The Flash, Season 2

Iris:
Yeah, but he should go. Someone should try to get through to him.

Joe:
Maybe his best friend?

Cisco:
Joe, believe me. I have tried!

Joe:
I meant her.

Cisco:
You expecting trouble?

Joe:
Cops always expect trouble. In this city, I expect super evil flying monsters.

Cisco:
That's a solid expectation.

Iris:
If you keep getting no for an answer, stop asking questions.

Joe:
I say that! You're quoting "me" to me?

Iris:
What can I say? You're a very smart man.

Stein:
That's where you'll find your Atom Smasher! [off Iris' and Cisco's looks] Because he absorbs atomic power. And he... well... smashes.

Cisco:
Come here. [hugs Stein] That's a great name. Welcome to the team.

Henry:
Do you think... can you be all that you are becoming with me here?

Barry:
You're the only family I have left.

Henry:
Well, that's not really true. Don't you have another family in this room? They need your help, too, Barry. When you need me, I will be here. But right now Central City doesn't need you to be Henry Allen's son, it needs you to be The Flash. My Kid, the superhero. I have to go. I need you to tell me that it's OK.

Jay Garrick:
They belong to a metahuman I fought before named Sand Demon.

Cisco:
I know you're new here, so I'm just gonna break it down for you. The whole "naming-the-bad-guys" thing? That's my jam. But you know what? I'm gonna let you have that one. Because I actually kinda like it. I'm not mad at that one.

Barry:
How's it going with Joe? Any closer to cracking his "No" code?

Officer Patty Spivot:
Are you kidding me? He's like the permission sphinx. Or like a magic 8-ball with just one answer. Or like, you know, the bridge-keeper protecting the Holy Grail...

Barry:
[mimicking the gatekeeper from the movie] What is your quest?

Patty:
[mimicking Sir Lancelot] Oh, to join your task force.

Barry:
No.

Barry and Patty:
Aaaaaah!

Iris:
Not everyone is Harrison Wells. Besides, you defeated him because you trusted in people, because you believed in them. This team that you have here? They will follow your lead. They will do what you say. But if they think that you don't believe in them, it won't be long before they don't believe in you.

Cisco:
Something's happening to me. I'm starting to perceive things. Horrible things. It started after Wells killed me in the other timeline. It came back when Atom-Smasher attacked on Flash Day and then again when Sand Demon showed up. I get a vibe and then a vision of something that's already happened... and then it's gone.

Jay:
So, I hear they call you the Scarlet Speedster.

Barry:
Yeah. What about you?

Jay:
Crimson Comet. What is it with alliteration and nicknames?

Jay:
It's good to know, whatever Earth you go to, there's a Big Belly Burger.

Caitlin:
Being a superhero isn't always about how fast you can run. It's about helping however you can, wherever you're needed most. I think Jay Garrick, physicist, has just as much to contribute as Jay Garrick, superhero. Maybe more.

Caitlin:
You and your entire family are criminals. Why should we trust anything you say?

Lisa:
[reveals scar] I didn't get this scar being a criminal.... I got it being a daughter.

[Snart has shot and killed his father with the cold gun]

Barry:
Lisa was safe. Why did you do that?

Snart:
He broke my sister's heart. Only fair I break his.

Barry:
Today just proved what I've always known. There's good in you, Snart. You know you don't have to admit it to me. But there's a part of you that knows you don't have to let your past define you. A part of you that really wants to be more than just a criminal.

Snart:
So, I should be a hero like you, Barry? What exactly does that pay again?

Barry:
It's just a matter of time. Something you'll have a lot of in here.

Snart:
Not as much as you think. Be seeing you.

Barry:
Everyone secretly thinks they've figured out what their life is gonna be like. But what no one ever considers is that life has its own plans for you, whether you like them or not. And so you're left with a choice. You can either embrace the change and move forward. Or fight it and be left behind.

Cisco:
[about finding someone to merge with Stein] So how do we do that? Are we gonna make a Tinder app for potential meta-humans? Because I'm pretty sure merging with Stein and randomly bursting into flames sounds like the biggest swipe left of all times.

Stein:
Well, I must admit I never imagined the Sphinx's riddle of a man requiring three legs would ever apply to me, but if this device keeps me mobile then I will gratefully oblige.

Joe:
You've known Iris since you were 10. You've been in love with her since forever. I mean you two are friends now, but she was your first love. You're never gonna feel the same about anybody else. But you can't let that stop you from exploring something new.

Barry:
Things aren't always what they seem. Our fears can play tricks on us, making us afraid to change course. Afraid to move on. But usually hidden behind our fears are second chances, waiting to be seized. Second chances at life. At glory. At family. At love. And these opportunities don't come around every day. So when they do we have to be brave, take a chance and grab them while we can.

Wells:
Her name is Doctor Light. Small-time thief on my Earth until exposure to the dark matter from the Particle Accelerator and became a meta-human with the ability to derive power from starlight.

Cisco:
Oh, very cool.

Wells:
Stars having a temperature of 5,300 degree Kelvin and a blinding luminosity, I would say, "Not very cool at all."

Cisco:
You know, our Dr. Wells may have been evil, but you're just a dick.

Joe:
How is he still alive? How are you still alive?

Wells:
I don't know, because you missed?

Barry:
Hey, I'm trying to keep him from shooting you. You're not helping.

Wells:
You cannot reason with someone under Zoom's influence, and now a man is dead because of you, Garrick. This whole thing is because of you. He doubts himself because of you, but believe me, Barry can do what you could not. Barry can stop Zoom.

Jay:
I spent two years hunting Zoom.

Wells:
Wrong! Zoom hunted you! You spent the last two years of your life running, running, running from Zoom.

Jay:
Zoom would have killed me just like he will kill Barry if you lead him down this path!

Wells:
No, because he is not like you. Barry runs towards danger, not from it, because Barry's not a coward.

Caitlin:
You have coffee on your Earth, right?

Jay:
I think coffee's the one constant thing in the multiverse.

Barry:
We do what Dr. Wells said. We use her to lure Zoom here, end this once and for all.

Jay:
You can't be serious.

Barry:
More breachers are gonna come. More innocent people may die. I can't let this happen anymore.

Jay:
You're making a mistake. Okay, Zoom is a nightmare you can't wake up from.

Barry:
I've already had my worst nightmare. His name was Reverse-Flash, and I spent a long time being afraid of him. I'm not gonna be afraid anymore.

Wells:
Before I left Earth-2, I worked on a serum to dampen Zoom's speed. All we would need is for Ramon for a weapon to deliver it.

Caitlin:
Oh, great, that could be this year's cold gun. Maybe another criminal can get it, and then we would have Sergeant Slow.

Cisco:
I would never let that happen. Sergeant Slow is a terrible name.

Barry:
Aren't you the one who told me life isn't about playing defense, sometimes the only way to succeed is by working the offense?

Joe:
I think at the time we were talking about your high school football tryouts.

Barry:
You said you'd never bring that up again.

Barry:
What do you want from me?

Zoom:
Everything.

Barry:
You want to beat me? Is that it? You want to be a hero?

Zoom:
Heroes die.

Barry:
Only if you can catch them.

Zoom:
Look at your hero. This man is no god. He is nothing!

Zoom:
Harrison Wells, you thought you could defeat me with this?

Wells:
I made a mistake.

Zoom:
Yes, a costly one. Goodbye, Flash. You, too, weren't fast enough.

Henry:
Sometimes you just have to slow down to get back to where you want to be.

Joe:
Yeah, well, we need to do something about Grodd.

Caitlin:
Like what?

Joe:
Like get rid of him for good.

Caitlin:
You want to kill him?

Joe:
Considering how many people he's killed, yeah.

Caitlin:
This isn't Grodd's fault. He's only like this because Wells made him this way.

Barry:
Yes, but, Catlin, he kidnapped you and you could have died.

Caitlin:
You didn't see what I saw. Grodd's getting smarter. He's lonely and sad. He wants more apes like him.

Cisco:
What are you saying? He wants kids? 'Cause I'm pretty sure one telepathic Grape Ape is more than enough for this city.

Iris:
Well, he may not have his mother, but he's got two amazing fathers. Seemed like he needed both.

Barry:
Zoom destroyed me. He showed everyone in Central City what he could do and that I'm powerless to stop him. They gave me the key to the city, Joe. I'm supposed to be their hero. I'm supposed to be the guy who can protect them from something as evil as that, and I failed. In front of all of them! When they see The Flash, all they see now is someone not strong enough to protect them.

Cisco:
Oh snap! Meta-human attack! Nope. Nope, my bad. That is just an alert. For me.

Iris:
For what?

Cisco:
Oh. It's just a reminder. I have a date in an hour. So.

Cisco:
Hey, man, this place is closed.

Vandal Savage:
You are just as beautiful in this life as any other, Priestess Chay-Ara.

Kendra Saunders:
Priestess?

Cisco:
Uh, you have to go, dude.

Savage:
Not without her. Dude.

Felicity:
"Felicity, the magnetic-arrow gag will never work." Yes, it will, my love, because I am really smart. And guess what, Oliver? It did work.

Oliver:
[over the radio] Felicity, honey, it's a little hard to fight with you doing that in my ear.

Felicity:
Oh, I totally forgot that this is an open line. Keep doing what you're doing. Make smart decisions.

Barry:
Wow. Nice new digs. Also, I just noticed, no sleeves. Don't you get... cold?

Oliver:
I spent the better part of five years on an island in the North China Sea. I don't get cold, Barry.

Felicity:
Barry. So good to see you.

Barry:
Felicity. [they hug] Oh. Good to see you, Felicity.

Felicity:
[slugs Barry] How come you didn't tell me Zoom broke your back? [hugs Barry] Oh. I'm so glad you're okay.

Barry:
So this is what it's like dating her?

Oliver:
More bruises from her than from Deathstroke.

Kendra:
Okay. S.T.A.R. Labs is impressive, but this is...

Cisco:
This is completely wrong!

Felicity:
Hmm?

Cisco:
Did you guys even look at the specs I sent over? This is a tragedy. I'm mourning for the death of engineering. Copper. Wiring. To handle the processing speed from the Palmer satellite, or else your system is gonna overload.

Felicity:
Yeah, but that hasn't happened. I mean, it hasn't happened since last week. I mean, it didn't... it happened yesterday.

Thea Queen:
I'm not changing my nickname. I like Speedy.

Cisco:
Are you familiar with my body of work? If you are, then you know I can come up with something so much better than Speedy.

Thea:
Why don't you get a haircut and then maybe we can talk about it.

Cisco:
I think you're just mad because my conditioner game is on point.

Barry:
Hey, Ollie, um... look, I'm sorry that I laid all this on you. I know that it wasn't fair...

Oliver:
That's okay. And I'm sorry if earlier I was a little --

Barry:
Snippy?

Oliver:
I have been called worse. No, but I'm glad that you're here, I'm glad you reached out. It shows a real maturity. And I would know that, because I've never been that mature. [Barry laughs at that.] Well, I'm always here for you.

Barry:
Thank you. I gotta say, this isn't the same Arrow team I'm used to seeing, or the same Oliver Queen. You seem really...

Oliver:
Happy?

Barry:
Happy, yeah.

Oliver:
I am happy. I finally have everything that I've ever wanted. Being with Felicity has given me a real sense of peace. Something that I haven't had in a long time.

Barry:
Didn't you tell me that guys like us don't get the girl?

Oliver:
Yep... I was wrong. [Departs quickly as Barry chuckles at Oliver's admission.]

Iris:
I know I was so mad at you and my dad for not telling me that you were The Flash, but when I found out about this, I didn't know what to do.

Barry:
What? What's going on?

Iris:
When Francine came back, my dad told me not to trust her, and he was right. I didn't know how much. When my mother left us, she was pregnant. She had a son. Joe's son, my brother.

Barry:
What's his name?

Iris:
Wally. Wally West.

Snart:
Cocoa isn't cocoa without the mini marshmallows, and you're out. I checked.

Barry:
[Speeding Snart into the wall] Are you out of your mind?! Breaking into my home?!

Snart:
: Careful. I added an upgrade to the Cold Gun. If i release my grip on the handle the core goes critical. You might make it.... [gestures over to Iris] She won't.

Snart:
Sorry, I'm not interested in being a hero.

Barry:
You've done a pretty lousy job of being a villain this week.

Snart:
Merry Christmas, Barry.

Barry:
So the last time Mardon attacked, he generated a tidal wave that destroyed all of Central City.

Wells:
So why are you not all sleeping with the fishes?

Cisco:
Earth 2 has The Godfather?

Wells:
Every Earth has The Godfather, Vito.

[From another room, Barry observes the Earth-2 Harrison Wells inside his lab.]

Barry:
I know that you're not him [Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells"]. But he's not here and I have to say this. For me. In that video message, you said that... that I would never really be happy. And I've been trying, I've been trying really hard. After what Joe said, helping Patty... I realize that you are still in my heart. How much I hate you. For what you've done. [starts to get emotional] I don't wanna hate you anymore. I can't. I can't hate you anymore. I forgive you.

Cisco:
What is this?

Wells:
Wrong answers.

Cisco:
Maybe you're asking the wrong questions.

Captain Singh:
Your Pops here is a hell of a detective.

Wally West:
Obviously not.

Cisco:
[about Patty] I will say, she put bullets in King Shark and Harry. So as far as I'm concerned that's Team Flash material for me.

Barry:
Who is the Turtle?

Caitlin:
It's Cisco's white whale.

Jay:
Half whale, half turtle.

Wells:
"Turtle". Why do you insist on giving them ridiculous nicknames?

Cisco:
Me? Who's the genius who came up with "Zoom"?

Wells:
Yeah, well... I'll tell you. About two years ago, this is on Earth-2 now... The CCPD there, they got a 911 call about a hostage situation. But when the SWAT team got there, there were no hostages. It was a trap. Zoom set a trap. In order to show the police that they could not stop him. And he killed fourteen officers. Men and women. Slaughtered them. Left one alive to tell what happened. That officer described "blue lightning zooming all about" as his comrades... brothers and sisters-in-arms... were murdered. That officer... considered himself to be the lucky one. Spared in order to tell the tale. Until Zoom went to his house that night and killed him, too. And that's how he got the nickname "Zoom".

Barry:
[voice over] There are many reasons why we run, but usually it's to avoid what's right in front of us. A decision to be made or a dilemma we have to face. Lately, for me, it feels like running is all I've been doing.

Cisco:
Are you telling me I can see the future?

Wells:
That's exactly what I'm telling you.

Cisco:
Those goggles are getting amped. Immediately.

Iris:
Last year, my fiancé died. Unexpectedly. One moment he was here, the next gone. I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to him, to tell him everything that he meant to me. That he was my world. That he was loved. But today I got to say goodbye to your mom. My mom. And it helped us both find peace with what happened with our family. Wally, don't make a mistake you're going to regret the rest of your life. Go see your mom. While you still can.

Patty:
Admit to me you're the Flash and I'll stay.

Barry:
I can't do that. I'm not him.

Patty:
[choking up] That's too bad, it would have been nice to stay. Fight crime during the... day, and be with... you at night. But I was... I was wrong. Take care, Barry.

Eobard Thawne:
We'll meet again soon, Flash.

The Flash:
I know. And every time, I'll be ready for you.

Barry:
[voice over] There's this song lyric I like: All the broken hearts in the world still beat. Mine's beating, but bruised. Hopefully not for long. The one thing I do know is time changes everything.

Cisco:
Who's the best hacker in the world, people?

Barry and Caitlin:
[together] Felicity Smoak.

Cisco:
What is wrong with you two? That's not friendship.

Barry:
[about Wally] Yeah, but he just found the best dad he could wish for.

Joe:
Oh, you say that now, you didn't always think that.

Barry:
Well, you were pretty strict. That's for sure. But strict isn't always a bad thing, especially when you know it's coming from love.

Cisco:
So, you can sync up all social media postings on all meta-human activity. Somebody sees something cray in Central City, I get an alert about it.

Barry:
Yo, man, you have too much time on your hands.

Cisco:
Oh, I thought you were gonna say it was cool.... I'm just saying, you can't judge me. Didn't your girlfriend just break up with you?

Barry:
Again?

Cisco:
Pretty sure she just did.

Barry:
Hey, Harry.... Wait, so if that app gives you eyes and ears all over the city, then why won't you use it to find the next Miss Right?

Cisco:
[realizing] Did I just make the metahuman Tinder?

Barry:
Mm-hmm.

Cisco:
Nope. Not staring that fetish.

Joe:
You have people that sit up at night worried sick about you, and they're not going to stop worrying about you. That's what a family does. They put up with each other and they put up each other first, before ourselves.

Wally:
So you're not mad at me?

Joe:
For being reckless with your life? Yeah, hell yeah, I'm mad at you. But I'm more mad at myself for being something I'm not. I'm not your friend, Wally. I'm your father. I ain't letting you go.

[Barry and Cisco take a selfie in front of the Earth-2 S.T.A.R. Laboratories sign.]

Wells:
Ramon.

Cisco:
What?

Wells:
Not a sightseeing tour.

Cisco:
Speak for yourself. We want our grandkids to know we did cool stuff.

Barry:
Caitlin.

Killer Frost:
I haven't heard that name in a long time.

Barry:
But that is your name, isn't it? Your real name? Please, look... I know you. Don't do this.

Killer Frost:
If you know me at all, you would know that I hate the name Caitlin. I'm Killer Frost.

Cisco:
Ronnie. Is Martin Stein in there?

Deathstorm:
Oh, I haven't let him out in years. Doesn't talk much any more.

Cisco:
Who the hell are you?

Reverb:
[steps out of the shadows] Well, that's funny. I was just gonna ask you the same thing.

Cisco:
Dopple...

Reverb:
Ganger.

Cisco:
Oh, I knew there was another me here.

Reverb:
And I knew you were coming, Cisco. Even before you went to the breach and set foot on this world. See, we are all connected... Francisco.

Cisco:
The name is Vibe.

Reverb:
Reverb.

Cisco:
Actually not the worst name you could've come up with, but not the best.

Zoom:
I know you're here, Harrison Wells. You did not come alone. You can try to hide, but I'm the fastest man alive. I will scour this city until I hunt you down. And when I do, all of you will feel my wrath.

Killer Frost:
You really don't know how to use your abilities, do you, Breacher?

Cisco:
It's a work in progress, Elsa.

Earth-2 Barry:
Are you serious? You want us to, what, just... climb to the top of those cliffs? On ice? [chuckles nervously]

Killer Frost:
You got any better ideas?

Earth-2 Barry:
No. Ma'am. I'm just, you know... I, I've got... you know, I'm wearing wing tips here. Don't have much tread.

Earth-2 Barry:
[to Earth-1 Barry] Do you know what we did to get here, Barry? We convinced her, Killer Frost, to show us the way. Then we climbed some insanely steep cliffs outside, on footholds made of ice. Ice! And all of us risked our lives, knowing Zoom was after us, to rescue Jesse and you. No. I don't know you, and you don't know me. But, I can tell you that today I... I did things that I never thought possible. Because I needed to prove to my wife, and to myself, that I could. And if I can do the impossible today, so can you. I'm just Barry Allen. But you're the Flash.

Barry:
[to Earth-2 Barry] You may not have been struck by lightning over here like I was, but today you risked your life to save somebody you didn't even know. That's a hero, Barry.

Barry:
So that's what we did. We didn't talk about Earth-2. We kept what happened there between the three of us and got on with our lives knowing there was nothing we could do now to stop Zoom. Instead, we tried to just adjust to our new circumstances and cope with our losses. Jay's death took its toll, left scars on all of us. Some more than others. And so to try and keep my mind off thoughts of this surreal other life I'd experienced that wasn't my own, I kept running, waiting for some other meta-human threat to rear its ugly head and distract me from the frustration I was feeling. And as fate would have it, I did not have to wait long.

Cisco:
We're going to need a bigger Flash.

Diggle:
You're starting to do that thing Oliver does, Barry, carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. Gotta stop that, man. it'll slow you down.

Joe:
I don't suppose my home owner's insurance covers a Sharknado attack.

Wally:
I don't understand you people. Jaws busts through here like the Kool-Aid Man, The Flash shows up, and y'all act like it's no big deal.

Iris:
Yeah, we've had a lot of weird things happen in Central City over the past two years.

Wally:
Weirder than a talking shark wearing pants?

Diggle:
Look, Barry, when I was in Afghanistan, I lost a lot of friends. Brothers. So losing Jay, I know what that feels like. You question yourself. Blame yourself for his death. And that guilt, it can tear you apart. Trust me, man, you got to get control of it. Or it'll rip you up inside. Use this, man. Let it guide you. So it never happens again.

Wells:
Fine. But if you're gonna go, you should take protection.

Jesse Wells:
[stammering] Oh. uh... Dad, I don't need... I don't know what you thought I was going to be doing, but I....

[Wells puts his metahuman detection watch on Jesse's wrist.]

Jesse:
Oh. Right. I mean, is it necessary? It's kinda, you know...

Wells:
Or I could always build you an inescapable daughter cube.

Jesse:
Funny. You know I'd get out, though, right?

Cisco:
"Bad Flash"? What? No. I'm losing my touch already.

Cisco:
A lady speedster. It only took us two years, but we finally got one. A lady speedster. Hey, here's a question for you. Purely scientific. Was she good looking?

Barry:
Yeah, I was a little busy getting my ass handed to me, so I didn't really notice.

Cisco:
Right, right, right. But you know, next time. For science.

Barry:
Okay, yeah. Next time she punches me in the face, I'll be sure to get her number.

Cisco:
There you go.

Barry:
If the game is already rigged, why can't I level the playing field? I mean, if everybody else is cheating, how can... I want to be fast enough to stop Zoom and any speedster that tries to hurt my friends. Shouldn't I use everything in my power to do that?

Wells:
You want to take a shortcut? Is that right, you want to take a shortcut? Remember this: you'll lose a chunk of your humanity every time you compromise your values.

Barry:
[scoffs] I'm sorry, that's really good coming from you.

Wells:
So don't be like me. Be better. [turns and walks off] Be like Jay

Iris:
Not every hero is a fraud. It's okay to believe in them.

Wally:
[discussing an engineering project] Well, I really like to read the journals of the classic engineers. So, their engine designs and how they increased horsepower... learn from the best, I guess.

Barry:
You read their journals?

Wally:
I mean, it's not like I can just go and talk to Enzo Ferrari or Ferdinand Porsche 'cause... they dead. But, you know, doesn't mean they still can't teach me.

Barry:
I didn't know what it was. I thought it was some sort of illusion. I don't know.

Caitlin:
Okay, we need to find it before it hurts somebody.

Barry:
Can you track it?

Cisco:
What is it with you guys? It's like you think I have ESP or something. I can't just magically sense where things are.

[Past-Barry has reappeared and is confronting Barry in front of Team Flash.]

Cisco:
Wait a second, how do we know which one's the real Barry?

Past-Barry:
Dude. Okay, I've watched Wrath of Khan with you, like, five times.

Cisco:
[pointing to Barry] Imposter!

Barry:
Yeah. And every time at the end, you turn to me and you say "I have been and always shall be your friend".

Cisco:
[pointing to Past-Barry] Ah ha! You imposter! [looks at both Barrys, confused] What is going on here?

Hartley:
Well, as always, been a pleasure working with you all on this little project. If you need anything in the future, call me. I'm off to a late dinner.

Caitlin:
Hmm, dinner. Anyone special?

Hartley:
Very. My parents

Barry:
[voice-over] Sometimes the only way to move forward is revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head-on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once you do, you'll see that you can go further than you've ever imagined.

Barry:
Sometimes terrible things happen to us when we're children. Things that can define who we become, whether we want them to or not. Some of us become stronger. The people who took me in helped me heal and move past everything that happened. They are responsible for who I've become today. But I know that I'm one of the lucky ones. Not everyone gets that kind of support. Without it, I don't know where I would've ended up. Or what I could've become.

Cisco:
It's like right now I'm Anakin Skywalker. I got the midi-chlorians. I've got the goods. The force is strong with me. That is something I can feel. But if I start opening breaches into other worlds, doing all this other crazy stuff Reverb was doing, then... what if this how I become Vader?

Barry:
Dude, you're never going to become Vader.

Cisco:
That is what happened to Reverb. He learned how to use his abilities, and when he felt that... when he felt that power... he succumbed. To the dark side.

Barry:
Look, I get it. I really do. Every time I've learned a new ability, I've been terrified about what it might mean for me. What it could do to me, you know? But you were there with me when I learned how to run on water. When I ran up a building or travelled through time. Just like I'm gonna be there every step of the way with you. You got something that Reverb never had, and that's Caitlin and Joe and Iris and Wells and me. Friends. We're gonna look out for you. And we're more than just friends, we're your family.

[Wells gives Joe an advanced rifle.]

Joe:
How do you use this?

Wells:
Make sure you aim it, and then you pull the trigger.

Joe:
Smart ass.

[Using images of Zoom's parents, Barry is able to capture and unmask him]

Hunter Zolomon:
How'd you figure out who I was?

Barry:
You made a mistake: you told Caitlin who your doppelgänger was.

Zolomon:
I had to do something to get her to stop trying to ... fix me. She's a smart girl. [pause] And that I was Zoom?

Barry:
The Velocity-9. When you run fast enough, it turns a speedster's lightning blue. We would've helped you. We would've done anything we could to save your life.

Zolomon:
Not everything.

Barry:
Caitlin found you a cure!

Zolomon:
A temporary one! I'm dying, Barry! There's only one thing that can get me what I need!

Barry:
And you just don't care; how many lives you've destroyed trying to get it? How many people you kill?!

Zolomon:
No, I don't! That feeling was taken from me a long time ago. [longer pause] We're not so different, you know. What happened to us when we were kids; you could've just as easily become me.

Barry:
No. I'd never become like you.

Zolomon:
I gotta say, that was smart, using my parents against me. Ah, family: it's such a weakness.

Barry:
Not for all of us.

Zolomon:
Well, that's where you're wrong. It's time I get what I came for.

Barry:
[chuckles] You're not getting anything from me. You're not getting anything from anybody ever again, on any Earth.

Zolomon:
[quietly] You can't lock up the darkness.

Barry:
What did you just say?

[Zolomon's eyes turn black, and his voice becomes deep and demonic]

Zolomon:
You can't lock up the darkness.

Joe:
Why the charade? Running around dressed like the Flash?

Zolomon:
To give people hope, detective.

Joe:
Hope?

Zolomon:
So I can rip it away from them. It's so fun pretending to be a hero.

Caitlin:
You are no hero. You're nothing but a monster.

Killer Frost:
[upon seeing Caitlin] Well, hello, doppelganger of mine. What do you know? I can still pull off brunette.

Cisco:
Without Caitlin here, I can't really analyze the cells on a molecular level to see what we're dealing with here.

Jesse:
You know, I might actually be able to help.

Cisco:
How?

Jesse:
Bio-chem was one of my majors in college.

Barry:
One of your majors? How many did you have?

Jesse:
Five. [off everyone's reaction] What, is that not common here?

Iris:
Girl, no, that is not common anywhere.

Caitlin:
You got hit by the dark matter from the particle accelerator explosion?

Killer Frost:
Yes. Right after I flunked out of med school. Had to move back in with my mother

Caitlin:
That couldn't have been fun. If... she's anything like mine, I mean.

Killer Frost:
Why? Is yours a frigid narcissist, too?

Caitlin:
Cold as ice.

Killer Frost:
Yeah. Mom was like that ever since Charlie died.

Caitlin:
Who's Charlie?

Killer Frost:
My brother.

Caitlin:
I never had a brother.

Killer Frost:
No? Then why was Mom such a bitch on your Earth?

Caitlin:
Honestly, I couldn't say.

Cisco:
Why is it that bad guys always insist on having the creepiest hideouts?

Joe:
Because they crazy.

Jesse:
I'm the reason you killed that man. And that's a really heavy burden to bear.

Wells:
I know. I know. I also know that what I've done, it's unforgivable. When your mother died, honey... something inside me broke. I couldn't protect her. And I... I swore... I swore on her grave, no less, that I would protect you, and then Zoom took you, and I snapped. I just snapped. I couldn't breathe, I... I couldn't lose the only other person that I love.

Cisco:
[talking to himself while controlling a holographic Flash] All right, Cisco. This is where all those countless hours gaming in your basement are about to pay off. Fingers, don't fail me now.

Henry:
I've watched you grow ever since you became the Flash, and I am so proud of that man. But ask yourself: do you really need powers in order to be that person?

Barry:
Let's do it. I want to do it. One of the cops that Zoom killed tonight, he had a son. Same age I was when Mom was murdered. And now, another kid has to grow up without one of their parents because The Flash wasn't there to stop that monster. I left this city unprotected by giving up my powers to Zoom. I enabled him to rule this Earth. I need my powers back. Let's do it. Let's set off the particle accelerator.

Wells:
Well, Ramon, you have the wand?

Cisco:
The one I made for Mark Mardon?

Wells:
No, the one you built for the Harry Potter convention. Yes, of course, the one you built for Mardon.

Cisco:
How do you know about the Harry Potter convention?

Zoom:
[holding up the destroyed Flash costume] You thought you could give the Flash his speed back? Well done. You killed him instead.

Barry:
So you're saying I'm talking to the source of my power, which just so happens to look like my adoptive dad. That's trippy.

Speed Force Joe:
[chuckles] We pretty much invented "trippy" here.

Speed Force Iris:
We thought you'd find this place and our appearance less upsetting. Yet you seem upset.

Barry:
My friends, my city... my whole world is in danger. Zoom is on a rampage with the power that he stole from me, and you are keeping me here.

Speed Force Iris:
You were given a rare and precious gift. And you rejected it.

Barry:
No, I did not reject it. I gave up my powers to save someone's life. To be a hero. I nearly killed myself trying to get them back when you brought me here, wherever here is.

Speed Force Iris:
That's not what we meant.

Barry:
Look, if you would rather have given these powers to somebody else, why did you give them to me?

Speed Force Iris:
Because you're the Flash, Barry.

Joe:
How are you feeling?

Wally:
Tired, but fine, I guess.

Joe:
So you don't notice anything different?

Wally:
Uh, no.

Joe:
I mean, I want you to know you can come and talk to me if you're scared or... you have questions about how your body's changing.

Wally:
I think you're a little late for the puberty talk, Dad. I've seen the Internet.

Speed Force Nora Allen:
[reading "The Runaway Dinosaur"]

Once there was a little dinosaur called a myosaur who lived with his mother.

One day, he told his mother, "I wish I was special like the other dinosaurs."

"If I were a T-rex, I could chomp with my ferocious teeth."

Barry:
[continuing the story from memory]

"But if you were a T-rex," said his mother, "how would you hug me with your tiny little arms?"

"I wish I were an Apatosaurus," said the little dinosaur, "so with my long neck, I could see high above the treetops."

"But if you were an Apatosaurus," said his mother, "how would you hear me in the treetops when I told you 'I love you'?"

"What makes you so special, little myosaur," said his mother, "isn't your ferocious teeth, or long neck, or pointy beak."

"What makes you special is out of all of the different dinosaurs in the big wide world, you have the mother who is just right for you. And who will always -- "

Barry and Nora:
[together] "-- love you."

Henry:
It's been quite a day, huh? Not so much "one thing after another" as "every damn thing all at once".

Joe:
Wally, these are not just guys, these are metahumans! Leave this to the cops and the Flash!

Wally:
The Flash can't be everywhere at once. I... I have to do what I can to help. I have to show him I was worth... being saved.

Joe:
Wally... you are worth it.

Wally:
Really? Am I? 'Cause last time I checked, I'm the guy who avoided his dying mother for weeks. I'm the guy who shaved a bunch of other guys and illegally took their cars from them. I'm the guy who caused the Flash to lose his powers and start this whole damn "metapocalypse" in the first place.

Joe:
Wally --

Wally:
Last time I checked, I've a whole lot to make up for. That's what I intend to do.

Barry:
I'll do whatever it takes to stop you.

Zolomon:
If only that were good enough. 'Cause here's the thing... I know you. I know you, I know what's holding you back. You and me, we're really just the same person.

Barry:
[scoffs] Yeah, you keep saying that, but it's not gonna make it true.

Zolomon:
You'll see, we are. Same tragic background. Same reason for running. Same desire to be the fastest, to be the best. The difference? You think your anger is dirty somehow. You want to be seen as pure. The hero. Doesn't it get exhausting? [shouts] Doesn't it get exhausting, Barry? It was exhausting playing Jay, believe me.

Barry:
I'm not pretending.

[Barry is about to run at Zoom when, in the window, a building is seen crumbling.]

Zolomon:
Now if it were me, I'd let that building tumble without a second thought. But you? You'll never let that happen, will you? That's why I'm going to beat you, Barry. Because you always have to be the hero. And while you're playing the good little boy,... I'll be busy winning.

Cisco:
Birds. Why? It's like a Hitchcock movie in my head.

Wells:
All right, we're synced up with whatever the heck that thing is.

Joe:
Finally, something we're both baffled by.

Wells:
I am kidding. That, my friend, is a 75 KTSB 40,000-watt reverberating sound amplifier, designed to single out the operating frequency of every single Earth-2 being on this planet, which when contained and magnified by the Flash creating a sound pressure wall around the city, will render all of us Earth-2 beings unconscious. Hence, the safety precautions.

Henry:
[shrugging] I'm baffled by it.

Barry:
Listen, I've been thinking about Wally some more.

Joe:
Are you gonna talk to him again?

Barry:
No, I'm not.

Joe:
Why not?

Barry:
Because he's your son, Joe.

Joe:
I know he's my son.

Barry:
No, what I mean is, he's got your values. He's got your inner drive to help people do what's right. We're supposed to think we're something we're not until we become that thing. That's that path that Wally's on. I'm not gonna stop him from being the hero he's gonna become. I really don't think you should, either.

Joe:
[in good humor] I can't wait until you have kids and they torture you. I'm gonna laugh in your face.

Barry:
[amused] All right, Gramps.

Joe:
"Pa-pa".

Barry:
What?

Joe:
My grandkids are gonna call me "Pa-pa".

Barry:
[walking away laughing] All right.

Barry:
Zoom's still out there. We need to come up with a plan.

Cisco:
The man can crack open breaches to Earth-2. I mean, if he can do that, what else can he do that we don't know about?

Barry:
Right after he killed his time remnant, he told me I was "almost ready."

Iris:
Almost ready for what?

Barry:
I don't know.

Cisco:
Yep. Classic psychopath. Why can't they ever just say what they want to do? We also have to figure out why I keep vibing Earth-2 being ripped to shreds.

Joe:
Seriously.

Cisco:
It's like I'm watching Transformers in 4-D, but, like, ten times more realistic and with much better acting.

Barry:
[to Wally and Iris] Don't worry. I'm gonna save your Dad.

Wally:
No. You're gonna save our Dad.

Barry:
Get back to S.T.A.R. Labs. It's safer.

Cisco:
We're not going anywhere. You got eyes and ears right here.

Caitlin:
Either he goes, or we all die together.

Wells:
We believe in you.

[Barry starts to go.]

Iris:
Wait. Barry... kick his ass.

Barry:
What are the rules?

Zolomon:
One lap around the inside of this loop will produce about 1 gigawatt of energy, and I need 500-plus to power the Magnetar enough to do the job. Once it's full, I win, because there is no stopping it.

Barry:
So all I have to do to beat you is stop you before that happens.

Zolomon:
Yep. It's that simple. But if at any point, you decide you don't want to race anymore, dear old dad number two is a dead man, as well as your little fan club.

Barry:
They're not my fan club. They're the reason that I'm running. Why I'm gonna beat you.

Zolomon:
[scoffs] Let's see what you're made of, "Flash".

[They both put on their masks and get on their marks.]

Barry:
Just say when, Zoom.

Zoom:
[in altered voice] Run, Barry. Run!

[Both take off running.]

Wally:
Okay, so you ran back in time and made a copy of yourself?

Barry:
Well, uh... basically, yeah.

Jesse:
It's called a time remnant.

Barry:
It's not... something that I can do every day, but I needed a way to draw the Time Wraiths out of the Speed Force, hoping that they'd be more upset at what Zoom had done than they'd be at me.

Joe:
[to Iris] Is that what I look like when they start talking about science?

Iris:
Pretty much.

Joe:
Don't worry, Wally, it'll get easier to understand.

Wally:
But how does that even work?

Barry:
Same way Zoom did it. I ran back in time moments before I left. It's the only way I could be in two places at once.

Wally:
[still a bit confused] O-okay, so the-the time remnant, it's still you.

Barry:
Yeah.

Caitlin:
But he died.

Barry:
I...uh, he was willing to sacrifice himself for all of us.

Iris:
That's how much he loved us.

Wally:
You know what, we'll just forget about it. Uh, Barry, I'm glad you're okay.

Barry:
Can't stop thinking about my dad's doppelganger. Seeing him, knowing that he's out there, that should've made it easier. It doesn't. It just made me miss him even more.

Iris:
I can't even imagine how hard that must have been.

Barry:
We just won. We just beat Zoom. Why does it feel like I just lost?

Iris:
Because you've lost a lot in your life, Barry. More than most. But... maybe you and me, seeing where this thing goes, maybe that can give you something for a change.

Barry:
That's all I've ever wanted to hear you say. And I wish that I was in a place where I could try that with you. But I feel so hollowed out inside right now. I feel more broken than I've ever felt in my life. If I'm ever gonna be worth anything to you, I need to fix what's wrong with me. I need to find some... some peace.

Iris:
Barry, listen to me. You waited for me for years. You let me get to a place where this is possible. So I am telling you: I am gonna do the same thing for you. Wherever you need to go, whatever you need to do... do it. And when you get back, I'll be here.

Barry:
Okay.

Iris:
I love you, Barry.

[Barry and Iris kiss.]

Barry:
I love you, too. And I always will.

Legends of Today [2.08]:
Story continues in Arrow [4.08] "Legends of Yesterday"