Timeless (TV Series)

The Lost Generation (2017)

Malcolm Barrett: Rufus Carlin

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Quotes 

• Lucy Preston : How can you be so calm right now?

  Wyatt Logan : Because I've been through a lot in the last couple of days, and I fought it for a long time. You can call it fate or God or the Force, but I am meant to do something. I am meant to protect the both of you. I see that now, and I will.

  Lucy Preston : You realize you sound like a crazy person, right?

  Rufus Carlin : Mmm hmm.

  Wyatt Logan : I sound like you.

  Lucy Preston : Exactly.

• Ernest Hemingway : If there's anyone who can help us find the folks you're looking for, Josie can.

  Rufus Carlin : Josephine Baker? My mom had a record cover of her that got me through some lonely nights.

  Dave Baumgardner : That is some antique porn, my friend.

  Rufus Carlin : I prefer the term "vintage".

• Rufus Carlin : Whoa. Scary Rittenhouse dude is your father?

  Denise Christopher : You shouldn't have talked to him.

  Lucy Preston : I had to see him with my own eyes.

  Denise Christopher : You put yourself in serious danger.

  Rufus Carlin : The guy who's been terrorizing me, that's your dad?

  Lucy Preston : My biological father.

  Rufus Carlin : How about you do me a favor, and next time you and your dad are at a barbecue, you tell him it'd be super great if he didn't kill my family!

  Denise Christopher : Okay, his name's Benjamin Cahill. Squeaky clean record. He's a pediatric surgeon at UCSF, for god's sake.

  Rufus Carlin : Okay, that is so creepy.

• Denise Christopher : Flynn jumped. May 21, 1927.

  Lucy Preston : Paris.

  Rufus Carlin : What's Paris?

  Lucy Preston : That's the day that Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris; the first transatlantic solo flight. But I cannot do this, not now.

  Rufus Carlin : Okay, where's Wyatt? I mean, we're not doing this without him.

  Denise Christopher : After his little stunt, there's zero chance he's going on this trip. My hands are tied. You can either jump into that Lifeboat, or you can sit back and let Flynn torch history.

  Lucy Preston : Maybe we let Flynn torch history.

• Lucy Preston : We know that Rittenhouse is terrible. We know that... that they want to take the Mothership back and destroy everything. So what if we let Flynn take them out? I mean, that's a good thing, right?

  Rufus Carlin : Lucy, I'm gonna go.

  Lucy Preston : What? Why? I mean, after everything that Rittenhouse said they're gonna do to your family?

  Rufus Carlin : Yes, they wildly and extravagantly suck, and I want them gone, but Flynn is going to hurt people. He is going to kill people, change history. You know that. And if we don't stop him... that's on us. I'll go alone if I have to.

  Lucy Preston : [pause]  I'm in.

• Denise Christopher : Lucy Preston, Rufus Carlin, this is Master Sergeant David Baumgardner.

  Rufus Carlin : Bam Bam. Uh, Wyatt mentioned you before.

  Dave Baumgardner : Dave's fine.

  Denise Christopher : We've had him on standby since the Alamo mission.

  Dave Baumgardner : I thought Agent Christopher was yanking my chain when she said "time travel", but...

  [glancing at the Lifeboat] 

  Dave Baumgardner : Holy crap.

  Lucy Preston : I know how you feel.

  Denise Christopher : He's been thoroughly briefed, but show him the ropes. You're the varsity squad now.

  Rufus Carlin : That is not comforting.

• Dave Baumgardner : Thought you said the ride would be bumpy.

  Rufus Carlin : Nothing? You're not nauseous at all? Not even "Tea Ride at Disneyland" type queasy?

• Lucy Preston : Lindbergh is set to touch down any minute. There's about 100,000 people waiting for him to land just west of here.

  Rufus Carlin : Flying what, 3,500 miles in a crappy single-seater? Guy's like Indiana Jones.

  Lucy Preston : He was. Just a nice boy from St. Louis who becomes the most famous man in the world. About a decade from now he becomes a Nazi sympathizer, paranoid and anti-Semitic. Hitler awards him a medal.

  Rufus Carlin : Boy, that story took a dark turn.