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( Abigail Spencer ): A brilliant, passionate history professor tasked with keeping the team historically accurate and identifying Flynn's targets.

The first episode of the NBC science fiction series , titled " Pilot ," aired on October 3, 2016, and brilliantly sets up the show's high-stakes time-travel premise. Timeless 1x1

The pilot successfully plants several long-term narrative seeds to hook the audience: ( Abigail Spencer ): A brilliant, passionate history

History books now record the Hindenburg burning a day late due to an attack by "anarchists" (the Time Team themselves). To their absolute shock, Flynn does not travel

To their absolute shock, Flynn does not travel back to cause the crash; he actually the airship from its original landing explosion. The team quickly deduces his real, more sinister plan: Flynn intends to let high-profile dignitaries and historical figures board the ship for its return flight to Europe, and then detonate it over the Atlantic. This would effectively erase several people vital to the future formation of the United Nations.