- Iris West-Allen: No, Ralph, I meant you, okay? That bomb could have torn you to shreds.
- Caitlin Snow: Or Joe, or any of the police outside.
- Ralph Dibny: Relax, ladies, my cells are completely polygamized.
- Caitlin Snow: Polymerized?
- Ralph Dibny: Yeah, that. Which means they can stretch and take a bomb blast.
- Iris West-Allen: Oh, my God.
- Ralph Dibny: Dibny is in-dib-structable.
- Cisco Ramon: Hey, how about you hook me up with some of that gum?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Why don't you breach yourself?
- Cisco Ramon: That sounds like an insult.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Kind of was.
- Ralph Dibny: My first supervillain thunderdome challenge. This is awesome.
- Iris West-Allen: Ralph, you don't know this guy. He's totally dangerous.
- Ralph Dibny: He's throwing bouncy balls and wearing a bedazzled peacoat. I got this.
- Ralph Dibny: The Elongated Man? It was just an expression.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Has a certain...
- Cisco Ramon: I don't know.
- Dr. Harry Wells: "Je ne sais quoi" to it.
- Caitlin Snow: I like it.
- Ralph Dibny: Well, I hate it.
- Cisco Ramon: Well, maybe you should have let me do the naming.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Exactly.
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, don't worry, you'll get your chance. There's no way this is going to stick.
- Dr. Harry Wells, Cisco Ramon: Probably gonna stick.
- Ralph Dibny: The Elongated Man? Please, it's so literal. You think Prince would have settled for "Shorty Guitar Man"?
- Dr. Harry Wells: All right, I'll neutralize it. You two guys, get the hostages out. Oh, we need the ice queen.
- Caitlin Snow: That's not how it works. I can't just...
- Dr. Harry Wells, Cisco Ramon: LEXY LAROCHE!
- [Caitlin begins to transform into Killer Frost]
- Cisco Ramon: [explaining to Iris] Childhood bully. Lot of repressed anger.
- [to Caitlin]
- Cisco Ramon: Let's go!
- Iris West-Allen: Cisco, next time you go out with him.
- Cisco Ramon: Iris, a chicken needs to leave its roost sooner or later. Especially when that chicken insists on doing his own solo missions.
- Iris West-Allen: This is bad.
- Ralph Dibny: This is *really* bad. Stretchy Man, that's a terrible name. Also, now that I"m gonna be on TV all the time, this grey suit, got to go.
- Cisco Ramon: Hey, easy, chickadee.
- Ralph Dibny: Hey, has Barry joined a gang yet? I've got some friends on the inside. I can make some calls.
- Iris West-Allen: [hitting him with the folder she's holding] Shut up, Ralph.
- Ralph Dibny: Okay. I will stop helping now.
- Iris West-Allen: James Jesse had a girlfriend?
- Joe West: Yeah, she called herself Prank. Back in the day, she was Bonnie to Jesse's Clyde.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Trickster and Prank were responsible for a series of attacks across Central City, including the destruction of the Gadzooka Bubblegum Company.
- Cisco Ramon: Huh. I always wondered why my favorite gum suddenly disappeared in the '90s.
- Dr. Harry Wells: We have it on my Earth.
- Cisco Ramon: [with a scoff] You do not.
- Dr. Harry Wells: I just said we do.
- Cisco Ramon: You do not.
- Dr. Harry Wells: *We* do.
- The Trickster: Hello again, Central City. It's time for the exciting new game show, "Wheel of Misfortune". With prizes so amazing, you'll think you died. And if you play your cards right, you just might. Here's your host, the murderous matriarch, Prank!
- Iris West-Allen: Harry, how are you coming with a solvent for Trickster's axid?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Well, slowly. Very difficult to neutralize a solvent that hasn't existed until today.
- Iris West-Allen: You've got 59 minutes.
- Dr. Harry Wells: All I need is 58.
- Joe West: Hey, guys, any lucky finding Trickster?
- Cisco Ramon: Joe, geo-tracking is an art form. It takes precision, it takes finesse, it takes grace.
- Dr. Harry Wells: It requires none of those things. It's simply the fact that he's not a metahuman. Regular humans are harder to track.
- Cisco Ramon: Is there anything you can't suck the fun out of?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Leaf peeping.
- Joe West: Fine, just tell us what you want.
- Robber: I want you to back off, or I will detonate this thing.
- Joe West: Okay, calm down, nobody needs to get hurt today.
- Robber: You just follow instructions, and everybody here gets to live to see the sunshine tomorrow. All right? And I'd better not see the Flash, either.
- Robber: All right, first, I want a car. Something eco-friendly, like, uh... like a Prius.
- Joe West: [a little taken aback] Okay, we can do that.
- Robber: [oblivious to Ralph rescuing the hostages] Good. Uh, right. Now, second. Uh, I want a plane, okay? A private plane. Okay? And a salad, all right? I'm counting calories.
- Joe West: Okay, it's gonna take us an hour to arrange that.
- Robber: You better hurry up, because these hostages don't have much time.
- Elongated Man: [appearing, as the robber realizes the hostages are gone] Should have gone with a steak, pal. 'Cause it's the last decent meal you're getting for the next five to ten years.
- Robber: Who the hell are you?
- Elongated Man: Your friendly neighborhood superhero. You can call me...
- [stammering]
- Elongated Man: Mr... one second.
- [into his comms]
- Elongated Man: Guys, this is a huge moment for me. What's my name?
- Cisco Ramon: I was wondering where you were going with that.
- Robber: Hey, where are my hostages?
- Elongated Man: Uh, bathroom break. They just couldn't hold it anymore. Don't worry, though, they're totally safe.
- Robber: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Get back, freak.
- Elongated Man: Freak? Oh, sticks and stones may break my bones, buddy. Well, they used to. Not anymore.
- Robber: I'll blow this whole city block.
- Elongated Man: Uh, you do realize you're a part of that block, right? Come on, man, it's a weekday. People just want to get off work, go home, and watch the boob tube. So why don't you take off that vest and...
- Robber: No, no, don't touch me!
- [as Ralph removes the bomb and contains the blast, the robber passes out]
- Iris West-Allen: Ralph, are you okay?
- Elongated Man: [coughing out smoke] Yeah. Just, uh, wicked heartburn.
- Ralph Dibny: What I really need, guys, is a new superhero name. Ramon, you've had all this time. You can't come up with anything?
- Cisco Ramon: Patience, okay? I'm getting to you. I've just been a little preoccupied, what with Barry in prison and all!
- Iris West-Allen: I just can't believe this is our new normal, Barry. I don't want this to be our lives.
- Barry Allen: You're gonna find something. I know it.
- Iris West-Allen: I just wish I could touch your hand again.
- Barry Allen: You will. I promise. I'll see you tomorrow?
- Iris West-Allen: Every tomorrow.
- Prison Guard #2: Who are you? Where's Nurse Hill?
- Zoey Clark: Out sick. Looks like he ate the pudding.
- Prison Guard #2: Yeah. How do you know that?
- Zoey Clark: [jabbing a needle into his neck] Because I'm the one who sent it.
- [removing her surgical mask]
- Zoey Clark: Come on, Axel, let's go.
- Axel Walker: Mom?
- Warden Gregory Wolfe: Walker and the nurse used tranquilizers on two more guards on the way out.
- Joe West: And nothing tipped you off that this nurse might be a criminal?
- Warden Gregory Wolfe: Her background check was clean. She said her name was Lindsay Fineheart. She was sent over by our staffing company.
- Joe West: Well, I'm gonna need the hard drive of the surveillance footage from the security cameras in the infirmary.
- Warden Gregory Wolfe: Well, unfortunately, we're still analog here in GenPop. It'll take a while to dub the tapes. In the meantime, I'm having Fineheart's file brought down for you.
- Barry Allen: What are you doing here?
- Joe West: Axel Walker escaped. Some new nurse helped him get out.
- Barry Allen: [realizing] He was in here because of the pudding.
- Joe West: How do you know that?
- Barry Allen: He was complaining about the taste.
- Barry Allen: Is Cisco having any luck figuring out how to bypass the system? Because once he does that, I could phase out of here. I could help you track him.
- Joe West: Barry, you need to stay put for now. Trickster is just a messed-up kid. We can handle him.
- Barry Allen: No, I know, of course. I just... I'm already tired of feeling useless, you know?
- Joe West: The only thing you should focus on in here is watching your back. Pretty sure cops can't touch inmates. Otherwise, I'd give you a hug. Stay strong, Bar.
- Warden Gregory Wolfe: [handing over "Lindsay's" file] Well, this is her.
- Joe West: [recognizing her] This woman's name isn't Lindsay Fineheart.
- Cisco Ramon: [seeing an old photo of Prank with James Jesse] Man, what were people wearing back then?
- Iris West-Allen: Zoey Clark was the beneficiary to Clark Toys empire.
- Joe West: Not much of an empire. All those stores closed twenty years ago.
- Caitlin Snow: Looks like Axel was born nine months after Zoey was last seen. I bet she left to help take care of her son.
- Iris West-Allen: And she came back to bust him out of prison, and pick up where she left off.
- Joe West: Well, I'm digging into CCPD files to see if she had any other known associates.
- Dr. Harry Wells: I'll set the satellite to do a search grid.
- Iris West-Allen: [coordinating searches for Prank] Hey, Ralph, do you, um, want to go to your usual spots, see if any of your contacts have seen her?
- Ralph Dibny: Sure. I need a chaperone. Caitlin, you're up. It's happy hour; you're buying.
- [groaning, she stands to follow him out]
- Ralph Dibny: Come on, use Killer Frost's credit card.
- Caitlin Snow: No way, Jose.
- Ralph Dibny: You think Ralphy's made of money?
- Axel Walker: Oh, awesome! I made the news.
- Zoey Clark: Not awesome. Now the police are looking for you. As soon as night falls, we're out of Central City.
- Axel Walker: And then we'll go meet up with dad, right? That's why you broke me out. Because dad wanted to see me, right?
- Zoey Clark: Not exactly. Axel, I wanted you back in my life.
- Axel Walker: Right, but what about dad?
- Zoey Clark: Well, he broke out a year ago, and he hasn't come looking for you. He doesn't care.
- Zoey Clark: Axel, your dad's a deadbeat. He doesn't want to be a part of this family, and he never did.
- Axel Walker: Don't talk about him like that.
- Zoey Clark: Honey, I'm sorry, it's just that... you just don't know him like I do. Do you know what it was like for me when you were growing up? While you were idolizing your dad? I was the one making your dinner. While you were watching him terrorize the city on TV, I was the one driving you to school. I was the one making sure you got your homework done. I was the one packing the lunches in the morning. I was there for you.
- Axel Walker: I know, I know, mom! Okay, now we can get him back.
- Zoey Clark: I don't want him back. I want us to go be free together. I never wanted you to end up like your father.
- Axel Walker: Well, it's too late for that, mom. I just need to get dad's attention. I'll show him that someone in this family still has a funny bone.
- Prison Gang Leader: Heard you had a little one-on-one time with a badge this morning.
- Barry Allen: Oh, god.
- Prison Gang Leader: First you dirty up my shoes. Now you're snitching to the cops? You've had quite the first week, haven't you?
- Barry Allen: I don't want any trouble.
- Prison Gang Leader: Too late.
- Iris West-Allen: Hey, how's the search coming?
- Cisco Ramon: Uh, Harry and I already set all the parameters, it's just got 300 square miles to comb through, so...
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah.
- Cisco Ramon: [the monitors fritz in and out] That's not good.
- The Trickster: Hello, Central City! It's been far, far too long since my beautiful face graced your screens.
- Ralph Dibny: Whoo, this kid's got a face for radio.
- Cisco Ramon: Trickster's hijacking the city's broadcasting signals.
- The Trickster: Today, we're going to play a little game I like to call "What Does This Do?". Looks like a regular, old bouncy ball. But what does this do?
- Iris West-Allen: Cisco.
- Cisco Ramon: Tracing.
- The Trickster: Let's find out if and when you throw it hard enough...
- [he throws it away, and a nearby cab blows up]
- The Trickster: [cackling] Kaboom!
- Cisco Ramon: He's downtown, corner of DeMeo and Bilson.
- The Trickster: Bring me the Stretchy Man, or else you're gonna go "boom-boom."
- Cisco Ramon: [seeing Ralph's superhero suit under his civilian clothes] You still haven't taken that off, huh?
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, I sleep in this.
- [moving to leave, then turning back]
- Ralph Dibny: You mind breaching me there? It's a lot faster.
- The Trickster: Where are you, Stretchy Man? I've got plenty more where that came from.
- Elongated Man: [breaching in] Nice suit, Fallout Boy.
- The Trickster: Yuck. Yours could use some work.
- Elongated Man: Ooh, look at that cutting wit.
- Elongated Man: You wanted me, here I am.
- The Trickster: Great. Do you want to play, uh, catch?
- Elongated Man: [catching a bouncy ball, which detonates in his hand] You're really blowing this supervillain fight.
- The Trickster: Well, it's my Central City return party. And your death will make me a star.
- Elongated Man: [he's unharmed by a round of throwing stars] Child's play.
- The Trickster: [pulling out a Super-Soaker] Okay. All right, this is what I call the Hurty-Squirty Gun.
- [Ralph is initially unharmed, then begins screaming in pain]
- Elongated Man: Tricked ya! It's acid, with a little ingredient X. I call it "axid".
- Caitlin Snow: He's panicking, his heart rate is off the charts.
- Iris West-Allen: Ralph, are you okay?
- Elongated Man: [still in pain] Help!
- The Trickster: Burn, Stretchy Man, burn!
- Vibe: [breaching in and knocking him backwards] Not today, Satan!
- Elongated Man: [they breach back to S.T.A.R. Labs] What the hell did he do to me?
- Ralph Dibny: What the hell was that stuff?
- Caitlin Snow: Looks like Axel created some sort of super acid.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Yeah, it's got a pH level in the negative 50s, and all it did was burn through your skin?
- Cisco Ramon: God, if it were anybody else, it would melt right through them like xenomorph blood.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Like in...
- Cisco Ramon: "Alien".
- Ralph Dibny: But you said my cells were polymerized.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Uh, no...
- Ralph Dibny: You said nothing could hurt them.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Dibny, I didn't say that. I said your cells were bonded unlike anything I've ever seen. I've never see acid like this, and so, cannot be responsible for things I have never seen.
- Ralph Dibny: It definitely hurts.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Mm-hmm, of course.
- Iris West-Allen: Well, now we know what your kryptonite is.
- Ralph Dibny: What the hell is kryptonite?
- Cisco Ramon: What?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Oh, come on.