DATELINE TOOBWORLD - THE DEATH OF DON LAW

On this date in 1982, Don Law died.  He had been the only one to ever produce the recordings of Robert Johnson, who - according to legend - made a deal with the Devil at "the crossroads".

From Wikipedia:
 Donald Firth "Don" Law (February 24, 1902 – December 20, 1982) was an English-born American record producer and music business executive. He produced Robert Johnson's only recordings, and as head of Columbia Records' country music division later worked with many leading country musicians including Bob Wills, Carl Smith, Flatt and Scruggs, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash.

But he never got to do any of that in the umpteenth dimension created by the interference by Rittenhouse and the Temporal Agents sworn to combat that organization....

From the Timeless Wikia:

In the Timeless Universe:

In the original timeline, Robert Johnson and Don Law record an album at the Gunter Hotel in Texas on November 23, 1936. This album contributes to such cultural revolutions such as rock and roll music and eventually the counter-culture of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, the fall of President Richard Nixon, and the end of the Vietnam War.

In the altered timeline, a Rittenhouse agent attempts to murder Johnson as he records the album. The Rittenhouse agent is killed by Garcia Flynn before this can happen, but it still causes Law and Johnson not to record the album, because Law thinks Johnson is cursed, and Johnson believes he is too, due to his deal with the devil.

While Rufus Carlin and Connor Mason go try to get Johnson back, Garcia Flynn and Lucy Preston stay with Law at the Gunter Hotel. Lucy pressures Law into recording the album with Johnson, saying all he'll be is a bookkeeper if he doesn't make it big with Johnson. Law recognizes the manipulation tactic she's using, but agrees regardless.

When Lucy and Flynn inform Law that they plan to record the album with Johnson at Carrie Thompson's bar, Law is shot and killed by Rittenhouse sleeper agent, Betty.

For the main Toobworld, Don Law lived out his life as was played out in the Trueniverse.  With each trip into the past, the "Lifeboat" agents altered the timeline to create a new Toobworld.  They are so far from the original template for Earth Prime-Time that whatever they did as episodes continued, they no longer had any effect on the people of the main Toobworld, both those fully fictional and those who were the televersions of real people.

I would think it unlikely that Don Law will ever show up in a Tobworld timeline again, but I could be wrong; I usually am.  At any rate, this was too drastic a change to his life in Toobworld.  His main televersion lived out his life as he did in the Trueniverse.

For more about the real Mr. Law, click here.

BCnU!