Timeless (TV Series)

The War to End All Wars (2018)

Sakina Jaffrey: Denise Christopher

Quotes 

• 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".

• Wyatt Logan : Locking the door from the outside now? What are we, prisoners?

  Denise Christopher : I have trust issues with you, Wyatt, obviously with good reason.

  [blocking him as he moves to leave] 

  Denise Christopher : My agents are looking for her. They're using drones, satellites, cell records, every resource we have.

  Wyatt Logan : Yeah, what's the latest? Let me guess, you got nothing.

• Denise Christopher : The only thing you do by leaving is give what's left of Rittenhouse another opportunity to kill you.

  Wyatt Logan : Yeah, well, I'll take my chances. After everything we did, there can't be that many of them.

• Denise Christopher : They blew up Mason Industries. We have no idea how powerful they still are. I'm already down one asset.

  Wyatt Logan : That's what you think Lucy is? An asset?

  Denise Christopher : Master Sergeant Logan, you are not leaving this bunker.

  Wyatt Logan : Court-martial me.

• 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.

• Wyatt Logan : Somebody wanna tell me how that guy became a billionaire? I mean, he can't do anything. Can't weld. He can't cook. Doesn't even remember how the Lifeboat works.

  Denise Christopher : He lost his whole life. 22 employees, his company, his fortune. Maybe he's grieving like all of us.

  Wyatt Logan : I'm not grieving. Because Lucy is not dead. Rittenhouse has her.

  Denise Christopher : Wyatt, look, I think you need to prepare yourself for the possibility that Lucy...

  Wyatt Logan : Lucy's father was a member of Rittenhouse. They're not trying to kill her, he was trying to recruit her.

  Denise Christopher : I hope you're right.

  Wyatt Logan : I am right. Lucy's alive. And as soon as I get out of this damn pit, I'm gonna find her.

• Denise Christopher : How'd you do it?

  Jiya : Rufus told me to double-check the time dilation equation, and when I uploaded it to the motherboard, eight flight systems came online.

  Connor Mason : You fixed it?

  Jiya : Yeah.

  Wyatt Logan : Where's the Mothership.

  Jiya : I'll check.

  [typing] 

  Jiya : September 14, 1918, France.

  Wyatt Logan : That's World War I. Where?

  Jiya : Uh, the nearest town is St. Mihiel.

  Wyatt Logan : Rufus, we gotta go. That's the Western Front. The Battle of St. Mihiel was the first one the American forces led. I mean, thousands died. It was... it was a bloodbath.

• Denise Christopher : I'm coming with you.

  Wyatt Logan : No, you're not.

  Denise Christopher : The Lifeboat has three seats. You need all the help you can get.

  Wyatt Logan : No one is going in that seat except for Lucy. We're bringing her home.

  Denise Christopher : Wyatt, you don't even know if she's alive. Or if Rittenhouse has her or if they took her on this trip. I'm sympathetic, I am, but there is no room for error here. We need to stop Rittenhouse, whatever they...

  Wyatt Logan : Agent Christopher, we are bringing Lucy home.

• Connor Mason : Before our system was operational, the Mothership visited ten different destinations in the previous six weeks.

  Lucy Preston : My mother never told me about that.

  Wyatt Logan : All those trips couldn't have been about Amy.

  Denise Christopher : History could've changed, and we wouldn't even know it.

• Denise Christopher : So why did they visit so many places?

  Wyatt Logan : [a thought strikes him]  Sleeper cells.

  Denise Christopher : What?

  Wyatt Logan : Think about it. The captain we met in 1918, he worked his way up through the ranks. Emma, she'd been in the late 1880s for, what, like ten years? Maybe they're playing a long game here. I mean, what if they've already planted who knows how many agents in history? What if they're all just biding their time, leading regular lives, just waiting to be activated?

  Lucy Preston : Was there anything in there about a Nicholas Keens? That's the soldier that they saved and brought back to the present.

  [seeing his expression] 

  Lucy Preston : What?

  Wyatt Logan : Lucy, these plans, this manifesto... Nicholas Keens wrote it.

• 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.

• 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.

• [last lines] 

  Denise Christopher : Something's happened. We need to talk.

  Garcia Flynn : Not to you. I'll only talk to Lucy.