[Using images of Zoom's parents, Barry is able to capture and unmask him]
Hunter ZolomonHow'd you figure out who I was?
You made a mistake: you told Caitlin who your doppelgänger was.
Zolomon
I had to do something to get her to stop trying to ... fix me. She's a smart girl. [pause] And that I was Zoom?
The Velocity-9. When you run fast enough, it turns a speedster's lightning blue. We would've helped you. We would've done anything we could to save your life.
Zolomon
Not everything.
Caitlin found you a cure!
Zolomon
A temporary one! I'm dying, Barry! There's only one thing that can get me what I need!
And you just don't care; how many lives you've destroyed trying to get it? How many people you kill?!
Zolomon
No, I don't! That feeling was taken from me a long time ago. [longer pause] We're not so different, you know. What happened to us when we were kids; you could've just as easily become me.
No. I'd never become like you.
Zolomon
I gotta say, that was smart, using my parents against me. Ah, family: it's such a weakness.
Zolomon
Well, that's where you're wrong. It's time I get what I came for.
[chuckles] You're not getting anything from me. You're not getting anything from anybody ever again, on any Earth.
Zolomon
[quietly] You can't lock up the darkness.
[Zolomon's eyes turn black, and his voice becomes deep and demonic]
Zolomon
You can't lock up the darkness.
I'll do whatever it takes to stop you.
Zolomon
If only that were good enough. 'Cause here's the thing... I know you. I know you, I know what's holding you back. You and me, we're really just the same person.
[scoffs] Yeah, you keep saying that, but it's not gonna make it true.
Zolomon
You'll see, we are. Same tragic background. Same reason for running. Same desire to be the fastest, to be the best. The difference? You think your anger is dirty somehow. You want to be seen as pure. The hero. Doesn't it get exhausting? [shouts] Doesn't it get exhausting, Barry? It was exhausting playing Jay, believe me.
[Barry is about to run at Zoom when, in the window, a building is seen crumbling.]
Zolomon
Now if it were me, I'd let that building tumble without a second thought. But you? You'll never let that happen, will you? That's why I'm going to beat you, Barry. Because you always have to be the hero. And while you're playing the good little boy,... I'll be busy winning.
Zolomon
One lap around the inside of this loop will produce about 1 gigawatt of energy, and I need 500-plus to power the Magnetar enough to do the job. Once it's full, I win, because there is no stopping it.
So all I have to do to beat you is stop you before that happens.
Zolomon
Yep. It's that simple. But if at any point, you decide you don't want to race anymore, dear old dad number two is a dead man, as well as your little fan club.
They're not my fan club. They're the reason that I'm running. Why I'm gonna beat you.
Zolomon
[scoffs] Let's see what you're made of, "Flash".
[They both put on their masks and get on their marks.]
[in altered voice] Run, Barry. Run!
[Both take off running.]
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