Welcome to another chapter of 'Dear Lisa'! This week, I'm covering 'Night of the Hawk', up to a point. Prepare for the shitstorm that is 'Left Behind' next week!
DICLAIMER: I don't own Legends of Tomorrow
WORD COUNT: 1048
Friday, March 21st 1958
Dear Lisa,
Well, this stop certainly was an interesting one. We've spent the last two days in Harmony Falls, Oregon, in the 1950s. It was one of those quaint little towns where everyone knows everyone by first name, all pretty and wholesome and that kind of crap. You would've either hated it or had a blast causing havoc here. The only thing wrong with the image would be the recent murders, looking like the work of a serial killer. Rip thought Savage had something to do with it, since the captain of the time ship we rescued was grateful enough to give us the software update for Gideon instead of turning us in, and it led us to this time and place.
Rip split us all up to investigate. Stein took a position at the local insane asylum since one of the vics worked there and left the position empty, with Sara as his nurse/assistant. You could tell she hated having to be subordinate to him, even if it was only pretend. Ray and Kendra, who apparently hooked up while I was out dealing with Mick and decided to announce it by getting caught making out in the halls the next morning, went undercover as a married couple and moved into another victim's house (because a biracial couple in the 50s is going to attract absolutely no attention). Three teens had also gone missing a few days before the first murder, so Jax was told to play 'new kid in town' and see if there was anything he could find out from the local high schoolers (because a black kid asking around about three white boys in the 50s is going to go over so well).
As for Rip and myself, we went to the local sheriff disguised as FBI agents to see what he had, and came up with nothing. At least the others had more luck. Sara discovered that Savage had been working at the asylum under an alias, and Kendra and Raymond got an unexpected surprise when 'Dr. Knox' turned up on their doorstep and introduced himself as their neighbor. Kendra apparently always looks the same in each life (I'm not going to even bother to wonder about the science and genetics behind that), so he had to have recognized her right away, but she didn't think he knew her memories and powers had emerged yet. But they still got an invite to a party at his house, and Raymond discovered a locked room. Yesterday he snuck in with his shrinking suit and stole the very dagger we went after in '75.
Then things got messy. Jax actually got along with one missing boy's girlfriend, and even got a date with her, which didn't go over too well with some of the other kids. Two boys attacked them at the lover's lane, but then some bird-monster attacked all of them. The girl was injured and Jax tried to drive her to the ship so that Gideon could save her (as a black kid showing up with an injured white girl would be trouble), but the sheriff stopped the car, kidnapped Jax, and just left the girl to die (turns out the bastard's working for Savage). Rip and I found her in time, though, and she told us what happened. She recognized the bird-monster as her missing boyfriend, and Gideon and Stein figured the missing boys had been exposed to some mutagenic crap that turned them into those, and that they were actually responsible for the deaths.
We figured they were being held in a restricted ward of the asylum, since Savage was in charge of that wing, and so we came up with a plan: have Kendra approach and distract Savage at the hospital and hopefully kill him while the rest of us sneak in and get the boys and bring them back to the Waverider to cure them. But Savage figured it out, set the bird-kids loose in the hospital, and nearly killed Kendra (thankfully Ray blasted him out a window before the bastard could do any real damage). To make things worse, Jax had also been subjected to the same experiments and had been turned into a bird-monster, too. Stein and I came across him while we were sneaking in through the basement, and he was completely out of his mind. He nearly killed the both of us.
I could have killed Jax. I had my gun trained on him, and in that state, he was a legitimate threat to my life and Stein's. But I couldn't do it. It wasn't his fault, and the real Jax was still a member of the crew. I wasn't going to let him die, and I sure as hell wasn't going to be the one to kill him. Luckily Sara came along at the right time and knocked him out. Later, when Gideon was curing the boys, Stein called my not pulling the trigger… heroic. Said that I'd saved his life and Jax's. I didn't know how to point out that it was because of me not doing anything that Jax was still alive. And I'm not getting my hopes up that Jax will stop harassing me about what happened with Mick. This whole mission, he's been making his feelings clear about me (supposedly) icing my best friend, and how he doesn't trust me not to turn on the rest of the team. Part of me is glad that he feels that way. At least someone on this team is standing up for Mick, no matter what he did.
So yeah, Stein's cure worked on Jax, so he's heading over to the asylum to give it to the other boys. Soon they'll be back to normal and up and about, and the girl, Betty, has been healed. She was given a sedative that causes mild amnesia as a side-effect, so she won't remember her time on the ship, and Rip and Sara took her home. I have no idea how they're going to explain her trashed and bloodstained car, though.
Yeah, how did they explain the car?
