- Cisco Ramon: Check out this frosty twist.
- [Caitlin and Frost walk in the Cortex]
- Barry Allen: Are my back meds still wearing off? I'm seeing double.
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah, you and me both.
- Caitlin Snow: I know this is a lot to take in.
- Frost: [to Cisco] Told you they'd freak.
- Frost: It's not so bad being separate. For Caity, I mean, you know. She can finally watch "This Is Us" without me screaming "Turn it off!" in her head.
- Cisco Ramon: Frost, what have I said about disparaging "This Is Us"?
- Frost: They're so weepy.
- Cisco Ramon: That cast is too precious for this world.
- Frost: I mean shouldn't we be focusing on that berserker who killed Abra Kadabra instead?
- Cisco Ramon: Frost has a point. Where are we with Fuerza?
- [Barry and Frost look puzzled]
- Cisco Ramon: Fuerza. Spanish, for strength. Look, She-Hulk was taken, okay?
- Iris West-Allen: Well, uh, still no sign of her, but Barry has figured out how to track her.
- Cisco Ramon: Oh, good. 'Cause of Fuerza can survive an antimatter blast, that kind of puts her on a whole other level of baddie. Like, a "wet your pants" level.
- Joe West: Why the interest in an open and shut case?
- Iris West-Allen: Well, the guard told "The Citizen" a different story this morning and I figure I can help him get his job back if I can break the real story. He didn't doze off, Dad. He had a vision of his abusive stepfather stalking him in the bank, realer than any nightmare he's ever had.
- Joe West: The robbery went down at 11:09, last night.
- Iris West-Allen: Mm-hmm.
- Joe West: Around the same time that Cecile was having a nightmare too. Damn. If we've got some kind of Freddy Krueger meta on our hands, we'll find him.
- Kristen Kramer: I'm with the Governor's Municipal Logistics Commission.
- Joe West: I wasn't expecting you 'til this afternoon. It's good to finally meet you.
- Kristen Kramer: Yeah, I like to get a head start. In my experience, if you're not early, you're late. You must be the captain's daughter.
- [indicating a framed picture on Joe's desk]
- Kristen Kramer: Hmm. I read about how you survived the abduction into that... mirror dimension, was it? Sounded terrifying.
- Iris West-Allen: Uh... I've survived worse.
- Kristen Kramer: Impressive. Didn't mean to interrupt. We can chat tomorrow, Captain. Lunch is on the governor.
- Joe West: Sounds good.
- Iris West-Allen: [watching her leave] Where'd she say she was from?
- Joe West: State Logistics Commission. Why?
- Iris West-Allen: [looking out into the bullpen suspiciously] Just another hunch.
- Barry Allen: First Fuerza, then the Speed Force shows up, now this, too?
- Cisco Ramon: Why can't I stop shaking?
- Caitlin Snow: Your biometrics are all elevated. I-I mean, your amygdalae are in overdrive.
- Barry Allen: Wait, we had panic attacks?
- Caitlin Snow: Extreme ones. Psych doesn't just manipulate your fear, he elevates it. But your cortisol levels are slowly stabilizing, which means...
- Barry Allen: Psych's powers have a residual effect.
- Cecile Horton: And Barry has had a double dose.
- Caitlin Snow: Where's Frost?
- Cisco Ramon: She wanted to be alone. Even the Ice Queen was freaked out by whatever she saw.
- Barry Allen: The mental dampeners didn't work.
- Caitlin Snow: Psych must have overpowered their circuitry. Which means, the next time you fight him, we won't be able to protect your mind.
- Cisco Ramon: The next time? How are we supposed to anticipate him? Stake out the banks?
- Barry Allen: No, he's not after money. Remember, he said he... he wants to free people from the power it has over them.
- Cisco Ramon: So, what? He has an ax to grind with the system?
- Cecile Horton: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It-It explains why he attacked the Cleary Capital offices. He doesn't want cash. He wants chaos.
- Barry Allen: Well, he got it.
- The Flash: So let me get this straight. You made those guards hallucinate some kind of Godzilla rip-off that almost squashed them?
- Psych: Well, I suppose that is an accurate, if not immensely reductive assessment of the situation. So, yes. I scared the hell out of them. And that was after showing them a vision of a dozen bystanders getting eaten alive by a very hungry kaiju. It's horrifying when you think it's your turn.
- Cisco Ramon: Based on how relieved Caitlin was to figure out this fix, I'm guessing she actually misses hearing your frosty tones inside her head.
- [plugging the Firestorm matrix device in to charge]
- Cisco Ramon: Okay, I'm done with you. Now we wait. I want to keep checking the satellites, make sure we don't get hit with another isotopic signature surprise.
- Joe West: You did a background check on a public official?
- Iris West-Allen: I've only ever heard of one other person using the phrase "if you're not early, you're late"; Citizen's go-to military source.
- Joe West: Kramer served.
- Iris West-Allen: Yes, she served, but I think she's also lying about why she's here. Dad, I found her file in the DOD database. Half of it's redacted. What if she's not here to help?
- Joe West: Iris, are you sure this isn't a reaction to what happened with Eva? I mean, she lied to you for weeks.
- Iris West-Allen: Dad, I am not afraid of being deceived, I'm afraid of not trusting my gut. Something is off with Kramer, I know it. Please, read the file.
- Frost: Dope belt buckle.
- Cisco Ramon: Ha-ha. Not a belt buckle. This is the Firestorm matrix.
- Frost: Okay...
- Cisco Ramon: I helped Thawne build it to combine Ronnie and Stein into Firestorm safely.
- Frost: And... that's gonna help put me and Katie back together?
- Cisco Ramon: You can thank Caitlin. She figured it out. All we have to do is just reset it to her DNA and your RNA; we're basically just resetting fusion to fission. This baby just needs a few hours to charge and...
- [snapping his fingers]
- Cisco Ramon: ...that's it! We can get you back to your normal, two minds, one body existence. That's a Tuesday for you.
- Cisco Ramon: [getting a meta alert] Satellites detected an isotopic signature?
- Barry Allen: That's Fuerza. Where's she headed?
- Cisco Ramon: Here. Right now.
- Frost: What's with all this thunder and lightning? Is Fuerza a speedster, too?
- Iris West-Allen: [seeing something on the ceiling] Barry.
- Caitlin Snow: Who is that?
- Speed Force: [Barry catches her as she falls, breathing raggedly] Hel... help me. Help me.
- Frost: These rapids are hardcore. Can Katie swim? What if, when she and I split, I got swimming and now she needs floaties?
- Cisco Ramon: [snickering] No one's gonna need floaties, all right? You two are gonna be peanut butter and jellied again by the time we tear up that river.
- Caitlin Snow: [storming in] Frost!
- Cisco Ramon: Or not.
- Iris West-Allen: You think Fuerza's gonna come back and finish what she started, don't you?
- Barry Allen: I already watched the Speed Force die once. I'm not gonna let that happen again.
- Caitlin Snow: The Firestorm matrix has been sabotaged, only someone tried to make it look like it short-circuited.
- Cisco Ramon: Before you go blaming Frosty...
- Caitlin Snow: I ran the adapter through an infrared scanner, and guess what the temperature was? -162 degrees.
- Frost: Fine, I broke your stupid, precious matrix.
- Cisco Ramon: Oh.
- Caitlin Snow: Why? Why would you do that to us? It'll be weeks before we can even consider another fusion attempt.
- Frost: Because maybe I don't want to recombine!
- Caitlin Snow: Why not?
- Frost: [lost for words] Well...
- Caitlin Snow: [leaving] Call me when you figure it out.
- Cisco Ramon: [awkwardly clearing his throat] You know, this actually reminds me of that scene where Rebecca and Jack are fighting...
- [an alarm sounds]
- Cisco Ramon: Oh, look at that. Let's go. We gotta go.
- Caitlin Snow: What exactly did he make you see?
- Cisco Ramon: Just... Kamilla in danger. Uh, what about you? What did you see?
- Barry Allen: It doesn't matter.
- Cisco Ramon: What if it does? What if there's, like, a clue or something in what you saw...
- Barry Allen: There isn't.
- Cisco Ramon: Well, you don't know that. Look, you're gonna have to face him again eventually.
- Barry Allen: Well, what if I can't, all right? What if he's too powerful and I can't stop him?
- Caitlin Snow: Barry, no one said...
- Barry Allen: You didn't have to. Maybe Psych's gonna destroy this whole city and everyone in it. There's nothing I can do about it.
- Barry Allen: Cisco, do we still have the mental dampeners we used to fight Grodd?
- Cisco Ramon: We can try and repurpose them to repel Psych's hallucinations.
- Barry Allen: Do it. If we can keep Psych out of our heads, he can't hurt us.
- Iris West-Allen: Still at it?
- Barry Allen: I think I figured out how to track the thing that attacked us.
- Iris West-Allen: So... what are we looking at?
- Barry Allen: A spectrograph from the scene of the attack. That is a rare geothermic isotope that I reprogrammed our satellites to scan for. If we get a hit...
- Iris West-Allen: Then we can track our target. Nice work.
- Barry Allen: Satellites picked up Psych's isotopic signature downtown at the Cleary Capital offices.
- Cisco Ramon: Time to put these mental dampeners to work.
- Frost: And kick some psychic butt.
- Barry Allen: I just got the Speed Force restarted, now this happens.
- Caitlin Snow: And what about your speed? Has it been affected?
- Barry Allen: No. At least not yet. I'm still trying to figure out how this is even possible.
- Caitlin Snow: I have no idea. I have never seen biometrics like this.
- Cisco Ramon: You've never had a god for a patient. The Speed Force took this form right after H.R.'s funeral. It's like Zeus coming down from Olympus disguised as a mere mortal.
- Iris West-Allen: Okay, but why would a god be asking for our help?
- Caitlin Snow: Whatever the answer is, I need to figure out a way to accurately monitor her recovery.
- Cisco Ramon: [Barry speeds away and back] Holy mother.
- Barry Allen: You good?
- Cisco Ramon: Yeah, just give me a minute.
- Barry Allen: She's wearing my Speed Force gauge now. Right now, it's red. If it changes, hopefully that'll tell us her power levels are recharging.
- Caitlin Snow: And if that's the case, maybe she entered a comatose state to help heal herself.
- Iris West-Allen: Makes sense, and when she recovers, she can tell us who did this to her. It.
- Barry Allen: Maybe it's the same thing that can rip through an antimatter bomb like it's tissue paper. Those are residual geothermic isotopes. They're all over her.
- Cisco Ramon: You think Fuerza did this? Oh, that must have been one hell of a fight.
- Barry Allen: Not as big as the fight we're gonna take to Fuerza.
- Cisco Ramon: Okay, but this isn't just some run-of-the-mill meta we're talking about here. Whatever Fuerza is, she's powerful enough to hurt the frickin' Speed Force. And what if she doesn't wake up? What happens to you?
- Barry Allen: Look, we've faced big threats before. Crisis, Savitar, Thawne. We beat them all. If Fuerza did do this, she should be afraid of us.
- Barry Allen: What's wrong?
- Cecile Horton: I had a nightmare, but it was more like a vision. I don't know, I thought, maybe with my powers expanding lately, Caitlin could check out my noggin.
- Barry Allen: [she begins to groan in pain and holds her head] Hey... hey, are you okay?
- Cecile Horton: No, it's happening again, it... it's like someone's stabbing my brain.
- Barry Allen: I'm gonna get Caitlin.
- Cecile Horton: No, no, no. Barry, Barry, it's... it's not medical. It's my powers. It's like they're picking up raw fear.
- Barry Allen: [his phone buzzes] There's a robbery downtown.
- Cecile Horton: It's okay, really. I'm fine now.
- Barry Allen: Are you sure?
- Cecile Horton: Yeah. You should go.
- [he glances at the resting Speed Force in concern]
- Cecile Horton: Hey, I'll keep an eye on her. Go.
- Caitlin Snow: Your vitals were spiking, but they seem to have stabilized. Your speed healing kicked in.
- Cisco Ramon: What the hell happened out there?
- Barry Allen: I... I was hallucinating. Thawne, Savitar... they were trying to kill me. It was like...
- Cecile Horton: Like a nightmare come to life?
- Barry Allen: Yeah. Like the guards in the truck. Wait, like you. You had a nightmare last night.
- Cecile Horton: Yeah. Someone is broadcasting fear into their victims, and I'm-I'm tuning into it like an antenna.
- Cisco Ramon: Fear, I get. Hallucinations can make you freak out, but not bleed out.
- Caitlin Snow: Whoever's doing this must be inciting extreme psychosomatic reactions. Barry's mind literally tricked his body into hurting itself.
- Cecile Horton: So if you die in the hallucination...
- Cisco Ramon: Then you die in real life.
- Barry Allen: Well, he carried traces of the same isotopes we linked to Fuerza. That means we can track him, too, right?
- Cisco Ramon: Right. And it means that Fuerza and Psych must be connected somehow.
- Caitlin Snow: Psych?
- Cisco Ramon: He's a psychic psychopath, causing psychosomatic symptoms. I mean, the guy practically named himself.
- Psych: Oh, it's you again. Well, that's disappointing.
- The Flash: We're not gonna let you hurt any more people.
- Psych: Oh, I haven't hurt anyone today. I have freed them from a system that brings fortune to the fortunate and dooms the rest. Pretty poetic, don't you think?
- Vibe: What... what is this guy's deal?
- Frost: I think he's overcompensating.
- Psych: I don't like your friends, Flash. Also, if you think your flimsy dampeners can stop me, perhaps you all could use some freedom, too.
- Frost: So, you remember when Mirror Monarch blasted me with her gun?
- Barry Allen: Mm-hmm.
- Frost: Well, ever since that blast, we've had these crazy headaches. Last night, everything gets fuzzy, Katie passes out. And then we wake up, totally fine. But there's two of us.
- Caitlin Snow: [seeing Barry is still confused] Uh, Eva's mirror gauntlet contained a reflective mirror chip. I think it forced Frost's cryogenes to rapidly replicate and create a whole new form so that she could survive.
- Cisco Ramon: Crazy, right?
- Barry Allen: So, this... can you still hear each other's thoughts?
- Frost: Nope. Just sweet, sweet, silence. And I got to keep my powers. Katie got to keep the doctor stuff and science know-how, which is fine by me.
- Caitlin Snow: Do you wanna tell me what scared you so much when Psych whammied you? Come on, we used to share a brain. I know you don't scare easy.
- Frost: I was under arrest for all the crimes I committed as Killer Frost. And you were the one who turned me in.
- Caitlin Snow: I would never do that.
- Frost: I know. Look, ever since you let me take the wheel, I got to live my life, not just half the time, but all the time. And I really liked it. And I don't want to go back to living my life just half the time. And I was afraid you'd hate me for saying that.
- Caitlin Snow: I would never hate you. You're my sister. You can always tell me how you feel.
- Frost: I don't know how. I mean... I may be the strong one, but... you're the brave one. I mean, you're fearless. I mean, ever since I got in touch with my feelings, I just... I'm scared, all the time. Sometimes I don't even know why.
- Caitlin Snow: You think you're the only one who gets scared sometimes? Ever since we separated, there's been this deafening silence inside my head where you used to be. And it terrifies me. That's why I've been so desperate to put us back together. Why I got so upset when you broke the matrix. It's 'cause my biggest fear in life is living without you.
- Frost: Mine, too.
- Caitlin Snow: Well, then why don't we face that fear together?
- Frost: You mean...
- Caitlin Snow: Maybe two Snows really is better than one. My apartment has an extra bedroom. I could use a roommate. What do you say?
- Frost: I say... "This is Us."
- Caitlin Snow: His amygdala is spiking.
- Cisco Ramon: Barry, can you hear me? Cecile is connected to your mind. Whatever you're seeing, fight through it.
- The Flash: [in his nightmare] This isn't real. It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.
- Cisco Ramon: You got us all killed, Barry.
- Speed Force: I trusted you. Why didn't you save me?
- Iris West-Allen: When you let me die, you killed our children, too.
- Cecile Horton: Barry can't hear us. He's caught inside his nightmare. He's lost.
- Cisco Ramon: I'm diverting all satellite power to the comms. Listen to me, Barry. You have to get through this.
- The Flash: Cisco, I don't know if I can.
- Cisco Ramon: Yes, you can. You are strong enough, I know you are. We can't do this without you.
- Speed Force: You're a coward, Barry Allen!
- Cisco Ramon: You'll lose us again.
- Iris West-Allen: All because you're too afraid. Too afraid to open your eyes.
- The Flash: [calming himself down] You're right, I am afraid. But I won't let that fear control me.
- Iris West-Allen: How is he?
- Caitlin Snow: Better, I think. Barry's system was overwhelmed with the same strange signatures that I found in Nora's system. His vitals have stabilized a bit, which is good news, but as to when he'll be fully healed, it's difficult to say.
- Cisco Ramon: If Psych or Fuerza were to attack right now, we're totally on our own.
- Speed Force: Because I wasn't fast enough.
- Iris West-Allen: Nora.
- Speed Force: This physical form is new for me. I didn't know its limitations. I can feel how weak he still is. How weak we both still are. What happened to Barry?
- Iris West-Allen: He was attacked by a powerful meta-psychic.
- Speed Force: Who showed him his greatest fear? That same psychic was the second of my attackers.
- Cisco Ramon: Fuerza and Psych? They both hurt you?
- Iris West-Allen: [Nora nods] Who are they?
- Speed Force: I think... they're just like me.
- Cisco Ramon: [using the Thinker's chair to enhance Cecile's powers] Cecile, you good?
- Cecile Horton: Nope! Not even close to good. I-I am sitting in a death machine. What if this thing fries my brain? Uh, wh-what if this chair turns me evil like the Top? What about that?
- Caitlin Snow: As a medical professional, I promise you will be okay.
- Cecile Horton: Okay.
- Caitlin Snow: Probably.
- Joe West: Logistics compliance. Is that what you were doing when you were working in Gotham?
- Kristen Kramer: I've made a few trips there. I'm a big Knights fan.
- Joe West: And I called my buddy who'd been working the Gotham beat for more than a decade. Pretty high stakes game you played. And...
- [showing her her military service record]
- Joe West: ...there is this. So I don't know what your goal is here, but if you're gonna be in my precinct... how about we cut the bull and you be honest with me.
- Kristen Kramer: Fair enough. I wasn't planning to announce this until I got my bearings. On the orders of the governor, I'm here to locate and apprehend a rogue meta-human, whatever the cost. And quite frankly, it's about time someone addressed the long-standing issue this precinct ignored.
- Joe West: [looking at her tablet] You want to arrest the Flash?
- Kristen Kramer: Hmm, no; he's clean. So far. I'm here for someone far more dangerous. The meta-human fugitive known as Killer Frost.
- Barry Allen: I spent last year so afraid of losing everyone I loved in Crisis, I never thought I'd have to face that fear again. Psych showed me... people I love dead. Fuerza had killed them. We've taken on the impossible so many times. Something about these new threats feels different. Bigger. And for the first time since Crisis... I'm sc... I'm scared.
- Cecile Horton: Sometimes when I'm scared, I ask myself "What would the Flash do?". Seriously. Barry, you run through fear every time you save this city. Honey, you just gotta find some of that courage for yourself.
- Caitlin Snow: Your frontal cortex is healing, but the part that controls motor control is still falling behind.
- Iris West-Allen: No trace of Psych or Fuerza.
- Barry Allen: Well, either way, at least now we have proof they're connected. When I struck Psych with my lightning, he shook it off easy, but just for a minute, the lightning... it stayed with him.
- Cisco Ramon: Was it glowing?
- Barry Allen: Yeah.
- Cisco Ramon: Same thing happened when you fought Fuerza.
- Barry Allen: I threw everything I had at them, we all did. They just kept coming for more. Luckily, your powers are getting stronger, too.
- Cecile Horton: Well, chair did most of the work, but thanks.
- Cisco Ramon: I don't know, you kicked some pretty serious psychic ass out there. Might have to teach Martian Manhunter a thing or two.
- Cisco Ramon: Guys, we just detected Psych's isotopic signature. It's expanding, all over Sandoval Heights.
- Barry Allen: [getting an idea] Cecile, you sent your own fear into Top. Do you think you could do that on a bigger scale?
- Cecile Horton: D... me? No, no way. Barry, I could barely broadcast one emotion across a room.
- Barry Allen: Then let's get you some help.
- Cecile Horton: [in another part of the lab, he unveils the Thinker's chair] Barry, are you insane?
- Barry Allen: I know it sounds crazy, but DeVoe built this chair to expand his mental capacity on a massive scale.
- Cecile Horton: Yeah, yeah, and it turned him into a supervillain!
- Barry Allen: But you won't, 'cause you're gonna use it to save the city.