Timeless (TV Series)

Public Enemy No. 1 (2017)

Abigail Spencer: Lucy Preston

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• Lucy Preston : So, we just stole a giant piece of top-secret machinery and made ourselves fugitives from the U.S. government. All good.

  Wyatt Logan : You did the right thing. If Rittenhouse is running the shop, they can't have the time machine.

  Lucy Preston : Your sense of calm is super annoying.

• 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.

• Denise Christopher : Rufus, like it or not, we're the only ones who can stop Flynn from hurting people.

  Lucy Preston : And what about my sister, huh? I mean, this was my last shot. If we don't do this now, I may never see my sister again. They track us down after we get back from Chicago, it is over. My sister will be gone forever.

  Wyatt Logan : Okay, look, I get it. None of us should have to give up our families. I know. I'm the last person that should be saying that, because I'm the selfish ass that went after my wife, but still. Letting Flynn murder through time, that's madness. And I thinks somewhere deep down, we all can admit that. Rittenhouse or not, Flynn's not gonna stop until we stop him. So why us? There's nobody else but us.

• Wyatt Logan : So, March 13, 1931, Chicago. Where's Flynn headed?

  Lucy Preston : There's only one place I can think of.

• Wyatt Logan : [watching Capone]  Is he not afraid to be out in the open like this?

  Lucy Preston : The people of Chicago loved him. They would chant his name at Cubs games.

• 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.

• Wyatt Logan : Where could we find Capone right now?

  Lucy Preston : We are in a little bit of a time crunch. Garcia Flynn is... very dangerous.

  Eliot Ness : And Capone isn't?

  Wyatt Logan : Not by comparison.

  Eliot Ness : Capone? The man responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

  Lucy Preston : I think we can all agree that both men are incredibly dangerous. Why don't we just focus on finding them and stopping them from whatever it is they're planning on doing?

• 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?

• Wyatt Logan : Do you know what the very first Delta mission was?

  Lucy Preston : 1979, Iran.

  Wyatt Logan : That's right. Go get the hostages out of Tehran. One of my Delta intructors, name is Diamond Dave, he was on that mission. The plane carrying the operatives lands in the desert somewhere to refuel. While it's on the ground, a Navy helicopter crashses into it due to the heavy winds. So, Dave, he wakes up from a nap. He sees the plane is on fire. Now, he still thinks they're 20,000 feet up. He can't find a parachute, so he just flings himself right out the door, right through the smoke.

  Lucy Preston : Okay, this is all really nice, but what is the point of this story?

  Wyatt Logan : So the guys afterwards asked Dave "If you thought we were 20,000 feet in the air, why the hell would you fling yourself out the door without a parachute?". Dave just looks at him and he says "All I knew was the plane was on fire, and I figured one problem at a time." First, we stop Capone, and then we worry about what Flynn wants with him and everything else. So if Al Capone is supposed to be behind bars, how do we put him there?

  Lucy Preston : I don't know. I mean, without Ness, this is just...

  Wyatt Logan : [seeing a thought strike her]  Lucy?

  Lucy Preston : I know who we can ask.

• 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.