The Flash (TV Series)

The Girl with the Red Lightning (2019)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

Quotes 

• Ralph Dibny : Nora, where would you find this hyper-conduit in 2049?

  Nora West-Allen : Probably Ollins Laboratory. Ollins won a Nobel prize for quantum engineering.

  Cisco Ramon : Ollins? As in Sebastian Ollins?

  Nora West-Allen : Yeah. Do you know him? He is a true genius.

  Cisco Ramon : [scoffs]  A genius, you say. The guy couldn't even stay awake through a single physics lecture. In fact, I'm pretty sure if it wasn't for his very smart, very considerate college roommate lending him notes, helping him study, he wouldn't have made it through his finals! Nobel prize, my ASS!

  Barry Allen : Yeah, he knows him.

• Ralph Dibny : All right, so, this is the original timeline with the original Cicada, David Hersch. This is the night of the Enlightenment, when Nora interfered with the satellite, giving us our Cicada, Orlin Dwyer. That's also the same night that Grace goes into a coma. This is where it gets complicated. At some point in the future, Grace wakes up, she becomes her own full-fledged Cicada. She goes bac in time, she kills her Uncle with his own dagger. What happens to all the metas that Dwyer killed? Do they get un-killed? What about all the meta that Grace killed in the future? What did she kill them with? And most importantly, what happens in the timeline where Grace never killed Dwyer. Something doesn't add up.

  Barry Allen : You might be right. But right now, there won't be any future for any metas if we don't get rid of that dagger. Now. This is our last chance. We have to figure out how to find Grace. Or we lose everyone.

• Barry Allen : [regarding the speedster trap]  Man, this thing brings back memories.

  Ralph Dibny : Good ones or bad ones?

  Barry Allen : Thawne ones. We trapped the Reverse-Flash in this thing before we even knew he was Thawne.

  Cisco Ramon : Well, we actually ended up trapping his Speed Mirage, while his real self just sat there chilling in his wheelchair.

  Ralph Dibny : Man, Thawne's plans got plans.

• Barry Allen : She's going to use all those metas like a battery. What are we gonna do?

  Ralph Dibny : Reach in, lose our powers, destroy the dagger, stop Cicada from Supergirl-ing away, then regroup for the emotional fallout.

  Barry Allen : Fallout. Cisco, where did you send Fallout's energy when he was going nuclear?

  Cisco Ramon : Earth-15. It's a dead Earth.

  Barry Allen : Let's breach the atomizer there.

• Cisco Ramon : The atomizer's off.

  Killer Frost : Flash!

  The Flash : [she slides the mirror gun to him on a patch of ice]  The dagger.

  Elongated Man : [realization starts to dawn on him]  She didn't have the dagger in the future.

  [in 2049, Thawne's chest plate is removed, revealing the dagger underneath] 

  Elongated Man : The dagger *is* Thawne's plan.

  [Cisco throws the dagger into the air, and Flash takes aim with the mirror gun] 

  Elongated Man : Don't shoot it!

• Nora West-Allen : I can't stand around and do nothing.

  Barry Allen : Yes, you can, because that's what we're telling you to do.

  Nora West-Allen : When I first got here, I would rush in to fix things, and by doing that, I always ended up making them worse. But I am not that person anymore. Because of you. You showed me how to use my powers. You taught me how to make the right choices. And right now, I am choosing to face this risk.

  Iris West-Allen : Nora, this is a terrible idea.

  Nora West-Allen : I know you feel that way. But I don't. I'm an adult, capable of making my own decisions. I've made up my mind about this. So I am asking you, please, as my parents, stop trying to keep me away from this danger and start helping me face it.

• Nora West-Allen : Is that the satellite core?

  Cisco Ramon : That's right. The reflector panels on the mirror gun aren't the only thing we got from the satellite. We also have the core and, of course, the dagger.

  Barry Allen : So they're all composed of the exact same alloy and contain the same dark matter levels?

  Cisco Ramon : Yep.

  Iris West-Allen : So if the mirror gun works on the core, then it should work on Cicada's dagger.

  Cisco Ramon : Only one way to know for sure.

  [taking aim] 

  Cisco Ramon : You might wanna step back. I mean, you don't know what this gun's gonna do. I mean, we shouldn't be firing this in such a small space, but what's life if you don't pull down your shorts and slide on the ice every once in a while?

• Sherloque Wells : Not great, but this dark cloud does have a silver lining. Which is if Cicada had everything that she needs to carry out her plan... would've already done so.

  Ralph Dibny : He's right. She must be missing something or else we'd be done.

  Barry Allen : Yeah, but not for long. She's not gonna waste any time. Whatever it is that she needs, she's out there looking for it right now.

  Iris West-Allen : Well, then we move right away. We get the cure to everyone who needs it as soon as possible.

  Ralph Dibny : So we just up and release some game-changing wonder drug?

  Barry Allen : We tested it. We know it works. People need a choice now more than ever. Do we have enough of the cure?

  Cisco Ramon : Not nearly enough.

  Nora West-Allen : Caitlin, how fast can you make more?

  Caitlin Snow : Guess we'll find out.

• Barry Allen : Nora, earlier today, you had red lightning like Thawne's. We wanna make sure you're okay to get out there.

  Nora West-Allen : I'm fine, okay? Caitlin ran every test in the book. My lightning's back to its normal color. And besides, Thawne's Speed Force is fueled by negative emotions, and right now I feel pretty dang positive.

  Iris West-Allen : Okay. We're your parents. It's our job to worry.

  Nora West-Allen : The only one that should be worrying is Cicada II.

• Barry Allen : Hey, you find anything?

  Cisco Ramon : Confirmation that She-Cada hasn't stolen everything she needs, so we have some time.

  Barry Allen : Finally some good news.

  Cisco Ramon : Except what she did steal was a quantum tunnel converter. The first working prototype of its kind.

  Ralph Dibny : [seeing Barry and Nora's looks]  Yeah, that's the same face Cisco made when he heard.

• Barry Allen : The converter can transform dark matter energy to practical energy.

  Nora West-Allen : Cicada's gonna use her dagger to superpower the atomizer.

  Cisco Ramon : If she wants to connect it to the atomizer, the last piece she'll need is a hyper-conduit, and those are pretty hard to come by, to say the least. She'll be lucky to locate one in the CC area at all.

  Ralph Dibny : Well, we'd better find it first.

  Cisco Ramon : We'll get to it.

• Iris West-Allen : Guys, you okay?

  Nora West-Allen : Yeah, uh, I... I need to tell you something. When we were running over here, I connected to Grace's mind again. I could see through her eyes.

  Iris West-Allen : Wait, like the same thing you did when Cicada attacked Alice Bolan's birthday party?

  Nora West-Allen : Yeah, we must still be psychically connected from when I was in Grace's mindscape.

  Barry Allen : That's what caused the red lightning. The anger that you felt, it wasn't yours.

  Nora West-Allen : It was hers.

• Nora West-Allen : We can use this. If I can see where she is just for a second, we can run to her. Guys, this is the key to stopping Cicada II.

  Iris West-Allen : No. No, Nora, it's too dangerous. We don't even know what the side effects are.

  Barry Allen : No.

  Iris West-Allen : We just got the stuff out of you. We're not risking exposing you to that again.

  Nora West-Allen : Mom, I want to do this.

  Barry Allen : We'll find another way.

• Cisco Ramon : It's just like we thought.

  Barry Allen : Great.

  Iris West-Allen : What?

  Barry Allen : With all the pieces that she's stolen, Grace can now use the dagger's dark matter energy to supercharge the atomizer. Apparently, it wasn't enough for her to just kill all the metas in Central City.

  Cisco Ramon : With this super-charge, she'll kill every meta in the country.

• Iris West-Allen : Do you think we made the right decision leaving Nora out of this? I mean, the whole reason she came back was to fight Cicada in the first place.

  Barry Allen : We're her parents, all right? It's our job to protect her from harm. The best way to do that is just to keep her far away from it.

• Barry Allen : That was Cecile. Um, CCPD is flooded with a lot of really scared people. Are there any signs of Grace's dark matter signature?

  Iris West-Allen : No. Nothing. Not even a...

  Barry Allen : [an alarm sounds]  Is that her?

  [cut to Nora in Cisco's workshop, wearing the MAD 2.0] 

  Barry Allen : Nora!

  Iris West-Allen : Barry, she can't hear you.

  Barry Allen : I don't think she can see us, either. Nora! Nora!

  [with his speed, he dodges between her lightning, removes the MAD, and catches her as she collapses] 

  Barry Allen : Nora!

• Barry Allen : What were you thinking?

  Iris West-Allen : Nora, you almost gave yourself an aneurysm.

  Nora West-Allen : I was trying to find Grace.

  Barry Allen : Opening yourself up to Grace and her rage also opens you up to the negative Speed Force. We don't know anything about it. Don't you get how dangerous that is?

  Nora West-Allen : Yeah, I do. And I still wanna try. I have to try.

  Iris West-Allen : Nora, you trying almost destroyed Cisco's workshop, and almost got yourself killed.

• Barry Allen : You were right. We taught you how to be a hero. So we shouldn't be angry at you when you act like one.

  Nora West-Allen : I know you're just afraid I'll get hurt.

  Iris West-Allen : There's always gonna be danger that you're gonna face, Nora. And we can't hold your hand through all of it.

  Barry Allen : As much as we want to. You're our daughter, but you're not a kid. You're right, you are capable of making your own decisions. You really think you can control your connection to the negative Speed Force, find Grace for us?

  Nora West-Allen : Yeah, I do. All I need is for you guys to keep our home safe while I do it.

  Barry Allen : I think I know how.

  [leading her to the force field generator where they trapped Thawne] 

  Barry Allen : Let's find Cicada.

• Cisco Ramon : The Thawne Trap 2.0 is smaller, sleeker, and stronger. I've gone ahead and sharpened the inflexion points to account for your negative Speed Force energy. So if you go full "Dante's Peak" in there, we'll be safe out here.

  Barry Allen : It also means I can't phase in there if you need me.

  Iris West-Allen : Your dad and I will be right here the whole time.

  Nora West-Allen : You always are.

  Barry Allen : You got this.

  Nora West-Allen : Let's go catch our big bad.