- [reading a newspaper front page in the Time Vault]
- Cisco Ramon: "Flash missing. Vanishes in crisis."
- Barry Allen: "After an epic street battle with The Reverse-Flash, our city's very own Scarlet Speedster disappeared in an explosion of light."
- Caitlin Snow: Barry, look at the date.
- Barry Allen: April 25, 2024. Guys, w-when I fought The Reverse-Flash at Christmas, he said that we'd be fighting for centuries.
- Caitlin Snow: Wait, you can't really think that this is from... the future.
- Cisco Ramon: That would mean Dr. Wells, whoever he is, is also...
- Barry Allen: From the future.
- Cisco Ramon: I have to say, I'm really digging the brighter red suit. And the white on the symbol? That's dope. Wait a second. Suppose we now change the color on your suit. Will it be because we got the idea from this picture? That would mean we're living in a causal nexus. This - wow - this is so trippy, like, Marty and the Polaroid trippy.
- Caitlin Snow: Not as trippy as the name on the byline.
- Barry Allen: Iris West-Allen?
- Cisco Ramon: Mazel tov?
- Barry Allen: You know Dr. Wells?
- Gideon: [voice] Yes.
- Barry Allen: Do you know who he really is?
- Gideon: [voice] I don't understand the question.
- Barry Allen: I... I mean, what is he doing here? W-why did he come here?
- Gideon: To kill you.
- Detective Eddie Thawne: Iris Thawne. It sounds pretty good, huh?
- Barry Allen: I have a feeling she's gonna want to hyphenate.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: [to Barry, who is in a comatose state] You look so young. And I could kill you, right now, so easy.
- [lifts and vibrates hand, then backs away]
- Dr. Harrison Wells: What I wouldn't have given... Oh, all those times before I've had you like this, so helpless, but Fate... Fate's tricky, isn't it? I come here to destroy you, and then to get home I have to be the one who creates you. Huh. But I will say, it's been an education, watching you grow up all these years - science fairs and soccer games - no hint, no sign, no trace of the man you will be one day - for whom I have nothing but hate. And to be clear, nothing is forgiven. There will be a reckoning, I promise you, Barry Allen, then you will die.
- Detective Eddie Thawne: You might as well take that mask off. I know it's you, Wells, or whoever you really are.
- Reverse-Flash: Well, allow me to introduce myself.
- [removes mask]
- Dr. Harrison Wells: My name is Eobard. Eobard Thawne.
- Detective Eddie Thawne: I don't understand. Why do you have my name?
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Why? Well, 'cause we're family, Eddie.
- Detective Eddie Thawne: Funny, I haven't seen you at any reunions or weddings.
- Dr. Harrison Wells: That is funny, and the reason for that is because, as far as those guest lists are concerned, I haven't been born yet.
- Detective Eddie Thawne: So that's why you didn't kill me that night at S.T.A.R. Labs? This whole thing - it's been about me?
- Dr. Harrison Wells: Not a chance. You, my friend, are simply my insurance.
- Gideon: [voice] Good evening, Barry Allen.
- Barry Allen: Uh... H-hi. You know who I am?
- Gideon: [voice] Of course. Barry Allen, director of Central City Police, CSI Division.
- Barry Allen: Director?
- Cisco Ramon: I guess you get a promotion.
- Gideon: [voice] Also known as The Flash. Founding member of...
- Barry Allen: What are you?
- Gideon: [voice] I'm Gideon, an interactive artificial consciousness.
- Cisco Ramon: A.I. Sick.