Lucy Preston

**Lucy Preston** is the main protagonist of the NBC television series *Timeless*, along with Wyatt Logan and Rufus Carlin.

## Biography

Carolyn Preston has an affair with a man named Benjamin Cahill and becomes pregnant with their daughter, Lucy. However. 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")

## Name

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.

## Trivia

* 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.

## Relationships

### Wyatt Logan

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

Robert Todd Lincoln asked her out to see the play, being charmed by her modesty. After Flynn assassinated his father, she offered him sympathy.

### Noah

Noah is 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

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.

### Garcia Flynn

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. It is shown they become close after Wyatt gets back together with his wife.