Episode
Timeless: The Red Scare
Overview
With one of our heroes' lives on the line, the team chases Flynn to 1954 through the paranoid corridors of Joe McCarthy's Washington D.C., en route to a secret, once-a-generation meeting of Rittenhouse leaders. While there, Lucy must wager the ultimate sacrifice to save history as we know it.
Details
- Series
- Timeless
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2017-02-20
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
The Red Scare is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Timeless. It aired on 2017-02-20. The runtime is 42 min.
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