The Flash (TV Series)

Grodd Friended Me (2020)

David Sobolov: Grodd

Quotes 

• 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.

• Grodd : Grodd has changed.

• Grodd : Power didn't bring him happiness, Gorilla City is the only place he felt happy.

• Grodd : Grodd's mind wasn't affected by the merging of the multiverse, but Grodd can still sense changes in this reality. Changes like Gorilla City. City is here now. The gorillas are here now. Grodd knows this. Grodd wants to return home.

• 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 : 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?

• 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.