'Legends of Tomorrow' recap: 'Necromancing the Stone'

This week on Legends of Tomorrow, the Legends and friends work to save Sara after the Death Totem and Mallus possess her body.

Previously on Legends of Tomorrow, the team traveled back to the ‘50s and found the Death Totem. They also met Elvis and helped him on his musical journey.

“Necromancing the Stone” opens on Sara having a dream about a little girl. When she wakes, she talks to Ava about Constantine, who she called out for in her sleep. Sara tells her about sleeping with Constantine before they got together. Gideon interrupts them to call Sara to the bridge.

The team look at the time cracks and discuss the chaos waiting for everyone if Mallus breaks free. Sara decides to break the Legends into teams so they can work on fixing more anachronisms. She notices Rory is not in attendance and Wally speeds to get him, learning the hard way that Rory sleeps in the nude.

Sara sends Zari and Amaya to Montana in the late ‘90s to stop the Mona Lisa from showing up on Antiques Roadshow. Nate and Sara have to save Einstein in the ice age. She tells Wally and Rory to go send a dog back to the Russians space program. Rory refuses and Ray says he can help on the Fire Totem. Sara says she will go alone then and Nate can go with Wally. Her head starts hurting, but she tells the others she is fine and to get to work.

Sara tells Gideon to call Constantine, but apparently, he has no phone. Sara’s head rings and she goes and opens the box containing the Death Totem. She sees a vision of herself as The Canary, which talks her into picking up the totem.

Ray explains to Rory how to fix the Fire Totem, but Rory is bored and leaves. Zari and Amaya get back from their mission and find Rory passed out in the library. Zai calls Ray but receives no answer. Gideon says all her monitoring sensors are offline, so the women rush to the lab. They find Ray unconscious and bring him to medical because he has several injuries. Gideon works on healing him while Amaya and Rory go look for the assailant.

Zari asks Gideon if they can contact Sara, but Gideon says the jump ship never left. Amaya and Rory find Sara in the kitchen, but she is possessed by the Death Totem. Sara hears Amaya calling to her and tries to respond in the spirit realm. She then hears Mallus. Wally arrives just in time to save Rory and Amaya from possessed Sara. The Legends get together and talk about what is happening to Sara.

On the bridge, possessed Sara puts the ship on lockdown. Ava hollocalls and is confused by Sara’s look and calls the others when Sara walks right through her hologram. The others tell her what happened and say they need to contact Constantine. The ship shuts down and Ava disappears. Nate and Rory start arguing about what to do, but Wally uses his speed to help get the door open. Wally speeds out saying he can knock Sara out. He sees an apparition of his ex-girlfriend Jesse. Wally has moved on and feels good about where he is, so the apparition changes back into Sara and fights Wally.

In present-day New York City, Ava and Gary go to Constantine’s apartment and find him and a woman chasing a chicken. The woman leaves with the chicken when Ava says they need to talk about Sara. She tells him what happened. He says he learned the lost sixth tribe of Zambesi watched over the dead and sided with Mallus. Constantine says because he has a connection to Sara’s soul, he can get through to Mallus’s realm and talk to Sara. Ava is annoyed and Constantine finds out she is romantically involved with Sara. Ava is determined to go with him to help save Sara.

Back on the Waverider, the team tries to contact Wally. Nate goes to find him and Zari says she can get the jump ship disconnected from the ship so they can get to safety. Nate finds Wally, alive but unconscious. Zari gets to the jump ship and sees an apparition of her brother as a boy. She gets thrown back when she tries to sever the link for the jump ship. She then fights with Sara and gets knocked out. In Mallus’s realm, Nora tells Sara no one can hold of Mallus forever when Sara manages to break free for a second.

Back in New York, Ava gets fed up with Constantine and does not understand what Sara sees in the man. They chat about Sara, and Ava tells Gary about Sara saying Ava is her girlfriend. They try to figure out what to do and Gary tells them about one of his Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, which corresponds to what the Legends are currently facing.

Amaya says someone should use the Earth Totem. Nate volunteers and the two kiss before splitting up. Gary continues his story by saying even though his group was defeated, they found the mystical item. Constantine kisses Gary, much to his delight, and calls him a genius. Constantine says they need to search for the Death Totem in order to find the Waverider. He starts searching using magic.

In Mallus’s realm, Nora talks to Sara and says they are alike. She shows her a vision of the past when Sara was part of the League of Assassins and killed a man. The man’s daughter shows up and holds his hand as he dies. Nora tries to convince Sara she was born to be the Death Totem’s bearer for Mallus.

Nate touches the Earth Totem and nothing happens. He hears a noise and then possessed Sara appears. Nate sees an apparition of his grandfather who mocks him and starts beating him up. Amaya and Rory find Zari, hurt but awake. Since they cannot get through to Nate, Amaya takes Rory to the Fire Totem and talks him into using it, despite his fears.

Constantine, Ava, and Gary arrive to save Sara. Mallus uses the voice of a dead girl Constantine failed to save. He plays along to try and free Sara, but she chokes him when he tries to start the exorcism.

Rory puts on the Fire Totem and Sara’s totem glows. She rushes to him and the two fight. Rory manages to knock her out and Ava runs to her side and tears off the totem. In the realm, Sara hears Ava’s calls and Nora tries to get her to stay, saying she can live a life free from regret. Ava gets through to Sara, who then comes back to her body.

Sara and Constantine have a drink and chat about their painful pasts. He says Ava seems good for her, and Sara confides she is worried she will end up hurting Ava. Sara addresses the Legends and apologizes. They talk about Mallus and how he made Sara appear as other people from their pasts. Sara thinks he tries to use their secrets against them and says Mallus wanted her to join his side.

Sara goes to Ava and says Ava should care about her past. She says the Death Totem chose her because she is death. Sara struggles to get the words out but says no matter how happy she is, Ava deserves better. Ava tries to argue, but Sara refuses to listen and Ava leaves. Sara feels a note under one of her pillows and it declares that pillow is for Sara’s girlfriend. Sara closes the note and bottles up her emotions. The episode ends with Constantine playing Dungeons and Dragons with Gary and his friends.

I really liked this episode of Legends of Tomorrow. Constantine, Gary, and Ava had good chemistry and were entertaining. I love that Constantine joined Gary’s D&D campaign! The apparitions were an interesting touch; it made me think of The First from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I think Ava/Sara (Avalance) are good together, so their breakup was disappointing.

Legends of Tomorrow airs at 8 p.m. Mondays on The CW. The preview for the next episode can be viewed below.