- Sara Lance: Is that music?
- Ray Palmer: Yeah, "Singin' in the Rain". Only the best musical ever.
- Mick Rory: Not as good as "Fiddler on the Roof".
- [Sara and Stein both look at him strangely]
- Mick Rory: I love that show.
- [seeing them looking at him]
- Mick Rory: What?
- Jefferson Jackson: Okay, I got somebody checking out magazines and one shopkeeper.
- Mick Rory: I could knock this place off with a water pistol.
- Ray Palmer: Okay, new mission: keep me away from Mick. I don't want today to be the day I descend into a life of crime.
- Mick Rory: Well, Haircut... looks like it's too late.
- Ray Palmer: Wait, what does that mean?
- Jefferson Jackson: You're by the candy bars.
- Ray Palmer: Well, get me away from there. That stuff's poison.
- Jefferson Jackson: Yeah, that's not all.
- Ray Palmer: Wait, what does that mean?
- Jefferson Jackson: You're shoplifting.
- Ray Palmer: Wait. What?
- Mick Rory: Damn, Haircut. You had balls.
- Zari Tomaz: So... aliens are real.
- Jefferson Jackson: Yep, and those ones are called Dominators.
- Nate Heywood: They're nasty, too. Capable of telepathy, advanced technology, and the fun one, tearing people limb from limb.
- Zari Tomaz: Great.
- Sara Lance: The last time we faced them, they almost wiped out metahumans, and made us fight each other.
- Mick Rory: And worse, fight together.
- Ray Palmer: Let's just skip to step two: trust falls. Now, to demonstrate, Mick, who hated me when we first met, will fall trustingly into my arms.
- Mick Rory: Right. You promised me good coin for doing this.
- Ray Palmer: When you said you weren't gonna say that out loud.
- Mick Rory: Yeah.
- Ray Palmer: Well, just lean back and let go, 'cause I'm not going anywhere, buddy.
- [as Mick falls, Ray literally disappears]
- Jefferson Jackson: What the hell?
- Sara Lance: Gideon, what happened to Ray?
- Gideon: According to public record, Mr. Palmer died in 1988.
- Nate Heywood: Wait, Ray's dead?
- Mick Rory: [holding his head] He better be.
- Ray Palmer: I'm in the paper. And... I'm dead?
- Sara Lance: Not yet. We're in 1988, the day before you disappeared.
- Ray Palmer: Okay. Well, I guess the fact I'm still here means temporal permanence hasn't set in. Which means we can still save my life, and enjoy 1988 while we're at it.
- Jefferson Jackson: Trust Ray to find the bright side of dying.
- Ray Palmer: We need to grow as a team. First up is "Two Truths and a Lie". It's gonna be fun.
- Mick Rory: Lie.
- Ray Palmer: I haven't started yet. Look, I... I know you guys probably think this is lame.
- Sara Lance: Truth.
- Ray Palmer: But we have a new crew member, and it is important for Zari to bond with us, not only as team members, but as individuals.
- Zari Tomaz: Yeah, well, I'm no hero, and I'm not a member of any team. Besides, I already have you all figured out. The old guy wants to be anywhere but on this ship. These two...
- [meaning Nate and Amaya]
- Zari Tomaz: ...have some "will they, won't they?" thing going on. Rory's been drunk since breakfast, Jax is wondering if I'm single, and your ship's still mad at me for doing a teeny hack on her subsystems. Now, what's this about one bathroom?
- Ray Palmer: [everyone begins talking simultaneously] Guys. Guys!
- Mick Rory: You're right, Haircut. This is gonna be fun.
- Dr. Martin Stein: I took the jumpship back to 2017 so I could give Lily the other communicator.
- Jefferson Jackson: And you wiped the jump logs why?
- Dr. Martin Stein: Because I wanted you to know that I was committed to you and to the team. I made the decision to stay, and I needed you to know that I meant it. Clearly, my subterfuge has... robbed me of the chance to be at the birth of my grandchild.
- Mick Rory: No. We can take the Waverider.
- Dr. Martin Stein: What... what about the rest of the team?
- Jefferson Jackson: I'm sure they'll manage.
- Dr. Martin Stein: You're serious?
- Jefferson Jackson: Gray, it's your first grandkid. Why would you think I'd want you to miss that? Come on, man, let's go.
- Ty: Hey, look at Palmer. What are you supposed to be?
- Young Ray Palmer: I'm the Atom. That's, like, the coolest superhero ever.
- Gus: The Atom? That's a stupid name.
- The Atom: Actually, I think it's pretty clever.
- [the Legends all appear behind them]
- Amaya Jiwe: Cool costume.
- Zari Tomaz: Ugh. I can't believe you talked me into wearing this. How do you fight in these things?
- Gus: Who are you guys?
- Zari Tomaz: We're his friends.
- Ty: These guys are your friends?
- [little Ray nods]
- Ty: Cool.
- Mick Rory: [raising his heat gun] Hand the candy over. And your allowance.
- Mick Rory: What's going on?
- Jefferson Jackson: Gray's keeping some sort of secret.
- Mick Rory: You want to know what's going on?
- Jefferson Jackson: Well, do you know what's going on with him?
- Mick Rory: I have my suspicions, yeah, and, uh... I have my ways of extracting information.
- Ray Palmer: [in his childhood home] Our record player.
- Zari Tomaz: Hey, who's "Billy Joe-el"?
- Ray Palmer: What? "Piano Man"? "River of Dreams"?
- [she shrugs her confusion]
- Ray Palmer: Really? Wow. You really did live in a dystopia.
- Nate Heywood: Do you know anyone who owns a green station wagon with fake wood paneling?
- Ray Palmer: What's my mom doing home?
- Nate Heywood: Dude, you never mentioned your mom was hot.
- Ray Palmer: Why would I ever mention that?
- [last lines]
- Ray Palmer: Hey. Movie night. You want to join us?
- Jefferson Jackson: Man, I got some work to do, and... Actually, I want to ask you something.
- Ray Palmer: Yeah, shoot.
- Jefferson Jackson: It's just... seeing Stein with his grandkid earlier, I... I mean, we're his family, but this isn't his home. Not anymore.
- Ray Palmer: Yeah. But... you two are inseparable. Like, literally.
- Jefferson Jackson: That's what I need your help with. I want to break up Firestorm.
- Gideon: Arriving in 1988.
- Zari Tomaz: [in French] Wow, that was fast. Why am I speaking French?
- Amaya Jiwe: I should have said. There are some really strange side effects.
- Zari Tomaz: [still in French] Cool.
- Ray Palmer: Guys, here I come. I mean, little me; he's coming at you. Catch up with me on Main Street, and, um... keep me alive.
- Jefferson Jackson: I got eyes on Ray to make a move.
- Dr. Martin Stein: Well, it looks like you're taking a detour. Did you frequent the Ivy Town Newsstand as a boy?
- Ray Palmer: Yeah, I must be picking up the new issue of "Scientific American".
- Dr. Martin Stein: I was more of a "National Geographic" boy myself.
- Mick Rory: Once a geek, always a geek.
- Zari Tomaz: How can you not remember befriending an alien?
- Ray Palmer: Because I didn't. It never happened to me.
- Nate Heywood: The Dominator is an anachronism. It's time-displaced.
- Zari Tomaz: Right.
- Sara Lance: So we have to get the baby Dominator out of Ray's bedroom and back to where it belongs.
- Jefferson Jackson: And how are we supposed to do that?
- Ray Palmer: Uh, well, it should be easy. All we have to do is sneak into my house tomorrow when my mom's at work and I'm at school and kindap the Dominator. I even know where the spare key is.
- Jefferson Jackson: Like stealing candy from a baby.
- Mick Rory: But not as fun.
- Jefferson Jackson: Yo. Where were you, man? You missed the team meeting.
- Dr. Martin Stein: Oh, you finished already? I was just on my way, but I can ask Gideon to debrief me.
- Jefferson Jackson: Uh, psychic connection, so I know you're hiding something.
- Jefferson Jackson: What's going? This about Gray?
- Mick Rory: You said the professor's been acting all squirrelly about where he's been.
- Jefferson Jackson: Squirrelly?
- Mick Rory: Yeah. When you're on the run, someone usually cracks. Burns the crew to save themselves.
- Jefferson Jackson: Burns the crew how?
- Mick Rory: Cutting a deal with the Time Bureau.
- Jefferson Jackson: You think Gray is ratting us out to the Time Bureau?
- Mick Rory: The old man wants off the boat, thinks we're in too deep.
- Jefferson Jackson: Yeah, but he wouldn't do that.
- Mick Rory: Really? Then... who's been boosting the jumpship while we sleep? Gideon.
- Gideon: I believe Mr. Rory is alluding to the fact that someone has erased the jumpship's travel log.
- Mick Rory: Someone's been sneaking off the ship and snitching to the Time Bureau. And if there's one thing I hate more than pigs... it's a rat.
- Dominator Queen: You know what I'm looking for.
- Sara Lance: A breath mint? Dermatologist recommendation? Reese's Pieces?
- [the queen snarls]
- Sara Lance: Oh, right, your kid. You're looking for your kid. And if you let me go, I'll help you.
- Dominator Queen: Your species cannot be trusted.
- Sara Lance: Look, I want to help you. I do. You can't find him without me.
- Sara Lance: Where are you guys?
- Ray Palmer: Not sure exactly. Looks like they turned the rec center into some kind of government research facility.
- Zari Tomaz: We're on our way to save the baby Dominator.
- Sara Lance: What?
- Ray Palmer: It's a long story.
- Sara Lance: Well, that story's about to get a lot more interesting because his mom just landed and she's looking for him.
- Nate Heywood: Wait, the Dominator has a Mominator?
- Sara Lance: And it gets worse. I think she might have read my mind.
- Ray Palmer: What did she see?
- Sara Lance: Well, she's looking for her baby. The last time I saw him was...
- Ray Palmer: At my house. My mom's home. If the queen finds her...
- Amaya Jiwe: Don't worry, we won't let that happen.
- Nate Heywood: Animal control. Again.
- Mrs. Palmer: Back to check out my crawl space?
- Nate Heywood: Your who?
- Mrs. Palmer: [pulling him into the house] So what's your excuse this time? Family of possums? Come to wrestle a bear?
- Nate Heywood: How did you make a family of possums sound so sexy?
- Mrs. Palmer: Well, you found your animal right here. But good luck controlling her.
- Nate Heywood: [reuniting the baby Dominator with its mother] I'm not crying. I just have, uh, alien goo in my eye.
- Sara Lance: [trying not to cry] Yeah, me too.
- Nate Heywood: Now I'm gonna go brush my teeth forever.
- The Atom: Wait. Why?