DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)

Amazing Grace (2018)

Maisie Richardson-Sellers: Amaya Jiwe

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• Amaya Jiwe : Every totem is growing stronger in response to Mallus' threat. What if the preacher was right and Elvis' music literally drives Memphis insane?

  Sara Lance : Then we have to get it before that happens.

  Wally West : [speeding out and returning]  I got it. Elvis' guitar totem.

  Zari Tomaz : So, I'm not the only one who finds that annoying, right?

• Elvis Presley : Y'all gonna think I'm crazy, but my guitar, it's more than just a guitar. Now it ain't working right, I just...

  Amaya Jiwe : You don't feel like yourself anymore.

  Elvis Presley : Yes, ma'am. And I'll tell you why. Usually, when I play... I got my twin brother, Jesse, up there to back me up.

  Amaya Jiwe : You have a twin brother?

  Elvis Presley : Well, he ain't with us no more. Passed when he was a baby. But this guitar of mine used to connect me to him. I told y'all would think I'm crazy.

  Amaya Jiwe : No, not at all. I've always believed that objects can connect us to our ancestors.

  Elvis Presley : Yeah, I guess we call it a spirit, like. On stage... on stage just now for the first time, Jesse wasn't with me. I mean, he's gone. All of a sudden, I just don't know where he is.

• 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?

• 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 : [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.

• Gideon : Perhaps you need some assistance, Ms. Jiwe.

  Amaya Jiwe : Just give me a moment, Gideon, please. I've sabotaged access tanks. I am sure I can figure out a stupid playlist.

• 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.