- Cisco Ramon: Well, we got a Rag Doll, a Weather Witch, and, uh... hold up, is that crazy bee girl? Hey, girl! What's going on? What a throwback.
- Barry Allen: Tachyon scanners set up at every half-mile interval across the city.
- Caitlin Snow: And the seismometer is searching for sonic booms in the hundred megahertz range.
- Cisco Ramon: As for the satellites, I've got Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha scanning for her yellow-purple lightning signatures. I'm clearly the Samantha of this group, right?
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah, okay, Miranda.
- Ralph Dibny: You think there's any chance Frost could help us out with some sealant up there?
- Caitlin Snow: I don't think she's coming out today.
- Ralph Dibny: She still having a tough time with your dad's death?
- Caitlin Snow: I mean, Frost protected me for so long that I don't think she's ever felt pain of her own before. Not like this.
- Ralph Dibny: Well, I-I think I could help what that. Here.
- Caitlin Snow: "Ralph's 27 Steps to a Better Mourning"? I don't think Frost would respond very well to a pamphlet.
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, come on. Look. Uh, number 10: go see your dentist because you should be doing that at least twice a year and you've been slacking, and it'll give you something to do other than dwell on the pain.
- [Killer Frost emerges and seals up the hole in the roof with an ice blast]
- Caitlin Snow: There. Now will you shut up?
- Ralph Dibny: Told you I'd get her to come out.
- Ralph Dibny: On that note, I'm happy to help you follow that lead on the atomizer.
- Caitlin Snow: Really? What about... Sher-luck?
- Sherloque Wells: "Sherloque". Do you think any of you are gonna get this right at any point at any time in your life? "Sherloque" !
- Caitlin Snow: Yeah, but the minute you got "The Book of Ralph" back from Cisco, you tried to give it away again. Don't you want to use it? Try to find someone special for yourself?
- Ralph Dibny: [strained] Caitlin... look... "Book of Ralph"... works great for other people, but... never actually worked for me. I know I'm not... built for love... And that's okay.
- Caitlin Snow: Ralph Dibny. You are kind, intelligent, and compassionate. And most of all, you put the needs of others before yourself. So that means you are built for love. And you deserve someone who loves you back.
- Barry Allen: Hey, look, I'm sorry about, um... how I was acting earlier. I just... seeing Nora looking so much like him
- [Thawne]
- Barry Allen: ...
- Joe West: I get it, Barr. That guy's always gonna be in your head. Mine, too. And you were right. Nora broke the law, and there should be repercussions for that. But whenever you guys step out of bounds, I always have to remind myself... the detective side says "There's the law", but the father side says "There's also what's right". And I'm always gonna choose to be your father first.
- Caitlin Snow: Ralph Dibny, you are kind, intelligent, and compassionate. And most of all, you put the the needs of others before yourself. So that means you are built for love, and you deserve someone who loves you back.
- Ralph Dibny: Caitlin... I'm sorry, I just don't feel that way about you.
- Caitlin Snow: Ugh. Gross! Oh, come on, you idiot.
- Ralph Dibny: Sorry, I got my - I got my wires crossed. Jeez.
- Iris West-Allen: The Young Rogues. Not the nicest friends you made there, kiddo.
- Nora West-Allen: Yeah, I... thought I could control them, steal the weapons back after we lifted them, but I got in over my head. Even if it was for a good reason.
- Barry Allen: Nora, killing Cicada is not a good reason.
- Nora West-Allen: No, I-I wasn't trying to kill Cicada.
- [retrieving a gun from her bag]
- Nora West-Allen: I needed this. It's a weapon built from the solar reflector panels from the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite, capable of destroying any object down to its atoms, and it's the only thing that can destroy Cicada's dagger.
- Iris West-Allen: Nora, why didn't you just tell us this?
- Barry Allen: Because I wouldn't have believed her. 'Cause it's Thawne's plan.
- Nora West-Allen: I knew how angry dad was. And then you came to the future without him. I just thought he'd never believe me. Plus, I had to stay in a seriously unschway headspace to use the negative Speed Force. But I know now. I don't ever want to leave you guys again. And if that means not following through with Thawne's plan, I'm okay with that.
- Barry Allen: I think we should use it.
- Nora West-Allen: You what?
- Iris West-Allen: Barr, are you sure?
- Barry Allen: We have to stop Cicada. I'm never gonna like where this plan comes from. But if this thing works... sounds like our best shot.
- Nora West-Allen: You really believe him?
- Barry Allen: I believe in you, Nora. And I'm sorry that I made you feel otherwise.
- Nora West-Allen: Dad, that stuff I said earlier, I...
- Barry Allen: I deserved it. I-I... I shouldn't have left you in the future. I shouldn't have put conditions on you coming home. I'm sorry. I love you.
- Iris West-Allen: We both do. We're never gonna leave you again, Nora. I promise.
- Nora West-Allen: What the hell is he doing here?
- Cisco Ramon: What the hell are you doing here?
- Sherloque Wells: Oh, no. She's with them.
- Nora West-Allen: I said I wanted Ramon. No one else.
- Joss Mardon: Yeah, well, they were together, and you said no killing, so here they are.
- Cisco Ramon, Sherloque Wells: Killing?
- Nora West-Allen: This phone was synced to Spencer Young's DNA. I need you to hack past the coding so that so we're about to use it.
- [Cisco snickers and laughs]
- Nora West-Allen: Why are you laughing?
- Cisco Ramon: I'm sorry, I don't mean to blow up your spot, fangirl, you see, it's just, um... I've done this exact same thing before. We had to hack a weapon. Let's kidnap Cisco. I mean, did you join a Rogues cover band or something?
- [Cisco and Sherloque laugh]
- Nora West-Allen: [vibrates her hand at Cisco's chest] How's this for a cover band?
- Cisco Ramon: Oldie, but a goodie.
- Joss Mardon: Are you sure you can fit through that thing?
- Rag Doll: This shall be my aria.
- Nora West-Allen: Remember, once you get through the other side, the dampener will take away your powers, so get out quick.
- [Rag Doll contorts himself and crawls into the piping]
- Joss Mardon: Yeah, I'm gonna vomit.
- XS: You still don't trust me.
- Barry Allen: Nora, trust takes time.
- XS: Then what's to stop you from sending me back the next time you get pissed at me? Nothing. Because you've given up on me again. Given up on me like you do every time!
- Barry Allen: [she starts vibrating] Nora, what are you doing?
- XS: You know, I came back here to meet you. And the second I got here, you started pushing me away. And then you left me in the future. You just dumped me in the middle of the street and walked away!
- Barry Allen: You have to stop.
- XS: [as she talks, her eyes turn red] And you didn't come back with mom to bring me back. Because you don't want me here. You don't want me at all!
- Barry Allen: Nora, please.
- XS: I hate you!
- Barry Allen: I was ready to give up on her. You know, I mean, if I'm ready to do that, it makes me feel like... even after everything we've been through, I'm not a good parent. You know, I mean, maybe I never will be.
- Joe West: [laughing] Come on, Barry. You know that's not true. You're going to be an amazing father.
- Barry Allen: I wanted her to leave. The second that she got here, I did, I... I've held back from her. It... it still doesn't feel right when she calls me "dad".
- Joe West: Well, you didn't call me "dad" 'till... i-it was here, in this room, right after you got your powers. But you know why that was. You already had a dad; Henry. And when the whole world thought that that man was a criminal, Barr, you... you thought he was perfect.
- Barry Allen: Do you think Iris is right? Nora's plan, Thawne's plan, could be a good thing?
- Joe West: I don't trust that man. I never have and I never will. But I do... trust my granddaughter. And if we're gonna bring Nora home, Barr... you're gonna have to trust her, too.
- Joss Mardon: Jenni Ognats? I thought the idea was to not draw attention.
- XS: Oh, what, so now that you know my dad's the Flash, you don't trust me?
- Joss Mardon: Hey, you're the one who doesn't trust us. Isn't that right... Nora? Yeah, your secret identity, it's really not worth much.
- Nora West-Allen: [removing her mask] Feels like nothing about me is worth much lately. My dad left me, after everything that I've done to try and help him. You know what the most embarrassing part is? There's this tiny, little, weak part of me that still wants him to walk through that door and take me home.
- Joss Mardon: My dad left my mom at the maternity ward. She couldn't look at me without seeing him. She made sure I knew it, too. So the day I turned thirteen, I ran. I didn't leave town at first.
- [as she talks, Brie and Rag Doll enter]
- Joss Mardon: I stayed under the overpass with all the other runaways, and I thought for sure, one night I'd look up and I'd see my mom. She never showed.
- Nora West-Allen: Sorry.
- Joss Mardon: I'm not. When people tell you that family is always gonna be there for you, they're full of it.
- Brie Larvan: Mentors will always let you down eventually.
- Rag Doll: Parents will break you.
- Joss Mardon: Yeah. That's why we have to stick together.
- Iris West-Allen: We can't keep treating Nora like she's some kind of supervillain, okay? We're just gonna push her away.
- Barry Allen: What are we supposed to do? Just let her keep taking advantage of us?
- Iris West-Allen: No. We see where she's coming from. We try to figure out why she's doing this.
- Barry Allen: It doesn't matter why, Iris! This is Thawne. It's his plan.
- Iris West-Allen: Well, maybe his plan isn't so bad.
- Barry Allen: It's not okay for her to work with Thawne. You saw him. You said he's manipulating her.
- Iris West-Allen: And I said that he cares about her. He's worried about her safety...
- Barry Allen: No, he needs her, Iris. He needs her.
- Iris West-Allen: Or... he's changed. Barry, Thawne is the one that convinced me to come back home and try and patch things up with you.
- Barry Allen: Thawne. Thawne gave you advice?
- Iris West-Allen: Look, I know it sounds insane, and I know this must be hard for you to hear, but Barry, ever since I got back home, the same question keeps running through my mind. What if Nora is right? What if Thawne really is trying to redeem himself and that he does want to stop Cicada, and the only reason that Nora hasn't come back home is because she knows that you don't trust her? Look... Barry, having Nora in our lives has made us better people. Isn't it possible that she did the same thing to Thawne?
- Cisco Ramon: Well, I did it. Every exercise, every intention, and now that Kamilla and I are hunky dory...
- Ralph Dibny: You have completed the Book of Ralph.
- Cisco Ramon: I sure did.
- Ralph Dibny: Thank you for your service, old friend, but your job isn't done yet. Shirley, I think you could use this.
- Sherloque Wells: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. What, do you think I need help with a breakup?
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, come on. Look, addendum C...
- Cisco Ramon: Appendix four.
- Ralph Dibny: A guide to taking your relationship to the next level. It worked for Cisco.
- Sherloque Wells: Oh, barely worked for young Ralph Macchio. No, no, no. This guy, he's chicken, right? Even in his current relationship, he's too afraid to tell this girl that he's actually Vibe, right?
- Cisco Ramon: I'm actually not afraid. I'm gonna tell her when I'm ready. It's just hard to navigate the meta-life/personal-life balance.
- Sherloque Wells: More like chicken-life balance, hmm?
- Cisco Ramon: Man, you're a chicken personal-life balance. I can tell her whenever I want.
- Sherloque Wells: Well, then tell her right now, why don't you?
- Cisco Ramon: You want me to tell her right now?
- Sherloque Wells: Yeah.
- Cisco Ramon: I'll tell her right now. I just got... well, you know, I have spotty reception in the elevator.
- Sherloque Wells: Come on out and do it.
- Cisco Ramon: Well, you know, I gotta get to work.
- Sherloque Wells: Come on out and do it.
- Cisco Ramon: I gotta get to work.
- Joss Mardon: [referring to Brie's motorcycle] Pretty paint job.
- Brie Larvan: Predators know these colors get you stung.
- Joss Mardon: Yeah. it's always a great idea for a thief to call attention to herself.
- Brie Larvan: At least I don't fly around in a fuzzy green sweater. Didn't think I'd recognize Weather Wizard's kid?
- Joss Mardon: It's Weather Witch. I have a name, okay. Bug-Eyed Bandit.
- Brie Larvan: Don't call me that! That's their name.
- Nora West-Allen: Holy shrap.
- Brie Larvan: How the hell is this even possible?
- Iris West-Allen: We bypassed security while you were busy with General Cloud. And then you walked us worker bees right inside.
- Joe West: You're outnumbered, ladies. Drop your weapons.
- [Rag Doll climbs out of a garbage can]
- Joe West: What the hell is that?
- Iris West-Allen: You don't want to know.
- Barry Allen: Is that Spencer Young's phone? What are you doing?
- XS: You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
- Barry Allen: Nora, I shouldn't have left things the way that I did. All right? I want you to come home. We all do. You just have to stop working with Thawne.
- Rag Doll: [on Nora's comms] Target acquired.
- XS: [quietly] Copy that.
- Barry Allen: Are you talking to someone?
- XS: What do you think, I'm talking to Thawne? He's in the future, dad. I can't exactly call him up.
- Barry Allen: I didn't say it was.
- XS: Yeah, but you did say that I couldn't come home if I was still working with him.
- Cisco Ramon: I might've given you unlimited data, but I also gave you spotty reception.
- Sherloque Wells: Nice work.
- Cisco Ramon: All right. The bees are in drone mode. So if we move very, very slowly...
- [in a dramatic move, Sherloque easily removes his restraints]
- Cisco Ramon: Man, what in the world?
- Sherloque Wells: What? I was trained in the art of escape by Thaddeus Brown from Earth-51.
- Cisco Ramon: [indicating his still-cuffed wrists] Yeah, well, help me escape!
- Sherloque Wells: That's a good plan.
- Iris West-Allen: So, what we know is that Nora put together a team to break into here, McCulloch Technologies, a weapons manufacturer.
- Cecile Horton: But not just any weapons. The city has contracted these guys to clean up the shrapnel from the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite.
- Joe West: Let me guess: none of that crap ended up in the dump. They used it to make meta-tech like Spencer Young's phone.
- Iris West-Allen: My source says that McCulloch is debuting a new line of products tonight.
- Joe West: That's a perfect cover-up for a break-in. We have any theory on Nora's motive?
- Iris West-Allen: Actually, Cicada's dagger dampens the abilities of meta-humans nearby, but it wouldn't have any effect on meta-tech. So maybe Nora wants to catch Cicada?
- Barry Allen: Or do something worse.
- Iris West-Allen: Barry, there's no way.
- Barry Allen: This is exactly what I was afraid of, Iris. Thawne's been manipulating her. Now she's acting like him, talking like him.
- Iris West-Allen: That doesn't mean that she's capable of killing Cicada.
- Barry Allen: She's working with Rogues. She kidnapped Cisco and Sherloque. We don't know what she's capable of.
- Joe West: So what do you want to do, Barr?
- Barry Allen: We bring her in. We... we use Cisco's force fields, Ray's nanites. We're... we're bringing her in, before she steps anywhere near that building.
- Barry Allen: Nora broke into the Starchives.
- Iris West-Allen: I'm sorry, what happened?
- Barry Allen: Nora broke into the Starchives. I thought I could stop her, but I couldn't. She stole Spencer Young's phone.
- Cecile Horton: Spencer Young's hypnotizing phone?
- Barry Allen: Yes.
- Iris West-Allen: Barry, it's okay. Did you at least find out what she's doing?
- Barry Allen: No. No, I tried. I... I thought I could convince her to come home. But... her face starting vibrating, and... and then her eyes... her lightning... it was red. Just like his. I thought we had time to reach her, but he got to her. Thawne really got to her.
- Cecile Horton: Uh, guys, there's a blinky, red light thing on the computer.
- Iris West-Allen: Another alarm went off at S.T.A.R. Labs.
- [turning on the surveillance feed]
- Iris West-Allen: Guys, this was only five minutes ago. Joss Jackam and Peter Merkel?
- Cecile Horton: How would they get into S.T.A.R. Labs?
- Barry Allen: Nora had someone in her ear. It was a coordinated assault.
- Iris West-Allen: But that would mean that she's working... with them.
- Cecile Horton: Guess what? G. Simone & Associates has spent the last year working for McCulloch Technologies.
- Iris West-Allen: The weapons manufacturer?
- Cecile Horton: Mm-hmm.
- Iris West-Allen: Hmm. They just built a factory in Keystone.
- Cecile Horton: Missing blueprints, top-secret facility. I think we might have a heist on our hands.
- Iris West-Allen: You think Nora's going after these weapons?
- Cecile Horton: No, maybe she's just trying to get them off the market. You know, like the time that Barry and Ralph were gonna buy the Toastmasters.
- Iris West-Allen: No. She's on a mission for Thawne. He doesn't think that small.
- Iris West-Allen: When I saw Nora in 2049, she was so upset and so angry, but she knew that I wanted to bring her back. Then she comes back to this time and... and she doesn't even come home? I mean, even if she's mad at Barry or she wanted some kind of sci-fi weapon...
- Cecile Horton: Then why didn't she just come to the rest of us for help?
- Iris West-Allen: There's gotta be a good reason. I know it.
- Joss Mardon: You want us to work for you?
- XS: Not for me. With me. One big score split four ways.
- Brie Larvan: What's the catch, goody two-shoes?
- XS: No catches, no tricks. Just one condition. No killing.
- Joss Mardon: [she laughs, and Brie scoffs] Well, this has been really fun, guys. I'm out.
- XS: If anybody dies, the cops will be all over us.
- Joss Mardon: Yeah, you would love that, huh? I was surprised that the Flash isn't already here.
- XS: I'm not working with him anymore.
- Joss Mardon: Look, you can put on your leather and you can act like a bad girl all you want, but you will never be one of us.
- XS: What about the ice patch? If you don't trust me, why did you stop that test car from running me over?
- Brie Larvan: Is she for real?
- Joss Mardon: It was cold. Water freezes.
- XS: Not like that, it doesn't. Look, these past few months, I have been through a lot. I'm not the same person I was.
- Joss Mardon: Okay. Prove it. What's the job?
- Barry Allen: So, what's the verdict?
- Cisco Ramon: Nora's story checks out. This thing has got a prismatic battery supercharging its reflector panels. So if anything's gonna destroy that dagger, it's this mirror gun.
- Caitlin Snow: We figured out what Cicada took from my dad's lab. It's your cure prototypes.
- Nora West-Allen: Why would she need those? They're just prototypes.
- Cisco Ramon: No, they're not just prototypes. They're failed, broken versions of the cure. If a meta-human takes that without the proper treatment...
- Sherloque Wells: They would die. Cicada has a lethal virus on her hands.
- Ralph Dibny: That's why she stole the atomizer. So she can spread the virus.
- Sherloque Wells: She has weaponized the cure.
- Cisco Ramon: This is it. This is the nightmare.
- Barry Allen: Cicada's gonna kill every meta-human in the city.
- Ralph Dibny: [in Icicle's old lab] Okay, pretty safe bet She-Cada was here.
- Caitlin Snow: Better check it out. See if we can figure out what she took.
- Ralph Dibny: Yeah, that is if I can get my fingers to start moving again.
- Iris West-Allen: I just talked to one of the architects here, and G. Simone & Associates used to do all of this high-profile design work; casinos, banks, military bases. But apparently, last year, they had been working with an anonymous client.
- Joe West: So because our thief covered his tracks, we have no idea who that client might be.
- Barry Allen: Hey, look at this. Look at these hard drives. Fried from the inside, like in a massive power surge.
- Joe West: A server like this would have a surge protector, right?
- Barry Allen: A typical metal-oxide varistor protects against a thousand joules.
- Iris West-Allen: How many joules does a lightning bolt have?
- Barry Allen: A billion.
- Joe West: What, you think this was Nora?
- Barry Allen: No, this couldn't have been. I mean, our scanners would've picked her up.
- Cisco Ramon: I just picked up a frak-ton of background particle radiation.
- Barry Allen: Particles? Tachyons?
- Cisco Ramon: Negative tachyons.
- Joe West: That's a thing?
- Barry Allen: I mean, negative tachyons can't generate lightning, right?
- Cisco Ramon: Unless negative tachyons don't just offset positive ones like we thought. Maybe they actually siphon positive tachyons.
- Joe West: Stealing speed from the Speed Force like a parasite?
- Barry Allen: That's what Thawne taught her how to do. She's using negative tachyons to run and avoid our scanners.
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah, but why would Nora be trying to avoid us?
- Joe West: I don't know, but if she's stealing blueprints, this ain't gonna be her last stop.
- Brie Larvan: Rag Doll, right? You blew up the Seaver Building. "Bee-utiful".
- Rag Doll: And whom do I thank for my mysterious invitation?
- Joss Mardon: Wait, I got an anonymous offer, too. This wasn't your job?
- Brie Larvan: I thought this was your job.
- XS: [entering] Actually, I invited you.
- Joss Mardon: McCulloch Technologies. It's the largest manufacturer of military-grade weapons in the country.
- Brie Larvan: So why does a speedster need our help to pull off a smash and grab?
- XS: McCulloch builds and tests all of their weapons here. The Forge. And it's protected by a meta-human dampener that makes A.R.G.U.S.' look like a bug zapper.
- Joss Mardon: So, you need us for our tech, because it won't be affected.
- XS: McCulloch's hosting an expo tonight. That'll give us cover to get on the property, but breaking into the Forge is where things get tricky.
- Brie Larvan: There's no way this score is worth this risk.
- XS: [showing them drawings of the weapons] Look. See these weapons? There's a hundred more like these inside. Each will go for a million on the black market, easy. We just need to make on quick pit stop first. We need to rob the Flash.
- XS: Gideon, scan servers for blueprints for McCulloch Technologies.
- [finding what she's looking for]
- XS: Gotcha.
- [running in circles, she destroys the server with a lightning bolt, then escapes outside]
- XS: Gideon, infiltration analysis.
- Gideon: Yes, Nora West-Allen. The odds of accessing this location on your own are one in three million. Shall I send the request to Barry Allen?
- XS: No, Gideon. I need people who can actually help me.
- Sherloque Wells: Well, Team Flash, Nora West-Allen is not the only time traveler who's absent.
- Ralph Dibny: We've been running down abandoned buildings, foreclosed condos...
- Sherloque Wells: Anywhere that Grace Gibbons may have hidden her younger self, but...
- Ralph Dibny: We got bupkis.
- Caitlin Snow: And we have no idea why she stole the cryo-atomizer, except that it was worth killing my dad for.
- Barry Allen: Hey. If you need more time...
- Cisco Ramon: Yeah, we're more than capable of chasing a wild goose or two on our own.
- Caitlin Snow: Thank you, I'm fine. I'd rather be working.