In Episode 7 – Marooned – Dr Stein fulfills his childhood dream of being an heroic space ranger, and we meet another Time-Master.
Gideon needs an upgrade, because his database is out of date. He has run out of clues as to where Savage might be found next. In the normal course of events, this upgrade would happen automatically whenever the Waverider returned to home base. Gideon receives a distress call from another Time-Ship in the vicinity, the Acheron. The team points out to Rip that it is too coincidental to be anything other than a trap, but our fearless leader insists that this is the only way that Gideon can get his upgrade, and so they rush to the rescue.
Upon boarding the Acheron, Rip, Jax and Mick are captured by ‘Captain’ Valor (Callum Keith Rennie) and his crew, who Rip realizes are space pirates. Acheron’s time drive has been destroyed per Time-Master protocol, and Valor wants the Waverider. Rip tries to defuse the situation, claiming they are all on the same side for once because of the danger posed by Savage.
Valor doesn’t give two rips for the danger, and sends a message to Ray at the Waverider’s helm demanding that he allow the pirates to board and take the Waverider over. Rip slips a codeword in which executes one of Gideon’s emergency protocols, causing the Waverider to fire a shot and take evasive action. Valor orders pursuit and fires a shot in return, blowing a hole in the Waverider’s hull. Valor then warns Ray that he has 10 seconds to comply or he starts shooting prisoners.
Rip manages to slip another codeword in to deactivate the holographic Waverider that Acheron has been chasing, but now Valor catches on and throws the three into the brig. Sara and Len try to fix the breach, but Captain Cold’s gun runs out of steam before it can be completely sealed, causing the bulkhead doors to close which traps them inside the engine room.
Atom dons his suit and goes outside to finish sealing the breach. While Sara and Len are slowly freezing to death in the engine room, Sara tells Len that there is no way that Rory will ever return from the dark, but Len reminisces about meeting Rory in juvie, where Rory first saved him and says that Rory has had his back ever since.
Len gets existential and wants Sara to tell him from her unique perspective what it is like to die. Meanwhile, Professor Stein has realized that something is up and leaves the jumpship to find and disarm the Acheron’s targeting system and weapons array . Sneaking through the Acheron, and managing to avoid all but one of the pirates, he does just that, and then goes on to release Rip, Jax and the oh so judgmental Time-Master Captain Eve Baxter (Stephanie Cleough) .
Rory has already been released from the brig because he wants to make a deal with the pirates. Rip has told him that he was never part of the plan, and that he was only along because he and Snart were a package deal. Awwww, Rip hurt his widdle feewings. Rory’s deal with the pirates includes being taken back to the moment of meeting Rip, so that he can tell him to shove the mission, thereby getting his partner Leonard back.
Rory and some of the pirates take the jumpship back to the Waverider, where Atom has succeeded in sealing the breach, nearly killing himself in the process, but releasing Snart and Sara from the engine room. As the pirates follow Rory onto the Waverider, Snart realizes that it is time to choose a side, and fires at Rory, while Atom, Sara and Kendra take on the rest of the pirates.
Back on the Acheron, Rip has come up with a plan to rid themselves of Valor and the remaining pirates. His plan is based on his memory of a training simulation where his illicit girlfriend uses explosive decompression to great effect. After a rip-snorting fight with Valor and just in the nick of time, Rip shoots Valor and opens the hull doors, sucking the remaining pirates out into space. Captain Baxter is grateful, (and now considerably less judgmental) and gives Rip the update that Gideon needs before returning to the Vanishing Point.
Back on the Waverider, the team has a discussion about Rory’s fate. His betrayal was not part of any larger plan, which means they are not able to trust him again. The brig is not built for long term incarceration. They can’t release him in 2016 because the team has too much family there, so what to do? Leonard makes the clearly difficult decision that he needs to take care of it.
The Waverider lands somewhere, somewhen; Leonard takes Mick outside. Mick realizes that this is the end for their partnership, and quite probably for him. He wants to know what happened to Snart, the punk kid he saved in Juvie, and the partner he has had since. He says that only one of them can leave this spot alive. Leonard agrees and shoots him with the cold gun.
My Favorite Moments:
Rip’s facility to baffle ’em with BS. “You don’t know my crew, iron-willed and battle-hardened. The most formidable warriors to navigate time and space.”
How Rip’s girlfriend became his wife, when the Time-Masters expressly forbid relationships.
Rip telling Captain Baxter that he doesn’t regret betraying his oath to the Time Council, because he is following a higher calling.
Stein on being a space ranger: “I’ll teach you to mess with a nuclear physicist”
The kiss – Kendra and Ray FINALLY !
The entire conversation between Sara and Len while they are trapped in the engine room, where Sara admits that at least if they die they won’t die alone, followed by Len knocking Mick out to save Sara, all of which points towards the potential for a romantic relationship between the two.
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