Pilot

"Pilot", also known as The Hindenberg Crisis, is the first episode of the first season of ''Timeless. ''It was directed by Neil Marshall and written by Eric Kripke & Shawn Ryan. It first aired on October 3, 2016.

Synopsis
When a time machine is stolen by a criminal mercenary named Garcia Flynn, a team is quickly assembled to stop him. Consisting of Lucy Preston, a history professor, Wyatt Logan, a soldier, and Rufus Carlin, a technician, this team is sent after Flynn using an earlier prototype of the time machine. The trio's first trip sends them back to May 6, 1937, the date of the Hindenburg disaster.