Wally West quotes from The Flash

Your Pops here is a hell of a detective.

Wally West

Obviously not.

Joe

You have people that sit up at night worried sick about you, and they're not going to stop worrying about you. That's what a family does. They put up with each other and they put up each other first, before ourselves.

Wally

So you're not mad at me?

Joe

For being reckless with your life? Yeah, hell yeah, I'm mad at you. But I'm more mad at myself for being something I'm not. I'm not your friend, Wally. I'm your father. I ain't letting you go.

Joe

I don't suppose my home owner's insurance covers a Sharknado attack.

Wally

I don't understand you people. Jaws busts through here like the Kool-Aid Man, The Flash shows up, and y'all act like it's no big deal.

Iris

Yeah, we've had a lot of weird things happen in Central City over the past two years.

Wally

Weirder than a talking shark wearing pants?

Wally

[discussing an engineering project] Well, I really like to read the journals of the classic engineers. So, their engine designs and how they increased horsepower... learn from the best, I guess.

Barry

You read their journals?

Wally

I mean, it's not like I can just go and talk to Enzo Ferrari or Ferdinand Porsche 'cause... they dead. But, you know, doesn't mean they still can't teach me.

Joe

How are you feeling?

Wally

Tired, but fine, I guess.

Joe

So you don't notice anything different?

Wally

Uh, no.

Joe

I mean, I want you to know you can come and talk to me if you're scared or... you have questions about how your body's changing.

Wally

I think you're a little late for the puberty talk, Dad. I've seen the Internet.

Joe

Wally, these are not just guys, these are metahumans! Leave this to the cops and the Flash!

Wally

The Flash can't be everywhere at once. I... I have to do what I can to help. I have to show him I was worth... being saved.

Joe

Wally... you are worth it.

Wally

Really? Am I? 'Cause last time I checked, I'm the guy who avoided his dying mother for weeks. I'm the guy who shaved a bunch of other guys and illegally took their cars from them. I'm the guy who caused the Flash to lose his powers and start this whole damn "metapocalypse" in the first place.

Joe

Wally --

Wally

Last time I checked, I've a whole lot to make up for. That's what I intend to do.

Barry

[to Wally and Iris] Don't worry. I'm gonna save your Dad.

Wally

No. You're gonna save our Dad.

Barry

Get back to S.T.A.R. Labs. It's safer.

Cisco

We're not going anywhere. You got eyes and ears right here.

Caitlin

Either he goes, or we all die together.

Wells

We believe in you.

Iris

Wait. Barry... kick his ass.

Wally

Okay, so you ran back in time and made a copy of yourself?

Barry

Well, uh... basically, yeah.

Jesse

It's called a time remnant.

Barry

It's not... something that I can do every day, but I needed a way to draw the Time Wraiths out of the Speed Force, hoping that they'd be more upset at what Zoom had done than they'd be at me.

Joe

[to Iris] Is that what I look like when they start talking about science?

Iris

Pretty much.

Joe

Don't worry, Wally, it'll get easier to understand.

Wally

But how does that even work?

Barry

Same way Zoom did it. I ran back in time moments before I left. It's the only way I could be in two places at once.

Wally

[still a bit confused] O-okay, so the-the time remnant, it's still you.

Barry

Yeah.

Caitlin

But he died.

Barry

I...uh, he was willing to sacrifice himself for all of us.

Iris

That's how much he loved us.

Wally

You know what, we'll just forget about it. Uh, Barry, I'm glad you're okay.

Wally

I was in a coma for nine months, and when I woke up, I was the fastest man alive. The Flash.

Barry

More like... Kid Flash.

Wally

... Don't call me that.

Iris

I call you that.

Wally

Okay, how about no one calls me that.

Wally

Why don't we say what this is really about? You're okay with Barry having powers. You're okay with Barry running into danger, fighting all these metas. He could screw up over and over again, and you're okay with all of it because he's Barry. But you won't give me the same amount of leeway because at the end of the day, you just don't... trust me.

Barry

You know that's not true, Wally.

Wally

I don't need you to fight my dad's battles for him. Say it, Joe. You don't... trust me, do you?

Joe

Wally,....

Wally

That's what I thought. [leaves]

Joe

Listen,... you were right. I do treat Barry differently than I treat you. But not because I think Barry's better than you.

Wally

Then why?

Joe

Wally, you're a lot like I was when I was a kid. You're fearless, and you take risks, and that makes you a handful just like I was. And now you're getting powers. That, alone, would make me nervous because I know what I would have done if I got powers. But you're not getting your speed the same way Barry got his. You're getting your speed the same way Magenta and the Rival got theirs. So it's not that I don't trust you, Wally, it's just that I don't trust what's going on with you right now, and that scares the living hell outta me.

Barry

Did you ask Julian to join Team... Star Labs?

Caitlin

I know, he's an acquired taste, but–

Cisco

Yeah, well he is Doctor Alchemy, the big bad's little bad.

Iris

Yeah, he gave Wally his powers.

Wally

That I don't mind.

Caitlin

Guys, I need his help. I'm sorry Cisco, but these cuffs, they aren't cutting it. Every night when I go to bed, I'm afraid that I'll wake up... be her. Maybe Julian can think of something that we haven't. [pause] Barry, when your mom was murdered, Joe and Iris, they took you in. Cisco, when Dante died, I slept on your couch to keep you company. The things we see, the things that we face, no one can do this alone. Trying is the biggest mistake that you can make.

Barry

Wally. What was that? I mean, you're supposed to be shadowing me.

Wally

Wh-wait, you're mad at me? I thought...

Barry

Observe and learn. That's it.

Joe

Whoa...

Barry

That's it!

Joe

Barr, ease up. Wally just saved your life.

Barry

I'm sorry, Wally, but if you can't learn to follow orders, this deal between us, it's over.

Barry

You all right?

Wally

I'm good, dude. You can have this one.

Barry

No, Wally, this one has to be you.

Wally

Why?

Barry

Because if you take down Plunder, the news report that says I captured him in the future, it's wrong. We can prove that we can alter the future here and now.

Wally

So that's why you sent me out here.

Barry

Hey, I sent you out here because you're a hero. Iris needs a hero now, Wally.

Iris

Okay, look, I know everyone is working really hard to prevent Savitar from...

Wally

... Yeah.

Iris

But honestly, these could be my last few months on Earth.

Wally

Could you not talk like that?

Iris

I'm just being realistic, Wally. I get to do that. Look, I want my life to mean something. More than just as a daughter or as a sister, or as a girlfriend. But as a reporter. This story can do that. It can say that I, Iris West, mattered.

Wally

You know, my life was a lot easier before I had a sister.

Iris

It's a lot better now, isn't it?