- Barry Allen: I used to think that keeping secrets from people for their own good was a noble decision, that it would protect them. But when you do that, you just rob those people from making their own decisions.
- Cecile Horton: Nora. You want to tell us something, don't you?
- Sherloque Wells: She wants to tell you her secret. Right? She doesn't know where to start. Difficult to know where to begin when your secret threatens everything, everyone around you.
- Nora West-Allen: Sherloque, stop it.
- Sherloque Wells: Maybe start at the beginning. It's a very good place to start. When you first time-traveled. So careful to leave the lightest footprint. Until you suddenly change course and brazenly interfere with the Thinker satellite as it crashed to Earth. I think to myself, "Nope, nope. This excessive action doesn't make sense." Until you understand that it wasn't your idea.
- Nora West-Allen: Please stop.
- Sherloque Wells: Someone instructed you to do it.
- Nora West-Allen: Stop.
- Sherloque Wells: Someone... whose handwriting is in your journal. Someone who wrote, "The timeline is malleable." Same person who's been directing you all this time, making puppets out of all of us as he seeks to alter the timeline to suit his own purpose. Eobard Thawne. The Reverse-Flash. Your teacher. Your partner. Your secret.
- Barry Allen: But secrets are like walls, and... you can't really know someone with walls between you.
- Barry Allen: Hey, we did the right thing. We kept this family safe.
- Nora West-Allen: Then why does it feel like we made everything so much worse?
- Cisco Ramon: You have, uh... Peter Parker'd her.
- Ralph Dibny: Yeah, I mean, Kamilla is a great photographer and I thought she could start taking some pictures for Iris, and then maybe she'd start to come around S.T.A.R. Labs. I don't know, if we're lucky, get bitten by something radioactive. Become, like, a Spider-Person.
- Cisco Ramon: So, while you thought, did it occur to you that no one asked you to do this?
- Ralph Dibny: You don't think she'd make a good Spider-Person?
- Cisco Ramon: You listen to me, and listen to good, you turkey on stilts. It is not your job to get my girlfriend on the team!
- Barry Allen: What'd you see?
- Cisco Ramon: The victims. They were Grace Gibbons' parents.
- Nora West-Allen: In Grace's mindscape, she saw herself as Cicada.
- Barry Allen: And another Cicada shows up targeting her parents' killer.
- Nora West-Allen: It has to be her. The new Cicada is Grace Gibbons.
- Cisco Ramon: From the future. Time travel sucks.
- Ralph Dibny: Need any help what that, uh...
- Cisco Ramon: Nope. Unless you came here to break something, in which case you'd be the perfect candidate.
- Ralph Dibny: I deserve that. Never should've interfered with Kamilla. Sometimes, I forget how... embarrassing I can be.
- Cisco Ramon: I'm not embarrassed by you, and I'm not embarrassed by anyone on Team Flash. You guys are my family. You're not the problem. This is the problem. This is the problem. Kamilla is blissfully unaware of any of the madness that goes on in S.T.A.R. Labs, or that we routinely save the city from evil metas.
- Ralph Dibny: Or that you have a secret identity and dress up in leather and go all pew-pew!
- Cisco Ramon: Especially the leather. She and I, we got a good thing. And being with somebody has never felt so... so easy. And when I'm with her, for once, I just feel like a normal dude, with a normal life and a social-media-official girlfriend, who happens to a very talented photographer and not... a Spider-Person.
- Cicada II: I've always wanted to be up against the Flash and his legendary team. I guess I wasn't missing out on anything after all.
- Orlin Dwyer: Grace! Don't do this. Please. This isn't the way to make the world a better place.
- Cicada II: You hated them. I heard you.
- Orlin Dwyer: I was wrong. And that hate turned into something even worse. It was wrong to make you feel that way, Gracie. But you don't have to go down the same path I did. You don't have to hold on to this - this anger. Let it go.
- Cicada II: But my parents.
- Orlin Dwyer: It was an accident. Let it go. Before it's too late, like it is for me.
- Cicada II: You're right, Uncle Orlin.
- [Cicada changes the dagger's course of direction into Orlin's back killing him]
- Cicada II: It is too late.
- Barry Allen: I can't believe she killed Dwyer.
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah, as brutal was Dwyer was, his love for his niece always kept him from crossing certain lines.
- Joe West: Not Grace.
- Barry Allen: You okay?
- Nora West-Allen: I just, uh... don't know what to do.
- Barry Allen: Yeah, me neither. We've hit walls before, though. We'll figure it out.
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, nice table. Liking the new digs.
- Iris West-Allen: Well, technically, they're old digs, but I guess there is an upside to remodeling after an attack.
- Iris West-Allen: Thawne's Time Sphere? Are you sure?
- Cisco Ramon: What do you mean "Am I sure"?
- Sherloque Wells: Pretty sure.
- Cisco Ramon: I'm looking right at it. Why?
- Iris West-Allen: 'Cause we're looking right at it, too.
- Barry Allen: Do you remember that time sphere that we built for Thawne?
- Joe West: That big hamster ball thing?
- Nora West-Allen: Someone stole one in the future to come here.
- Cecile Horton: For what, our... our Cicada copycat?
- Joe West: It makes sense. I can't even believe I just said that.
- Grace Gibbons: I didn't get her.
- Orlin Dwyer: Well, maybe that's a good thing, 'cause I've read this file and it doesn't make sense. Grace, there was no money taken from the crime scene. I think what happened to your mom and dad might've been an accident.
- Grace Gibbons: She killed my parents, Uncle Orlin! It wasn't an accident! You sound like them. Why do you sound like them?
- Orlin Dwyer: [notices the wound on Grace's head] Grace, your head. We gotta get you to Dr. Ambres. She'll know how to help.
- Grace Gibbons: She's not helping anyone. Not anymore.
- Orlin Dwyer: Why not?
- Grace Gibbons: I killed her.
- Orlin Dwyer: But Dr. Ambres saved your life.
- Grace Gibbons: And destroyed yours. You had a gift. An unbreakable weapon that fell from the sky for you to use. For you to control. And she took that power away from you.
- Orlin Dwyer: No, Grace. I wanted that cure. And I wanted you to have it too.
- Grace Gibbons: No. No, that's impossible. We were supposed to be together, Uncle Orlin.
- Orlin Dwyer: Grace, I just wanted you to be happy. That's all I ever wanted. I love you, Grace. You're my family.
- Grace Gibbons: And you'd do anything to save me, right? I know what I have to do.
- Nora West-Allen: Something went wrong, we got Dwyer, we gave him the cure. This should all be over. But another Cicada showed up, took Dwyer and the dagger. Thawne! Did you hear what I said? Another Cicada showed up.
- Eobard Thawne: I know.
- Nora West-Allen: Who is that?
- Eobard Thawne: I have no idea.
- Nora West-Allen: You said manipulating he timeline would stop Cicada, you said you knew what you were doing.
- Eobard Thawne: I know what I said. I was very wrong.
- Nora West-Allen: What do we do? What do we do now?
- Eobard Thawne: I can't help you anymore, little runner.
- Nora West-Allen: What? You have to help me!
- Eobard Thawne: It's too late.
- Nora West-Allen: No. There's gotta be something we can do. You... you have to help.
- Eobard Thawne: There is only one thing left to do. Tell your father. You tell your father everything.
- Grace Gibbons: Your lung's healing. It'll take a while for you to get the rest of your strength back, but don't worry.I'll take care of you. Like you took care of me.
- Orlin Dwyer: Who are you?
- [Future Grace shows him doll]
- Orlin Dwyer: Grace?
- Grace Gibbons: Hi, Uncle Orlin.
- Orlin Dwyer: [confused] But you were...
- Grace Gibbons: A ten-year-old girl in a coma? Eventually, that girl at the hospital wakes up. She grows older, and she becomes me.
- Orlin Dwyer: You're from the future, like Flash's daughter.
- Grace Gibbons: I came back here to work with you again. And I remember everything you taught me, Uncle Orlin. Now, get some rest.
- Orlin Dwyer: Wait, where are we?
- Grace Gibbons: No one will find you while I'm gone, There's noodles in the pantry if you're hungry, and ice cream.
- Orlin Dwyer: Where are you going?
- Grace Gibbons: To take care of something important, When I get back We're gonna figure out how you get your powers back.
- [kisses him on the head]
- Iris West-Allen: Nora? Please tell us this isn't true.
- Barry Allen: She can't.
- Nora West-Allen: Dad...
- Barry Allen: Because it is true.
- Joe West: And Dr. Ambres never talked about her relationship with Orlin Dwyer?
- Nurse Shelley: She never really talked about anything. After her fiancé died, she wasn't quite the same.
- Barry Allen: How so?
- Nurse Shelley: Angry. Withdrawn. Only time she seemed happy was when she was with that girl in the coma.
- Joe West: Can you think of anything that might help us find Dwyer?
- Nurse Shelley: I'm sorry, Detective.
- Joe West: [giving her a business card] Okay, uh... if you come up with anything, would you give me a call, please? Thank you.
- Barry Allen: Someody's gotta know something.
- Cecile Horton: Everyone we've talked to is telling the truth. I think Ambres was the only one working with Dwyer.
- Joe West: Well, look, we'll pore over the files at CCPD. Maybe we missed something. We'll let you know if we come up with anything, all right?
- Sherloque Wells: All right. Nora West-Allen, let's see what we have here.
- [scrolling through journal entries]
- Sherloque Wells: Boring. Boring. Boring. Banality. Boring. Boring. Come on. I know you're working with someone, but no names. Clever girl.
- Cisco Ramon: We got a Starchives asset in Kollins Woods.
- Sherloque Wells: Starchives? What is this?
- Iris West-Allen: Uh, well, it's a place where we house everything Flash-related; prototypes, supersuits. I mean, everything since day one.
- Ralph Dibny: Okay, and the alarm is going off because...
- Cisco Ramon: Because somebody just stole something from us. Something really, really not good.
- Cisco Ramon: You guys at the Starchives yet?
- Iris West-Allen: We just got here.
- Ralph Dibny: Well, there's no sign of forced entry. Or overhead lighting, apparently. Pretty sure that's a vacuum.
- Sherloque Wells: Remind me again what we're looking for?
- Cisco Ramon: Uh, it's like a huge, round glass bubble.
- Sherloque Wells: [gesturing to something nearby] You mean like that?
- Nora West-Allen: So it's here and it's in the Starchives at the same time?
- Barry Allen: Somebody stole the plans and made a duplicate?
- Sherloque Wells: Not exactly.
- Nora West-Allen: One scratch on two different time spheres.
- Sherloque Wells: Or one scratch on one time sphere.
- Nora West-Allen: That's impossible. Unless...
- Barry Allen: Unless it's the same one.
- Cisco Ramon: It is the same one. This is our time sphere.
- Sherloque Wells: Which shows up here at the same time that someone who looks like Cicada kidnaps Orlin Dwyer. It's not a coincidence.
- Nora West-Allen: So whoever kidnapped Dwyer...
- Barry Allen: Is the Cicada from the future.
- Cecile Horton: It was him, wasn't it? The other Cicada.
- Joe West: Guy didn't know what hit him.
- Barry Allen: You said he was after a cold case file?
- Nora West-Allen: Are any of them digitized?
- Joe West: Not yet. But the only way to figure out what's missing is to see what's still here.
- Barry Allen: Okay, I went through everything. There was indeed one file missing. And it's...
- [Joe hands him a notepad]
- Barry Allen: Thank you... it is from 2017. That's it.
- Joe West: All right, I'll do some digging, see why this was so important they had to cut a hole in the wall.
- Iris West-Allen: What are you doing, Sherloque?
- Sherloque Wells: Well, I'm pursuing a new lead to identify the mystery Cicada.
- Iris West-Allen: Well, if you needed information about the Time Sphere, you could've just asked.
- Sherloque Wells: That's right, but memory can be deceiving. Especially for a regular human. No, I prefer a primary source.
- Iris West-Allen: And this new lead, were you pursuing it last night, too?
- Sherloque Wells: That's right.
- Iris West-Allen: And all last weekend?
- Sherloque Wells: That's right. I am working very hard to get...
- [something catches his eye]
- Sherloque Wells: To get what I want.
- Barry Allen: Joe traced the file that our new Cicada took. There was a meta attack here two years ago. Two people died, and the meta was never IDed.
- Cisco Ramon: So this new Cicada might be going after this meta?
- Barry Allen: Well...
- Cisco Ramon: Okay. What do I vibe?
- Nora West-Allen: Well, we're not exactly sure. All the street cams were destroyed by the explosion.
- Barry Allen: The original ATM was too fried to recover any data.
- Cisco Ramon: [insulted] For real?
- Barry Allen: Yeah.
- Cisco Ramon: Well, I'm out. I can't vibe a crime scene that does not exist. Literally does not exist. I mean, even this ATM is, like, brand-spanking new.
- [noticing something]
- Cisco Ramon: But this concrete isn't. It still has scorch marks on it.
- [handing his half-chewed Red Vine to Nora]
- Cisco Ramon: Hold this.
- Orlin Dwyer: Grace, what's wrong?
- Grace Gibbons: Look at this.
- Orlin Dwyer: It's your parents' murder file?
- Grace Gibbons: Do you see what they did? Nothing! Three witnesses saw a woman in a hoodie leave the scene, but did Central City's finest put out a search party or an APB? No. They thought it sounded like a job for the Flash.
- Orlin Dwyer: Look at this debris from the scene. Looks like a chemical burn.
- Grace Gibbons: It's not a chemical burn. It's charred dark matter residue. We can track the meta who left it.
- Orlin Dwyer: How?
- Grace Gibbons: I can't track an exact real time location, but I can get close.
- [scanning the debris with a futuristic gauntlet cuff]
- Grace Gibbons: Found her.
- Orlin Dwyer: Grace, what are you doing?
- Grace Gibbons: In the time I'm from, their plague spreads across the world, unchecked, unabated. But now that I'm here with you, we can change that. And the mission can succeed.
- Orlin Dwyer: What mission?
- Grace Gibbons: Ours. To kill every last meta-human. Starting with the rat bastard who killed my parents.
- Joe West: So Cicada II is really Grace from the future, and she's trying to get revenge on the meta that murdered her parents, and that killer meta is here?
- Nora West-Allen: Cisco saw the last PIN that was entered into the ATM. The card belongs to Vickie and John Bolen.
- Barry Allen: We already went by their house, and a neighbor said they were having a party here.
- Cisco Ramon: I got your text. What's the emergency?
- Ralph Dibny: Okay. Listen to me very carefully.
- [leading him to another room]
- Ralph Dibny: I took a break from serial killer kidnapper madness to do something awesome.
- Kamilla Hwang: So I decided on another career path. Photography was always my passion, and I figured why not make it my job?
- Iris West-Allen: These are great, Kamilla.
- Ralph Dibny: I Peter Parkered her.
- Cisco Ramon: Dibs, sidebar.
- Ralph Dibny: Sidebar?
- Cisco Ramon: [pulling him away] Sidebar, now!
- Sherloque Wells: Well, well, well. Bonjour, Eobard Thawne. If I am Eobard Thawne, what kind of man am I? Patient, right? Master of science. But also...
- [blowing dust off of Thawne's horn-rimmed glasses]
- Sherloque Wells: A master of...
- [pulling a sheet off of Thawne's electric wheelchair]
- Sherloque Wells: Subterfuge. Because not only... am I... Eobard Thawne, but I'm also... Dr. Harrison Wells. And that man... that man would keep his secrets...
- [finding a button under the arm rest, he presses it and hidden compartment opens]
- Sherloque Wells: [removing a concealed flash drive] Close. What have we here? Well, well, well. Bonjour.
- Nora West-Allen: How could Vickie not know she killed two people?
- Barry Allen: There was a time in Central City where not all meta attacks were public knowledge.
- Nora West-Allen: Why not? I mean, people should know...
- Joe West: Former mayor Bellows tried to keep certain things out of the media. He said he didn't want to create a panic. Turns out he had metas on the payroll. Didn't want the heat.
- Joe West: I can't believe that little girl in there grows up to be a time-traveling serial killer.
- Cecile Horton: Why can't we just wake her up right now?
- Barry Allen: We tried before. It didn't work.
- Joe West: What about the meta cure y'all cooked up?
- Barry Allen: We need Grace's consent. Besides, Caitlin says that her condition is too fragile to even try.
- Joe West: And I'm assuming that destroying the time-traveling hamster ball, that messes up the timeline?
- Barry Allen: Yeah, it would probably just make things even worse.
- Harrison Wells: Video log, entry 247. I have long struggled with time's insistence on change. One variable changes the timeline. Our memories are changed, too, without any knowledge of time's other possibilities, but not anymore.
- Sherloque Wells: Where he is going with this?
- Harrison Wells: Just as the human body is made up of DNA, so too is the multiverse made up of its own unique source code.
- Sherloque Wells: Hmm.
- Harrison Wells: One that cannot be altered. No matter what timeline you're in. Until now, because I have cracked that code. And so the timeline, it can be malleable, but my knowledge... will be intractable.
- Sherloque Wells: Gideon, freeze video log. Capture the clear board. Run against handwriting sample number two. The journal of Nora West-Allen.
- Gideon: [analyzing] Analysis complete. Handwriting match for Harrison Wells confirmed. Will that be all, Dr. Wells?
- Sherloque Wells: Yes, Gideon. That will be all.
- Ralph Dibny: Look at you two. Young love. So, uh, K-Dog, when are you gonna meet the group?
- Kamilla Hwang: Uh, the group?
- Ralph Dibny: Yeah, the squad. The team. The gang.
- Cisco Ramon: Uh, hey, we're actually in the middle of a date here.
- Kamilla Hwang: Actually, we're at the end of a date, babe. I have that gig.
- Cisco Ramon: Oh, right. Your Easter thing. You have to go. She has to go.
- Ralph Dibny: Oh, uh, Cisco, I'm supposed to tell you that Barry wanted to talk to you.
- [seeing his look]
- Ralph Dibny: Probably could have texted that.
- Gideon: Good evening, Dr. Wells.
- Sherloque Wells: Bonjour, Gideon. I believe I have something that belongs...
- [inserting the flash drive from Thawne's wheelchair]
- Sherloque Wells: Right here.
- Barry Allen: [watching Vickie and her daughter] They're a good family. Told you they'd figure it out.
- Nora West-Allen: Dad... I need to tell you something.
- Barry Allen: How was Nora able to see what Grace was seeing?
- Caitlin Snow: Nora and Grace seem to be psychically connected. I think it's because of the time that Nora spent in Grace's brain.
- Cecile Horton: Is there any sign of her?
- Cisco Ramon: No. She definitely ghosted.
- Nora West-Allen: What about Vickie and her family?
- Cecile Horton: Uh, federal protection. They're gonna be fine. They're getting new identities as we speak.
- John Bolen: Vickie, I asked you to leave!
- Vickie Bolen: She's my daughter.
- Alice Bolen: No. I want my dad.
- John Bolen: Can't you see that she's terrified of you? She could've been killed!
- Vickie Bolen: I was trying to protect you guys.
- John Bolen: By lying? You're a meta, Vickie! A human time bomb! How do you keep that from us?
- Nora West-Allen: [written in time language in Nora's journal, that Sherloque Wells is eventually able to decode] TRANSLATION JANUARY 24, 2019 This is hard. Harder than I ever thought possible. All of the things I'm learning, every conversation I have with Team Flash, everything I'm seeing of my Mom and Dad... they're the perfect couple. I catch them sometimes just looking at one another across the room. Dad smiles and Mom can't help but smile back. Their love is just so... I hate the idea that someday I'll have to leave, go back to our time. But once Cicada has been caught, there won't be a reason for me to be here. I don't know what things will be like when I come home, but I know I'll be a better speedster because of my experience here. As well as because of all of your encouragement. I know the road hasn't always been smooth, but I'm grateful to have you as my partner. Thank you. JANUARY 21, 2019 As promised, I haven't told my parents anything about you. Sometimes I wonder if I can keep this up... the white lies... the half truths. But then I hear your words echoing in my head "tread lightly," think of the ramifications." And I stay the course. I'm focusing on your other lessons. How to control my speed, how to channel my emotions. And I've become more aware of the emotions of everyone around me. My father is teaching me many of the same things as you, in fact. How to stay in the moment - look around, and take my time with my choices. It's funny. when I first came to this time, I thought it was to run faster. Now I find myself constantly slowing down. DECEMBER 1, 2018 I have mastered the art of stopping. This may not seem like a super big deal, but when you're running at Mach two, stopping is seriously hard. Dad taught me a pretty schway trick... turn your heel into the stop, not away. It's kind of like if you're skidding on ice and you turn your car into