DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 7.2

 

RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW  7.2:  "The Need For Speed"  

Oh, things just keep getting better for our Legends.  Stuck in 1925, and with seemingly no way to get back to 2021, the team has been forced to abandon Gloria's home--Spooner's mother--as well as Astra, to travel to New York in search of a scientist named Dr. Gwyn Davies, who's been studying time travel, and looking for his help in finding a way to get back to their real time.  And, in order to get there, the team takes up the role as a bank robbing gang called The Bullet Blondes, using Sara and Ava as the faces and leaders of the gang.  They tried to escape J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, but Hoover was accidently killed by a bullet he shot at Nate, who went Steel to protect himself.  Now, with Gary having eaten Hoover to hide the body, they must now find Davies quickly before the timeline gets any worse.  Back at the homestead, Spooner, her mother, and Astra now have a new person in the house:  Gideon.  So....what kind of mess does this team get itself into THIS week?  Let's find out how badly they screwed up the timeline even more...

In the wake of killing Hoover, it hits Nate like a ton of bricks, as he feels responsible, even though it was an accident, and Hoover was actually trying to kill him.  Nonetheless, the timeline is getting more screwed up by the minute, as the team continues on their trek to New York.  The car has stalled out a little because it overheated.  They end up finding a radio, and listening to a radio broadcast, and while they mention the Bullet Blondes, there's no mention of Hoover.  They hit a snag, as they discover that Hoover is supposed to be on a train to Midland today.  So, Gary has to cast a spell to make Nate look like Hoover...and it works to the effect that he looks like Hoover to other people he comes into contact with.  They get on the train, as the Bullet Blondes had been "captured" by Hoover.  Once on the train, Nate, Behrad, and Gary are riding along, while Ava and Sara use the key John gave them for the pocket dimension, and go for some much needed personal marital time.  Once there, they find a VERY stoned Zari....who's still moping over her breakup with John.  They head upstairs as they let Zari continue to work through her issues.  

The trip doesn't exactly go as smooth as they would like, as Nate is approached by men who are supposed to be "agents" of the FBI that are in Midland.  They keep Nate occupied, while Behrad and Gary look on.  A woman's purse is stolen, and Nate goes into Hoover-mode to solve the crime.  To make matters worse, it turns out there's someone on the train that's looking to kidnap and kill Hoover.  So, Nate, trying to maintain the timeline as proper as he can, goes into full blown Hoover in order to maintain appearances, and hoping not to mess up the timeline further.  He's still stricken with guilt over killing Hoover, and feels he has to make things right.  So, he has these agents talk to some folks on the train, looking for anyone suspicious who would want Hoover dead.  The agents end up grabbing the train's engineer...and Russian man named Igor.  And they work him over for Hoover to get answers, but then Nate decides to go in on his own....staying in character long enough until the door shuts.  He then fakes beating down Igor, only to find out that Igor had crossed paths with the actual Hoover, and did all he could to avoid him, since he made his life miserable.  He let's Nate know that it possibly is an inside job.  Turns out, that the agents that had been "fans" of his, are actually working for Al Capone, and they had changed the train to a different track to ensure of his capture.  The train has stopped, and Capone demands Hoover show himself.  So, Nate has to play his role, and go out and give himself over to Capone in order to save everyone. 

Meanwhile, Ava bumps into Zari, and gets her to sober up by doing a project...like cleaning.  Turns out that Zari gets REAL inspired, and---using whiskey bottles that magically appear in the fridge, Zari starts theorizing about how they got into this situation, and starts compiling a list of suspects who MAY have wanted to take the Legends down, and passes along her info to Ava, who starts to help her put the puzzle pieces together.  But Behrad and Gary show up to let them know Nate is in trouble.  And when Capone doesn't see Nate as Hoover, the ruse is over, and he's about to get blasted when the girls show up as the Bullet Blondes to try and defuse the situation.  They offer the various bottles of whisky, which they've doctored, to Capone and his gang.  But....just to throw another monkey wrench into the works, Hoover himself shows up, and starts taking down Capone's gang singlehandedly, as the team takes cover.  But history is still out of whack, as Hoover is about to kill Capone.  Thankfully, the team stops Hoover from killing, only to discover that he's a robot.  And once he's stopped, he's become a ticking timebomb, and the team beats a hasty retreat, as the robot explodes, and disappears.  The team continues their trek to New York. 

Getting back to Gloria's, the ladies try to figure out how Gideon came back, but there's....issues.  The Gideon they're used to is struggling to communicate.  This frustrates Astra, and lashes out at Gideon, and tells her to got stick her hands in a light socket, because she misses the old Gideon.  Astra is frustrated that her magic didn't work, and that she's trying hard to prove herself to the team, to be worthy.  Spooner tells her that she has proven herself, and that she was glad she still has her friend.  The electricity in the house starts frizzing out, and they go outside to see Gideon trying to shock herself as she was ordered.  Gideon gets shocked, and is out for the count for a bit.  Astra feels bad, and Spooner says that she was trying to tell them something, and they have to give her time and patience to work through it.  Astra apologizes to Gideon, who isn't happy at first, but let's up.  Spooner talks to her mother, and wishes she could communicate with Gideon, and Gloria tells her daughter how she used to communicate with her in other ways, because she didn't speak until she was almost six.  So, Spooner goes into the bedroom, and touches Gideon, and she has a flash of memory, and Spooner can start hearing Gideon's voice in her head.  Gideon finally speaks, and says they need to get to the team before they get to New York...their lives are in danger. 

This episode was a fairly straightforward one, with not too much comic bits in it.  We got to see Sara and Ava finally have SOME sense of a honeymoon, we see Zari deal with her breakup by eating a ton of Behrad's gummies, but eventually pull herself out of her slump, and begins to work on a theory about who destroyed their Waverider and why.  Behrad had to deal with a tad bit of racism, but the person taking the biggest hit is Nate.  He spent this episode trying to cope with that he did, while trying to preserve the timeline. By the time the episode ended, he did come to terms with his mistake, and realized that it was only an accident, and shouldn't carry the burden of that weight. As for Spooner and Astra, who have felt rather useless lately, Gloria offers up more motherly advice.  She tells Astra that she helped create life with her magic, while Spooner still has a way to communicate with others.  And with Gideon back to some semblance of her old self, they're going to now have to race against the clock to save their teammates. They're keeping consistent with the story for the season thus far, and we'll see what kind of hijinks they'll get into later.  Not a bad start to this season, which I found out will be ONLY 13 episodes.  

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Until next time...time is on our side.