The Flash (TV Series)

A Flash of the Lightning (2019)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

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• Barry Allen : I stared at that newspaper for so many years. First it felt like a guide. You know, like proof that things were headed in the right direction. Then it became a sword hanging over my head. A part of me always felt like... if I vanish in whatever crisis is coming... maybe I was still out there somewhere, looking for a way to come back to you. According to The Monitor, that doesn't happen.

  Iris West-Allen : "To save the lives of billions, The Flash must die." What kind of crap is that?

  [Barry chuckles] 

  Iris West-Allen : No, I'm serious. I mean, The Monitor shows here up out of nowhere and says you're suppose to die on December 10th? The last I remember, the article said that you were in a fight with Thawne, not some cosmic disaster.

  Barry Allen : The article changed.

  Iris West-Allen : If that article can change, then that means we can still change the future.

• Joan Williams : Barry. You're with us. William Knox. I've discovered that poetry can stimulate collapsed neural pathways.

  Barry Allen : Lady Gaga usually works for me.

• Iris West-Allen : So they are going to scan our Earth for any other signs of antimatter and figure out a way to prevent whatever Crisis is coming.

  Barry Allen : It's not that simple.

  Iris West-Allen : Well, you said you saw a wave of antimatter destroy Earth. All we have to do is come up with a plan to stop it.

  Barry Allen : We can't stop what's coming. The Monitor was telling the truth.

  Iris West-Allen : We get Kara and Oliver and everybody. We create an antimatter dampener. I don't care. We just find a way.

  Barry Allen : I saw you and... Caitlin. I saw everyone die. The only timeline where you survived was if I died.

  Iris West-Allen : No, no, that's not the future.

  Barry Allen : I saw a billion futures, Iris.

  Iris West-Allen : Okay, but what about the billion and first or billion and second? We control our destiny. We... can change the timeline for the better.

  Barry Allen : Maybe this is the reason I was given powers. To save everyone.

  Iris West-Allen : You said this morning that you weren't giving up yet.

  Barry Allen : I have to accept this. We both do.

  Iris West-Allen : And do nothing while you sit here and wait to die? This isn't you. The Barry I know would never stop running. He would find another way to fight.

• Joe West : How did you get hurt, Barr? All right, look... you don't have to share right now if you want to. Just know that I'm here. Always.

  Barry Allen : Something's coming, Joe. I have to make a sacrifice. But at the same time, I can't help but feeling like it means I'm giving up.

  Joe West : Giving up?

  Barry Allen : Yeah.

  Joe West : When I was a beat cop, you know, I walked the same patrol every day. One morning, I'm responding to a noise complaint. Out of nowhere, pop. Bullet flies by my head. I got pinned, I called for backup, but everything was telling me that's it. Next morning... Barr, I can't even tell you how... scared I was... to go back there in them streets.

  Barry Allen : But you did.

  Joe West : Yeah.

  [brings out his police badge] 

  Joe West : 'Cause of this. Our badges, your emblem, they're symbols of the strength that we're charged with to get back out there. We don't make a choice to die. We would never choose to do that. But when we hear the call of duty... We're willing to make that sacrifice. And that's not giving up, Barr. That's what you call resilience. And I know you to have plenty of that.

• Jay Garrick : Good to see you again, Barry.

  Barry Allen : You too, Jay.

  Jay Garrick : You were right. You were hit with a dose of pure antimatter. Lucky you have speed healing, or that scratch could've wiped you out of existence.

  Barry Allen : So is there a way I can time travel past the barrier?

  Jay Garrick : You want to tell me why the hell you were time traveling to begin with?

  Barry Allen : I needed to see for myself if The Monitor was telling the truth about what happened to me, and I know what you're gonna say about time traveling.

  Jay Garrick : Actually, I was gonna tell you you made the right call. For the past year... I've been detecting antimatter signatures across the Multiverse. Now, we don't know their origin, but if my algorithm is correct, all Earths could be in danger.

  Barry Allen : Then we have to find a way to break through that wall.

  Jay Garrick : Ah, your body never could. But maybe your mind can.

• Joan Williams : Jay told me he's the doppelganger of your late father.

  Barry Allen : Mm.

  Joan Williams : Do I remind you of anyone from your Earth?

  Barry Allen : Yeah, you do.

  Joan Williams : Hmm. Who is she?

  Barry Allen : Someone very special.

  Jay Garrick : Ain't she? I never thought I'd settle down. But I needed a neurological specialist to help with my depleting speed, and something just felt right between us.

• Iris West-Allen : Your wound is still not healing.

  Barry Allen : Mm-hmm.

  Gideon : My readings indicate you were exposed to an extra-universal material that destroys positive matter on contact, a substance known as antimatter.

  Iris West-Allen : Antimatter? That's new.

  Barry Allen : There's a wall of this stuff clogging up the Speed Force. Gideon, how do I get past it?

  Gideon : Not without additional assistance. Fortunately, there is an expert in the field, Dr. Jay Garrick, formerly known as the Flash of Earth-3.

• Jay Garrick : I built this thing years ago, the neural hyper-collider. It harnesses neural electricity and transfers it across superliminal particles.

  Barry Allen : Therefore projecting human consciousness across space-time. You could send someone's mind past the antimatter wall.

  Jay Garrick : Not just anyone. It's gotta be a speedster, in his prime. You in?

  Barry Allen : Yeah.

  Jay Garrick : Then let's hustle. I've already had to postpone my dinner plans.