- Gypsy: Hey, babe. Uh, it's me. Just checking in. For my dad. He... really wants to know your answer about taking the Breacher job. I think his exact words were: "That little son of a Breacher better tell me, or they will never find the body."
- Cisco Ramon: Okay. So, where shall we start? I'm thinking, if we can gain acc-
- [Barry races around the rooms at super-speed, accessing and reading the computer files]
- Cisco Ramon: -ess to their files...
- Barry Allen: Alloy 1771? I mean, that's the only item missing from the inventory files.
- Cisco Ramon: Or I can just... stand here and look pretty.
- Marlize DeVoe: Since the age of Enlightenment, when reason, debate, and the search for truth flourished, the world has improved by nearly every measure in human advancement, and continues to do so. There is no doubt in my mind that as technology continues to bloom, so will all of humanity.
- Clifford DeVoe: [Chuckling]
- Marlize DeVoe: Professor DeVoe? You disagree?
- Clifford DeVoe: Well, uh, yes, I guess. Just, I have a more realistic view of humanity whenever technology is concerned.
- Marlize DeVoe: What do you mean?
- Clifford DeVoe: Well, you spoke of the Enlightenment. One only has to look at history to find the answers.
- Marlize DeVoe: Okay, let's. Life expectancy over the past two centuries has increased from 30 years to nearly 70 years.
- Clifford DeVoe: And-and we should assume that's a good thing? Each new day, we have to share very limited resources with anything up to 200,000 newborn babies, most of whom will end up living in abject poverty and famine.
- Marlize DeVoe: Well, thank you very much, Professor Doom and Gloom. Remind me never to take one of your history classes.
- [Crowd Laughs]
- Clifford DeVoe: Perhaps you should. There's much I could teach you.
- [Crowd Murmurs]
- Clifford DeVoe: The Taoists, in pursuit of immortality, discovered gunpowder. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize so he wouldn't be remembered as the man who invented dynamite. History has shown us time and time again that whenever a technological advancement can be used to hurt humanity, it will be.
- Marlize DeVoe: You can't blame technology for the way men choose to use it, Professor.
- Clifford DeVoe: You can't ignore that the best of ideas by the smartest of men often have a way of becoming corrupted.
- Marlize DeVoe: Initally, we set out to enlighten the world. Now you want to rule it. I am leaving you, Clifford.
- [he realizes a force field surrounds her]
- Marlize DeVoe: Nothing can get in or out.
- Clifford DeVoe: You dare orchestrate an exodus on the eve of humanity's greatest reckoning? You made a vow.
- Marlize DeVoe: To my husband! But my husband is dead. The Thinker's first victim.
- Clifford DeVoe: The Enlightenment will come for you, too, Marlize. I will be all that remains.
- Marlize DeVoe: Oh, Clifford. You are nothing without me.
- Clifford DeVoe: When the line cut out, I came. Immediately. I thought I'd lost you.
- Marlize DeVoe: You'll never lose me, Clifford. You were right. Technology has become a cancer. Driving civilization to consume itself. A militia group found out abotu the water purifier that I created. Any they just killed dozens of... of people to take it. Women and children slaughtered. For a simple piece of technology. Your journal wrote of a world where humanity forgot that this technological menace was capable. But what I didn't tell you was that I saw the truth in it even then. And it frightened me. And that's why I ran. And I'm not frightened anymore.
- Clifford DeVoe: You believe.
- Marlize DeVoe: I believe in you. Enlighten them, Clifford. You're the only one who can.
- Clifford DeVoe: I'm nothing without you.
- Joe West: I need you to distract Cecile for a while.
- Dr. Harry Wells: What for?
- Joe West: Well, that's the thing. I can't tell you, because if I do, she'll read your mind and find out.
- Dr. Harry Wells: Why can't Iris do it?
- Joe West: Because Iris knows exactly why I'm trying to distract Cecile.
- Barry Allen: I know why you're upset, but it's all right.
- Gypsy: Really?
- Barry Allen: Yeah. Look, Cisco just thinks if he takes the job, he'll be letting us down. But, I mean, he just needs to follow his own heart, do what he needs to do, not worry about us. He knows that.
- Gypsy: Wow. That's actually really great.
- Barry Allen: So, now... all you guys have to do is talk to each other.
- Gypsy: Yeah. Well, that part's not so easy, so...
- Barry Allen: [glancing around] Yes... it is.
- Gypsy: What are you doing?
- Barry Allen: What?
- Gypsy: Don't even think about it.
- Barry Allen: No!
- Gypsy: Don't even think about it. No!
- [he grabs her arm and speeds to STAR Labs]
- Barry Allen: Okay.
- Gypsy: Don't ever "whoosh" me again, all right?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Thing we're gonna do to get Killer Frost to appear, get that massive spike in your adrenaline production that we need, is Ramon is gonna use his vibes to shake you up on a cellular level, and let's see if we can't get your old friend Killer Frost to come out to play.
- Iris West-Allen: Are you sure this is gonna work?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Well, I mean, like any hypothesis, you have to test it to get an answer. It's what we've all done since the fourth grade, known as the...
- Barry Allen: Scientific method?
- Dr. Harry Wells: Right you are, Allen.
- Barry Allen: What are we dealing with?
- Joe West: Uh, first of all, we're trying to determine what was in that vault. Watch your step right here. Uh, there was no drilling, there was no lock picked. And the only thing anyone about what was in the vault was that it was some sort of secretive technology. Also, security guard here was a 24 year old, apparently shot himself.
- Iris West-Allen: Wait, a robbery and a suicide?
- Joe West: He was newly married. Has an infant at home. This is smelling like some meta madness to me.
- Barry Allen: Who else can Kilg%re a retinal scan and Dibny a vault lock?
- Joe West: What would DeVoe be doing with a solar panel?
- Barry Allen: Nothing, on its own. He's gotta be building something.
- Barry Allen: [after Cisco breaks up with Gypsy] Hey, man. Are you okay?
- Cisco Ramon: Not really, no.
- Barry Allen: Do you want some space, or...
- Cisco Ramon: Actually, I got plenty of that right now.
- Barry Allen: I'm sorry for pushing the two of you. I think you both did the right thing, though.
- Cisco Ramon: Then why does it hurt so much?