The Flash, Season 4

Cecile:
Babe, do you really need... all the smelly old records in there?

Iris:
Oh, Cecile.

Joe:
Records? You mean my vintage jazz LP collection, that I painstakingly and carefully collected over the last thirty years?

Cecile:
[to Iris] Really?

Joe:
Those are my loves, babe. They're going in the coffin with me when I die.

Cecile:
Okay, maybe we could bury them now, and you can just join them at a later date.

Joe:
Oh, you got jokes. You're lucky I only gave you the key, 'cause I'm starting to re-think this whole move-in thing.

Cecile:
No, you're not.

Joe:
[smiling] No, I'm not. [They laugh and kiss.]

Iris:
Barry? I don't know if you can hear me or if... you're trying to send us a message somehow. Hey, I did what you told me to. I kept running, I kept moving forward. Because I knew that if I stopped to look back, then I would remember that you weren't behind me anymore. [getting emotional] And it's been so hard... And when Cisco said that he could bring you back, you know, I didn't know what to think. What if it didn't work? What if you... were dead? I mean, I thought it would be like losing you all over again. [Barry keeps writing, paying no attention to her.] I never imagined this, though. I don't know what I would do if this is all that's left of you. If this is all that's left of the amazing man that I know. And love. Please come back to me. Tell me you're still my Barry.

Caitlin:
Any luck?

Cisco:
No, not yet. The computer keeps telling me it's random gibberish.

Caitlin:
Maybe it is.

Cisco:
No. It's not. Barry's trying to send us a message, I know it. I mean, he's spent all this time in the Speed Force. Maybe now he knows the answers to life, the universe and everything.

Caitlin:
So you think all this crazy writing is Barry's way of telling us "42"?

[Caitlin is assaulted by a thug at the bar.]

Caitlin:
[transforming into Killer Frost] Don't make me frosty.

[Killer Frost slams the thug into a pinball machine.]

Killer Frost:
You wouldn't like me when I'm frosty. [freezes the thug's forehead] What's the matter? Brain freeze? Touch my head again, and I'll freeze yours off. Maybe some other parts, too.

Iris:
It's been really hard, Barry.

Barry:
Hey, I'm back. And I'm not going anywhere ever again.

Iris:
I tried to keep going. To keep fighting, to keep running, like you said.

Barry:
You did. You kept everyone together. I'm so proud of you, okay? Look, it sounds funny, but... maybe this was a blessing.

Iris:
You being gone for six months was a blessing?

Barry:
I just... I can't tell you... how I feel, Iris. It's like... everything that was wrong in my life. The pain, my past, my mistakes, it's all just washed away, and all I see is you, and us, and our future together. Iris, it's gonna be great. [They kiss.]

Barry:
I'm just catching up on all the TV I missed while I was stuck in the Speed Force. When you've been gone six months, the world is a minefield of spoilers. But Cisco hooked me up with a 1000-times sped up version of my favourite shows. Aw, Jon Snow died. Oh, he's alive!

Cisco:
Sorry I'm late, the curls were not cooperating this morning. [notices blood-spattered crime scene] Oh, good Lord! Why would you show me that?

Joe:
We think this is because of some weird technical glitch, and you're our weird tech expert.

Cisco:
This completely ruined Sriracha for me.

Barry:
Ramsey Deacon. Looks like we found our meta. For some reason, it looks like he's going after his old partners.

Cisco:
It's like Silicon Valley if Richard went nuts and started killing everyone at Pied Piper.

Barry:
I feel like he's got more of a... anarchist Gilfoyle vibe.

Cisco:
Erlich, maybe

Barry:
Look, I don't know, I guess our wires have gotten crossed a few times the last few days, but I think that hardly rises to the level of a crisis. After everything we've been through together, you and me, we're Barry and Iris. we're the Gold standard. I am so in --

Iris:
Then how could you leave me?! You left me, Barry. You just left me. Standing there, alone. [getting emotional] How could you do that?

Barry:
Iris, it's not like I wanted to leave you. I had to put on a brave face, for everyone. But it was killing me inside. And I think part of why I didn't talk it through with you is I was afraid. I was afraid that you would tell me to stay. And I wouldn't have been strong enough not to.

Iris:
Barry, how do you know what I'm going to say if you don't ask me? I am here to help you, especially when everything seems lost. But you have to let me.

Barry:
But sometimes it's not about us. Or the team. Sometimes the weight of the whole city falls on my shoulders, and it's up to me to carry it. I'm the Flash.

Iris:
See, that's what you don't get. When I put this ring on my finger, it wasn't just about you or me anymore. It's about us. You are not the Flash, Barry. We are.

Barry:
I see her.

Iris:
She's getting away in a Prius.

Barry:
Last time I checked, the Flash is faster than a Prius.

Joe:
We did it? We brought dark matter into Central City.

Barry:
When you pulled me out of the Speed Force, yeah.

Caitlin:
All the people in that bus. We turned them into metas.

Cisco:
Every time we try to do something right, it goes horribly wrong.

Wally:
We're cursed.

Iris:
Maybe we should burn some sage.

Barry:
Becky, I know you've been having... a lot of luck lately. And that you took some money from the Central City bank that doesn't belong to you.

Becky Sharpe:
How do you know all that?

Barry:
I just do. Getting powers is overwhelming. I'm sure you don't know how they work or what you should do with them.

Becky:
I have some idea. [Barry tries to put his hand on top of Becky's.] Ah ah ah. Do you really want to test your luck? Bad things happen to people that get in my way.

[Barry looks around Jitters and sees several people nearly have something bad happen to them, but just nearly.]

Becky:
Listen, CSI guy. My entire life has been one piece of crummy luck after the next.

Barry:
Look, we all have ups and downs in life.

Becky:
No, not Becky Sharpe. I have only ever been dealt bad hands. But I knew one day the Universe would see it made a mistake, and then I'd have the run of the table. I got on that bus, and Lady Luck smiled on me.

Barry:
Becky, this isn't some higher power fixing a miscalculation. You have powers. And they're affecting everyone around you, making them feel as awful as you used to feel.

Becky:
I'm sorry about that. But, maybe it's just their turn. Maybe for once, everyone else can feel for a second how bad I felt my entire life. [stands up] Anyway, there is nothing you can do to stop me. [Becky walks away as Barry watches the earlier near-disasters again almost happen.] Toodles.

Caitlin:
What just happened?

Cisco:
The hydrogen-electron collision released a charge that temporarily negated Hazard's quantum field. We did it. [to Harry] You did it. How did you know to do that?

Harry:
Lucky guess.

Joe:
What's wrong, Wally?

Wally:
You guys tell me. I mean, the city was about to blow up, no one realized I wasn't here...

Iris:
Where did you go, Wally?

Wally:
I went to Earth-2. I had to talk to Jesse, hear it from her. She told me she needs to focus on herself, and I get it, and I think I have to do the same, right? So... I'm leaving Central City.

[Cisco and Gypsy are making out in Cisco's bedroom.]

Cisco:
Look, I was thinking --

Gypsy:
No, no. Less thinking, more kissing. [passionately kisses Cisco]

Cisco:
[breaking away] Okay, but... hold on a minute. This thing we got goin' on, this is real good.

Gypsy:
It's okay.

Cisco:
What?

Gypsy:
I'm just kidding, it's better than okay.

Cisco:
Yeah, that's right it's better than okay. Because of that, I think we're at a place in our relationship where the guy says to his girl those three magic words.

Gypsy:
[concerned] What... what three words?

Cisco:
What's. Your. Name.

[At S.T.A.R. Labs, Ralph Dibny sneezes and his face radically deforms due to his uncontrollable stretching ability.]

Ralph Dibny:
[holding the bottom half of his head] Oooh. Is that my face?

[Joe turns away and vomits.]

Joe:
Four years seeing this stuff, I finally puked.

Barry:
[Mayor] Bellows told us everything.

Ralph:
Hey. I'm not the one who told him to step out on his wife.

Barry:
That's your defense? It's his fault that you're extorting him.

Ralph:
Isn't that a little easy for you to say? Your fancy lab, your good job, and your hot girlfriend. People like me are just trying to get from one bill to the next. And I wouldn't have to be living like that if you hadn't cost me my job.

Barry:
You got yourself fired! You tampered with evidence! You framed that guy!

Ralph:
Because he was guilty! And he was gonna get away with killing his wife, and then you let him go! I was a good cop, I was a good detective! I lost everything. Mayor's got plenty of money, he can afford to spare a little. Consider it the pension you cost me.

Barry:
Good people don't destroy lives and call it noble. You were dirty then, you're dirty now. Live with that.

Joe:
Dibny seem to have gotten under your skin. Why is it so important to you that he be the bad guy?

Barry:
When I first started at CCPD, all I cared about was the rules. But, you know, in these last few years, we've locked up metahumans without a trial. Played with time and space. Messed with other worlds.

Joe:
Yeah, but what does that have to do with Dibny?

Barry:
Just that everything that we've done, we did because we were trying to help people. Keep them safe. Is that all Dibny was trying to do back then?

Joe:
"Good people don't destroy lives and call it noble."

Barry:
Did I make a mistake back then? Did I cost a good man his life?

Joe:
I don't know, Barr. He did break the law. Crossed a line. And you didn't make him do that. And you didn't make him blackmail the Mayor. But, maybe Caitlin was right. Everyone who's gone what you, and her, now Dibny's gone through... maybe he deserves a second chance.

Cisco:
Well, we reached the end of our road. We had some stumbles along the way, but we pulled it together. We made it home.

Breacher:
I hate you.

Cisco:
Wow. Really thought that one would work.

Breacher:
But, I respect you. You're a steadfast warrior who would fight the fiercest of enemies to protect your friends. And the only person I love.

Cisco:
With my dying breath, sir.

Breacher:
I know that, but I still hate you.

Barry:
Are you sure we can't find this "DeVoe" guy? I mean, we were warned. It adds up. That someday, someone named DeVoe would be one of my greatest foes.

Cisco:
The only thing to think about is, do you know how many people there are, in this state alone, with the name "DeVoe"?

Barry:
No.

Harry:
Thousands. And we still don't have an age.

Cisco:
Unless one of your greatest foes is the three-month-old William DeVoe who lives four blocks from here.

Barry:
I don't think one of my greatest enemies is a baby.

Harry:
Ehhh-

Cisco:
Evil killer baby.

Harry:
Could happen.

Barry:
You're right.

Killer Frost:
Amunet. Next time you want to talk, come yourself. Don't send your eye-hole to attack me.

Amunet Black:
[to henchman] Did you start a fight? Honestly, Norvock. That's why you're my third favorite henchman. I mean, what do I always say?

Killer Frost:
"Never start a fight you can't finish."

Amunet:
Hmm? And that, my dear, is why you are my favorite. You listen.

Killer Frost:
Well, apparently, you don't. I'm out, Amunet.

Amunet:
Out? Out of what? Out of options? Out of your mind? Out of the closet? There's just so many "outs" for the lady in blue.

Killer Frost:
Are you asking me to dance?

Amunet:
You should know by now I don't ask for anything. I tell. And I take.

Joe:
Why does your female experience include you dancing at The Golden Booty?

Joanie Horton:
Because we live in society that's dictated by the male gaze. I want to control the narrative of feminism, okay? I want to show the world that a powerful, strong woman, she can wear anything! Be it a bikini, or a pantsuit.

Ralph:
Or nothing. Feminism.

Cisco:
That's not how feminism works.

Iris:
Where you gonna go?

Killer Frost:
I know a guy who can breach me to another Earth. Start over. Escape Amunet. Be who I want to be.

Iris:
And that's Killer Frost. Right?

Killer Frost:
Don't be cute, West. You can't stop me.

Iris:
I wasn't planning on it. Look. I know you could kill me. Just like you could have killed Amunet tonight, or Cisco six months ago. But you didn't. There is a part of you that is good and decent. You just don't know how to accept it.

Killer Frost:
You think you know me now?

Iris:
No. But I do know what Caitlin looks like when she's scared. And you have that same look in your eyes right now. [puts her hands on Killer Frost's shoulders] You're just as afraid of being Caitlin as Caitlin is of being Killer Frost.

[Killer Frost's face goes from scared back to tough.]

Killer Frost:
If you still want to have a hand for Barry to put a ring on,... I suggest you move it. [Iris complies and Killer Frost leaves.]

Barry:
What's up with you? All night, you seem preoccupied.

Joe:
I'm worried.

Barry:
About what?

Joe:
Being a dad again. I'm almost fifty, Barr. When I saw that video Cisco made of you and Iris when you were kids, it just... hit me like a ton of bricks. I was... I was young the first time I did this. And after seeing Joanie... [groans] It's hard raising humans, Barr.

Barry:
You'll be fine.

Joe:
I barely get enough sleep as it is, worrying about you three. Especially with Wally being gone. Add to that a crazy baby schedule. Feeding, crying. I'm honestly scared to death.

Barry:
Joe, when you raised Iris, you were alone. When you took me in, you were alone. And, you know, when Wally showed up, you were alone. You did all that by yourself, single parent. No one could've done a better job, no one. Now, you've got a partner. You've got a family. You've always been there for us when we needed you, and now it's just our turn to do that for you. We will.

Joe:
[puts his arm around Barry's shoulders] I know you will.

Harry:
Like I said, we need more help. Maybe I should call my friends.

Barry:
Your what?

Harry:
My friends.

Barry:
[to Caitlin] Is he saying "friends"?

Caitlin:
I think he's being sarcastic.

Cisco:
No, no, no. This is delirium. He's cracked from being awake all night. Hey, Harry! All your friends are in this room!

Harry:
I have other friends. You asked me to make new friends, I made new friends. It was a task. I complete tasks.

Caitlin:
That's so great. I can't wait to meet them.

Cisco:
Harry, you listened to me. I'm so proud of you.

Cisco:
Now, this is just a prototype, but she's got an adaptive nano-weave structure that is - wait for it - malleable. On a sub-molecular level.

Ralph:
Don't know what that means, don't care. Just yank the tarp off. I'm ready for my super-suit.

Cisco:
Ralph. This tarp... is your super-suit. [whips the 'tarp' off the mannequin and crumples it into a smaller bundle] When you stretch, it stretches. When you squish,... it squishes. [hands small bundle to Ralph]

Ralph:
Squishes into something butt-ugly. Where's the style? Flair? Dibny needs to peacock.

Cisco:
Dibny needs to wear the prototype Cisco so lovingly made for him. Either that or... you fight crime naked. [walks away as Ralph contemplates the idea] [calling back] No! Don't fight crime naked!

Mina Chaytan:
That which you call a "peace pipe" is no such thing. It is a sacred gift for prayer from Ptesan-Wi. Bringer of the Seven Sacred Rites. The White Buffalo Calf Woman. You'd never hang a Christian cross upside down or lay an American flag on the floor. Yet you destroy that which is wakan - what is holy - by letting it touch your filthy flesh. But I am here to teach you the price for your impudence.

Kristoff Banks:
Who do you think you are?!

Mina:
I am the Black Bison. [animates a suit of armor and has it attack Banks]

Barry:
What's wrong with you?

Ralph:
You let her (Mina) get away. We coulda caught her.

Barry:
Yeah, I let her go. But I also saved Banks' life. That was the most important thing in that situation.

Ralph:
Really, Allen? Because to me, when I was a cop, getting the bad guy, that was the most important thing. You're the Flash. You coulda saved him and caught her.

Barry:
All right, look, Ralph, I'm always gonna make the decision to help the person in danger first. That's what we do here.

Ralph:
[scoffs] All right, well, we'll file that under "Superhero Lesson of the Day", you know?

Cisco:
Hey, buddy. You planning on bringing the band back together, or should I clear out the Speed Lab?

Harry:
Broom it. We don't need that Council of Incompetents.

Cisco:
Ah! Is that what we're calling them now? 'Cause I distinctly remember you saying they were the brightest minds in all the Multiverse.

Harry:
And the most annoying. I thought that if I surrounded myself with people like me, I would like them. I don't like them. I hate them. I hate them all.

Cisco:
Hmm. Strong words.

Harry:
You saw them, Ramon, right? That "Volfgang Vells"? He's always correcting people. An extremely annoying habit. That other guy? The "Free Willy" Wells? He's so full of himself. And the cyborg Wells? You know how he lost his eye? His daughter gouged it out in the Solstice Combat games. I don't blame her. I'd've done the same. I'd like to gouge out the other eye.

Cisco:
Harry.

Harry:
What?

Cisco:
You know you're essentially complaining about yourself, right?

Harry:
[sighs] Ramon. Do your best to pay attention in conversation. I'm not complaining about myself. I'm complaining about them. Yes, we're doppelgangers. We look alike, we have completely different personalities.

Cisco:
So, you don't think you can be quick to correct people? You don't think you can be full of yourself?

Harry:
Full of myself? No, I'm amazing! I'm fantastic. I'm talking about them. I don't like them. I hate them. I hate them all.

Marlize DeVoe:
Ah, I know that look. I felt the same after my 11:00 a.m. "Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics" class. I was trying to explain terminal flow rates, and ten minutes in, I wanted to pull my hair out.

Clifford DeVoe:
Well, it's a good thing I know water flowing into the axis of a tube is called...

Marlize:
You better get this right.

DeVoe:
Laminar?

Marlize:
Aaah, so you do listen.

DeVoe:
To you, always. Nothing matters to them (students) if it's not digestible in YouTube videos of talking babies or inane pet tricks.

Marlize:
Have you seen the husky singing "Like a Virgin"?

Iris:
Okay, so do you want to tell me what's really bothering you?

Barry:
My Spidey sense is just tingling way off the charts.

Iris:
Barry, is there any chance this is about the wedding? I mean, maybe you're feeling a little--

Barry:
I'm not nervous.

Iris:
But, you're not acting the way you normally do.

Barry:
Look, Savitar and Kadabra warned us about someone named DeVoe. This DeVoe guy could be behind everything. The bus metas. Me coming out of the Speed Force at the wrong place. The Samuroid.

Iris:
Barry, is there a possibility that you are so determined to find the bad guy and get ahead of everything that you're seeing things exactly the way you want to see them?

Barry:
No. I.... Maybe, I dunno....

Marlize:
This doesn't make sense.

DeVoe:
My mind is drawing energy from my body. Like a parasite feeding on an alien host. We're so close to everything we've ever dreamed of, only for it to be ripped away by this body.

Marlize:
No no no no no no. We can stop this. We can. I'm never going to give up.

DeVoe:
Twenty-six hundred individuals developed the metagene, they use it to rob jewelry stores and summon tornadoes. I use mine to save humanity, and I'm condemned? Dying wasn't part of our plan.

Barry:
I've faced a lot of bad guys. People who would hurt the ones that I love, destroy everything good in the world and think nothing of it. But this guy, he feels more dangerous than all the others combined. And we still know barely anything about him. Scares the hell out of me, Iris.

Iris:
Barry, how many times have we been up against the unknown?

Barry:
This is different.

Iris:
How?

Barry:
Ever since I came back from the Speed Force, I have been... constantly and genuinely happy. My friends are safe. Joe's gonna be a dad, again. And next week, I get to marry the love of my life. I have more to lose now than ever before.

Iris:
Yeah, but, what about after Cecile has the baby? Or after we get married? Or even when we have our first child? You know, as time goes by, there's gonna be even more for us to lose. And people are always gonna be coming after us. You can't let that consume you. You just have to live in the moment and face it as it comes.

Barry:
How are you not scared?

Iris:
Because we're the Flash. [Iris and Barry kiss]

Barry:
Plenty of metas have come after me, the people that I love. You know the one thing they have in common? They failed.

DeVoe:
You've done wonders all these years punching gorillas with rudimentary powers. Chasing madmen shooting icicles. Those were children with play-guns. Savitar, Zoom, Thawne. Their powers are nothing compared to the power of limitless thought.

Barry:
That's your ability. Your intellect was amplified by the particle accelerator.

DeVoe:
You may be the fastest man alive, Allen. I'm the fastest mind.

[Students start to enter, forcing Barry to have to leave.]

Barry:
So this is how we begin whatever twisted game you have planned. [turns and starts walking away]

DeVoe:
[to himself] No, Mr. Allen, you've already lost and never even realized it. [calling out to Barry] Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! I'll be thinking of you.

Barry:
I have been thinking recently that... you know, when I first got my powers, I would use any excuse to use them. It would just be me and the road, and everything around me would disappear. It was, like, the first time in my life, I really felt like I was... at peace. But I just... feel like that all the time now. I don't have to run when I'm with you.

Iris:
Awww. That's so sweet. [kisses Barry]

Barry:
I love you, Iris West-Allen.

Iris:
I love you, too.

Barry:
DeVoe, if you wanted to kill me, you could have just electrocuted me on the street. So... I'm here for a reason.

DeVoe:
Yes, Mr. Allen. So that I may teach you. I am, after all, first and foremost, a teacher.

Barry:
All right. Fine. Teach me. But first, I wanna make sure I'm all caught up. You sent your Samuroid after me. You arranged to pull me out of the Speed Force. You made sure that we turned all those people on that bus into metahumans. Why?

DeVoe:
You see, the finer points of my agenda are not part of today's syllabus.

Barry:
Oh, come on, we can squeeze it in. I'm a fast learner.

DeVoe:
Please!! You're about as capable of seeing the breadth of my machinations as an infant mastering multi-variable physics.

Barry:
[scoffs] Wow.

DeVoe:
The lesson I have prepped for today is much more simple. Life 101. There are no happy endings.

Harry:
You're the team leader. Team leader's supposed to make the tough call.

Iris:
I made a call. I said we would look for both of them (Barry and Caitlin).

Harry:
No. Looking for both of them is not a choice. We're overtaxing our resources, our people, because you won't face the hard truth. And the hard truth is, we can't look for both. We can only look for one.

Iris:
Harry, I just made a vow to love and protect Barry. To stand by him through thick and thin. And now you're asking me to choose between my husband's life and me friend's? [Harry nods] I can't. I, I can't do that–

Harry:
You have to. Or you risk losing them both. You have to choose.

Amunet:
Katie, do you know what I was doing before I became this successful entrepreneur you see before you today?

Caitlin:
Mean British nanny?

Amunet:
[smiles] Hmm. No! I... was a stewardess. You see, unlike you, I did not have fancy scientists for parents. I did not collect scholarships or attend fine institutions. My career options were... limited. So, I spent my days in a quaint little skirt and bear serving coffee to handsy pilots, powerless to stop them. But then the particle accelerator exploded, and I was powerless... no more. Heh. I showed those pilots the error of their ways.

Caitlin:
Why are you telling me this?

Amunet:
Because.... obtaining my powers is quite literally what made me me, but the same cannot be said about you. There are any number of doctors I could have come to for this procedure. I did not. I came to you. Because you, Caitlin Snow, are, and have always been, remarkable. You are bright. Resourceful. Resilient. And I am more than certain you can do this. [pause] So. With that said, unless you want to spend the rest of your medical career in the morgue, I suggest you buck up, darling. You know. Pull on your big girl pants, and do the bloody thing.

[Barry has been lured back to his loft apartment, alone. DeVoe, now in Dominic's body, is speaking to him on the phone.]

DeVoe:
You see, Mr. Allen, three months ago, you emerged from the Speed Force a new man. And in order for you and the world to experience my plan, I, too, needed to be reborn.

Barry:
If you hurt my family,...

DeVoe:
I have no interest in your family. Besides, you're gonna need someone to miss you when you're gone.

Barry:
What did you do?

DeVoe:
I merely left something for you. It's a regift, as it were. I... don't have need for it anymore.

[Barry discovers DeVoe's old body dead on the floor, stabbed with a carving knife and blood on the floor. Just then, the police arrive and break down the door. Barry begins powering up to super-speed away, but hesitates when he sees a picture of him and Iris.]

Barry:
Don't run.

[Barry powers down and lets the police find him inside the loft and allows himself be arrested.]

DeVoe:
Science has long pondered what would be required to successfully transfer consciousness from one living being to another. But we've accomplished far beyond a simple transfer of consciousness. We've extracted that which elevates our humanity and added upon it. I am both who I was before [puts his hand on Marlize's cheek] and who I desire to become.

Marlize:
[uncomfortable] Yes, you are... my love.

DeVoe:
My hand still feels foreign upon your flesh. [removes his hand] And you don't care for it.

Marlize:
No, I do.

DeVoe:
As I said, I inherited my host's ability to read thoughts. We have never lied to each other before. Let's not begin now.

Marlize:
... Okay.

DeVoe:
Marlize. My love. See past this body. See past these eyes. See me. Clifford.

Marlize:
[softly] Clifford.

DeVoe:
I am nothing without you.

[Marlize looks at DeVoe with adoration and kisses him, but with a tear running down her cheek.]

[Joe intends to plant evidence inside the DeVoe house in order to exonerate Barry.]

Joe:
This is the right thing to do, Ralph. Just open the door. I'll do the rest.

Ralph:
Okay. It's a solid plan, Joe. It's subtle, but it's crafty with a touch of pathos. After this, you're gonna sit back and kick up your feet and sleep as sound as a millennial after Burning Man, because you did the right thing. You took down a bad, bad chick.

Joe:
Ralph, could you hurry up?

Ralph:
And you're gonna ride that feeling like it's Space Mountain. And then, when they catch you and they take your badge and your gun, that self-righteous indignation's gonna keep your chest puffed and your chin up, because you did the right thing. Sure, you're gonna be mad for a few years, but that fades... evolves... turns into self-pity. Two more years, and your life is gonna be a shell of its former self. And then, one night, it's gonna dawn on you that... you did the wrong thing. And it'll ruin everything. Your colleagues won't talk to you, your friends have vanished, and your family? It'll be like... like you were never born. Because you turned into the very thing you swore to protect them from. [uses his powers to unlock the door] Any-hoo.... good luck with that. [walks off]

Cisco:
Damn. We need to cool him (Fallout) down. [off Harry's look] Killer Frost.

Caitlin:
Great.

Cisco:
Well? Go! Turn!

Caitlin:
Well... that's not how it works. I can't just snap my fingers and make her appear. It only happens when I'm scared or angry.

Cisco and Harry:
Good Lord, Caitlin!

Cisco:
This city's about to explode! Everyone, everything you know and love! The birds, the trees, the fish! The puppies! Puppies are going down 'cause you didn't want to--

Cisco and Harry:
show up for WORK!!

Caitlin:
[eyes glowing] Thanks.

DeVoe:
Did you know there was a twelve percent chance that you were going to tell the world that you're the Flash?

Barry:
I'd recheck your math.

DeVoe:
There's no need. Because no matter what path you chose, all avenues led to my triumph.

Barry:
Why do you want us distracted? Why do you want me out of the picture? What're you planning?

DeVoe:
That you think that you could understand the breadth of what I am about to do is almost humorous.... Yes. I think you will miss Iris. That's right, Mr. Allen. I didn't just take Dominic's body. I took his ability. I know what you're thinking. Right now.

Barry:
Well, I want you to hear me say it. I'm gonna figure a way out of this. And when I do, I don't care whose face you're wearing. I'm coming for you. You haven't beaten us yet.

DeVoe:
Haven't I? [stares Barry down] Have a nice life, Mr. Allen.

Judge:
[sentencing Barry] In my thirty years behind this bench, I have seen my share of criminals. But I confess, this defendant stands apart.

Captain Singh:
[speaking at a press conference] Thank you all for coming on such short notice. A few hours ago, the very existence of our city came under the threat of nuclear destruction. But one man rose to meet that challenge.

Judge:
The defendant was in a position of authority. Our city trusted him to bring the guilty to justice.

Singh:
He ran into danger. Knowing he would suffer burns all over his body.

Judge:
He used that trust to take an innocent and vulnerable life.

Singh:
This man was not thinking about himself. He was thinking about you. The first responders on the front lines.

Judge:
Never have I seen a defendant more unmoved.

Singh:
Never have I seen a man with more bravery.

Judge:
Never have I seen such inhumanity.

Singh:
Such heroism.

Judge:
Such a lack of regard for human life.

Singh:
It is my great honor to present Central City Police Department's Award of Valor to this city's finest hero: the fastest man alive, the Flash! [the spectators applaud]

Judge:
The Court hereby orders that Bartholomew Henry Allen should be incarcerated for the rest of his natural life without the possibility of parole, and that Mr. Allen be immediately remanded to Iron Heights Penitentiary. And may God have mercy on your soul. [bangs his gavel]

Cisco:
Hey, how 'bout you hooking me up with some of that gum?

Harry:
Why don't you go breach yourself?

Cisco:
Sounds like an insult.

Harry:
Kinda was.

Ralph:
Nice suit, Fallout Boy.

Axel:
[regards Ralph] Yuck. Yours could use some work.

Ralph:
Axel created some kind of acid that, we're guessing,... can probably kill me. I'm not ready to die.

Barry:
Look, this job has a way of making you feel invincible. But every once in a while, a little mortality check shows up.

Ralph:
I've been trying so hard to ignore this feeling, but... I'm not fearless like you are.

Barry:
Ralph, I'm not fearless. I wake up every day in this cell and feel like there's nothing I can do to help anyone. I mean, that terrifies me. I used to be somebody who saved, and now I'm just Barry Allen, Inmate #3562.

Ralph:
So let me spring you.

Barry:
That's not my point. Having the ability to help someone, but do nothing -- that is a far worse death than anything the Trickster has for you. But rising above that fear and saving those lives, that's a greater life. So rise up. I don't think it's a stretch for you.

Ralph:
You really believe I can do that?

Barry:
Yes. You just need to believe it yourself.

Harry:
Oh. We're gonna need the Ice Queen.

Caitlin:
Oh, that's not how it works. I can't just --

Cisco and Harry:
[shouting] Leslie Laroche !!

[Caitlin's eyes glow.]

Cisco:
[to Iris] It's a childhood bully. There's a lot of repressed anger in there. [shouts to Caitlin] Let's GOOO !!

[Ralph has been christened "The Elongated Man" in a newspaper headline.]

Ralph:
"The Elongated Man"? That's just an expression.

Harry:
Has a certain...

Cisco:
I dunno.

Harry:
... je ne sais quoi to it.

Caitlin:
I like it, too.

Ralph:
Well, I hate it.

Cisco:
Eh, maybe you should have let me do the naming.

Harry:
Ex-actly.

Ralph:
Oh, don't worry. You'll get your chance. There's no way this is gonna stick.

Cisco and Harry:
[as Caitlin nods] Probably gonna stick.

Joe:
[looking up the villain of the week] Sylbert Rundine.

Iris:
Why does every villain in this city have a name that sounds like it came out of a comic book?

Barry:
Look, I don't understand why you're not excited about this

Big Sir:
What you're peddling,... it's dangerous.

Barry:
What do you mean, what's dangerous?

Big Sir:
Hope. I been in here long enough to understand that in prison, hope is the most dangerous thing.

Barry:
Wait, did you get that from Shawshank?

Big Sir:
No. I got that from being in prison.

[Caitlin, Harry and Joe are observing the miniaturized Ralph and Cisco.]

Joe:
This is...

Harry:
... ridiculous.

Caitlin:
You okay, guys?

Cisco:
[high-pitched voice] "Are we doing okay?" "Are we doing okay?" Does it look like we're doing okay? We're two inches tall, Caitlin!

Ralph:
[high-pitched voice] Yeah, I'm, like, Cisco-sized now. Is that how you always see the world?

Cisco:
Oh, that's really funny, man. I guess your body's just finally shrunk down to a size that's proportional to your brain!

Warden Gregory Wolfe:
I see you've made a new friend.

Barry:
Yeah. I guess I have.

Wolfe:
I find that interesting. Especially since I was just asked to turn over Inmate Ratchett's case file to the D.A. who represented you for your trial. Coincidence?

Barry:
Not everyone who's in here deserves to be in here.

Wolfe:
You ever heard of the name "Aaron Miller"?

Barry:
No

Wolfe:
Miller was a prisoner here who took to studying at the law library. One day, Mr. Miller decided to take on the appeal of a fellow inmate's case. When he was invariably unsuccessful, that fellow inmate stabbed Mr. Miller to death. Your friend may look like a man, but he's unquestionably a monster. Everyone here is a monster. And if you insist on continuing to bait them, I guarantee you... you will get mauled.

Big Sir:
Ain't good news, is it?

Barry:
Rundine won't confess. My friends tried everything. I mean, the D.A. offered every deal she could, but... I'm so sorry, man. Look, you were right about everything in here. You know, I, I made you a promise, and I let you down.

Big Sir:
You damn idiot. You did not let me down. Forgot what hope felt like. It's not a bad thing. I'll see you around, kid.

[Wolfe is giving Amunet a tour of his secret metahuman prison block.]

Wolfe:
Mina Chaytan. Her powers bring effigies to life.

Amunet:
Now that is a nifty trick. Can she animate anything else? Hmm?

Mina:
How about my finger?

Amunet:
Oh! I like her. She's feisty.

[Ralph has unconsciously transformed his body into the likeness of his former colleague, Earl, in front of Team Flash.]

Ralph:
[in Earl's voice] That's me. It's me. Why is that me?

Caitlin:
You somehow willed your body to shape-shift into Earl's appearance. Seems like your cells can do a lot more than just elongate.

Ralph:
Ach. Brilliant. How do you undo it? [points to his large gut] Undo this. Stat. This.

Cisco:
Control-Z?

Ralph:
Control-Z. [Ralph calms down, focuses, and then shakes his body back to its normal appearance.]

Marlize:
Wolfe and Amunet's latest criminal undertaking throws an annoying wrench in our plans. What shall we do?

DeVoe:
... I don't know.

Marlize:
You? You don't know?

DeVoe:
My mind is consumed by a near-infinite web of variables. They're more plentiful than there are atoms in an exploding star. So, for the moment, I do not know.

Barry:
So what are you gonna do when you're free? I hope it's not more of what you did to get you in here.

Becky:
Oh, no. Trust me, I am so over prison jumpsuits. Orange is not the new anything. Neither is gray, neither is gray. So...

Barry:
So what then?

Becky:
I don't know. Using my powers just hurt those around me. My good luck just jinxed everyone else. You know, you seem to really care about people. Not like the type of person who'd... take someone's life.

Barry:
I didn't kill that teacher. I wouldn't take a life. You know, not every meta uses their powers to hurt people. Some use them to help, others to protect people. Our powers don't decide who we are. We do.

Cecile:
Your Honor, the city has had reports in the past of people who have appeared dead only to later emerge very much alive.

Judge:
That's impossible!

Cecile:
Impossible. Your Honor, is it as impossible as a man who can run faster than the speed of sound? I submit that Central City is home to the impossible.

Cisco:
Question for the room: How did I get stuck doing the buddy system thing with Ralph?

Iris:
[whispering] It's the best way to keep Ralph safe, Cisco.

Ralph:
[low voice] Yeah. It's the best way to keep Ralph safe, Cisco.

Cisco:
Well, clearly you've never had to stay over in an apartment that uses neon beer signs for lamps and the kitchen sink for a shower. Ralph, I love you, but you sleep on a futon.

Caitlin:
A futon's not that bad.

Cisco:
It is when it's damp!!

Iris:
Why is it damp?

Ralph:
I sweat a lot when I sleep.

Iris:
You're nasty

Izzy Bowlin:
I think I'd remember seeing you on my bus.

Ralph:
Actually, I was kind of, big-boned back then. I was on a strict diet of gin, donuts, and regret. But I got another shot at it. And I worked my tight butt off, and now I'm the hottest superhero in town. My life has never been better, kind of like yours.

Izzy:
Yeah, but aren't you afraid of losing it all?

Ralph:
Yeah, I am. Which is why I'm a part of this team. You said that your family bailed on you, so I can understand why you wouldn't trust someone to look out for you. But Izzy, I can tell you first-hand that these amazing weirdos, they won't bail. They created a buddy system for me, and if you'll stay, they'll keep you safe. I promise.

Izzy:
So? Who's gonna be my buddy then?

Ralph:
I may have to pull some strings, but I will see if I am available.

Barry:
Iris, you weren't at Iron Heights. I saw up close what DeVoe did. To Becky. To all of them. And I couldn't do anything except... just stand and watch it happen. DeVoe is ruthless. He's not gonna stop until he's taken her powers and her life. He's not gonna go easy on her, so neither can I.

Iris:
I am so sorry that you had to experience that. But Barry, we can't be ruthless like DeVoe. He's willing to sacrifice anyone and anything. Just remember that the next time you're pushing too hard, okay? You of all people know that heroes aren't made overnight.

Harry:
Look, I'm sorry about... [gently pantomimes his earlier outburst]. You know, I just... I can't seem to stop DeVoe, can't stop my daughter Jesse from hating me, can't seem to stop blowing it when I try to befriend someone who's my own age.

Cecile:
Did you just say "befriend"? That's what you've been trying to do? You've been trying to... "befriend" me?

Harry:
Well, yes, through transitive property. I respect West, West respects you, so....

Cecile:
Harry, that was... borderline sweet.

Harry:
Thank you?

Barry:
DeVoe's still out there. And until that threat's over, we gotta keep this buddy system going.

Ralph:
I thought you might say that, Allen. Which is why I got you this. [hands Barry a business card that reads "Barry Allen, Private Investigator".]

Barry:
You want me to be your partner?

Ralph:
[scoffs] Oh, hey, come on. This, uh... this Turner don't need no Hooch. But... I do know what it's like to get fired from CCPD when you didn't even really break the law.

Barry:
You absolutely broke the law.

Ralph:
And I remember, after I lost my job... felt like I lost a piece of my identity. And now you won't have to deal with that problem. So the next time we're out in the field and somebody asks you who you work for, you won't have to get all stammery.

Barry:
You like me. You really like me.

Cisco:
Listen, Miyagi–

Barry:
What?

Cisco:
I've been here all day opening breaches, all right? So unless you wanna rub your hands together and do some magical shoulder pop–

Barry:
I'm not rubbing your shoulder.

Cisco:
That's what I thought. I'm taking five.

Barry:
Ah, come on.

Cisco:
[through clenched teeth] I'm taking five!

Barry:
How is it we live together, work together, sleep in the same bed together, but it still feels like we don't spend any real time as husband and wife?

Harry:
[over the intercom] Allen. West-Allen. Cortex. Now!

Iris:
I have no idea.

Cisco:
[regarding the nuclear bomb] I'm guessing this is our Ark of the Covenant.

Barry:
Something like that, yeah.

Cisco:
Whooah. Yeah, that'll definitely melt your face.

Barry:
We send the bomb into the Speed Force, let it detonate in there.

Jay:
Like hell you will!

Barry:
What do you mean? Why not?

Jay:
Because, Flash, if you do that, we may lose the Speed Force forever.

Barry:
What do you mean we might "lose" the Speed Force?

Jay:
An explosion of that size could destroy it completely. If that were to happen, every speedster across space and time would lose access to their speed instantly.

Barry:
.... Every speedster?

Jay:
Even if it got rid of Thawne and every other evil speedster in the multiverse, you cannot do this! I won't let you.

Barry:
Well, I'm sorry, Jay. If this is the only way to save everyone in the city, I have to.

[Joe runs to check on an unconscious Flash, who has managed to stop the explosion with lightning from the Speed Force.]

Joe:
Flash! Flash! Flash?

Flash:
[waking up, but still exhausted] Are we dead?

Joe:
No.

Flash:
Oh, that's good.

Harry:
Listen, Ramon, DeVoe wants these bodies. Maybe we change the bodies, we keep these people safe.

Cisco:
I'm sorry, don't you have, like, six PhDs?!

Harry:
Seven!

Cisco:
Yeah. Which one of them is in "Mad Science"?!

Harry:
"Mad Science" is just an area of study. It's not a degree.

[Frye has just melted a bank vault open with his metahuman powers.]

Matthew Kim:
Stealing is a sin. You shouldn't be using the powers you've been given this way.

Eric Frye:
I'll use them any way I see fit. Including frying you to a crisp if you move any closer.

Kim:
[slowly advancing towards Frye] Oh, I don't think you will. You don't want to hurt me or anyone in this bank. You can still walk away from this. But the moment you touch that money, your life changes forever. Now, you don't really want that, do you?

Frye:
Maybe you're right. [Kim tries to put his hand on Frye's shoulder, but Frye belts him, knocking Kim down on top of another bank customer. The touch causes Kim's own power to transfer from Frye to the customer.] Or maybe you've got a death wish! [tries to use his powers on Kim, but can't] What the hell? My powers. they're gone. [Frye is tackled by a bank guard.]

Caitlin:
Cisco, why can't you just help him?

Cisco:
Why am I the only one who thinks putting a rageaholic and dark matter together is a bad idea?

Caitlin:
He's trying to stop DeVoe. That's not a bad idea.

Cisco:
He's trying to match his intellect with a madman whose innovations are warping his brain. Have you not seen Spider-Man 2?

Caitlin:
No.

Cisco:
How can you live with yourself?

Barry:
[feeling down] I lost my speed. I lost my job at the C.C.P.D. It just feels like DeVoe is... slowly taking everything away from me.

Iris:
[embracing Barry] He hasn't taken everything away.

Barry:
What if I never get it back?

Iris:
Hey. Caitlin is gonna find something. Okay? Until then, you just have to... watch me like I've watched you these last three years.

Barry:
Yeah, I guess so. [The alarm goes off, and Iris races away at super-speed, leaving Barry alone taken aback.] Wow, that's... super annoying.

Barry:
You know, you didn't have to give up your speed, right? I mean, I would've never asked you to.

Iris:
I know.

Barry:
Why'd you do it?

Iris:
.... Do you know what makes a great speedster? [Barry shakes his head] It isn't their speed. It's being the light that everyone needs when the world grows dark. It's the kind of person they are. The kind of person that always wants to help. That's why being the Flash is your destiny. It's your way of helping others. But it isn't mine. [shows Barry her new "Saved by the Flash" blog] This is.

Ralph:
We'd make a fortune. An improv group made up of superheroes. We can take it to Washington. We'd be the "D.C. Comics".

Cisco:
No, Ralph.

Ralph:
First rule of improv is say "Yes".

[Breacher, Gypsy's father, suddenly appears from a warp, grabs Cisco by the throat and pins him to a wall.]

Breacher:
I need your help!

Cisco:
[strangled voice] Little bit of a mixed message here.

[Barry is floating helplessly inside the Cortex room due to Null's gravity-manipulation power.]

Iris:
Babe, you okay?

Barry:
I just wanna get down from here as soon as possible.

Ralph:
Maybe you should try to burp yourself down like Charlie Bucket.

Barry:
Ralph...

Iris:
[to Caitlin] Anything?

Caitlin:
Well, as best I can tell, Null's powers affect the density of his cells. It's like you've been filled with helium.

Barry:
Terrific.

Ralph:
Always knew you were a lightweight.

Barry:
I swear, Ralph–

Barry:
You were great out there tonight, man.

Ralph:
Thank you. I had a lot of help. And, I had a great teacher.

Barry:
You helped me realize that I can't always take everything so seriously. Even when it comes to Thinker.

Ralph:
Wait a second. Are you telling me that I, Ralph Dibny, taught Barry Allen, superhero extraordinaire, a lesson? What could this mean?

Barry:
It means you're a great hero. And you make this team better by being on it.

Ralph:
[mock deep voice] Ah, the circle is now complete. When I came here, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.

Barry:
It's also good to be humble.

Ralph:
But how can I be humble [expands his chest with his power] when I am swollen with pride?

Breacher:
I went back to my Earth, saw my reflection in my knife. I saw an older man.

Cisco:
I'm curious, have you never looked in a mirror before?

Breacher:
I'm not a teenage girl!

Cisco:
Okay, you're not a teenage girl.

Breacher:
But I realized, time to hang up my coat. [Referencing the Hawaiin shirt he's wearing] This is my new uniform, like it?

Cisco:
Yeah, retirement suits you. So, what do you do with all this time?

Breacher:
There's a dragon farm on Earth-47 that I've always wanted to visit.

Cisco:
A dragon farm? Okay, get your Khaleesi on.

Breacher:
I'm not a Khaleesi!

Cisco:
Okay, you're not a Khaleesi.

Breacher:
But, I just wanted to tell you Ciscy, goodbye forever. [turns to go] Oh, wait! Just one more thing. Now that I've retired, there's an opening at the Collection Agency. I would like you to replace me.

Cisco:
Wait, I'm confused.

Breacher:
You want to see my daughter more. Work with her! Together, you and Cynthia could be an unstoppable duo. So what do you say, Vibe? Do you want to be the new Breacher?

Ralph:
I've got something! My Big Belly punch-card, only 5 away from a free kid's meal. If I even live long enough to use it.

Barry:
Hey, don't even joke like that. We're gonna get DeVoe, throw him in the Pipeline long before he gets to you.

Ralph:
Right. That doesn't work, we'll just, uh,... take him out the other way.

Barry:
What other way?

Ralph:
Ah, we'll put him to bed with a shovel. Give him his harp and wings. Send him to visit Grandma Thinker in the sky.

Barry:
[alarmed] Ralph, you think we're gonna kill DeVoe?

Ralph:
The way that you're saying that makes me think I'm supposed to say "no".

[Harry is demonstrating a new weapon to use against DeVoe]

Harry:
One strike incapacitates the Thinker. Two strikes... no more Thinker. I call it "Sonic Scepter".

Cisco:
Okay. Points for alliteration.

Barry:
I know what killing DeVoe would do to you. You would be throwing away everything you've done to become a better man. To become a hero. You gotta realize that.

Ralph:
You... are a moron.

Barry:
Ralph–

Ralph:
[voice shaking] I'm not afraid of DeVoe or what he might do to me. I am afraid of what he might do to you, and Iris, and Caitlin, and Cisco. Joe, Harry, Cecile. DeVoe has taken out everyone who has gotten in his way. And Team Flash, it will always be in his way.

Barry:
[realizing] This was never about protecting yourself.

Ralph:
I know that killing DeVoe would mean throwing away everything I've done to become a hero. But aside from my mom, this team is the only family that I have ever had, and I would throw myself into a furnace to keep them safe. DeVoe can not have them. They are mine!

Barry:
What about what we want? You may not care about losing who you've become, but we do. We like Hero Ralph. Please don't take him away from us.

Ralph:
Heard all the commotion and I thought "If DeVoe was here... where would he be going?"

DeVoe:
Hmm. A simple deduction for a simple mind. Though I assure you, you are no threat for an intellect of my magnitude.

Ralph:
Please, everyone I fight is smarter than me.

[Barry has been incapacitated as DeVoe prepares to possess Ralph]

Barry:
Ralph! Fight it, all right?! Fight it! I'll save you!

Ralph:
You already did, Barry. [dies as DeVoe's mind takes over his body]

Leo Snart of Earth-X:
All right. You get me for twenty-four hours. Not a minute more.

Cisco:
Wait. Why not?

Leo:
Because I thought I'd make Ray an honest man. [indicates his ring finger] Tomorrow.

[Each member of Team Flash offers Leo congratulations.]

Leo:
[puts his hands on Barry and Cisco's shoulders] I figured if you two could make it, so could we.

Barry and Cisco:
What?

Iris:
[points to her and Barry] No, we–

Leo:
I tease.

Leo:
Do you know how many rebels we lost over the years, Barry, trying to defeat those Nazi bastards?

Barry:
Countless, I'm sure.

Leo:
Not countless. Counted. Eighteen thousand, three hundred twenty-two. Three thousand, six hundred and seventy-nine were under my watch. And I felt the weight of each of their deaths. I still do, some years after they died.

Barry:
Leo, look, I–

Leo:
The thing I realized is that to continue to lead, to be clear-headed, I had to grieve those men and women I lost. So I did. Each and every one... Look, Barry, you want me to help you move a meta-human nuclear bomb that some genius with nearly every meta-power on this board is after. I will do what I can, as long as your head is on straight. Because if I die before Ray and I get married, Ray will kill me.

[Team Flash prepares to transport Neil Borman.]

Barry:
All right, let's just go over the plan one more time, okay? I'm going to be running ahead of the truck, scouting the route for any signs of trouble.

Iris:
Right. I will be at S.T.A.R. Labs tracking any pocket dimension en route.

Caitlin:
And I'll be in the truck with Neil monitoring his vitals en route.

Leo:
With me at the ready, in case our meta-of-mass-destruction here goes all mushroom cloud. No offense.

Joe:
And I'll be driving. And reciting every prayer that Cecile's ever taught me.

Iris:
I might join you.

DeVoe:
Every event occurred exactly as I predicted. Except the outcome!!

Marlize:
You were supposed to defeat Siren-X.

DeVoe:
No. The Flash was, but... Barry Allen just stood there, frozen. And now, I've lost my only nuclear meta. Because the Flash failed! Why? Why did he fail?

Marlize:
Perhaps there were variables that we just didn't consider.

DeVoe:
As I already explained, there is no variable beyond my examination.

Marlize:
Even less apparent. The last time Barry Allen saw you, you took the life of his close friend. And now he sees you, and he pauses. You really don't see it. You can calculate near-infinite outcomes across multiple Earths, but you cannot account for how someone is feeling.

Caitlin:
We're gonna miss you, Leo.

Leo:
I'll miss you, too, Caitlin. You're quite the badass, you know? Enough to make your alter ego proud.

Caitlin:
Thank you.

Leo:
Detective West, I know my Earth-1 counterpart gave you a lot of headaches. Hopefully, I've begun to make up for that.

Joe:
Man, you prevented a nuke from leveling this city. [shakes Leo's hand] We're good.

Leo:
Cisco. I'm really gonna miss that hair.

Cisco:
[laughs nervously and touches his hair] Okay.

Leo:
Iris West-Allen. Thank you for helping me take down Nazi scum. Again.

Iris:
You're welcome. Again.

Leo:
And then there was one. I can see why the other Snart turned over a new leaf and joined the good guys. You treat everyone around you with kindness and respect. Just remember to do the same for yourself. Every once in a while.

Barry:
Thanks for helping me push through.

Leo:
Any time, Barry. [embraces Barry]

[Devoe and Marlize's first meeting at a classroom panel discussion at Oxford]

DeVoe:
The Taoists, in pursuit of immortality, discovered gunpowder. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize so he wouldn't be remembered as the man who invented dynamite. History has shown us time and time again that whenever a technological advancement can be used to hurt humanity, it will be.

Marlize:
You can't blame technology for the way men choose to use it, Professor.

DeVoe:
You can't ignore that the best of ideas by the smartest of men often have a way of becoming corrupted.

[At the Vandermeer Steel crime scene]

Cisco:
Okay. So, where shall we start? I'm thinking, if we can gain acc– [Barry races around the rooms at super-speed, accessing and reading the computer files.] –ess to their files...

Barry:
Alloy 1771? I mean, that's the only item missing from the inventory files.

Cisco:
Or I can just... stand here and look pretty.

DeVoe:
Severity of our society's failings require extreme ideas if ever we were to restore some semblance of balance.

Marlize:
[reading from DeVoe's journal] Technology has become a cancerous cell in our social biology. Excising [DeVoe tries and fails to grab the journal] would require a total purge, not only of the material world, but also human consciousness? This is not valance! This is lobotomizing people.

DeVoe:
This is rebooting the masses' brains, to let them forget their technological crutches. They are babies with pacifiers.

Marlize:
How and who will teach them? You, professor? How does any of this help humankind?

DeVoe:
Don't you see? Marlize, our technology is killing us! And you and I, we can fix this, together. [kneels] As partners, we can lead them, all of society, humanity, on the true path to enlightenment.

[Marlize gives DeVoe back the journal and walks out]

Cecile:
Harry, I know this is hard.

Harry:
[scoffs] Well... it is hard... D.A. Cecile Horton, because my brain, the one thing that has defined me for, well, pretty much my entire life, is about to [snaps his fingers] ... vanish, and then what'll I be?

Cecile:
You'll be the exact same man you've always been.

Harry:
Yeah, but dumb. Same man. Waaaay less intelligent.

Cecile:
Harry, there are lots of ways to be intelligent. [taps her chest] Not just using your head.

[Marlize prepares to leave Devoe.]

DeVoe:
The Enlightenment will come for you, too, Marlize. I will be all that remains.

Marlize:
[mockingly] Oh, Clifford. You are nothing without me. [rises up on DeVoe's battle chair and disappears]

Caitlin:
We've been attacking this from the wrong direction. We know we need a tech-free projectile to stop DeVoe's satellites. We've been looking for an object, when what we really need is a person: Amunet.

Joe:
Amunet Black?

Caitlin:
I know she's not the ideal choice. But Amunet's psychic-powered Alico shards are not only deadly powerful, they're completely immune to DeVoe's Kilgore powers.

Barry:
Not ideal? I mean, she kidnapped you. She tried to sell me into meta-slavery.

Iris:
And she ruined my bachelorette party.

[Team Flash is trying lo locate Amunet using her past as a flight attendant.]

Iris:
Yeah, looks like there were thirty-five flights in the air in Central City the night of the particle accelerator explosion.

Joe:
Cisco, can you access the flight manifests?

Cisco:
Yes, I can. And I can take the crews' credentials–

Barry:
Cross-reference them into facial recognition?

Cisco:
Can you not read my mind? [Barry stammers an apology.]

[The "Council of Harrisons" has just departed, seemingly without helping Harry with his problem.]

Harry:
Ramon, remind me again. [snaps his fingers] What's another word for... "huge"?

Cisco:
"Colossal".

Harry:
"Colossal". Great, thank you. [growing angry] This... was a colossal waste of time! [kicks a trash can as he leaves the room]

Amunet:
Oh, goody. A group foray. Dibs on cashing in Norvock's chips.

Iris:
Oh, no no no no no no no. No killing.

Amunet:
That was not a stipulation when I agreed to join this crew.

Barry:
Okay. Amunet, look, I know how you usually work, but I can handle this fast. And without any casualties.

Amunet:
[deep breath mugging].... Okay. It is a bit time-consuming to remove blood from metal. [chuckles]

Harry:
Well, actually, thanks to Ramon and the Council of Harrisons, I may have an idea about why DeVoe has not yet launched his satellites.

Cisco:
He put himself in DeVoe's shoes.

Harry:
And I thought, well, if I was this ultra-genius moving around in a floating chair, how would I feel?

Joe:
You'd feel nothing. You'd be sociopathic.

Harry:
Right. But to me, I wouldn't consider myself sociopathic [goes to the whiteboard] when all my actions would be driven by the one thing that I care most about, right? [draws a smiley face added to a sad face]

Barry:
So if you're not acting–

Harry:
If I'm not acting, then I don't have the one thing that I care most about. [draws a neutral face] My wife.

Barry:
I'm still not fast enough to make it through DeVoe's pocket dimension.

Cisco:
That's why we split up. Yeah, each one of us stakes out a different launch pad.

Barry:
You're serious. I mean, you've seen DeVoe in action.

Cisco:
Yeah. The guy's a one-man Legion of Doom, so send the Super Friends.

DeVoe:
[to one of his hostages] Do you know what my favorite thing about teaching is? Having a captive audience.

Barry:
Once we're inside, we'll have less than a second. I'll activate the plates, draw their charge–

Cisco:
I'll lay the breach links–

Caitlin:
And I'll protect the A.R.G.U.S. agents from the blast using this... fish shooter.

Cisco:
"Ice shooter".

Caitlin:
Do I have to call it an "ice shooter"?

Barry:
I thought "Frostbite" sounded good.

Cisco:
Guys, it solves the friction offset problem by shooting ice. Therefore, it's an ice shooter. You call it an ice shooter.

Barry:
Relax.

Cisco:
It's not that hard.

DeVoe:
"Once upon a time, in some remote corner of that universe, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing".

Barry:
You're quoting Nietzsche at me?

DeVoe:
You destroyed a satellite. Top marks, Quick Boy. You can destroy a thousand more, and you will still march closer to the Enlightenment.

Barry:
I forget what Nietzsche said about wiping minds. I must have skipped philosophy class.

DeVoe:
Did I teach you nothing this year? Has nothing pierced your thick cowl? Think of it. Or rather don't. You'll just end up hurting yourself, so let me explain. A world, enlightened. Within a day, all soldiers will lay down their arms. Every nuclear weapon will be disarmed within six months. Poverty. Famine. Disease. Eradicated. We will clean up the streets. People will put down their idiot phones and become curious again, and I will be there to teach them. I, not you, will save this God-forsaken world.

Barry:
No, you'll just control it. You want to take away free will.

DeVoe:
A pittance for humanity to pay to know peace.

Barry:
But we won't know each other. Parents wouldn't remember their kids. Husbands won't remember their wives.

DeVoe:
Good. You hit upon precisely the point. Emotion is the father of all error. Chemicals in our brain that distract us, impede progress. And the most destructive and ridiculous imbalance of all is that thing you feebles call love. I learned this from experience, Mr. Allen. And soon... you will too.

Iris:
Your husband has gone too far, and I think you know it, or you'd be with him right now.

Marlize:
Yes, I left my husband. But that doesn't change the fact that he's right. If anything, his betrayal proves his very point. Man corrupts even the best of ideas.

Iris:
"Pessimism isn't smarter than optimism. In this life, the bravest thing you can be is optimistic."

Marlize:
Familiar words.

Iris:
You said them when you were at Oxford. Two weeks before you met Clifford DeVoe.

Marlize:
I gave a speech. On technology and the elimination of world hunger. I truly believed it could be done.

Iris:
He tried to change you, Marlize. But I think, deep down, you are still an optimist. You still believe in humanity. And I believe in you. You asked me what I was willing to do for my husband. And now I'm gonna ask you... What are you willing to do for the world?

Cisco:
Look. I love Inception as much as the next guy, but sending Barry into DeVoe's mind?

[Inside the illusory world of DeVoe's mind]

DeVoe:
In this place, I do as I please, Mr. Allen. I must say, the fact that you thought I wouldn't calculate you and your team making this feeble attempt is somewhat... insulting. There'll be no defeating the Big Bad this year, Mr. Allen. You see, you're in my mind now. And there's no escape. [fires an energy bolt from his battle chair, but Barry whisks himself and Ralph away at super-speed.] Run, Mr. Allen. Run.

Joe:
We should be able to have our baby just like any other parent. In a hospital on a regular bed, not with... all this. [to Marlize] Hey, look what you've done. To our friend. My son. My daughter. The love of my life. Everybody in this damn city!

Iris:
Dad!

Joe:
How could you ever think that this would be better for humanity?!

Iris:
Dad! What did you say to me when Barry came out of the Speed Force? You said "Strength without faith means nothing." We need to have faith that we can get through this. [looks at Marlize] Together.

[Cisco has restored Harry's mind, but he has lost his genius and his higher education and knowledge.]

Cisco:
I was supposed to fix this.

Harry:
And you did! Ramon, Ramon, you did. You did. You brought me back. You brought back what matters. So what if I'm... Look, my whole life, I've been defined by one thing: my IQ. And somehow you've given me... uh... a balance. Between my head and... [puts his hand on his chest, indicating "... my heart."] Thank you. For the balance.

Barry:
Where did you get this jacket?

Nora West-Allen:
Uh... [points to Iris] From her.

Iris:
Um... no. Mine... mine is a one-of-a-kind.

Nora:
So was this, when you let me borrow it.

Barry:
Who are you?

Nora:
I'm your daughter Nora, from the future, and I think I made a big, big mistake.