- Iris West-Allen: You know, we have been through so much crap, we have been through so much therapy, and you are still - *still* - making decisions based on your emotions!
- Barry Allen: 'Cause I'm right this time!
- Iris West-Allen: Flashpoint? Going to the Speed Force and leaving me? Were you right those times, too?
- Barry Allen: You think I wanted to do this? That this was easy? Seeing Nora looking at me, asking for forgiveness knowing it might be the last time I ever see her?
- Iris West-Allen: What about the last time that I get to see her, Barry? I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye!
- Barry Allen: Damn it, Iris, she lied to us for months!
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah, and she explained why!
- Barry Allen: THAT SHE WAS WORKING WITH THAWNE?
- [seeing her lack of reaction]
- Barry Allen: That doesn't bother you.
- Iris West-Allen: No, it doesn't.
- Barry Allen: Maybe if he killed your mother in front of you, you'd feel differently.
- Iris West-Allen: Maybe you feeling differently, Barry, is why we should have made this decision together.
- Iris West-Allen: You took our daughter back to the future?
- Barry Allen: I didn't have any other choice.
- Iris West-Allen: "I"? It's "we", Barry. We. She's our daughter, not just yours.
- Barry Allen: I know that.
- Iris West-Allen: But you left her there anyway?
- Barry Allen: I can't trust her, Iris! That puts all of us in danger!
- Iris West-Allen: That's how you feel, Barry. What about asking how I feel?
- Barry Allen: I didn't think I had to!
- Iris West-Allen: Of course you didn't. Of course you didn't, Barry! You always see one way through a problem and damn what I think.
- Iris West-Allen: She just wanted to meet you, Barry. The father that she never knew, and there was one person who could teach her how to do that. Is it really so hard to understand why she would go to him?
- Barry Allen: Doesn't matter if I understand it. Thawne is manipulating her.
- Iris West-Allen: He's on death row, Barry. How is he manipulating her?
- Barry Allen: You know, if this were anybody else, you'd back me. But because it's Nora, because it's our daughter, the person who finally stopped hating you, you refuse to see how dangerous this is. I mean, you talk about making decisions based on emotion. Look in the mirror.
- Nora West-Allen: All those years without my father and you gave me a second chance. And now I've lost him all over again.
- Eobard Thawne: I've failed you, Little Runner.
- Nora West-Allen: No, this is my fault. I should've never lied to them about working with you.
- Eobard Thawne: Well, perhaps not.
- Nora West-Allen: I screwed everything up. And now we can't even help them catch Cicada because my Dad will know if I run into the Speed Force.
- Eobard Thawne: Mm-hmm. He most certainly will.
- Nora West-Allen: Hey... Wait. You've run into the Speed Force hundreds of times. And my father, other speedsters, they never felt you coming. How did you do that? Thawne, tell me how you did it.
- Eobard Thawne: Nora.
- Nora West-Allen: Tell me. Thawne!
- Eobard Thawne: It's not for you.
- Nora West-Allen: I need to see my father. Please, if there is a way to go back in time to see him undetected, you have to tell me how.
- Eobard Thawne: I used to idolize your father. I wanted to be just like him. But that was not my fate. I was to be the reverse. Opposite of him... in every way. So instead of tapping into the Speed Force to access my powers... I created my own.
- Nora West-Allen: You created your own Speed Force?
- Eobard Thawne: Yes, I did.
- Nora West-Allen: And I can access it to go back in time?
- Eobard Thawne: That and more.
- Nora West-Allen: Can you teach me how to use it?
- Eobard Thawne: Well, I-I have to warn you Nora. It's a little bit negative.
- Ralph Dibny: Where's Iris?
- Barry Allen: Uh, I honestly don't know. We're not really seeing eye to eye right now.
- Joe West: Because?
- Barry Allen: Because I took Nora home for good.
- Joe West: Nora's gone?
- Caitlin Snow: Just like that?
- Sherloque Wells: Well, only thing to do, really, because Nora can't be trusted.
- [seeing their looks]
- Sherloque Wells: I can deduce from your faces that you're upset, but you understand the truth need to be exposed.
- Ralph Dibny: Yes, we understand that. What you don't understand is that this is a family. You didn't include anyone in this.
- Joe West: The nurses heard a crash in the middle of the night, but nobody saw anything. By the time they got here, Grace was gone.
- Barry Allen: Judging by the thermal warping in this glass, an energy blast with a lot of heat took out the window. But I don't really think we need any clues to know who took her.
- Joe West: [leaving the scene] Future Grace steals past Grace. I don't even know if there's a police code for kidnapping yourself.
- Caitlin Snow: Grace's coma is stable. As long as future Grace is looking after younger Grace, her life's not in any danger.
- Barry Allen: We still have no way to find either of them. Could things get any worse?
- JP Chipera: Working late, Dr. Tannhauser?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Or working early, depending how you see it.
- JP Chipera: Well, I stopped by to say good night. So I guess I'll say good morning.
- Ralph Dibny: I know how Barry can be. But you guys are like the Meghan and Harry of superhero royalty. Your love is eternal. You two will talk and-and...
- Iris West-Allen: We did talk. I want Nora to stay here, he doesn't. How do we solve that?
- Cecile Horton: Okay, Iris, honey. I haven't always been in the near-perfect relationship that I'm in now. So take it from someone with experience, the only way you two solve this problem is together. And you're not going to find your answers here.
- Iris West-Allen: [getting an idea] Yeah, you're right.
- Cecile Horton: [feeling something as Iris leaves] You need to go after her.
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, come on. Give me a break. Have you seen her right hook?
- Iris West-Allen: Ralph, she's hurt, I know. But there's something more. I feel it. She's... determined.
- Iris West-Allen: I just wanted my family back together. Even if that meant doing something drastic like time travel.
- Barry Allen: Yeah, I get that. More than anyone.
- Iris West-Allen: You were right about Thawne. I think he's manipulating Nora, but I also believe him. Nora is back here in our time.
- Barry Allen: I was... wrong. I shouldn't have left Nora, or made that decision without you. Whatever it is that we have to figure out, we should've done it together. Family doesn't leave family.
- Iris West-Allen: Well, I mean, you weren't the only one to make that mistake. I shouldn't have gone to the future without you. I shouldn't have left you like that. I mean, that was the same thing that I got so mad at you for. But I know now that we can't solve this if we don't stick together.
- Barry Allen: I can barely solve things with you, so without you...
- Iris West-Allen: Are we making jokes already? Really?
- Barry Allen: [they kiss] Let's bring our kid home.
- Iris West-Allen: Barry, the way that Thawne looks when he talks about Nora. I've only ever seen that in one other person. You.
- Barry Allen: What are you saying?
- Iris West-Allen: I think Thawne might actually care about Nora.
- Joe West: I don't suppose Icicle left any frozen fingerprints behind?
- Barry Allen: No, but this docking station is lined with a carbon-filled kapton polymide. NASA uses it to build probes meant for the coldest reaches of space.
- Joe West: There's a lot of fresh puddles in here. You think he stole whatever kept this place cold?
- Barry Allen: Try way beyond cold.
- Joe West: Why would he want it?
- Barry Allen: Uh, you're gonna have to ask Carla when she's done filing the theft report, or Caitlin when she gets here. I'm not sure about much lately.
- Caitlin Snow: The right choice? What the hell are you talking about? You lied to me for twenty years and told me my father was dead. How the hell is that the right choice?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Your father is trapped inside an ice monster, Caitlin. What was I supposed to do? Split custody with him on the weekends?
- Caitlin Snow: I don't know. You could try telling me the truth. But why tell your daughter anything?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Funny, I don't recall you telling me that you let the monster out of the prison.
- Caitlin Snow: Because you never told me he was *in* a prison! And now all these years that I could've been working on a cure for dad are gone! We may never get him back.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Well, at least you have someone to blame. Moms are always here for that.
- Barry Allen: Are you okay?
- Caitlin Snow: I will be as soon as we find Icicle. Uh, my mom told me what he stole. It's a prototype cryo-atomizer.
- Joe West: And what can he do with that?
- Caitlin Snow: Nothing good.
- Caitlin Snow: Those were all the clues that I used to find dad. Including some files that I may have stolen from your file room.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Aww, Caitlin and Thomas's infamous Periodic Table. Nerdonium. You know, he stole that one from me.
- Caitlin Snow: Really? I thought he came up with that while he was fixing the kitchen sink.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: No, I thought of that. Come to think of it, I also fixed the kitchen sink.
- Nora West-Allen: I did everything exactly like you told me. How come I can't do this?
- Eobard Thawne: Listen, not harboring enough rage to fuel your trip is not something to be ashamed of. You're just like your father. Your light is your greatest strength.
- Iris West-Allen: Nora, your dad was wrong, but he still cares about you.
- Nora West-Allen: Why are you here and he isn't?
- Iris West-Allen: Look, I understand how you feel...
- Nora West-Allen: [her anger building] Do you? Do you know what it's like to want something more than anything else in your whole life? To know your father? To do your best to follow in his footsteps? To make him proud? How could he leave me?
- Eobard Thawne: [trying to calm her down] Wait, wait, that's enough!
- Iris West-Allen: Nora.
- Nora West-Allen: How could he stop *loving me*?
- Caitlin Snow: Hey, mom, that was pretty clever what you did. Figuring out Icicle's plan.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Well, I recall you helped with that, too.
- Caitlin Snow: It's amazing what we can do when we're not trying to rip each other's heads off.
- Caitlin Snow: Dad, I told you to go.
- Thomas Snow: I already left once before. I left both of you. Worst mistake I've ever made in my entire life. I wasn't gonna make that again.
- Iris West-Allen: How's Caitlin and her mom?
- Barry Allen: Caitlin is still running some tests, but she thinks Carla's gonna be okay. I mean, as okay as she can be given the circumstances.
- Iris West-Allen: Why was Cicada II even there tonight? I mean, why attack Icicle and Caitlin?
- Sherloque Wells: Perhaps the ice meta were not the primary target.
- Barry Allen: What could Cicada II want with the cryo-atomizer?
- Joe West: Well, we're not gonna figure it out tonight. So let's rest tonight. Are you coming back to the house?
- Iris West-Allen: Um...
- [glancing at Barry]
- Iris West-Allen: No, I'm gonna stay at the loft tonight.
- Barry Allen: You are?
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah. We should talk.
- Ralph Dibny: Heading home?
- Sherloque Wells: Well, it's like Barry said - and Joe - I've done enough.
- Ralph Dibny: They did say that. But you hung around anyway.
- Sherloque Wells: Oui, I did.
- Ralph Dibny: You were there for Barry when he needed you.
- Sherloque Wells: Oui, I was.
- Ralph Dibny: And you helped save Caitlin's mom.
- Sherloque Wells: Yes, that's right. I did all those things. I should not have done those things?
- Ralph Dibny: I'm just saying maybe you have more to do. For your family.
- Caitlin Snow: Where are we?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: In another decommissioned Tannhauser site. This site is a little more off-the-grid than usual. It's where we kept out most classified projects.
- Caitlin Snow: Great. I guess we are Icicle's next project. We need to get out of here.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Well, there's a circuit panel over here. I think we can hack it and open the door.
- Caitlin Snow: Neither one of us knows about electrical engineering. Our best bet is to break me out of these meta-cuffs and let Killer Frost do the rest.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Don't be foolish. You'll never break those.
- Caitlin Snow: Well, it's no more foolish than you electrocuting yourself, but if you want to, knock yourself out.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: You'd like that, wouldn't you?
- Caitlin Snow: [angered groan] How did we get here? I mean, you're my mother and I'm your daughter. But it never felt like that. You've always been cold, distant. You never wanted to be a part of my life. Not then and certainly not now. Why? I mean, what did I ever do to get treated like this?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: What?
- Caitlin Snow: Why did you leave me?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: You left me first. You went to school across the country to get away from me. You took a job in Central City instead of working in the same zip code as my lab. Caitlin, you were married to a man I never even met. I got the hint, but don't you dare mistake things. I didn't leave first.
- Joe West: Hey, Bar... have you talked to Iris since she left?
- Barry Allen: I'm just giving her some space.
- Joe West: All right, just make sure you don't give her too much.
- Ralph Dibny: [reading over Iris' shoulder] "Barry, I don't know if I can ever forgive you for this." I think you missed a comma there.
- Iris West-Allen: [closing her laptop] Can you stay out of it for once?
- Cecile Horton: She's not kidding. Super mad.
- Gideon: Reprogramming complete. The Time Sphere's navigation core is now locked onto Nora West-Allen's temporal signature.
- Iris West-Allen: And you disabled the tracker that Cisco installed into the Sphere?
- Gideon: Yes. However, there are still alarms in S.T.A.R. Labs. If you wish to use the Sphere undetected, you must activate it off-site.
- Ralph Dibny: [finding Iris in the Time Vault] Planning a trip?
- Iris West-Allen: How did you get in here?
- Ralph Dibny: Followed you, then stretched under the door. By the way, was anybody ever gonna tell me about this secret room? What else do we got in here? A bowling alley or something?
- Iris West-Allen: Ralph, I don't have time for this.
- Ralph Dibny: Actually, it looks like you have all the time in the world.
- Iris West-Allen: You're not gonna stop me.
- Ralph Dibny: Who said anything about stopping you?
- Eobard Thawne: Now listen to me, Nora. Breathe. Breathe. You're reaching out and nobody's there. The loneliness is pain. Pain racing through your mind. Crushing you, wrecking you, shattering your soul into a million little pieces. And suddenly, you are no longer you. You're part of something different now. Part of a negative force.
- XS: [the breach closes as she approaches] It didn't work. Thawne, why didn't it work?
- Caitlin Snow: So, the cryo-atomizer has the ability to disperse particles into the atmosphere. Particles that slow down atoms to a grinding halt. And the slower they get...
- Barry Allen: The colder they get.
- Joe West: How cold are we talking?
- Caitlin Snow: Absolute zero.
- [showing them a map of the city]
- Caitlin Snow: And if we combine them with Icicle's meta powers...
- Barry Allen: He could plunge Central City into a new Ice Age.
- Caitlin Snow: I think we can track the nano-cryoparticles inside the atomizer. We just have to re-program an oscilating inversion scanner. Do you mind running to the downstairs storage area and grabbing it?
- Barry Allen: Mm-hmm.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Wait. You should use a modified field array. There's one in the upstairs archives.
- Caitlin Snow: No, no, actually the inversion scanner would work best. Thank you.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: No, no. Not since we upgraded our field arrays last year. You know, you would know that if you visited more, not just when you needed something.
- Caitlin Snow: Apparently only when I need the wrong thing. The inversion scanner.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: The field array.
- Barry Allen: [aware of the awkwardness] I'll get both. Might take my time.
- Joe West: You need help?
- Barry Allen: No.
- Caitlin Snow: I'm okay. I took a beating but Killer Frost's ice healing kicked in. I'm going to be fine thanks to Dad.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Well, how-how it this possible?
- Thomas Snow: Well, I saw Icicle about to kill Caitlin, and I found the strength to break through.
- Caitlin Snow: Just like Killer Frost, Dad saved me.
- Thomas Snow: Well, you saved me too, Caitlin. I mean, thanks to you, I think I may have finally banished this monster.
- [Cicada comes into the room and blasts The Flash from behind]
- Cicada II: That's good. That just leaves one more monster for me to kill.
- Joe West: So you went to to the future?
- Ralph Dibny: Yeah. John Stamos still handsome.
- Sherloque Wells: He'll never not age.
- Ralph Dibny: No, never. Man, he looks good.
- Joe West: [trying to rescusitate the Flash] I can barely feel his pulse.
- Sherloque Wells: He has hypothermia. His heart rate's dropping. We only have seconds to save him.
- Joe West: What are you doing?
- Sherloque Wells: Well, this...
- [trying to pry a door off]
- Sherloque Wells: This machine has a large power source I need to access to save monsieur Allen.
- Joe West: Watch out.
- [he yanks the door off]
- Sherloque Wells: That will work. Stand back.
- Sherloque Wells: This current should heat up the copper wiring of his suit's circuitry, and we just need to heat it up enough so that his speed healing kicks in.
- Joe West: Is this safe?
- Sherloque Wells: Safer than dying.
- [contacting the wires with Barry's suit]
- Sherloque Wells: Come on, monsieur Allen.
- Joe West: Barry?
- Sherloque Wells: Come on.
- Joe West: Barr!
- The Flash: [jerking awake with a gasp] Icicle. He has them.
- Sherloque Wells: [catching Flash as he stands up unsteadily] No, no, no, no, monsieur.
- Joe West: No, no, wait. No, wait.
- Sherloque Wells: In time, in time. First, you rest. Then we bring them home together.
- Caitlin Snow: What are we doing here? What do you want with us?
- Icicle: I want what you could be.
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: [he advances on Caitlin] Stop it!
- Icicle: Just a small blood sample.
- [he draws some blood, then turns to leave]
- Icicle: See you soon, Snow Pack.
- Caitlin Snow: What?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: Snow Pack. That was your father's nickname for our family.
- Caitlin Snow: I remember, and why is that scaring you?
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: He said he wanted what we could be, and then he took a sample of your blood.
- Caitlin Snow: Theoretically, he could use the cryo-atomizer to recreate the process that created Killer Frost. So if he did that to you...
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: I would gain an ice persona.
- Caitlin Snow: And now with a sample of my blood...
- Dr. Carla Tannhauser: He can create a serum that will permanently suppress our human sides.
- Caitlin Snow: He wants an ice family, and he's willing to erase us to get it.
- Ralph Dibny: [at Iron Heights in 2049] Hold my suit.
- Iris West-Allen: Oh, my god, Ralph. Do you ever wash this thing?
- Ralph Dibny: You sure you're ready to talk to He Who Shall Not Be Named?
- Iris West-Allen: Well, whether I am or not, Gideon said that these were Nora's last known coordinates.
- [they peek around a corner and see the guard on duty]
- Iris West-Allen: You're up.
- Ralph Dibny: Hey, bro. Uh, what a day. Am I right? You mind if I get a quick word there with Hannibal Speedster? It's just gonna take, like, a second.
- Trevor Shinick: Is that right? Well, unless you got a signed shift change order, nobody goes in there but me, bro.
- Ralph Dibny: Only you, huh? Okay, if you insist.
- Trevor Shinick: [really Ralph, leading Iris to Thawne] You need to hurry. This guy's such a dick, I got to think super-douchey thoughts just to keep this face on.
- Iris West-Allen: Nora.
- Nora West-Allen: Mom?
- Iris West-Allen: Step away from him, please.
- Nora West-Allen: Mom, it's okay. Eobard is helping me. He has a way for me to get back home.
- Iris West-Allen: Nora, step away from him now.
- Eobard Thawne: Nora, listen to your mother.