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[Nora] Dad, please...

I wanted to tell you...

Dad, I'm sorry I lied to you. I tried to tell you.

[Iris West] It's Nora, our daughter.

[Barry] She lied to us, Iris.

Since the first day she got here, about Thawne.

She knows what he did to us. To me.

To my mother.

We can't believe a word she says.

-We don't know that. -Yes, we do!

We don't even know why she's working with him.

That's the pressing question, is it not?

Why Nora is working with the Reverse-Flash?

Maybe I can talk to her and shed some light on the matter--

I think you've shed enough light.

What, you're upset at me?

What I should do? I should not have told you?

How long has it been since you suspected her?

Since I arrived.

Wow.

So you've been following this trail all this time,

and you didn't think to tell us about it until now.

I don't know where this trail leads.

Are you kidding me?

I'm not kidding you.

Don't come to a conclusion without facts, all the facts.

Shirley, I think, uh...

Maybe you should just gives us all a minute here.

What, you're mad at me for doing what a master detective does?

Figure out something that you cannot.

I gave you that translation. Your anger is misplaced.

Look, whatever reason Nora didn't tell us,

I don't think she did it maliciously.

Guys, even from here, I can feel how upset she is.

All right, babe, you've been around Nora for months.

You never felt that she was hiding something before?

No. Never.

Never.

Well, Thawne lied.

He was a master at it.

It stands to reason he must've taught Nora some of his same tricks.

Maybe. Maybe not.

There's got to be some way to figure it out.

There is.

I'm guessing this has everything from the day she arrived.

Maybe before.

Read it.

From the beginning.

[man] Please stand back from the perimeter...

[Nora] Excuse me. Sorry.

Uh, excuse me. Pardon me.

[electronic voice] Incoming call from Mom.

Mom, come on.

Ooh! [gasps]

I'm so sorry.

I just... I'm really late. I'm really late for an important date.

Not a "date" date.

Not that I don't "date" date. I "date" date.

I just... I have a meeting. I'm making myself later. Sorry.

Anyone seen CSI?

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

[Detective Curtis] Where is West-Allen?

I'm so sorry, Detective Curtis. I didn't mean to be late.

I tried to hail a hover-taxi,

but they kept passing me by, and then I had to run all the way from--

I really don't care what your reason is this time, West-Allen.

I just want to find what meta did this.

Of course.

Chemical transport truck on its way to Dayton Labs

was attacked earlier this morning.

But that makes

two labs and another two transports this week.

And like the others, no one saw anyone.

Well, there's residue everywhere.

[electronic voice] Benzene methanol.

That's what they stole.

What's that used for?

Anything from nanotech to treating lice.

[electronic voice] Halothane.

Halothane?

Wait a second.

What?

This truck has an Affinity 4,000 security camera.

God, Lia's gonna be so jealous.

Whenever the 4,000's tampered with,

its fail-safe releases an incapacitating agent, halothane.

So you're saying whoever did this picked the lock, disabled the camera,

and stole what might be lice medicine,

all before this incapacitating agent could do its job?

And no one saw them.

How is that possible?

[Lia] A speedster?

Nora, lab-mate, friend of mine,

you didn't happen to pitch your speedster theory

to Detective Curtis, did you?

It is not a theory, Lia.

It is the only explanation.

[device trilling]

You know I'm equally a fan of our fleet-footed super-friends.

I mean, honestly, if I could've ever met Jesse Quick,

it's like, hello, new best friend. [chuckles]

No offense.

-Some taken. -Okay.

But there hasn't been a speedster in Central City

since that Crisis piece your mom wrote about, like, decades ago.

I mean Flash, Kid Flash, Jay Garrick,

that weird purple speedster that just showed up one day...

They're all gone.

So what you're suggesting...

Highly unlikely.

Then we need to start believing in the highly unlikely.

Alternatively, you could...

[clears throat] Dial back your obsessiveness.

I'm not obsessive.

You never got to know your dad.

So you became a CSI, just like him.

And it's why you keep investigating

the one case Barry Allen never solved.

Cicada.

You call that obsessive. I call that a hobby.

Right. Your, um, classic everyday

murder-hobby.

[Lia chuckles]

It's like your mom says, "You're... You're excessive."

Do not quote my mother.

God, I wish CCPD would spring for one of these Affinity cameras.

I mean, trillion FPS. Captures light in motion...

W-T-Shrap?

[Nora] That's lightning.

[Lia] The canister's gone.

White lightning. A speedster.

Okay, maybe.

No, not maybe. It is! I knew it!

Okay, fine, you're right, but...

But what is a speedster doing stealing chemicals?

[Dexter Myles on PA] And Eobard Thawne, AKA the Reverse-Flash,

was finally defeated and incarcerated and will remain in Iron Heights Prison

for the rest of his days.

I know.

[device trills]

[electronic voice] Incoming call from Mom.

[sighs]

See? I knew it.

There was never a speedster with white lightning.

-All yours. -Thanks.

[Dexter Myles] Thank you for visiting the Flash Museum today.

The building will be closing in five minutes.

All guests should make their way to the exit now.

And, Nora West-Allen, your mother called.

Please, for your sake and mine, call her back.

[Nora] So embarrassing.

Mom, why are you calling Mr. Myles?

[Iris West] I tried you at your lab. You weren't answering.

I left three messages. You never returned any of them.

What else was I supposed to do?

Wait for me to call you back.

Why isn't your holo on?

Uh, it doesn't work in the Flash Museum.

For the life of me, I've never understood your obsession with that place.

What are you even doing there? Are you there alone?

It's fine, Mom. I'm researching a case.

What kind of case?

One that I can't talk about.

I'm your mother, Nora.

And I'm an employee of CCPD who can't talk about open cases.

Mom, how many times do I have to tell you this?

You were married to a CSI.

Yes, I was.

[sighs]

I'm sorry.

What were you calling about?

I thought my daughter might want to know how I'm doing in Coast City.

I've almost finished my story. I should be home in a few days.

Great.

[device trilling]

Uh, Mom, I got to go. It's work.

Love you.

Love you.

Hey.

[Lia] Hey, meet me at Ollins Laboratory.

I sent the list of stolen chemicals to an old teacher of mine,

and I think he found something.

Appreciate the help, Dr. Bonwit,

especially at this hour.

Not a problem.

Ollins never lets me leave this place anyway.

So Lia was telling me

you might know how these chemicals can be used together.

Yes and no.

Took me a bit to see it, but the only way they seem to work together

is if they're built on a structure,

like an extracellular matrix.

But there are thousands of extracellular matrices.

So, until we know all the chemicals, we won't know the end result.

Sorry I can't help more.

It's okay. Thanks, Dr. Bonwit.

-[sighs] -Now what?

We can't just wait for another lab to get hit.

-Holy shrap! -Holy shrap!

[both panting]

Dr. Bonwit!

Oh, my God.

[man] Yes. I am a god.

The God of Speed.

Go, go, go!

[Nora yells]

Nora!

Nora...

Aah!

Somebody help, please!

-Someone help! -[electricity crackling]

-["Poker Face" playing] -[muffled] Nora?

♪ Can't read my Can't read my... ♪

Nora?

♪ ...poker face ♪

[gasps] Oh, I knew an oldie would wake you up.

-Okay, don't freak. -[music stops]

We're in a hospital.

Me for this burn and you

for a whole lot more.

Dr. Bonwit?

ICU. But he's gonna pull through.

But the speedster did get away with a crazy amount of carbon disulfide.

-[sighs] -Don't worry about that right now.

How are you feeling?

I... I feel fine actually.

My fingers are a little tingly,

but, other than that, I feel really good.

It's weird, right?

I'm just so glad you're okay.

Your doctor said you got hit with five billion joules of electricity,

which means, um...

I... I, uh, kind of called your mom.

And she freaked more than normal. Um...

-[sighs] -I had to.

You could've died.

Lia, is she here?

She's on her way from Coast City.

And she's wearing her aggro pants.

I mean, she has called me, like, 47 times.

You should've ignored her. I just... I don't want her to worry.

I did,

which is why she doesn't know about this.

The paramedics said that you went into cardiac arrest

when you got here, and so they had to use the defib nodes

to restart your heart, and when they did,

they found this.

It was buried underneath the scar under your right shoulder.

What is it?

They say it's a metal scrap from the shelf you got thrown into, but...

I don't know. It looks kind of old and pretty fried.

Okay, wait. But now that we both know you're okay,

can we please talk about the fact

that you got struck by lightning from a speedster?

So schway, right? The only thing is, no one's going to believe us.

We both saw it. They're gonna have to.

[AI] Stay calm. There has been an incident.

-System check in progress. -[gasping]

-[beeping] -[electrical crackling]

What the hell?

[Lia] Catch this.

[gasps]

I'm okay.

-You sure? -[exhales]

Yeah, dude.

I'm a speedster.

All of my nerves are tingling.

And my synapses must be going crazy

because my reaction times are way off the charts.

What am I gonna do about my mom?

She freaks out any time someone even says the word "meta."

Okay, well, that's understandable.

I mean, her non-meta husband died because of metas.

Yeah, but writing about the Flash, the meta-human, made her career.

-So we can't tell her? -No.

We can't tell anybody. Not until we figure out

how I got these powers.

And I don't think it's a coincidence that this happened

after my little run-in with the God of Speed guy.

You mean, when "Godspeed" hit you with his lightning,

which, according to the Flash Museum, is exactly what happened to

-the Flash. -The Flash.

-[devices chime] -[AI] 10-90 in progress.

Bank heist.

-Huh. -No. No. You can't do that.

That is a bad idea. That is like "cut your own bangs" bad.

I'm just gonna do a little run-by.

You're a CSI, not a superhero.

Our jobs are the same as the cops.

We get the bad guys.

All right.

Go get them, Flash Woman.

-[laughs] -Lady Flash. Hot Flash.

-Not that one. -Okay.

We're gonna workshop that later.

Until then,

I have to guard Central City.

Ahh!

Stop, or I'll fire!

Keep your hands where I can see them!

[guard grunting]

Oh! Um...

I'm sorry. Are you okay?

-[guns cocking] -[officer] Freeze!

Oh. Uh...

[officers grunting]

What in the world?

[officer 1] Bug and Byte, you're under arrest!

-[officer 2] Go, go, go. -[officer 3] Take 'em down!

[gasping]

You fried your gauntlet and half the fleet.

It was only three cruisers.

Now Captain Frye is gonna be on his warpath,

which is gonna make everybody's life miserable.

[sighs]

I'm sorry, Nora. I know today didn't exactly go so great.

Both robbers got away because of me.

Cut yourself a slice of slack-pie.

It was your first day.

No one got hurt, and, plus, they found Bug and Byte

hunched over with runners' cramps, like, ten minutes later.

But I still feel so bad.

[Lia] You're looking at this all wrong.

Today was not Nora's big failure.

Today was the Femme-Flash's big debut.

Naming superheroes is not easy.

[both laugh]

Lia,

you're the best friend a shrappy speedster could ever ask for.

But I think we both know that CCPD isn't equipped to stop this guy.

The only way we're gonna catch him before anyone else gets hurt,

is if I start thinking like a villainous speedster.

And how are you going to do that?

I'm gonna go see one.

[Shinick] Reverse-Flash, huh? Well, Officer,

you're like the second person in 15 years who's come to visit this psychopath.

Not even a call.

Are you sure you want to interview him by yourself?

I've been alone with criminals before.

Mmm.

You have five minutes.

[lock clicks]

Eobard Thawne?

My name is Nora West-Allen,

and I'm a CSI tech with the CCPD.

I wanted to ask you a few questions if I could.

Come closer,

Nora West-Allen.

Don't be afraid.

The dampening capabilities of this cell can negate

the powers of 1,000 meta-humans.

The glass, the walls,

ceiling, the floors are all connected to a power energizer

that will zap this place with 400 kilojoules instantly,

should the dampeners fail,

making the cell phase-proof.

I couldn't hurt you, Nora West-Allen,

even if I wanted to.

What are your questions?

How did you end up in here?

Was there nobody at CCPD that could answer that question for you?

All the files pertaining to the Reverse-Flash

have been cyber-locked.

And there's almost nothing about you in the Flash Museum,

except for the date of your imprisonment.

Really?

That's all there is in the Flash Museum? That's interesting.

Will you tell me how you were defeated?

Why do you want to know that?

It'll help us with an investigation.

You need to work on your lying,

Nora.

Your shoes are new,

but your soles are worn.

You have singe marks on your sleeves

and singe marks on your pant legs, but, most of all,

your cheeks are flush with wind burn.

Oh, I know that wind burn.

I can still feel it.

You're a speedster.

[door beeps and opens]

Time's up.

Please, I need your help.

[guard] Come on. Let's go.

Time to repent, Professor.

[yelling]

[sighs]

Thawne figured out I had powers,

but he wouldn't tell me anything about them.

What?

And don't tell me it's nothing

'cause your whole face says it's something.

You know this metal fragment they found underneath your shoulder?

Yeah?

Well, something about it was bugging me. So I did some digging.

It turns out it's not from that shelf you got thrown into.

It's tech.

A chip made by S.T.A.R. Labs 25 years ago.

Like a chip you would use to find a lost animal?

It's to dampen your speed.

What?

You didn't get your powers when Godspeed hit you with his lighting.

It looks like you've always had them.

[stammers] I've always had powers?

What? Who?

Who would put a power dampening chip inside of...

Your mom lied to you your whole life.

I mean, that's next level aggro.

How could she keep something like that from me?

I mean, what else has she lied to me about?

I think you're gonna have to ask her.

Oh, just the idea of that makes my blood boil.

That could be the macchiato. It's possible I might've made that a triple.

[both laugh]

At least I have one person in my life I can still trust.

A triple?

That's been established.

No, not the coffee. I mean, yes, the coffee,

but the chemicals that Godspeed stole.

Benzene methanol is unstable,

and if you add the carbon disulfide that he stole from Ollins Lab--

Kablooey! I remember that from ninth grade analytical chem.

And the only way to combine all those chemicals together

is if you add some kind of binding property.

Right. You'd need a plus-one oxidation state,

like dioxygen difluoride.

Yes, and somewhere that's able to store that.

And the only place in Central City that can

is Stagg Industries.

I cannot believe my first time at Stagg Industries is as a burglar.

Or are we vigilantes?

Lia, I found it.

[both grunting]

Unless your super speed came with super biceps,

we are not getting this out of here.

[Godspeed] That's mine.

[Lia gasps]

Uh... Okay. Try and get this open. It'll evaporate in seconds.

If you want it, you're gonna have to come through me to get it.

[Godspeed] Ah, you're a speedster, like me.

So you need it, too. Sorry.

[Nora grunting]

[groaning]

[Godspeed growls]

No!

[sobbing] Lia!

Lia!

Lia.

Lia. [continues sobbing]

[Cecile] The one person in the world she thought she could trust

died in her arms.

Nora must have felt completely alone.

-But she wasn't. -[Iris West] Yes, she was.

Because I wasn't honest with her.

-Iris-- -After all I did,

she gave me a second chance.

It's the least we can do for her.

Mom?

Don't make me regret this.

What are you doing?

I'm giving our daughter the chance to explain this for herself.

[sighs]

Nora?

[sighs]

I heard about Lia. Honey, I'm so sorry.

I know how it is to lose someone you love.

If you don't want to talk about it right now, that's okay,

or maybe you just don't want to talk about it with me.

Nora, can I just

make sure that you're okay?

Nora, I went to the hospital, and they said that you left.

I guess lightning doesn't hurt as much

when you already have it coursing through your veins.

Does this look familiar?

How about now?

-Nora-- -Lia found it before she died.

You put this inside of me, Mom.

To dampen my powers?

You lied to me my whole life.

I know.

Who else knows?

Who else?

Everyone.

Everybody?

Everyone that I love has been keeping this from me?

Why?

Because I told them to.

Why would you do that?

Nora, I was trying to protect you.

-From what? -From this city.

From meta-humans. From... From...

Yourself.

[scoffs] Wow.

Nora, you don't understand.

No, I don't understand.

How did I get my powers? What do you have against speedsters?

Nora, I have already lost so much.

I can't risk losing you, too.

Well,

you just did.

[crying quietly]

[footsteps approach]

[Detective Curtis] I'm gonna miss Lia, too.

West-Allen, we all know how close you two were.

If you need some time off, I'm sure Captain Frye--

We need to get the guy who did this.

Whatever it takes.

We ran the evidence from the crime scene.

Turns out there was foreign DNA in Lia's exit wound.

But we've used it to positively ID this guy.

[Nora] August Heart. Bio-hacker.

Mercury Labs intern, and then grad school.

All yours.

[Detective Curtis] It says he was kicked out

for testing tachyon stimulants on coma patients.

What the hell's a tachyon?

A particle that moves faster than light.

Well, an arrest warrant is on its way now.

I promise you, this guy's gonna get what he deserves.

Yes, he will.

[Dexter Myles on PA] Did you know not all villains had meta-human powers?

Some--

[Zoom] Make sure you get this.

[Joe] Everybody move!

Godspeed's lightning...

It turned blue, just like Zoom's.

Wait a sec.

[Dexter Myles] Although her body disintegrated,

authorities uncovered evidence at Mercury Labs

of the illegal speed enhancement drug Velocity-9.

This volatile stimulant gave Trajectory incredible speed,

but at a deadly price.

That's it.

Benzene methanol,

carbon disulfide,

dioxygen difluoride.

The base for the extracellular matrix for Velocity-9.

Only he's trying to make one that'll last forever.

-[electricity crackling] -[Eobard yelling]

[Shinick chuckling]

-[Eobard coughing] -[whooshing]

How do I stop a speedster?

-You can't. -Not alone.

But with you, I can.

[exhales]

No. [sniffles]

That plinth, it takes incoming calls.

And from what I hear, you have a few left.

You could walk me through it via comms.

-[spits] No. -He has stolen

enough chemicals to make an extracellular matrix

-that replicates speed powers. -[coughs] I told you to leave.

The only thing that is stopping him from becoming a speedster permanently

is a stabilizing agent.

Once he gets that, he will be unstoppable.

I told you to leave!

-Guard! -Please.

He killed my best friend, in front of me.

[sobs] She's gone because of him.

And you are the only person that can stop it.

What the hell?

You need to leave now.

[grunts]

Nora.

[exhales]

Okay.

I'm at the innovation lab at CCU. Are you there?

Yes, I'm here.

[Nora] Okay.

Are you sure this is gonna short out the scanner circuits?

Yes, I'm sure. Vibrate your hands together, build an electric shock.

Okay.

Schway! It worked.

[Eobard] Now look for the brightest room.

The converter needs constant fluorescent light.

Now, locate the biometric converter.

It'll be a kidney-shaped object.

I think I found it.

[gas hissing]

No way for Godspeed to stabilize this Velocity-9 now.

[Godspeed] You don't learn, do you?

[exhales sharply]

That's mine.

Come and get it.

It worked!

[panting]

No. He's got more V-9.

[grunts]

[yelling]

[breathes heavily]

Nora, you need to get out of there now.

Right now!

I can't lose him!

Thawne?

Did you hear me? I said I can't lose him!

All right, Nora, do you see any walls near where you are? Preferably concrete.

Why?

Because I want you to run into one,

or rather through one.

I can't run through a concrete wall!

Yes, you can.

If you vibrate at the natural frequency of air,

your body, your cells, will be in such a state

they will phase right through that wall.

I can't do this.

Nora,

listen to me.

Listen to my voice.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Feel the wind

on your face,

the ground beneath your feet,

and the lightning,

its electricity surging through your veins

to your nerve-endings from the crown of your head

to the tips of your toes,

like an electric shock you never want to end.

You're part of something greater now, Nora.

You're part of the Speed Force and its power.

Its power is yours to use. Now do it!

[panting]

I can't.

I can't do it.

Then goodbye, little runner.

No, no...

I'm sorry. I trust you.

What now?

Nora,

you can't run forever.

You're going to have to stop him.

Tell me what you see around you.

I'm on 5th and Park. I see Choi Enterprises,

the Peercoin Bank, and CC Citizen Media.

Media. The satellites.

Nora, we're gonna use the satellites' electromagnetic radiation

to break the V-9 bonds, flood Godspeed with anti-endorphins.

Neutralizing the V-9 instantly.

Exactly, but here's the thing. Those satellites re-calibrate on the hour,

emitting short bursts of microwave energy.

You're only gonna have a few seconds

to get Godspeed in front of those bursts. Do you understand?

So I just need him to follow me into the building?

Not into the building.

Up the building.

Uh, okay. I can do that.

Um, how fast do I have to go to run up a building?

As fast as you can.

Here he comes.

Then run, Nora.

Run.

Wait for it, Nora. Wait.

And now!

[Godspeed screaming]

Nora?

Nora?

We did it!

We did it.

Yes, we did.

[Nora] Well, we don't have to worry about Godspeed anymore.

August Heart is in the custody of CCPD.

Bravo, little runner.

I still have a lot to learn, you know.

-You could train me. -I can't train you, Nora.

There's just not enough time.

What? What are you talking about? You're--

Nora,

my time on this Earth is coming to an end.

There's so much I wanted to ask you.

So much that I still don't know, so much that my mom has lied to me about.

[Eobard] Hmm.

You have no idea.

What do you know?

Thawne, please. You may be the only person left in my life who won't lie to me.

Nora,

how much do you really know about the Flash?

Four, five, six, seven...

[gasps]

Holy shrap!

[chuckles softly]

[gasping softly]

Good evening, Nora West-Allen.

Um...

Hi. Uh...

You know who I am?

Of course. Nora West-Allen,

daughter of Iris West and Barry Allen,

also known as the Flash.

[stammering]

Did you...

Did you just say

my father, Barry Allen,

was the Flash?

Would you like me to play your video message, Nora West-Allen?

My... My message?

Yes. From your father, Barry Allen.

Y... Yes.

Nora,

I don't have much time.

[electrical crackling]

If you're watching this,

it means you're like me.

-[panting] -[muffled people shouting]

You have powers.

It also means I wasn't there to help you learn how to use them.

I wasn't there for a lot of things.

Remember...

My sweet Nora,

always remember...

I love you.

I always will.

[man] Get down!

[breath trembling]

[sniffs]

I just wanted to see you, Dad.

Thawne showed me how.

And Cicada?

The one case we both couldn't solve.

It was my idea to come here and make it right.

Okay.

Can I have a minute alone with Nora?

Of course.

How many times did you go back to Thawne?

-How many times? -After the night of the Enlightenment.

Five, uh...

Maybe six.

[sighs]

Even knowing he killed my mother?

-Dad-- -I understand

coming back to meet me

and the team.

I do.

I even understand going to Thawne

to learn how to do it, but...

You kept going back.

Even after you knew what he did,

even after he wasn't your only option anymore.

And the worst part is, you lied to us every time.

-Dad, I-- -I don't trust you, Nora.

I can't have anybody here

with us that I don't trust anymore.

Wait. What are you saying?

It's time for you to go home.

[panting] Dad, please don't do this.

I promise I'll never see Thawne again.

Dad, don't do this!

Nora, if you try to run back in time again,

I will feel it in the Speed Force.

I'll know.

Goodbye, Nora.

[gasping]

So she finally came clean.

Or did you figure it out all by yourself?

One wasn't enough?

You had to try to take my daughter from me, too?

My daughter!

I knew you'd react like this.

Always so emotional, which is why I had her keep all of this from you.

You can't blame the little runner, Barry.

She just wanted to spend some time with her dad.

Don't hold that against her.

Consider it a condemned man's last request.

You always thought you were so much smarter than us, Thawne.

But you lost.

And now you're finally gonna get what you deserve.