The Flash (TV Series)

Masquerade (2021)

Candice Patton: Iris West-Allen

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• Barry Allen : Chester, are you coming? I mean, I know you're more of a root beer kind of guy, but you've earned a victory meal too.

  Chester P. Runk : Really? After falling for the wrath of some omnipotent, psychotropic, immortal mask? You know, after saying it out loud and hearing it back, I'm kind of like, you know - Yeah, count me in.

  Iris West-Allen : Chester, you are a full-fledged member of Team Flash now. Your voice will always matter here. Just make sure you use it.

• Sue Dearbon : Since when does Cecile have that kind of power?

  Caitlin Snow : She doesn't. It was the mask.

  Iris West-Allen : That was the voice inside of our heads. She was possessed just like Hayden and all the others before him.

  Sue Dearbon : Okay. When did all this happen?

  Caitlin Snow : During the Force Storm, we thought Cecile was hit by the Sage Force lightning. But it must have been the psychic spirit of the mask that used that as a cover to take over her mind. Now they're both missing. We have no idea where they are.

  Chester P. Runk : Or what they're up to.

  Iris West-Allen : We have to find her. That mask is the only link to helping Barry and figuring out what happened to the real Cecile.

  Chester P. Runk : The legends says that the mask gives the wielder enhanced psychic powers. So maybe if we track her neurological signals?

  Sue Dearbon : And how about we let someone else come up with a plan for a change?

  Caitlin Snow : Sue, Chester was just trying to help.

  Sue Dearbon : Yeah, so was I when I told him that this job seemed too easy. But he brushed me off, and I shot a tranq into my own neck.

  Chester P. Runk : She's right. This is on me.

  Iris West-Allen : Chester, that thing tricked all of us.

  Chester P. Runk : But you heard what it said. It put Barry in that coma, just like Grodd did, to play me and zing my insecurities as the new guy. It knew I'd pick Psycho Pirate out of that binder and call Sue to help us break into that museum. All to make me think I had this all figured out. Really, I don't know jack.

• Iris West-Allen : Hey, you okay?

  Chester P. Runk : Yeah. I need more neuro-fiber to fix the memory machine, so we can use it like we did against Grodd, but we don't have enough supplies here. So I gotta go back to my garage. Shouldn't be here anyway.

  Iris West-Allen : Wait, Chester. Yes, you should, Chester. I mean, this is - this is your lab.

  Chester P. Runk : No, Iris. It's not.

  Iris West-Allen : What?

  Chester P. Runk : Look, I didn't come to S.T.A.R. Labs to replace Cisco. I came here to work with him. And I want to do a good job more than anything. But I saw Barry in trouble today, Iris, I didn't even know where to start. I thought to myself, you know, what would Cisco do? Decided I'm gonna act confident and brave. Act like I had it all figured out.

  Iris West-Allen : Chester, confidence isn't what made Cisco Cisco.

  Chester P. Runk : I know. What made Cisco Cisco was the connections and the love that he had for you all. Don't you get it? I don't have those bonds, Iris. I barely know you guys. And I can't help thinking that I just knew Team Flash a little bit better, that I would have been able to figure out that that wasn't the real Cecile. And then this entire thing just would...

  Iris West-Allen : Okay. Okay. Chester, Cisco didn't form those bonds overnight. It took time. It took patience. And we all have your back. Just like we know that you've got ours.

  Chester P. Runk : Thanks. And look, Iris, I promise, okay? From today on, I'm really gonna up my game, and I'm gonna, like...

  [realizes something] 

  Chester P. Runk : I think I know where Psycho-Cecile is going. Back at the museum, the mask said it wanted Cecile to be its host for eternity. But the legends says that once the mask feeds on the host's mind, it moves on to another.

  Iris West-Allen : So if Cecile is an empath, then maybe that makes her a stronger host.

  Chester P. Runk : But not strong enough. She would need something to amplify her mental abilities. To create a permanent food source.

  Iris West-Allen : Okay. So where do we find a device like that?

  Chester P. Runk : In our basement.

• Psycho Pirate : Since time began, many have tried to stop me. All have failed.

  Iris West-Allen : Cecile, this isn't you.

  Chester P. Runk : Let our friends go, or we'll make you.

  Psycho Pirate : Such hubris. And from the boy who delivered everything I needed. How amusing. Now my host shall serve me. For eternity.

• Sue Dearbon : [deactivates the laser security system]  Lasers are clear.

  Iris West-Allen : You learned that in Tunisia?

  Sue Dearbon : No. DeMatteis Academy of Dance.