Timeless (TV Series)

Public Enemy No. 1 (2017)

Malcolm Barrett: Rufus Carlin

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• Rufus Carlin : The Lifeboat's battery is drained after two jumps. It'll need four hour to recharge, if it even can, and that's...

  Wyatt Logan : Okay. Okay! It's all right. One step at a time. First step: let's go get your sister back.

  Lucy Preston : What?

  Denise Christopher : I think that's reckless. Flynn is still out there.

  Wyatt Logan : With all due respect, ma'am, we don't work for the government anymore. I think Lucy deserves a shot.

• Rufus Carlin : What the hell are we supposed to do?

  Wyatt Logan : It's one problem at a time. And right now, that is Flynn taking the Mothership to 1931.

  Rufus Carlin : Except now Rittenhouse has taken over Mason Industries, and they might be ten times worse than Flynn. Maybe we're fighting the wrong battle.

  Denise Christopher : You're the one who said we can't let Flynn take a wrecking ball to everyone and everything.

  Rufus Carlin : That was before we stole a time machine, became fugitives, and Jiya was forced to work next to a bunch of homicidal dicks!

• Rufus Carlin : For some reason, none of them good, Flynn has already wormed his way in with Capone.

  Wyatt Logan : Yeah, well, with all that mob muscle, it's gonna be hard to get close to Flynn or Capone.

  Rufus Carlin : Which makes this a first-class, grade A cluster...

  Lucy Preston : [spotting Eliot Ness]  Maybe he can help.

• Lucy Preston : Nice place. Very cozy.

  Eliot Ness : It's a rat trap. Capone was tipped off as to where I lived, so, started getting death threats, occasional brick through the window. Sent my wife to Cincinnati to stay with her sister, and I moved in here.

  Rufus Carlin : How do you cope with all that? Loved ones and family in that much danger... how do you still go after Capone?

  Eliot Ness : Well, how could I not? Couldn't look my wife in the eye and tell her that I'd given up. Couldn't look myself in the mirror.

• Lucy Preston : Eliot Ness, he... he can't be dead. He's not supposed to die for another 26 years.

  Rufus Carlin : How'd they even know he was here?

  Wyatt Logan : How do you think? Flynn.

  Lucy Preston : This can't be happening. I mean, Capone is out there on the loose, and the only guy that can stop him is gone!

  Wyatt Logan : We got to get out of here right now.

  Rufus Carlin : We're just supposed to leave him here like this?

  Wyatt Logan : What do you want to do, wait for the cops? We don't have IDs. I'm wearing button-fly jeans from the Gap. There's nothing we can do.

• Rufus Carlin : Where are we going?

  Wyatt Logan : To find Capone.

  Rufus Carlin : What about Flynn?

  Wyatt Logan : One problem at a time.

  Lucy Preston : Stop saying that. Why do you keep saying that?

• Jake Neville : Do you remember Maria Thompkins? Wyatt Logan met her during your NASA mission.

  Lucy Preston : Yeah. Garcia Flynn's mother. Yes. But what does she have to do with it?

  Jake Neville : In 1962, Thompkins was a seventeen year old junior at Sam Houston High School. The mission is to eliminate her.

  Jiya : Whoa.

  Rufus Carlin : You can't be serious.

  Lucy Preston : No, no, no. There is no way that we are doing that. She's... she's innocent.

  Jake Neville : We don't expect either of you to pull the trigger. Meet your new tactical commander, Sergeant Major Caleb Sullivan. You just lead him to the front door, and he'll take care of the rest.

• Rufus Carlin : Okay, so you just want us to play wingman to the Terminator over there?

  [to Mason] 

  Rufus Carlin : And you? You're fine with this? You're just gonna stand there and let this happen?

  Connor Mason : Flynn's mother may be innocent, but she still raised a monster. And given your performances, this may be the only way to get this done.

  Rufus Carlin : Forget it. We refuse.

  Lucy Preston : You cannot make us do this. This is not right.

  Jake Neville : Maybe I haven't been clear. This operation has been green-lit at the highest levels. It's a go. You refuse, we will charge you with aiding and abetting a wanted terrorist. So, you can either spend the next few hours working for me, or the next ten to fifteen years wishing you had. That clear enough for you?

• Rufus Carlin : That's Al Capone? He looks so young.

  Lucy Preston : He was only 26 when he became a crime boss.

• Lucy Preston : Capone is supposed to be going to prison for tax evasion today. Flynn must have gotten him off somehow.

  Rufus Carlin : Well, that's not troubling at all.

• Rufus Carlin : You know what I just realized?

  Lucy Preston : What?

  Rufus Carlin : We're totally the Untouchables right now.

  Lucy Preston : Oh, boy.