Lucy Preston

Lucy Preston is one of the three main protagonist of NBC's television series, Timeless. She is a History professor and leader of the lifeboat team, a group of time travelers who are on a mission in defeat Rittenhouse. 
==History==
In 1982, Carolyn Preston has an affair with a man named Benjamin Cahill and 
becomes pregnant with their daughter, Lucy. She is born in 1983. Most of her life, 
Lucy has believed that her father was Henry Wallace. She has a younger 
sister named Amy Preston, born in 1990. ("Pilot", "The Red Scare", "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln")
Sometime in the future, Lucy will write about her time travels in a journal. She eventually gives it to Garcia Flynn, who uses it to travel through time. ("Pilot", "The Red Scare")
In the alternate universe of 2016A, Lucy's mother and stepfather never met, thus resulting in her sister, Amy, from being erased from existence, something she blames Flynn for. ("Pilot", "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln")
=== Appearance===
Lucy is a young woman who is thirty three-thirty four in 2016 and 2017 and thirty five in season Two and forty in the series' epilogue. She has short, curly brown hair and green eyes.
==Season 1==
Lucy works as a history professor in her mother's department. However, she is unsure if she wants to follow in Carol's footsteps.
One day, Lucy is giving a lecture about President Lyndon B. Johnson. However, after the lesson, Lucy learns from the chair of her mother's department that the committee is cancelling yet another tenure meeting. She angrily tells the chairman that she has been "busting her ass off" for tenure and storms off. Lucy goes home, where she finds Amy looking over their mother, Carol, who is diagnosed with lung cancer. The two sisters take a break from watching over their mom and have a drink, where Lucy reveals to her younger sister what happened at work today. Amy insists to Lucy that she should go somewhere where she is wanted and insists that her sister can make her own future, rather than following in their mother's footsteps. Later that evening, Agent Kondo from homeland security shows up and escorts Lucy to Mason Industries, where she meets Wyatt Logan and Agent Denise Christopher, who expresses her condolences to Lucy about her ailing mother. Christopher reveals to Lucy and Wyatt that they have summoned them to go after terrorist named Garcia Flynn in a time machine, the Lifeboat. Lucy nearly declines, but Christopher tells Lucy that they need her to be on the team. Lucy goes to comply with Agent Christopher's request and dresses into 1930s garb. Going into the time machine, Lucy and Wyatt meet Rufus, who is their third teammate and their pilot. Entering the day the Hindenburg crashed, they enter a New Jersey town's local tavern, where Lucy and Wyatt ask a bartender if he'd seen a man named Garcia Flynn, but the Bartender shoves them off. They learn from Kate that Flynn was there earlier and went to help with the landing of the Hindenburg. The team head to where the Hindenburg will land, where Lucy spots Flynn and follows one of his followers. However, the follower corners Lucy and attacks her, but she is saved by Wyatt and Rufus. Lucy looks out the door, and much to her horror, Flynn saved the Hindenburg when it lands. The trio are found by a group of Nazis, who immediately arrest the Lifeboat team. Through her conversation with Wyatt, Lucy learns that he is widowed since the murder of his wife, Jessica, and says that Kate reminds him of his late wife. They later escape when Wyatt uses her underwire bra as a lock pick and sneak onboard to the Hindenburg, where they find a bomb planted by one of Flynn's men. Lucy and Rufus go to the cockpit and pose as the Anarchist Black Cross, claiming they have a bomb on this plane and orders the pilots to land to await further demands. However, the Hindenburg sets itself on fire after one of Flynn's men accidentally fires a bullet after Kate saved Wyatt. During the skirmish, Lucy is confronted by Garcia Flynn. Terrified, Lucy tells him that he is a sociopath who murdered his own family, Flynn tells her that it all depends on her point of view. Knowing she never met him before, Lucy asks him how he knows her name. Flynn reveals that he knows a lot about her and shows her a diary that she is going to write in the future. He tells her to ask them why she was chosen for the mission and who Rittenhouse is. Wyatt goes to save Lucy, who Flynn holds hostage and goes to fire at Wyatt. However, Kate stands in between Wyatt and takes the bullet, killing her instantly. The team returns to 2016, to find the timeline relatively unchanged. However, Lucy comes home, but sees her mother alive and well, she is engaged to a man, and her sister is erased from existence, something that Flynn never wanted to happen. ("Pilot")
At the very same moment, Lucy receives a call from Agent 
Christopher, who informs her that Flynn has taken the Mothership again. 
Urgently, Lucy asks where, or rather when, he is at. She rushes out of 
the house, but Carol stops her and asks
who was on the phone and who Amy is. Lucy lies and says Amy is a friend 
at work
and that she needs her help. Carol tells Lucy not to forget about 
tomorrow night, but Lucy, not knowing what her mother is talking about, 
promises she won't before leaving for Mason Industries. ("Pilot", "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln")
Returning to the company, Lucy learns she is the only one whose life has changed and reveals that her sister is erased from history and urges her superiors to retrieve her sister back; but they must stop Flynn first by going back to April 14, 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of the workers at Mason Industries, Jiya, who is helping Lucy with her costume, promises to help her figure out what happened to Amy. Lucy, still upset at losing her sister, enters the lifeboat. Wyatt notices her sadness, and consoles her about losing her sister. The team successfully make it to the day the Civil War ended. The next day, Lucy, Rufus and Wyatt go their separate ways to find either Flynn or John Wilkes Booth. Searching Ford's theater, Lucy manages to find Booth's mailbox and meets Robert Todd Lincoln. Starstrucked, Lucy introduces herself as Juliet Shakesman and strikes up a conversation with Robert. Before he leaves, Lucy has a brief encounter with John Wilkes Booth. She later goes to reunite with her teammates, all three of them discuss saving Lincoln rather than letting Booth kill him. However, Lucy says that they cannot in fear of it changing more than they want. However, Rufus tries to convince her that maybe preventing Lincoln's death will be for the greater good. The trio later finds Flynn and Booth, but end up fleeing after Flynn spots them and begins shooting at the trio of friends. The trio go to stay in the hotel, the National. Lucy, knowing where Grant will be, goes to make sure he boards his train, but finds the train has broken down, and meets Robert there again, and invites her to the play. Realizing she can save Grant, agrees to attend. As she is leaving the train station, Flynn confronts Lucy, who blames him for her sister's disappearance; however, Flynn tells her that this is war and lost his entire family to Rittenhouse. He reveals to her that she will one day help him, and claims it is not a threat, but the future and tells Lucy to not get in his way again before he leaves her. Lucy goes shopping with the money she has and buys a blue dress for the play tonight. Lucy makes sure that Rufus and Wyatt are going to save the Secretary of State and the Vice President. Before she leaves, Rufus tells Lucy to make sure who she wants to save. Attending Our American Cousin, Lucy meets Robert's father, Abraham Lincoln, upset knowing he is about to die. She begins growing nervous and gets Grant out of the balcony by spilling water on Ulysses and his wife, Julia, getting one problem out of the way. However, Lucy remains nervous throughout the entire play; instead of Booth entering, Lucy is shocked to find that Flynn enters the door instead. She cries out to warn President Lincoln, but is too late. However, Lucy does save Grant and takes out her gun, but unsuccessfully, Flynn manages to escape. Later that night, Lincoln passes away from the bullet wound. Robert thanks Lucy for saving Grant at least before leaving to grieve. The trio returns back to 2016, where Lucy learns that there is a high school named after her alias in Ohio. Later, Jiya reveals to Lucy that her father Henry Wallace instead married the granddaughter of Irene Doehner, a girl who was supposed to die in the Hindenburg disaster. in that moment, Lucy realizes that while Carol is her mother, Henry isn't her biological father and never was and that her mother has been lying to her her entire life.
("The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln")
Lucy appears at her own engagement party, and asks her mother about her father, but Carol rebuffs her and tells her to go freshen up. Lucy is then approached by her fiance, Noah, who kisses her while Lucy gives a meek hello. ("The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln", "Atomic City")
To Lucy's and Rufus' shock, Wyatt reveals that this will be his 
last mission ever after being fired before. The team return to the 
present day, learning that all the women and children had escaped, but 
all the men had died. Wyatt prepares to leave, however, Lucy and Rufus 
manage to get Christopher's boss to let Wyatt stay on the team after 
threatening to leave team, as she and Rufs trust no one but Wyatt. Lucy 
returns home to her mother, who asks if they are going to keep on 
fighting. However, Lucy reconciles with Carol, and says that she 
doesn't. Knowing her daughter deserves the truth, Carol reveals to Lucy 
her father's name, Benjamin Cahill. ("The Alamo", "The Watergate Tape")
Lucy goes to wait by her father's doorstep in her car but finds 
herself unable to do so. She goes to Mason Industries after receiving a 
call from Denise. The team goes back to the day after the Watergate 
scandal, but they are kidnapped by Flynn on their way to the White 
House. Assuming he wants them to retrieve the missing tape, Lucy 
proclaims they will not get it for them. However, Flynn reveals he 
already stole it and has the Lifeboat team listen to it. Throughout the 
missing minutes, the Lifeboat team learn that Nixon is scared of 
Rittenhouse and is after something called the "doc." Lucy tells Flynn 
that she does not know what "doc" Nixon is talking about. He says that 
he believes her, as he could not find an entry about the doc anywhere in
 her journal. To Lucy's greatest fear, Flynn reveals this is a journal 
that she will write in the future. He releases Lucy and Rufus and gives 
them five hours to find the document or he will kill Wyatt.
Rufus furiously yells at Lucy for not telling them about the 
journal or her relationship with Flynn. However, Lucy states that the 
secret scared the hell out of her and insists they just focus on saving 
Wyatt. They blackmail "Deep Throat" and learn from him about the logo 
with a fist with horns drawn when investigating the Watergate scandal. 
 Rufus and Lucy gain the help of BLA member Gregory Hayes, who shows 
them to "the doc." Both are shocked to see that "the doc" is not a 
document, but a woman. Lucy learns from the Doc that she is a member of 
Rittenhouse and is wanted for her information. She accidentally 
overhears Rufus on the phone with an anonymous person, 
 and learns that he has been spying on them on their journeys because a 
man threatened him and his family. They develop a plan to trick both 
Flynn and Rittenhouse to turn on each other while they get the doc out 
of there and rescue Wyatt from Flynn's men. As they are leaving, the doc
 reveals to Lucy that she left because she didn't want her son to be 
caught up into Rittenhouse and hopes to see them again.
yatt no longer trusts Lucy and Rufus after the secrets and lies. 
The trio return to present day, their friendship broken. Lucy finds no 
record of the Doc, and assumes she is out with her family. Watching 
Wyatt leave, Rufus asks Lucy if they are going to be alright, but 
instead of answering, Lucy walks away. She gets the courage to go up to 
her father's doorstep, and unexpectedly meets her half-brother. When 
Lucy faces her father, instead of telling him who she is, Lucy lies and 
say that she was supposed to deliver something to a friend, but must 
have got the wrong address.
Lucy stands between Flynn and John Rittenhouse before the former 
of the two can kill John. When John disappears, Flynn in his anger, 
kidnaps Lucy and takes her onto the Mothership before Rufus and Wyatt 
have the chance to rescue their friend. ("The Capture of Benedict Arnold") 
==Season 2==
Around five years later, Lucy goes back in time and approaches Garcia
 Flynn in a bar. She approaches him, claiming that she knows everything 
about him and reveals twhat happneed with Rittenhouse and how they 
killed his family. She hands him the diary and then leaves. (The Day Reagan Was Shot)
==Appearance ==
Lucy is a young woman apparently in her late twenties-early thirties. She has short, curly brown hair and green eyes.
==Trivia==
*The name, Lucy, is derived from the English name, Lucia, used in the Middle Ages, which is derived from the name Lucius , which is derived from the Latin element, lux, meaning "light".
*Lucy's last name, Preston comes from the character, Bill S. Preston, Esquire from the Bill & Ted franchise.
*Lucy took the name Juliet Shakesman while visiting the day Abraham Lincoln was assasinated while looking at a poster of William Shakespeare, and took her first name from Juliet Capulet, the heroine of Romeo and Juliet.
*During the events of season one, she is thirty three and thirty four. In season two, she is 35.
*Lucy knows how to speak French. ("Stranded", "The Lost Generation")
*She possessed a diary that has everything written in the future. ("Pilot")
* The white and gold dress that Lucy wears in "Hollywoodland" resemble the ones that Katharine Hepburn wears in The Philadelphia Story.
*Lucy has killed only twice: once by killing Jesse James by shooting him the back, then a World War I soldier who was Nicholas Keynes' companion to prove her loyalty to Rittenhouse at the time because she believed all of her friends, Wyatt, Jiya, Mason, Rufus and Agent Christopher were killed in the explosion at Mason Industries. 
* At least a couple of men have been attracted to Lucy:
**Wyatt Logan developed romantic feelings for Lucy, and showed to be constantly jealous when he saw men flirting with Lucy and even admitted that he loved her despite being married to Jessica. They entered a brief relationship before it was revealed Jessica was still alive. He didn't like that Lucy was spending time with Flynn, especially seeing her coming out of his room one night.
** Robert Todd Lincoln asked her out to see the play, being charmed by her modesty.
**Noah, Lucy's fiancé. However, even though she tries to find common ground with Noah and tries falling in love with him, Lucy finds she cannot. Then she breaks off their engagement, telling him to find someone he's meant to be with.
** Ian Fleming hits on Lucy, as noted by Rufus. Wyatt got seemingly jealous of Fleming showing romantic interest in her. He later flirts with her before they leave, and expects to see her again.
**A drunk man hit on Lucy, but Judy Campbell told him to leave her alone.
**David Rittenhouse creepily hit on her and was going to rape her, but Lucy managed to escape.
**Ernest Hemingway smiled flirtatiously at her.
**It's hinted many times Garcia Flynn may harbor romantic feelings for her, even though he's bent on saving his wife and daughter. At one moment, Lucy wonders why he's there.  Wyatt thought they had sex together, but they are just friends.
==Relationships ==
===Family===
*Wyatt Logan - Husband
*Amy Logan - Daughter
*Flynn Logan - Daughter
*Benjamin Cahill - Father
*Half-Brother
*Ethan Cahill - Paternal Grandfather
*Paternal Great-Grandmother
*Paternal Great-Grandfather
*Ruth Keynes Preston + - Maternal Grandmother
*Nicholas Keynes + - Great-Grandfather
* Carol Preston + - Mother, Kidnapper and Situational Enemy
*Henry Wallace - Stepfather 
===Allies===
*Lifeboat Team
**Rufus Carlin - Best Friend and Teammate
**Garcia Flynn - Former Attempted Killer, Former Kidnapper and Former enemy turned Former Love Interest, Daughter's Namesake
**Jiya - Close Friend
**Connor Mason - Former Employer, Situational Enemy turned Close Friend
*Homeland Security
**Denise Christopher - Close Friend
**Agent Kondo
*1937
**Kate Drummond
**Commander Charles E. Rosendahl
== Relationships with other characters ==
=== Denise Christopher===
At first, Agent Christopher and Lucy have a strict, professional relationship, but they become very good friends as the show goes on and consider each other family by Season 2. In the first season, Denise came to trust Lucy, sympathizing with her how difficult it is for her to remember Amy but her mother didn't and entrusted her with a flashdrive that was sentimental to Denise and her family, including pictures and art projects done by her kids if they were gone.
===Garcia Flynn===
Garcia Flynn was once Lucy's enemy but slowly, the two developed a friendship and had one by the second series. Season 2 hints that Flynn had romantic feelings for her and the series finale confirmed that Flynn and Lucy were in a romantic relationship in an alternate future, but it was never real because she never stopped loving Wyatt. 
In honor of Flynn, Lucy and Wyatt name one of their daughters after his sacrifice.
===Wyatt Logan===
They eventually began developing romantic feelings for each other.
===Noah===
Noah was engaged to Lucy after the timeline change caused by Lucy and
her friends' mission to the Hindenberg crisis. However, she broke off 
their relationship in "The Red Scare."
===Robert Lincoln===
(Date)
Lucy met Robert Lincoln. She went on a brief date with him to the play, Our American Cousin.. He invited her out of kindness. Robert later thanked Lucy for saving General Grant. He never saw her again.
===Harry Houdini===
Harry Houdini expressed interest in Lucy and attempted to ask her out
 by coming with him and travelling the world. However, Lucy tells him 
that she is not the one for him and tells him to look out for his future wife.
==Trivia==
*The Lucy in the beginning of the series' finale was from a bad future where the team is still fighting Rittenhouse. The Lucy that visited Garcia Flynn was from the good future, where she is a historian again, happily married to Wyatt and has two daughters with him.
*She and Wyatt named their daughters, Flynn and Amy after Amy Preston and Garcia Flynn.
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