Barry Allen quotes from The Flash

Caitlin

Ralph's visiting his mom. He said to call if we need him. And Nora is....?

Nora

[entering the room] Right here. I just stopped by the lab to pick up your blue suit. I figured you had enough of green.

Barry

Hey, I made that green suit work, though.

Nora

After everything that you've seen, don't you think that bad people stay bad?

Barry

Not always. When I first met Leonard Snart, he was a criminal. Probably the worst criminal in the city. But I, you know, I knew that there was a good person in there somewhere, and look at him. Turned out to be a Legend. Died a hero. If he can change, anyone can.

Nora

You really believe that?

Barry

Yeah, I do.

Nora

What about... Eobard Thawne?

Barry

[hesitantly]... I think... part of being a hero is being able to see the good in people. So, yeah. Maybe some day, in the future... even... Thawne... can change. Besides, if we don't believe in people... who will?

Cecile

Hey, we're almost through this. We're gonna get all of these people to safety.

Barry

Even if we do, Cicada's not gonna stop killing. Not until–

Cecile

[getting an empathic feeling from Barry] –until he's... dead.

Barry

... I didn't say that.

Cecile

You didn't have to. The anger that I feel from you says it all.

Barry

How am I supposed to feel?! He almost killed Nora.

Cecile

Barry, I understand. I do. That man hurt your child. But this anger that you're feeling, I have felt it before. From Cicada. Honey, if you let it, this rage will consume you, the same way it's already consumed him.

Barry

[awestruck] No way! Look at this. Flash toys, and Flash phones. Flash rings! Are you kidding? Wow.

Iris

This is all gonna go to your head, isn't it?

Barry

Oh, you know what? [shows Iris a Flash bobblehead doll ] It looks like it might.

Iris

[deadpan] Oh, that is very cute.

Barry

So nobody, including us, knows where we are right now.

Ralph

And we are totally powerless.

Barry

Dude, if we make the wrong move in here, these cuffs are gonna be the least of our worries.

Ralph

New game plan. The anti-hero of our dynamic duo will find the field generator. And you're just gonna stay here and try not to look like a cop. Or a superhero.

Barry

Okay.

Ralph

Or really, anything you actually are.

Ralph

Look, uh... I don't have to ask you how you feel about this. Stealing from a hospital, that's... that's way more than we bargained for. So, if you don't want to do this, I'm–

Barry

I'll do it.

Ralph

You will?

Barry

Yeah, what choice do I have? You warned me to get my head on straight for this job, and I didn't. You had Goldface ready to give us what we needed, I blew it trying to get those guns off the street, and here we are.

Ralph

Barry, this is not your fault.

Barry

Yeah, it is. And you were right. If I want to stop Cicada, I can't be so precious about getting the Flash's hands dirty. Sometimes the ends justify the means, I get that now.

Barry

We have to wait how long before we can use the metahuman cure?

Cisco

Not even that long.

Iris

Cisco.

Cisco

It's gonna go by [snaps] like that.

Iris

Cisco!

Cisco

Twenty-nine days.

Nora

A month?

Cisco

I know, right? Just one teeny, tiny... month until we stop Cicada's purge. You know, historically speaking, this is way faster than we've ever stopped a Big Bad.

Barry

Yeah, it seems like things worked out this time, but that's not always gonna be true. And it's impossible to know how these changes are gonna unfold. The ripples you'll cause, whose life you're gonna affect. No one can do that.

Nora

No one?

Barry

No. We're not gods, Nora. We've just been given extraordinary abilities.

Barry

Oh Lyla, um, this is... my daughter, Nora.

Your daughter.

Barry

Yeah.

Nora

I'm from–

–the future, I'm guessing.

Nora

Yeah. Weird, right?

No weirder than waking up one day to find out that your son used to be your daughter.

Nora

This is gonna be one of the biggest challenges of your career as a hero. Do you know what you're gonna say?

Barry

Uh, yeah, you know, yeah, I... I've got some loose... thoughts.

Sherloque

Oh, great. Well, that instills all of us with confidence, right. 'Loose thoughts'. What you going to say? "Hey, most bloodthirsty enemy... Stop"? [Cisco scoffs]

Iris

Guys. It worked for Marlize. Maybe not so much for Savitar, but...

Barry

I will figure out what to say to him, all right? I got this.

Nora

I know you do, Dad.

Barry

Our whole plan depends on me being able to convince Dwyer to just take the cure. Last time I tried [nervous laugh], I don't think I've ever struck out so hard.

Joe

Wow, that's saying a lot considering your track record at the plate. Wait, what exactly did you say to him?

Barry

That he was creating a legacy of fear. One that would go down in history. But that we could work together to change that.

Joe

That sounds like something the Flash would say.

Barry

Well, I am the Flash.

Joe

Look, that man's a zealot. He sees you in that suit and all he sees is the thing he hates. Metahumans, super powers, the thing that took his niece away from him. He can't see past the Flash. But what he doesn't know, there's a whole lot more to you than that. Be more Barry Allen: human.

Joe

Ever since she got her powers, it's like she's a human lie detector.

Barry

How is that a bad thing?

Joe

You know I've always prided myself on being able to read people, right? With Cecile and these powers, I mean... she puts me to shame.

Barry

Well, you just got to remember that you guys are a team. That makes her strengths, your strengths. And yours, hers. So if you let her do what she's great it, it's only going to create more room for you to do more of what you're great at too, right?

Joe

Well damn. You're getting real good at these pep talks, Bar.

Barry

I know, I had a pretty good teacher.

The Flash

I know how much you care about Grace. You're trying to make the world a better place for her. She didn't choose to be a meta, but she is. Does that mean she deserves to die?

No, I would never hurt Grace.

The Flash

Then you'd let her grow up in a world of fear, where there's someone out there, hurting people like her? The cure, it will heal Grace. And you.

And why should I believe you, Flash?

Barry

Because I'm a father, too. My daughter, I love her more than I ever thought possible. I would do anything to make the world a better place for her. And I think you would, too. So do it.

Barry

Hey, by the way, this might not be our only lead. Do you remember that time-sphere that we built for Thawne?

Joe

That big hamster ball thing?

Nora

Someone stole one in the future to come here.

Cecile

Like our... our Cicada copycat?

Joe

Makes sense. I can't even believe I just said that.

Barry

I used to think that keeping secrets from people for their own good was a noble decision. That it would protect them. But when you do that, you just rob those people from making their own decisions. I even did it with you.

Nora

Like when you didn't want to take me to your past.

Barry

Mm hmm. I didn't want you to see how painful things got for me as the Flash, or how bad things got for your mom. But secrets are like walls, and... you can't really know someone with walls between you.