Timeless (TV Series)

The King of the Delta Blues (2018)

Paterson Joseph: Connor Mason

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• [Lucy, Wyatt, Flynn, and Mason arrive in 1936. This is Mason's first time travel mission] 

  Connor Mason : Our earliest pilots would report that, like present, the past initially seems. The sand, the air, like nothing's changed. Except space-time compression.

  [looking at his fingers] 

  Connor Mason : Look, I can see the hairs... stand from the quantum gravitational bursts. And I can hear the faintest sparks... crackle in the air. Oh, this is quite ex...

  [Mason suddenly feels nauseous and vomits] 

  Garcia Flynn : And boom goes the dynamite.

• Denise Christopher : Why would Rittenhouse care about a hotel?

  Connor Mason : Because in that hotel on November the 23rd, 1936, Robert Johnson and Don Law changed the world.

  Wyatt Logan : How?

  Connor Mason : By recording a series of albums.

  Garcia Flynn : Okay, keep drinking.

  Connor Mason : No, Robert Johnson.

  [blank stares] 

  Connor Mason : King of the Delta blues?

  [more blank stares] 

  Connor Mason : Father of rock and roll?

  [blank stares again] 

  Connor Mason : You people are philistines!

• Rufus Carlin : Are you drunk?

  Connor Mason : "Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."

  Rufus Carlin : So, yes, then?

  Connor Mason : [handing them a tablet]  But I have something to add to the merriment. "Icarus Descending: The Fall & Catastrophe of Connor Mason."

  Jiya : Yikes.

  Rufus Carlin : Why are you even reading this stuff?

  Connor Mason : Because, Rufus, today is the day I finally lose control... of Mason Industries and all of my holdings. Today, Connor Mason, is officially, um... nobody.

  [raising his wine bottle] 

  Connor Mason : A toast. To oblivion.

• Garcia Flynn : Are you saying Rittenhouse is going after some blues singer?

  Connor Mason : *The* blues singer. Look, if it wasn't for Robert Johnson, there'd be no modern blues. No modern blues, no rock and roll; none of your Elvis, Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin. None of them.

  Rufus Carlin : Which is bad, no doubt; no one wants to listen to Pat Boone on a radio 24/7, but I think I'm missing the larger geopolitical point.

  Lucy Preston : Actually, Mason makes sense. It wouldn't just be Rittenhouse killing rock and roll at its source, it would be them killing the cultural revolution of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, the... the fall of Nixon, the end of the Vietnam War. The counterculture as we know it.

  Wyatt Logan : Wait, wait, wait. You're saying all of this happens because two guys don't record an album?

  Connor Mason : Precisely.

• Rufus Carlin : Fourth seat's ready. I say Connor takes it.

  Lucy Preston : Yeah.

  Denise Christopher : Absolutely.

  Connor Mason : Absolutely not.

  Rufus Carlin : Connor, you obviously know more about Robert Johnson and his albums than any of us.

• Garcia Flynn : Are you... you are afraid of riding in your own invention.

  Lucy Preston : Wait a minute. All those test trips before we met you? You never once time traveled yourself?

  Connor Mason : Well, it's bloody dangerous.

  Lucy Preston : Yeah, I know.

  Connor Mason : And perhaps Rufus and Jiya have made the correct calculations to safely transport a fourth person.

  Rufus Carlin : We did.

  Connor Mason : Yes, but perhaps you didn't, so, no.