Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20170405000405/@comment-27700324-20170410120025

Kaestal wrote: Maybe the guy who played Malcolm Merlyn wanted to be part of the other show then.

And, as we see, he's not exactly in the best situation in 2016, he probably just doesn't care about anything happening in 2017.

"My daughter hates me, my company is potentially dissolved, I'm in a crappy house, the League of Assassins is gone" etc

Ya don't need to do much more than show him really not caring about Damien's death to show what he's been doing, he's done with it all Oliver broke him so much that he doesn't even want vengeance on Oliver for it cause he is just that miserable.