| “ | Leo just saved our lives. That was supposed to be us! | ” |
— Bree to the others
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"Back From the Future" is the 11th episode in Season 1 of Lab Rats. It aired on June 21, 2012.
Plot
A future version of Leo comes to the present to tell Davenport not to send Adam, Bree, and Chase on a dangerous mission to stop a particle collider that is moving out of control.
Story
Davenport sends Adam, Bree and Chase on a mission to stop a particle collider from making a black hole. Davenport's time machine brings Leo from seven years in the future to prevent Adam, Bree, and Chase from going on the mission because they'll never return. Davenport takes the warning seriously and forbids the Lab Rats from going on the mission, but they go anyway knowing that they will die, and they say it's a small sacrifice to save Donald, Leo, and the world. When Leo finds out, he and future Leo go after them and tell them that the room collapses so they can survive, missing his date with Janelle. Future Leo ends up with a dog instead because Leo didn't want to go to the date with her, and tells Leo to fix it. This break-up only happens in this episode. When Future Leo and Leo go to save Adam, Bree and Chase, Leo sacrifices himself for them, because he pushed them out of the way to save them. Adam digs him out, and they go back home. After they reminisce, Future Leo goes back to the future. When he leaves, Leo tells Donald that he misses him already.
Cast
Main Cast
- Billy Unger as Chase Davenport
- Spencer Boldman as Adam Davenport
- Kelli Berglund as Bree Davenport
- Tyrel Jackson Williams as Leo Dooley
- Hal Sparks as Donald Davenport
Recurring Cast
Guest Cast
- Tyler James Williams as Future Leo
Trivia
- The title is a reference to the late 1980s film franchise, Back to the Future.
- Donald gains a lot of weight in the 7 years after Adam, Bree and Chase get crushed by the rubble.
- Future Leo is played by Tyler James Williams, which is the in-real-life brother of Tyrel Jackson Williams.
- The events in this episode were discussed in Bionic Rebellion.
Goofs
- Future Leo claims that Janelle gave him the pink tie shown in the picture of the two of them, but when the dog replaces Janelle in the picture, he is still wearing the pink tie.
- When Current Leo explains to Janelle, he most likely revealed that Adam, Bree, and Chase have bionics to Janelle. Janelle however, did not believe him.
- Donald is said to discover time traveling in the future, but he mentions he has time machines in the first episode, Crush, Chop and Burn.
- When Donald says "backup," Chase is standing by him, but when the scene changes to another camera, Chase is leaning with his elbow on the counter.
- When Future Donald was on the holophone, he was in the old lab but in Mission: Mission Creek High they get a new lab.
- However, this may be due to the fact that saving the Lab Rats completely changed the timeline, because in the original timeline, their deaths would have prevented Douglas from kidnapping them, and by extension, his subsequent act of destroying the lab.
Quotes
| “ | Bree: We were a good team while it lasted guys.
Chase: Yeah. Thanks for always being there. Adam: Of course. |
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— Bree, Chase, and Adam at the mission
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| “ | Chase: He didn't need bionics to be a hero.
Adam: He owed me five bucks. |
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— Chase and Adam about Leo's presumed death
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| “ | Donald: So, uh... heh-heh... what did time-travel feel like? Did your body mass increase exponentially as you accelerated towards light speed?
Future Leo: Uh, I pushed a button, felt a lot of wind, there was a big flash, but - yeah - mass and speed stuff. |
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— Donald and Future Leo
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| “ | Leo: Whoa. What is that?
Future Leo: It's a holophone. Donald: I invented the holophone? Future Leo: No, but you did wait in line six days to get one. |
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— Leo, Future Leo, and Donald
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Gallery
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| For the image gallery of Back From the Future see Back From the Future/Gallery. |
Transcript
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For a full transcript of Back From the Future, click here. |
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