Of course, the Legion’s staying in the Vanishing Point. And of course, that’s where Snart died. And of course, Mick is still wicked sad about losing his best friend and partner. But what could go wrong, right?
In some of the best team work the crew has ever used, they split up throughout the Vanishing Point using their pieces of the Spear to call to the remaining ones housed somewhere in the Legion of Doom’s secret no girls allowed boy’s club. Funny how even with all his speed, Thawne was too slow to figure out what was happening before the Legends got away with the Spear.
But his backup plan was cruel even for him. But I’ll get to that later.
As the crew of the Waverider reattaches the Spear, Rip finally decides to tell them all the rules and regulations of the game. Like “oh hey, btw, the Spear will try to control you by whispering sweet nothings about happiness and world domination in your ear. And oh yeah, I don’t know how to destroy it because it’s basically a Holy relic. But don’t worry if you have the blood of Jesus Christ himself, easy peasy.”
Enter Nate with the obvious solution (I swear you almost don’t need Gideon with how much knowledge he has): Sir Gawain the legendary knight who found the blood of Christ and brought it back to England during the crusades. Only one person is qualified to help the Legends figure out where it ended up (not Sir Gawain, duh)…J.R.R. Tolkein. Looks like we’re going on an adventure!!
The crew heads to World War I in an attempt to find the writer behind the legend and hopefully an easy path to literally the only thing that might save the world. But while the team is able to find Tolkein (sick with the flu…like everyone else in WWI), they also find someone else…Snart.
And this time he’s packing a mean punch that doesn’t seem all that imaginary friend like. He also tells Mick that he’s a pet for the Legends, that he’s no hero. And while previously Mick has been able to shake that off a bit, he starts to believe that maybe Snart does have a point. They are partners in CRIME after all.
With the Spear intact, the dangers of it become more and more apparent as Mick’s doubts begin to taunt him, pulling him closer to using the Spear, and Amaya’s recent learnings of her village and family’s future make her the prime candidate for the Spear to control. And without Frodo to harness the darkness calling out, the temptation just gets stronger and stronger.
As Tolkein leads the team on a Da Vinci Code style hunt to Sir Gawain, Mick is once again put to use as a thief. Until Snart shows up. Physically. In the Flesh. Alive.
That was the dastardly plan the Legion had up their sleeves. Because who can say no to Snart. I mean that voice is utter perfection. And as he and Mick square off allegiances definitely begin to be questioned.
Finding out that Mick told a not so imaginary Snart their entire plan sends the team into one of their usual who’s to blame spirals in which they continuously point out that Mick will always be a criminal with a faulty moral compass. Which, you know, definitely makes Mick feel really great about his place on the team and how they see him (maybe this isn’t the best time for this conversation since his once dead partner is now back in villainous form).
With the information Tolkein found at Gawain’s grave, the crew is able to figure out where they need to go to find the blood of Christ.
Right in the heart of the most deadly battle of WWI.
Amaya takes the spear and tells the crew they should just rewrite reality. That there’s no need for them to go into the war grounds, there’s no need for anyone to go to war. But the crew knows tampering with reality is never that simple, and she is outvoted.
While half the members of the crew split up in attempt to get a ceasefire in place from both fronts, Sara, Nate, and Amaya use the fully intact Spear as a homing device to find the Blood where it’s buried. Which in theory sounds like a great idea because it will light up in the best game of Hot/Cold ever, but actually just ends up back firing majorly (as things always do for the crew).
Line of the night goes to Nate when he basically quoted Lord of the Rings to Tolkein himself saying: “There may come a day when our courage fails us, when we break the bonds of friendship, and betray the fellowship. But today is not that day.” Though a really close second is when Tolkein tells them he likes long stories, and Nate responds back with “yeah, he does.”
Just as they find the vial of blood, Dahrk and Snart show up ready to start a war of their own. Unsurprisingly, Mick chooses to go with Snart (though his face makes me wonder if this time Mick really isn’t turning to the dark side. There was definitely conflict in his decision). The Spear is handed over as the Legion causes the ceasefire to be annulled with the attack made by their own army.
In the shuffle of things Sir Gawain’s vial of Christ’s blood is destroyed, which means the Legends are once again without a way to destroy the Spear the Legion now possesses.
Amaya blames Sara for making the wrong choice (or choices as she continues to list all of Sara’s shortcomings. Easy to do when ten minutes before you were the one who was trying to use the Spear for your own personal gain, but go on, Amaya, go on).
Nate, ever the optimist, pitches the idea that the Legion might not know how to use the Spear since it doesn’t come with instructions. But that wishful thinking is put to bed quickly. Considering the Legion of Doom has Malcom Merlyn, a man known for finding anything and everything he needs, this argument was flawed to begin with. And with just a few verses from the book, Merlyn and the Legion activate the Spear.
We knew the Legion was going to have to get control of the Spear in order to bring about a huge climatic fight, but the question is what will their new reality look like? In the teaser for next week we see everyone in different positions. Villainous ones. And I, for one, can’t wait to see this dark new world they’re creating. But the question still remains is Mick truly on the Legion’s side, or does the hope for the world lie in his hands?
Written by Shannon Brewer, LoT Beat Writer -- Click to read Shannon's posts
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