Draft:Last Refuge (Legends of Tomorrow)

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"Last Refuge"
Legends of Tomorrow episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 12
Directed by	Rachel Talalay
Written by	Chris Fedak Matthew Maala
Production code	4X6362
Original air date	April 21, 2016 (2016-04-21)

"Last Refuge" is the twelfth episode of the first season of the American science fiction series Legends of Tomorrow. The episode was written by Chris Fedak and Matthew Maala and directed by Rachel Talalay.

The episode features the Legends fight an assassin known as "The Pilgrim" who travels through time trying to kill their younger selves.

"Last Refuge" aired on The CW on April 21, 2016 to an audience of 1.78 million viewers and was critically panned.

Plot

In 1990 Central City the Legends protect Mick Rory's younger self managing to barely defeat the Pilgrim. Back on the Waverider Gideon uses the Pilgrim's temporal distortions to predict her next move. After they manage to successfully rescue Sara Lance's younger self, Gideon loses track of the Pilgrim, allowing her to take out any of the team members without them knowing. Rip Hunter reveals that she only has one chance to kill each Legend before Ray suddenly being bleeding internally. Kendra stays with Ray while the rest of the Legends travel to 2014 Star City. The dying Ray proposes to Kendra and she says yes. The Legends once again barely defeat the Pilgrim.

Afterwords Rip decides to abduct the rest of the team's infant selves to prevent the Pilgrim from killing any of them. They are successful, bringing the infants to Rip's adoptive mother for her to look after until they can stop the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim kidnaps the team members' loved ones, threatening to kill them unless the members give themselves up.

Rip agrees to give up his younger self from before he became a Time Master, thus preventing the team's formation, in exchange for everyone's safety. The Legends, the Pilgril and young Rip meet at an abandoned Time Master base to make the trade. The Legends hand over young Rip before attacking the Pilgrim directly. The Pilgrim freezes them all in time when young Rip stabs her to death.

Running out of time, Rip reveals that the Legends only have one more opportunity to stop Savage, at the peak of his power in 2166.

Production

"Last Refuge" was written by Chris Fedak and Matthew Maala and directed by Rachel Talalay.

The episode's plot takes inspiration from the plot of The Terminator. The movie is directly referenced in the episode.

Casting

Mitchell Kumman appears as a younger version of Mick Rory. Faye Kingslee guest stars as the episodes villain, The Pilgrim.

Release

"Last Refuge" first aired on The CW on April 21, 2016. The episode was viewed by an audience of 1.78 million viewers down around 200 thousand from the previous episode. When accounting for seven day DVR viewership the episode was seen by 3 million viewers. The episode was the second lowest viewed episode of the season overall.

Critical reception

The episode was met with negative reviews from critics. The episode holds a 54% out of 14 critic reviews on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The sites critical consensus reads, ""Last Refuge" finally presents the Legends with a formidable adversary, only to immediately disarm her and undermine the entire episode."

Writing for The A.V. Club, Oliver Sava rated the episode a D-. Sava wrote, "The design is as lazy as the action staging". The review was later alluded to in the season four episode "Wet Hot American Bummer".