‘Legends Of Tomorrow’: Marc Guggenheim On Ray & Snart’s Latest Mission, Training Kendra & The Omega Protocol

“DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow” heads to 1980s Russia as the would-be heroes continue their
quest to try and stop Vandal Savage and save the world.

Thursday’s new episode will see
Ray Palmer/The Atom (Brandon Routh) and Leonard Snart/Captain Cold attempting
to cozy up to a Soviet scientist named Valentina Vostock (Stephanie
Corneliussen) to get more information on where to find the villainous Vandal.

While the “Legends”
continue to chase Vandal, there will also be time for a little fight training
for one of the team in this week’s episode, and leader Rip Hunter (Arthur
Darvill) will find himself confronted by a fellow Time Master. Access Hollywood
hopped on the phone with Executive Producer Marc Guggenehim to find out more.

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‘Legends Of Tomorrow’: Marc Guggenheim On Ray & Snart’s Latest Mission, Training Kendra & The Omega Protocol (The CW)

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Access Hollywood: Let’s just
start with the simple stuff, which is that you have Ray Palmer and Leonard
Snart looking pretty darn dapper in suits this episode. Is this our little bit
of a Valentine’s Day episode because you’ve got [a character named] Valentina
and they’re going to [try and] charm her?
Marc Guggenheim: You know, they both do take their swings. They both take
their shots with Valentina and I don’t want to say who gets the better of that
exchange, but that was an enormous amount of fun to write and film. It’s got a
little James Bond to it, which we liked a lot.

Access: And also, it’s kind of
keeping up – it’s not quite a rivalry, but there’s a little competitiveness
between Ray and Leonard that’s starting to build there, right?
Marc: Yeah, it’s a very interesting dynamic between the two of
them because… Snart enjoys tweaking Ray a bit, and kind of making fun
of him, but at the same time, buried under layers and layers and layers of it
is the fact that Snart kind of respects Ray in some respect — that there’s an
element of Ray that kind of intrigues him.

Access: I was kind of curious
— going back a couple of episodes — what you think Leonard thinks of Sara
Lance? He stood back and watched her just [fight] in that bar after
she had [a] dance, and he just seemed fascinated by her.
Marc:
I think he’s very intrigued by her,
and I think she’s intrigued by him. They’re both complex individuals, but I
think as you’ll see in future episodes, they have chemistry. They straight up –
they’ve got chemistry and we’re playing that in a… in keeping with their
characters being very unusual, we are playing with that in an unusual way.

Access: [The ‘Legends’] aren’t
fully trained for this mission [of taking down Vandal]. Are there plans to do
some training? Sara’s supposed to do some Kendra training, at least
physically, right?
Marc: Yeah. I think the person who really
needs the training is Kendra because Kendra’s the one who ultimately has to
deliver the death blow as we learned in [Episode] 102. She’s the one who has to do the
deed, so starting in 104, Sara’s going to begin her process of training Kendra
and getting her ready, but it’s going to be a process. It’s not going to be a
piece of cake.

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Access: There’s a clip for this
week’s episode and it’s got a Time [Master] in it. What are the consequences
for Rip [for what he’s done]? Is there some sort of Time [Master] law and order? Is there some sort
of… Time
[Master] purgatory or jail or something like that?
Marc:
In the latter half of the season,
you’re going to learn about something called the Omega Protocol, which is
basically — that’s like the death penalty. That’s the most severe punishment
that the Time Masters can give out, and it won’t be just Rip facing that. It’ll
be the entire team.

“DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow” airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Jolie Lash

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