Dr. Nate Heywood quotes from Legends of Tomorrow

Nate

[sighs] Oh, Hank. I have so many questions. You weren't torturing magical creatures, you were training them to be in a theme park. That is nuts. But I gotta respect you for dreaming big. It was your moonshine, your way of risking it all to make the world a better place. [getting emotional] I was so wrong about you. At the end of the day, you were just as wacky and well-intentioned as any Legend. And I wish I had a chance to get to know that side of you. I'm gonna miss you. I love you, Hank... I love you, Dad.

Nate

This just went from John Hughes to John Carpenter.

Nate

It’s a weird thing with friendship. It starts because you need each other, and then if you do it right and help each other grow, you need each other less.

Thank you for not having me arrested back there. Those security guard really overreacted. You know, one of them tried to mace me?

Dr. Heywood, I only agreed to give you 5 minutes, which was 3 minutes ago, because Ray and Sara are friends of mine. I don't know the first thing about any Legends.

Nate

Of course you do, because you're the Green Arrow.

Excuse me? We're done here.

Nate

Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to drop a bomb on you like that. It's just that I've exhausted all my normal avenues, and you're the only person left who won't think I'm crazy.

You sure about that?

Nate

I'm a historian. I specialize in deductive historical reconstruction. In a layman's terms, I'm a time detective, which I really don't have to be to look at a calendar to see one week after you came to this city, Robin Hood showed up.

Nate

My dad used to tell me bedtime stories about you. You're a hero to me.

I'm a hero to a lot of people. That's the job.

Nate

Masako's supposed to marry the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Sara

Yeah, met him. Not a fan.

Nate

Well, the reason he sticks out in the history books is because he likes to murder his wives, and I can't leave Masako to his mercy.

Ray

Especially since he stole my Atom suit.

Nate

Exactly. Wait, what? You let the shogun steal a 21st century super suit?

Ray

After I crash-landed, trying to rescue you.

Sara

And how does the shogun even know how to operate your Atom suit?

Ray

I designed it so an idiot could use it.

Mick

An idiot does.

Nate

You think I don't want to save the girl, spare the village, and be a hero for once in my damn life? I spent half of my childhood in a hospital, where it didn't even occur to me to dream about having superpowers. But guess what? I got them, I lost them, and now I really really need them and I can't get them back.

Ray

This isn't all about you! I worked for years, spent billions of dollars to develop the Atom suit. I nearly died learning to shrink! And now I need to teach you to destroy the very thing... the only thing that makes me a hero!

Nate

Wait. "Sematic overload" means "destroy the suit"?

Ray

Yeah, Nate. We can't beat the shogun while he's wearing the suit, so we have to blow the suit up. Your powers are within you. After today, I'll have nothing left. [walks away]

Nate

I know I have these powers inside me. I just can't figure out how to use them.

Does a child learn to laugh? Does he sit and practice laughing? No, he just does.

Nate

"Do or do not. There is no try."

Exactly! Where did you learn that?

Nate

From a great sensei from where I'm from. Yoda.

This master Yoda is very wise.

Amaya

Women actually wore these things in the Eighties?

Nate

Shoulder pads? Yeah, they're supposed to make women more imposing. More, I dunno...

Amaya

Manly?

Nate

Yeah.

Amaya

I'd hope that by this decade, women wouldn't need to use clothing to compensate for their status. Surely by now, men and women are considered equals.

Nate

[smiling] Never lose that optimism.

Gideon

The bullet has lodged itself between several of Dr. Heywood's internal organs.

Ray

How's that possible? He's made of steel.

Sara

Because it wasn't a normal bullet. It was dwarf star.

Gideon

I estimate his chance of survival at 51%.

Nate

Ugh, would it kill you to say "better than average", Gideon?

Nate

I just thought becoming a superhero, I would spend less time in the library than my old job. So...

Ray

Well, research skills are kind of a superpower. And you can turn to steel. You got two.

Ray

Uh, actually, there's something I've been working on before I start building a new exo-suit. It's, uh, not exactly what was in your drawing. I made a few improvements. [uncovers Nate's costume]

Nate

Shut the front door.

Ray

Yeah. I figured you earned it. Steel.

Nate

Cool name.

Nate

What just happened?

Ray

Well, it's the strangest thing. Two cops just escorted Eliot Ness to the Bureau.

Nate

They're not escorting him to the Bureau! They're gonna throw him in the river!

Ray

What?

Nate

Ray, 1920 Chicago PD was the most corrupt police force in history. Almost all of them were on Capone's payroll. Did you or did you not see The Untouchables?

Gideon

Special Agent Ness has suffered severe hypoxia. It will take some time to reverse his brain damage.

Nate

You can reverse brain damage? Why haven't you helped Rory out?

Gideon

Who says I haven't?

Ray

You know, if this is the week the Feds get Capone's ledger, why does it take four more years for them to take him down?

Nate

Because it's the Federal government.