The Flash quotes

Ah, I know that look. I felt the same after my 11:00 a.m. "Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics" class. I was trying to explain terminal flow rates, and ten minutes in, I wanted to pull my hair out.

Clifford DeVoe

Well, it's a good thing I know water flowing into the axis of a tube is called...

Marlize

You better get this right.

DeVoe

Laminar?

Marlize

Aaah, so you do listen.

DeVoe

To you, always. Nothing matters to them (students) if it's not digestible in YouTube videos of talking babies or inane pet tricks.

Marlize

Have you seen the husky singing "Like a Virgin"?

Iris

Okay, so do you want to tell me what's really bothering you?

Barry

My Spidey sense is just tingling way off the charts.

Iris

Barry, is there any chance this is about the wedding? I mean, maybe you're feeling a little--

Barry

I'm not nervous.

Iris

But, you're not acting the way you normally do.

Barry

Look, Savitar and Kadabra warned us about someone named DeVoe. This DeVoe guy could be behind everything. The bus metas. Me coming out of the Speed Force at the wrong place. The Samuroid.

Iris

Barry, is there a possibility that you are so determined to find the bad guy and get ahead of everything that you're seeing things exactly the way you want to see them?

Barry

No. I.... Maybe, I dunno....

Marlize

This doesn't make sense.

DeVoe

My mind is drawing energy from my body. Like a parasite feeding on an alien host. We're so close to everything we've ever dreamed of, only for it to be ripped away by this body.

Marlize

No no no no no no. We can stop this. We can. I'm never going to give up.

DeVoe

Twenty-six hundred individuals developed the metagene, they use it to rob jewelry stores and summon tornadoes. I use mine to save humanity, and I'm condemned? Dying wasn't part of our plan.

Barry

I've faced a lot of bad guys. People who would hurt the ones that I love, destroy everything good in the world and think nothing of it. But this guy, he feels more dangerous than all the others combined. And we still know barely anything about him. Scares the hell out of me, Iris.

Iris

Barry, how many times have we been up against the unknown?

Barry

This is different.

Iris

How?

Barry

Ever since I came back from the Speed Force, I have been... constantly and genuinely happy. My friends are safe. Joe's gonna be a dad, again. And next week, I get to marry the love of my life. I have more to lose now than ever before.

Iris

Yeah, but, what about after Cecile has the baby? Or after we get married? Or even when we have our first child? You know, as time goes by, there's gonna be even more for us to lose. And people are always gonna be coming after us. You can't let that consume you. You just have to live in the moment and face it as it comes.

Barry

How are you not scared?

Iris

Because we're the Flash. [Iris and Barry kiss]

Barry

Plenty of metas have come after me, the people that I love. You know the one thing they have in common? They failed.

DeVoe

You've done wonders all these years punching gorillas with rudimentary powers. Chasing madmen shooting icicles. Those were children with play-guns. Savitar, Zoom, Thawne. Their powers are nothing compared to the power of limitless thought.

Barry

That's your ability. Your intellect was amplified by the particle accelerator.

DeVoe

You may be the fastest man alive, Allen. I'm the fastest mind.

Barry

So this is how we begin whatever twisted game you have planned. [turns and starts walking away]

DeVoe

[to himself] No, Mr. Allen, you've already lost and never even realized it. [calling out to Barry] Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! I'll be thinking of you.

Barry

I have been thinking recently that... you know, when I first got my powers, I would use any excuse to use them. It would just be me and the road, and everything around me would disappear. It was, like, the first time in my life, I really felt like I was... at peace. But I just... feel like that all the time now. I don't have to run when I'm with you.

Iris

Awww. That's so sweet. [kisses Barry]

Barry

I love you, Iris West-Allen.

Iris

I love you, too.

Barry

DeVoe, if you wanted to kill me, you could have just electrocuted me on the street. So... I'm here for a reason.

DeVoe

Yes, Mr. Allen. So that I may teach you. I am, after all, first and foremost, a teacher.

Barry

All right. Fine. Teach me. But first, I wanna make sure I'm all caught up. You sent your Samuroid after me. You arranged to pull me out of the Speed Force. You made sure that we turned all those people on that bus into metahumans. Why?

DeVoe

You see, the finer points of my agenda are not part of today's syllabus.

Barry

Oh, come on, we can squeeze it in. I'm a fast learner.

DeVoe

Please!! You're about as capable of seeing the breadth of my machinations as an infant mastering multi-variable physics.

Barry

[scoffs] Wow.

DeVoe

The lesson I have prepped for today is much more simple. Life 101. There are no happy endings.

Harry

You're the team leader. Team leader's supposed to make the tough call.

Iris

I made a call. I said we would look for both of them (Barry and Caitlin).

Harry

No. Looking for both of them is not a choice. We're overtaxing our resources, our people, because you won't face the hard truth. And the hard truth is, we can't look for both. We can only look for one.

Iris

Harry, I just made a vow to love and protect Barry. To stand by him through thick and thin. And now you're asking me to choose between my husband's life and me friend's? [Harry nods] I can't. I, I can't do that–

Harry

You have to. Or you risk losing them both. You have to choose.

Amunet

Katie, do you know what I was doing before I became this successful entrepreneur you see before you today?

Caitlin

Mean British nanny?

Amunet

[smiles] Hmm. No! I... was a stewardess. You see, unlike you, I did not have fancy scientists for parents. I did not collect scholarships or attend fine institutions. My career options were... limited. So, I spent my days in a quaint little skirt and bear serving coffee to handsy pilots, powerless to stop them. But then the particle accelerator exploded, and I was powerless... no more. Heh. I showed those pilots the error of their ways.

Caitlin

Why are you telling me this?

Amunet

Because.... obtaining my powers is quite literally what made me me, but the same cannot be said about you. There are any number of doctors I could have come to for this procedure. I did not. I came to you. Because you, Caitlin Snow, are, and have always been, remarkable. You are bright. Resourceful. Resilient. And I am more than certain you can do this. [pause] So. With that said, unless you want to spend the rest of your medical career in the morgue, I suggest you buck up, darling. You know. Pull on your big girl pants, and do the bloody thing.

DeVoe

You see, Mr. Allen, three months ago, you emerged from the Speed Force a new man. And in order for you and the world to experience my plan, I, too, needed to be reborn.

Barry

If you hurt my family,...

DeVoe

I have no interest in your family. Besides, you're gonna need someone to miss you when you're gone.

Barry

What did you do?

DeVoe

I merely left something for you. It's a regift, as it were. I... don't have need for it anymore.

Barry

Don't run.

DeVoe

Science has long pondered what would be required to successfully transfer consciousness from one living being to another. But we've accomplished far beyond a simple transfer of consciousness. We've extracted that which elevates our humanity and added upon it. I am both who I was before [puts his hand on Marlize's cheek] and who I desire to become.

Marlize

[uncomfortable] Yes, you are... my love.

DeVoe

My hand still feels foreign upon your flesh. [removes his hand] And you don't care for it.

Marlize

No, I do.

DeVoe

As I said, I inherited my host's ability to read thoughts. We have never lied to each other before. Let's not begin now.

Marlize

... Okay.

DeVoe

Marlize. My love. See past this body. See past these eyes. See me. Clifford.

Marlize

[softly] Clifford.

DeVoe

I am nothing without you.

Joe

This is the right thing to do, Ralph. Just open the door. I'll do the rest.

Ralph

Okay. It's a solid plan, Joe. It's subtle, but it's crafty with a touch of pathos. After this, you're gonna sit back and kick up your feet and sleep as sound as a millennial after Burning Man, because you did the right thing. You took down a bad, bad chick.

Joe

Ralph, could you hurry up?

Ralph

And you're gonna ride that feeling like it's Space Mountain. And then, when they catch you and they take your badge and your gun, that self-righteous indignation's gonna keep your chest puffed and your chin up, because you did the right thing. Sure, you're gonna be mad for a few years, but that fades... evolves... turns into self-pity. Two more years, and your life is gonna be a shell of its former self. And then, one night, it's gonna dawn on you that... you did the wrong thing. And it'll ruin everything. Your colleagues won't talk to you, your friends have vanished, and your family? It'll be like... like you were never born. Because you turned into the very thing you swore to protect them from. [uses his powers to unlock the door] Any-hoo.... good luck with that. [walks off]

Cisco

Damn. We need to cool him (Fallout) down. [off Harry's look] Killer Frost.

Caitlin

Great.

Cisco

Well? Go! Turn!

Caitlin

Well... that's not how it works. I can't just snap my fingers and make her appear. It only happens when I'm scared or angry.

Good Lord, Caitlin!

Cisco

This city's about to explode! Everyone, everything you know and love! The birds, the trees, the fish! The puppies! Puppies are going down 'cause you didn't want to--

show up for WORK!!

Caitlin

[eyes glowing] Thanks.

DeVoe

Did you know there was a twelve percent chance that you were going to tell the world that you're the Flash?

Barry

I'd recheck your math.

DeVoe

There's no need. Because no matter what path you chose, all avenues led to my triumph.

Barry

Why do you want us distracted? Why do you want me out of the picture? What're you planning?

DeVoe

That you think that you could understand the breadth of what I am about to do is almost humorous.... Yes. I think you will miss Iris. That's right, Mr. Allen. I didn't just take Dominic's body. I took his ability. I know what you're thinking. Right now.

Barry

Well, I want you to hear me say it. I'm gonna figure a way out of this. And when I do, I don't care whose face you're wearing. I'm coming for you. You haven't beaten us yet.

DeVoe

Haven't I? [stares Barry down] Have a nice life, Mr. Allen.

[sentencing Barry] In my thirty years behind this bench, I have seen my share of criminals. But I confess, this defendant stands apart.

[speaking at a press conference] Thank you all for coming on such short notice. A few hours ago, the very existence of our city came under the threat of nuclear destruction. But one man rose to meet that challenge.

The defendant was in a position of authority. Our city trusted him to bring the guilty to justice.

He ran into danger. Knowing he would suffer burns all over his body.

He used that trust to take an innocent and vulnerable life.

This man was not thinking about himself. He was thinking about you. The first responders on the front lines.

Never have I seen a defendant more unmoved.

Never have I seen a man with more bravery.

Never have I seen such inhumanity.

Such heroism.

Such a lack of regard for human life.

It is my great honor to present Central City Police Department's Award of Valor to this city's finest hero: the fastest man alive, the Flash! [the spectators applaud]

The Court hereby orders that Bartholomew Henry Allen should be incarcerated for the rest of his natural life without the possibility of parole, and that Mr. Allen be immediately remanded to Iron Heights Penitentiary. And may God have mercy on your soul. [bangs his gavel]