Rip Hunter and his gang of alleged legends have returned in the second part of the Pilot episode, and we learn that Sara is still a badass and can fight her own battles.
Carter Hall (Hawkman) is dead. Sorry. I wasn’t really a fan of his character, or Kendra’s for that matter. So his death really didn’t bother me. But his death gives the team a reason to continue their mission to take down Savage – they must avenge their friend.
In 1975, the team infiltrates an auction for a nuclear warhead in hopes of seeing Savage in the crowd of buyers, only to find out that Savage was the dealer. Eventually blowing their cover, the team start taking down the terrorists after Savage basically put a bounty on them, Ray leaves a piece of his suit behind while trying to escape. Because of this, Rip reveals that the technology of Ray’s suit helps to create weapons that would destroy Central City in 2016. The team split up – Kendra and Carter try to recover Kendra’s memories and find out that the dagger that killed them in their first live could kill Savage, Dr. Stein, Jefferson and Sara head out to retrieve the piece of Ray’s suit, while Leonard, Rory and Ray try to steal the dagger.
In order to retrieve the missing part of Ray’s suit, Dr. Stein must come face to face with his younger 1975 self, as he has the technology that could track Ray’s suit. While meeting his younger self, who turns out to be a stoner and has an infatuation with Sara, they risk Dr. Stein’s future, which makes his wedding ring disappear from his finger.
While trying to steal the dagger, Ray, Leonard and Rory find out that Savage is the owner of the house they have broken into. Savage threatens to kill Rory unless the rest of the team shows up, and soon enough they do. Kendra and Carter go after Savage with the dagger, but he overpowers them and eventually stabs Carter thus killing him. While trying to kill Kendra, Ray blasts him away and the team take Kendra back to the ship for treatment.
To be honest, I can’t take Rip seriously because every time I look at Arthur Darvill, I just flash back to his days as Rory on Doctor Who, and know HE gets to wear the trench coat. I’m sure after a few episodes it would be fine.
This episode was definitely more enjoyable than the first. We did have a cameo from Damien Darhk, which was quite nice. And I’m really happy with the way they’ve written Snart’s character. Without fail, he calls Dr. Stein “Professor” and Ray “Raymond”, which is hilarious to me. It’s obvious that the show has tons of potential, and it sure is going to be exciting when it takes off.
