The Flash (TV Series)

Armageddon, Part 2 (2021)

Tony Curran: Despero

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• The Flash : I thought we had a truce.

  Despero : I thought as much. Your bravery is strengthened by your reassurance you gain from enhanced healing.

  The Flash : It doesn't mean it hurts any less.

• Despero : Pain is the debt we pay for change, and I'm here to change the future. Thanks to this experiment, I now know the force required to kill you when the time comes.

  Barry Allen : Oh.

  Despero : I've seen your destiny, Flash. I've watched you use your power to destroy everything and everyone.

  Barry Allen : You still haven't told me why I would do this. Huh? What would cause me to turn my back on everything I've sworn to protect?

  Despero : Madness. Many times in the past, the pain you've suffered nearly crushed you. But soon, a new despair will befall you. And it will create an unbroken chain of sorrow so great... your mind will crack. And with it, the world ends. You see... your power has recently accelerated. But so too has your ability to descend into madness. Tragedy is coming for you, Flash. What remains to be seen isn't whether or not you'll break. It's when.

  Barry Allen : I have seven days.

  Despero : Well, I'd worry more about tomorrow if I were you. I don't know the details of what will happen. But I know tomorrow is the beginning of the end. Your end. I've granted you a chance to defy destiny. But I'll be staying close by. As soon as I sense your mind turning mad, I'll find you. Good luck fighting fate, Flash.

• Barry Allen : Why are you here?

  Despero : I'm not. This is a psychic manifestation of my consciousness. Appearing only to you in order to assess your mental stability.

  Cecile Horton : Barry? Who are you talking to?

  Barry Allen : There's nothing wrong with my mind.

  Cecile Horton : It's him, isn't it? Despero.

  Despero : Your mind is suffering due to this tragedy. But no... it hasn't broken. Yet.

  Cecile Horton : [gasping as his aura disappears]  His energy. His energy, it felt like... the whole room was flooded, and that we were both drowning.

  Barry Allen : Despero's watching me now. Waiting for the proof he needs to kill me.

  Cecile Horton : Are you sure he's not what drives you insane?

  Barry Allen : No, I'm not. But I do think there's another explanation for what's happening. Korber said a security guard at this morning's robbery lost his mind.

  Cecile Horton : That can't be a coincidence. Not today.

  Barry Allen : No, it has to be connected to what Despero said happens in the future. I need to talk to that guard.

• Barry Allen : [learning he apparently went on a rampage around the city]  I don't remember doing that.

  Cecile Horton : Caitlin said you didn't remember destroying the loft. Or almost killing her and Chester, either.

  Iris West-Allen : Barry, we can blame Xotar for the loft. But she was in meta-cuffs when you destroyed City Hall.

  Despero : Do you see? It's been you all along, Flash. Now do you believe me?

  Barry Allen : No. This is one of your illusions. That's it. Iris, Cecile, you have to believe me.

  Despero : Enough! This ends now.

  Iris West-Allen : [his third eye opens and fires a blast of energy]  Barry!

  Despero : It's fitting that I end your life with the undying fire of my homeworld, the Flame of Py'tar.

  Cecile Horton : Get out of my house.

  Despero : [chuckling]  The empath. Well, your power's no match for me. So for now...

  [telepathically] 

  Despero : Sleep.

  Barry Allen : [Cecile falls unconscious]  Stop! If it's me you want, get it over with!

  Despero : Gladly.

  Chester P. Runk : [portaling in with Allegra, he zaps Despero backward]  That's... that's all I got. Barry, run!

• Despero : What's wrong with you people? You saw the destruction he'll bring to the world with your own eyes. Why am I fighting this threat alone?

  [growing to his alien height] 

  Despero : Stand in my way again, any of you, and suffer the consequences. I will find the Flash and end him before he brings about Armageddon.

• Despero : Search for Xotar for all you want. But the answer you're looking for has been with you all along.

  The Flash : Enough! No more cryptic prophecies, no more games. Why do you care so much? You said yourself this isn't your world. You're hiding something from me. What do you have to gain?

  Despero : A home. I saw my planet, Kalanor, overrun by evil. I was forced to see the people I love suffer and die under the fist of a despot. Then I was chosen to lead a band of rebels, attempting a coup. Both sides suffered heavy losses. But we were triumphant. However, when the time came to cut the head off the snake... I chose to spare the oppresor's life. But my mercy was misguided. Because it allowed that madman to rise again and rain down horrors a thousand times worse. I was spared. Because he knew for me, the only fate worse than death would be losing my home world. So he banished me here. That's how I came to adopt Earth as my new home. Only to watch you destroy it.

  The Flash : I've been through a crisis before. Whatever's coming, I can handle it.

  Despero : Crisis and tragedy are like fires, Flash. Some are strong enough to endure them. But others are destined to be consumed by them. Soon, we'll find out who you are.