Timeless (TV Series)
The Kennedy Curse (2018)
Grant Jordan: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Photos
Quotes
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Gas Station Clerk : Can I help you?
John F. Kennedy : Pardon me. Where can I find a pay telephone?
Gas Station Clerk : A pay phone? I don't know, a museum?
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Kayla : You really do look like him.
John F. Kennedy : Like who?
[she shows him his Wikipedia article]
John F. Kennedy : How did you get this photo? And what is this thing?
Kayla : It's an iPad. So... so this is you? You're President Kennedy?
John F. Kennedy : President of what?
Kayla : Of the United States.
John F. Kennedy : I become President of the United States? I-I don't understand. That was supposed to be my brother, Joe. Does this, uh, iPad know him, too?
Kayla : [showing him another article] Yeah.
John F. Kennedy : That's him. "Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was the oldest of nine children. Graduated from Harvard College. Then went on to Harvard Law." Hey, good on him! "But he left before graduation to join the U.S. Navy during World War II." World War II? "A naval pilot, he was... killed off the coast of France during a secret mission at age 29."
Kayla : It's the Kennedy curse.
John F. Kennedy : The what?
Kayla : Mm, people think that the Kennedy family was cursed because so many of them died so young.
[trying to take the iPad back]
Kayla : You know what, John? You really shouldn't... John.
John F. Kennedy : My sister Kathleen died in a plane crash. Bobby was shot, just like...
Kayla : Just like his brother John.
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John F. Kennedy : I know about my siblings' deaths. My own assassination.
Rufus Carlin : Well, maybe you can change your fate. Don't go to Dallas on November 22nd, 1963.
John F. Kennedy : What about the curse? Everyone I love is going to die a tragic death.
Lucy Preston : You may not be able to save everybody, John, but you are going to make the world a much better place. There are worse fates.
John F. Kennedy : Was I a good president?
Lucy Preston : One of the greatest.
