Public Enemy No. 1

Public Enemy No.1
Season	1
Episode	15
Air date	February 13, 2017
Writer	Matt Whitney & Anslem Richardson
Director	Guy Ferland
Episode guide
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"Public Enemy No. 1" is the fifteenth episode of Season 1 of Timeless. It premiered on February 13, 2017.

Plot

The Mission

Flynn's Agenda

• Flynn helps Chicago mobster Al Capone escape prison time for tax evasion in exchange for a meeting with Mayor and Rittenhouse member William Hale Thompson.

Rittenhouse's Agenda

• The Lifeboat team is assigned to travel to Houston, TX, in 1962 to erase Flynn's existence by eliminating Maria Thompkins.

Changes to the Timeline

• Despite the deaths of Capone and Prohibition Agent Eliot Ness, the timeline is unchanged.

Cast

Main

• Goran Višnjić as Garcia Flynn
• Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston
• Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan
• Malcolm Barrett as Rufus Carlin
• Paterson Joseph as Connor Mason
• Sakina Jaffrey as Agent Denise Christopher
• Claudia Doumit as Jiya

Guest

• John Getz as Benjamin Cahill
• Jim Beaver as Jake Neville
• Cameron Gharaee as Al Capone
• Misha Collins as Eliot Ness
• Mather Zickel as Richard Hart
• Richard Portnow as William Hale Thompson

Historical Events and Figures

Events

• In 1931, Chicago mobster Al Capone was arrested and charged for income tax evasion and several violations of the National Prohibition Act. He was subsequently sentenced to 11 years in prison; first at the Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary in 1932, then at Alcatraz in 1934 before being released on parole on November 16, 1939.

Figures

• Al Capone
• Eliot Ness
• Richard Hart
• William Hale Thompson
• Frank Galluccio

Episode Notes

Trivia

When the trio meet Eliot Ness, Wyatt introduces himself as "Connery" (after Sean Connery), Lucy as "Costner" (after Kevin Costner), and Rufus as "Robert De Niro", a reference to the main cast of the 1987 film The Untouchables.