Draft:Last Refuge (Legends of Tomorrow)

"Last Refuge" is the tweflth episode of the first season of the American science fiction series Legends of Tomorrow.

Plot
Gideon uses the Pilgrim's temporal distortions to predict her next move. After they successfully rescue Mick Rory and Sara Lance's younger selves, Gideon loses track of the Pilgrim's movements, allowing her to take out any of the team members without them knowing. The Pilgrim goes after Ray Palmer in 2014, but the team arrives just in time to save his former self and prevent Ray's death. Rip decides to abduct the rest of the team's infant selves to prevent the Pilgrim from killing any selves of them. They are successful, bringing the infants to Rip's adoptive mother for her to look after until they can stop the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim kidnaps the team members' loved ones, threatening to kill them unless the members give themselves up. Rip Hunter agrees to give up his younger self from before he became a Time Master, thus preventing the team's formation, in exchange for everyone's safety. The Pilgrim agrees, but the team sets a trap for her, managing to kill her. Afterward, Ray and Kendra become engaged. Rip says that the only time to stop Savage is in 2166, at the peak of the latter's power.

Writing
"Last Refuge" was written by Rachel Talalay

Critical reception
The episode was met with negative reviews from critics. The episode holds a 54% out of 14 critic reviews on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The sites critical consensus reads, ""Last Refuge" finally presents the Legends with a formidable adversary, only to immediately disarm her and undermine the entire episode."

Writing for The A.V. Club, Oliver Sava rated the episode a D-. Sava said that "The design is as lazy as the action staging". The review was later alluded to in the season four episode "Wet Hot American Bummer".