Timeless: Pilot

US sci-fi drama in which an unlikely team is tasked with travelling through time to protect the past from a criminal mastermind who aims to change the course of history. After secretly building a time machine called the Mothership, Connor Mason, the head of Mason Industries, requests help when fugitive Garcia Flynn and a team of terrorists hijack it, kidnap his company's chief physicist Anthony Bruhl and disappear into the past. On the orders of Agent Denise Christopher of Homeland Security, history professor Lucy Preston and Delta Force commando Wyatt Logan join Mason Industries' computer scientist Rufus Carlin as he pilots a prototype time machine called the Lifeboat. They return to 6 May 1937 - the day that Germany's Hindenburg airship crashed - in a bid to kill Flynn before he can change the past and irrevocably alter the future. Also starring Claudia Doumit and Susanna Thompson