The Flash (TV Series)

Central City Strong (2021)

Brandon McKnight: Chester P. Runk

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Quotes 

• Cisco Ramon : We could do release-date order...

  Chester P. Runk : Or machete order.

  Cisco Ramon : Prequels after "Empire"? You're a wild man, and I love it.

• Chester P. Runk : I feel like usually I'd be like, "Holy Arthur C. Clarke". But it's so... cute.

  Cisco Ramon : Mm, don't let it fool you. It may be collectible size, but this little guy is heavy.

  Chester P. Runk : 20 tons? Boy, that's, like 20 baby elephants, which is also kinda cute.

• Allegra Garcia : He did it. Without throwing a single punch.

  Chester P. Runk : Yeah, the Flash doesn't need big fists. He's got a big heart.

• Joe West : It's not just a time traveler. He's a guy who has a theatrical flair for killing.

  Barry Allen : Abra Kadabra is back.

  Cisco Ramon : Oh. Great. That explains all the shakin' and quakin' yesterday.

  Chester P. Runk : Ooh, timequakes too? Whoa, okay. So what's this Abra dude's deal?

  Cisco Ramon : Oh, you know. He's just your standard time-traveling, murdering, thieving 64th-century magician who uses embedded nanotech and calls it magic.

  Barry Allen : Four years ago, the Collector's Agency took him to be executed for his crimes. Somehow, he escaped.

  Joe West : Last time, he was hell-bent on stealing tech to build a time machine. This time, he goes out of his way to kill an innocent person, doesn't steal a thing. Now, that's a pretty vicious escalation.

  Cisco Ramon : And what's that thing back there got to do with it?

  Barry Allen : You know, it doesn't matter. Kadabra picked the wrong day to come back.

  Joe West : I'll put out a BOLO right away.

• Barry Allen : Do we have eyes on Kadabra?

  Chester P. Runk : Uh, yes and no. He's teleporting all over the city with that obelisk ball thing. I'm scanning it.

  Cisco Ramon : I'm picking up readings of antimatter energy. He created an antimatter bomb.

  Caitlin Snow : That kind of power, it could take out another Earth.

  Chester P. Runk : Or another universe?

  Allegra Garcia : Wait, what? Are we about to have Crisis Part Two?

  Cisco Ramon : No, no. There's not enough antimatter energy for that, thank the sequel Gods, but the core is roughly the size of a baseball.

  Caitlin Snow : A baseball? Barry, a trace amount nearly took out your leg.

  Barry Allen : Is it enough to destroy the city?

  Cisco Ramon : I'd say there's exactly enough.

  Barry Allen : Abra said his last trick was to make the whole city disappear. Destroying Central City must be his plan.

• Joe West : Please tell me you boys found something we can use.

  Cisco Ramon : I think I just did. It looks like this whole crime scene is infected with serious temporal energy. Like, the kind carbon-dated 43 centuries from now.

  Chester P. Runk : As in the future? Wait, hold on, hold on. Is this, like, a time capsule? Ooh, maybe like a TARDIS.

  Cisco Ramon : P-Runk, you picked a hell of a day to start your CCPD-consultant internship. Yeah, this is definitely a time-traveler.

• Chester P. Runk : Yo, this is epic. I didn't know S.T.A.R. Labs did volunteer work.

  Cisco Ramon : Mm-hmm. Not just us. Kord Industries is showing up for their shift in an hour. Hey, you got any more nails?

  Chester P. Runk : Oh, yeah. I got your box nail, finishing nail, casing nail, masonry nail; all the nails.

  Cisco Ramon : Uh...

  Caitlin Snow : Whew! You got a latte in there? 'Cause I'm as fried as these wires.

  Cisco Ramon : Oh, Runk-adelic, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

  Chester P. Runk : Yeah, we gotta...

  Cisco Ramon : Jitters run!

  Chester P. Runk : Or Jitters run. I like Jitters. We should do Jitters.

  Cisco Ramon : One latte coming up.

  Caitlin Snow : Make it a double.

• Chester P. Runk : Getting anything on your scans over there?

  Cisco Ramon : [throwing popcorn into the air to catch in his mouth, but missing]  No. I think it might be time for a Jitters run.

  Chester P. Runk : Well, thank god, 'cause Chester P. is running on E.

  Cisco Ramon : [looking at his monitor]  Holy cappuccino. Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

  Chester P. Runk : That's the same temporal scan from this morning, only now there's a second one downtown. Which means...

  Cisco Ramon : That's where Kadabra's headed next.

• Chester P. Runk : Barry, I know this all seems bad, but...

  Barry Allen : Chester, this city's been through hell. It can't take another emergency. Not now, not this soon.

  Cisco Ramon : We got this, Bar. Don't worry.

  Barry Allen : We just started rebuilding. I'm not gonna let anything tear us down again.