They watch Jay Garrick being murdered by Zoom, watch him being dragged through the closing breach, they watch in horror. Joe West wonders what will happen now, Harrison Wells is only relieved that he has his daughter back, Iris and Eddie are horrified by what they have seen. Cisco is stunned and Caitlin, Caitlin's attention is on Barry, her boyfriend rests in her arms staring at the breach with blank eyes. The breach closes, and there is a deafening silence afterwards, a silence that is broken when Barry speaks. "We have to open the breach again." He knows he sounds weird, he feels weird, he doesn't know why he has said the words he has just said, Jay Garrick was nothing to him, and yet he doesn't want to leave someone to Zoom.
"We can't Barr. Jay threw away the device; he threw it into the breach. Earth 2 is closed to us." Joe replies, worrying over the tone of Barry's voice.
Barry shifts slightly in his girlfriend's arms, so that he can face his foster-father. His voice is adamant. "We have to try. We can't leave Jay to Zoom, those two have been fighting for a long time. If anything, Zoom's going to do worse things to Jay than he ever did to me."
Joe looks at his son, and then at Harrison, then tentatively says. "Barr, Jay's dead. Zoom just killed him."
Barry stares at his foster-father not comprehending the words he says, though he is quite sure he saw what happened as well. "We don't know that for certain, he could still be alive, we've got to try."
Joe looks hesitantly at his son and then at Harrison, who speaks firmly. "Zoom killed Garrick Allen, we all saw it, and there's not a chance we can save him now."
Barry stares at Harrison Wells, remembering what he'd learned from his brother and Iris on Earth 2, what he'd learned about himself and Killer Frost, he tightens his grip on Caitlin then, holding her close, determined not to let her get away. He looks at the man and growls. "SO is that it then? Are we simply going to accept that Zoom is going to rule over Earth 2, like some sort of monster? And we're not going to try and find out what happened to Jay?"
"Garrick is dead, Allen. Accept it and move on." Harrison Wells responds sharply.
Barry stares at Wells, feeling a surge of anger move through him, an anger he cannot quite explain, he did not really like Garrick, but the man was part of his team, and God, it wasn't supposed to be this hard! He turns back to Caitlin, then he hears Cisco ask. "What do we do now?"
"We move on with our lives." Harrison Wells replies.
Barry whirls around then. "That's easy enough for you to say. You've got your daughter back. But what about the people of your Earth? They're going to have to deal with Zoom's reign of terror now, and you don't even want to help them?"
"I can't help them Allen!" Harrison Wells replies. "I'm not Jay, I'm not you. Neither of you could stop him, what use could I possibly be?"
Suddenly that makes him snap, Barry breaks out of Caitlin's embrace, and flashes over to Wells, he holds the man by the scruff of his shirt, his anger flowing through him. "Then you are a coward." He throws the man down against a wall, and flashes out of the room, breathing heavily when he stops. He does not know how long he stands wherever he is, but he suddenly feels a hand on his shoulder, he turns and he finds himself looking at Caitlin. She holds out her arms to him, and like a child he moves into her embrace, burying his face into her curls, he whispers. "It's not fair Cait. We came so close, so close to succeeding, and then Zoom had to do that."
"I know Barry, I know." Caitlin whispers soothingly into her boyfriend's chest, that his eyes had flashed momentarily red when he'd gone against Harrison, she does not say, instead she looks up into his eyes and asks. "What is this really about Barry? I know you didn't quite like Jay, so why is this hitting you so hard?" Jay was dying anyway, but she wants to know, needs to know what is bothering her boyfriend so.
Barry takes a deep breath, he knows that what he is going to say will be painful for his girlfriend, how could it not? And so he takes another breath, then speaks. "It's like Ronnie all over again. Ronnie was a part of our team, he did something for us all that day, and then he died. Some damned speedster cost him his life, and you, your chance at a happy ending. Jay died because he was helping us, he was helping me. I don't know what to think or feel anymore. I just feel empty now. And now Earth 2 has been left to Zoom, I can't let that stand Cait, I just can't."
Caitlin takes a shuddering breath, Ronnie is a wound that might never heal, but she loves Barry deeply, even if she hasn't told him yet, she loves him and she doesn't want him in harm's way. "But we can't get to Earth 2, Barry, you heard Joe, the breaches are all closed."
Barry sighs. "I know. And that's what's killing me, I can't do anything at all, for the people on that Earth. Zoom controls their fates now." He thinks of his brother and Iris on Earth 2, and closes his eyes.
Caitlin takes her boyfriend's hand and says. "Whatever happens now, we're in it together Barry. Don't forget that. Jay might be gone, but the rest of us aren't. we are here, and we are always going to be here."
Barry pulls Caitlin to him then, thinking of Killer Frost, and the hurt and anger within her eyes and he whispers. "I know Cait." He hesitates then whispers. "I love you."
