendra and tells her to kill Savage. However,
she’s unable to sacrifice Carter for Rip. Rip nevertheless knocks Savage
unconscious and helps Kendra bring both Savage and Carter back to the ship.
After the fight, Snart escorts Cassandra to the resistance base. While the
resistance leader is rightfully distrustful of the woman, Cassandra offers her
knowledge of the soldiers’ strategy and plans to fight for the rebels. Kendra
also plans to have another talk with Ray following Carter’s reappearance.
The events concluded, Stein reawakens for Rip to inform him
on the survival of the refugees. Rip then faces Savage. Although he is
captured, Savage recognizes that he still has the upper hand. Rip, however,
fires back that they will find a way to save Carter and his family.
Notes of Tomorrow
- Vandal Savage actually has two daughters in his comic-book history. One includes his recognized daughter the villainess/antiheroine Scandal Savage whom he trained from birth in combat. The other is Kassandra Sage, a who works for the FBI. Cassandra, with her skill in combat and eventually betrayal of her father, might be a combination of the two.
- The robot Leviathan is actually not from the comics, but the ATOM symbol on its chest suggests that it was made from Ray's technology.
- This marks the first time that Hawkgirl wields her infamous mace.
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