The Flash (TV Series)

The Fire Next Time (2022)

Grant Gustin: Barry Allen, The Flash

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• Jaco Birch : Flash, you gotta do something. I know this is all my fault. You and everyone in this city, my son, he can't die because of me. You gotta save him.

  The Flash : No, you have to save him. Look, I've got an idea. If it works, there'll be a huge release of pressure forming beneath us. When that happens, I need you to absorb the remaining heat.

  Jaco Birch : I've never done anything like that before.

  The Flash : You can do this. I know you can.

• Frost : You don't see that everyday. Not that I'm complaining, but how'd you do that?

  The Flash : I phased into the water table under the city and then released it directly released it into the lava channel. I stopped the meltdown, but not the massive heat exchange that was being released - one I couldn't stop it, but Birch could. Otherwise, everybody within a ten block radius...

  Frost : Would've been fried like a bananas foster in the French Quarter. Mark and I are goin' to Mardi Gras next year.

• Jaco Birch : Wait, so, saving hundreds of lives...

  The Flash : Try thousands.

  Jaco Birch : Saving that many lives is what I just did?

  The Flash : Yeah. Looks like you're the father Harold deserves after all.

• Chester P. Runk : The Hotness did this? I thought it was all about the moolah, not cold-blooded murder. Plus, how did he kill someone without burning the half the place down?

  Barry Allen : Looks like we're not the only ones who leveled up this year.

• Joe West : That looks familiar. Been what, seven, eight years since I've seen this board? Except the last time, it was covered with photos of a different man. Cecile told me what happened. The team is worried about you.

  Barry Allen : No, they don't have to be. I'm fine.

  Joe West : No, you're not. They don't know what today is. I do. February 1 - Henry's birthday. I remember when he was turning 45, and your mom threw that surprise birthday. The whole block showed up, and you were baking cupcakes for weeks, and when the big night came, before he could even take off his coat, the pager went off.

  Barry Allen : They actually needed him. Had to miss his own party.

  Joe West : And you were disappointed. Of course. But you understood. He was helping save people's lives, right?

  Barry Allen : Yeah.

  Joe West : But Henry, he was crushed. He was worried that he was missing all these moments with you and your mom. But I told him, "Those cupcakes might be stale now. But you'll have more birthdays for both of them."

  Barry Allen : Oh, there were. That was the last one before it happened.

  [remembers the night of his father's arrest] 

  Barry Allen : Joe, the look in my dad's eyes that night... It was the same look in Birch's eyes when they arrested him. Look of an innocent man... desperate not to lose his son... Begging someone to believe him.

  Joe West : And you do?

  Barry Allen : Yeah, I do. I just keep thinking about all the time my dad lost. All the birthdays we spent, separated by plexiglass. I can't let Birch and his son go through that if he's innocent.

• The Flash : Birch, your heating abilities, they're connected to the Earth beneath wherever you're standing.

  Jaco Birch : Uh, yeah, science is not my strong suit. But, yeah, okay. I'll buy that for a dollar.

  Frost : He means emotionally.

  Jaco Birch : Ooh... right.