History WMG / Timeless

* Actually, [[spoiler: her father]] probably just knows about Lucy's sister and the fact she didn't used to be engaged due to spying on the team's conversations.

* Jiya also sees [[spoiler: the Golden Gate Bridge in ruins]] which could either be a vision of the future or of an alternate timeline.

** Ultimate Jossed [[spoiler:He sacrifice himself to get Rufus back although according to the journal he have an relationship with Lucy in an alternative timeline. Regardless Lucy names one of her daughters Flynn after him]].

At one point she sees what could be a flashback to the 1930s, but it could be that of an alternate timeline.

* Played with. She is confirmed to be able to see possible futures. Whether or not they always come back is debatable. [[spoiler:Her vision of Rufus's death differs in details, but the outcome was still the same]].

Nixon was terrified of Rittenhouse, but also the one person at that point in history who could have possibly posed a serious threat to them. It makes sense that Rittenhouse would have infiltrated the press in order to steer suspicion away from their own activities; Woodward and Bernstein were likely Rittenhouse members to whom Mark Felt was unwittingly giving information. Given that Rittenhouse has already assassinated JFK, they aren't above taking down a president, but a second assassination would have put their plans at risk. Either politicians and law enforcement not affiliated with Rittenhouse would launch a massive investigation into the deaths of two presidents from opposite parties in the space of a decade, and/or the Soviets would perceive instability in the US government and decide it's a good time to launch WorldWarIII. So Rittenhouse sets out to discredit Nixon instead--and Nixon, being Nixon, made it very easy to do.

!!Lucy's fiancee was also Rittenhouse
Members are born into the organization, and comments made by [[spoiler: Lucy's mother]] indicate that there is a social elite within Rittenhouse based on how long one's family has been involved with them. It makes sense that Lucy's fiancee is also a scion of an elite Rittenhouse family and the marriage is meant either to fulfill an organizational goal or to cement an internal political alliance. It's very likely that this is an ArrangedMarriage.

Which is the real reason why [[spoiler:her photo was on that Rittenhouse hard-drive Mason was working on]].

!!The series will end with the team traveling to the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Civil War]]
If someone is really trying to bring down a secret conspiracy behind the American government, this is the logical place to go to after the Revolution itself. Flynn has already shown himself willing to hold his nose and work with the Nazis and the Soviet Union, and he's already tried to aid John Wilkes Booth in assassinating Lincoln. If anything working with the Confederacy would be an ''improvement''. A final showdown, perhaps at the battle of Antietam (the last point at which the South had a serious chance of winning) between the team, Flynn, and Rittenhouse with the Union and Confederate armies as proxies for both sides, would be UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny the show seems to be building to.

* Played with. She is confirmed to be able to see possible futures. Whether or not they always come back is debatable. [[spoiler:Her vision of Rufus's death differs in details, but the outcome is still the same]].

* Now that [[spoiler: Jessica is back, the relationship between Lucy and Wyatt appears to be over.]] Flynn is on the same side now, and increasingly appearing to have been RightAllAlong. As of the ending of "The Kennedy Curse" neither is making an overture to the other but there appears to be a moment of bonding. It could happen.

** The Golden Gate flashback actually shows the bridge under construction, with cranes operating and stacks of uninstalled components visible on the unfinished spans, so it’s a look at the past. However, it’s gone so quickly it’s practically a FreezeFrameBonus, so it’s very easy to think it shows a ruined Golden Gate unless you’re able to pause at just the right moment.

This of course assumes that time (or fate) has some kind of 'self-correcting mechanism' at work. Maybe it's impossible (or near-impossible) to willingly travel back in time and ''intentionally'' change the past in a way that prevents you from having any motivation to travel back and change the past in the first place (aka the classic GrandfatherParadox). Wyatt can't save Jessica, because if he did so, he would have no reason to hijack the time machine and jump back to 1983 in the first place. Now, RippleEffectProofMemory takes care of the minor details - for instance, if in the new timeline, Wyatt had some other clues about the killer and he and Rufus steal the machine, the moment they leave the present, they land back in 1983 with memories of the 'original timeline' and original killer intact. But its essentially that Wyatt actually has a reason to get ''into'' the machine in the first place.
Now how does this work in the context of all of Flynn's trips? Its worth noting that ''none'' of Flynn's missions actually succeeded the way he wanted to, because of the team. The team's actions are probably a consequence of this 'self-correcting mechanism'. Flynn goes back to change the past, potentially causing a GrandfatherParadox. The team goes back and stops him. This results in a CloseEnoughTimeline where the alternate versions of Flynn and the team both have a reason to go back in time in the first place, following which their original memories are restored. So far, in the entire series, there hasn't been a single case where someone has traveled back with the specific purpose of altering history and succeeded entirely.

While JFK wasn't able to avert his own assassination to any great extent he is the only person from the past who's seen detailed information about the future. He can modify his own behavior in the time he has as a result. His own limited time in office may be much more ambitions and he could have [[WriteBackToTheFuture warned his siblings and his son]] in such a manner as to not betray his knowledge of the future to them. Joe Jr. isn't killed in World War II[[note]]Joseph Kennedy Jr. was not killed by enemy action but by a problem with the plane he was flying; insisting upon a more thorough inspection of the aircraft would have prevented his death at least in this instance.[[/note]] RFK avoids assassination. Ted attempts to save Mary Joe Kopechne and/or calls for help immediately after the accident instead. John F. Kennedy Jr. avoids flying at night until he's more experienced as a pilot.[[note]]JFK also had a stillborn daughter and a premature son who survived 39 hours after birth but there's little 1960's medical technology could have done even with this foreknowledge.[[/note]] JFK may have also avoided his [[ReallyGetsAround skirt-chasing tendencies]] so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted by accusations of infidelity.

** Or that he's been visited by someone from the Future. While the limitation of visiting a time you already exist in is a problem, there's no reason why Lucy couldn't visit Flynn during a time when Young-Lucy is in the past, taking advantage of San-Dimas Time.

!!Jessica is Lucy's paternal half-sister and a ranking member of Rittenhouse.

The women sentenced to hang at Salem who (according to the changed history) fought back and escaped become the earliest heroes in the women's rights movement, and are held up as examples by the women's suffrage movement and the mid-20th century feminist movement. Emboldened by such ferociously strong role models, women's rights advocates may be able to push for equality sooner and more successfully than in our timeline. Given the experience of his mother, Benjamin Franklin may become one of the first prominent male advocates for women's rights (just as he was one of the first prominent abolition advocates in our timeline).

While JFK wasn't able to avert his own assassination to any great extent he is the only person from the past who's seen detailed information about the future. He can modify his own behavior in the time he has as a result. His own limited time in office may be much more ambitions and he could have [[WriteBackToTheFuture warned his siblings]] in such a manner as to not betray his knowledge of the future to them. Joe Jr. isn't killed in World War II[[note]]Joseph Kennedy Jr. was not killed by enemy action but by a problem with the plane he was flying; insisting upon a more thorough inspection of the aircraft would have prevented his death at least in this instance.[[/note]]; RFK avoids assassination; and Ted attempts to save Mary Joe Kopechne and/or calls for help immediately after the accident instead. JFK may have also avoided his [[ReallyGetsAround skirt-chasing tendencies]] so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted by accusations of infidelity.

The women sentenced to hang at Salem who (according to the changed history) fought back and escaped become the earliest heroes in the women's rights movement, and are held up as examples by the women's suffrage movement and the mid-20th century feminist movement. Emboldened by such ferociously strong role models, women's rights advocates may be able to push for equality sooner and more successfully than in our timeline. Given the experience of his mother, Benjamin Franklin may become one of the first prominent male advocate for women's rights (just as he was one of the first prominent abolition advocates in our timeline).

The women sentenced to hang at Salem who (according to history) fought back and escape become the earliest heroes in the women's rights movement, and are held up as examples by the women's suffrage movement and the mid-20th century feminist movement. Emboldened by such ferociously strong role models, women's rights advocates may be able to push for equality sooner and more successfully than in our timeline.

While JFK wasn't able to avert his own assassination to any great extent he is the only person from the past who's seen detailed information about the future. He can modify his own behavior in the time he has as a result. His own limited time in office may be much more ambitions and he could have [[WriteBackToTheFuture warned his siblings]] in such a manner as to not betray his knowledge of the future to them. Joe Jr. isn't killed in World War II[[note]]Joseph Kennedy Jr. was not killed by enemy action but by a problem with the plane he was flying; insisting upon a more thorough inspection of the aircraft would have prevented his death at least in this instance.[[/note]]; RFK avoids assassination; and Ted attempts to save Mary Joe Kopechne and/or calls for help immediately after the accident instead. JFK may have also avoided his [[ReallyGetsAround skirt-chasing tendencies]] so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted by accusations of infidelity.

While JFK wasn't able to avert his own assassination to any great extent he is the only person from the past who's seen detailed information about the future. He can modify his own behavior in the time he has as a result. His own limited time in office may be much more ambitions and he could have [[WriteBackToTheFuture warned his siblings]] in such a manner as to not betray his knowledge of the future to them. Joe Jr. isn't killed in World War II[[note]]Joseph Kennedy Jr. was not killed by enemy action but by a problem with the plane he was flying; insisting upon a more thorough inspection of the aircraft would have prevented his death at least in this instance.[[/note]]; RFK avoids assassination; and Ted calls Mary Joe Kopechne a cab instead. JFK may have also avoided his [[ReallyGetsAround skirt-chasing tendencies]] so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted by accusations of infidelity.

While JFK wasn't able to avert his own assassination to any great extent he is the only person from the past who'sseen detailed information about the future. He can modify his own behavior in the time he has as a result. His own limited time in office may be much more ambitions and he could have [[WriteBackToTheFuture warned his siblings]] in such a manner as to not betray his knowledge of the future to them. Joe Jr. isn't killed in World War II; RFK avoids assassination; and Ted calls Mary Joe Kopechne a cab instead. JFK may have also avoided his [[ReallyGetsAround skirt-chasing tendencies]] so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted by accusations of infidelity.

While JFK wasn't able to avert [[spoiler: his own assassination to any great extent]] he is the only person from the past who's [[spoiler: seen detailed information about the future]]. He can modify his own behavior in the time he has as a result. His own limited time in office may be much more ambitions and he could have [[spoiler: [[WriteBackToTheFuture warned his siblings in such a manner as to not betray his knowledge of the future to them. Joe Jr. isn't killed in World War II; RFK avoids assassination; and Ted calls Mary Joe Kopechne a cab instead. JFK may have also avoided his [[ReallyGetsAround skirt-chasing tendencies]] so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted by accusations of infidelity.]]