Timeless (TV Series)

Space Race (2016)

Malcolm Barrett: Rufus Carlin

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• Wyatt Logan : All right, before I suffocate myself in polyester again, are we sure Flynn is headed to NASA?

  Lucy Preston : Man landed on the moon today. NASA's the only thing going on in Houston. Believe me, it's the only thing going on the world.

  Wyatt Logan : And Rufus, if Flynn's trying to screw the moon landing, how would he do it?

  Rufus Carlin : [more to himself]  He'd use Anthony. That's how he'd do it.

  Wyatt Logan : Huh?

  Rufus Carlin : Um... the problem is there's about a dozen ways to scuttle it from the ground.

  Lucy Preston : So what do you think Flynn's gonna do? He's gonna knock over a radio tower, shoot the place up?

  Rufus Carlin : Yes. No. I don't know.

  Lucy Preston : What?

  Wyatt Logan : [sarcastic]  Great, going in blind. Love it.

• Agent Denise Christopher : Badges should get you into Mission Control.

  Wyatt Logan : [impressed]  FBI.

  Lucy Preston : I just feel like I would be able to cover a lot more ground if I weren't a secretary in the typing pool.

  Rufus Carlin : She says to the guy whose only possible cover is janitor.

  Lucy Preston : Touché.

  Agent Denise Christopher : You want to fit in to NASA in 1969, that's the best I got for you. Now get dressed and get going.

• Wyatt Logan : How bad is all this?

  Rufus Carlin : Well, Armstrong and Aldrin are basically trapped on the lunar surface. There... there's no way they'll be able to take off without help from Mission Control. If no one is there to fix it, well, they run out of oxygen and they die up there. They got six hours, maybe.

  Lucy Preston : This is about more than the moon landing. The space race was much closer than most people think.

  Rufus Carlin : The Russians have an unmanned probe orbiting the moon as we speak.

  Lucy Preston : After Apollo 11, the Russians basically throw in the towel. They start to abandon their missile program. They sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. If we fail today, the Russians, they could succeed. We could lose the Cold War.

  Rufus Carlin : Not to mention Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are American heroes. Hell, they're my heroes.

  Wyatt Logan : Okay, so really freaking bad.

• Lucy Preston : What's error 1202?

  Rufus Carlin : System overload. A steady stream of data is flooding the computer. It's crashing the network.

  Lucy Preston : Well, how long will it take them to fix it?

  Rufus Carlin : Ten, twenty years.

  Lucy Preston : What?

  Rufus Carlin : Anthony basically launched a modern DDoS against NASA. They've never seen a virus like this before. They've never even heard the term "virus".

  Lucy Preston : Can you fix it?

  Rufus Carlin : I can't even find the source. I feel like a race car driver behind the wheel of a Yugo. There's more computing power in my toaster than there is in all this crap!

• Lucy Preston : Man, we live weird lives.

  Rufus Carlin : Tell me about it.