The Flash (TV Series)

Fastest Man Alive (2014)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Streak

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Quotes 

• Barry Allen : Joe, what I said about you not being my father...

  Joe West : Barry, I know. I know I'm not your father.

  Barry Allen : You're right, you're not. You're just the man who kept me fed and in clothes, who sat beside my bed at night until I fell asleep because I was afraid of the dark, helped me with my homework. You taught me how to drive, and shave... and you dropped me off at college. Sounds a lot like a dad to me.

• Joe West : You haven't said anything to Iris about all this, have you?

  Barry Allen : No, I made you a promise. I keep my promises.

  Joe West : Keep on lying like that. You're liable to get struck by lightning again.

• Barry Allen : [voice over]  Every kid dreams of being a superhero - having powers, saving people - but no kid thinks about what it's like to be a hero when you're NOT saving people. Truth is, not much else changes. You still hurt, you still love, you still wish and hope and fear things, and you still need people to help you with all of it. In some ways, that's the best part.

  Caitlin Snow : Barry, an armored car was just hijacked on Griffin Avenue. Get your ass over there.

  [smiles gleefully] 

  Barry Allen : [over the intercom]  I got it.

  Barry Allen : [voice over]  Actually, the best part... it's this.

  [superspeeds away in the middle of the road] 

• Barry Allen : My day job beckons.

  [runs off] 

  Dr. Harrison Wells : When do you think he'll realize he didn't take his clothes?

• Barry Allen : I'm dealing with a lot right now.

  Joe West : Look, I know you are. Believe me, I'm dealing with it, too. I've always had a very simple set of beliefs. Gravity makes things fall, water makes things wet, and, up until a few weeks ago, I believed the fastest man could run a mile in four minutes, not four seconds.

  Barry Allen : I could do it in three.

  [Joe glares at Barry] 

  Barry Allen : [realizing]  Not relevant.

• Joe West : You were wrong.

  Barry Allen : I have been wrong a lot this week. You're gonna have to be more specific.

• Barry Allen : I saw Black create duplicates from his own body.

  Cisco Ramon : That's pretty ironic. The guy specialized in cloning and now he can make xeroxes of himself.

  Dr. Harrison Wells : If he was experimenting on himself when he was exposed to the dark matter wave released by the particle accelerator explosion...

  Cisco Ramon : Meet Captain Clone. Don't worry. I'll come up with something cooler.

• Joe West : [shoots a clone of Danton Black]  Any more of them?

  Caitlin Snow : Nope.

  Barry Allen : Why did it start moving?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : The prime. My guess is the prime is on the move. This one heard the summons to battle.

  Joe West : And I know where he was summoned to - Stagg Industries.

  Barry Allen : You should call it in.

  Joe West : Police can't fight this. What Black's become, like Mardon... beyond me. Maybe way beyond them, too. The only person it's not beyond is you. You gotta do this. I get it. So for once in your life, do what I tell you to do. Go stop him.

• Barry Allen : Yeah, I may be the one in the suit doing all the running... but when I'm out there helping people, making a difference... you're all out there with me. Finally realized something: we were all struck by that lightning.