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* CompleteMonster: "The World's Columbian Exposition": [[SerialKiller H.H. Holmes]] is far worse than any member of [[AncientConspiracy Rittenhouse]]. After abandoning his own wife and children, Holmes will go on to con and murder many women, eventually setting up a hotel during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair equipped with many death traps used to kill unsuspecting victims such as poisonous gas and soundproof isolation chambers designed to kill people through oxygen deprivation. When Rufus and Wyatt fell afoul of one of his traps after being tricked by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Garcia Flynn]] to enter the World's Fair Hotel, Holmes would disguise himself as an unsuspecting victim imprisoned with them named George Henry just to see his victims expressing fear in their final moments. After Lucy saves them with the help of Creator/HarryHoudini, Holmes kidnaps and subsequently tortures Lucy when she discovers Henry's true identity, planning to kill himself and Lucy to avoid capture. When his plan was thwarted by Wyatt, Holmes makes one last con, lying about wanting to confess his murders to his victims' families in order to save his own skin.

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* CompleteMonster: "The "[[Recap/TimelessS1E11TheWorldsColumbianExposition The World's Columbian Exposition": Exposition]]": [[SerialKiller H.H. Holmes]] is far worse than any member of [[AncientConspiracy Rittenhouse]]. After abandoning his own wife and children, Holmes will go on to con and murder many women, eventually setting up a hotel during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair equipped with many death traps used to kill unsuspecting victims such as poisonous gas and soundproof isolation chambers designed to kill people through oxygen deprivation. When Rufus and Wyatt fell afoul of one of his traps after being tricked by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Garcia Flynn]] to enter the World's Fair Hotel, Holmes would disguise himself as an unsuspecting victim imprisoned with them named George Henry just to see his victims expressing fear in their final moments. After Lucy saves them with the help of Creator/HarryHoudini, Holmes kidnaps and subsequently tortures Lucy when she discovers Henry's true identity, planning to kill himself and Lucy to avoid capture. When his plan was thwarted by Wyatt, Holmes makes one last con, lying about wanting to confess his murders to his victims' families in order to save his own skin.
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* IdiotPlot:
** Flynn spends all of Season 1 apparently acting on some vague notion that since Rittenhouse is tied to America, weakening America will weaken Rittenhouse and thus in some way prevent them from killing his family. He seems to have no actual reason to believe that this will work, except possibly for sheer desperation.
** Rittenhouse's plan in Season 2 relies entirely on sleeper agents from the present planted at strategic points in the past, with no attempt made to make use of the extensive Rittenhouse infrastructure already in place in those time periods. To make it worse, those sleeper agents were also apparently instructed to wait for further orders delivered by time travel instead of knowing their missions ahead of time, making the entire setup vulnerable to disruptions in the present.
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** It's basically ''Film/Rewind'' if it were made into a full-length show.

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** It's basically ''Film/Rewind'' ''Film/Rewind2013'' if it were made into a full-length show.

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