The Flash (TV Series)

Armageddon, Part 4 (2021)

Neal McDonough: Damien Darhk

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• Barry Allen : Look, according to these calculations, I'd have to hit Mach 20 in order to open a time portal.

  Damien Darhk : Really?

  Barry Allen : Yeah.

  Damien Darhk : And is that a problem?

  Barry Allen : To reach that kind of speed, I need 40,000 miles. That kind of runway doesn't exist.

  Damien Darhk : Yes, it does.

  [spins a rotating globe] 

  Damien Darhk : Is that big enough?

  Barry Allen : Yes, but the Earth isn't just a solid rock. It has a molten core. The kind of pressure I'd be exerting on its mantle would cause cataclysmic damage. We're talking about volcanoes erupting, ice caps melting, earthquakes, tsunami. It'd be Armageddon.

  Damien Darhk : So in order to save the world and bring my Nora back...

  Barry Allen : I'd have to risk destroying it, just like Despero predicted.

• Damien Darhk : Never dance with the devil.

• Barry Allen : You're also a father, which means you know what it feels like to love someone with all your heart and soul, like your daughter Nora.

  Damien Darhk : My Nora's dead. I am done listening to you.

  Barry Allen : No, she's supposed to be alive, and she is in the timeline I'm trying to restore. In my timeline, a demon was gonna take over her soul, but you switched places with her. You gave your own life so she could live.

  Damien Darhk : If you're lying to me, I'll see you burn.

  [he gives Barry the Time Stone, and he sees a memory of him with Nora] 

  Damien Darhk : It's true. My Nora doll's supposed to be alive. I sacrificed myself to save her.

  Barry Allen : So honor that sacrifice. Help me restore the timeline and bring her back.

  Damien Darhk : Let's go to work.

• Damien Darhk : If we combine the PED and my Time Stone, any anachronisms on that temporal plane will be erased.

  Barry Allen : So this could work.

  Damien Darhk : Oh, it gets so much better. After my arrest, they confiscated the PED. Guess where it ended up.

  [cut to S.T.A.R. Labs] 

• Ryan Choi : [fighting Frost and Chillblaine, Darhk conjures a sword]  Yeah, I increased the molecular density on that little toothpick of yours a thousand-fold at the subatomic level. Good luck trying to lift two tons.

  Damien Darhk : I hate science.

  Sentinel : [tasering him]  Then you are really gonna hate that.

• Reverse Flash : It's not working. I'm still not fast enough.

  Damien Darhk : [countering Frost and Chillblaine's attacks]  I'm trying to save my daughter here, Allen. Focus!

• Damien Darhk : Look, uh, I hate to break up your pity party, but we're running out of time. And, Barry, you have to do this.

  Barry Allen : Trust me, I want my life and Iris back more than anything, but I've run the numbers. I will have two minutes to accelerate before my destruction destroys the world.

  Damien Darhk : Well then, you better run fast.

  Barry Allen : Damien, the odds of me hitting Mach 20 in two minutes is 2%!

  Damien Darhk : It's better than nothing!

  Barry Allen : You don't understand. Despero says I cause Armageddon. This is exactly what he described. I won't be responsible for killing every single person on the planet.

  Damien Darhk : And what happens to those people if you give up? You're leaving 8 billion souls in a world where Thawne has everything that he wants and nothing to lose.

  Barry Allen : I'm still not fast enough.

  Damien Darhk : Fast enough? How dense are you? Speed isn't the only thing that guides you through these things. It never is.

  Barry Allen : What else is there?

  Damien Darhk : Love, you idiot! You're the paragon of it. I saw what you did in the Time Stone. You restarted an entire universe with love. This should be peanuts.

  Barry Allen : It's not gonna work. Not this time.

  Damien Darhk : Really? Well, it's guiding the both of us right now. Why do you think I'm helping you? You think I want to die? I don't. But if sacrificing my life means that Nora gets to live the life that Thawne stole from her, then yeah, I'm gonna do it because my love for her is what keeps me going every damn day in my life. I mean, who do you think I built this whole empire for? Iris, your family, your friends, they are what keep you going.

• Damien Darhk : Imagine how devastating it would be to the Flash to lose his friends on the eve of his wedding. Nothing destroys a man like losing the ones he loves the most.

• Damien Darhk : Barry Allen, I was wondering when my old partner was gonna come back and say hello. I hope you've been laying low somewhere, relaxing.

  Barry Allen : I need your help again, Damien.

  Damien Darhk : Yeah, of course you do. Whoa, hmm. You seem different. It seems like you're running on empty, old friend. What happened to you?

  Barry Allen : The Flash happened to me. Now I want payback.

  Damien Darhk : Mm, I like where this is going. Spill your tragic tale.

  Barry Allen : Well, after you were arrested, I fought the Flash and beat him.

  Damien Darhk : Yes!

  Barry Allen : But before I could drive a hand through his heart, he ran back in time, changed things so he'd won.

  Damien Darhk : He created an anachronism.

  Barry Allen : Only it wasn't just one event. Thawne changed everything. Trying to stop him cost me my speed. Now we're living in a timeline he constructed for his own benefit.

  Damien Darhk : Really? Well, that's downright villainous. Hm.

  Barry Allen : We need to put him down.

  Damien Darhk : Yeah, we will, we will. You know, nobody gets to rig time except me, but fixing this won't be easy. If the Flash created multiple anachronisms, the only way to reset the timeline is to turn everything back at the same time which is why we need the PED.

  Barry Allen : The PED?

  Damien Darhk : The PED. The Particle Eradicator Distributor, the thing that erases any type of matter. You yanked it out of Ray Palmer's cold dead hands.

  Barry Allen : Right. When you've killed as many people as I have, you start to lose track.

  Damien Darhk : Huh. I sometimes forget... You're even darker than me, pun intended.

• Damien Darhk : Frosty, Chill-lame. Yeah, I'm a little bit busy. But you do realize my abilities give me the power to draw and quarter with a gesture, right?

  Chillblaine : [he tries to use his powers, but nothing happens]  Mm, not for the next 24 hours, you don't.

  Frost : Our friend John gave us a badass protection spell.

  Damien Darhk : Constantine, I hate that guy.

  Chillblaine : Yeah, well, too bad. Looks like we get to kick this guy's ass all night.

  Frost : Won't even take that long.

  Damien Darhk : Really? Let's see how that goes.

• Damien Darhk : What the hell was that?

  Barry Allen : We got what we wanted. Killing them wouldn't have been efficient. We can kill them later.

  Damien Darhk : Huh.

  [magically chokes Barry] 

  Damien Darhk : The Barry Allen I know wouldn't wait, which means you're not the Reverse-Flash, so... who are you? Don't make me ask you again. Who are you?

  Barry Allen : Thawne's the real Reverse-Flash. Erase me from the timeline at midnight.

  Damien Darhk : [lets go of Barry]  Man, he is good! I mean, that's like a work of evil art. The question is, what do I do with you?

  Barry Allen : You could still help me.

  Damien Darhk : "Help me?" No, I'm the bad guy. I don't help heroes.

• Damien Darhk : How'd it go with the missus?

  Reverse Flash : I don't know. She let me go. It has to mean something.

  Damien Darhk : Well, let's do this thing. I'll stay here at your point of origin, just in case we get some visitors, but I'll be in touch.

  Reverse Flash : How?

  Damien Darhk : Magic. You'll hear my voice wherever you go. Now, remember, you've got two minutes to reach Mach 20 and open that temporal portal.

  Reverse Flash : Damien, thank you.

  Damien Darhk : [shaking hands]  Get out of here.

• Ryan Choi : Hey, do you know how much longer until my new look is ready? I'm gonna look so good kicking bad-guy butt.

  Chester P. Runk : I'm just making some, uh, last-minute tweaks.

  [his computer chirps] 

  Chester P. Runk : Okay. Okay, good to go. Now we can hunt some tachyons.

  Ryan Choi : [watching the algorithm work]  Well, it's working. According to these readings, there's a pocket of negative tachyons in this room.

  Damien Darhk : [magically choking them]  You had to ruin the surprise, didn't you? You find the PED. I'll take care of these two. Hello, boys.

  [they try to fight] 

  Damien Darhk : Ah, ah, ah.

  Barry Allen : [looking around and seeing a pinball machine]  Of course.

  Damien Darhk : Ooh, Tupac, what an artist.

  Barry Allen : [finding the PED]  I've got it.

  Damien Darhk : Already? Wow, you and I, what a team.

  [they're both affected by a high-pitched whining] 

  Cecile Horton : [wearing the Medusa Mask]  Hurts, doesn't it? Well, so will this.