The Flash (TV Series)

Fast Enough (2015)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

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• Dr. Harrison Wells : What? No Big Belly Burger? It's one of the few perks of living in this time. We're out of cows where I come from. You don't care about that. You have questions. Go ahead.

  Barry Allen : I'm not sure where to start... Thawne. That is your real name - Eobard Thawne?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : Since the day I was born.

  Barry Allen : And when was that?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : 136 years from now. This's not what you wanna know. Go ahead, Barry. Ask it.

  Barry Allen : Why did you kill my mother?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : Because I hate you. Not you now. You years from now.

  Barry Allen : In the future.

  Dr. Harrison Wells : In a future. Yes. We're enemies, rivals, opposites, reverses of one another.

  Barry Allen : Why? Wh-why were we enemies?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : It doesn't matter. It doesn't... matter anymore. What matters is that neither of us was strong enough to defeat the other... until I learned your secret. I learned your name, "Barry Allen," and finally I knew how to defeat you once and for all - travel back in time, kill you as a child, wipe you from the face of the earth - but then you - future you, that is - followed me back and we fought. We both landed some pretty solid shots; and then, you - future you - got your younger self out of there. I was so mad, but then I thought... what if you were to suffer a tragedy? What if you were to suffer something so horrible, so traumatic that your child self could never recover? Then you would not become The Flash. And so I stabbed your mother in the heart, and I was free, finally able to return to a future without The Flash, only to realize that in traveling back I'd lost my way home, lost my ability to harness the speed force, and without it, I was stuck here, stranded in this time, unable to return to my own, and the only way back was The Flash - but The Flash was gone, and so I created him.

  Barry Allen : Why train me? Why help me save so many people?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : Because I needed you to get fast. Fast enough to rupture the space-time barrier and create a stable wormhole through which I could return home.

  Barry Allen : Why would I ever do that?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : Because, Barry Allen, if you give me what I want, I'm gonna give you what you want. You can go back and save your mother. You can prevent your father from going to prison. You can reunite the Allen family.

  Barry Allen : No. No, I don't believe you. I want to kill you right now.

  Dr. Harrison Wells : I know that rage. I used to feel that rage every time I looked upon you. And now, somehow, I know what Joe and Henry feel when they look on you with pride. With love.

  Barry Allen : No. No. Don't you ever say that to me!

  Dr. Harrison Wells : I know you're upset, but I'm giving you a chance. I'm giving you a chance to undo all the evil I've done. Don't you want that chance?

• Barry Allen : We're gonna need something else, too.

  Cisco Ramon : Really? And what's that? 'Cause I don't know about you guys, but I'm not at all interested in helping you get yourself killed.

  Barry Allen : I need you to build a time machine.

  Cisco Ramon : Go on.

• Barry Allen : My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. When I was a child, I saw my mother killed by something impossible. My father went to prison for her murder. Then an accident made me the impossible. To the outside world, I am an ordinary forensic scientist, but secretly, I use my speed to fight crime and find others like me. And one day I'll find who killed my mother and get justice for my father. That day is today.

• Reverse-Flash : Just so we're clear, after I kill you, I'm going to kill them, and then I'm going to kill your father. I always win, Flash.

  [gunshot fires, Eddie has shot himself] 

  Iris West : Aagh! Eddie! Oh, my... !

  Joe West : Eddie! What did you do? What did you do? What did you do?

  Detective Eddie Thawne : No such thing as a coincidence.

  Barry Allen : What's happening?

  Reverse-Flash : [dissolving]  Cisco, help me.

  Cisco Ramon : Eddie's his ancestor. If Eddie dies, he'll never been born, and... He's being erased from existence.

• Barry Allen : So if I go back and save my mom, my dad doesn't go to prison. I never live with Joe and Iris.

  Cisco Ramon : You might never meet me... or Caitlin or Ronnie.

  Dr. Martin Stein : Truth is, there's no real way of knowing what your life will be.

  Joe West : There's no choice here, Barry. You have to do this. You gotta change the past.

• Joe West : Barry, get the chance to grow up with both parents. You don't have to grow up without a mother.

  Barry Allen : What about growing up with a father?

  Joe West : You will have a father - your real father. Wells has messed with our lives long enough. This is why you became The Flash, Barry. To put things right. You saved a lot of people's lives this past year. Now it's time to save yours.

• Dr. Martin Stein : The calculations. There is a... a danger.

  Barry Allen : I know. I'm ready to take the risk.

  Dr. Martin Stein : No, not just to you, but to everyone. Wells didn't tell us everything. Barry, even if you do reach the right speed, colliding with the hydrogen particle, there is a chance that explosion could create a singularity.

  Caitlin Snow : What's a singularity?

  Cisco Ramon : It's a black hole.

  Barry Allen : We could destroy Central City.

  Dr. Martin Stein : For starters. If we create a singularity here and then cannot control it, we could be looking at a global catastrophe.

  Cisco Ramon : So long and thanks for all the fish.

• Dr. Martin Stein : According to Well's calculations, Barry super-speeds inside the accelerator ring. Once Barry reaches optimum speed, we then launch a hydrogen proton into the accelerator. Once the collision happens, a wormhole forms, opening a gateway into time itself. It's at that moment I plan on shouting something along the lines of "Eureka" or possibly "Excelsior." I'm uncommitted.

  Barry Allen : What do you think?

  Cisco Ramon : [sighs]  I mean, on the one hand, it does make a kind of sense. On the other hand, why? Why, why would you ever consider doing this?

• Reverse-Flash : You didn't save her? Why? WHY? You could have had the life you wanted. You could have had everything you ever wanted!

  Barry Allen : I already do.

  Reverse-Flash : [pause]  Not for long.

• Iris West : So are you gonna do it?

  Barry Allen : It's just so... huge. It's the biggest decision of my life, and if I'm wrong, I can't undo it.

  Iris West : Why would you want to? I mean, you'd get to see your mom again, your dad, have a great career, even get married. Iris West-Allen, huh? I never really thought of myself as a hyphenator. Must be a 2024 thing.

• Barry Allen : So, how does this work? Your grand plan?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : Well, actually it's not that grand at all, Barry. In fact it's rather simple. We use the particle accelerator.

  Barry Allen : [Nervously chuckles]  The particle accel... The last time that happened, you caused an explosion that hurt alot of people.

  Dr. Harrison Wells : This time, the accelerator will operate exactly the way it was designed to. Except, instead of two particles moving in opposite directions, colliding at the speed of light in the inner ring, we're only going to inject one particle, into the accelerator.

  Barry Allen : And I'm what it collides with.

  Dr. Harrison Wells : And if you can go fast enough, Barry, if you can HIT that particle with enough speed, you will punch a hole right through the fabric of reality. And you will create a portal connecting this time, to infinite times.

  Barry Allen : A wormhole.

  Dr. Harrison Wells : Through which one might travel back to the past, say, to the night your mother died, or forward to the future, to say, my time.

  Barry Allen : You said if, I run fast enough. What happens if I don't?

  Dr. Harrison Wells : If you don't achieve the desired velocity, Barry, you'll die.