Timeless (TV Series)

The War to End All Wars (2018)

Malcolm Barrett: Rufus Carlin

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• Wyatt Logan : Okay, so what the hell were they doing in all these places?

  Rufus Carlin : I've been reading these plans they have. They're nothing like Flynn's old run and gun. It's about pressure points.

  Denise Christopher : Pressure points?

  Rufus Carlin : Key moments in history to change the present. Mostly a bunch of crazy ideas on how to make a perfect world somewhere between "Hunger Games" and "Handmaid's Tale".

• Rufus Carlin : We're good to go. Where's Lucy?

  Wyatt Logan : I don't know. I've called, texted. She's not answering.

  Rufus Carlin : Where she say she was going again?

  Wyatt Logan : Her mom's, I think.

  Rufus Carlin : Girl's been obsessed with trying to get her sister back. Now that she can, she's late?

  Wyatt Logan : I'll try her again.

• Rufus Carlin : Look, I know you wanna find Lucy, but you getting yourself killed out there isn't gonna help anyone, especially if you don't even know if she's alive.

• Denise Christopher : I stationed two armed guards upstairs to keep the bad guys out and keep you guys in.

  Wyatt Logan : You see, Rufus? We really are prisoners in this hell hole.

  Denise Christopher : It is government-owned. It's off the grid. And it was available on extremely short notice.

  Wyatt Logan : [sarcastic]  Gee, I wonder why.

  Denise Christopher : The only way you're leaving this bunker is in that time machine.

  Wyatt Logan : [getting off the elevator]  Screw you.

  Rufus Carlin : It does suck down here.

• Lucy Preston : You have to go.

  Wyatt Logan : What?

  Lucy Preston : My mother is leaving soon.

  Rufus Carlin : Your mother?

  Lucy Preston : She's one of them.

  Wyatt Logan : So your mother is a Rittenhouse?

  Lucy Preston : Don't have time to explain right now. I have to get back to them.

  Wyatt Logan : [stopping her as she turns to leave]  No, wait. Get back to what?

  Lucy Preston : They're trying to save a soldier, which means I have to kill him, I guess.

• Rufus Carlin : I'm guessing you're happy she's still alive, huh?

  Wyatt Logan : [briefly absent]  What? Yeah, of course. We need our historian.

  Rufus Carlin : Yeah, sure. Our historian.

• Rufus Carlin : Unbelievable.

  Wyatt Logan : What?

  Rufus Carlin : You remember when we thought we were done with all of this?

  Wyatt Logan : Well, we got Lucy back. That's what's important.

  Rufus Carlin : So the three of us die here now.

• Wyatt Logan : These boots are giving me blisters. I need to invent sneakers. Rufus, you gotta get it together.

  Rufus Carlin : So, what, I'm the bad guy 'cause I'm not thrilled to still be chasing these jackasses through time?

  Wyatt Logan : I'm just saying, all things considered, I think we have it pretty good.

  [indicating a nearby car] 

  Wyatt Logan : Look, wheels.

• Captain Albright : Stealing a truck to run off? You know what the penalty is for desertion? I ought to shoot you right now, save the provost marshal the trouble.

  Wyatt Logan : Okay, we're not deserters.

  Captain Albright : What regiment are you with?

  Rufus Carlin : The black one.

• Rufus Carlin : Look, don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have the team back. But I still have a mother and a brother who think I'm dead; a girlfriend who's sick and nobody knows why. Look, you spent the last six weeks worried about the woman you love, I think you'd understand.

  Wyatt Logan : What?

  Rufus Carlin : Lucy!

  Wyatt Logan : No.

  Rufus Carlin : You idiot. You're in love with Lucy. Just admit it.

  [silence] 

  Rufus Carlin : Fine, don't admit it. I don't care. Can you just admit that sometimes saving the world sucks? Can you give me that? Please?

  Wyatt Logan : [hitting a bump in the road]  I'll admit the road sucks.

• Wyatt Logan : All right, can't call, can't text, can't e-mail. What is this guy doing with this thing in 1918?

  Rufus Carlin : I don't know. Porn, probably? Obviously.

  Wyatt Logan : They all knew him. They answered to him. I mean, how does a Rittenhouse agent become a captain in World War I?

  Rufus Carlin : It'd take more than two days to gain that kind of trust.

  Wyatt Logan : It's like he rose his way through the ranks. How long has this guy been here?

• Wyatt Logan : Oh, I think I just found something. Documents. It's, uh, eh... letters, manusripts. It's notes. It's all scanned in right here. It's ideas for what Rittenhouse could do with a time machine, written in 1910. What, so they've been trying to get a time machine for the last hundred years?

  Rufus Carlin : So what's it say? Like, typical "take over the world" type stuff?

  Wyatt Logan : Sort of. Change history, correct past mistakes to make a present more favorable to them, one where they would be in charge. They wouldn't have to take over the world. They'd already own it.

  Rufus Carlin : That's not troubling.

• Wyatt Logan : [their car dies]  What happened?

  Rufus Carlin : We're out of gas. Wanna ask Siri for the nearest gas station?

• Denise Christopher : How soon before the Lifeboat's fixed?

  Rufus Carlin : We're close. I was just about to run a test.

• Rufus Carlin : Ah, friggin clockblocker!

  Denise Christopher : What happened?

  Rufus Carlin : You wanna check my work? I may have miscalculated the second derivative of the time dilation equation.

  Jiya : Okay. It's okay. We'll just adjust the levels on the capacitor and we'll try again.

  Rufus Carlin : You should get some rest. You know, take a break. We don't need you having another one of those headaches.

  Jiya : You're sweet, and a tiny bit condescending, and I'm totally fine.

• Connor Mason : I think I fixed the problem. There was a pin missing from the converter.

  Rufus Carlin : That's the right lateral particle converter.

  Connor Mason : Yes, I know it's the right lateral particle converter. I invented it.

• Lucy Preston : [handing Wyatt a grenade]  This is for the Mothership. Which you guy can take care of now. Okay, it's about three miles from here, near an abandoned farmhouse up the road, okay?

  Rufus Carlin : Wait, hold on, let met get this straight. You were gonna kill a soldier and blow up the Mothership?

  Lucy Preston : I thought you were dead.

  Wyatt Logan : How are you gonna get home?

  Lucy Preston : I wasn't.

• Rufus Carlin : [discovering a smartphone in the possession of a World War I soldier]  What the hell?

• Emma Whitmore : Follow us, fight us. You can have your damn Lifeboat. You're never gonna get what you really want.

  Lucy Preston : What's that?

  Emma Whitmore : I took a few trips of my own in the Mothership.

  Lucy Preston : What trips?

  Emma Whitmore : Trips to make certain that no matter what you do, no matter where you go, your precious sister, the one who disappeared from history, she's never coming back.

  Lucy Preston : [advancing on her]  No! No!

  Rufus Carlin : [restraining her]  Lucy! Lucy.

  Emma Whitmore : I just do what your mom tells me to.

  Carol Preston : That's enough.

• Denise Christopher : How's it going?

  Rufus Carlin : Uh, well, we printed out all the documents from the iPhone.

  Denise Christopher : Is there anything in there that would tell us a specific plan?

  Rufus Carlin : Mostly just devolves into a bunch of ranting, like "Mein Kampf" by Philip K. Dick. We can't figure it out.

  Denise Christopher : Well, there's someone who might know.