The Flash · Season 1
I'm the reason you killed that man. And that's a really heavy burden to bear.
I know. I know. I also know that what I've done, it's unforgivable. When your mother died, honey... something inside me broke. I couldn't protect her. And I... I swore... I swore on her grave, no less, that I would protect you, and then Zoom took you, and I snapped. I just snapped. I couldn't breathe, I... I couldn't lose the only other person that I love.
[talking to himself while controlling a holographic Flash] All right, Cisco. This is where all those countless hours gaming in your basement are about to pay off. Fingers, don't fail me now.
I've watched you grow ever since you became the Flash, and I am so proud of that man. But ask yourself: do you really need powers in order to be that person?
Let's do it. I want to do it. One of the cops that Zoom killed tonight, he had a son. Same age I was when Mom was murdered. And now, another kid has to grow up without one of their parents because The Flash wasn't there to stop that monster. I left this city unprotected by giving up my powers to Zoom. I enabled him to rule this Earth. I need my powers back. Let's do it. Let's set off the particle accelerator.
Well, Ramon, you have the wand?
The one I made for Mark Mardon?
No, the one you built for the Harry Potter convention. Yes, of course, the one you built for Mardon.
How do you know about the Harry Potter convention?
[holding up the destroyed Flash costume] You thought you could give the Flash his speed back? Well done. You killed him instead.
So you're saying I'm talking to the source of my power, which just so happens to look like my adoptive dad. That's trippy.
[chuckles] We pretty much invented "trippy" here.
We thought you'd find this place and our appearance less upsetting. Yet you seem upset.
My friends, my city... my whole world is in danger. Zoom is on a rampage with the power that he stole from me, and you are keeping me here.
You were given a rare and precious gift. And you rejected it.
No, I did not reject it. I gave up my powers to save someone's life. To be a hero. I nearly killed myself trying to get them back when you brought me here, wherever here is.
That's not what we meant.
Look, if you would rather have given these powers to somebody else, why did you give them to me?
Because you're the Flash, Barry.
How are you feeling?
Tired, but fine, I guess.
So you don't notice anything different?
Uh, no.
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.
I think you're a little late for the puberty talk, Dad. I've seen the Internet.
[reading "The Runaway Dinosaur"]
Once there was a little dinosaur called a myosaur who lived with his mother.
One day, he told his mother, "I wish I was special like the other dinosaurs."
"If I were a T-rex, I could chomp with my ferocious teeth."
[continuing the story from memory]
"But if you were a T-rex," said his mother, "how would you hug me with your tiny little arms?"
"I wish I were an Apatosaurus," said the little dinosaur, "so with my long neck, I could see high above the treetops."
"But if you were an Apatosaurus," said his mother, "how would you hear me in the treetops when I told you 'I love you'?"
"What makes you so special, little myosaur," said his mother, "isn't your ferocious teeth, or long neck, or pointy beak."
"What makes you special is out of all of the different dinosaurs in the big wide world, you have the mother who is just right for you. And who will always -- "
[together] "-- love you."
It's been quite a day, huh? Not so much "one thing after another" as "every damn thing all at once".
Wally, these are not just guys, these are metahumans! Leave this to the cops and the Flash!
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.
Wally... you are worth it.
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.
Wally --
Last time I checked, I've a whole lot to make up for. That's what I intend to do.
I'll do whatever it takes to stop you.
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.
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.
I'm not pretending.
[Barry is about to run at Zoom when, in the window, a building is seen crumbling.]
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.
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