- Jefferson Jackson: Oh, hell nah. What kind of monster eats my mom's pecan pie and puts the container back in the fridge?
- Jefferson Jackson: I really wish I had better news about Sara, but she's still in a coma thanks to Damien Darhk's daughter laying her out.
- Ray Palmer: Well, in the meantime, we could do what we do best and fix a few anachronisms.
- Mick Rory: How about you just drop me off on an island full of beautiful women like Zari did with that Helen chick.
- Zari Tomaz: Rory, you weren't supposed to say anything.
- Amaya Jiwe: Wait, you didn't take Helen back to Troy where she belongs?
- Zari Tomaz: That's what the Time Bureau does. But we... we do something different.
- Nate Heywood: No, we do it different... ly.
- Nate Heywood: Yeah, more messy.
- Zari Tomaz: Okay, if you look at the historical record, the Trojan War happens with or without Helen. See? No anachronism.
- Ray Palmer: How do you think the captain would feel about you re-engingeering time?
- Mick Rory: Too many trees. Too many plants.
- Nate Heywood: We'll be back on concrete in no time.
- Mick Rory: [swatting his head] Bugs! Flies.
- Nate Heywood: What is going on with you? You're grumpier than usual.
- Mick Rory: What? I'm in a good mood.
- Nate Heywood: Is it because I made your boots too big? Look, I forget you've got small feet, and why would you not want to come to Vietnam? This place was, like, made for you.
- Nate Heywood: We need to get out of this jungle ASAP.
- Ray Palmer: Oh, no. What's wrong, buddy?
- Nate Heywood: Well, when Mick and I started, we were doing "Predator". Then we ran into Mick's dad, and now we're doing "Apocalypse Now".
- Dr. Martin Stein: Where is Captain Lance when I need her?
- [Sara enters]
- Dr. Martin Stein: Sara... were you just waiting for the right moment to make a dramatic entrance? Are you all right?
- Sara Lance: There is no Sara.
- Dr. Martin Stein: What?
- Sara Lance: Only Grodd.
- Gideon: It appears that the captain is under some sort of telepathic control.
- Dr. Martin Stein: Really, Gideon? You think so?
- Sara Lance: I claim this ship for the new god. Kneel before Gro...
- Isaac Newton: [knocking her out with a skillet] Oh, how I do love proving my laws of motion.
- Dr. Martin Stein: Please save that lecture for another day.
- Nate Heywood: Everything okay? You're hitting the bag like it's insulting your mother, and you haven't said anything for, like, thirty minutes.
- Amaya Jiwe: What is there to say?
- Nate Heywood: I don't know. Talk about your granddaughter? And not the superhero, either. The psycho water witch.
- Amaya Jiwe: The who?
- Nate Heywood: Your granddaughter. I mean, I'm sure she's really not that bad.
- Amaya Jiwe: You just called her a psycho water witch.
- Nate Heywood: Yeah, and I instantly regret it.
- Nate Heywood: Oof. Vietnam. 1967. Also known as the height of the Vietnam War. Gideon, what kind of anachronism are we dealing with?
- Gideon: A level eight. Scans of the historical record reveal redacted Pentagon reports about a creature of unknown origin attacking American and Vietcong soldiers in the jungle. Dozens have disappeared without a trace.
- Mick Rory: No way I'm going to 'Nam.
- Amaya Jiwe: All I know is that if American soldiers are being targeted, I am ready to do my duty.
- Nate Heywood: This war's a little different. Unlike World War II, the military objectives in Vietnam weren't so cut and dry.
- Zari Tomaz: Yeah, it was controversial, and the reasons for getting involved were murky. You know, come to think about it, this team should be right at home.
- Nate Heywood: Look, I'm sorry you have to see your father, but you need to suck it up.
- Mick Rory: If it wasn't for this time traveling stuff, I would've never run into that bastard.
- Nate Heywood: Okay, you know what? We're changing this operation. This has become Operation Tough Love. Yeah, I'm gonna go all Dr. Phil on your ass. It's time for you to man up and sort out...
- Mick Rory: Daddy issues.
- Nate Heywood: I was gonna say "unresolved grief", but let's go with what you're saying.
- Mick Rory: You want to know why I've never seen a shrink?
- Nate Heywood: Why?
- Mick Rory: I don't regret killing my old man.
- Nate Heywood: What?
- Mick Rory: That's right, Pretty. You heard me. I let my old man burn to death. How's that for tough love?
- Nate Heywood: Do you know what's on your father's head?
- Mick Rory: A little Frenchy hat.
- Nate Heywood: That is a Green Beret. President Kennedy called them "a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage."
- Mick Rory: Courage?
- Nate Heywood: Yeah.
- Mick Rory: The only thing my old man was good at was sitting in a chair. Cigarette in one hand, beer in the other. And the only time he ever got up was to...
- Nate Heywood: [he lets the sentence hang] No, Mick, come on. Come on, come on. This is good, this is good. Look, thanks to time travel, I got to talk to my grandfather, and I got to work out a lot of my father issues.
- Ray Palmer: Wow. I knew Grodd was a power-hungry tyrant, but...
- Zari Tomaz: He's one hell of an electrical engineer.
- Ray Palmer: The key is to jam the jammer without anyone realizing it's jammed. Did that make sense?
- Zari Tomaz: Perfect. Where are we taking Grodd when we return him to where he belongs?
- Ray Palmer: Well, last I heard, he was in an A.R.G.U.S. prison.
- Zari Tomaz: Wait, he's just another persecuted meta?
- Ray Palmer: Look, I know you're not a fan of A.R.G.U.S., but Grodd is a psychopath and, well, a giant gorilla.
- Nate Heywood: Ray? Jax? Can you hear me? I think there's something up with Mick. He's got that look, you know, when his eyes get all crazed. I think the jungle's finally getting to...
- [bumping into Rory]
- Nate Heywood: Hey, man. You good?
- Mick Rory: My whole life, I saw him as a monster. Blamed him for all the sick things that I've done. But now I see... I'm worse than him. Should have been me that burned in that house.
- Zari Tomaz: The monster/anachronism is Gorilla Grodd. We're stuck in his compound.
- Jefferson Jackson: Did you just say Gorilla Grodd?
- Dr. Martin Stein: Grodd's displacement in 1967 probably explains that.
- Jefferson Jackson: Uh, guys? Our anachronism just jumped from an eight to a level ten. Giden, what do you got?
- Gideon: The timeline is currently in flux. However, the following headline recently appeared in my archives.
- [a newspaper appears with the headline "U.S. Retaliates Against Russia in Nuclear Strike WWIII Begins!"]
- Dr. Martin Stein: It appears that Grodd is using the powder keg that is the Vietnam War to somehow ignite World War III.
- Ray Palmer: What?
- Zari Tomaz: Where's Amaya? We have to figure out Grodd's plan and get out of here.
- Dr. Martin Stein: Raymond, I must have misheard you. Did you say Grodd was on his way here?
- Ray Palmer: Sure did, man. He's planning on stealing the Waverider.
- Dr. Martin Stein: I swear to you, if I die today because of a telepathic gorilla, I'm going to be very upset.
- Ray Palmer: Yeah, well, then get the Waverider moving.
- Nate Heywood: Amaya.
- Amaya Jiwe: Nathaniel.
- Dick Rory: Shut up.
- Nate Heywood: Are you okay?
- Amaya Jiwe: Mick?
- [he ignores her]
- Amaya Jiwe: Mick. What's wrong with him?
- Nate Heywood: I'm afraid he's gone full Kurtz.
- Amaya Jiwe: What does that mean?
- Nate Heywood: It's a movie reference. Great movie, terrible situation.
- Dr. Martin Stein: There must be a theorem that supports the deceleration of the subject's rate of fission to individually power the thermacore. Any insights, Sir Isaac Newton, or do I have to throw an apple at your head?
- Isaac Newton: Perhaps if you afforded us a brief reprieve. We've been working for hours.
- Galileo: And when, dare I ask, do I get to return home?
- Dr. Martin Stein: You'll go home when I say you can, Gallileo. What about you, Madam Curie? You've been awfully quiet.
- Marie Curie: [eating Jax's pie] How many times do I have to explain it to you, Martin? There's only one way to safely split the thermacore.
- Dr. Martin Stein: Yes, but doing so would result in both Jefferson and I losing our powers. I-I personally have no compuctions about that, but Jefferson...
- [seeing Jax in the door threshold]
- Dr. Martin Stein: There you are. My colleagues and I were just...
- Jefferson Jackson: You didn't have to lie to me if you couldn't find a solution, man.
- Zari Tomaz: You saw what I saw right, right? There's a gorilla sitting on a throne? He spoke better English than Mick.
- Amaya Jiwe: Well, he's clearly intelligent enough to trick these GIs to abandon their posts. He's a monster. He needs to be stopped. Look, he's turned these men into his slaves.
- Anh Ly: Ong Troi Moi freed these soldiers. He is the reason they are no longer killing one another.
- Amaya Jiwe: Yeah, it's a real utopia he's created for himself.
- Anh Ly: I brought you here to help spread Ong Troi Moi's message to the world. You are only here to document what you see.
- Amaya Jiwe: I need your shrink ray.
- Ray Palmer: I dislike that the name is catching on. Look, even if you can miniaturize Grodd, there's still ten miles of jungle warfare between us and the Waverider.
- Amaya Jiwe: Yeah, which is why you guys are gonna take down the communications jammer and call for backup.
- Zari Tomaz: While you take down a hyper-intelligent telepathic primate by yourself?
- Amaya Jiwe: All I need is one clean shot.
- Dick Rory: They say life is the sum total of all the choices you make. As your misfortune sinks in, maybe you want to ask yourself "What choices did I make to find myself here?". Today, I want payback for what that monster did to my men, my brothers.
- Ray Palmer: Uh, excuse... excuse me.
- Mick Rory: Shut up.
- Ray Palmer: Uh, we're... we're journalists.
- Mick Rory: [more isistently] Shut up.
- Ray Palmer: And we've uncovered a plot to kill President Johnson. We need to alert the proper authorities.
- Dick Rory: Shut up.
- Mick Rory: See?