The Waverider took the team back to 1967 where they split up to find Rip or the Legion of Doom as Henry had conveniently named them.
"Addison, I think you should stay on the ship," Sara began, "I don't know why you have been affected so deeply but it wouldn't be wise to have you out there looking for him. Understand?" she asked.
Addison nodded, "Please update me if you find out anything. Gideon and I will try our best to learn everything we can."
"You'll have Mick and Martin up here too," Sara added, "I'm not sure what they're up to but they are staying behind for this recon mission. See you soon."
"Be careful," Addison said as she watched most of the team leave to find Rip in 1967.
"Gideon, do you know anything about where he might be?" Addison asked once they were 'alone'.
Gideon was quick to reply, "He is not living in this time under his name so until i know what alias he has chosen for himself, I'm afraid I wouldn't know where to start."
Addison sighed as she walked into Rip's office and took a seat in his chair, waiting for any kind of update from the team. She began looking through his papers to see if she could learn anything else about the spear that had really brought everyone there.
As she sat, engrossed in papers, she heard Sara's voice interrupt her thoughts, "We found him but he got arrested thanks to Dark and Merlyn."
"Arrested?" Martin asked as he joined the team on the bridge.
Jax nodded, "Yep and he didn't even know who we were. He tried to beat me to death with this non-lethal weapon."
"We are going to break him out of jail before Dark and Merlyn can get to him," Sara announced.
"What's your plan?" Addison asked, her tone hopeful as she tried to hide that emotion.
Sara smiled in reply, "Well, I'll be playing the part of the nurse, you'll be the orderly and I think Dr. Stein can handle the part of a psychiatrist. Can you, Martin?" she asked, turning her head to look at him.
Addison caught Mick giving Martin a serious glare before Martin nodded, "Absolutely, I can! Let's go."
"Gideon, prepare our wardrobes," Sara ordered as the three made their way to the dressing chamber to suit up and head to the police station.
They had an easy time convincing the first officer of their need to take Rip or 'Phil' into their custody and he walked them right into the holding cell where Addison saw Rip for the first time in 6 months. He had let his hair and his beard grow out but when he opened his mouth she was shocked to hear an American accent come out, "What are you doing back here? I don't know any of you," he said in a panic.
Sara began walking up to him to try and calm him but Addison waved her back as she made her way to him. She didn't step too closely for fear of startling him as she said, "Listen, I know you're really confused and somehow you've erased who you really are but people are coming who want to hurt you so you need to calm down and come with us. Do you remember us at all? We're your team," she explained.
Rip shook his head and as he was about to scream for help, Addison reared back and punched him in the jaw, knocking him out, "Let's go. Hopefully Gideon can figure out what's wrong with him," Addison said as she caught his body in her arms.
Sara nodded as the four, well three and one unconscious one, made their way out of the precinct. As they neared their exit strategy, Merlyn and Dark showed up.
"Ray, can you hear me?" Sara asked.
Addison could hear his reply in her earpiece, "Yes, and they're blocking your only way out."
Sara sighed as she looked around until her eyes caught the elevator, "Ray, how comfortable are you with flying the Waverider?"
"Very," his giddy tone replied through their ears.
"Meet us on the roof," Sara instructed as she waved the team forward to the elevator.
Addison was pushing Rip in a wheelchair now and as they reached the rooftop, Rip woke and stood from the chair, "Why won't you leave me alone? I'm not this person you keep talking about!" he yelled as he looked from side to side in panic.
"Rip, we are trying to save your life," Addison said, her tone gentle, "Can you please just cooperate. You are a Captain and I know you know how to act calmly in a situation like this. Take a deep breath," she tried to sooth him.
Rip wasn't hearing anything she was trying to say as he ran forward causing the team to yell to him in panicked voices. Finally, after what seemed like ages, the Waverider appeared before them as Rip was explaining that it couldn't exist and he dropped, only to be caught by Addison once again.
As the cargo door opened for the team to board, shots began coming their way as Merlyn and Dark had caught up with them.
"Get on!" Jax yelled from aboard the ship, "Hurry!"
The group boarded as fast as they could before closing the cargo door and taking off back into the night sky. Addison brought Rip straight to the Medbay so that Gideon could evaluate his brain.
"I'm afraid my prognosis is not good," Gideon began, "It appears that he is not experiencing a time drift but instead a completely altered brain pattern. He genuinely does not know who he is anymore. It would appear that he shut me down in order to use the meantime drive to transport himself away after he took a small piece of wood from his office."
"He took the spear with him," Sara sighed, "Ok, someone figure out if we can reverse what's happened to Rip and I will go look for the staff of whatever."
As the team began to disperse from the Medbay, Addison called out to Martin, "Dr. Stein, can you hang back for a moment? I wanted to ask you something."
Martin smiled as she turned to address her, "What can I do for you?"
"In your experience, is there anything that could be done to help him remember who he is?" she asked, glancing down at his sleeping body.
"Sometimes a moment of intimacy like a kiss can trigger memories buried deep inside but we don't have anyone on board that knew him that way so unfortunately, there is nothing we can do," he replied, his tone defeated, "If you'll excuse me, I have another project to work on."
Addison smiled and gestured for him to go on before she looked back at Rip and felt a sting of pain in her heart at the thought that they might have him back but they would never really have him back.
As Addison sat with him, Jax entered the Medbay with the paper Rip had tried to hit him with earlier, "Addy, take a look at this. He was writing a movie about us. He knows everything but in his reality it's not real."
"Oh my gosh," Addison replied as she looked through the papers in Jax's hand, "He knows everything and yet he knows absolutely nothing."
As they spoke, Rip stirred in his chair. He opened his eyes and let out a groan, "I'm still here! When will this delusion end?"
Addison stood and walked over to him, pulling the brain scanner off of his head, "We are the characters in your movie," she explained, "Everything in your screenplay is real and it happened with us. You are Rip Hunter, not Phil the films student. Can't you remember us or your ship?"
Rip shook his head as he stood to walk out of the Medbay. Even if Addison wanted to try and kiss him to reverse the effects, he would never let her close enough, she thought to herself.
She sighed as she followed Rip to the bridge where he was speaking with Sara, who was extremely frustrated with his memory loss.
"We need you to tell us where the Spear of Destiny is?" Sarah asked, changing the subject from her interrogation of his memories.
Rip shrugged his shoulders in response, "I don't know what that is."
"Rip," Addison began, her tone much softer than Sara's, "You have something that would look like a simple piece of wood. Those men want it so we have to get to it before they do. Do you know where you put it?" she asked, beginning to reach her hand out to place it on his arm but he was too quick and pulled it away.
"You're talking about my movie prop," Rip answered, "I leave it with my prop master George who you almost got killed yesterday. That thing is a piece of junk. I am only using it as the thing everyone is after in my film."
"Why did you write it that way?" Sarah asked, her tone curious.
"It was just an idea in my head," Rip replied, his face showing emotions the team had never seen before, "It all came from my mind, Rip Hunter, those characters you think are like you and the stupid spear."
"Isn't it strange that he has an American accent now?" Ray asked as he, Henry and Jax walked in.
Sara and Addison nodded as Rip looked even further lost then just moments before. "Ray, you, Henry and Amaya go find his friend George and get the spear. Call me in if you need any backup," Sara ordered as she turned to look at Rip once more, shook her head and walked away.
Everyone left the room except for Addison and Rip. Addison took a deep breath as she looked at Rip, "Would you allow me to try something that might be able to bring your memories back?" she asked, her tone hesitant.
Rip shook his head, "No because there are no memories to find. I am not this guy that you all want me to be and I wish you would just let me go home. When can I leave?"
Addison looked at him, her eyes filled with pity, "You can't. You don't belong in this time period and you don't belong in film school. You are an amazing Captain and a leader. You can fight better than anyone I've ever witnessed and once upon a time after a lot of terrible events, you and I were almost a thing," as she said the last part she hadn't realized Martin had entered the bridge. She finally shook her head as he stared blankly at her and walked away to her own corridors for a while to process the loss she felt inside.
After some time had passed, her comm went off, "Addison, we're facing off with Merlyn and Dark. Bring the Waverider to us and come down."
"Copy that," Addison replied as she raced out of her room and back to the bridge where she saw Rip in the Captain's chair, piloting the Waverider.
"Rip, did you remember?" she asked as she walked up close to him.
He looked over and shook his head, "No, but I asked the computer what he would do and she is doing it. I'm going to go down there and fight, well try. I've never been in a fight."
Addison laughed, "You've been in more than your fair share of fights. You need to suit up if you're going to be Rip," she added as she walked back to his old corridors and pulled out his normal outfit. She raced back to him and handed him the clothes, "Change into this and then we'll take down the bad guys, together."
Rip looked skeptical but he nodded as he walked off the bridge to change. "Gideon, what's the situation down there?"
Gideon began, "Dark and Merlyn have the upper hand in the battle at the moment because Jax doesn't have Dr. Stein and they are protecting George."
"Where is Dr. Stein?" she asked in reply, surprised he wasn't down there helping and realizing he's been on the ship the whole time.
"He was doing brain surgery on Mr. Rory when the team was ready to depart," Gideon answered.
"Of course," Addison said to herself as Rip showed back up looking like his old self except for his hair. "Can you do a British accent?" she asked as she took in the sight of her Captain.
"Why?" he asked, unclear as to how that could pertain to the mission at hand.
"You're British," she said simply as Gideon gave them to go ahead to join the battle.
Rip nodded as he walked with her and the got off of the ship to join the fight. "Let me go in first and then make a grand entrance that will hopefully scare them off," Addison ordered as she began moving forward.
Rip reached out and gently grasped her elbow gaining her attention, "What's up?" she asked, looking at him.
"Be careful," he said, his voice soft and his normal accent present.
"Rip?" she asked, wondering if he knew who he was.
The moment passed quickly and he shook his head causing her to sigh as she moved out into the fight. She ran straight for Merlyn and threw her foot into his chest.
"You aren't trained well enough to fight with me," he taunted as he regained his footing.
"You can have all the League training in the world but you will never be as strong as I am," she challenged as they began to fight.
Moments later, Rip emerged and at first it seemed like they had the upper hand but his gun didn't fire and the fight resumed until the Legends had what they needed and they ran for the ship.
Everyone raced on board but Addison turned back at the last moment to see Merlyn grab Rip.
"Rip!" she screamed as the cargo bay door closed and he was lost again.
"We'll find him," Sara reassured her but Addison didn't want to hear it as she marched away and towards her room.
As she reached her door, she saw Martin there, waiting, "I overheard you and Rip speaking today. How long were the two of you involved?" he asked.
"Officially, one day," Addison replied, "But things started between us the moment we met subtle as they may have been. But he's gone again now and even if we got him back, I don't know that he'll ever be Rip again."
"Did you attempt anything to help him regain his memories?" Martin asked, referring to their earlier conversation.
Addison nodded, "I tried but I couldn't get close enough. There was a moment, though. Just before I went into battle he reached out and grabbed my elbow for half a second, I swear I saw Rip in his eyes but he was gone as fast as he showed up."
"Don't give up hope," Martin stated, "We'll find him and you may be the key to bringing our Captain back."