Legends of Tomorrow - 'Left Behind'

True love means never having to say you're an immortal hawk goddess.

'Left Behind' opens with a recap of the end of last episode, including Chronos' latest attack on the Waverider and the ship's unexpected departure from 1958 without Sara, Kendra or Ray. This time, however, we get to see Stein and Jax merge to join the fight, and Chronos nab Snart and light out on the jumpship, leaving the ship plunging through time.

In 1958, Ray maintains the hope that the team will return by building a time beacon. Sara goes off to find herself, and Ray and Kendra settle down as an unmarried interacial couple in the late 50s, which is apparently much easier now that it's not the focus of the episode. Ray teaches maths to William Gates Snr and Kendra becmoes a librarian, but on their second anniversary, just as they are about to destroy Ray's beacon, the Waverider returns. Kendra is relieved, but Ray is actually a bit put out by how quickly she abandons the life they built together in 1960.

The team sets out to find Sara and Snart, in that order, and soon realise that Sara has gone back to where she will someday have once belonged: Nanda Parbat and the League of Assassins, which fortunately were the subject of Rip's doctoral thesis.

Elsewhen, Chronos reveals to Snart that he took him for revenge, as he is in fact Mick Roary. After Snart did not kill him, the Time Masters found him, half-starved and almost completely mad. They took him to the Vanishing Point, where in the absence of time he spent lifetimes being rebuilt and retrained as Chronos. He plans to return to Central City and travel progressively back in time to murder Lisa Snart in front of her brother over and over again in reversing temporal order. It is clear that he is somewhat off the res at this point.

Canary vs. Hawk

The Team go to Nanda Parbat, but Sara turns on them. Rip thinks this is temporal slippage: Spend too long in a given time and you start to forget that you aren't a part of it. Kendra reveals that something similar was happening to her and that she was losing her past lives and ability to 'hawk out'.

Faced with execution, Rip challenges Ra's al Ghul to trial by combat. Ra's names Sara his champion and Rip names Kendra, figuring that this will remind Sara of their past training and bring out her humanity again. It works, but the fight is interrupted by Chronos, who takes out dozens of League assassins before the team persuade Ra's to let them loose. They smack down Chronos, but Snart stumbles in - having frozen his own hand off to get loose - and asks them not to kill Roary.

Ra's releases Sara, and the team decide to try to rehabilitate Roary, freeing him from the Time Masters' conditioning and restoring him to the selfish, greedy douchecanoe who tried to sell them out to a pirate crew. I sense a flaw in this plan, but what the hell, eh?

The course is then set for the start of the Savage world domination train: 2147 and the Cordo Maltese of the Balkans; DC's go-to fictional Eastern European republic, Kasnia.