DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)

Amazing Grace (2018)

Nick Zano: Nate Heywood, Steel

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• Sara Lance : All right, let's go check this out. We need to find Elvis before panic sets in.

  Gideon : Elvis Presley's uncle preached at the Church of Zion every Sunday. The boy never missed a service.

  Sara Lance : You heard the lady.

  [nobody moves] 

  Sara Lance : What? Why are you staring at me?

  Nate Heywood : I dunno, waiting for you to do the thing you do.

  Sara Lance : What thing?

  Ray Palmer : You know, you usually send us into the field with a little more pizzazz.

  Sara Lance : [rolling her eyes; in a commanding voice]  All right, Legends, put on your Sunday best, because we are going to church.

  Nate Heywood : That was pretty good.

• Amaya Jiwe : What totem would choose a guitar-toting choir boy as its bearer?

  Nate Heywood : Isn't it obvious? It's Elvis we're talking about. It's gotta be...

  Mick Rory : A sandwich totem.

  Nate Heywood : I was gonna say "music".

  Ray Palmer : Just imagine what the music totem would do for my upper register. I could finally give local theater a shot.

  [pause] 

  Ray Palmer : That is after we use it to destroy Mallus.

  Zari Tomaz : [sarcastic]  So we're gonna vanquish a time demon with our killer harmonies. It's gonna go great.

• Gideon : A scan of the timeline reveals a change in Memphis, Tennessee, 1954.

  Ray Palmer : Oh, says here Memphis became a ghost town after a mysterious bout of mass hysteria in July 1954.

  Nate Heywood : That's what caused the changes. Memphis is the birthplace of rock and roll. If rock never makes it out of Memphis, then none of these things exist. Your... your rat's namesake, electric guitar.

  Wally West : Your hair gel.

  Nate Heywood : It's not hair gel, Wally. It's Royal Crown pomade. It's the same product used by...

  Sara Lance : Elvis Presley.

  Nate Heywood : See? She knows what I'm talking about.

  Sara Lance : No, dodo, look. "While the population fled in hysterics, one person was left standing in the aftermath, a local teen named Elvis Presley."

• Nate Heywood : I can't wait for you to see Elvis live. It's going to change your life.

  Amaya Jiwe : You really believe that my life can be changed by one song?

  Nate Heywood : Of course. Music is so much more than just songs. Music is about identity. It-it-it's hearing a track for the first time and you think to yourself "Wow, this is who I am." I don't care how long it takes. We're gonna find your music, whether it be rock and roll or, God forbid, ska.

• Nate Heywood : [listening to Elvis in the studio]  Now, that's rock and roll. What do you think?

  Amaya Jiwe : It's okay. I just don't see how it's worth risking the most volatile of totems for.

  Nate Heywood : Wow. I thought that was gonna be our music moment.

  Amaya Jiwe : Our music moment?

  Nate Heywood : One of those times where the right song comes on and ties everything together so perfectly that it becomes... it becomes a story.

  Amaya Jiwe : We already have plenty of stories. We saved the world together.

  Nate Heywood : Yeah.

  Amaya Jiwe : We saw dinosaurs.

  Nate Heywood : Mm.

  Amaya Jiwe : There was that time that I discovered Netflix and we watched every episode of "Friends" in one week.

  Nate Heywood : All stunning accomplishments, yes. But a music moment's different. You'll see.

• Nate Heywood : You rang, Captain?

  Sara Lance : Hello, gorgeous.

  Nate Heywood : Mm-hmm.

  Sara Lance : [reaching out to touch his hair]  Look at that volume.

  Nate Heywood : Don't touch it.

  Sara Lance : How do you...

  Nate Heywood : [dodging out of her reach]  I'm serious, don't touch it.

• Amaya Jiwe : This is the music of Zambesi. Gideon helped me locate some supposedly lost tracks.

  [putting a set of headphones on him] 

  Amaya Jiwe : You like it?

  Nate Heywood : [nodding in time]  Yeah... oh, it's... I like... I love it! So good.

  Amaya Jiwe : [quietly]  Now you know how I feel about rock and roll.

  Nate Heywood : What's that?

  Amaya Jiwe : [more loudly]  I said you're almost at the good part.

  Nate Heywood : You mean this isn't the good part?

  Amaya Jiwe : [quietly again]  I love you, Nathaniel.

  Nate Heywood : What?

  Amaya Jiwe : I said there's a lot more where that came from. It's a good thing we got time.

• Sara Lance : All right, kids, it's anachronism o'clock. What you got?

  Amaya Jiwe : How about this one? It's a category two during the Belle Epoque in Paris. Sounds romantic.

  Nate Heywood : Hmm. Or, uh, this category three, which is the launch of the Spirit of St. Louis. I always wanted to join the mile-high club. It's when two people on a plane...

  Sara Lance : Hey, really cute that you guys are crazy in love, but date night is going to have to wait. If these anachronisms are loosening Mallus' cage, we need to double down.

• Sara Lance : What happened to your hair?

  Nate Heywood : What are you talking about?

  [seeing Amaya's look] 

  Nate Heywood : What? What is it?

  Sara Lance : I...

  Nate Heywood : [looking at his reflection]  What happened to my trademark volume and sheen?

  Mick Rory : [entering with Ray]  Who changed my rat's name?

  Zari Tomaz : [entering with Wally]  Yo, who switched my game?

  Sara Lance , Nate Heywood , Mick Rory , Zari Tomaz , Ray Palmer , Amaya Jiwe , Wally West : Gideon?

• Nate Heywood : Don't tell me they messed with the King.

  Ray Palmer : Whatever he saw drove him crazy. He was taken to the Bolivar State Hospital. Treated for insanity.

  Nate Heywood : If Memphis is abandoned in '54, then rock doesn't hit the mainstream, which means there's no Howlin' Ray, no Little Richard...

  Mick Rory : The Elvis sandwhich; peanut butter and banana fried in greasy bacon fat. The man was a visionary.

  Zari Tomaz : But if it didn't show up on the anachronism map, then...

  Nate Heywood : Darhks. The only people evil enough to wanna kill rock and roll. Oh, and I bet you that sick bastard likes ska.

• Uncle Lucious : There's a sickness coming over this town. I see it in the school yard as I pass in the morning. And to my horror, I see it in this very church on Sundays. It infects the mind. It drives people crazy.

  Sara Lance : Maybe the righteous reverend is on to something.

  Uncle Lucious : They call it rock and roll. I call it the devil's music.

  Nate Heywood : Never mind. He has no idea what he's talking about.

• Nate Heywood : Can you believe this? The first show we see together is Elvis live.

  Amaya Jiwe : You're not the only one who's excited.

  [teens in the front pew titter as Elvis steps on stage] 

  Elvis Presley : This one's called "Onward, Christian Soldiers".

  Nate Heywood : [quietly]  Okay.

  Amaya Jiwe : [as he starts to play]  So this is rock and roll? I mean, it's no Benny Goodman, but...

  Nate Heywood : No, we did not come all this way to listen to Elvis play grandma songs.

• Sara Lance : I guess Elvis is the King of rock and roll. One hip shake, and Z loses it.

  Nate Heywood : Yeah, tell me about it, sister.

  Zari Tomaz : I didn't lose control because of Elvis' hips.

  Nate Heywood : [sarcastic]  Yeah, me, either.

  Zari Tomaz : My totem was glowing, and so was Elvis' guitar.

  Amaya Jiwe : But that means that Elvis is...

  Zari Tomaz : Yep. Elvis is a totem bearer.

• Wally West : Okay, come on. We're good to go, right?

  Nate Heywood : Are we? 'Cause Elvis hasn't recorded his first single yet. And without that guitar, he may never record it. Which means rock and roll history is...

  Mick Rory : Josh Groban.

  Sara Lance : What if we have Gideon fabricate a ringer guitar and drop it off to the future King?

  Nate Heywood : Great idea. I call "A" mission. Amaya, come with me. I will teach you what rock and roll is all about. 'Till then, everyone shake, rattle, and roll!

• Nate Heywood : Beale Street was the heart of the music scene in Memphis in the 1950s. Brothels, churches, juke joints, all next to each other, all black-owned. This... this was the spirit of rock and roll.

• Nate Heywood : Hey, kid. I don't think you wanna keep this lying around. Something tells me it's special.

  Elvis Presley : You have no idea. There's no way I'd ever be able to thank you for this.

  Nate Heywood : [handing him a slip of paper]  Well, if you wanna write a song about me, here are several words that rhyme with "Nate".

• Elvis Presley : That's what's so strange about my brother. I ain't never met Jesse, but somehow I-I missed him all my life.

  Nate Heywood : Until you bought your first guitar.

  Elvis Presley : Yeah, the store said it was cursed. He was only half right. It was also a blessing, too. Well, my brother's out there somewhere without me. I can't imagine he's too happy.

• Nate Heywood : Guys, Elvis' guitar is haunted.

  Sara Lance , Ray Palmer : We know!

  Nate Heywood : Yeah, and I'm guessing it's gonna do whatever it takes to get back to Elvis.

  Sara Lance : Good guess!

• Sara Lance : About that ghost.

  Nate Heywood : It's Elvis' dead twin, Jesse.

• Elvis Presley : Now, I-I-I know this all sounds like hogwash. Magical guitars, the ghosts of gone family members. But I can't play without him. I got a session to record at Sun Studios tomorrow. I saved up to buy it.

  Nate Heywood : It's your first recording session. You're gonna keep that appointment. And we're gonna get you Jesse back.

  Elvis Presley : You will?

  Amaya Jiwe : We will?

• Sara Lance : All right, so I talked to Constantine about our totem. He compared it with his notes, and this is what he found.

  Zari Tomaz : Death totem? Pass.

  Sara Lance : Yeah. Whoever wields it has domain over the dead. Which is why we need to keep this totem with us and safe at all times.

  Nate Heywood : [entering]  Elvis needs his totem back.

• Amaya Jiwe : The Death totem? The most volatile of all the totems lost for eons along with the sixth tribe of Zambesi. Maybe they suffered the same fate that's about to befall Memphis.

  Nate Heywood : You don't understand.

  Sara Lance : No, you don't understand. We are talking about a Death totem, and it could turn this whole place into a ghost town.

  Nate Heywood : Elvis has a session at Sun Studios. That's where he cuts his first demo. That's how he gets discovered, okay? We do not have the time for Elvis to get his groove back. Jesse has to be there.

  Amaya Jiwe : Nathaniel, I understand how important this is to you. But we can't give Elvis a totem just to save his music.

  Nate Heywood : It's not about the music, okay? Rock has inspired many historic milestones. Protests, revolutions, me losing my virginity.

  [awkward silence] 

  Nate Heywood : Elvis doesn't need a totem forever. Just one song that changes the world. Please.

• Elvis Presley : Uncle Lucious, what are you doing here?

  Uncle Lucious : Well, well, well. You missed choir practice. Then I hear 'cause you're down at Sun Studios. Well, no kin of mine is gonna record the devil's music. Not after what we saw in church.

  Elvis Presley : Look, I-I got talent. My manager says so.

  Uncle Lucious : You got my nephew into this?

  Nate Heywood : Yeah.

• Nate Heywood : White Stripes. Great album. At least it was.

• Nate Heywood : Reverend, you don't know what you're messing with. The music your nephew makes...

  Uncle Lucious : Has turned Memphis into Sodom and Gomorrah. I will not allow it to be the ruination of that boy's soul, too.

• Nate Heywood : Guys, we have a bit of a setback.

  Wally West : We're listening. What's up?

  Nate Heywood : Um, long story, funny ending. Amaya, Elvis, and I were thrown in the slammer.

  Wally West : So just steel up and break out.

  Nate Heywood : Yeah, I know, I can, but I'm afraid my work here isn't done.

  Zari Tomaz : What do you need?

  Nate Heywood : I need you to go back to the church, get the record from the reverend, and bring it to WHBQ and make sure it debuts tonight.

• Nate Heywood : There's no easy way to say this, but when we get out of here, you're gonna have to give us that guitar. It has power, and it can be dangerous.

  Elvis Presley : No. I mean, I can't play without Jesse. I mean, before he came along, sure, there was songs, but there wasn't ever any music.

  Nate Heywood : Look, even after he's gone, you're gonna have the music. I mean, that's why you play, right? The real reason music matters is because it keeps things alive long after they're gone.

• Nate Heywood : Well, at least you got to hear yourself on the radio.

  Elvis Presley : Don't go quoting this to my uncle now, but I sound pretty damn good, don't I?

• Elvis Presley : [driving a ghost back with a strum of his guitar]  Well, I'll be. It worked.

  Amaya Jiwe : You can command spirits. Well, if you can raise them, maybe you can also lead them away.

  Elvis Presley : Lead 'em where?

  Nate Heywood : How about back where they came from? The cemetery outside your uncle's church.

• Amaya Jiwe : You were right. His music really does have power.

  Nate Heywood : Could have stood to be wrong on this one.

  Amaya Jiwe : Well, we need to get past them somehow.

  Elvis Presley : Don't be sared. Dead don't want nothing but to be aknowledged.

• Nate Heywood : Better make yourself comfortable. Something tells me you'll be spending a lot more time in here, especially after that show you just put on.

  Elvis Presley : Ah, something came over me, I guess. I was up there looking at those ghosts, I realized one day this is all gonna be over for all of us. Might as well ge the most out of life that we can.

  Nate Heywood : You know what? I think you just discoverd the spirit of rock and roll.

• Elvis Presley : [taking the totem off his guitar]  I think that this... is probably gonna be safer with you. That was fun and all, but I don't soon wanna be raising the dead again.

  Nate Heywood : Promise me you'll keep playing, even without your brother.

  Elvis Presley : Aw, Jesse ain't really gone. Things he taught me, the love that we had... it's gonna live on in my music. Now, can I ask you a question? You ain't really a music manager, are you?

  Nate Heywood : Busted. But something tells me you're gonna be just fine.

  [holding up the totem] 

  Nate Heywood : Even without this.

• Nate Heywood : Hey, Gideon said you wanted to see me.

  Amaya Jiwe : I wanted to say thank you.

  Nate Heywood : Oh, you don't... check you out. You got a playlist going? As soon as I'm done uploading all the Smiths' music, we'll do a deep dive into the Morrissey solo stuff that...

  Amaya Jiwe : Actually, I thought it was time for me to teach you about my music.

  Nate Heywood : Okay. Like some big band stuff? I think I'm at a point where I can appreciate a trumpet solo.