TIMELESS — “The Miracle of Christmas Part l ” Episode 211 — Pictured: (l-r) Goran Visnjic as Garcia Flynn, Claudia Doumit as Jiya, Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan — (Photo by: Darren Michaels/Sony/NBC)
Timeless takes one last trip in this holiday-themed movie wrap-up.
It was announced not too long ago the beloved NBC show would be getting a TV movie serving as a series finale. Our first fear was that the segment would be rushed to try and give fans closure just because of the December premiere date. However, both parts of “The Miracle of Christmas” are Timeless at its best. While it’s bittersweet to be saying goodbye to such an underrated show, it’s at least nice to see it go out on a high note.
Edgy future Lucy serves as our narrator through the initial recap of the past two seasons. She’s no longer living in the bunker, but a desolate house with bare furnishings. She sits by the light still filling her trusty journal with details of her life. It’s the perfect way to show how far Rittenhouse has gone to destroy the world we know. Lucy was once a teacher with a loving family, but here she’s a hardened soldier whose lost almost all hope.
Unfortunately, we don’t get to spend that much time with future Lucy and Wyatt. Instead, the two need to quickly pass off the journal with the cryptic message that its contents will help save Rufus. Bringing the journal back after its mystery was put on hold in the second season is a smart decision. It helps bring Timeless full circle, with the journal once again being delivered to Lucy with the promise of saving the world. While the team is excited to learn they can save their friend, Wyatt is given some pretty heartbreaking news. Turns out, Jessica is lying about the baby just to manipulate him.
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This probably won’t come as a surprise to fans, with many guessing she was manipulating him. It still comes as a bit of a shock to Wyatt, who was excited at the prospect of becoming a father. At least he can wryly admit Jessica probably wouldn’t have been the best mother. He settles in with Lucy to focus on finding the key to saving Rufus in the journal. Unfortunately, they stumble upon a passage which reveals Lucy will eventually have a passionate affair with Flynn.
If Timeless had a few more seasons, the Lucy/Flynn relationship probably would have happened on screen. The couple became a surprise hit with fans in season two after Wyatt reunited with his wife. However, this is a movie wrap-up so the show doesn’t wait too long to draw that love triangle to a close.
Other romantic woes include Rufus and Jiya, with the latter desperate to save her boyfriend any way she can. The slow progress is too much for her to handle, and she eventually snaps at Wyatt. It feels like a lifetime ago that his decision to trust Jessica led the team down this path. Nevertheless, it’s easy to forgive him now that he’s back to being his usual self. This includes grabbing Rufus’ Christmas gift to Jiya from behind the Spaghetti-o’s to help give her some hope. Their sweet moment is interrupted by an alert about the Mothership taking a ride through time.
Yes, Emma is officially in charge of Rittenhouse and she isn’t interested in playing by anyone else’s rules. When a henchman tries to quit, she coolly shoots him in the back. The remaining members get menial jobs, like setting up her new office. Everyone except for Jessica, who has settled in as Emma’s right-hand man. She’s sent back to Coloma, California on January 28, 1848, at the height of the gold rush.
Thanks to future Wyatt and Lucy, the Time Team gets a new Lifeboat to work with. Since Rufus hasn’t survived in this timeline, this means future Jiya is the one who did all of the engineering. It’s nice to know she’s still out there being the best engineer possible even in this bleak future. This new Lifeboat is equipped with autopilot, which makes it easier for any member of the team to step into the pilot’s seat.
A heckler makes some comments to Lucy, which sets her off immediately. At least he reveals two other women passed by earlier and posted some “wanted” posters for the time team. Knowing their gender will make them stand out more, Lucy and Jiya are quick to change into more masculine clothes. After riding a few stolen horses away from the town, it seems like they’re in the clear. Lucy takes the opportunity to question why Flynn conveniently left out their relationship when talking about the journal. While he claims his initial reservation was his simple disbelief, he finally reveals it’s because their affair ends badly due to her love of Wyatt. This seems like Timeless‘ way of confirming they would have explored Lucy/Flynn but Lucy/Wyatt has always been their endgame.
Their discussion gets interrupted by the arrival of Joaquin Murrieta and his men. It wouldn’t be Timeless without the appearance of a famous historical figure who can help the team along the way. Lucy is able to bargain with Murrieta: the horses in exchange for the location of the gold. He agrees, and both groups set off. But Lucy catches up everyone else as to who Murrieta actually is. He’s one of the most infamous bandits of all time (nicknamed the Robin Hood of El Dorado in real life), who took vengeance on the men who murdered his brother, raped his wife, and beat him. In fact, Murrieta is the real-life inspiration behind the notorious character, Zorro.
Understandably, Flynn immediately relates to Murrieta. He admits he once wanted to hunt down and murder the men who hurt his family. Flynn admits that murdering the perpetrators wouldn’t bring his family back but his mission did make him lose sight of himself. Murrieta still believes they should be punished, but Flynn thinks revenge won’t help him in the long term.
TIMELESS — “The Miracle of Christmas Part l ” Episode 211 — Pictured: (l-r) Paterson Joseph as Connor Mason, Malcolm Barrett as Rufus Carlin, Claudia Doumit as Jiya, Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan — (Photo by: Darren Michaels/Sony/NBC)
Meanwhile, Wyatt realizes the key to saving Rufus is going back in time to murder Jessica. If she doesn’t survive the night of their fight, then Rufus will never be in danger. He knows what he has to do, and after this mission, he knows he’ll do it. Lucy doesn’t want to sacrifice Wyatt to save Rufus, but Flynn points out one of them will have to die. Wyatt knows Jessica’s return is his fault, and it seems like his fate is sealed.
That is, until Flynn steps in. He tells the group that he’s going ahead to scout the group when in reality he takes the Lifeboat back to that night. We get to see Wyatt and Jessica fighting, which inevitably leads to her getting out of the car. Flynn quickly kills the Rittenhouse agent sent to protect her before moving onto Jessica. She’s already well trained and doesn’t go down easily. Not to mention, Flynn is already suffering from the effects of traveling to his own timeline. Ultimately, he is able to kill her, thus saving Rufus.
It couldn’t come at a better time either since Rufus comes crashing in to save the team after they’re apprehended by bandits looking to make money from the bounty on their heads. As happy as we are to have Rufus back, Flynn’s death is heartbreaking. His letter to Lucy shows just how much he’s grown from the first season. This fight with Rittenhouse led him astray while the others have always remained true to themselves. In this way, he sacrifices himself for both Lucy’s happiness and the good of the team.
At least his final moments are watching his family before succumbing to the time-traveling complications. Seeing Flynn jump back out of the Lifeboat before sending it back to the team makes it clear he was ready to die. This isn’t his fight anymore, and he doesn’t want to use time travel just to extend his life.
Back at the bunker, the team raises a glass to their fallen teammate. Even Wyatt has a nice word to say about Flynn, a guy who he never trusted. Is this timeline the original one? Since Flynn murdering Jessica seems to be the catalyst to set Wyatt down this path before the Timeless pilot. Now the team has bigger issues to deal with: namely an angry Emma. She’s furious the team took Jessica out of the equation, which also leaves Rittenhouse broke and scrambling. Her top priority is killing the remaining members before doing anything else.
As for Murrieta, he seems to give up his pursuit of vengeance. He gets a massive amount of gold, and Lucy reveals he survives to become an entrepreneur instead of a bandit. It’s always nice to see someone get a happy ending!
TIMELESS — “The Miracle of Christmas Part II” Episode 212 — Pictured: (l-r) Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, Malcolm Barrett as Rufus Carlin, Claudia Doumit as Jiya — (Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC)
Timeless heads to North Korea in the second part of “The Miracle of Christmas”.
Returning from California, Rufus is acclimating to life being in a different timeline. He doesn’t remember Wyatt’s decision to bring Jessica into the fold or Jiya living in Chinatown for two years. Which is why he’s so shocked to find her scarred after a mysterious altercation in Chinatown. Jiya doesn’t want to speak about it, but it’s heavily implied she had been abused by a guy. We’re still mourning the loss of Timeless because seeing Jiya try to handle living in a different time could’ve been so interesting.
Wyatt and Lucy have a heart-to-heart what with all of the bombshells they’ve had dropped on them the past couple of hours. They both wonder whether or not they’re destined to become like their future counterparts. Wyatt can’t imagine a world where the two of them aren’t just “Lucy and Wyatt” but she’s not so sure. Even though everyone assumes she’ll forgive him and the two can move forward, it isn’t that easy. Lucy needs to figure things out on her own, without knowing what the future might be.
They’re interrupted by Emma taking the Mothership to a new location: North Korea. Lucy says this date is the last day of the Hungnam Evacuation which saved thousands of lives. Wyatt’s grandfather called it “Frozen Chosin” because of how cold this battle was. Their first guess is that Rittenhouse is trying to get Wyatt out of the way by killing his grandfather. However, he had already been evacuated three days earlier so that seems unlikely. Nevertheless, the team assembles to head into North Korea.
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Quickly, they stumble upon a group of murdered soldiers. Luckily, a military pilot survived and offers them safe passage to the boats. However, earlier in this episode of Timeless, Emma had gotten the pilot under his thumb. Wyatt is able to wrestle to controls away from the pilot, which saves all of their lives. Although, we do get to see an injured Jiya easily brushing it off like it’s nothing.
In the present time, Agent Christopher and Connor Mason find a history book which shows the entire team dies on this mission. The clock is ticking, and Christopher realizes they’ll need to get the Mothership and warn their team. Although we didn’t speak about it that much in Part One of “The Christmas Miracle”, these two have an intriguing subplot. Agent Christopher wants to destroy the time machines once Rittenhouse is destroyed. However, Connor points out the science for these machines already exist. Yes, it’s dangerous but neither of them can stop the future. Instead, they should save the Lifeboat to prevent anyone else from ever meddling with time.
When everyone has recovered from the crash, Wyatt discovers the major evacuation did take place as scheduled. Rufus figures this whole trip was just meant to kill them, and as we now know, Emma succeeds. With a long cold trip back to the Lifeboat, Rufus and Lucy take the time to catch up. She explains why she hasn’t gotten back together with Wyatt: she isn’t going to be someone’s second choice. But Rufus points out Wyatt was just trying to do the right thing with Jessica. However, if Wyatt had to trade Lucy in exchange for Rufus’ life instead of Jessica’s then it’s safe to say he’d still be dead.
Stumbling upon a town, Rufus and Wyatt get to work on a nearby military vehicle while Lucy and Jiya get warm inside a church. At the car, Wyatt comes clean about their previous events, namely, Rufus promising never to forgive him because of what happened to Jiya. It seems like a part of Wyatt wants Rufus still to be mad at him because he still hasn’t forgiven himself. As for Rufus, he isn’t going to put his friend through the wringer. Considering they saved his life (even though he doesn’t remember it) and got Jiya back, the two are square.
Lucy and Jiya chat about their relationships with the latter worried she’s changed too much. A woman in prayer interrupts their conversation to warn them of communist spies in every corner. The two women pretend to be war correspondents separated from their group. While the spy does sneak out, Lucy and Jiya take the time to bond with the young woman. Turns out, she’s pregnant and waiting to be reunited with her husband and son once the evacuation is over. Knowing she’ll never get that reunion, Lucy decides they have to bring her to a boat.
Timeless has brought Lucy a long way for her to save a woman in history. In the first season, she would be too worried about messing up the timeline to do this. Now, she knows every life is special and should be saved. The group escape soldiers via car and almost make it to the port before the truck breaks down. They’re close enough to the port for escape, but the woman they’re with goes into labor. Wyatt has delivered a baby before during his time with the military so he sends Lucy and Rufus to go get help.
At the camp, they find a doctor willing to assist them. However, a bomb drops on the building where Wyatt and Jiya are leaving Lucy screaming for her friends. Luckily, Wyatt got everyone to safety including the new baby girl. With everyone safe and accounted for, the Time Team begins the trek back to the Lifeboat. However, night falls quickly and troops have already stormed the village. Taking refuge in the church from before, both couples take the time to square things away in case they die.
Jiya realizes no matter how much either her or Rufus changes, their love for each other will stay the same. Meanwhile, Lucy tells Wyatt her life without him flashed by her eyes when she thought he had died. The future, their past, everything else just feels trivial and the two decide to finally get together.
TIMELESS — “The Miracle of Christmas Part II” Episode 212 — Pictured: Sakina Jaffrey as Denise Christopher — (Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC)
However, the troops are closing in and time is running out. Luckily, Agent Christopher was able to cut a deal to get to the Mothership. In exchange for immunity and protection for his son, Benjamin Cahill finds Emma’s Rittenhouse hideout. He smugly points out that Rittenhouse is a family business so he would never hurt his daughter. With no other choices, Emma is forced to pilot the Mothership with Agent Christopher aboard.
The two get there just in time to save the team and the day. However, Emma has one last trick up her sleeve. She gets out of her handcuffs and tries to make a run for the Mothership. She’s caught immediately, and in exchange for her freedom offers to save Amy. Lucy doesn’t trust her, but before she can even make a decision a soldier shoots Emma. It’s a disappointing end for the character but we can’t imagine her ever escaping Timeless alive.
On the new Lifeboat, Wyatt buckles Lucy seatbelt one last time. This was one of the cute recurring moments throughout the show, and it’s sweet to see it happen for a final moment. Lucy also reveals the real reason why she didn’t go back for Amy. They can’t just mess with time to save their loved ones because it always has a price. Saving Rufus meant losing Flynn, also saving Jessica meant losing Rufus. As much as she would like Amy back, she needs to move forward rather than look backwards.
Back at the bunker, the team celebrates Christmas in the most adorable way possible. Agent Christopher has made everyone their own scarf and decided to keep the Lifeboat. Rufus and Jiya have decided to move in together, Wyatt and Lucy have consummated their new relationship and everything is right with the world.
Flashing forward, Timeless gives everyone a happy ending. Jiya runs a successful company while Rufus works behind the scenes. Lucy gets tenure (finally!) as well as the cutest set of twins possible with Wyatt. The team assembles for one last mission: going back in time to give Flynn the journal. This version of Lucy tears up knowing the pain he’s suffering but promises he’ll be a hero.
Ultimately, Timeless gives fans the ending they deserve. However, it does give the show an opportunity to return. A young girl is working on a new time machine, which means a new generation could try to mess with history. We’re confident the time team will be there to stop them and save the world if the show does return in the future.
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