- Chester P. Runk: So I just got off the phone with Luke Fox. Mercer's boomerang, Amar's knives, even Wozzack's funky violin, Luke thinks they all resemble advanced WayneTech designs. But their nano-tech foundations are beyond bleeding-edge.
- Allegra Garcia: So he has no idea who we're up against.
- Barry Allen: What about this new speedster wearing a bat symbol?
- Chester P. Runk: Team Bat's never fought a baddie dressed like that. But they have some drama of their own. A few weeks ago, Ryan Wilder went out on patrol. She never came back.
- Cecile Horton: We got a new speedster in a bat suit, and Batwoman is missing?
- Khione: Could that be a coincidence?
- Iris West-Allen: Okay, what do we do now?
- Barry Allen: We find this new speedster. And we stop him.
- Barry Allen: I just keep thinking about this speedster, what if they're the new Negative Speed Force Avatar?
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah, I feel like we just got rid of the last one.
- Barry Allen: There's something else. There was a symbol on his armor. It looked like a bat.
- Iris West-Allen: Barry, we have to talk to Chester.
- Khione: Ah, the fresh air just makes me feel so alive. And it's the perfect break from our scavenger hunt. Those Starchives are really dark and gloomy.
- Allegra Garcia: And we would have been done by now had you not asked a question about every single gadget.
- Hartley Rathaway: So you need a vibration engine?
- Barry Allen: Not us, no - the Rogues that stole your gauntlets. We think they're working together to steal one.
- Iris West-Allen: So that they can build a more dangerous weapon, one that could destroy the entire timeline.
- Hartley Rathaway: Well, that sounds super ominous. Luckily, those jackasses will have to get in line behind me.
- Barry Allen: Don't tell us you're thinking of moving into time travel too.
- Hartley Rathaway: Oof, no. I don't need those headaches.
- Goldface: [to Barry] Hang on. Something's rotten in Denmark. We left the city hours ago. How were you able to catch up with us? And why do we need to disable meta dampeners so you can do "forensics"?
- Jaco Birch: Dude, come on. Even I figured it out. Barry Allen's the Flash. They have the same Jitters order.
- Goldface: Officer Chemist is the... yeah, no, I see it now.
- [in sign-language]
- Murmur: I've heard of you, you know. The ex-Rogue who sells temptation to the masses for profit.
- Hartley Rathaway: It's a living
- Murmur: We could use someone with your talents on our team.
- Hartley Rathaway: I'm not a killer anymore.
- Murmur: Then that makes you a corpse.
- Barry Allen: You squealed on Amunet? I thought she was your soul mate.
- Goldface: True love is a lie.
- Carver: Damn straight. Goldface's only sidekick is cold, hard cash. He ain't some bleeding heart.
- Goldface: Ain't it the truth.
- Carver: And he sure as hell doesn't stay up all night reading "Dr. Zhivago", then sobbing when Yuri dies before finding Lara.
- Goldface: Damn it, Carver! You were told that in confidence. Book club will remain a safe space.
- Mark Blaine: It's time for you to give me what I want.
- Fiddler: Mm...
- Mark Blaine: All right, fine. Guess I'll take this little puppy over to the Flash, then.
- Red Death: That would be a mistake.
- Mark Blaine: Then give me what you said you would, a way to bring Frost back.
- Red Death: After my mission is complete.
- Mark Blaine: That wasn't the deal.
- Red Death: It is now.
- Mark Blaine: How am I supposed to trust you, huh? I mean, we don't even know who you are underneath that mask.
- Red Death: I will tell you who I am.
- [takes off the cowl revealing a woman]
- Red Death: I am vengeance.
- Iris West-Allen: I just interviewed the lab tech and asked him what Amar and the others might have wanted. He said that a temporal scanner is missing.
- Kristen Kramer: Um...
- Barry Allen: It's a device that measure radioactive half-lives. It tells you what year you're in.
- Kristen Kramer: Why would they need that? Don't Rogues have calendar apps?
- Barry Allen: Everything they've stolen - the Roemer accelerator battery... The sonic gauntlets... Now a temporal scanner? They're all components you'd need to build a cosmic treadmill.
- Kristen Kramer: Do I want to know what that is?
- Barry Allen: It's a machine that uses kinetic energy to open quantum wormholes in space and time, which is a lot of power in the wrong hands.
- Kristen Kramer: Yeah, I didn't.
- Iris West-Allen: Godspeed used one in 2049 when he came back to our time.
- Kristen Kramer: Now you're telling me a trio of murderous lunatics is trying to, what, build a time machine? Why?
- Barry Allen: Whatever their goal is, it's not all I'm worried about.
- Kristen Kramer: There's something worse than actual time bandits?
- Barry Allen: If they take a cosmic treadmill on a crime spree, they could damage the timeline itself. Just one paradox could permanently alter the fabric of space-time.
- Kristen Kramer: Great, 'cause I wasn't worried enough before.
- Kristen Kramer: We ID's three assailants from a surveillance feed. Wozzeck, Mercer, and a Michelle Amar, AKA...
- Iris West-Allen: Murmer, yeah - we did a story on her last year. She's a angry med student turned serial killer who has now teamed up with a pair of ruthless tech thieves.
- Goldface: Hang on, didn't you knock over my operation in 2016?
- Mark Blaine: Operation? Please, the place looked like a farmers market.
- Barry Allen: Can we settle this later?
- Jaco Birch: Yeah. You listen to the man, all right? This is a serious mission. We're gonna save lives today.
- Goldface: Aren't you the fool that opened up an active volcano underneath Central City?
- Mark Blaine: Oh, yeah, right after he killed my favorite bartender.
- Jaco Birch: I was cleared of those charges. You're not the smartest guy in the room.
- Hartley Rathaway: Exactly. I am. So if I could have everyone's attention, the plan...
- Jaco Birch: Your bar plays terrible music! Disco is dead, dude.
- Fiddler: LIPS suck, by the way. You should try listening to a real band like Joy Division.
- Jaco Birch: They're very influential to the industrial metal scene.
- Fiddler: Oh, don't bands-plain to me, hesher.
- Jaco Birch: I'm saying they inspired my new favorite band, Nine Inch Nails.
- Fiddler: No way. That's my favorite band.
- Jaco Birch: Wait... what?
- Fiddler: I like your jacket.
- Jaco Birch: I like your hair.
- Fiddler: I like your chain wallet.
- Iris West-Allen: So the Rogues' new partner is a speedster?
- Jaco Birch: Yeah. It was the scariest thing I've ever seen.
- Barry Allen: And it gets worse. He's using the negative speed, which is how he was able to dampen my speed for a few minutes.
- Iris West-Allen: Why would a speedster need a time machine?
- Goldface: "And darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
- Barry Allen: Edgar Allan Poe.
- Goldface: Then you know the story. Seven revelers at a masquerade, killed by the strangers in their midst.
- Barry Allen: Look, I know what you're all thinking. But this is about more than stealing tech now. This new speedster, I don't know who he is yet. I don't know what he wants to build a time machine. But Team Flash can't stop him on their own, especially how if he has his own Rogue army. I need your help. All of you.
- Hartley Rathaway: Barry, this is not what we signed up for.
- Jaco Birch: But... you know, I have a son to keep safe in this town. So I guess if you need me...
- Goldface: Fine. I always did like a good underdog story.
- Hartley Rathaway: That, and if Central City gets leveled, you're out of business.
- Goldface: I said I'd help.
- Hartley Rathaway: Find out who this guy is, find out his weakness, then call us.
- Iris West-Allen: So how do we stop them from stealing the engine?
- Hartley Rathaway: Well, that's obvious. We just have to steal it first.
- Khione: I see. You're a daffodil.
- Allegra Garcia: A what?
- Khione: A daffodil. A daffodil seed doesn't want to be hurt either, so it clings to the stem, when really, in order for it to grow, it should let go so it can be carried by the wind and blossom into a flower.