Iris West quotes from The Flash

Where did you get this jacket?

Nora West-Allen

Uh... [points to Iris] From her.

Iris

Um... no. Mine... mine is a one-of-a-kind.

So was this, when you let me borrow it.

Who are you?

I'm your daughter Nora, from the future, and I think I made a big, big mistake.

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Ralph

Now I realize that you're all way ahead of me in this time travel business, but guys, I think I just discovered something. So, if, if Nora can time travel, that means she can create new timelines, right? New timelines means that parallel timelines can exist. So, guys, I think that... a whole other universe could exist. I know, I know, it sounds crazy, but think about it. There could be, ah, an Earth where we're all bad guys, or another Earth where there's no world hunger, or another Earth where... where they never made that last Indiana Jones movie.... Think of the possibilities. It's like some kind of... Manyverse. [looks around at the rest of the team] Aaand everybody knows about the Manyverse.

Iris

Multiverse. And so do you, Ralph.

Breacher, Gypsy, Harry. What did you think we meant when we said that Harry was from Earth-2?

Ralph

That he is from Earth "also". [off everyone's looks] You guys really need to make, like, a "Welcome" pamphlet, or at least a Powerpoint or something. [bangs his head on a whiteboard]

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You know the danger that her being here poses to the timeline.

Iris

Yeah, I do, but I also know you, Barry. Look. You're the guy that went back in time to borrow Snart before he died.

I know.

Iris

You're also the same guy that traveled to 2020 to figure out who Savitar was, and to 2015 to train with Wells. You changed fate to save my life. So, now that our daughter is here in front of us asking for our help, you expect me to believe that you're worried about the timeline?

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[Nora has just shown the rest of Team Flash the far-future newspaper article claiming that the Flash never returns after vanishing.]

Iris

So what?

Iris.

Iris

So what that that article says you never come back? So what if the other one says you vanished? I mean, it's said other things before, right? We made it say other things before. So, whatever the future brings, we're gonna deal with it when it gets here. And change it if we need to.

She has a point. If there's anything Team Flash is good at, it's handing the future its own ass, and then some.

What he said.

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Iris

Still swirling around up there?

I just don't get Nora. I mean, I thought our training was sinking in. I mean, she defeated Block, she was really making progress. And next thing you know, she wants to break into CCPD and kidnap a suspect in police custody. I mean, it's like she wants to... make Hersch Cicada.

Iris

Barry, you really don't get why she's obsessed?

Wait, should I?

Iris

Think about it. She's been hearing about the ripple effects on the timeline since she got here. And at first, they were relatively small, but now, Cicada...

Not so small.

Iris

He's one of the worst serial killers in history, and now because of Nora, he's here early. And an entirely different person.

With an entirely different set of victims.

Iris

That is a huge weight to bear for someone who just wanted to spend time with a dad she never knew. She feels really guilty, Barry. She wants to try to fix her mistakes, whatever that takes. Sounds like another speedster I know, actually.

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[Nora uses her smartphone to take a picture of Iris' pancakes.]

Iris

What, what're you doing?

Uh, I am just getting evidence that you make lumpy pancakes in every time period.

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[Team Flash is reviewing the latest app article by Spencer Young about Nora fighting a fire at the Picture News building.]

Hold on. Look at the time stamp on the post. Seven-fifty-two pm? Nora and I were still with Jonesy, and the fire at C.C.P.N. hadn't even been reported yet.

Iris

I guess you'll always be the first one to the scoop if you're the one making it.

So she's some sort of "Early Edition" meta who creates stories?

Iris

Fake news taken to a whole new level.

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Iris

Tripped alarm at Central City Art Gallery. Someone stole a Monet.

[in disbelief] At 10 a.m.? That's bold.

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Iris West-Allen, I know bad-assery when I see it, and that was raw, unrefined, cage-free, non-GMO bad-assery right there.

You dove off a building.

For me.

Iris

Yeah, I guess I kinda did.

What was going through your mind?

Iris

Uh, "Please, God, don't let me drop this key."

I mean, weren't you afraid? You're not a speedster.

Iris

No, I'm not. But my husband and my partner and my best friend... is.

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[Nora's body is speed-regenerating the nerves in her broken back, but the growth is slow.]

Iris

Hey. Don't give up. okay? Growth is growth.

Normal axon growth rate reaches five millimeters a day in a large nerve. My speed-healing might just be over a hundred.

Iris

How do you know that?

I took "Neuro Regeneration" in my fifth grade's temp class.

Iris

I took... fractions in fifth grade. [Iris and Nora share a laugh]

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[Barry and Iris are inside Nora's childhood memory of the Flash Museum.]

[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?

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

Iris

[deadpan] Oh, that is very cute.

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I was angry all the time. Angry for not getting to have a dad. Angry 'cause... nobody seemed to understand what I was feeling. And it didn't matter what you did or said, Mom. I was always gonna be angry at you. Because you were there.

Iris

You were going through a lot, Nora.

But so were you. I mean, I thought you were trying to stop me from being me, but you were trying to stop me from being Dad. I mean, ending up like him. You guys had a whole life together. And a child, and... he vanished. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for you. I mean, from that day, you... you were protecting me, and I... I get that now. I'm so sorry for the way that I treated you. Both back then and now, when I first got here. You didn't deserve that.

Iris

Thank you. You're an amazing woman, Nora West-Allen. I will always love you. Past, present and future.

I love you, too, Mom. [hugs Iris]

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

Not even that long.

Iris

Cisco.

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

Iris

Cisco!

Twenty-nine days.

[Sherloque does a spit-take.]

A month?

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.

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Iris

Look, I get it. I'm supposed to take out my frustrations on that bag and... somehow get over it, but it's not that easy.

To confront what ails you? No. It's not. It's hard. I had to go all the way across the world to do it.

Iris

You're talking about Tibet? [Joe nods] I thought you went there to see Wally.

I did, but that's not the only reason I went. I went there to heal.

Iris

Is that why you were gone for so long?

Wally convinced me to come East with the baby. He said that it would help me repair my mind, my body, restore this old soul of mine. So, with Cecile's blessing,... that's what I did.

Iris

Did it work?

I bent, baby girl. But Cicada ain't gonna break me. [hands Iris punching gloves] Ain't gonna break you, either.

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

[long pause as everyone stares at 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...

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

I know you do, Dad.