“The Miracle of Christmas Part II” is the second part of the two-part series finale of Timeless.
In the previous episode, “The Miracle of Christmas Part I”, Flynn killed Jessica, which saved Rufus, but remained behind in history and died. Then the mothership was discovered heading back to Korea in 1950. Everyone headed back as, in the present, Connor discovers an article about them dying in the past.
This episode opens in the wreckage of a crashed helicopter. Lucy is checking on Wyatt, telling him the pilot was working for Emma, but Wyatt wrestled the controls off him. The pilot is dead and Rufus and Jiya are alive. Jiya is working on pulling a fragment from her leg; Rufus asks when she learned to become a doctor. Chinatown. Doctors were expensive. A friend taught her. Rufus wonders what happened to the friend. She died of bubonic plague. Jiya checked. The other two come over; the ship they thought Emma was going to interfere with made it out. This entire thing was to kill them.
In the present, Connor is suggesting that they might have left a message. Christopher doesn’t think that digging up Korea is an option. They need a helicopter crash. The others will be killed by Chinese troops the next day, so they need to get back and stop it. Connor points out they don’t have a time machine. Christopher says Rittenhouse has both. What, and Emma is just going to help?
Rufus is talking to Lucy; in his past, they are a couple. Lucy explains Jessica and doesn’t want to be second choice. Rufus says that Wyatt likes him but, if he had to give Lucy up to bring Rufus back, Rufus would still be dead. That doesn’t sound like second. They stumble across people evacuating before the Chinese troops arrive. Wyatt isn’t hopeful for their chances.
They find an American military ambulance, but it doesn’t work. Rufus thinks they can fix it; they need transportation. Wyatt tells Lucy and Jiya to wait in the church. Why, because they’re women and it’s 1950? No, because they’re starting to get frostbite and look prettier with ears.
In the church. Jiya talks to Lucy about her and Rufus, because it’s been three years to her. A pregnant woman comes over and tells them to be quiet; there are informants everywhere. The woman, Young-Hee, thought there were no Americans left. Lucy claims they are journalists. Young-Hee’s husband is a journalist, but he fled with their son because he was only supposed to write propaganda. Young-Hee will wait until the Chinese are pushed back. In a few days, maybe this will be over. It won’t.
Outside, Rufus is babbling and Wyatt interrupts, saying it’s his fault that Jiya was stuck in the past, for trusting Jessica. And that Rufus said he would never forgive Wyatt for that. Rufus, as this wasn’t in his timeline, didn’t know this and asks Wyatt why he told him. Because otherwise Wyatt would be lying. Rufus forgives him. Then they see someone returning with North Korean soldiers. They head inside the church and Lucy wants to take Young-Hee with them. The lifeboat and the port are in opposite directions. The others talk Wyatt into it.
Emma is happily looking at an article on their deaths when Benjamin Cahill, Lucy’s father, enters. She didn’t know he’d been released from prison. Rittenhouse always finds a way. How did he find her? Cahill knows all the places on the East Coast. Cahill is not impressed with Emma, who just seems to be looting history. He came to say goodbye. Then Agent Christopher and her people arrive. Cahill sold Emma out? Yes, for a chance to save his daughter’s life and for protection and immunity for his teenage son. It’s a family thing. Emma will never have, nor understand, that.
The ambulance conks out and they have to walk, but Young-Hee goes into labour. Lucy and Rufus head to the port to get help. They manage and are heading back where there’s an explosion from where they left the others. They are okay, though, as is the baby. However, they can’t find a truck at the port; they’ve all been wired to explode. Heading back, they arrive at the church to find a massacre. They’re surrounded, can’t run and can’t fight. The only option is to hide.
With this being a wrapping up episode, and sometimes shown with the previous episode as a single feature-length episode, much of the latter part is tying up loose ends.