Jax Jackson quotes from Legends of Tomorrow

Rip

I guess this is good-bye.

Ray

It's been a pleasure, Captain.

Rip

Likewise, Dr. Palmer.

Jax

Rip, you brought all of us into this, man.

Rip

Which is why I'm doing this alone, Mr. Jackson. I'll have no one else die for my choices.

Sara

This isn't gonna bring Snart back.

Mick

[subdued] I don't want to lose another friend.

Rip

I appreciate that, Mr. Rory. I must say, it's been an honor to serve as your captain.

Is this 2016? Is this May 2016?

Jax

Yeah.

You're exactly where you said you'd be. Do not get on that ship. If you do, you're all dead.

Mick

Says who?

Says you, Mr. Rory. You sent me.

Rip

I'm sorry. Who exactly are you?

My name is Rex Tyler. I am a member of the Justice Society of America.

Ray

Ah, I knew I forgot something. The part where Rip tells us everything that we did wrong.

Rip

As in seducing the Queen of France just before she's supposed to conceive the country's greatest hope for the future.

Sara

She seduced me.

Rip

Or "wrong" as in violating our policy of "No using superpowers in front of people".

Jax

They had laser guns.

Mick

At least I didn't screw up this time.

Mick

Stealing's not screwing up.

Stein

With all due respect, Raymond, I think there's a reason Mr. Tyler just naturally assumed I was in charge.

Jax

Yeah, because Mr. Tyler is from 1942, and you're some old white dude.

Stein

This time period is replete with various perils. Perhaps it might be easier if you were to remain behind, and keep Doctor Palmer company.

Jax

Perhaps you should remain behind. [pause as Stein looks awkwardly sideways] No? Because you're not black? Because you think that me going back to 1863, I can't handle it?

Stein

That doesn't mean there's a need for you to subject yourself to the horrors that await you in that era!

Jax

Okay, now I get it might be difficult for you to understand this, but I've been black my entire life Gray. And honestly, I can't think of a time period we could go to where I wouldn't face some sort of racism. So don't worry, okay?

Ray

Nice job blowing the time pirate's escape pod. Put another win in the mission column.

Jax

Did you not see what happened next?

Ray

No, I took a break, had to go the bathroom. [Jax throws up his hands in frustration] You OK?

Mick

We were attacked by zombies. And somebody put sprouts on my sandwich.

Jax

According to this guy's mission papers, he was going to get in disguised as the help.

Amaya

You mean slave? [Jax looks at Amaya wordlessly] We could've helped her, we should have.

Jax

Look, I've been doing this time-travel thing for a little while now, and if I've learned one thing it's you never know what's gonna change history which can have massive consequences. You think this doesn't make me angry as well? But we have a job to do, and if we don't do it, we can make things a lot worse.

Jax

What the hell was that?

Amaya

Don't you know a breakout when you see one? [frees Jax from his chains]

Jax

Okay, good. Now let's free them [points at the chained-up slaves]

Amaya

I thought you said that if we didn't do our job, we could end up doing more harm than good.

Jax

Yeah, that's still a risk.

Amaya

So what's changed?

Jax

The way these people are being treated. That's the real aberration. I can see that now. This is the history that needs to be fixed.

Stein

Are you homesick?

Jax

You checking up on me Gray?

Stein

Given what you've witnessed, what you've endured, would that really be so bad? You know you just witnessed the very worst of humanity. We share a psychic connection, yet I still can't even begin to fathom what you must be feeling. Must be like your heart is broken.

Jax

Yeah, it is. But I saw something in those people's eyes I didn't expect to see. I saw hope, I saw dignity. Those men and women? They were treated worse than animals, but they never let anybody stop them from being people, ya know?

Stein

I suppose there will always be those who will seek to dehumanize us, but I believe there are more that cling to hope, despite the darkness.

Jax

Yeah, that is exactly how they were.

Stein

I was actually thinking of you Jefferson.

Jax

What if when you interacted with your younger self in 1987, you...

Stein

Inadvertently changed my past so-so that my memories from my new life are supplanting the memories from my old life, that's creating temporal dissonance.

Jax

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

Jax

Gray?

Sara

What the hell are you doing?

Stein

Brain surgery. What does it look like?

Stein

I made a terrible mistake. I should never have brought Lily on board this ship.

Jax

She found out. She knows she's an aberration.

Stein

Mr. Rory spilled the beans, as predicted.

Jax

So what'cha gonna do?

Stein

What can I do?

Jax

Just tell her how you feel.

Stein

She knows how I feel, It goes without saying.

Jax

Yeah, for us, it does. We have a psychic connection, but for her? She just hears whatever comes out of that big brain of yours. Just tell her you love her. That's what Dads do.

Stein

Clearly, you never met my father. [sighs] You know, the... the reason Clarissa and I chose not to have children the first time around was because... I feared that history would repeat itself. That I would be the kind of father that he was.

Jax

We're Legends, Gray. Changing history is what we do.

Jax

How long until Lily's interface tracks down another piece of the Spear of Destiny?

Sara

I dunno. I'm beginning to think our supercomputer is not so super.

Gideon

I heard that. You try processing 1.2 zetabytes of data.

Jax

Rip's probably being tortured by the Legion of Doom right now. The sooner we can locate another piece of the Spear, the sooner we can set a trap and rescue him.

Gideon

I could always reroute power to my sub-neural processing unit by shutting off life support.

Sara

Oh, you're lippy this morning, Gideon. I like it.

Gideon

I wasn't joking.

Jax

You didn't have to kill her. Sara wasn't supposed to die. Not like that. Not by you.

Rip

There's no rhyme nor reason to any of this, Jax. History is war and slavery and holding a dead son in your arms. There's no point in protecting history, so we might as well just burn it all down.

Rip

I think I may have found a way to track Commander Heywood.

Stein

Don't worry, Mr. Hunter, we've already found him.

Rip

You did?

Jax

We're heading to Houston, 1970.

Mick

Yeah. Elvis at the Astrodome.

Nate

And then we're gonna rescue my grandfather.

Mick

Then Elvis.

Rip

We still need to figure out a way of contacting Commander Heywood without arousing suspicion. To that end, I suggest that we --

Sara

It's simple. We infiltrate NASA.