Necromancing the Stone

"You know, there's a reason why I prefer to walk this path alone. It's, uh... so I don't have to share with anyone how lost I really am. But you're not alone, are you Sara?"

—John Constantine

"Necromancing the Stone"
Information
Season 3 » Episode 15
Episode number	48 of 110
Original airdate	March 19, 2018
Written by	Grainne Godfree Morgan Faust
Directed by	April Mullen
Guest stars
Matt Ryan as John Constantine (special guest star) Courtney Ford as Nora Darhk Jes Macallan as Ava Sharpe John Noble as Mallus (voice) Adam Tsekhman as Gary Green Violett Beane as Jesse Wells Bodhi Sabongui as young Behrad Tomaz Matthew MacCaull as Henry Heywood Bailey Tippen as Astra Logue (voice)
Chronology
Preceded by	"Amazing Grace"
Followed by	"I, Ava"

"Necromancing the Stone" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and the forty-eighth episode overall. It aired on March 19, 2018.

Synopsis

When Mallus’ power over Sara resurfaces, she unwittingly becomes the bearer of one of the Totems. Rory must conquer his dark side in order to wield his own Totem power to help save the crew. Meanwhile, Agent Sharpe notices that something is wrong and recruits someone unorthodox to help.

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Trivia

• The title is a reference to the 1984 film Romancing the Stone.
• When Amaya and Zari are sent on a mission to retrieve the Mona Lisa from Antiques Roadshow, they observe that the portrait was actually a self-portrait of Da Vinci in drag.
• On the Waverider, Sara initiates the Nostromo protocol. This is a reference to the spaceship in the movie Alien, where one Xenomorph hunts and kills the crew.
• Sara visually compares Constantine to musician Sting. Coincidentally, when Constantine first appeared in DC comics, his direct resemblance to Sting was on purpose, specifically the musician's appearance in the 1982 film Brimstone and Treacle, as a person who thought he had supernatural powers.
  • In fact, when Alan Moore originally created the character in 1984, he and artists Steve Bissette and John Tottleben very deliberately designed the character to resemble Sting, given that they were fans of The Police.
• Sara's appearance when under Mallus' control makes her look like a zombie from iZombie, which is another CW series that airs right after DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
  • Sara's appearance also greatly resembles a cross between Supergirl supervillians, Livewire and Silver Banshee
• When the Waverider is in trouble, Constantine informs Ava and Gary that he cannot track down a lost timeship as "[his] business card reads 'Master of the Dark Arts', not 'Doctor Bloody Whatshisface'", to which Ava and Gary each ask "Who?" and Constantine replies "Exactly", a clear reference to classic British sci-fi series Doctor Who.
• During the end, when Constantine throws the die into the air, the numbers "20" and "14" are next to each other when the episode closes to end, a possible reference to the show Constantine's year of debut, which is in 2014.
• The spell Constantine uses to access Mallus's realm is a slightly modified version of the spell used to reach an alternate dimension in the Constantine episode "A Whole World Out There".