Leviathan refers to something really, really big. In this episode, Kendra earns her keep. Sort of. That’s big. A character returns. That’s quite big. Savage has a daughter. That’s really big. I mean, what self respecting woman would get close enough? But as Martin says “Apparently it’s true. There’s a lid for every pot.” But none of these things are Leviathan-esque. Read on to find out exactly what Leviathan refers to.
The episode opens with the WaveRider entering the airspace above London in 2166. Into the middle of a barrage of artillery fire, London Blitz style. Martin thinks they should develop a plan of attack, but Rip fears that there is no time. They must rush in where Angels (or Time Masters) fear to tread, and make their attempt on Savage now. He is apparently out in the open and therefore exposed and vulnerable. Rip, Snart, Rory and Sara attend a rousing exhortation to the troops being given by Vandal Savage, blending into the crowd dressed in Nazi/Stormtrooper Officer style uniforms. As officers, they are right up front. As the speech ends, Savage and entourage leave the stage. The four are spotted by a blond woman (Jessica Sipos), dressed in a high ranking officer uniform. This is obviously a woman to be reckoned with. She appears to recognize Snart, locking eyes with him with a smirk on her face. Snart knows they have been made. The four fall into line, and follow. Kendra, watching proceedings from the WaveRider, zooms in on the blonde woman, and realizes that she is wearing the bracelet that was present at Kendra’s first death. Snart and Rory make the snap decision to play it like Chicago. Rory trips Rip up as a distraction, the entourage turns, and our four leap into action, taking out several guards. Snart, Rip and Rory go after Savage, while Sara engages the blonde woman. Reinforcements arrive, so Jax, who has been standing by in the jump ship for just such an eventuality, extracts the team.
Back at the ship, our team wonders about the blonde woman – who she is, why she has Kendra’s bracelet, and how the H E double hockey sticks are they going to use a bracelet to end Savage. Gideon is tracking the approach of a party of bodies, and tells Rip that they appear to be Resistance fighters. Rip takes Ray, Jax, and Martin and goes to meet with them, leaving Kendra and Sara to try to figure out how to use the bracelet. Rip offers the Rebel Commander (Sharon Taylor) their help, and they are taken to the camp, where the Commander tells Rip that they have a lot of refugees from Whitechapel, and wonders if his wife and child might be there. Rip is dead certain that they are not. Martin and Jax wander among the refugees, disturbed by their plight. The children are hungry which tears at the pairs’ heartstrings. They return to the ship to get provisions for them. Meanwhile, Rip and Ray are waiting by a fire barrel for the Commander’s return . Ray wonders why they are here and are not trying to get Rip’s family to safety. Rip tells Ray that before he enlisted the Legends, he tried to do so over and over, beginning with Egypt. He has seen his family die countless times, because it seems that time wants to happen. The Commander returns, and says that there is no retinal scan on file for Rip, and that his friends disappeared 150 years ago. A report comes in from patrols that Delta Camp is under attack. They arrive at Delta Camp to find that it has been decimated by some unknown weapon. Back at the WaveRider, Ray and Martin work together to find out what weapon was used. Snart and Rory meanwhile, come up with a plan to obtain the bracelet, and Kendra is tasked with going through her son’s journal to see if there is any mention of the bracelet and how it can be used. She and Sara open the trunk containing the journal and see Carter’s mace. Kendra flashes back to when Carter trained her to use it, in case she ever had to face Savage without him. This gives her an idea how the bracelet can be used to end Savage.
Snart and Rory infiltrate the base where the blond woman is training soldiers, and kicking their asses. She dismisses them at the end of the lesson, and they leave. She hears someone clearing his throat, and looks up to find that Snart and Rory both have their weapons trained on her. She asks “Mr. Snart” what she can do for them. Rory says “We just like bright, sparkly objects. Like that bracelet” Cassandra wants to know if this bauble is worth risking dying for, to which Rory shrugs and says “It works with my outfit.” Hahaha! Good one, Mick!
Snart and Rory return to the ship with the blonde woman, and put her in the brig, where she drops the bomb that she is not Savage’s lieutenant, she is Cassandra, Savage’s daughter. And Savage will come for her.
After some discussion on the bridge, Len steps up and offers to get the information they need out of her. Kendra asks Rory for his help in burning something, making Rory’s day. Len goes to the brig to chat with Cassandra, “May I call you Cassie?”. Cassandra is expecting interrogation techniques, or torture or something equally bad, but Len merely compares his Dad to hers. She tells him that Savage is in no way like his father. Her father is a hard man, but saved the world by killing a madman, Per Degaton, who released the virus that killed the world and her mother. He is more or less a hero in her eyes. He is engaged in a war with dangerous radicals who want to kill him and rule the world.
Rory melts the bracelet for Kendra, who uses the molten metal to coat Cart’s mace. Rory is not certain that Kendra will be able to kill Savage but she assures him that she can.
Martin and Ray have discovered that the weapon used to decimate the Delta Site is not any type of explosive. Using a defunct satellite’s imagery, they find that the weapon left some extraordinarily big footprints. Liquids shake and the globe on the bridge wobbles in time to the sound of approaching footsteps. Kind of reminded me of the approach of T. Rex or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, lol. Ray and Martin bring the refugees back to the ship, while Rip shows an uncharacteristic lack of empathy for them. No doubt because time wants to happen. Rip tells Gideon to take off, and put the floodlights on. In the glare of the floodlights we see that neither T. Rex nor the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is approaching; it is instead a Leviathan of a Robot. This robot is transparent, with all of its system details excitingly picked out in glowstick green, and with the symbol of an atom on both chest and head. The WaveRider fires to no avail, as the Robot snatches it out of the air, very much as you would an annoying insect, and throws it as far as it can, which is a very long way indeed. An hour away to be exact. The WaveRider lands hard, the propulsion drive damaged. Our heroes pick themselves up, and Rip – again with a considerable lack of empathy – thinks that they should take the jumpship and abandon ship. Martin strenuously objects as the jump ship will not be able to hold the refugees. And then collapses, with a piece of shrapnel sticking out of his belly. They get him to the med bay, where Gideon works his magic after Martin pleads with Jax to not let Rip leave the refugees behind.
Len, meanwhile, releases Cassie from the brig, and takes her to the hold, to show her the “dangerous radicals” her father has told her about. She is not quite buying it, so he tells her that her father was the one who released the virus, and has Gideon show her the footage of the meeting in the Kasnian Conglomerate, where Savage indicts himself.
Rip has lost hope on the bridge, and is not even attempting repairs because there is only a little more than half an hour before the robot gets to them. Ray, however, tells him he just doesn’t believe in fate, that choices can make a destiny, and that they can choose to fight, even if they die trying. He has a plan to stop the giant robot. Ray’s speech convinces Rip that he does believe in fate; that fate brought them together to stop this future.
Cassie, who’s mind has now been changed, will help them get into the bunker to finish Savage. Kendra and Ray share a tender moment before she leaves with Sara, Snart, Rory and Rip. Ray has an idea to use the power from the auxiliary time drive to reverse the polarity of the dwarf star matrix in the Atom suit. In other words, he’s a-gonna get big. Real big. Lol. Jax helps him to hook up, then retreats to the relative safety of the WaveRider, where he uses a comm link to be Ray’s number one cheerleader. And the fight of the Leviathans is on! In the bunker, Savage is told that the robot is encountering resistance, which he cannot believe is possible, until he sees that Ray has done something brilliant. An officer enters and whispers something into Savage’s ear, which puts a smile on his face. Cassie is back.
Savage meets with Cassandra, and realizes that the bracelet is gone. When he asks her about it, she says she must have lost it during her escape, but Savage knows she is lying. Cassie accuses him of lying to her for her entire life. Savage tells her to call in the ones she no doubt helped to gain access to the bunker. Sara, Rip, Rory and Snart enter, and Savage accuses them of turning her against him. Snart tells him it didn’t take much, and Rory says “Nothing at all, actually.” Cassie calls Savage a monster, as his guards arrive.
Ray is struggling with the robot, so Jax tells him to use his lasers. Ray explains that they are actually beams of compressed light, but uses them.
Savage senses Kendra, but sneers that “She can do him no harm”. Rory tells him that he “clearly didn’t get the memo”. And the fight is on. Kendra grabs Savage and flies him away from where the rest of our heroes are fighting the guards and to where she has some swinging room. She does some serious damage with her bracelet coated mace. He is completely shocked, and down more than he is up. Kendra is about to deliver the coup de gras “for Carter”, when one of Savage’s helmeted soldiers enters and fires at Kendra. Kendra attacks this soldier, knocks him out and his helmet falls off. As she leans over the soldier, she realizes that it is Carter (Falk Hentschel). BOOM! She attempts to finish Savage off, but he tells her that he has locked Carter’s mind away. He doesn’t know who he is and he never will. Savage taunts her that if she kills him, she will do so knowing that she has killed the only one who can unlock Carter’s mind.
Meanwhile, the robot has KO’d Ray. Jax desperately tries to talk Ray back into consciousness, and is successful when he tells him to “Choose to live!” Ray shakes it off, then runs straight at the robot, who is running at him. Ray finishes him off with a beautiful classical clothesline move that decapitates the robot.
Rip appears at Kendra’s side and urges her to finish Savage. Rory tells her via comms that whatever she is going to do, she needs to do it now. Snart, Sara and Rory are outnumbered and losing. Kendra tells Rip that if she does, Carter’s mind will be lost, and Rip counters with if she doesn’t he will lose his wife and son. Savage continues to taunt her. “Well, my love, what’s it gonna be?” Kendra backs off, saying “I can’t. I’m so sorry Rip, I can’t.” Rip says disgustedly “Lets get them back to the ship. Both of them.” And knocks Savage out.
Snart brings Cassie to the Rebel Commander, who wants to know why she shouldn’t kill Cassie. Snart tells her that Cassie will be an asset to the cause. Cassie says that she knows that Savage may be incapacitated but that his forces are still strong. She knows their tactics and weaknesses. The commander accepts her.
Ray enters his and Kendra’s quarters, saying that Sara had told him that Savage is on the ship, but that she was a little stingy on the details. He wants to know if everything is ok. Kendra tells him that they need to talk. Uh-oh! That phrase usually doesn’t bode well for relationships.
Martin has regained consciousness in the med bay. Rip welcomes him back and tells him that they have managed to capture Savage, battle his army and defeat a giant robot, and he managed to sleep through it all. The refugees are safe, but Martin wants to know for how long, since time wants to happen. Rip tells Martin that for once, time is on their side.
Rip visits Savage in the brig, who is very upbeat for a captive. And really, why shouldn’t he be? He has retained the upper hand on Kendra, and by extension, on Rip as well. Will Rip be able to save his family, now that Savage is not dead? As Savage puts it “Time will tell”. Fade to black.
Favorite Moments:
Once again, the complementary duo of Snart and Rory. Snart has always been a smartass, and I have always had a soft spot for smartasses. Rory is definitely coming into his own as a smartass as well, with quick quips and one-liners.
Snart’s empathy with Cassie. They both have horrible fathers who they each thought were good men, deep down. His admission that he has had to learn that with crap fathers there is no “deep down”.
That moment when Ray clotheslined the giant Robot! And it’s head went sailing off into the wild blue yonder, leaving the robot to clutch at where it’s head had been until realized it was a dead robot walking and toppled over.
Kendra kicking ass and taking names! I knew she had it in her!!
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