The Flash (TV Series)

Growing Pains (2021)

Brandon McKnight: Chester P. Runk

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Quotes 

• Chester P. Runk : Anybody else taste pennies? It tastes like there's 78 cents in my mouth.

• Speed Force : I can feel how frustrated you are. How can I help?

  Barry Allen : Look, it's okay, we've got this.

  Chester P. Runk : Totally, I mean, we are, like the Power Rangers of forensic science, basically. But the Speed - Nora here - is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. She's like our Zordon.

• Chester P. Runk : Blazing Bessie Blount, I just got my first solo crime scene call. Oh, since Cisco and Kamilla are away and all, I'm the only CCPD tech consultant around. I wonder what it is. Maybe it's a 10-90. Maybe it's a 10-11.

  [gets a text from CCPD] 

  Chester P. Runk : Oh, snap, it's a 10-35. Frost, I am so sorry but...

  Frost : It's fine. Go have your fun, Peralta.

• Cecile Horton : One count of aggravated assault... One count of attempted murder... Two counts of kidnapping. It's a good thing you never lived up to your original name.

  Chester P. Runk : I thought once you started helping people, CCPD dropped the investigation.

  Cecile Horton : Yeah, they did, they did, but the State never officially dropped its charges, which means that Kristen Kramer has everything the she needs to put you in Iron Heights.

  Frost : I'm gonna find Kramer, and I'm gonna kick her ass.

  Cecile Horton : No, no, you're not. Kramer is formally army intelligence. Wherever she goes, heads roll. Just...

  Frost : Look, I'm not some thug anymore, okay? I've grown.

  Cecile Horton : I know that, honey, I do. Look, I'm one of the people you kidnapped. My advice to you, as your attorney, is to lay low.

  Chester P. Runk : Wait, so, Frost can't do superhero stuff anymore?

  Cecile Horton : Nope, not in the field. Look, you're an artist, okay? Just take some time off, chase those canvasses, create... just do it all , here at S.T.A.R. Labs where you're safe.

  Frost : I just got a life, and now you're telling me I can't live it.

• Chester P. Runk : [as Frost lifts weights]  That looks painful.

  Allegra Garcia : Chuck, said you had something important to tell Frost?

  Chester P. Runk : Right, okay. Well... there's a new ice meta in town who killed an Ivo Labs employee, but Kristen Kramer thinks that it was you, so she kind of ordered Joe to put the Meta Task Force on alert while she gets a warrant for your arrest.

  Frost : What? Why didn't Joe and Barry stop her?

  Chester P. Runk : Because, technically, she's their boss. She's also a very intimidating person. But don't worry. We're doing everything we can to get this cleared up. Me and Caitlin are even trying to fix one of H.R.'s transmogrifiers to work for you.

  Frost : Thanks, Runk.

  Chester P. Runk : Look, is there anything else I can do? I mean, you know, if you need to talk or-or vent or get the weight off your shoulders, Chester P. is all ears, I...

  Allegra Garcia : Go tech out, Chuck. We'll be fine.

• Joe West : I know how this looks. But there are other criminals that use ice to commit crimes, like Leonard Snart.

  Kristen Kramer : Snart was a man with a gun. Mr. Runk, you're our new technical consultant on meta-human affairs. What's your take on all this?

  Chester P. Runk : Uh, well, um, ma'am, uh...

  [taking a device out of his kit] 

  Chester P. Runk : Dark matter levels... uh, dark matter levels here are... oh... well, they're... they're off the charts.

  Barry Allen : That doesn't mean it's Frost. Look, you see the pattern in these ice crystals here? They're dendritic, like tree branches. Frost's ice crystals are usually hexagonal.

  Kristen Kramer : It's Killer Frost, Officer Allen. And you seem to know a lot about her powers.

  Barry Allen : Yeah, I've worked her crime scenes, and she's never killed anyone.

  Kristen Kramer : Until now, apparently.

• Chester P. Runk : Say, can white hole singularities actually exist... without mass?

  Speed Force : Yes.

  Chester P. Runk : I knew it! I knew. Barry, we don't have to crunch data all night. Nora can do it right now.

  Barry Allen : It's our job to find answers.

  Chester P. Runk : Of course, but, uh, you know, Nora is a literal force of nature.

  Speed Force : He's right, just let me...

  Barry Allen : [firmly]  No. No, we need to do this ourselves.

  Chester P. Runk : Maybe just this once?

• Chester P. Runk : Is Frost with you? This is an emergency.

  Allegra Garcia : Sorry, Chuck. She's here, but she's going full Amazon with her workout. What's the message?

  Chester P. Runk : Okay, tell her Kramer's making moves, so Frost needs to stay put.

  Allegra Garcia : Got it.

  [hanging up, she then dials Frost's number] 

  Allegra Garcia : Come on, pick up, pick up, pick up.

• Joe West : Officer Allen is our department's top forensics examiner, ma'am. If there's any evidence here that we can use, he will find it.

  Kristen Kramer : And Killer Frost is still out there. Captain, I hate to pull rank, but Governor Williamson gave me special authority in order to address this city's long-standing metahuman problems. We need to keep public safety in mind.

  Joe West : Agreed.

  Kristen Kramer : Good. Because I'm going to ask the D.A.'s office to issue a warrant for Killer Frost's arrest. I'm gonna need you and your officers for backup.

  Joe West : I'll alert the Meta-human Task Force.

  Kristen Kramer : Thank you. I need to update the Governor's office. Excuse me.

  Barry Allen : [Kramer leaves]  Joe, you can't be serious. We all know Frost didn't do this.

  Joe West : What am I supposed to say, Barry? "Yes, Frost did spend the evening with Caitlin."

  Chester P. Runk : You can't give Kramer her alibi without admitting that you've talked to a fugitive. Dang, that's a real catch-22.

  [mimicking an echo] 

  Chester P. Runk : Two, two.

  [seeing their looks] 

  Chester P. Runk : I'm sorry, my timing on that was terrible. I'm just gonna go tell Frost what's going on.

• Chester P. Runk : Dude, the 24-hour news cycle picked up on Kramer's "John Wick" parabellum move. That's a great movie.

  [imitating Keanu Reeves] 

  Chester P. Runk : "Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back."

  Barry Allen : I'm thinking we need to focus. Frost is safe at S.T.A.R. Labs right now, but Kramer's not gonna back down, not until we find proof. Here, check this out. Look at these cryo-membranes. Speed Force was right. It's way past compacted. Now if we could just figure out why.

  Chester P. Runk : Barry, these computers are way slower than you are. I mean, this much data? It's gonna take all night.

  [jumping as the Speed Force whooshes in] 

  Chester P. Runk : Ooh! Cool, but scary.

• Chester P. Runk : Holy baby Grogu, what happened here?

  Joe West : This delivery van was full of tech, and was hit by a perp in an ice attack. Apparently, some experimental microchip was stolen.

  Chester P. Runk : Huh, that doesn't sound so bad. What's all that?

  Barry Allen : [inspecting an icy pile of goo]  The driver.

• Speed Force : [after his powers glitch]  Barry, what did you do? We've lost everything.

  Barry Allen : What did I do? I didn't lose the data that was supposed to clear Frost. You did, by being here.

  Speed Force : I was only trying to help.

  Barry Allen : Okay, I didn't ask for any.

  Chester P. Runk : Guys, maybe we should take five?

  Speed Force : Barry, you helped me be reborn, and now you're keeping me safe. Of course I want to help you.

  Barry Allen : I keep telling you, I didn't ask for help. Look, you chose me to be the hero. So let me be the hero.

• Chester P. Runk : Guys, satellites just picked up one hell of a cryokinetic spike on the southside of Keystone.

  Allegra Garcia : Frost said she might be going somewhere she used to work.

  Barry Allen : O'Shaughnessy's. Let's go.

  Allegra Garcia : Wh... you still want me to come? After I lied to you?

  Barry Allen : Someone's gotta convince Frost to come home.

• Barry Allen : What'd you find?

  Chester P. Runk : Okay, so I somehow managed to salvage some of the ice data that we lost. Remember how the dark matter at the crime scene had compacted membranes?

  Barry Allen : Yeah.

  Chester P. Runk : It's because it wasn't dark matter at all. It was a half-life variant.

  Barry Allen : Artificial dark matter? That means the killer that we're after isn't a meta.

  Allegra Garcia : They're human. Somebody's been fooling us this whole time.

  Barry Allen : Somebody who's an expert at science and... knows that Frost and Caitlin used to be one person. We should ask Frost if... wait, where is Frost, anyway?

  Allegra Garcia : [they both turn to her]  Fine, I lied, okay? She went looking for our baddie by herself.

  Chester P. Runk : Frost went full "Fugitive".

• Chester P. Runk : Flash, there's a whole squad of CCPD cars outside of your location.

  The Flash : Yeah, we're trying to handle it, Chester.

  Kristen Kramer : Killer Frost, there is nowhere to go. We have you surrounded. You have one minute.

  Allegra Garcia : So what? Let 'em try.

  Barry Allen : [de-activating his cowl]  Or we could try calming down. Chillblaine here is the real killer. So I'll go out. I'll hand him over. I'll let 'em know you're innocent.

  Frost : Guys, I may not have killed that person today, but I'm not innocent. I have to go out there myself.

  Allegra Garcia : What?

  Barry Allen : Frost, Kramer has a warrant for all the crimes you committed before joining Team Flash. You get arrested, you're facing hard time if there's a conviction.

  Allegra Garcia : Uh-uh, that ain't happening. We can hide you somewhere while we figure this out.

  Frost : Right, and then you're harboring a fugitive. I can't let you do that.

• Frost : Guys, before today, I never paid for any of the bad things I did.

  Allegra Garcia : Because you were out saving the world.

  Frost : And I thought that was enough, too. But if I'm gonna prove that I've really changed, then I have to own up to it, as... painful as that might be.

  Allegra Garcia : Frost, I've been to Iron Heights. Jails do not make better people. They're hell. You cannot do this.

  Frost : I think I have to. You're not gonna try and stop me, are you?

  Barry Allen : Not unless you want me to.

  Frost : I don't.

  Allegra Garcia : Frost, please. What if you don't come back?

  Frost : Don't worry, I will.

  Allegra Garcia : [Frost hugs her goodbye]  No.

  Kristen Kramer : Time's up. Go.

  Frost : I'm coming out!

  Chester P. Runk : Guys, is Frost really doing this?

  Barry Allen : It's her choice, Chester. Something tells me it's the right one.