"Fail-Safe"[1] is the fifth episode of the first season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and the fifth episode overall. It aired on February 18, 2016.
| “ | Everything we've tried to achieve so far could be lost. And not only will my family die 150 years from now, but your family, your city your entire 21st-century world will suffer. That's why we're gonna get Stein back before Vostok can break him. Well, I hope so, but we need a contingency plan. What are you saying? I'm saying that if at any point throughout the operation it becomes clear that Martin is beyond our reach. You want me to kill Stein? |
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Synopsis[edit source]
After some of the Legends are captured and thrown into a Russian gulag during the height of the Cold War in 1986, Snart leads the team in an elaborate escape plan to free their comrades. However, Rip gives Sara a secret side mission that could prove not only to be a liability, but fatal to the team.[1]
Appearances[edit source]
Characters[edit source]
Protagonists[edit source]
Antagonists[edit source]
Other Characters[edit source]
- Albert Einstein (mentioned)
- Barry Allen (mentioned)
- Carter Hall (mentioned)
- Cisco Ramon (hallucination)
- Harrison Wells (mentioned)
- Felicity Smoak (Earth-1) (mentioned)
- Felicity Smoak (Earth-16) (name seen)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (mentioned)
- God (mentioned)
- Ivan Drago (mentioned)
- Jefferson Jackson's Mother (mentioned)
- Green Arrow (Earth-16)
- Jonah Hex (wanted poster)
- Jonas (mentioned)
- Leo Tolstoy (mentioned)
- Mikhail Arkadin's Mother (mentioned)
- Miranda Coburn (mentioned)
- Oliver Queen (mentioned)
- Ronald Reagan (mentioned)
- Ronnie Raymond (mentioned)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (mentioned)
Teams and Organizations[edit source]
- American Boy Scouts (mentioned)
- GQ (mentioned)
- Gulag
- League of Assassins (mentioned)
- Legends
- Luskavic Labs (mentioned)
- MTV (mentioned)
- Nazi Party (mentioned)
- Palmer Technologies
- S.T.A.R. Labs (hallucination)
- Smoak Technologies
- Solntsevskaya Bratva
Events[edit source]
- World War II (mentioned)
- Cold War
- Vandal Savage's Uprising
- Attack on Sasha Mahnovski (mentioned)
- Infiltration into the Mahnovski Mansion (mentioned)
- Operation Svarog
- Rescue at the Koshmar Gulag
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (mentioned)
Species[edit source]
Objects and Concepts[edit source]
- ATOM Exosuit
- Big Mac (mentioned)
- Captain Cold Goggles
- Cold Gun
- Energy Guns
- Expandable Batons
- Firestorm Matrix
- Green Arrow Suit (Earth-16)
- Hawkgirl Suit
- Heat Gun
- Holograms
- Hunter Armor
- Green Arrow's Bow and Arrow (Earth-16)
- Quantum Splicer (mentioned)
- Red Tornado Helmet
- Rocky IV (mentioned)
- S.T.R.I.P.E.
- The Flash Suit (hallucination)
- Thermal Core
- Time Travel
- Timeships
- White Canary Suit
- Wikipedia (mentioned)
Locations[edit source]
- Earth-1
- Earth
- Asia/Europe
- Europe
- Germany (flashback)
- Leipzig (flashback)
- Greyhill Building (flashback)
- Leipzig (flashback)
- Norway (mentioned)
- Salisbury (mentioned)
- Germany (flashback)
- North America (hallucination)
- United States of America (hallucination)
- Missouri (hallucination)
- Central City (hallucination)
- University Town (hallucination)
- S.T.A.R. Labs Central City Facility (hallucination)
- University Town (hallucination)
- Central City (hallucination)
- Washington (video footage)
- Star City (video footage)
- Palmer Technologies Building (mentioned)
- Star City (video footage)
- Missouri (hallucination)
- United States of America (hallucination)
- Earth
- Earth-16
- Hell (mentioned)
- Temporal Zone
Gallery[edit source]
Lance prepares for the fail-safe
References[edit source]
| DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Pilot, Part 1" • "Pilot, Part 2" • "Blood Ties" • "White Knights" • "Fail-Safe" • "Star City 2046" • "Marooned" • "Night of the Hawk" • "Left Behind" • "Progeny" • "The Magnificent Eight" • "Last Refuge" • "Leviathan" • "River of Time" • "Destiny" • "Legendary" | |||||||||||||||||||