The Flash (TV Series)

The Speed of Thought (2021)

Kayla Compton: Allegra Garcia

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• Cisco Ramon : Okay. Refocusing! So Chester's away at Grandma Runks, but lucky for us, he's been science-ing in between bingo rounds, and he seems to think there are two problems we need to solve if we wanna open our portal. Problem number one...

  [about to write on the board] 

  Barry Allen : You haven't found the method to reconfigure the molecular stability of the dimensional barrier that damages the organic matter?

  Cisco Ramon : Yeah. Yeah, that's right. How did you know that?

  Barry Allen : I saw you write it.

  Cisco Ramon : No, you didn't.

  Barry Allen : I thought I did.

  Cisco Ramon : I was about to. But you guessed right. Eva used Ramsey's blood to tackle that problem and open her portal. Unfortunately for us, without a replacement for Ramsey's evil sentient goo, we're kind of up a creek. So that brings us to problem number two...

  Barry Allen : Quantum entanglement from reverse Higgs boson particles disrupts the geospatial algorithm, preventing us from locating people in the Mirrorverse. Meaning we have to know Kamilla, Singh, and Iris's location in order to pull them out.

  Cisco Ramon : [puzzled]  You freaky.

  Allegra Garcia : [walking in]  I know where they'll be. Iris sent a message to Kamilla and Singh in the Mirrorverse telling them to meet in the Speed Lab tonight. Don't ask me how I got it, 'cause I have no idea.

  Barry Allen : Iris's neural pathways have likely achieved an equilibrium with the harmonic frequency contained within the fractalized dimension plane.

  Cisco Ramon : [to Allegra]  He freaky.

• Allegra Garcia : So he's, what, a genius now?

  Cisco Ramon : No, I'm a genius. My guy's on a whole other level. His neurons are firing at super speed. Synaptic connections are off the charts. The quantum computers can't even keep up processing his results.

  Barry Allen : The Artificial Speed Force.

  Cisco Ramon : The Artificial fracking Speed Force. It didn't just give you your old powers back, it gave you a new one. Enhanced cognition by way of a Speed Force booster shot!

  Allegra Garcia : Huh?

  Cisco Ramon : Barry can think fast now.

  Allegra Garcia : Cool. How fast?

  Cisco Ramon : Let's find out, shall we?

  [opening a box] 

  Cisco Ramon : Lady and gentleman, this... is a Quantum Ball. Trademark pending. Ever heard of it? Of course you haven't, but you will.

• Cisco Ramon : Mark my words, one day, Quantum Ball, trademark pending, will be the world's next great sporting event. You see, this little sphere amplifies kinetic energy, firing in directions that can only be described as "unpredictable," but not for you. Your enhanced cognition should let you analyze every variable in every scenario... and predict the unpredictable. Barry Allen... places, please. Call it.

  Allegra Garcia : Eh, eh. No cheating. Turn around.

  Barry Allen : [turning around and raising his hand]  Ready.

  [Cisco throws the Quantum Ball] 

  Barry Allen : Wall, lamp, pipe, conduit, duck. Now!

  [they duck, and he catches it] 

  Barry Allen : I have superspeed thinking. I know how to open a portal to the Mirrorverse.

• Cisco Ramon : What do you mean we have to choose?

  Barry Allen : Simply put, the longer the person is in the Mirrorverse, the more dark matter photons are required to pull them out. Kamilla and Singh have been trapped for less time. Therefore, they can be retrieved together. With Iris, it would take everything we have to retrieve her.

  Allegra Garcia : Well, there's gotta be another way.

  Frost : Barry, what's your speed brain tell you?

  Barry Allen : We have to choose. Kamilla and Singh or Iris. It is the only way.

  Frost : How the hell are we supposed to do that?

  Allegra Garcia : I guess we vote?

  Frost : On this?

  Allegra Garcia : I don't know, dude. Do you know another way to be fair?

  Frost : [sardonic laugh]  This is beyond screwed up. But if this is the only way... who thinks we should save Iris?

  [Barry raises his hand] 

  Frost : And Kamilla and Singh?

  [she, Cisco, and Allegra, reluctantly, raise their hands] 

  Allegra Garcia : Sorry, Barry. Gotta go with the numbers.

• Cecile Horton : You're thinking about Nash. I'm sorry. Honey, I-I just... my empathic abilities, they take on a mind of their own sometimes.

  Allegra Garcia : It's okay. It's just... my dad left me before I could walk, and ever since then, anyone who's even come close to being...

  Cecile Horton : A father figure?

  Allegra Garcia : Yeah, I... I cut them out of my life before they could cut me out of theirs. That's why I pushed Nash away. Anyway, I should just get over it. He's gone.

  Cecile Horton : Only if you let him be. Did you know that the law goes way back in my family? Yeah, my, uh, my granddad was the first Black paralegal in Oklahoma, and my mom, first female independent counsel in the state of Texas. Both of them were pioneers for social justice and my heroes.

  Allegra Garcia : I'll say.

• Cisco Ramon : The babble protocols aren't just force fields and tech. It's us.

  Frost : Sorry for the tough love.

  Allegra Garcia : But we need the real you back.

  Cisco Ramon : Don't worry. We're gonna shut off the Artificial Speed Force and get your head straight.

  The Flash : You lost this fight before it even began.

• Allegra Garcia : Uh, what?

  Cisco Ramon : Yeah, repeat that. For Allegra.

  Barry Allen : All right, I'm sorry. Um... let me show you.

  [drawing on a glassboard in superspeed] 

  Barry Allen : Ramsey's unique cells created a polar covalent bond with the molecules in Eva's mirror portal. That's why she needed his blood.

  Cisco Ramon : Right, it-it formed, like, uh, a bio-friendly skin on the interdimensional barrier.

  Allegra Garcia : So, we need Ramsey's blood. We knew that.

  Barry Allen : No, we don't need it. His blood would have bonded with the electronegative particles and become dark matter photons. Those particles wouldn't just stay on the mirror portal.

  Cisco Ramon : No, they wouldn't. They'd attach themselves to Eva. Those photons are still on her. If we could collect them, we could open our portal. But it would take, like, years to develop a prototype that could do that.

  Barry Allen : [whooshing away and coming back with another board]  Not if we integrate the neural net in the Thinker's chair, synched to a nanite bridge, fed into the Tachyon Enhancer's non-reductive loop.

  Cisco Ramon : N-No, but wait, wouldn't... well... well, yeah, I-I guess... I guess that could work.

  Allegra Garcia : But isn't Eva still holed up behind McCulloch Tech's forcefield? We'll never get close to her.

  [seeing Barry's look] 

  Allegra Garcia : You're gonna bring out another board?

  Barry Allen : [whooshing away and returning with a third board]  Factoring in geographical analytics, concealment probability, these are the remaining Black Hole stash houses. There's a 97.6% chance Eva's hitting this one next.

  Cisco Ramon : [a little taken aback]  Right. Right. So that's where we go. And that's what we do. Just wish I could have seen it earlier.

  Barry Allen : This isn't on you. We wouldn't be in this mess if I'd seen through Iris' mirror duplicate sooner. Eva's not the first to use my emotions against me. Let's make sure she's the last.