The Flash (TV Series)

Grodd Friended Me (2020)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

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• The Flash : Hartley Rathaway. Since when are you a diamond thief?

  Pied Piper : It's Pied Piper, Flash. You're really gonna ask me that after what you and your friends did to me?

  The Flash : Uh, what did we do?

  Allegra Garcia : Wow, Flash. My brother, that is epically cold. How do you not remember? It was really bad.

  The Flash : Oh, great. Another Crisis change.

  Pied Piper : Apparently, there is something else you didn't remember. The gauntlets are just my backup singers.

  The Flash : Wait, what?

  [Pied Piper flies off] 

  The Flash : Great. He can fly now.

• [first lines] 

  The Flash : Guys, I saw the the alert. Meta attack downtown. I'm on my way.

  Kamilla Hwang : Sounds good, Flash.

  The Flash : Kamilla? Is that you?

  Kamilla Hwang : Uh, yeah.

  Chester P. Runk : And Chester P. Runk, sir! Ready to assist you in all your superhero needs.

• Kamilla Hwang : Flash, Rathaway is at 52nd and Palm.

  The Flash : All right, I'm on it. I'll take Broadway.

  Chester P. Runk : Uh, I wouldn't do that, sir.

  The Flash : Why not?

  Kamilla Hwang : Because there's a...

  The Flash : [just barely phases through a speeding train]  Whoa! Since when was there a train here?

  Chester P. Runk : Since always.

• Barry Allen : This isn't the past. It's a mindscape. I'm in...

  Grodd : That's right, Barry Allen. You're in Grodd's mind now.

• Kamilla Hwang : Wait, so we have to somehow separate their minds at the exact moment they escape?

  Killer Frost : And I'd have to be accurate to the millisecond. Which isn't possible.

  Chester P. Runk : Not for us. But it's very possible for a mobile artificial intelligence unit. If we sync Gideon's quantum intelligence network to Barry and Grodd's bio-analytics, it will perfectly time the neural de-splicing. But I'd have to do some more augmenting to this puppy, and my augmenting is what got Barry into this mess, and I - I justmreally don't wanna mess up again, so...

  Barry Allen : Chester, listen to me. That tweak you made in Gideon earlier? In two seconds, you improved her functionality any more than I did in two hours. You're a genius. Maybe it didn't work out exactly how you planned, so here's round two. Try again. I need you now, Chester. Please. You can do this. I believe in you.

  Chester P. Runk : Flash believes in me.

  Kamilla Hwang : We all do.

  Killer Frost : Go ahead, take your second chance. Show us your moves.

  Chester P. Runk : Right. It's time for the Lebron James of the Junkyard to do his thing, baby! Oh, watch out, brothers and sisters, because Chester P. Runk is b-b-b-back!

• Barry Allen : What's the matter, Grodd? Got lonely at A.R.G.U.S., you decided to break out, come visit me?

  Grodd : Grodd is still in his prison in the mental coma and your team put him in.

  Barry Allen : Hmm. So, what, the cage is payback? What, you want vengeance?

  Grodd : Not vengeance. Understanding. Grodd wants Barry Allen to see what it's like to have nothing. No powers, no freedom. Only captivity. Caitlin used a neural inhibitor to shut down Grodd's cerebrum. Caitlin betrayed Grodd. But you gave her the authority. This is your doing, Flash.

  Barry Allen : I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Your mind is a weapon.

  Grodd : You take a weapon from a man, he's still a man. You took Grodd's mind. Grodd's greatest gift. That is not punishment. That is cruelty, pure cruelty.

  Barry Allen : No, no. Not from where I'm standing. Does that great mind of yours remember how many you've hurt? Huh? You marched an army of gorillas through Central City. You forced me into a gladiator arena with Solovar. You weaponized King Shark's telepathic crown so you could control thousands of innocent people. Face it, Grodd. You got what you deserved.

  Grodd : You are right. It took Grodd a year to find the strength to think intelligently again, and in that time, Grodd had many... primitive thoughts. And without the power of higher thinking, Grodd could no longer lie to himself and was forced to confront the truth of his actions, his wrongdoings, his crimes. Your accident allowed Grodd to enter your mind, not to harm Flash, but to ask for Flash's help. The neural inhibitor put a gatekeeper in Grodd's mind. The portal that gatekeeper guards is the only way out of this prison. Help Grodd. Grodd is sorry. Grodd has changed.

  Barry Allen : Says the super-intelligent gorilla who just kidnapped me. Who won't even show his face.

  Grodd : [unlocks the cell]  Grodd wants Flash to trust him. Your powers are returned. Please, Flash. Help Grodd defeat the gatekeeper.

  Barry Allen : [speeds out the cell and uppercuts Grodd]  Nice try, Grodd. But you'll never change. You're exactly where you belong.

• Barry Allen : So much has changed after Crisis. You know, this morning, when I got the meta alert, I was trying to find my parents' graves. There's not even a cemetery there anymore. I-I searched every graveyard in Central City. I still can't find 'em. Just feels like a piece of me is missing. And friends like Hartley Rathaway are enemies now. Just... everything is so different.

  Kamilla Hwang : I'll bet hearing different voices on comms doesn't help, either. You want something familiar. That's not us.

  Barry Allen : Hey, I didn't mean it like that.

  Kamilla Hwang : It's okay, Barry. I understand. Just maybe take it easy on Chester. If he seems a little overeager, it's because he idolizes the Flash. You're his hero.

• Chester P. Runk : Oh, thank Rao.

  Killer Frost : You're back

  Barry Allen : Yeah, I'm back. Thanks to the team.

• Barry Allen : You're telling the truth. You really have changed.

  Grodd : Flash didn't believe Grodd before, but why does Flash believe Grodd now?

  Barry Allen : You let go of the past. Maybe I should do the same. Crisis has changed so much. I've been obsessed with trying to keep things the way they were before, but... I can't.

  Grodd : Those things don't matter. If Flash can't beat Solovar, there's no escape. This world collapses. We both die. That's our fate.

  Barry Allen : No. We decide our fate. Grodd, Solovar beat me because I tried to fight him the exact same way I fought him three years ago. To get out of here, we just have to try something new. We have to run forward, not backward.

  Grodd : How?

  Barry Allen : By fighting together.

• Barry Allen : Nothing could ever make you change.

  Grodd : Not even the Crisis of Infinite Worlds?

  Barry Allen : How do you know about Crisis?

• Barry Allen : I wanted to say, uh, I'm sorry I wasn't more welcoming. It's... I mean, I was dealing with this family thing. I felt like everything in my life was changing, and I took that out on you, and I'm sorry.

  Chester P. Runk : Ah, it's... it's all good, Flash.

• Solovar : Grodd will never leave!

  Barry Allen : You have my powers, Grodd, and my knowledge of how to use them. Now get us out of here.

  Grodd : Grodd understands.

• Killer Frost : Barry, can you hear me?

  Barry Allen : Frost?

  Killer Frost : Oh, yes! We've been trying to get in contact with you. You're in Grodd's mind. Is he trying to hurt you?

  Barry Allen : No, no. We're on the same team. Grodd and I merged our minds. Sort of like the mindscape version of the Firestorm matrix.

  Kamilla Hwang : Wait, so you're half-gorilla now?

  Barry Allen : Uh, I'll explain later. We're fighting a gatekeeper in Grodd's mind. We need to beat it to escape, and the only way to do that...

  Killer Frost : Is by working together.

• Barry Allen : [getting a meta alert]  Do you mind manning the comms?

  Chester P. Runk : [laughing in excitement]  I thought you'd never ask. According to our satellites, it is... Rathaway. Pied Piper's back, baby!

  Barry Allen : Okay, I'm gonna need all the help I can get to take him down. Are you ready?

  Chester P. Runk : Oh, hell, yeah.

  Barry Allen : All right.

  Chester P. Runk : [watching him whoosh away]  Oh, that's never gonna get old.

• Solovar : Grodd thinks lightning can save him? Nothing can save Grodd.

  Killer Frost : Uh, Barry, we've got bigger problems than Solovar right now.

  Barry Allen : I know. Grodd's mindscape is falling apart.

  Killer Frost : Actually, this is worse.

  Barry Allen : What can be worse than this?

  Killer Frost : According to my scans, if you exit the mindscape with your brainwaves still merged, you will end up in one body.

  Kamilla Hwang : Brundle-Flash. Gross.

  Killer Frost : Yeah. And what's worse is the resulting physiological conflict will cause every brain cell to shut down, and the resulting form would...

  Barry Allen : We'd both die.

• Caitlin Snow : Oh, good, you're awake.

  Barry Allen : Oh, Caitlin. Thank God. What the - w-what the hell is going on? I mean, one minute, I'm in the lag, fixing Gideon, and the next thing I know, I'm here. My speed's gone.

  Caitlin Snow : Quite the little chatterbox, aren't we?

  Barry Allen : What? W-why are you talking to me like that? And why am I in a cage? Caitlin, let me out of here!

  Eobard Thawne : Easy, killer.

  Barry Allen : Thawne?

  Eobard Thawne : You're quite the specimen, aren't you?

  Barry Allen : Go to hell. I don't know how you managed to drag me back to the past. Whatever all this is, I will stop you.

  Eobard Thawne : Cranky.

  [to Caitlin] 

  Eobard Thawne : What, did you offer him the B-word?

  Caitlin Snow : Maybe he just needs some privacy. I'm gonna go check on Ronnie. He's working on a new space he's very excited about. He's calling it the Pipeline.