You can do this, Barry. You were right. I am responsible for all of this. So many people have been hurt because of me, and when I looked at you, all I saw was a potential victim of my hubris. And yes, I created this madness, but you, Barry, you can stop it. You can do this. Now, run, Barry, run!
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
CMClyde Mardon
It's time to think big.
I'm dealing with a lot right now.
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.
I could do it in three. [Pause] Not relevant.
Yeah, I might be 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.
Joe, what I said to you about not being my father...
Barry, I know. I know I'm not your father.
You're right, you're not. You're just the man who kept me fed and in clothes, who sat by my bed every 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 to college. Sounds a lot like a dad to me.
[voice over] Every kid dreams about being a superhero. Having powers, saving people. But no kid thinks about what it's like to be a hero and 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.
SSSimon Stagg
Wells. Who the hell let you in here?
You been having a party out there?
SSimon
Well, I'm sure you saw on TV. Former employee of mine tried to kill me.
Former employee with the ability to replicate... faced off against a man who could move at super speed.
SSimon
You've seen him too, haven't you?
Indeed I have.
SSimon
Extraordinary. The power he possesses, it's like... it's like the gods of olds! Like Mercury on Earth! Could you imagine if you could control his power, if you could... if you could harness it, you could change what it means to be human. The man in the red mask is the key, and I'm gonna get him.
[takes off his glasses] The man in the red mask. He's called the Flash... or at least he will be one day. [stands up from his wheelchair]
SSimon
What the hell...?
[Wells stabs Stagg in the stomach with a knife]
Forgive me, Simon. I worry that you will think this is personal, and it's not. It's just that the man in the red mask, the fastest man alive... he must be kept...
[draws his knife out of Simon's stomach, who falls over dead]
... safe.
It doesn't matter if you're the slowest kid in gym class or the fastest man alive, every one of us is running. Being alive means running; running from something; running to something or someone. And no matter how fast you are, there are some things you can't outrun; some things always manage to catch up to you.
[answers cell phone] Hello.
Code 237 on Way Boulevard.
Public indecency?
Wait, I think I meant a 239.
Dog leash violation?
Bad man, with a gun, in a getaway car. Go!
My dad has spent 14 years in a six-by-eight foot cell for a crime he didn't commit. I couldn't save my mom, but I can save him.
Didn't I promise you that we would get your father out of prison, together?
I don't need your help Joe. I can be in and out of there with him before anyone even sees me.
Okay, you break him out of there, then what? He's on the run for the rest of his life. Something tells me he's not as fast as you are.
You don't know what it's like there.
You think I don't understand what you're feeling? I have been a cop for almost as long as you've been alive. So you should know, putting on that suit does not make everybody safe. For every person you save there's going to be someone you can't. And the hardest thing you're going to have to face is not some monster out there with powers. It's gonna be that feeling of uselessness when you can't do anything. Or the guilt that weighs on you when you make a mistake. Some things Barry, you can't fight. Some things, you just have to live with.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, leaving like that.
It's okay, I get it, you had to go. It's just... that's the last thing Ronnie said to me that night.
My mother died 14 years ago. I used to think that the further away I got from it the less it would hurt, but some days the pain is worse than the day that it happened. Some things you can't fight.
For so long I've been terrified of going into that hole.
What if I went with you?
[They go down to the particle accelerator and Caitlin flashes back to that night.]
He saved so many lives that day, and no one will ever know what he did.
I do. He was a hero.
I didn't want him to be a hero, I wanted him to be my husband.
Turns out no one can outrun pain. Life is tragedy, but it's also precious and sweet and extraordinary. And the only way I know to honor my mom's life is to keep running.
LSLeonard Snart
Once the armored car called 911 we had 182 seconds before any cop could be on the scene. No one could get there fast enough to stop us. But something did. And you lost your cool. You know the rules, we don't shoot guards or cops unless it's the only option. We don't need the heat.
I am dating Eddie whether you like it or not.
Eddie's my partner.
I know.
But you don't. You're not a cop. You don't know what having a partner means. Wherever I go, he goes, and where I go isn't always safe, Iris. I need to be 100% focused. Now, there's a part of me who isn't focused, who doesn't see Eddie as my partner but as your boyfriend. So if he gets hurt, or worse, and I'm there? How am I gonna look at you? How are you gonna look at me? Now I'm not mad at you, but that's why this is so hard for me. Do you understand?
I mean, if you had just told me, I could have been prepared. But instead, someone died tonight.
And I have to live with that.
No, Cisco, we all do
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