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S1 E15Unfinished Business

[Devoe and Marlize's first meeting at a classroom panel discussion at Oxford]

The Taoists, in pursuit of immortality, discovered gunpowder. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize so he wouldn't be remembered as the man who invented dynamite. History has shown us time and time again that whenever a technological advancement can be used to hurt humanity, it will be.

You can't blame technology for the way men choose to use it, Professor.

You can't ignore that the best of ideas by the smartest of men often have a way of becoming corrupted.

[At the Vandermeer Steel crime scene]

Okay. So, where shall we start? I'm thinking, if we can gain acc– [Barry races around the rooms at super-speed, accessing and reading the computer files.] –ess to their files...

Alloy 1771? I mean, that's the only item missing from the inventory files.

Or I can just... stand here and look pretty.

Severity of our society's failings require extreme ideas if ever we were to restore some semblance of balance.

[reading from DeVoe's journal] Technology has become a cancerous cell in our social biology. Excising [DeVoe tries and fails to grab the journal] would require a total purge, not only of the material world, but also human consciousness? This is not valance! This is lobotomizing people.

This is rebooting the masses' brains, to let them forget their technological crutches. They are babies with pacifiers.

How and who will teach them? You, professor? How does any of this help humankind?

Don't you see? Marlize, our technology is killing us! And you and I, we can fix this, together. [kneels] As partners, we can lead them, all of society, humanity, on the true path to enlightenment.

[Marlize gives DeVoe back the journal and walks out]

Harry, I know this is hard.

[scoffs] Well... it is hard... D.A. Cecile Horton, because my brain, the one thing that has defined me for, well, pretty much my entire life, is about to [snaps his fingers] ... vanish, and then what'll I be?

You'll be the exact same man you've always been.

Yeah, but dumb. Same man. Waaaay less intelligent.

Harry, there are lots of ways to be intelligent. [taps her chest] Not just using your head.

[Marlize prepares to leave Devoe.]

The Enlightenment will come for you, too, Marlize. I will be all that remains.

[mockingly] Oh, Clifford. You are nothing without me. [rises up on DeVoe's battle chair and disappears]

We've been attacking this from the wrong direction. We know we need a tech-free projectile to stop DeVoe's satellites. We've been looking for an object, when what we really need is a person: Amunet.

Amunet Black?

I know she's not the ideal choice. But Amunet's psychic-powered Alico shards are not only deadly powerful, they're completely immune to DeVoe's Kilgore powers.

Not ideal? I mean, she kidnapped you. She tried to sell me into meta-slavery.

And she ruined my bachelorette party.

[Team Flash is trying lo locate Amunet using her past as a flight attendant.]

Yeah, looks like there were thirty-five flights in the air in Central City the night of the particle accelerator explosion.

Cisco, can you access the flight manifests?

Yes, I can. And I can take the crews' credentials–

Cross-reference them into facial recognition?

Can you not read my mind? [Barry stammers an apology.]

[The "Council of Harrisons" has just departed, seemingly without helping Harry with his problem.]

Ramon, remind me again. [snaps his fingers] What's another word for... "huge"?

"Colossal".

"Colossal". Great, thank you. [growing angry] This... was a colossal waste of time! [kicks a trash can as he leaves the room]

Oh, goody. A group foray. Dibs on cashing in Norvock's chips.

Oh, no no no no no no no. No killing.

That was not a stipulation when I agreed to join this crew.

Okay. Amunet, look, I know how you usually work, but I can handle this fast. And without any casualties.

[deep breath mugging].... Okay. It is a bit time-consuming to remove blood from metal. [chuckles]

Well, actually, thanks to Ramon and the Council of Harrisons, I may have an idea about why DeVoe has not yet launched his satellites.

He put himself in DeVoe's shoes.

And I thought, well, if I was this ultra-genius moving around in a floating chair, how would I feel?

You'd feel nothing. You'd be sociopathic.

Right. But to me, I wouldn't consider myself sociopathic [goes to the whiteboard] when all my actions would be driven by the one thing that I care most about, right? [draws a smiley face added to a sad face]

So if you're not acting–

If I'm not acting, then I don't have the one thing that I care most about. [draws a neutral face] My wife.

I'm still not fast enough to make it through DeVoe's pocket dimension.

That's why we split up. Yeah, each one of us stakes out a different launch pad.

You're serious. I mean, you've seen DeVoe in action.

Yeah. The guy's a one-man Legion of Doom, so send the Super Friends.

[to one of his hostages] Do you know what my favorite thing about teaching is? Having a captive audience.

Once we're inside, we'll have less than a second. I'll activate the plates, draw their charge–

I'll lay the breach links–

And I'll protect the A.R.G.U.S. agents from the blast using this... fish shooter.

"Ice shooter".

Do I have to call it an "ice shooter"?

I thought "Frostbite" sounded good.

Guys, it solves the friction offset problem by shooting ice. Therefore, it's an ice shooter. You call it an ice shooter.

Relax.

It's not that hard.

"Once upon a time, in some remote corner of that universe, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing".

You're quoting Nietzsche at me?

You destroyed a satellite. Top marks, Quick Boy. You can destroy a thousand more, and you will still march closer to the Enlightenment.

I forget what Nietzsche said about wiping minds. I must have skipped philosophy class.

Did I teach you nothing this year? Has nothing pierced your thick cowl? Think of it. Or rather don't. You'll just end up hurting yourself, so let me explain. A world, enlightened. Within a day, all soldiers will lay down their arms. Every nuclear weapon will be disarmed within six months. Poverty. Famine. Disease. Eradicated. We will clean up the streets. People will put down their idiot phones and become curious again, and I will be there to teach them. I, not you, will save this God-forsaken world.

No, you'll just control it. You want to take away free will.

A pittance for humanity to pay to know peace.

But we won't know each other. Parents wouldn't remember their kids. Husbands won't remember their wives.

Good. You hit upon precisely the point. Emotion is the father of all error. Chemicals in our brain that distract us, impede progress. And the most destructive and ridiculous imbalance of all is that thing you feebles call love. I learned this from experience, Mr. Allen. And soon... you will too.

Your husband has gone too far, and I think you know it, or you'd be with him right now.

Yes, I left my husband. But that doesn't change the fact that he's right. If anything, his betrayal proves his very point. Man corrupts even the best of ideas.

"Pessimism isn't smarter than optimism. In this life, the bravest thing you can be is optimistic."

Familiar words.

You said them when you were at Oxford. Two weeks before you met Clifford DeVoe.

I gave a speech. On technology and the elimination of world hunger. I truly believed it could be done.

He tried to change you, Marlize. But I think, deep down, you are still an optimist. You still believe in humanity. And I believe in you. You asked me what I was willing to do for my husband. And now I'm gonna ask you... What are you willing to do for the world?

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