The Flash (TV Series)

What's Past Is Prologue (2018)

Hartley Sawyer: Ralph Dibny, Elongated Man

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• Barry Allen : Okay, look. Follow my lead. Don't go off-book. If anything goes wrong, do exactly as I say.

  Nora West-Allen : Do things usually go wrong?

  [they take off into the accelerator; watching in the Cortex, Ralph turns on Huey Lewis' "Back in Time"] 

  Ralph Dibny : [seeing everyone's looks]  What? When am I gonna have the chance to do that?

  Cisco Ramon : [turning it off]  Hey, game face.

  Ralph Dibny : All right, so what do we do while they're gone? Do we stake out the hospital, get everything ready here, what?

  Iris West-Allen : Nothing. They're gonna return to the exact same moment that they left.

  Ralph Dibny : Wait, so they're gonna go, but to us it'll be like they never left?

  Cisco Ramon : Yep. Time travel's weird, isn't it?

• Ralph Dibny : [surveilling Orlin]  How many you shoot?

  Sherloque Wells : Shot, like, a hundred.

  Ralph Dibny : Any of them good?

  Sherloque Wells : Boof.

  Ralph Dibny : Guess we'll just have to keep shooting 'till we get it right.

  Sherloque Wells : I guess so.

• Ralph Dibny : Near as we can tell, he grew up in the Midwest. In and out of juvie, pretty much fell off the map, and then popped up in Central City a few years ago.

  Sherloque Wells : Part-time employee of Szrek Chemicals for the last two years.

  Ralph Dibny : Foreman says he keeps to himself, pretty much a loner, gave a fake address.

  Sherloque Wells : Did take custody of his niece.

  Ralph Dibny , Sherloque Wells : Grace Gibbons.

  Sherloque Wells : After her parents were unfortunately murdered by a meta-human, now...

  Ralph Dibny : So now we know why Dwyer hates metas. Once he got his powers, he started targeting them.

  Sherloque Wells : Powers that he got the night of the Enlightenment, as we all know, and he was struck by a shard from the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite explosion.

  Ralph Dibny : Which was also the same night that Grace went into a coma.

  Sherloque Wells : Where Dwyer visits her every day, every night, for the last three weeks.

  Barry Allen : So he's there now.

  Ralph Dibny : [simultaneously with Sherloque]  Yeah.

  Sherloque Wells : Oui.

  Barry Allen : Then let's go get him.

• Sherloque Wells : As always, I respect your spirit, Barry Allen, but as long as Cicada has his dagger to dampen your powers, there's no stopping him.

  Barry Allen : So let's destroy his dagger.

  Ralph Dibny : How are we gonna do that un... unless we have some kind of power-dampening dagger power dampener hidden away in storage?

  Cisco Ramon : We don't, but if we did, we'd come up with a much better way of saying that.

• Nora West-Allen : You've already come across everything that we need, right? A strong alloy with magnetic properties.

  Cisco Ramon : Savitar's suit.

  Nora West-Allen : Something to remove dark matter.

  Caitlin Snow : The Speed Force transmitter that Zoom used to steal Barry's speed.

  Iris West-Allen : Yeah, but that was his Speed Force.

  Nora West-Allen : Yeah, but those are exotic particles, which are basically the same thing as dark energy, so we would just need some of that to recalibrate it.

  Ralph Dibny : Can... can you do that?

  Cisco Ramon : I mean, you'd have to infuse the transmitter with the same kind of dark matter.

  Ralph Dibny : Like the DeVoe kind?

  Cisco Ramon : More like the particle accelerator kind.

  Ralph Dibny : I'm sorry, we... we need to blow up S.T.A.R. Labs again?

  Nora West-Allen : No, no, not again. We just need to go back to the first time that it happened.

  Barry Allen : This is gonna mess with the timeline too much.

  Nora West-Allen : No, no, no. No, it's not. Savitar's suit, the transmitter, these are all just discarded objects in time, so if we steal them, it won't affect anything at all.

• Ralph Dibny : Even if all of that worked, we can't just waltz into the hospital with our soon-to-be-named dampening device. Dwyer smells us coming, he's... he's gone.

  Nora West-Allen : Then we do a time hack.

  Ralph Dibny : A time hack?

  Sherloque Wells : It's when you...

  Cisco Ramon : Plant something in the past so it's available in the future. You go back, you take the device, and you... hide it near the hospital, somewhere it won't be found for five years. He won't even know it's there.

• Cisco Ramon : Okay, these are the best of times. Incidentally, they were also the worst of times, but in terms of going back, this is it. Savitar. When we defeated him, Barry phased into his suit, destroyed it, sending pieces of it flying far enough away that our past selves wouldn't notice if Barry took one or two pieces of it. What do you think?

  Caitlin Snow : Absolutely. Barry just has to get back into the Speed Force before the timeline catches up and those pieces get erased from existence.

  Cisco Ramon : [circling May 23, 2017]  I'm fairly optimistic.

  Ralph Dibny : Okay, what about the Speed Force transmitter thingy?

  Caitlin Snow : The night that Zoom injected the Speed Force into himself, he left the Speed Force transmitter in the viewing room.

  Cisco Ramon : [circling Aprijl 19, 2016]  Yes, that's brilliant. All he has to do is make sure no one's in there when he takes it.

  Ralph Dibny : What about when the particle accelerator exploded?

  Cisco Ramon : Well, right before everything went sideways, Wells was in the Cortex, and we...

  [remembering Ronnie] 

  Cisco Ramon : We were in the Pipeline intake.

  Caitlin Snow : That's the best time for Barry to go into the Time Vault. He can put a piece of Savitar's suit in the plinth and when the critical accelerator explodes, it should infuse it with dark matter.

  Cisco Ramon : [circling December 11, 2013]  Right. So, once that's done, we'll have all the pieces we need to make the device, we plant it in the hospital, the rest is history.

• Ralph Dibny : [seeing Barry and Nora return]  Did you even go?

  Cisco Ramon : I told you time travel was weird.