Barry Allen quotes from The Flash

[reading]

Barry

[smiles weakly] Lady Gaga usually works for me.

Joe

How did you get hurt, Barr? All right, look... you don't have to share right now if you want to. Just know that I'm here. Always.

Barry

Something's coming, Joe. I have to make a sacrifice. But at the same time, I can't help but feeling like it means I'm giving up.

Joe

Giving up?

Barry

Yeah.

Joe

When I was a beat cop, you know, I walked the same patrol every day. One morning, I'm responding to a noise complaint. Out of nowhere, pop. Bullet flies by my head. I got pinned, I called for backup, but everything was telling me that's it. Next morning... Barr, I can't even tell you how... scared I was... to go back there in them streets.

Barry

But you did.

Joe

Yeah. [shows his police badge] 'Cause of this. Our badges, your emblem, they're symbols of the strength that we're charged with to get back out there. We don't make a choice to die. We would never choose to do that. But when we hear the call of duty... We're willing to make that sacrifice. And that's not giving up, Barr. That's what you call resilience. And I know you to have plenty of that.

Barry

I had a feeling about you. I hoped I was wrong. But I know a desperate man when I see one. Put them back.

Ramsey

No.

Barry

I can make you.

Ramsey

Go on, then. Like you said, I'm a desperate man. I have nothing to lose.

Barry

I thought you wanted to save lives.

Ramsey

HLH isn't just my mother's disease. First it killed her, and now it's killing me.

Barry

I still can't let you take those. Look at what it did to Mitch Romero.

Ramsey

I am marking my calendar to every day until I die, waiting to fall off a cliff, powerless to grab onto anything or anyone. I watched my mother dived off that same cliff... with a smile on her face. She didn't even fight.

Barry

I know what's like to lose your mother. I know you're angry.

Ramsey

This isn't anger. This is the pain beneath my anger. It takes courage to fight death.

Barry

Maybe it takes more to accept it.

Ramsey

My mum had the same look on her face when she was first diagnosed. You're a dead man, too. Aren't you, Barry? So why don't you fight for yourself?

Barry

I'm marking my calendar with the days I have left to live. I'm gonna spend them saving as many people I can.

Ramsey

You're not a coward. You're just naive.

Barry

Stop trying to hit me, and hit me. Or why don't you just admit what's hurting you?

I don't want to die when I've just started living. Okay? I finally have the chance to live a life, and not this stupid Crisis is gonna take it all away?

Barry

I know it's not fair.

Do you know that Baskin-Robbins has 31 different flavors? I might die before I get to figure out which one is my favorite. Or what my favorite song, or have my first birthday party. 30 years of existing, and I've never had one. That really sucks.

Barry

Frost. There's always going to be a crisis, or some meta-human threatening to take away the life that you love. Truth is, we're all living on borrowed time.

So, what, does everyone feels this crappy all the time? That actually does kind of make me feel better.

Barry

It's why you can't let the threat of losing tomorrow tomorrow keep you from making the most of today.

I want to spend the rest of today making sure that Mitch Romero doesn't hurt anyone else.

Cisco

The Monitor? Where did you see him?

Barry

We went in the Time Vault, right after putting Chester in the MAC. The Crisis that he spoke about last year, it's the same one in the plinth's newspaper. And it's not coming in 2024. It's coming December 10... 2019.

Ralph

Are you sure about this?

The jackass lied to you.

Iris

Yeah, well, we thought so, too, but... Barry went to Earth-3 and Jay Garrick helped him see that it was true.

Cisco

How did he do that?

Barry

Jay projected my mind forward into the future.

Cisco

Okay. And what did you see?

Barry

I saw a giant wave of antimatter sweeping over our Earth. Vaporized all of Central City and everybody in it. Including you three.

Great. I'll go mark my calendar.

Barry

We still have seven weeks to make sure none of this happens.

Iris

Guys, Barry's right. We've changed the future before. We can change it again.

Ralph

So what else did our Asgardian cosplayer say?

Barry

That was pretty much it.

Barry

What are you talking about? What the hell are you doing?

Cisco

I'm saving your life. 'Cause someone has to do it.

Barry

Saving Ramsey... Saving Ramsey's my call.

Cisco

And it's a bad call.

Barry

But it's one I made. Sometimes, as a leader, you have to make tough calls in order to serve the greater good.

Cisco

You know, I made a tough call. And I made it for you.

Barry

But I told you. You can't save me.

Cisco

I'm not buying that!

Barry

Well, you have to. Sacrificing myself saves everything and everyone. I've seen it.

Cisco

And what does that give me to look forward to? Waking up to a world without the Flash? A light without my best friend?

Barry

You get to live. You all get to live.

Cisco

Don't.

Barry

Look, man, I... I've been dealing this for weeks. Wondering what's gonna happen when I'm gone, how everybody's gonna move on. That's why I wanted us, you and me together, to save Ramsey today.

Cisco

You wanted us to save a random person so I'd be okay with you dying?

Barry

No. I wanted us to save one person's life so you could understand the tough calls... the sacrifices that a leader has to make. Because you're my pick. You the person I want to run S.T.A.R. Labs and this team when I'm gone.

Ralph

Okay, computer, what's Barry's favorite movie?

Barry

Empire.

Ralph

Oh, thank God.

Barry

Actually... I loved, loved Empire Strikes Back my whole life, but... now that I think about it... oh, my God. My favorite movie is Jurassic Park.

Cisco

There it is.

Barry

How does it do that?

Cisco

Fuzzy logic, and AI intuition, my guy. With the B.A.R.I. by my side, it'll be like you never left.

Iris

Cisco, we got your message. I'm... I'm really sorry to hear about Gypsy.

Cisco

Some things you never get over. But her service is next week.

Barry

You want us to come with you?

Iris

Yeah. I mean, we loved her, too.

Cisco

Thank you. Uh, Kamilla's coming with me, so... I'm very lucky to have her. Is it wrong to feel that way? I mean, with everything that just happened? It's like I'm moving on. What kind of person does that?

Iris

Someone who is very much in love.

Cisco

It's funny. Cynthia wasn't the person I ended up with, but, um, I think she taught me how to be the person I needed to be for when the right person came along, and for that, I will never forget her.

Barry

I should've listened to you. If we had done things your way, we wouldn't have gotten caught. Maybe I should be handing over Central City over to Ralph Dibny rather than the Elongated Man.

Ralph

What are you talking about?

Barry

There's no deposition. I planned a press conference to present you as Central City's official protector. Because of this coming Crisis, I have to prepare the city for a world without Flash.

Ralph

Wow. I'm, uh... I'm honored that you think that I could help fill your shoes. Look, tonight's job was for Ralph Dibny because both parts of my identity have value. The same is true for you, only tonight I could've used your civilian half. What I'm trying to say is Barry Allen is just as important as the Flash. Try to remember that. I know I will.

Barry

[pretending to be drunk] This isn't the bathroom.

Barry

[whispering] Sorry, sorry.

Meister

Mr. Allen Barry, I see you have found the open bar.

Ralph

[whispering to Barry] Keep her busy til I can get to that console.

Barry

I'll bid on your stupid laptop.

[bidding from the crowd] Five hundred million.

Barry

Five hundred million and one. Dollar. Price Is Right rules.

Speed Force

It's okay, Barry. I'm here. I'm sorry it took me so long to find you. Ramsey's infection is stronger than anything we've ever faced, and it's only getting stronger.

Barry

I think I know why.

Speed Force

You feel doubt.

Barry

I do.

Speed Force

You've answered our call before. It's always been difficult. What's changed?

Barry

I've led more. I've gotten married, seen a future where I'll have a daughter who's the best of me and Iris combined. Most of my life has been driven by my past, but... but now, I... It finally feels like I'm living for myself. I don't wanna leave my family and my friends. I don't want to die. I know that's selfish. I'm sorry I let you down.

Speed Force

Barry. No person is immune to fear and doubt... No matter how brave... that's what makes you human, Barry. But the courage to move forward, even in the face of overwhelming odds, that's what makes you a hero. That's what makes you the Flash.

Barry

Thank you. I needed to hear that.

Speed Force

Please understand. The role you play is vital to all things.

Barry

Oh, stop.

Speed Force

There are universal forces at stake. They must be protected.

Barry

What about the rest of us?

Ramsey

She's right. There are universal forces at stake. It's just a pity she doesn't consider your life among them.

Speed Force

Don't listen to him. He wants to possess your form no matter the cost.

Barry

Cost? All those headstones? Those people are dead because of my connection to you. How many times do I have to suffer for you? When is it your turn to suffer? Do you even feel pain?

Speed Force

No, at least not as you know it.

Ramsey

How could it? The Speed Force isn't human. It doesn't even know what it means to be alive, to have a family to love. It only pretends.

Speed Force

Ramsey's infection is twisting your heart. You have to fight it. Barry. These aren't your true feelings.

Barry

What do you know about the truth? This isn't what you look like. This isn't my old bedroom. It's a trick. This is you manipulating me so I'll do what you want.

Speed Force

That's not true. I care about you.

Ramsey

All it cares about is using you.

Speed Force

Barry, you must listen to me.

Barry

No, I don't! You're not my mom. You're the reason I buried her.

Cisco

God, I remember the old days. No doppelgangers, no Flashpoint, no time travel. It was just us against the bad guys. I miss that.

Iris

I don't know, I kinda like time travel. When you were stuck in the Speed Force, I would have Cisco vibe me to the Waterfront so I could watch our first kiss. You know, the one you had to erase from the timeline to save the world.

Barry

Why'd you do that?

Iris

I don't know. I guess when you're filled with sadness, happy thoughts are what get you through the day. And what's happier than getting half your first kiss with the love of your life other than getting to do it twice? Our love story never ends, Barry. Not even with Crisis.

Barry

Iris, it's inevitable.

Iris

Maybe. But whether you vanish or... or worse, I am gonna be there with you. I'm gonna right there with you to the very end, okay? Because the only thing more inevitable than Crisis is us.

Barry

Iris is right. Whatever's in store for us, they can't change what we mean to each other. Can't erase what's in our hearts. As long as we hold on to that... we've beaten Crisis before it ever begins.

You're searching for a mission that doesn't exist, Barry. And no amount of searching is going to bring Oliver back. That man sprinted from different crusade to crusade. But, Barry, life is more than just the mission. Unfortunately, Oliver learned that too late. And he wouldn't want you going down that same path.

Barry

Oliver died so this Earth could live, Digg. I have to do everything I possibly can to protect it.

Oliver died for more than this Earth's survival. Oliver laid down his life so the people he loved could live theirs. That includes you. [gives Barry Oliver's mask back] Life's a marathon, not a sprint, Barry. Slow down and enjoy it.

Cisco

That's exactly what we have to think about. What if creating Kamilla's duplicate did kill the real Kamilla, same thing with Singh, same thing with Iris... Hello.

Barry

What you want me to say?

Cisco

Anything that we have a plan that will get them back.

Barry

I don't have a plan Cisco.

Barry

Eva can move anywhere, through any mirror in the universe in the blink of an eye. She's faster than I am and somehow I'm supposed to stop her, and hope to god that Iris and everyone else is still alive in a world that "we" don't even understand.