The Flash (TV Series)

Central City Strong (2021)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

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• The Flash : Crisis destroyed countless lives. And yes, some of us survived, and that's not fair. Now we have to carry on for those who didn't. I lost someone too. He was like a brother to me. And ever since, I've tried to honor his sacrifice. You can do the same for your family.

• Barry Allen : Satellites say it's just a small, everyday earthquake.

  Iris West-Allen : Usually we have to kiss first to make the ground quake.

• Iris West-Allen : Babe? You home?

  [Barry speeds past, setting up a romantic candlelit dinner] 

  Iris West-Allen : Well, the Speed Force is definitely fixed, because the loft did not look like this a second ago.

  Barry Allen : You like it?

  Iris West-Allen : I love it. Like the trip to Maui yesterday and the fresh crepes this morning from Paris. You, Barry Allen, are the most romantic husband ever.

• Barry Allen : Save your work. You can finish writing in the beach villa I just rented us in Monaco.

  Iris West-Allen : [he whooshes away and back with a suitcase]  Oh. You mean leave right now?

  Barry Allen : Yeah. For a romantic villa. In Monaco.

  Iris West-Allen : Barry.

  Barry Allen : Look... you're working. I get that that's important.

  Iris West-Allen : Yeah.

  Barry Allen : [looking over her shoulder]  But you were just staring at a blank screen when I...

  Iris West-Allen : Fathwoomed in?

  Barry Allen : Yeah. And you know what's great when you're stuck? Clearing your head in Monaco.

• Iris West-Allen : Barry, we have traveled the globe nonstop all this past week.

  Barry Allen : Yeah, 'cause you deserve the best.

  Iris West-Allen : Are you okay?

  Barry Allen : Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just... I'm trying to sweep my wife off her feet for a romantic getaway.

  Iris West-Allen : Which, I appreciate, but...

  Barry Allen : Iris, will you please just let me make this up to you? Please?

• Iris West-Allen : Zoop me to paradise.

  Barry Allen : Don't you wanna pack your laptop?

  Iris West-Allen : Uh, no. You know what? I need to take a break. You're right. Surf and sand sounds perfect right now.

  Barry Allen : [his phone buzzes]  Kadabra's just escaped custody. He's loose somewhere in A.R.G.U.S.

  Iris West-Allen : Go.

  [seeing he's relucant] 

  Iris West-Allen : Go.

• Cisco Ramon : [after Kadabra is apprehended]  "Look at me. I'm A.R.G.U.S. I'm gonna let two young, handsome devils do all the work while I reap all the benefits, and I'm gonna pick up the obelisks." That doesn't bug you?

  The Flash : Kadabra's caught. The job's finished. You really wanna argue over who gets credit?

  Cisco Ramon : Yes!

• The Flash : This is your family from another timeline. Only, they're gone now, aren't they?

  Abra Kadabra : 13 months ago, I started having dreams of a life I never lived, one I was so... Happy. I had to know what was causing them. I ran every test on myself possible using 64th-century technology. What I found was that, somehow, I'd experienced a sudden increase in my somatic memory cells.

  The Flash : Your memories were expanding.

  Abra Kadabra : More backwards 21st-century thinking. I'd been exposed to neuro-temporal displacement, the kind that's created when speedsters disrupt time. With my clue to the cause, it led me to the Flash museum. You're obsessed with the future, Flash. Not now, but... oh, you will be. found so many interesting things there including to my surprise, Cisco Ramon's archaic memory device. It was damaged beyond repair. I fixed it easily.

  Cisco Ramon : Ugh. This guy sucks.

  The Flash : You used it on yourself and it gave you those memories back.

  Abra Kadabra : From a time before everything changed. With my memories restored, I had proof that the family from my dreams, a wife and son that I never knew existed were real. They were erased from existence by what you did. You were supposed to vanish in your Crisis, Flash, not them! But when you didn't, my future changed. They ceased to exist, and I lost everything. Just like you will now!

• Joe West : It's not just a time traveler. He's a guy who has a theatrical flair for killing.

  Barry Allen : Abra Kadabra is back.

  Cisco Ramon : Oh. Great. That explains all the shakin' and quakin' yesterday.

  Chester P. Runk : Ooh, timequakes too? Whoa, okay. So what's this Abra dude's deal?

  Cisco Ramon : Oh, you know. He's just your standard time-traveling, murdering, thieving 64th-century magician who uses embedded nanotech and calls it magic.

  Barry Allen : Four years ago, the Collector's Agency took him to be executed for his crimes. Somehow, he escaped.

  Joe West : Last time, he was hell-bent on stealing tech to build a time machine. This time, he goes out of his way to kill an innocent person, doesn't steal a thing. Now, that's a pretty vicious escalation.

  Cisco Ramon : And what's that thing back there got to do with it?

  Barry Allen : You know, it doesn't matter. Kadabra picked the wrong day to come back.

  Joe West : I'll put out a BOLO right away.

• Barry Allen : Do we have eyes on Kadabra?

  Chester P. Runk : Uh, yes and no. He's teleporting all over the city with that obelisk ball thing. I'm scanning it.

  Cisco Ramon : I'm picking up readings of antimatter energy. He created an antimatter bomb.

  Caitlin Snow : That kind of power, it could take out another Earth.

  Chester P. Runk : Or another universe?

  Allegra Garcia : Wait, what? Are we about to have Crisis Part Two?

  Cisco Ramon : No, no. There's not enough antimatter energy for that, thank the sequel Gods, but the core is roughly the size of a baseball.

  Caitlin Snow : A baseball? Barry, a trace amount nearly took out your leg.

  Barry Allen : Is it enough to destroy the city?

  Cisco Ramon : I'd say there's exactly enough.

  Barry Allen : Abra said his last trick was to make the whole city disappear. Destroying Central City must be his plan.

• Arielle Atkins : An earthquake hit Central City last night, a city already on edge. How is morale?

  The Flash : Well, the sign says it all: "Central City Strong." I let down this city by failing to prevent Mirror Monarch from tearing our community apart. But I will make it up to you. I promise. Together, we're rebuilding our community, our homes, our lives. It'll take time, but... but I believe in this city, it's resilience - most of all, it's people. That's how we'll survive this.

  Arielle Atkins : Central City Strong. Thank you, Flash.

• Abra Kadabra : Flash. I knew it was just a matter of time.

  The Flash : Bad timing for you, Kadabra.

  Cisco Ramon : [Kadabra struggles with his restraints]  Yeah, those would be nanotech-nullifying cuffs, so no hocus-pocus this time.

• The Flash : It's over. You've lost.

  Abra Kadabra : Have I? Seems you've forgotten the art of misdirection.

  [the cuffs materialize on Barry's wrists] 

  Abra Kadabra : Ha.

  Cisco Ramon : Oh, shoot.

• Chester P. Runk : Barry, I know this all seems bad, but...

  Barry Allen : Chester, this city's been through hell. It can't take another emergency. Not now, not this soon.

  Cisco Ramon : We got this, Bar. Don't worry.

  Barry Allen : We just started rebuilding. I'm not gonna let anything tear us down again.