Deus Ex Latrina

For the Supergirl episode, see "Deus Lex Machina".

"Deus Ex Latrina"
Information
Season 7 » Episode 6
Episode number	103 of 110
Original airdate	November 17, 2021
Written by	Ray Utarnachitt Mercedes Valle
Directed by	Nico Sachse
Chronology
Preceded by	"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist"
Followed by	"A Woman's Place is in the War Effort!"

"Deus Ex Latrina" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and the one-hundred-third episode overall. It aired on November 17, 2021.

Synopsis

When the Legends and Gwyn finally time travel, the time machine goes haywire leaving them stranded in a lush forest with no idea when or where they are. Seeing that Sara and Ava are noticeably stressed, Nate takes over and gives everyone tasks to set up camp to keep everyone occupied. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Legends, someone keeps trying to destroy the anomalies that keep popping up which could create bigger ripples throughout history.[src]

Plot

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Cast

Starring

• Caity Lotz as Co-Captain Sara Lance
• Tala Ashe as Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi
• Jes Macallan as Co-Captain Ava Sharpe and Assistant Ava
• Olivia Swann as Astra Logue
• Adam Tsekhman as Gary Green
• Shayan Sobhian as Behrad Tarazi
• Lisseth Chavez as Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz
• Amy Louise Pemberton as Gideon and Gideon (voice)
• Nick Zano as Dr. Nate Heywood

Special appearance by

• Matt Ryan as Dr. Gwyn Davies

Guest starring

• Raffi Barsoumian as Bishop and Bishop
• Giacomo Baessato as J. Edgar Hoover

Co-starring

• Andre Roshkov as Russian Senior Officer
• Isaac Andrew as Soldier

Gallery

Videos

DC's Legends of Tomorrow 7x06 Promo "Deus Ex Latrina" (HD) Season 7 Episode 6 Promo

Trivia

• The episode title is a play on the phrase "deus ex machina".
  • It is a reference to the end of the episode, in which Bishop drops from his Waverider while strapped to the toilet.
    • These events reveal what happens when the red button on the Waverider's toilet (previously discussed by the Legends in the season 4 episode "The Getaway") is pushed; it functions as a mode of evacuation from the ship, with the entire toilet dropping out through the floor, with the user intended to be strapped in via a seatbelt.
• It's revealed that Bishop created the copies of historical figures such as J. Edgar Hoover and Thomas Edison by combining his clone tech with Gideon's computer tech, resulting in the creation of the robot clones.
• After Assistant Ava and Bishop finish creating the J. Edgar Hoover robot, Assistant Ava says "It's alive!" This is a reference to Victor Frankenstein's creation of his monster in the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein.
• After Gideon locks Assistant Ava in the cargo compartment, Ava asks Gideon to open the door, to which Gideon responds "I'm sorry, Ava, I'm afraid I can't do that". This is a reference to the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the character Dave Bowman is similarly locked out, asking the ship's AI Hal 9000 to unlock the pod bay doors, but she refuses in the exact same manner.

Goofs

• In the official press release for the episode, Adam Tsekhman's name was misspelt as "Adam Tsekham".
• The magnetic, conductive material required to "fix" the time machine compass would be any ferromagnetic material, and would be known to Zari or Behrad. The parts collected in the base didn't appear to be any form of magnetic material, but bulbs or fuses of some kind.