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Iris West-Allen : I scanned the crime scene photos and got a match. This is not Lang's first rodeo. CCPD put out a warrant for him for carjacking. He killed the whole crew inside.
Barry Allen : And now he absorbs kinetic energy?
Caitlin Snow : He only gets stronger if you punch him, you shoot him, you throw him into traffic.
Cisco Ramon : Which could only make the traffic worse. God, I'd hate to be stuck in that gridlock. Gridlock... Gridlock... I came up with the name. I am fortune's fool.
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Barry Allen : I don't have a suit.
Nora West-Allen : I actually have a backup.
[gives Barry the Flash ring]
Nora West-Allen : I got more than just a list of metas from that museum.
[Barry slips on the ring and activates it, he speeds into The Flash suit]
Cisco Ramon : Damn, Gina. I made that?
Nora West-Allen : Uh, Ryan Choi, actually.
Barry Allen : Oh. This is a supersuit. No offense.
Cisco Ramon : None taken.
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Barry Allen : You're saying you're our daughter?
Iris West-Allen : From the future?
Barry Allen : Named Nora?
Nora West-Allen : After your mother.
Cisco Ramon : Anybody need a refill? No? Just me?
[gulps down champagne]
Nora West-Allen : Cisco Ramon, always the cutting the tension with a joke.
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Ralph Dibny : [hearing Nora's story] Are we talking about actual time travel here?
Cisco Ramon : Do you just, like, not pay any attention when we have our briefings?
Wally West : Y'all didn't teach him about the Legends?
Ralph Dibny : Look, nobody said bupkis about time travel.
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Wally West : Uh, and your nickname is XS?
Cisco Ramon : Clearly not my doing.
Nora West-Allen : No, uh, it's a nickname that you gave me when I was a kid, Mom.
Iris West-Allen : "Mom"?
Nora West-Allen : You said I did everything in excess. Guess I've always been like that. Overdoing things, getting in way over my head. Like, uh, recently.
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Caitlin Snow : How much champagne did you have at Joe and Cecile's?
Cisco Ramon : [tipsy] This is the first opportunity I have to process my breakup with Gypsy, okay?
[to Barry and Iris]
Cisco Ramon : How was I supposed to know that your future daughter was gonna come show up and crash my pity party? How was I supposed to ancipitate that?
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Cisco Ramon : Gridlock, huh? Boy, the future's got some great names.
[groaning in pain]
Cisco Ramon : Ahh! This lighting.
Caitlin Snow : How did you know who he is?
Nora West-Allen : Flash Museum.
Cisco Ramon : Did you say... "Flash Museum"?
Nora West-Allen : Yeah. It has all the villains and battles in chronological order. I've studied everything.
Iris West-Allen : So you know this guy's real name?
Nora West-Allen : Mr. Myles, the curator, he scrubbed all the names for legal reasons. But it really shouldn't matter. I mean, Gridlock was a one-and-done. You guys beat him i-in one try, or at least... you were supposed to.
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Barry Allen : I've made way bigger mistakes than this time traveling. We'll get this guy; you don't need to worry about that. But the longer you stay here, the more things might change. We need to get you home.
Nora West-Allen : But I can't go fast enough to get home.
Caitlin Snow : What about the tachyon absorption enhancer? The one that Thawne used to increase his speed?
Cisco Ramon : Mm, and if we charge it up, we could uh, boost the Speed Force in her cells, like some kind of, um... thing that boosts Speed Force in cells.
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Nora West-Allen : I know King Shark is technically a bad guy, but you should see... just wait. When he fights Grodd, it's...
Cisco Ramon : Um! Spoiler alert.
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Wally West : Sorry I was too late. It took me a while to find where the Legends were. Well, when they were. But we got their Gideon to scan Nora's blood sample.
Barry Allen : What'd she find?
Wally West : Negative tachyons.
Cisco Ramon : Negative tachyons? So, what, instead of speeding you up, they slow you down?
Wally West : Yeah.
Cisco Ramon : Oh, damn, I was just joking. That's a real thing?
Wally West : Yeah, Ava and her team at the Time Bureau have encountered them before, but no one knows where they come from or how they're generated.
Barry Allen : Like dark matter for the space/time continuum.
Wally West : Exactly, and they're saturating Nora's body and keeping her from entering the Speed Force.
Barry Allen : What about the Waverider? Can the Legends take her back?
Wally West : If negative tachyons come anywhere near the 'Rider's time drives, uh, the reaction will vaporize the ship.
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Cisco Ramon : I present Gridlock: a mystery in three acts. Please note the dark matter levels. Act one, Gridlock attacks the cops before Barry shows up.
Caitlin Snow : Okay, but these dark matter levels are perfectly normal for a man of his size.
Cisco Ramon : Until Act Two. He gets lightning punched by Barry.
Ralph Dibny : His dark matter levels increased.
Cisco Ramon : Which brings us to our third and final act... Gridlock hits back.
Ralph Dibny : Even higher. How... how is that possible?
Caitlin Snow : It isn't, unless every time Gridlock got hit, his cells absorbed the kinetic energy.
Cisco Ramon : That would increase his dark matter quotient, thereby increasing his powers. If this is true, then whatever movement he's exposed to...
Ralph Dibny : The stronger he's gonna get.
Caitlin Snow : So if Gridlock keeps moving, he becomes unstoppable.
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Wally West : So, how do we find this guy without Sally the satellite?
Cisco Ramon : We don't need a satellite to hack a cell phone. And if we want to find his cell phone, we'll find it...
[surprised by the result]
Cisco Ramon : By the airport?
[digging deeper, he understands]
Cisco Ramon : Got it, 'cause he's on a plane that just took off. Central City Air, flight number 5201.
Iris West-Allen : Why would he get on a plane?
Barry Allen : [realizing] Because he's gonna crash it.
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Ralph Dibny : If Barry can go back in time, why didn't he stop the Thinker from killing me?
[seeing Cisco and Caitlin's looks]
Ralph Dibny : Kidding, I'm kidding. Guys, I'm kidding. I realize that I could have upset the delicate balance of the universe. Besides, if he did that, who knows? He might have created a timeline where I died in that particle accelerator explosion.
Cisco Ramon : Wishful thinking.
[seeing his look]
Cisco Ramon : Kidding. I'm glad you're here, and I'm glad that we don't have to hold your hand through the time travel thing; you're figuring it out.
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Ralph Dibny : While you guys were fighting Gridlock, I was, uh, running this down.
Caitlin Snow : [taking a manila envelope] What's this?
Ralph Dibny : An answer. And a lot more questions.
Caitlin Snow : [looking at the contents] It's my father's death certificate.
Ralph Dibny : A friend at County helped me out with that. The M.E. who signed off on it, Cameron Mahkent? He doesn't exist.
Cisco Ramon : So then, this death certificate...
Caitlin Snow : Is a fake.
