- Barry Allen: I mean, this is crazy. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people in Central City and, out of everyone you could have picked to rob, you pick me.
- Mugger: What, are you sick? Money. Now.
- Barry Allen: I just... You're really gonna be kicking yourself, man. I mean, if there was an Olympics for bad luck, you didn't just medal, pal. You Michael Phelps-ed.
- Detective Eddie Thawne: His face is melted off. How's that picture gonna help I.D. him?
- Barry Allen: I have mad skills.
- Joe West: Please don't ever say that again.
- [Joe knocks Barry's mug off the table and it smashes on the floor]
- Joe West: You didn't catch it.
- Barry Allen: I loved that mug. And what part of "a meta-human stole my speed" didn't you understand?
- William Tockman: That's a quality time piece, young man.
- Barry Allen: Oh, uh, thanks.
- William Tockman: They took mine, all of them.
- Barry Allen: Guess you shouldn't have done whatever it is you did.
- Barry Allen: You think I'll ever wear it again?
- Caitlin Snow: I hope so.
- Barry Allen: I didn't have my speed for very long, but now that it's gone, it feels like part of me is gone, too.
- Caitlin Snow: With or without your speed, you're still you, Barry.
- Barry Allen: But I'm not. I'm not the best version of me. I love being the Flash. I love everything about it. The feeling of running hundreds of miles per hour, wind and power just rushing past my face, being able to help people. I'm not sure I can live without it, Caitlyn.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Where's Barry? He's late.
- Caitlin Snow: Late is kind of his signature move.
- Cisco Ramon: Hey, uh, you guys want to see MY signature move?
- [Barry runs inside S.T.A.R. Labs]
- Barry Allen: Sorry, guys, I got a little held up. You had to be there.
- Iris West: Oh, now you show up.
- The Flash: I'm sorry I wasn't there for you today. It couldn't be helped.
- Iris West: It's okay. A girl's gotta be her own hero every now and again.
- The Flash: I promise I'll never be late again.
- Iris West: My best friend is always saying that, and he is always late.
- The Flash: You're worth being on time for.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Now, may I remind you, Mr. Allen, we had an agreement. We would help with your heroics out there while you would help us research and develop your abilities in here, right?
- Barry Allen: Yeah. No, I know. I-I-I guess I've just gotten a little bit caught up with being able to help people. Yeah, put bad guys away. It feels good.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Imagine how good it would feel to cure diseases, stop aging, reverse paralysis.
- Barry Allen: All good causes. So, ah, how can I help you do that? You need more MRI's, more blood, or...
- Dr. Harrison Wells: I need more speed.
- Barry Allen: Okay.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Speed is the key to progress. You need to kick it up a notch.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Cisco, bring the generator on-line. Make sure Barry gets the charge.
- Cisco Ramon: What? You're not coming with me? I am not leaving you.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Listen to me. Of everything I've done in my life, of everything I have invented, my most important creation is the Flash. Barry Allen must have a future. Now, go. Go!
- Barry Allen: Tony might have been a bully then and now, but he didn't deserve to die.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Does Caitlyn or Cisco or me or you? I had a choice to make: him or us. I chose us without a second thought.
- Barry Allen: Well, all your talk about miracle cures and scientific breakthroughs, but you don't care about people at all.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Well, maybe you care too much, Barry. I know being a hero is important to you. I respect your ideals. I just don't have the luxury of sharing them.
- Barry Allen: I forgot. Your game's chess. We're all just pawns to you, right? So what's your move, doctor? Which one of us gets sacrificed next?
- Iris West: They call you the Clock King, right?
- William Tockman: A somewhat florid appellation, but I've grown to see the humor in it.
- Iris West: You're going back to prison.
- William Tockman: Really? And - and how do you reckon?
- Iris West: Because the Flash is coming.
- William Tockman: Oh.
- Iris West: Oh, where are you?
- Dr. Harrison Wells: I know the names of every person who died that night. I know they all mattered, and the fact that the world is now deprived of their potential is something I have to life with every day, but these people... these people have done nothing wrong. You want to punish me? Fine, let's do that, but let these people live.
- Farooq Gibran: You died that night, too.
- [fires lightning bolt at him, knocking Dr. Wells out of his wheelchair]
- Barry Allen: No!
- Farooq Gibran: You just didn't know it till today.