Timeless (TV Series)

The Lost Generation (2017)

Susanna Thompson: Carol Preston

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Quotes 

• Lucy Preston : Hey, mom. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. I... just had to borrow a book or ten.

  Carol Preston : I see. What's got you reading about Charles Lindbergh?

  Lucy Preston : He still became a word-class a-hole. Isolationist, anti-Semitic, the whole nine.

  Carol Preston : You say that like it's news.

  Lucy Preston : I just don't get it. I mean, he-he gets injured in a... in a crash landing, and then disappears for a few weeks, only to re-emerge to claim credit for the first transatlantic flight. Why?

  Carol Preston : He was an ambitious man. I mean, his father was a Congressman. Maybe the love of the spotlight got passed down. I mean, he had money, adoration, power. How do you walk away from a family like that?

  Lucy Preston : I just thought he'd make a different choice.

• Carol Preston : I know meeting your father has thrown you, and I get it that you don't want to talk to me about it, but what do we do in our family when we go through tough times? When we need to collect our thoughts?

  Lucy Preston : We write them down.

  Carol Preston : We write them down.

  [she offers Lucy a gift; inside is the journal of which a copy from the future is in Flynn's possession] 

  Lucy Preston : It's a journal.