The Flash (TV Series)

A New World, Part 3: Changes (2023)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

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• Barry Allen : What the hell?

  Eddie Thawne : Wait. I've seen that happen before. My driver's license.

  Barry Allen : I've seen reactions like this, too, caused by negative tachyons. I think this place, Malcolm's belongings, his life - it's all made of negative tachyons. Like a false reality built for you to live in.

  Eddie Thawne : Well, who could have done that?

  Barry Allen : There's only one force powerful enough-- the one inside that crystal. The Negative Speed Force. I think it brought you back to life.

  Eddie Thawne : Why would it bring me back?

  Barry Allen : Eddie, I think the Negative Speed Force resurrected you, so you could be its avatar.

  Eddie Thawne : Its avatar? Avatar for what?

  Barry Allen : A Negative Speed Force. It needs a surrogate on Earth to carry out its plan. That's what the crystal has been doing all along. Joe, Mark, Nora. I mean, it can only possess them temporarily. It must need you to choose to take on its power.

  Eddie Thawne : No. That can't be right. The crystal showed me a better life, one with a daughter I was supposed to have.

  Barry Allen : Eddie, the Negative Speed Force is unlike anything you've ever seen before. It gets inside your head. It feeds off hate and rage, all right? Everything about it is evil.

  Eddie Thawne : It brought me back from the dead, OK? Is that evil? And what if I choose not to be the avatar, huh? Do I go back to being dead?

  Barry Allen : No, no, we'll find a way to save you. You could choose to start a new life.

  Cobalt Crystal : He lies.

  Eddie Thawne : Oh, really? Because all your team tried to do was cuff me. But that crystal, it actually wants me to help me get my life back. A life I was a fool to give up.

  Cobalt Crystal : There's still time.

  Barry Allen : Come on. You don't believe that.

  Eddie Thawne : Don't tell me what I believe! Did you know I can hear it right now? Sometimes I can't tell if it's the crystal's voice or my own voice. And I'm starting to wonder, what's the difference? It's funny. Returning from the dead really has a way of making you realize the mistakes you made in your old life. My mistake was being a nobody.

  Barry Allen : Eddie, you weren't a nobody, all right? Listen to me...

  Eddie Thawne : No! You listen to me. The second I died, everyone forgot about me. And you, Barry, the man I sacrificed my life for, you thanked me by stealing my fiancée.

  Barry Allen : Eddie.

  Eddie Thawne : But now I have a chance to change that. If I chose the crystal, maybe I could be the hero. I could get the girl and the family I deserve.

  Barry Allen : Eddie. I know how much you're hurting. The life you're talking about, it's not yours. Iris isn't your wife. Nora is not your daughter.

  Eddie Thawne : But they were supposed to be! And they still can be!

  Barry Allen : Eddie, you know that's not right. You have a chance to start over, to have your own life. What would Iris want you to do?

• Barry Allen : Eddie, I can't believe you're really here. You sacrificed yourself to save me. I never thanked you.

  Eddie Thawne : You too, Bar. These last couple days, I feel like I've been losing my mind.

  Barry Allen : Do you live here?

  Eddie Thawne : I thought this was my home, my life. But I was wrong. Everything's wrong.

  Barry Allen : Eddie. It's going to be all right. I don't know how I got here, either. The power in that crystal is attacking me and my family through time. Now it's possessed my daughter, and I don't know to stop it. Maybe we can together.

  Eddie Thawne : All I know is I used to be Malcolm Gilmore. I had his life, his memories. And that was a lie. How is that possible?

• 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?

• 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.