Dr. Martin Stein quotes from Legends of Tomorrow

Stein

Surely you must admit that it's not a superior intelligence, but rather the murky depths of your mind that proved vital.

Mick

[belches] Just admit it, my brain saved the day.

Stein

I will admit nothing of the sort.

Mick

Sit down, Professor.

Stein

His heart is beating way too fast.

Mick

I said "Sit".

Stein

I know you think I'm overreacting-

Mick

No, I don't. You care for the kid. I get it. But the way you're acting's not doing him any favors.

Stein

Oh, how should I act, Mr. Rory?! Please enlighten me with your vast emotional wisdom!

Mick

Well, you seem to forget I had a partner, too. The reason Snart and I got on so well was, well, we... we trusted one another. We were friends. We had each other's backs.

Stein

Perhaps you've chosen the wrong analogy. Your partner... is dead.

Mick

Yeah, well, I'm still on the ship.

Stein

Your point?

Mick

You're not exactly a spring chicken, Professor.

Stein

Your point!

Mick

My point is you're not gonna be around for too much longer. And Jax has to learn how to do this stuff himself. Stop treating him like a kid, and more like a partner. [pushes his beer bottle into Stein's hands] Partner.

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.

What the hell are you two playing at?

Jax

[over the radio] Okay. I got it. I cut the feed.

Stein

Oh, it's a... It's a British tradition, sir.

Flight! I had radio contact for a second, then I lost it again.

Mick

Nice voice, Professor.

Stein

Thank you very much.

Sara

So, it looks like our historians have made a discovery.

According to this map, the blood of Christ is hidden right smack in the middle of no-man's land.

Rip

Great, right at the center of the bloodiest battle in human history.

Stein

Even if we were to make it through the terrain unscathed, there's still the issue of the blood's precise location.

Nate

That's the good news. Just as the Spear acted as a divining rod for its pieces, it glows when it's close to Jesus' blood.

Stein

But one cannot simply walk into the middle of a war zone.

Amaya

Now the Spear of Destiny is in the hand of not just one, but four psychopaths.

Stein

Don't forget Mr. Rory.

Jax

That's right. We trusted him and he screwed us over.

Ray

Did we? Trust him? I admit it, we never really did, and he picked up on it.

Rip

Apparently, Mr. Rory is not entirely stupid.

Sara

Mick, you wanna do the honors, plot a course? You earned it.

Mick

Gideon, set a course for Aruba.

Gideon

Roger that, Mr. Rory. Setting a course for Aruba, the year 2017.

Amaya

What was that?

Stein

This is what happens when you put Mr. Rory in charge of navigation.

Gideon

In fact, it was another time-storm. It seems the disruption you created in 1916 was just the start.

Ray

We've been ejected out of the temporal zone!

Sara

Get ready for a hard landing.

Jax

Oh, come on! Can we please go five minutes without crashing the Waverider?

Sara

Is everyone okay?

Mick

This ain't Aruba.

Gideon

No. This is Los Angeles 2017.

Ray

Ooooh boy.

Sara

Guys... I think we broke time.

Jax

Come on, Gray. A chance to meet Julius Caesar and fix history. We have a time ship. We can get you home in time for dessert.

Stein

That's what I told Clarissa the last time I left.

Ray

And when you came home, you had a surprise daughter.

Stein

Your point?

Nate

The point is, sometimes we screw things up for the better.

Sara

That's a good motto. We should use that.

Ray

Uh, shouldn't we help her?

Nate

It's him I'm worried about.

Jax

Ye-ah, I'd say our work here is done.

Stein

And to quote the great conqueror himself: "We came, we saw,...

[together] We kicked Caesar's ass! [high five]

Jax

You know, I've taken these engines apart so many times, feels like this ship is a... part of me.

Stein

It is a part of you, that you can take on whatever adventure life offers you next.

Jax

[scoffs] What adventure could be better than this one? I mean, I got to be a superhero who travelled through time changing history.

Stein

Yes, I know.

Jax

Look, I know you wanna do the whole "Grandad" thing. Smoke a pipe by the fire. But I got a whole lotta life left, and I have no idea how to fill it.

Stein

Jefferson, you are, hands down, the most gifted, capable, driven young man I've ever known. You can do anything you want to do.

Jax

Well, that's all well and good, but what I want to do is be half of a nuclear-powered superhero. And I can't do that if you don't want to.

Gideon

Agent Sharpe has boarded the Waverider.

Sara

Get Rory. You two have to save the others.

Stein

Wait, the two of us? Are you mad?

Sara

You can do this. I have faith in you.

Stein

Why?

Sara

Just go! I'll hold her off as long as I can.

Sara

We got a new problem. Rip has been hiding something from us. There's a greater evil coming. Something even the Time Bureau is afraid of.

Jax

[amused] What could be worse than an immortal Egyptian demigod?

Stein

[also amused] Or an evil speedster?

Ray

[shaking his hands in mock fear] I'm afraid of the Time Boogeyman.

Nate

[laughing] I'm literally crying.

Nate

Are you okay?

Amaya

I was having a nightmare.

Stein

And in the process, summoned the ashay of a spider. Astonishing!

Amaya

No, Martin, it isn't. What if I summoned a rhino and I crashed through the hull of the ship? Or a lion and I mauled someone?

Stein

Well, if the victim was Mr. Rory, I guess...

Ray

What makes a hero? Is it powers? Strength? Bravery? No. A hero is forged by his or her relationships, our bonds of brotherhood or sisterhood. That is why I'm taking you all through the ten-step team-building process I perfected at Palmer Tech. Step 1, part 1: icebreakers.

Jax

Dude, we've been stuck on a ship that has one bathroom. I think we know each other well enough.

Stein

And your timing couldn't be worse, given that we're being chased by a water-wielding assassin and the Time Bureau.

Ray

We need to grow as a team. First up is "Two Truths and a Lie". [Sara shakes her head] It's gonna be fun.

Mick

Lie.

Ray

I haven't started yet. Look, I know you guys probably think this is lame–

Sara

Truth.

Ray

But we have a new crew member, and it is important for Zari to bond with us. Not only as team members, but as individuals.

Zari

Yeah, well, I'm no hero and I'm not a member of any team. Besides, I already have you all figured out. The old guy wants to be anywhere but on this ship. [Walks by Amaya and Nate] These two have some "will they, won't they" thing going on. [Nate nods]. Rory's been drunk since breakfast. [Mick tips his beer at her] Jax is wondering if I'm single. And your ship's still mad at me for doing a teeny hack on her sub-systems. Now, what's this about one bathroom?

Mick

Going somewhere, Professor?

Stein

I don't have time to explain. I'm taking the jump-ship, whether you like it or not.

Jax

Yo, Mick. Come on, man, I just souped this baby up.

Stein

Jefferson, please, I need you to help me get out of 1988.

Jax

Help you? After you've been lying to me? You've been sneaking out on us, you erased the jump logs. You're working with the Time Bureau!

Stein

What? Never!

Mick

What's in your back pocket, Professor?

Stein

It's a trans-temporal communicator.

Jax

So you can talk to your little Time Bureau friends.

Stein

No, so I can talk to my– [the communicator beeps and Lily's face comes on it]

Hey, Dad!

Stein

–my daughter.

[realises Jax and Mick are in the room] Oh, and all you guys.

Jax

Hey, Lily.

Dad, I think it's time. We're heading to the hospital now. You're gonna be here, right?

Stein

How can I miss the birth of my first grandchild?

Good, 'cause... this baby's coming. Okay, I will see you there. Bye, Dad. [disconnects]

Stein

I took the jump-ship back to 2017 so I could give Lily the other communicator.

Jax

And you wiped the jump logs. Why?

Stein

Because I wanted you to know that I'm committed to you, and to the team! I made the decision to stay, and I needed you to know that I meant it. Clearly, my subterfuge has robbed me of the chance to be at the birth of my grandchild.

Mick

No! We can take the Waverider.

Stein

What about the rest of the team?

Jax

I'm sure they'll manage.

Stein

You're serious.

Jax

Gray! It's your first grandkid! Why would you think I'd want you to miss that? C'mon, man, let's go!