The Flash (TV Series)

Pay the Piper (2020)

Carlos Valdes: Cisco Ramon

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• Allegra Garcia : Didn't you say all four Godspeeds were locked up at Iron Heights?

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Those are just cybernetic drones with modem-speak. This one was talking. And by the way, do you not happen to have protective protocols for this place?

  Cisco Ramon : Do not put this on me. I am trying to figure out a way into the Mirrorverse. What were you doing?

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : I was saving our speedster.

  Cisco Ramon : Oh, good for you. You did something.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Thank you. Could I have a parade?

• Pied Piper : Okay, I haven't seen that one before.

  The Flash : Is that Godspeed's blood?

  Cisco Ramon : Satellite readings indicate it could be some kind of biogenic electrolyte secretion.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : It's...

  Cisco Ramon , Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Charged sound.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Oh, boys... I do believe we found the solution we're looking for.

• Hartley Rathaway : What I don't get is why you need a machine when you could use your damn vibes. Unless you can't vibe anymore. Ooh, ouch. You lost your meta-mojo. Oh, well, you could try being a barista, maybe.

  Cisco Ramon : I gave up my powers by choice. You know, I'm making this so that I can save the person I love the most. But I wouldn't expect you to understand that, Hartley. The person you love the most is yourself.

• Cecile Horton : Look, I know you're hurting. I do. But I was with Kamilla when Bloodwork's monsters attacked, and... and you gotta trust me that no matter where she is, your girl knows how to take care of herself.

  Cisco Ramon : Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know. It's just... when Kamilla's around, I want to show her I'm strong. I want to believe I'm making the right decisions. She gives me the confidence I need, but she's... she's not here. And all I can think about is the hero I used to be. He was just full of life, and he wasn't afraid to do the impossible. He was... he was Vibe, you know? He had all the answers. Sometimes he *was* the answer. And if Kamilla's not here and Vibe is gone... what if...

  Cecile Horton : What if you don't have all the answers and you're making the wrong decisions? Cisco, Kamilla did not fall in love with your powers. She fell in love with you. *You*, and that big, beautiful brain of yours. Boo-hoo, Cisco Ramon isn't Vibe anymore. You know what he is? He is a damn brilliant engineer who has never backed down from doing the impossible before.

  [offering a tool] 

  Cecile Horton : You gonna start now?

  Cisco Ramon : No, ma'am.

• Cisco Ramon : I have an idea, a way to get our people out of the Mirrorverse. We need a lossless, self-sustaining source of perpetual energy.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Sounds like you're talking about the holy grail of science: a perpetual-motion machine.

  Cisco Ramon : That's right. Hartley had some ideas. I think we can actually build one. We're just missing one component, and thanks to my travels, I know exactly where to find it: Atlantis.

  Ralph Dibny : Finally, Crisis pays off in a good way for once.

  Cisco Ramon : I know time is crucial, but don't worry. I'll hurry back.

  Allegra Garcia : Can I come?

  Barry Allen : Actually, if you don't mind, I'd like for you to stay. Team Flash needs as many hands on deck as possible.

  [she nods with a smile] 

  Barry Allen : Now let's get to work.

• Barry Allen : I know why you're so upset.

  Hartley Rathaway : You don't know anything about me.

  Barry Allen : I know what it's like to be responsible for losing the person I love. Roderick... he's not just another hired gun, is he?

  Hartley Rathaway : He's my boyfriend. The love of my life. I put him in the line of fire when I fought you, meaning that what happened to him is my fault.

  Barry Allen : You're not the only one to blame. I threw the lightning, remember?

  Hartley Rathaway : I gave him the weapon that made you defend yourself. And then when I couldn't help him...

  Barry Allen : You got him the help he needed.

  Hartley Rathaway : He was better off at Mercury Labs than with me. I was useless.

  Barry Allen : Someone just reminded me that... we're no good to the people that we love if we can't find the strength to move forward and forgive ourselves.

  Hartley Rathaway : Thanks, Oprah.

  Cisco Ramon : [calling on the intercom]  Hey, we got a big problem at Iron Heights.

  Barry Allen : You can stay here. Or you can be the person that Roderick fell in love with. It's your call.

• Harrison 'Nash' Wells : They're just gone?

  Allegra Garcia : What does that even mean, "mirrorverse"? Can we even get them back?

  Cecile Horton : Oh, my god. We... we have to warn David's husband.

  Cisco Ramon : I've been living with some copy of Kamilla while the real one's trapped somewhere?

  Barry Allen : Eva said they're safe for now.

  Cisco Ramon : And you're taking her word for it? For all we know, they're dead already.

  Ralph Dibny : They're not, so just... you don't even think about that.

  Cisco Ramon : We *have* to think about that. What if creating Kamilla's duplicate actually killed the real Kamilla? Same thing with Singh, same thing with Iris.

  [seeing Barry remain motionless] 

  Cisco Ramon : Hello?

  Barry Allen : What do you want me to say?

  Cisco Ramon : Anything! That we have a plan, that we'll get them back.

  Barry Allen : I don't have a plan, Cisco. Eva can move anywhere through any mirror in the universe in the blink of an eye. She's faster than I am, and somehow I'm supposed to stop her, and still hope to God that Iris and everybody else is still alive in a world that we don't even understand?

• Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Where is he going? Barry, you're going the wrong way.

  Cisco Ramon : Wait for it.

  [running to build up kinetic energy, Barry turns back around] 

  Pied Piper : Now, Flash!

  [he fires energy from his gauntlets as Flash throws a lightning bolt] 

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells , Cisco Ramon : They crossed streams.

• Cecile Horton : We need to work the problem, not tear each other down. So here's what I'm gonna do. I am gonna call David's husband, and I'm gonna see if he has seen Singh's duplicate.

  Allegra Garcia : Uh, I'll check the Bentley Building. Mirror-Iris and Kamilla were alone there a lot. Maybe they left something behind.

  Cecile Horton : Good.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : You want company?

  Allegra Garcia : Maybe you should find something else to do.

  Ralph Dibny : You can come with me. I'm gonna see if I can dig up any details on this Eva McCulloch.

  Cisco Ramon : [the others leave]  If the Mirrorverse is just another dimension, there might be a way to enter vibrationally. Caitlin's still on the mend, so I can't ask her for help. I guess that means I'm doing this one on my own.

  Cecile Horton : [Cisco leaves, too]  Barry, look, I understand how you're feeling...

  Barry Allen : Cecile, I know you're trying to help me, and... I appreciate it, but... right now, I'm gonna work on the artificial Speed Force. I just... there's no point in finding Eva if I'm useless against her.

• Cisco Ramon : A few months ago, I theorized there might be a mechanical way to open a breach to an alternate dimension.

  Hartley Rathaway : Looks like an engine for focusing subatomic vibrations, or as you would say, "vibes."

  [Cisco is surprised] 

  Hartley Rathaway : Oh, please. I figured that out ages ago. The hair? Dead giveaway, Ramon. You, too, Flash. Well, there's only three facilities in the state that could build a suit with that much bleeding-edge tech. But only one of them had someone brilliant enough to build it.

  Cisco Ramon : Thanks.

  Hartley Rathaway : Harrison Wells.

  Cisco Ramon : There it is.

• Allegra Garcia : Who's Hartley Rathaway?

  Cisco Ramon : He is an expert in psychoacoustics and sonic vibrations. He used to work for S.T.A.R. Labs. Also, a jerk who hates us so much he tried to julienne your insides.

  Ralph Dibny : It turns out that he hates the Flash even more post-Crisis, only we don't really know why.

  Cisco Ramon : Correction: I know why. My Crisis research dug up the answer to that.

  Barry Allen : [seeing a newspaper headline]  Henchmen? No, it was only me and Hartley.

  Cisco Ramon : Not in this timeline. Pied Piper's band of merry men tried to flank you while you were distracted playing musical cars. Yeah, you clocked them, but when one of them tried to shoot at you, you countered with a lightning bolt. That lightning collided with the weapon's blast, and... turns out that was Hartley's righ-hand man, Roderick Smith.

  Ralph Dibny : [his phone buzzes]  It's Frost. Sorry, guys, I gotta... I gotta check on this.

  Cisco Ramon : Roderick Smith is being held in an energy containment unit in Mercury Labs. Apparently, it's the only thing that's keeping him from completely disintegrating.

  Allegra Garcia : I guess that's a no to Pied Piper's help.

  Cisco Ramon : Well, he did almost kill us, so...

• Cisco Ramon : Allegra, you said Godspeed's lightning caused some sort of blast.

  Allegra Garcia : Yeah. He was like a frickin' lightning storm in the room, but it was his thunder that did the damage.

  Barry Allen : Not thunder. Vibrations.

  Cisco Ramon : Makes sense. You go fast enough, you create a sonic boom. Velocity transmutes into vibrations in the air, only this Godspeed figured out a way... to reverse those vibrations and use them to extract speed from a speedster.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Okay, so he's power-hungry. How do we stop him?

  Cisco Ramon : Well, we'd need a really, really deep understanding of vibrational sonics.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Great. Do we have that?

  Cisco Ramon : Not really, no.

  Barry Allen : I know who could help us. Hartley. Hartley Rathaway.

• Cisco Ramon : Normal sound waves need to have a transmission medium to move through, but charged sound builds its own.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Normal sound can temporarily reattach molecular bonds. Charged sound can permanently attach them. It's like a permanent bonding agent.

  Cisco Ramon : Hartley, this will stabilize Roderick.

  Hartley Rathaway : If you hurt him, I'll hurt you.

• Cisco Ramon : I'm glad we reunited the happy couple, but I have to say - I am super relieved to finally get rid of Godspeed. And this one talks, so now we know we got the real August Heart behind bars.

  Barry Allen : That's not the real Godspeed. Once he was placed in a meta-dampening cell, I questioned him as The Flash, and all he could say was, "The one who sent me wants infinite velocity."

  Cisco Ramon : When you were fighting Godspeed, he said, "We deserve your speed."

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Who's "we"?

  Cisco Ramon : Does "we" include the one who sent him?

  Barry Allen : He couldn't tell me.

  Harrison 'Nash' Wells : Because he stopped talking.

  Cisco Ramon : And started chirping like a broken modem just like the rest of them.

• Hartley Rathaway : Not much has changed. Ugh. S.T.A.R. Labs, still keeping mediocre engineers around, I see.

  Cisco Ramon : Do we have to work with this douchebag?

• Cisco Ramon : The satellites just picked up a massive energy surge in the meta-wing.

  Barry Allen : It's gone. Wait, get a video feed. What happened in there?

  Cisco Ramon : I'm trying.

  [tapping into the surveillance feeds, they see the four incarcerated Godspeeds unconscious] 

  Cisco Ramon : Oh, crap.

  Barry Allen : Every Godspeed we caught 'til now... he took all their speed.

• Cisco Ramon : He's running at Mach 5. He's moving faster than you.

  The Flash : But I know this city better than him.

  Cisco Ramon : [as they run around the city, Godspeed gets the advantage and knocks Barry down]  Barry!

  Godspeed : You're pathetic. You don't deserve the speed you were given. We do!