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The Best Episodes of Timeless Season 2

Every episode of Timeless Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Timeless Season 2!

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A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Timeless Season 2 Episode 10 - The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II
    9.0/10(1798 votes)

    S2:E10

    Christmas arrives in the Bunker, and the Time Team is inspired by a visit from their future selves to find a way to try to save Rufus. But when the Mothership jumps to 1848 California, they’re forced to put those plans on hold and chase Rittenhouse back to the Gold Rush, where they encounter one of the era’s most dangerous villains. Then chasing the Mothership to Korea in the winter of 1950, the team helps a stranded, pregnant refugee attempt to escape a tragic fate.

    Director:John F. Showalter
    Writers:Arika Lisanne Mittman, Lauren Greer

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  2. Timeless Season 2 Episode 3 - Hollywoodland
    8.3/10(1643 votes)

    S2:E3

    When a Rittenhouse sleeper agent in 1941 Hollywood steals the only copy of Citizen Kane, Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus team up with Hedy Lamarr to get it back. Hedy Lamarr turns out to be not only a glamorous movie star but also a scientific wizard whose discoveries led to the invention of Wi-Fi.

    Director:John F. Showalter
    Writer:Matt Whitney

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  3. Timeless Season 2 Episode 5 - The Kennedy Curse
    8.3/10(1539 votes)

    S2:E5

    When a mission goes awry, Wyatt and Rufus are forced to bring a 17-year-old John F. Kennedy with them to the present. Anxious to return the future president to history, the team must find a way to work together to rescue JFK and return him to the past before Rittenhouse assassinates him in 2018.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Lana Cho

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  4. Timeless Season 2 Episode 8 - The Day Reagan Was Shot
    8.3/10(1415 votes)

    S2:E8

    The Time Team travels back to 1981 Washington D.C. on the day President Reagan was shot, only to discover that the Sleeper’s target isn’t the President – but a young rookie police officer – none other than Agent Christopher, who brought the time team together and kept the Lifeboat from getting into Rittenhouse’s hands. The Time Team must save Agent Christopher’s life and prevent her from making a mistake that set her on a different path that would forever change her own future, the future of the team -- and the future of the world.

    Director:Alex Kalymnios
    Writers:Arika Lisanne Mittman, Lauren Greer

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  5. Timeless Season 2 Episode 1 - The War to End All Wars
    8.2/10(1795 votes)

    S2:E1

    After barely escaping an explosion at Mason Industries, Wyatt and Rufus chase the Mothership back to a French battlefront during World War 1 to rescue Lucy from Rittenhouse. There, they discover that Lucy has recruited Marie Curie, the famous French scientist and the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes, to help save the life of a wounded American soldier, only to learn that the soldier is Lucy’s own great-grandfather who Rittenhouse is bringing to the present to be their leader.

    Director:Greg Beeman
    Writers:Tom Smuts, Arika Lisanne Mittman

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  6. Timeless Season 2 Episode 7 - Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
    8.2/10(1439 votes)

    S2:E7

    In the bustle of 1919 New York City, suffragette Alice Paul is framed for murder and the Time Team partners up with legendary female crime solver Grace Humiston – AKA “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.” Together they attempt to prove Alice’s innocence in time for her to give a powerful speech that turns the tide in the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Back in the present, Connor Mason salvages key intel from the Rittenhouse raid.

    Director:Douglas Aarniokoski
    Writer:David C. Hoffman

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  7. Timeless Season 2 Episode 9 - The General / Chinatown
    8.2/10(1374 votes)

    S2:E9

    When the Mothership jumps to South Carolina in 1863, the Time Team partners up with a courageous Union spy and military leader, Harriet Tubman - AKA "The General" - to thwart Rittenhouse's plan to alter the outcome of the Civil War. Back in the present, Rittenhouse hits the team where it hurts the most. Then, Jiya makes a daring escape from Rittenhouse that strands her in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1888 with no way home.

    Directors:Greg Beeman, John F. Showalter
    Writers:Tom Smuts, Nancy Baird, Matt Whitney

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  8. Timeless Season 2 Episode 4 - The Salem Witch Hunt
    8.0/10(1465 votes)

    S2:E4

    While Wyatt sneaks away from the bunker to face an unbelievable truth, Lucy, Rufus and their former enemy-turned- teammate, Garcia Flynn, chase the Mothership to the Salem Witch Trials. There they must prevent the execution of a headstrong young woman who, it turns out, is mother to one of the most consequential Americans of all time – the yet to be born Benjamin Franklin. When Lucy is accused of being a witch, the team rallies together not only to save Abiah and Lucy, but all the accused women.

    Director:Guy Ferland
    Writer:Kent Rotherham

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  9. Timeless Season 2 Episode 6 - The King of the Delta Blues
    8.0/10(1434 votes)

    S2:E6

    When Rufus and Jiya add a fourth seat to the Lifeboat, for the first time ever, Connor Mason joins the team as they travel back to the dusty backroads and smoky juke joints of the Depression-era South to rescue the life and legacy of Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues, Godfather of Rock n’ Roll and a man who, legend has it, bought his musical genius from the Devil for the price of his soul. Meanwhile, Agent Christopher keeps Wyatt in the present to execute a dangerous raid on Rittenhouse headquarters.

    Director:Greg Beeman
    Writer:Anslem Richardson

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  10. Timeless Season 2 Episode 2 - The Darlington 500
    7.9/10(1549 votes)

    S2:E2

    The Time Team chases Rittenhouse to a stock car race in the 1950s where Wyatt learns that his favorite race car driver is actually a Rittenhouse sleeper agent on a mission to destroy the American car industry. To stop the Rittenhouse plan, Wyatt, Lucy and Rufus team up with Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR driver.

    Director:Olatunde Osunsanmi
    Writer:Jim Barnes

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II" is the best rated episode of "Timeless" season 2. It scored 9/10 based on 1798 votes. Directed by John F. Showalter and written by Arika Lisanne Mittman, Lauren Greer, it aired on 12/20/2018. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Hollywoodland".