INT. THE WHITE SPACE –
CONTINUOUS
Cisco is SURROUNDED BY
GURNEYS AND DOYLES – they all look at him like he’s in a zoo.
DOYLES
(in unison)
What’s wrong Cisco?
CISCO
Why do you keep asking me that?
A LIGHT BREEZE BLOWS PAST
Cisco’s face – it MOVES HIS HAIR.
CISCO
What’s going on out there?
A CRACK REVERBERATES the
White Space.
FLASH (O.S.)
I’ll kill you!
CISCO
Barry?
Another CRACK SOUNDS.
FLASH (O.S.)
Tell
me how to save my friend or you die right now!
CISCO
Oh no.
BARRY!
DOYLES
(in unison)
What’s wrong Cisco?
CISCO
What’s
wrong? You wanna know what’s wrong? My plan to save a freakshow, who didn’t even
deserve saving, failed, and now I’m stuck here with you. It should’ve worked.
On Cisco as he REALIZES.
CISCO
Why didn’t it work?
DOYLES
What’s wrong Cisco?
CISCO
Is that what you’re tryin to tell me?
On Doyles who only stare
back. Another CRACK SHAKES the White
Space.
FLASH (O.S.)
AHHH!
CISCO
What
is it about you, Doyle Fox? You drive
Barry nuts. Like, homicidal nuts. No one, not even Reverse-Flash could do
that. No one seems to want to be around
you. Even your parents left you
behind. That’s pretty extreme. No normal person could…
DING! Cisco gets it.
CISCO
Of
course. You’re not normal. You’re a meta.
FLASH (O.S.)
TELL
ME!
CISCO
And
Barry’s gonna kill you unless I stop him.
I gotta get outta here, one way or another.
Cisco stands still – OPENS
HIS HANDS – CLOSES HIS EYES.
FLASH (O.S.)
I’m not kidding Doyle!
Cisco STRAINS – his palms
begin to GLOW WITH HIS VIBES.
FLASH (O.S.)
I…WILL..KILL…YOU!
Cisco SHAKES – his PALMS
ARE FULLY ON – he SHAPES A PORTAL before him and DIVES IN.
EXT. CENTRAL CITY SQUARE –
CONTINUOUS
Cisco WAKES UP TEN FEET
FROM FALLING INTO THE STAGE.
CISCO
BARRY!
He THROWS HIS HANDS IN
FRONT OF HIM – MAKES A PORTAL on the stage and FALLS THROUGH.
Barry STOPS beating on
Doyle. He turns around to find Cisco
gone.
On the ground, Doyle is a
BLOODY MESS – BREATHING, but slowly.
FLASH
Cisco?
From behind Flash, a
PORTAL OPENS. Cisco WALKS OUT. He looks down at Doyle.
CISCO
Oh Barry…
Police RUSH ONTO the stage
and pick up Doyle. The CROWED watches
this happen in stunned silence.
Flash and Cisco stand on
stage – lost.
INT. S.T.A.R. LABS MAIN
TERMINAL
Barry walks in on Cisco
GLUED TO THE COMPUTER.
BARRY
Uh…hey.
CISCO
(without turning)
Hey.
Barry SHUFFLES around
behind Cisco – TRYING to speak but not FINDING the words.
CISCO
Doyle’s a meta.
BARRY
What?
CISCO
Not
sure what part of that is unclear. Doyle
Fox…is a metahuman.
BARRY
But
he has no powers.
CISCO
That’s
what I thought too. But I had an
epiphany when I was locked inside…me. I
think he has the ability to show people what he is…what he really is…
BARRY
What
is he?
CISCO
Evil. Pure evil.
BARRY
Come
on Cisco.
CISCO
No,
Barry, I mean it. I know it sounds
cartoony, but how else can you explain his parents abandoning him? Your anger when you’re around him. Barry, look at what we’ve seen come to life
over the past years? Aliens. Suits of armor that can make a human being
fly. When we were kids, those were
stories. Now we walk around with the
number of a guy who died and was brought back to life. Is it so far fetched to believe that true
evil is also real?
BARRY
Ok,
so what does him being pure evil do, exactly?
CISCO
It
forces the people he interacts with to deal with it. Or not.
What was it he told you? People
react to him in one of three ways?
BARRY
Yeah,
they ignore him. They dismiss him. Or they outright hate him.
CISCO
There
ya go.
BARRY
But
isn’t that the way people deal with anyone who has a strong personality?
CISCO
I
think presenting his true self to others is only half of what he can do. The other half is forcing them to deal with
it. Immediately. Some will just ignore it, like his parents
who treated him like a ghost. Some will
just dismiss it, like I did when I was trying to figure out how to cure
him. And some will outright hate him.
BARRY
Like
I did. Cisco, I’m so sorry.
CISCO
It’s
alright Barry. You weren’t
yourself. No one is around him.
BARRY
But
it’s not that simple. It wasn’t like I
was being mind controlled or something.
I was still mostly me. Just
angrier. I could’ve let you die, because
I wanted to hurt him more than I wanted to save you.
CISCO
Now
we know what we’re up against. And I
promise you Barry, the next time we face off against Doyle Fox, we’ll be ready.
INT. CENTRAL CITY HOSPITAL
– HALLWAY
A pair of armed CCPD
officers STAND GUARD outside the closed door of a hospital room.
INT. CENTRAL CITY HOSPITAL
– ROOM – CONTINUOUS
Inside the room, Doyle Fox
LIES ON A GURNEY. He’s bruised, in a
full body cast, but alive.
We hear a faint WHOOSH –
see the afterblow of the gust as it WAKES Doyle.
DOYLE
I knew you couldn’t resist finishing me off.
FLASH
I’m
not here to kill you. I’m here to tell
you I know what you are.
DOYLE
That’s
pretty vague.
FLASH
You’re
the storybook villain who ties a girl to the railroad tracks and twirls his
mustache.
DOYLE
Mixing
metaphors a tad, aren’t we?
FLASH
There’s
nothing more that needs to be understood about you. No tragic past. No love lost.
No life-changing accident. You’re
just bad. Rotten. And you want the whole world to know.
DOYLE
Ya
know, just because you hide who you really are from the world, doesn’t make you
a hero. It makes you a liar. Because deep down, we all want to be noticed
for what’s special inside us.
FLASH
Not
when that attention hurts others.
DOYLE
You’re
one to talk.
On Flash.
DOYLE
Of
the two of us, you’re the only one who’s used what makes him special to hurt
someone else.
FLASH
You
were gonna kill my friend.
DOYLE
You
don’t know that. You didn’t let the
trick play out.
FLASH
You’re
trick was supposed to be getting me to like you. Given how spectacularly that failed…
DOYLE
It
didn’t fail.
FLASH
You
can’t believe that I like you.
DOYLE
You
know the old saying, “there’s a thin line between love and hate?” Course you do. Everyone does. But not everyone really knows what that saying
means. But we do, don’t we?
On Flash.
DOYLE
In
that moment, when I dropped Vibe, you hated me so much you were desperate for any
reason to throttle me. And when I gave
you one, you came alive. You were
ecstatic. You could have saved your friend. You could have found the trigger. But you didn’t do either of those things,
because you didn’t want to. You wanted
me. Because I forced you to cut loose
justifiably. I let you act, without
demanding that you think. I gave you the
reason to flex your speed, without requiring you to run. In that moment on stage, you became a flash
too fast for itself. And isn’t that
everything a flash is meant to be?
FLASH
You’re
wrong.
DOYLE
So
quick to retort. Racing again…to be the
unquestionable hero, squaring off against the indisputable villain.
FLASH
I’m
not here for a discussion. I came to
tell you that I messed up before. Let
you get to me. But now that I know what
you are, I can find a way to stop you.
DOYLE
Without
killing me?
FLASH
Yes.
DOYLE
Well,
good luck with that Flash. You may have
shifted what happens in the future, but you haven’t changed anything. So long as I’m alive, Central City’s days are
numbered. And if there’s one thing you
can’t outrun…it’s the future.
END OF EPISODE
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