[Past-Barry has reappeared and is confronting Barry in front of Team Flash.]
Wait a second, how do we know which one's the real Barry?
PBPast-Barry
Dude. Okay, I've watched Wrath of Khan with you, like, five times.
[pointing to Barry] Imposter!
Yeah. And every time at the end, you turn to me and you say "I have been and always shall be your friend".
[pointing to Past-Barry] Ah ha! You imposter! [looks at both Barrys, confused] What is going on here?
It's like right now I'm Anakin Skywalker. I got the midi-chlorians. I've got the goods. The force is strong with me. That is something I can feel. But if I start opening breaches into other worlds, doing all this other crazy stuff Reverb was doing, then... what if this how I become Vader?
Dude, you're never going to become Vader.
That is what happened to Reverb. He learned how to use his abilities, and when he felt that... when he felt that power... he succumbed. To the dark side.
Look, I get it. I really do. Every time I've learned a new ability, I've been terrified about what it might mean for me. What it could do to me, you know? But you were there with me when I learned how to run on water. When I ran up a building or travelled through time. Just like I'm gonna be there every step of the way with you. You got something that Reverb never had, and that's Caitlin and Joe and Iris and Wells and me. Friends. We're gonna look out for you. And we're more than just friends, we're your family.
[Using images of Zoom's parents, Barry is able to capture and unmask him]
How'd you figure out who I was?
You made a mistake: you told Caitlin who your doppelgänger was.
I had to do something to get her to stop trying to ... fix me. She's a smart girl. [pause] And that I was Zoom?
The Velocity-9. When you run fast enough, it turns a speedster's lightning blue. We would've helped you. We would've done anything we could to save your life.
Caitlin found you a cure!
A temporary one! I'm dying, Barry! There's only one thing that can get me what I need!
And you just don't care; how many lives you've destroyed trying to get it? How many people you kill?!
No, I don't! That feeling was taken from me a long time ago. [longer pause] We're not so different, you know. What happened to us when we were kids; you could've just as easily become me.
No. I'd never become like you.
I gotta say, that was smart, using my parents against me. Ah, family: it's such a weakness.
Well, that's where you're wrong. It's time I get what I came for.
[chuckles] You're not getting anything from me. You're not getting anything from anybody ever again, on any Earth.
[quietly] You can't lock up the darkness.
[Zolomon's eyes turn black, and his voice becomes deep and demonic]
You can't lock up the darkness.
Without Caitlin here, I can't really analyze the cells on a molecular level to see what we're dealing with here.
You know, I might actually be able to help.
Bio-chem was one of my majors in college.
One of your majors? How many did you have?
Five. [off everyone's reaction] What, is that not common here?
Girl, no, that is not common anywhere.
You got hit by the dark matter from the particle accelerator explosion?
Yes. Right after I flunked out of med school. Had to move back in with my mother
That couldn't have been fun. If... she's anything like mine, I mean.
Why? Is yours a frigid narcissist, too?
Yeah. Mom was like that ever since Charlie died.
No? Then why was Mom such a bitch on your Earth?
Honestly, I couldn't say.
I'm the reason you killed that man. And that's a really heavy burden to bear.
I know. I know. I also know that what I've done, it's unforgivable. When your mother died, honey... something inside me broke. I couldn't protect her. And I... I swore... I swore on her grave, no less, that I would protect you, and then Zoom took you, and I snapped. I just snapped. I couldn't breathe, I... I couldn't lose the only other person that I love.