“Fellowship of the Spear” is episode fifteen of season two of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
The episode opens in France, 1916. Nate is looking at a map and saying that Jesus’ blood is buried somewhere over there. Which is in the middle of No Man’s Land. The Spear is sensing the blood. Amaya says they won’t last five minutes out there to Sara and it’s not too late to use it. The episode then goes back 72 hours.
The Legends are looking at the Spear fragment they recovered in the previous episode, “Moonshot”, and Rip is saying it’s hard to believe that, when it joins its siblings, it is as powerful as God. Jax remarks that it is just a useless piece of wood. Sara tells him it isn’t useless; she knows of ten different ways to kill someone with it. Mick says that it’s also useful to scratch those hard-to-reach places. And he isn’t talking about his back. Sara hastily drops the Spear fragment and Professor Stein remarks that Mick has demonstrated that, in the wrong hands, the divine artefact can be put to truly horrific uses.
They need to keep it out of the Legion’s hands, and Jax asks where they could find them. Rip knows where they are operating from. The Legends haven’t been able to find the Legion because they are operating outside of time. Asking what place they know of exists outside of time. The Vanishing Point.
The Vanishing Point is a bit of a mess – last time it was seen, in “Destiny”, it was blowing up after all. They are going to use the pieces of the Spear to find the pieces the Legion have. Mick is remembering Snart. Sara tells him she misses Snart as well. But this is a heist, and they have to steal the other pieces and get out.
Rip and Jax have found the other pieces and Ray is watching Eobard Thawne. Rip tries shooting the container holding the pieces, which fails. Jax tries, and transmutes it. Into jelly beans. Thawne is alerted that they have the pieces; he doesn’t see how it can be happening because the Legends are not smart enough. But they escape before Thawne can catch them.
Now they have all four pieces. Which promptly reform into a whole Spear. Rip cautions them all; the Spear will draw on their weaknesses, desires, regrets, and promise them the ability to remake the world as they wish. Mick asks what’s wrong with that? Rip tells him that absolute power corrupts. That’s why he tried to destroy the Spear. Mick suggests that Rip didn’t try hard enough and uses his flame gun on it. Which fails – the artefact is self-healing and even breaking it into pieces required numerous explosives, according to Rip – but does reveal some writing in Latin.
Which, according to Nate, says that what is made with blood can be undone with blood. Because the Spear isn’t impervious to destruction, as Rip thinks. As it was made by blood of Christ it can be destroyed by it. Sara orders Gideon to set a course to the crucifixion, but Rip countermands that. There are some points in history that are simply too potentially disastrous to tamper with, even slightly.
Sara thinks that this is the only way to destroy the Spear, but Nate tells her it isn’t. Yes, they need the blood of Christ, but Nate read an unpublished paper by a Classics scholar. One that suggested that Sir Gawain didn’t return with the Grail, but the blood of Christ, and that he had a vial of the blood which was buried with him in the north of France. If there’s anyone who knows the location of the grave, it’s the scholar. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Who is usually known by the initials of his first names. Currently fighting the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Thawne is having a bit of a tantrum and Darhk makes a sarcastic comment about that. Then points out that he and Malcolm Merlyn were absent when Thawne let the Spear to be taken. He should let the zombie speedster eat Thawne’s brain. Thawne decides this is a positive development and Damien considers that maybe his brain has already been eaten. Thawne tells him they no longer need to hunt for the Spear. The Legends won’t use it; they will try to hide or destroy it. And they can be waiting. Darhk has an idea to change the game, because they are currently losing.
At the Battle of the Somme, Mick seen Snart again. Who suggests that he steal the Spear, rather than destroy it, and rewrite history to bring Snart back to life. The others manage to find Tolkien. Who asks why they want the location of the grave. To Rip’s reply that it’s a long story, Tolkien states that he likes long stories. Nate agrees with this.
So, they are a group of people – a Fellowship, Nate suggests (nine in total, including Tolkien) – looking to destroy an artefact that it too powerful to use that whispers to owners that they should use it. On which there is writing revealed by fire. To destroy it requires traversing a hellish wasteland. That… sounds kind of familiar.
There are problems, though., Thanks to Nate, Amaya looked up her future, of her village and her family. Mick is also tempted. Things start to go rather badly.