- Lucy Preston: Oh, my god. Please tell me that's not who I think it is.
- Rufus Carlin: It's not who you think it is, unless you think it's a young JFK. Then it's definitely who you think it is.
- Garcia Flynn: The day I've had. Someone needs to figure out how to put more seats into this damn Lifeboat.
- Jiya: We're working on it.
- Garcia Flynn: Well, work faster, 'cause next time, it won't be me who's left behind.
- Denise Christopher: Did you take care of the sleeper?
- Garcia Flynn: [with a sarcastic salute] Yes, ma'am. All three of them.
- Jiya: Wait, where's Flynn?
- Wyatt Logan: We had to split up.
- Denise Christopher: You left him there?
- Wyatt Logan: We're gonna go back and pick him up. After we deal with our, uh, situation.
- Lucy Preston: [learning JFK escaped from the bunker] Oh, my god. If we don't put JFK back where he belongs, he doesn't become president, no JFK, no Peace Corps, no Civil Rights Act...
- Jiya: No immigration reform.
- Lucy Preston: But there is nuclear war with Cuba.
- Jiya: Hey. You're awake. Fever dropped. That's a good sign.
- Lucy Preston: Wyatt?
- Jiya: He's on a mission.
- Lucy Preston: He went without me?
- Jiya: You were stabbed with a knife full of 17th century germs and running a fever of 105, remember?
- Lucy Preston: [Jiya tends to her wound] Ow. I don't care. He shouldn't have gone without me.
- Jiya: Flynn's pinch hitting. I'm sure he and Wyatt have everything under control.
- Lucy Preston: [sarcastic] Sure. What could go wrong?
- Jessica: Oh, hey.
- Lucy Preston: Hey.
- Jessica: Lucy, right? How you feeling?
- Lucy Preston: Not that great, actually. I think I'm gonna go back to bed and rest.
- Jessica: Do you want some tea?
- [Lucy can't say no]
- Jessica: Sit down. I tend bar for a living, so it's, like, physically impossible for me to let someone else serve their own drink.
- Gas Station Clerk: Can I help you?
- John F. Kennedy: Pardon me. Where can I find a pay telephone?
- Gas Station Clerk: A pay phone? I don't know, a museum?
- Jiya: You don't ever wonder if there's something bigger out there?
- Rufus Carlin: What, like extraterrestrials?
- Jiya: No, there's definitely extraterrestrials. I mean... a higher power.
- Rufus Carlin: Okay, where's this coming from? Is this about your visions?
- Jiya: Okay, look, I know it sounds crazy, but I feel like I'm having them for a reason.
- Rufus Carlin: Look, they're side effects of-of-of time travel, okay? There's no such thing as a higher power.
- Jiya: Okay, then how do you explain my heart murmur being cured? Or the fact that all my visions have come true?
- Rufus Carlin: All side effects, okay? If everything happens for a reason, then what's the reason for JFK getting shot by some crazy dude with three names?
- Jiya: I don't know.
- Rufus Carlin: Look... when I was a kid, my mom used to thank God for every good thing that happened. And when something bad happened, she's say "Everything happens for a reason", or "God has a plan." I watched my mom get on her knees and pray every night, begging God to take us out of our crappy neighborhood. But you know who did? Me. God doesn't exist.
- Lucy Preston: You said you're a bartender?
- Jessica: Yeah, yeah, yeah. At Gilroy's in the Mission. Drinks suck, but management's cool.
- Lucy Preston: Uh, is that where you and Wyatt met?
- Jessica: No, Wyatt and I met in high school. Yeah. We've, uh... we've been together since senior year, if you can believe that. He didn't tell you this?
- [Lucy shakes her head 'no']
- Jessica: Yeah, he's not much of a talker. What about you? Are you married?
- Lucy Preston: No. Me... not married. I mean, I, uh... I was engaged once, kind of. For, like, a moment. I don't know. It's... It's complicated.
- Jessica: It always is, isn't it? Wyatt and I have been in counseling for two years. I mean in my reality.
- [laughing]
- Jessica: I, uh, guess not in his. Or yours. It's, uh... this time travel stuff really messes with your head.
- Denise Christopher: What happened?
- Wyatt Logan: Things got messy. Without Lucy, we were scrambling 'till we figured out who they were after.
- Rufus Carlin: We were almost too late. Sleeper agent started shooting at us.
- Wyatt Logan: Yeah, and we couldn't shoot back 'cause there was kids.
- Denise Christopher: Kids?
- Rufus Carlin: We barely made it out alive.
- Denise Christopher: John F. Kennedy? You brought President Kennedy? Are you out of your minds?
- Rufus Carlin: Well, he was knocked out, okay? He doesn't know where or when he is.
- Wyatt Logan: They were gonna kill him. They chased us all the way to the Lifeboat. This was our best option.
- Rufus Carlin: It was our only option.
- Wyatt Logan: Besides, we-we have a plan. Flynn's gonna take care of Rittenhouse in '34. We're gonna recharge the Lifeboat and take JFK back.
- Lucy Preston: And pick up Flynn.
- Rufus Carlin: Yeah, sure, that, too.
- Lucy Preston: Okay, so let me get this straight. Uh, we just need to keep John alive long enough so we can return him so he can become arguably the most beloved president of the 20th century. No big deal.
- Wyatt Logan: It's hard to imagine that skinny kid grows up to bang Marilyn Monroe, huh?
- Lucy Preston: Hmm. Kennedy's intern and mistress, Mimi Alfred, said that he had a way of making a woman feel like she was the only one that mattered, even when he was married to someone else.
- Denise Christopher: It's been a tough week for you.
- Lucy Preston: I'm on the mend.
- Denise Christopher: That's not what I meant. You've been quiet since you got back from Salem, and I have a feeling I know why.
- Lucy Preston: You do?
- Denise Christopher: Your mother tried to have you hanged as a witch. I imagine that'd be just a little bit upsetting. Do you want to talk about it?
- Lucy Preston: Not really, but thanks for asking.
- Wyatt Logan: All right, look. Nothing is gonna happen to JFK. We're gonna find him. Rufus.
- Rufus Carlin: Jiya and I will check traffic and security cams.
- Wyatt Logan: Okay, great. I'm gonna need a car.
- Denise Christopher: No, not a chance. Rittenhouse could come after you.
- Wyatt Logan: Rittenhouse will come after him. So unless we're okay with finding out what a world looks like after a few dozen mushroom clouds...
- Denise Christopher: All right. I'll run point from my office. I need all of you to stay in touch with me, okay?
- Rufus Carlin: Seven million people in the Bay Area, and we're supposed to find one horny teenage boy?
- Jiya: It's gonna be fine. We'll find him.
- Connor Mason: You sound quite sure of that.
- Jiya: Well, think about it. We all still know who JFK is, right? Must mean we're gonna find him.
- Rufus Carlin: Come again?
- Connor Mason: What a fascinating loop. Jiya is suggesting that because we still know JFK becomes president in '61, very fact that we're still aware of him, really, proves that he eventually makes it back to where he's supposed to be.
- Rufus Carlin: Yeah, for now, until he gets hit by a car or shot by Rittenhouse, then history changes in an instant and we don't even know it.
- Connor Mason: Yeah, that's true, too.
- Jiya: Okay, what about my visions?
- Rufus Carlin: What about your visions?
- Jiya: I had a vision about a man dying and he died. You tried to stop it, but history doesn't change as easily as you want it to.
- Rufus Carlin: Okay, that's more like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Jiya: Or maybe it's just a prophecy.
- Connor Mason: Sorry, what are we talking about?
- Jiya: Never mind. Forget it.
- Wyatt Logan: Rufus, what do you mean you lost 'em?
- Rufus Carlin: There aren't cameras on every street. They drove out of range.
- Wyatt Logan: Well, what direction were they heading?
- Rufus Carlin: South on Willow.
- Wyatt Logan: All right. What's in the area?
- Jiya: There's a Chinese restaurant, Starbucks, Bailey's Bar and Grill, a hospital, a park...
- Jessica: I don't know much about JFK, but a bar sounds right up his alley.
- Lucy Preston: No, no, no, I bet he's going to the hospital.
- Wyatt Logan: What makes you say that?
- Lucy Preston: Well, John suffered from health issues his entire life. Spent most of his childhood in and out of hospitals. I mean, Bobby even joked that if someone ever were to write a book about his brother, it would be titled "John F. Kennedy: A Medical History".
- Wyatt Logan: Doesn't mean he's sick now.
- Lucy Preston: Stress probably makes his conditions worse. And I'm imagining he's probably pretty stressed right now.
- Wyatt Logan: If we're wrong...
- Jessica: Hey, I'd go with the historian on this one. I mean, she's kept you alive this long, right?
- Wyatt Logan: Hospital it is.
- Emma Whitmore: Things didn't go as planned. They got JFK.
- Nicholas Keynes: Did Lucy get involved?
- Emma Whitmore: No, I didn't see her there. But they took Kennedy in the Lifeboat. I think he's here somewhere.
- Nicholas Keynes: Then find him. From everything I've read, Kennedy galvanized this nation in a direction that runs counter to our goals. We need someone in that Oval Office that we can control. Like Nixon.
- Emma Whitmore: I'm working on it.
- Carol Preston: I know where we can find Kennedy.
- Nicholas Keynes: I'm listening.
- Carol Preston: Kennedy's chronic health issues are one of history's best-kept secrets. Ulcers, colitis, blood infections. With everything that he's just been through, I wouldn't be surprised if he fell ill.
- Nicholas Keynes: What do you suggest?
- Carol Preston: We search every hospital in the city. Sooner or later, Kennedy's bound to show up at one of them, and when he does, we take him out.
- Nicholas Keynes: [considering it] All right. Send out one of our men.
- Emma Whitmore: No. I got this. I'll figure it out.
- Nicholas Keynes: Thank you, Emma. And if you run into Lucy and her friends, take them out, as well.
- Emma Whitmore: With pleasure.
- Connor Mason: This is like being stoned to death with popcorn. We're never gonna find the boy using such primitive technology.
- Rufus Carlin: At least we have computers. Try doing this with a Civil War spyglass.
- Carol Preston: We haven't formally met. I'm Carol Preston.
- Denise Christopher: I know who you are.
- Carol Preston: I wanted to talk to you, one mother to another.
- Denise Christopher: You couldn't just text, Carol?
- Carol Preston: You know, despite what you must think, I do care about my daughter very much. I was young when I got pregnant with Lucy. I naively thought that I could give her up for adoption without my family knowing.
- Denise Christopher: So you didn't want your child to be Rittenhouse?
- Carol Preston: Unlike Lucy, I've known about my place in Rittenhouse since I was fifteen years old. It was a burden. So I convinced myself that not keeping my child was the right thing to do.
- Denise Christopher: That must have been tough.
- Carol Preston: It wasn't. Not at first. Then the weeks went by, and I felt her growing inside me. Then I started to wonder what she might be like. And by the time she came into this world, I knew there was no way I was gonna let her go.
- Denise Christopher: Why are you telling me this?
- Carol Preston: Because I can't protect my daughter anymore. Rittenhouse will kill Lucy if she continues to interfere with their plans. So I need you to keep my daughter off of these missions. It's the only way to keep her safe.
- Denise Christopher: What do you expect me to do? Tie Lucy up...
- Carol Preston: Yes!
- Denise Christopher: ...until all this is over?
- Carol Preston: Yes. If that's what it takes.
- Denise Christopher: If you think that's gonna work, then you don't know your daughter at all.
- Carol Preston: Oh, I was hoping that you of all people would understand. You know, I would think long and hard about this, Agent Christopher. It'd be a shame if your children grow up without a mother.
- Jessica: God, I hate hospitals. Remember Hawaii?
- Wyatt Logan: Ugh, don't remind me.
- Lucy Preston: What happened?
- Jessica: Uh, we were on a surfing trip.
- Lucy Preston: You surf?
- Wyatt Logan: Yeah.
- Jessica: Eh, not as well as he thinks he does.
- Wyatt Logan: No.
- Jessica: You wiped out. Hit himself in the head with a board, got a concussion.
- Wyatt Logan: Ended up in this awful hospital.
- Jessica: You remember that?
- Wyatt Logan: I remember that you never left my side. You slept in that uncomfortable chair for days. I remember that.
- Carol Preston: I hope you've had sufficient time to reconsider.
- Denise Christopher: I have. In my line of work, we all have that one case we can't shake. Mine was a school shooting in 2011. After it happened, I yanked my kids out of their classrooms and decided that they were going to be homeschooled. There was no discussion. I needed them to be safe.
- Carol Preston: You did what was best for your family.
- Denise Christopher: I did what was best for me. My son... he was so angry. It created such a rift between us that finally I had to give in and let go. We all have to do that at some point.
- Carol Preston: What are you talking...
- [realization dawns on her]
- Carol Preston: You're stalling.
- [checking her restraints first, she then notices a small mark on Christopher's neck]
- Carol Preston: She's chipped.
- Denise Christopher: Your tax dollars at work. Thanks for giving me that time to reconsider. Someone should be here any minute now.
- Kayla: You really do look like him.
- John F. Kennedy: Like who?
- [she shows him his Wikipedia article]
- John F. Kennedy: How did you get this photo? And what is this thing?
- Kayla: It's an iPad. So... so this is you? You're President Kennedy?
- John F. Kennedy: President of what?
- Kayla: Of the United States.
- John F. Kennedy: I become President of the United States? I-I don't understand. That was supposed to be my brother, Joe. Does this, uh, iPad know him, too?
- Kayla: [showing him another article] Yeah.
- John F. Kennedy: That's him. "Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was the oldest of nine children. Graduated from Harvard College. Then went on to Harvard Law." Hey, good on him! "But he left before graduation to join the U.S. Navy during World War II." World War II? "A naval pilot, he was... killed off the coast of France during a secret mission at age 29."
- Kayla: It's the Kennedy curse.
- John F. Kennedy: The what?
- Kayla: Mm, people think that the Kennedy family was cursed because so many of them died so young.
- [trying to take the iPad back]
- Kayla: You know what, John? You really shouldn't... John.
- John F. Kennedy: My sister Kathleen died in a plane crash. Bobby was shot, just like...
- Kayla: Just like his brother John.
- John F. Kennedy: I know about my siblings' deaths. My own assassination.
- Rufus Carlin: Well, maybe you can change your fate. Don't go to Dallas on November 22nd, 1963.
- John F. Kennedy: What about the curse? Everyone I love is going to die a tragic death.
- Lucy Preston: You may not be able to save everybody, John, but you are going to make the world a much better place. There are worse fates.
- John F. Kennedy: Was I a good president?
- Lucy Preston: One of the greatest.
- Rufus Carlin: So, what do we know about JFK? Uh, does he serve a second term? Does he have, like, ten more kids?
- Denise Christopher: What second term? JFK was assassinated two years into office.
- Rufus Carlin: That's not right. I-I told him. I told him not to go to Dallas.
- Denise Christopher: Dallas? It happened in Austin.
- Jiya: [his face falls as Christopher leaves] Guess it was just meant to be.