- Barry Allen: What the hell?
- Eddie Thawne: Wait. I've seen that happen before. My driver's license.
- Barry Allen: I've seen reactions like this, too, caused by negative tachyons. I think this place, Malcolm's belongings, his life - it's all made of negative tachyons. Like a false reality built for you to live in.
- Eddie Thawne: Well, who could have done that?
- Barry Allen: There's only one force powerful enough-- the one inside that crystal. The Negative Speed Force. I think it brought you back to life.
- Eddie Thawne: Why would it bring me back?
- Barry Allen: Eddie, I think the Negative Speed Force resurrected you, so you could be its avatar.
- Eddie Thawne: Its avatar? Avatar for what?
- Barry Allen: A Negative Speed Force. It needs a surrogate on Earth to carry out its plan. That's what the crystal has been doing all along. Joe, Mark, Nora. I mean, it can only possess them temporarily. It must need you to choose to take on its power.
- Eddie Thawne: No. That can't be right. The crystal showed me a better life, one with a daughter I was supposed to have.
- Barry Allen: Eddie, the Negative Speed Force is unlike anything you've ever seen before. It gets inside your head. It feeds off hate and rage, all right? Everything about it is evil.
- Eddie Thawne: It brought me back from the dead, OK? Is that evil? And what if I choose not to be the avatar, huh? Do I go back to being dead?
- Barry Allen: No, no, we'll find a way to save you. You could choose to start a new life.
- Cobalt Crystal: He lies.
- Eddie Thawne: Oh, really? Because all your team tried to do was cuff me. But that crystal, it actually wants me to help me get my life back. A life I was a fool to give up.
- Cobalt Crystal: There's still time.
- Barry Allen: Come on. You don't believe that.
- Eddie Thawne: Don't tell me what I believe! Did you know I can hear it right now? Sometimes I can't tell if it's the crystal's voice or my own voice. And I'm starting to wonder, what's the difference? It's funny. Returning from the dead really has a way of making you realize the mistakes you made in your old life. My mistake was being a nobody.
- Barry Allen: Eddie, you weren't a nobody, all right? Listen to me...
- Eddie Thawne: No! You listen to me. The second I died, everyone forgot about me. And you, Barry, the man I sacrificed my life for, you thanked me by stealing my fiancée.
- Barry Allen: Eddie.
- Eddie Thawne: But now I have a chance to change that. If I chose the crystal, maybe I could be the hero. I could get the girl and the family I deserve.
- Barry Allen: Eddie. I know how much you're hurting. The life you're talking about, it's not yours. Iris isn't your wife. Nora is not your daughter.
- Eddie Thawne: But they were supposed to be! And they still can be!
- Barry Allen: Eddie, you know that's not right. You have a chance to start over, to have your own life. What would Iris want you to do?
- Khione: Don't worry, Cecile. You can do this.
- Cecile Horton: Right, and if by this you mean, just go on and astrally project myself into my future body, protect Barry from the Negative Speed Force, and save all of temporal existence, before coming back and teaching Jenna her multiplication tables, yeah, you're right. That's easy. Easy peasy.
- Allegra Garcia: This is insane. Eddie Thawne died 34 years ago. How is he alive, and why hasn't he aged a day?
- Cecile Horton: And why is he here?
- Chester P. Runk: I have no idea, but all his fingerprints and DNA match. Except he is giving off high levels of Hawking radiation-- the kind you only find inside singularities.
- Allegra Garcia: So you think Eddie's causing these portals to open?
- Cecile Horton: Maybe it's subconscious. Maybe it's his emotions triggering them.
- Chester P. Runk: Oh, I was a black hole once. It happens.
- Chester P. Runk: Whoo! All right, party people! That's a wrap. The Chronarch is no longer the monarch. Come on home.
- XS: Was that schway or what?
- Allegra Garcia: Not bad for your first mission as team leader.
- Cecile Horton: I know your dad's all the way in outer space, but I can feel how proud he is of you from the Watchtower.
- XS: I mean, that was fun. But I'm ready for dad to come home.
- Chester P. Runk: Hey, babe. The way you went supernova on him at the end? It's like you were trying to blast that man into the 64th century.
- Allegra Garcia: Well, actually, that's exactly what I was trying to do.
- XS: I swear, if our big bad has escaped from ARGUS already...
- Chester P. Runk: Oh, no, no, it's an energy surge coming from upstairs at the Flash Museum.
- Allegra Garcia: I told you it wasn't a good idea to put a museum on top of our secret lair.
- Chester P. Runk: No, baby. It's genius. Who'd look for the Flash under his own museum?
- Captain Daisy Korber: This is impossible. Eddie?
- Eddie Thawne: I shot myself with this bullet. I need to find out what happened. I need to know how I'm alive.
- Captain Daisy Korber: Listen. I believe you. But this city is a lightning rod for insanity. You could be a clone or a cyborg. We need to get you to a hospital and get you checked out.
- Eddie Thawne: No. I need to find the Flash. He'll know what's going on.
- Captain Daisy Korber: No, listen. We can't jump to conclusions without investigating. If you're really Eddie, then you're a detective, and you know this.
- Eddie Thawne: I am Eddie Thawne! I'm alive, and I need to know why!
- [a black hole opens above Eddie and Daisy]
- Captain Daisy Korber: What the hell?
- [she gets sucked up into the black hole]
- Eddie Thawne: KORBER!
- Cecile Horton: Wow. I just hit by a huge wave of terror.
- [Speed Force Nora appears]
- Khione: Nora? What's wrong?
- Speed Force: The Negative Speed Force. It's cloaked Barry with its own dark energy.
- Chester P. Runk: The cobalt radiation. We found it in the loft when Barry disappeared.
- Speed Force: And not it's causing him to bounce across time. A briefly sensed him through the radiation. I'm not sure how long it will take him to get there, but he's heading toward 2049.
- Khione: First he was taken to the past, then forced to the present...
- Mark Blaine: And now he's going to the future.
- Speed Force: And so is the crystal. It'll chose another victim and attack Barry...
- [fades in and out]
- Speed Force: I can't help him anymore. Only you can.
- Cecile Horton: How?
- Speed Force: You have to find a way. If Barry dies and the Speed Force is extinguished, then this timeline and everything in it will be erased forever.
- [vanishes]
- Eddie Thawne: So do you guys finally believe me, or do I need to pee into a cup?
- XS: According to all our tests, you're telling the truth. You really are Eddie Thawne.
- Eddie Thawne: I know. So who the hell are you, and how did you know who I am?
- [XS removes her mask showing her face]
- Eddie Thawne: You're Barry's daughter? But I thought...
- XS: I know. You probably recognize me from when we first met. 2013, New Year's Eve. I was one of the new interns at CCPD.
- Eddie Thawne: I remember that.
- XS: Yeah, we had to travel back to 2013 to save the timeline. I'm sorry, are you OK?
- Eddie Thawne: That thing I saw in the museum... I also saw one at the cemetery. It killed Captain Korber.
- XS: It was a singularity. Thank God it didn't keep growing. One like that almost destroyed the city on - on the day you died.
- Eddie Thawne: Yesterday, I thought I was a man named Malcolm Gilmore. I turns out that whole life was a lie, and in reality I was a dead man - some idiot who killed himself to stop a supervillain that didn't stay dead.
- XS: I know, but if you didn't do what you did in the Pipeline, my dad would've died that day.
- Eddie Thawne: Maybe. Or maybe I could have had a whole life, a family. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to be back from the dead, but there's being alive, and there's what makes life worth living. And Iris, your mom - that was my reason. And without that, I just - I don't why I'm here.
- XS: I can't imagine how you must be feeling. But I know better than most, you have been given the rarest gift, a second chance. You just have to decide how you're going to use it.
- Negative Speed Force: [to Flash] Do you know why I'm about to win? Because you don't have the guts to kill your own flesh and blood, unlike Eddie. That's why he's the ultimate avatar. And you'll die in the street like an animal.
- Barry Allen: Eddie, I can't believe you're really here. You sacrificed yourself to save me. I never thanked you.
- Eddie Thawne: You too, Bar. These last couple days, I feel like I've been losing my mind.
- Barry Allen: Do you live here?
- Eddie Thawne: I thought this was my home, my life. But I was wrong. Everything's wrong.
- Barry Allen: Eddie. It's going to be all right. I don't know how I got here, either. The power in that crystal is attacking me and my family through time. Now it's possessed my daughter, and I don't know to stop it. Maybe we can together.
- Eddie Thawne: All I know is I used to be Malcolm Gilmore. I had his life, his memories. And that was a lie. How is that possible?
- Eddie Thawne: Iris. No, don't go.
- Cobalt Crystal: They aren't gone, Eddie. They're waiting for you.
- Eddie Thawne: Tell me what to do.
- Cobalt Crystal: Accept our power. And end the legacy of Barry Allen forever.
- Eddie Thawne: You see anything unusual?
- XS: Nope, but you're the detective. Why do you think you're here? Do you think you just randomly popped up decades after you died by coincidence?
- Eddie Thawne: No. There's no such thing as a coincidence.
- XS: Then you must be here for a purpose. Maybe it has something to do with the other Thawnes. They were a pretty big deal. Or at least they were supposed to be.
- Eddie Thawne: Eobard told me that. And he was just trying to get under my skin.
- XS: And it worked, didn't it? You proved him wrong by throwing your life away. But what if you had the power to get that life back?
- Eddie Thawne: What do you mean?
- XS: The Flash get his power from the Speed Force, but there's another side of the equation, another power that spent far too long in the shadows, forced into an unnatural balance. It needs someone to stand up to the Flash. And that should be you.
- Eddie Thawne: I don't understand. Are you talking about hurting your dad?
- XS: Eddie, are you still this pathetic? Are you a waste of a man, like Eobard said? A loser, a nobody, forgotten by history? Are you still the idiot who died trying to save a man who stole his life?
- Eddie Thawne: No! I'm not.
- XS: Then show me. You know how things were supposed to be. You can have that life if you take it.
- Allegra Garcia: So you're the Barry from 2023. And you are the Cecile from 2023, but in our Cecile's body.
- Chester P. Runk: And here I thought today couldn't get any freakier.
- Barry Allen: Look, the crystal that possessed Nora, it attacked me in the past. And then it went after the team in 2023.
- Allegra Garcia: Wait, why don't we remember these attacks?
- Barry Allen: Because they're happening simultaneously across the timeline. First in the past...
- Chester P. Runk: Then in your present.
- Barry Allen: And now here, in 2049. All while charging the crystal for the new avatar. Eddie.
- Cecile Horton: That's not all. Speed Force Nora showed up in 2023. She said she was under attack and that all that remains of the Speed Force lives in your family. And then she vanished.
- XS: Big Nora's gone? Dad...
- Barry Allen: I know. Explains why we can't feel her anymore.
- Chester P. Runk: Sweet NK Jemisin. OK, all this red energy that's appearing in the sky, it's not lightning. It's the timeline starting to fracture. And it'll spread in every direction...
- Barry Allen: Until there's nothing left of the timeline at all.
- Allegra Garcia: How long do we have, Chuck?
- Chester P. Runk: I'm not sure, but at this rate of degradation, not very long.
- Barry Allen: Cecile, I still can't time travel. Can you warn the team back in 2023?
- Cecile Horton: Yeah, on it. But what do I tell the team about Eddie? Is there a chance he rejected that crystal's offer?
- XS: She's a pretty amazing person to try to forget, huh?
- Eddie Thawne: That was a long time ago.
- XS: For her. For you, it was yesterday. My mom told me a story about you guys-- that even though she was destined to be Iris West-Allen, you decided to be together anyway.
- Eddie Thawne: Screw the future.
- XS: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. I wouldn't want another singularity to open up in the Cortex.
- Eddie Thawne: What do you mean?
- XS: Those singularities that have been appearing, they're tied to your emotions. Did nobody tell you?
- Eddie Thawne: Wait. So what happened to Captain Korber, that's my fault?
- XS: You didn't mean to do it, did you?
- Eddie Thawne: Oh, my God, I got her killed. Nora, you've got to help me. There must be some way to fix this, right? A way to undo this?
- XS: I'm not sure. You thought you were Malcolm Gilmore, right? When did you first realize something was wrong?
- Eddie Thawne: I was at Mercury Labs.
- XS: Then we should start there.
- Barry Allen: No. Nora, this isn't you. It's the Negative Speed Force.
- XS: Oh, Barry. So fast, but somehow always so slow. You never figured out the most powerful form of hate is by corrupting love by twisting it into its negative.
- Barry Allen: You're not going to make me hurt her.
- XS: Either you kill your daughter, or I kill you. Both ways, I win.
- Eddie Thawne: Nora! What are you doing?
- Barry Allen: Eddie.
- XS: Eddie, I told you, we're getting your life back.
- Eddie Thawne: No, this isn't right.