The Flash (TV Series)

Tricksters (2015)

Mark Hamill: James Jesse, The Trickster

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Quotes 

• Axel Walker : There's just one thing I've been dying to ask. Why did you choose me?

  James Jesse : Because I knew you had the strength to fulfill my legacy. Besides, it was in your blood.

  Axel Walker : Wait. What do you mean in... in my blood?

  James Jesse : The real reason I tracked you down and groomed you to be the best you could possibly be, Axel - I am your father.

• James Jesse : [to The Flash]  Are you familiar with the movie Speed? Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock? See, you're the bus, and that's the bomb. A kinetic bomb, actually, and if you go below 600 miles per hour, it'll explode. Same thing happens if you try to remove it. Ooh, it's active. Run, run, run, run, run.

• James Jesse : It's going to be my masterpiece, my Mona Lisa, my Breaking Bad season five.

  James Jesse : [explaining this last reference at Axel's inquisitive look]  They gave me cable in prison so I'd stop killing the guards.

• Joe West : He called himself The Trickster too, just like you.

  James Jesse : He is nothing like me, Detective. Nothing!

  Joe West : Do you know who he is?

  James Jesse : Oh. If I did, I would tell you so you could find him, cut off his head, and throw it right in his face. No, this is obviously the work of a rank amateur at best, a mere pretender angling for my throne.

• James Jesse : Well, hello. You know, I've been in prison for twenty years.

  Iris West : Then you'll know the routine when you get sent back.

• James Jesse : [the Flash vaccinates everyone in a crowd at super-speed]  That wasn't very sanitary!

• James Jesse : How many died?

  Joe West : No one, luckily.

  James Jesse : You know, when I was free and at my height, a day without casualties was like - well, like the Cubs winning the pennant. It just never happened.

• Barry Allen : The explosives I found in all the parachute bombs had the same explosive composition as the bombs you set off twenty years ago.

  James Jesse : That's impossible. I never told anyone that formula.

  Barry Allen : The signatures are an exact match.

• Joe West : Help us catch him. Prove there's only one Trickster.

  James Jesse : Trying to trick the Trickster, Joseph, hmm? No. There's only one way this could happen. Whoever he is... he must have found my lair. I ask only one thing. When you find this... schtick stealer, this gimmick grabber, this pathetic, wannabe fake... make sure your safety's off.

• Joe West : That storage space you sent us to was booby-trapped.

  James Jesse : You can never be too careful with your private things.

  Barry Allen : You were protecting nothing. Your secret stash was empty.

  James Jesse : What do you mean?

  Joe West : No firearms, none of your explosives, nothing.

  Barry Allen : Whatever you had in there, it was stolen. All of it.

  James Jesse : No. He's stealing my legacy. Whoever this is... you need to find him. I will not let this... this...

  Joe West : Trickster?

  James Jesse : That is *my* name! Mine!

  Joe West : What was in that room? What were you keeping there?

  James Jesse : A bomb. A really big bomb.

  Barry Allen : How big?

  James Jesse : Bye-bye, Central City.

• Mayor Anthony Bellows : Who are you?

  James Jesse : How quickly they forget. James Jesse, your honor.

  [removing his disguise and mussing up his hair with a maniacal cackle] 

  James Jesse : AKA the Trickster. And I'm here to relieve you fine people from all your money. Because we know if you're in this room, oh, ho, ho... you've got loads of it.

  [Axel pulls out an assault rifle] 

  Mayor Anthony Bellows : What makes you think that anyone in this room would give you a cent?

  James Jesse : Because... that champagne they just slurped down like so much fruit punch? I added a little something special to it. Trimethylmercury-32. Poison.

  [he cackles again] 

  James Jesse : Without the antidote, you'll begin to feel the effects in about, oh, um...

  Axel Walker : One hour!

  James Jesse : One hour.

  [a guest stumbles forward, foaming at the mouth] 

  James Jesse : I remember you. You got to the party about an hour early. I offered you the very first glass of champagne.

  [he cackles as the man collapses] 

  James Jesse : An hour is plenty of time for all of you to call your bankers and transfer everything you have to the account number on the bottom of your glass. Once my young friend and I are rich, you'll get the antidote. If any of you decide to call 911 instead, well...

  [he holds up a pistol] 

  James Jesse : ...then we switch to lead poisoning.

• James Jesse : [Explaining bargaining to Axel Walker]  They gave me cable

  [TV] 

  James Jesse : in prison so I would stop killing the guards.