BWW Recap: Dynamic Duos Join Forces on TIMELESS

Last week on TIMELESS , the gang jetted back to the height of space exploration. While we didn't learn much about anyone's motivations or end game goals, we did gain some insight into Flynn's family history - and we got to talk about space for a bit, which is always a win.

But how do you top saving lives during the space race? Lots and lots of gunshots, that's how. The episode opens with the pretty violent demise of legendary duo Bonnie and Clyde. This mission is a bit different from the start for Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus: the goal here is not to save Bonnie and Clyde per se - it's to retrieve the key that Bonnie is wearing around her neck when she dies. Attaining the key is Flynn's goal, so now it's also Lucy's and Wyatt's and Rufus's goal.

Agent Christopher explains that while they don't know what the key opens, they do know that it's somehow connected to Rittenhouse. That Agent Christopher is a smart one - she's also starting to get suspicious of Mason and his involvement with Rittenhouse. There are still quite a few gaps that she needs to fill in, but her curiosity is piqued and she's on a mission.

Lucy's also in a solo mission of sorts back at home. She has to navigate this new life with Noah, a man she is engaged to but knows virtually nothing about. Lucy wants to test the waters a bit more (hey, maybe she is his soulmate), but Wyatt isn't convinced. He thinks Lucy should let Noah off the hook, let him be with who he's meant to be with (not Lucy). Sounds to me like someone's got a little crush!

But back to business. The team takes the Lifeboat back to the bygone era of Bonnie and Clyde, and it doesn't take too long before the two gangsters barge into the very bank out trio is staking out. Rufus keeps an eye on the cops' movements while Wyatt and Lucy charm Bonnie and Clyde - and avoid the gunshots that start flying. Flynn's found them, too, and he's working with the cops to target Lucy and Wyatt instead of the real Bonnie and Clyde. Flynn doesn't want to kill Bonnie, he just wants her necklace, but his life sure would be easier if Wyatt and Lucy weren't in the picture (hence the barrage of bullets raining down on them).

Lucy and Wyatt successfully charm Bonnie and Clyde, who invite our duo back to their house out in the woods. Lucy recognizes this as their only shot to get the necklace from Bonnie before one of Clyde's men sells out the pair to the cops the next morning (remember the scene we opened with?).

While Lucy and Wyatt swap sappy stories with their new friends, Rufus finds himself being held at the police station. Flynn, disguised as a bounty hunter, is working with the cops to try and catch Bonnie and Clyde. His promised reward if he succeeds? The necklace. Flynn tries to convince the cops that Rufus is one of Bonnie and Clyde's accomplices, but in true Rufus fashion, he levels with the chief, who is immediately convinced of his innocence. I mean, sure, using a fake Wesley Snipes ID card to disprove Flynn's claims about your name probably also helped Rufus, but I'm going to give his natural charm and good nature some credit here, too.

Things escalate pretty quickly from here. Lucy and Wyatt bond with Bonnie and Clyde - Wyatt even opens up a bit and tells his engagement story, saying it was how he proposed to Lucy (who forgot to take her engagement ring off before she left in the Lifeboat). Lucy and Wyatt (finally) kiss, and - cue cheesy romantic music - they feel something.

But more importantly, we learn about the key. Clyde robbed it from Henry Ford, who offered $50,000 for its safe return. When Lucy gets a better look at the key, she noticed a Latin engraving, which translates to "the key to the beginning of all time and the key to the end of all time." Naturally, nobody has any clue as to what that means, but it's very clearly not good.

This progress and plot development is great, but I can't help but feel like we should've been at this point in the story about six episodes ago.

Anywhos. Before Rufus is released from the police station, he witnesses Henry, one of Clyde's men, sell him out and give away their location. Rufus and Henry are both release, and, unbeknownst to each other, both head to Bonnie and Clyde's cabin.

Henry arrives first, and Lucy immediately realizes something's not right. The betrayal and massacre that follows is supposed to happen miles away from their house. Rufus arrives shortly after, and Henry tries to pin the betrayal on Rufus. Fortunately, ever-clever Rufus recorded the entire conversation on a recorder (you know, like one used in the "talkies," explains Lucy), and Bonnie and Clyde appropriately flip out. The cops show up, Lucy and the gang run back to the Lifeboat, and Bonnie and Clyde meet their demise by gunshot. The one problem? Flynn gets the key.

While all of that was going on, Mason visits that lone, terrifying Rittenhouse agent and warns him about Agent Christopher. Rittenhouse isn't nervous: they've covered up murders and bad deeds before; they can easily handle whatever is coming their way with Agent Christopher.

After debriefing the team when they return to the present, Agent Christopher finds Rufus and puts him on the spot. She tells him all she knows about Rittenhouse: how 5 years ago, Mason went bankrupt, but then somehow received $2.5 million in funding for his time travel project; how Rittenhouse is almost certainly involved; and how she knows Rufus is a good guy who got mixed up in something bad. Rufus begs Christopher to stay out of this for her own safety, but when he sees that she's not backing down, he agrees to tell her everything he knows about Rittenhouse.

Let's not get too excited about the idea of getting answers just yet. The show's been dangling these answers in front of us for weeks now, so I'm going to be cautiously optimistic. Right now, I'm more interested in what that Flynn finds when he uses the key to open the box. We see him pick up a wax sealed scroll that looks like something out of National Treasure, and I swear, if the next team mission is to steal the Declaration of Independence in order to save it, we're going to have a problem on our hands.

What did you think of Monday's episode of TIMELESS? What do you think of the scroll? Let us know in the comments below!

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