Barry Allen quotes from The Flash

You know what you have to do. You have to take me back to that night and let me finish what I started.

Barry

You go to hell!!

You're taking both of us there! NOW who's the villain, Flash?! NOW who's the villain?!

Iris

Listen to me, Barry. You said we love each other in that other life. If I were your Iris from over there, I'm sure I would know exactly what to say, but I don't. All I can say is... I believe in you. And you can stop this guy. Be the Flash, Barry, because that's who you are. You're the Flash.

Barry

I'm the Flash.

Felicity

There's a whole new guy at work that you didn't even know about?

Barry

Yeah, and he's worked there for almost a year. And he doesn't like me very much, apparently.

Felicity

Well, that's impossible. Everybody likes Barry Allen. You're like pudding. Everybody likes pudding.

Barry

Not everyone.

Barry

Look, I've learned... all this stuff that I didn't know before, okay? I'm not gonna make the same mistakes --

Jay

-- mistakes. Yeah, what you just said right there? That is the paradox of time travel, and also the paradox of life. I mean, "If I only knew then what I know now" --

Barry

But why have these powers, if I can't go back and fix what I broke?

Jay

We're not gods, we're men... who, for whatever reason, have been given extraordinary abilities. The question you need to ask yourself is... what kinda hero are you gonna be? Are you just gonna take a do-over every time you make a mistake, or will you live with them ... and move forward?

Cisco

I've been trying this whole time to get you to do this one thing for me. But you kept saying "No, Cisco." "I can't, Cisco." "I would never do that, Cisco." And now you're telling me you went and did it for yourself.

Barry

Were you listening? It went bad, it went really bad.

Cisco

I don't care! At least I'd have my brother back.

Barry

Yeah, you would have him back. But, because of it, somebody might have something happen to them that's just as awful as what happened to Dante, and trust me, you don't want that on your conscience. It's a heavy burden to bear. And I don't know how many times I've said this, but... I'm really sorry about Dante, man.

Cisco

"Sorry" doesn't change anything.

Barry

No, it doesn't. But I can't go back. I can't change it. All I can do is move forward. I really hope you can, too.

You found me again, Flash. I wondered how long it'd take you to figure it out.

Barry

Wasn't too hard.

See you didn't bring your little sidekick with you, though.

Barry

Nope. Just me.

That's too bad. I brought one. [ Alchemy shoots Barry with a bolt of energy.] Oh, and Flash? A little quaking in your boots wouldn't be inappropriate.

Joe

What'd you find out?

Barry

Okay, get this. So the outer layer of the lamppost is a half an inch thick. But to bend even a quarter of an inch of steel requires 177 tons of tensile strength. So...

Joe

So we're looking for a meta with super-strength.

Barry

Well, I'm not sure yet, but that's as much as I could find.

Joe

What? Why?

Julian Albert

Because I showed up. Yes, any problems with Barry's little theory is that there were no fingerprints on the post.

Barry

Again, Julian, not my theory. And the meta could have been wearing gloves.

Julian

Yes, perhaps. But the curvature on the post suggests that equal amounts of pressure were applied to the whole thing at the same time. So, unless our strongman has a wingspan of over twenty feet...

Joe

Something else caused it.

Julian

Yes.

Barry

Hey, Joe. Did you talk to Wally? He still seems a little bummed.

Joe

Eh, it's not gonna fix itself overnight, but it's all good. He gets it.

Barry

Okay.

Joe

And I gotta be honest, it was one of my better Dad Cop speeches.

Barry

What's "Dad Cop"?

Joe

Uh, there's Good Cop, Bad Cop,... and Dad Cop. Firm but reassuring. Cuts to the point.

Barry

I don't think I know that one.

Joe

Yeah, I didn't use it on you. Wally's different than you, Barry. You're like a... second daughter. You overshare your feelings. Him, I gotta be a little more... nuanced.

Barry

[taking that in] Huh. Cool.

Joe

I'm messing with you. [He and Barry share a little laugh] I'll talk at'cha if I get any leads on Frankie, all right? [walks off]

Barry

All right. [mutters to himself] "Second daughter"? What is he... talking about?

Barry

You said it. Everything's different here. There's a guy creating metahumans, innocent people, because I changed the timeline. It's on me.

Wells

Yeah, well, I think I know a thing or two about what that feels like. I keep making mistakes. I make mistakes, then I want to make up for my mistakes, then I just make more mistakes. Next thing I know, I have a daughter that won't even speak to me.

Barry

How do we keep from messing things up when all we want to do is help?

Wells

I dunno. But you did once tell me that you have to trust that in the long run, the decisions you make are the right ones.

Barry

Yep.

Wells

I was always too good at forgiving myself, Allen. And you were never good enough.

Jesse

Okay. Well, that wasn't very heroic.

Barry

Nope. But there is a lesson in there somewhere.

Jesse

What's that?

Barry

The difference between having powers and having precision.

Jesse

Well, what do you mean?

Barry

I mean it's gonna take more than speed to take down some of these metas. You gotta think. Anticipate. When you enter a new environment, you gotta case every inch of it. Never run in blind. [realizing] Oh, my God. I've become Oliver. Heh.

Caitlin

Hey, Harry. Are you really sure you have to leave?

Wells

Just a lot I still have to fix on my Earth.

Cisco

Yeah, but you know it's more fun when you're here helping us fix stuff on our Earth.

Barry

He's right. Hasn't been the same without you.

Caitlin

The team doesn't feel complete without Harrison Wells,

Wells

Then change that. There's a whole multiverse of Harrison Wells out there at your fingertips. Want one? Let's go get one.

Caitlin

Good-looking guy. [off everyone's looks] For a criminal.

Barry

Well, he's more than just a criminal, now. Apparently, he's a meta who can travel through mirrors.

Cisco

Oh! Oh, I got this one! He's, um...

Wells

Mirror Master.

Cisco

What the...

Wells

Booom.

Barry

That's good.

Wells

Thank you. We had a Mirror Master on our Earth. Evan McCulloch. Wasn't a meta, though. He had some kind of mirror gun that he used.

Barry

How'd it work?

Wells

Must have had dimensional warping tech that changed everything into two dimensions.

Barry

Well, Scudder is hell-bent on finding Snart. He's going after anybody that worked with him in the past. Joe's interviewing one of them right now.

Cisco

Well, all of Snart's known associates are either presumed dead or gone AWOL. Except for one.

Barry

That's her.

Wells

Rosalind Dillon.

Caitlin

Says she has the ability to induce crippling vertigo.

Cisco

[quickly] Oh! Um, uh, a top. Like a top. She's a top. That's her name. Top. Amazing. [to Wells] What, you wanna GO ?!?

Caitlin

O-kay.

Iris

What's it like in there?

Barry

Ummm... Dark. Look, Iris, uh... I'm sorry that I'm... stuck right now.

Iris

Oh, honey, I know that you're stuck. It's okay, we are gonna get you outta there.

Barry

No. [laughs] No, that was misleading. Not the mirror. I mean with us. This thing with Joe and... You were right, it's not Joe, it's me. It's my problem. I've just been feeling nervous about this new dynamic between the three of us. I dunno. I have everything that I have ever wanted right now, and I've never had that in my life. And in a lot of ways, it's scarier than having nothing, because... it's easier to fail than to succeed. I really want to succeed.

Julian

Don't worry. I have four years training in the military.

Barry

Even still, since when does a CSI carry a gun?

Julian

Since there were monsters in our city.

Julian

This is exactly what I was talking about. Some meta's been gifted with this incredible power, and this is the very best thing they can do with it. Terrorize a city, it's... it's pathetic.

Barry

But why exactly do you hate metas so much?

Julian

If you think I'm going to break down now, and tell you that one of them killed my parents, and that's why I have to do this job... I'm not. I'm going "I don't need a deep personal reason to hate metas", Allen. I just need to see person after person transformed, given these extraordinary abilities and watch them be squandered. Robbing banks, hurting people, spreading fear. Well, it's not just a crime... it's an absolute waste. Can you imagine what it would be like to have those powers? I mean, I would... I'd be helping people. I would be improving the world. I guess I wasn't one of the chosen few, was I?