Not every hero is a fraud. It's okay to believe in them.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[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.
You read their journals?
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.
I didn't know what it was. I thought it was some sort of illusion. I don't know.
Okay, we need to find it before it hurts somebody.
Can you track it?
What is it with you guys? It's like you think I have ESP or something. I can't just magically sense where things are.
[Past-Barry has reappeared and is confronting Barry in front of Team Flash.]
Wait a second, how do we know which one's the real Barry?
PBPast-Barry
Dude. Okay, I've watched Wrath of Khan with you, like, five times.
[pointing to Barry] Imposter!
Yeah. And every time at the end, you turn to me and you say "I have been and always shall be your friend".
[pointing to Past-Barry] Ah ha! You imposter! [looks at both Barrys, confused] What is going on here?
Well, as always, been a pleasure working with you all on this little project. If you need anything in the future, call me. I'm off to a late dinner.
Hmm, dinner. Anyone special?
Very. My parents
[voice-over] Sometimes the only way to move forward is revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head-on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once you do, you'll see that you can go further than you've ever imagined.
Sometimes terrible things happen to us when we're children. Things that can define who we become, whether we want them to or not. Some of us become stronger. The people who took me in helped me heal and move past everything that happened. They are responsible for who I've become today. But I know that I'm one of the lucky ones. Not everyone gets that kind of support. Without it, I don't know where I would've ended up. Or what I could've become.
It's like right now I'm Anakin Skywalker. I got the midi-chlorians. I've got the goods. The force is strong with me. That is something I can feel. But if I start opening breaches into other worlds, doing all this other crazy stuff Reverb was doing, then... what if this how I become Vader?
Dude, you're never going to become Vader.
That is what happened to Reverb. He learned how to use his abilities, and when he felt that... when he felt that power... he succumbed. To the dark side.
Look, I get it. I really do. Every time I've learned a new ability, I've been terrified about what it might mean for me. What it could do to me, you know? But you were there with me when I learned how to run on water. When I ran up a building or travelled through time. Just like I'm gonna be there every step of the way with you. You got something that Reverb never had, and that's Caitlin and Joe and Iris and Wells and me. Friends. We're gonna look out for you. And we're more than just friends, we're your family.
[Wells gives Joe an advanced rifle.]
How do you use this?
Make sure you aim it, and then you pull the trigger.
Smart ass.
[Using images of Zoom's parents, Barry is able to capture and unmask him]
How'd you figure out who I was?
You made a mistake: you told Caitlin who your doppelgänger was.
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.
Not everything.
Caitlin found you a cure!
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?!
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.
I gotta say, that was smart, using my parents against me. Ah, family: it's such a weakness.
Not for all of us.
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.
[quietly] You can't lock up the darkness.
What did you just say?
[Zolomon's eyes turn black, and his voice becomes deep and demonic]
You can't lock up the darkness.
Why the charade? Running around dressed like the Flash?
To give people hope, detective.
Hope?
So I can rip it away from them. It's so fun pretending to be a hero.
You are no hero. You're nothing but a monster.
[upon seeing Caitlin] Well, hello, doppelganger of mine. What do you know? I can still pull off brunette.
Without Caitlin here, I can't really analyze the cells on a molecular level to see what we're dealing with here.
You know, I might actually be able to help.
How?
Bio-chem was one of my majors in college.
One of your majors? How many did you have?
Five. [off everyone's reaction] What, is that not common here?
Girl, no, that is not common anywhere.
You got hit by the dark matter from the particle accelerator explosion?
Yes. Right after I flunked out of med school. Had to move back in with my mother
That couldn't have been fun. If... she's anything like mine, I mean.
Why? Is yours a frigid narcissist, too?
Cold as ice.
Yeah. Mom was like that ever since Charlie died.
Who's Charlie?
My brother.
I never had a brother.
No? Then why was Mom such a bitch on your Earth?
Honestly, I couldn't say.
Why is it that bad guys always insist on having the creepiest hideouts?
Because they crazy.
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