The Flash (TV Series)
A New World, Part 3: Changes (2023)
Jessica Parker Kennedy: Nora West-Allen, XS
Quotes
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Chester P. Runk : Whoo! All right, party people! That's a wrap. The Chronarch is no longer the monarch. Come on home.
XS : Was that schway or what?
Allegra Garcia : Not bad for your first mission as team leader.
Cecile Horton : I know your dad's all the way in outer space, but I can feel how proud he is of you from the Watchtower.
XS : I mean, that was fun. But I'm ready for dad to come home.
Chester P. Runk : Hey, babe. The way you went supernova on him at the end? It's like you were trying to blast that man into the 64th century.
Allegra Garcia : Well, actually, that's exactly what I was trying to do.
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XS : I swear, if our big bad has escaped from ARGUS already...
Chester P. Runk : Oh, no, no, it's an energy surge coming from upstairs at the Flash Museum.
Allegra Garcia : I told you it wasn't a good idea to put a museum on top of our secret lair.
Chester P. Runk : No, baby. It's genius. Who'd look for the Flash under his own museum?
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Eddie Thawne : So do you guys finally believe me, or do I need to pee into a cup?
XS : According to all our tests, you're telling the truth. You really are Eddie Thawne.
Eddie Thawne : I know. So who the hell are you, and how did you know who I am?
[XS removes her mask showing her face]
Eddie Thawne : You're Barry's daughter? But I thought...
XS : I know. You probably recognize me from when we first met. 2013, New Year's Eve. I was one of the new interns at CCPD.
Eddie Thawne : I remember that.
XS : Yeah, we had to travel back to 2013 to save the timeline. I'm sorry, are you OK?
Eddie Thawne : That thing I saw in the museum... I also saw one at the cemetery. It killed Captain Korber.
XS : It was a singularity. Thank God it didn't keep growing. One like that almost destroyed the city on - on the day you died.
Eddie Thawne : Yesterday, I thought I was a man named Malcolm Gilmore. I turns out that whole life was a lie, and in reality I was a dead man - some idiot who killed himself to stop a supervillain that didn't stay dead.
XS : I know, but if you didn't do what you did in the Pipeline, my dad would've died that day.
Eddie Thawne : Maybe. Or maybe I could have had a whole life, a family. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to be back from the dead, but there's being alive, and there's what makes life worth living. And Iris, your mom - that was my reason. And without that, I just - I don't why I'm here.
XS : I can't imagine how you must be feeling. But I know better than most, you have been given the rarest gift, a second chance. You just have to decide how you're going to use it.
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Negative Speed Force : [to Flash] Do you know why I'm about to win? Because you don't have the guts to kill your own flesh and blood, unlike Eddie. That's why he's the ultimate avatar. And you'll die in the street like an animal.
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Eddie Thawne : You see anything unusual?
XS : Nope, but you're the detective. Why do you think you're here? Do you think you just randomly popped up decades after you died by coincidence?
Eddie Thawne : No. There's no such thing as a coincidence.
XS : Then you must be here for a purpose. Maybe it has something to do with the other Thawnes. They were a pretty big deal. Or at least they were supposed to be.
Eddie Thawne : Eobard told me that. And he was just trying to get under my skin.
XS : And it worked, didn't it? You proved him wrong by throwing your life away. But what if you had the power to get that life back?
Eddie Thawne : What do you mean?
XS : The Flash get his power from the Speed Force, but there's another side of the equation, another power that spent far too long in the shadows, forced into an unnatural balance. It needs someone to stand up to the Flash. And that should be you.
Eddie Thawne : I don't understand. Are you talking about hurting your dad?
XS : Eddie, are you still this pathetic? Are you a waste of a man, like Eobard said? A loser, a nobody, forgotten by history? Are you still the idiot who died trying to save a man who stole his life?
Eddie Thawne : No! I'm not.
XS : Then show me. You know how things were supposed to be. You can have that life if you take it.
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Allegra Garcia : So you're the Barry from 2023. And you are the Cecile from 2023, but in our Cecile's body.
Chester P. Runk : And here I thought today couldn't get any freakier.
Barry Allen : Look, the crystal that possessed Nora, it attacked me in the past. And then it went after the team in 2023.
Allegra Garcia : Wait, why don't we remember these attacks?
Barry Allen : Because they're happening simultaneously across the timeline. First in the past...
Chester P. Runk : Then in your present.
Barry Allen : And now here, in 2049. All while charging the crystal for the new avatar. Eddie.
Cecile Horton : That's not all. Speed Force Nora showed up in 2023. She said she was under attack and that all that remains of the Speed Force lives in your family. And then she vanished.
XS : Big Nora's gone? Dad...
Barry Allen : I know. Explains why we can't feel her anymore.
Chester P. Runk : Sweet NK Jemisin. OK, all this red energy that's appearing in the sky, it's not lightning. It's the timeline starting to fracture. And it'll spread in every direction...
Barry Allen : Until there's nothing left of the timeline at all.
Allegra Garcia : How long do we have, Chuck?
Chester P. Runk : I'm not sure, but at this rate of degradation, not very long.
Barry Allen : Cecile, I still can't time travel. Can you warn the team back in 2023?
Cecile Horton : Yeah, on it. But what do I tell the team about Eddie? Is there a chance he rejected that crystal's offer?
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XS : She's a pretty amazing person to try to forget, huh?
Eddie Thawne : That was a long time ago.
XS : For her. For you, it was yesterday. My mom told me a story about you guys-- that even though she was destined to be Iris West-Allen, you decided to be together anyway.
Eddie Thawne : Screw the future.
XS : Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. I wouldn't want another singularity to open up in the Cortex.
Eddie Thawne : What do you mean?
XS : Those singularities that have been appearing, they're tied to your emotions. Did nobody tell you?
Eddie Thawne : Wait. So what happened to Captain Korber, that's my fault?
XS : You didn't mean to do it, did you?
Eddie Thawne : Oh, my God, I got her killed. Nora, you've got to help me. There must be some way to fix this, right? A way to undo this?
XS : I'm not sure. You thought you were Malcolm Gilmore, right? When did you first realize something was wrong?
Eddie Thawne : I was at Mercury Labs.
XS : Then we should start there.
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Barry Allen : No. Nora, this isn't you. It's the Negative Speed Force.
XS : Oh, Barry. So fast, but somehow always so slow. You never figured out the most powerful form of hate is by corrupting love by twisting it into its negative.
Barry Allen : You're not going to make me hurt her.
XS : Either you kill your daughter, or I kill you. Both ways, I win.
Eddie Thawne : Nora! What are you doing?
Barry Allen : Eddie.
XS : Eddie, I told you, we're getting your life back.
Eddie Thawne : No, this isn't right.
