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As you listen, you’ll hear that I thought I recognized the Director’s name, and I now know why. John Terlesky has directed & acted in so many shows/movies that I’ve watched over the years! Here are just a few: The Blacklist, Castle, Agents of SHIELD, Chopping Mall, and the original V.
I also mention this article at Entertainment Weekly that details the average ratings of the new fall shows so far. It looks encouraging for Timeless so far, but I lament the last place standing of one of my new faves, No Tomorrow. *subliminal message – watch it please – subliminal message*
Tomorrow Never Dies, but Yesterday is Forever ~or~ From 2016 with Love
Our heroes have been tasked to stop Flynn from abducting Wernher von Braun and taking him to Russia instead of allowing him to defect to the US. That action would have turned the space-race upside down – and who knows what long-lasting implications that could’ve had on America’s future.
However, they’re still new at this ‘undercover’ thing – so they’re outed as Americans right away. Little did they know it would be by Ian Fleming – author of the James Bond series of novels. Apparently, Wyatt is a huge fan, not that you could tell or anything…
Ian is also there to track down Wernher, but he has motivations of his own. In a mirror to Lucy and Wyatt’s storylines, he also has a personal vendetta to attend to, since von Braun was responsible for the death of a family member. Ultimately, he’s convinced that giving him over to the US is the right decision, and all is right in the world. He even chronicles his adventures with a heretofore unwritten Connery pic with our gang as characters. WANT TO BUY.
During the course of this episode, we get two interactions between Wyatt and Lucy where they discuss their PTSD and the ramifications of their actions over the course of their missions so far. They become closer – which is something that advances both characters greatly. It leads to Wyatt’s deeper trust in Lucy’s actions later in the episode. These were some of our favorite parts of the episode, and according to your feedback, yours as well.
Generating a Conclusion
In this episode, we get an answer to what Flynn wanted to do with the nuclear core. He’s going to use it as an upgrade to the power source in the ‘Mother Ship’. Having mentioned tracking the progress of Flynn’s movements in the last episode by the power source, this revelation now renders that method useless. I expect we’ll hear more about that next week.
EMPeril
Rufus has his own battles in ‘Castle Varlar’ as well. Of course Nazi Germany is not the best place for a black man, so he’s happy to be the utility player behind the scenes. He’s tasked with hot-wiring a car, and then he meets with the team in secret when they make their plans to sequester Werhner for passage to America.
Once they have von Braun, Rufus approaches him and is rebuffed callously. He grabs the notepad out of Werhner’s hands and scribbles some formulas down, rendering the man speechless, and then asks him essentially how he sleeps at night knowing that the technology he helps create kills so many people. He responds that it’s not his job to think about the results, just the research.
He uses the quote: “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,” which Doug found was a lyric used in a Tom Lehrer song about him from the 60s. I really love easter eggs, and this one was pretty fun to hear about. Speaking of easter eggs – if you guys find one, please pass them along – I TRULY LOVE THEM!
All of the brooding Rufus does throughout the mission comes to a head when they return to the present-day laboratory, and he finally tells Connor in no uncertain terms that he is done with the secret recordings. While Connor reluctantly accepts the news, Rittenhouse isn’t so easily persuaded.
A representative played by John Getz (Body Simple, MacGruder & Loud, The Social Network, Day Break, Joan of Arcadia, Curly Sue, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Men at Work… and EVERYTHING), follows him as he drives away, uses something to disable his car (EMP/Computer Hacking, whatevs), and not-so-subtly threatens Rufus and his family if he decides not to continue helping Rittenhouse with whatever nefarious deeds they’re carrying out.
The best part of this scene? The song Rufus’ is listening to in his car: Soul Tonic by Archie Thompson’s Soul & Psychedelic Funk Crew. We played a clip in the episode, but I can’t emphasize how awesome this song is if you’re into soul oldies.
Well, that’s it for my comments. Hopefully you’re listening to the podcast, because Doug and I are kinda wacky this week. I’m hoping he keeps some of the shenanigans in the recording. 
On December 7
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Notable Births:
1910 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor
1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor
1923 – Ted Knight, American actor
1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist and philosopher
1932 – Ellen Burstyn, American actress
1942 – Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
1956 – Larry Bird, American basketball player and coach
1966 – C. Thomas Howell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Terrell Owens, American football player and actor
1979 – Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
Notable Deaths:
1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor:
- Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (b. 1887)
- Frederick Curtice Davis, American soldier (b. 1915)
- Julius Ellsberry, American soldier (b. 1922)
- John C. England, American soldier (b. 1920)
- Edwin J. Hill, American sailor (b. 1894)
- Ralph Hollis, American soldier (b. 1906)
- Herbert C. Jones, American soldier (b. 1918)
- Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884)
- Robert Lawrence Leopold, American soldier (b. 1916)
- Herbert Hugo Menges, American soldier (b. 1917)
- Thomas James Reeves, American soldier (b. 1895)
- Aloysius Schmitt, American priest and sailor (b. 1909)
- Robert R. Scott, American sailor (b. 1915)
- Peter Tomich, American sailor (b. 1893)
- Robert Uhlmann, American soldier (b. 1919)
- Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1888)
- Eldon P. Wyman, American soldier (b. 1917)
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author
1975 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright
2006 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor and director
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