Legends Episode Recap, Season 1 Episode 6: Gauntlet

Episode Recap of Legends, Season 1 Episode 6: Gauntlet

This episode picks up where the last episode left off – with Martin getting into a car accident after abducting Dobson from the body shop. Martin gets out of the car and helps Dobson walk away, though Dobson has been shot and keeps yelling that he needs a hospital. Meanwhile, back at the body shop, Campbell calls in the situation using what sounds like military language.

Over at the FBI in Los Angeles, Crystal and Rice are working late into the night to investigate the McCombs/Evans case and Iraq. Maggie brings them a redacted file on Operation Raining Fire. Gates comes in and Crystal tells him that she thinks Martin has gone rogue. Gates speaks with Rice privately, and Rice tells him what he has found out about Martin.

Martin tries to get answers from Dobson, who says that if he gets him to a hospital, he’ll tell him what he wants to know. Martin gets on a city bus with him, and the driver calls in a medical emergency. The bus is soon stopped by police, and Martin tries to explain that he is an undercover FBI agent, and Dobson is his prisoner. The police contact Gates to confirm that Martin is who he says he is. Once his identity is confirmed, Gates talks to Martin on the phone, he apprises him of the situation. Then Gates sends Crystal and Rice to meet up with Martin in Houston.

Martin rides in the ambulance with Dobson to the hospital. While Dobson is in surgery, Martin talks to Gates on the phone and tells him that he saw a missile in the body shop. A nurse brings some coffee to Martin. He sits down to wait, takes a sip of the coffee, and passes out.

When he wakes up, the hospital is dark, and Dobson is no longer in the operating room. An agent comes to speak with Martin and tries to attack him, but Martin fights back and runs off. He comes across the woman who gave him the coffee and realizes it was drugged. He goes to look for Dobson, and the woman radios to someone to alert them about Martin. Someone tries to help Dobson get away in a wheelchair and IV in the elevator, but Martin catches them, takes Dobson, steals a car, and drives off with Dobson. Martin calls Gates, who tells him to go to Austin. On the drive, Martin tries to get answers out of Dobson.

Maggie goes to Gates and confesses that she helped Martin set up the Len Barlow Legend.

Crystal and Rice arrive in Houston and go to the body shop. They find that the area has been cleaned up, but the clean up crew missed a couple things. Rice picks the lock, and they go inside the shop, where they find Campbell, who tries to act like nothing happened there. When he tries to run, they arrest him. He tells them the missile is long gone.

Dobson tells Martin that he works for the guys that don’t exist, and that he met Martin in Iraq, though he doesn’t remember his name. Dobson says that a lot of other guys who came back after Operation Raining Fire also came back not remembering things. Their car breaks down, and they’re forced to walk, though Dobson’s IV has run out.

Gates meets with Sonya and asks her to call Martin again, but she says he won’t answer. Sonya is afraid of how Martin will react when he finds out she’s been lying to him for the past 10 years, and says that she’s “sticking to the script.” Gates says that he can’t ever know the truth. She admits that she loves Martin, though, so Gates tells her to get back together with him, because he’s going to need her when he comes home.

Martin finds and abandoned house, and he brings Dobson inside. Dobson points out that he’s going into septic shock, so Martin goes and finds an old first aid kit. While he’s treating Dobson’s wound, he finds a tracking device. Dobson says Martin probably has about 2 hours before his men show up. Martin calls Maggie to trace his location, and tells her to inform Gates that he’s bracing for an assault. Then his phone dies.

Martin finds a trap door to a basement. He gathers some supplies for a “last stand.” Dobson tells him there’s probably 3 or 4 highly trained killers coming. Martin has 5 rounds. Dobson recounts his time in Iraq while they wait. He and several other soldiers were attacked by friendly fire bombs – but there were too many bombs on target for it to be a mistake. Dobson only survived because his Humvee rolled into a ravine. He talks about the oil catching on fire, and fire raining from the sky. Suddenly, Martin remembers being there, though he doesn’t know how he survived.

Martin hears cars driving down the dirt road toward the house, and he moves Dobson into the basement. As Dobson’s men approach the house, we see that Martin has set up a few traps, which kill off 2 of the men. The woman from the hospital enters the house, and Martin takes another man hostage. But the woman just shoots the man. Martin in turn shoots her, then joins Dobson in the basement. Dobson tells Martin he can look into Verax records and find out who he is. Meanwhile, there’s one more Verax guy outside. He makes a deal with Martin that if Martin gets him out of there, he’ll go on record about Verax’s activities.

The last Verax guy enters the house, and announces that Dobson isn’t going to make it, but it’s nothing personal. Martin looks up and sees the guy through the slits of the trap door and shoots him.

The FBI shows up at the house and starts the clean up. When Dobson steps outside, a sniper in the woods shoots him dead.