
The revelation upends Barry's still fragile psyche, and leads him to do something impulsive and terrible. Unfortunately for Barry, Earth 3 Flash is also a doppelganger of his father, Henry Allen (John Wesley Shipp). a Jay Garrick from Earth 3, a speedster who himself is known as the Flash. All in all, it's a job well done.Īnd, finally, everyone gets treated to the unveiling of the man in the iron mask who turns out to be. Central City, Earth 1, Earth 2 and every other world saved. The ascension of Barry Allen as the most powerful speedster in the multiverse.

Like I said, it was everything fans could have wanted. The now-bloodied metahuman menace is carried off through a breach, his withered face a match for the mysterious apparitions who have taken him to his final reward. But the act of creating a time remnant has gotten the attention of the Speed Force, which suddenly sends two time wraiths after Zoom. The magnetar's energy is scattered, defusing the device and saving the multiverse - and everyone present. Zoom leaps down to attack Flash, while Flash's time remnant comes down off the ring and begins running a perpendicular ring on the ground to cancel out the magnetar's devastating pulse.įlash Prime sacrifices himself, completely disintegrating in a burst of white light.
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While Flash Prime continues racing Zoom, Flash Actual leaps off the ring to free Joe. The speedsters take off running, but half-way through the race Flash spawns his own time remnant. If Barry can stop Zoom before lap 500 he wins. 500 laps around a Ferris-wheel like ring will charge up the magnetar enough to create a pulse that will destroy every single one of the other infinite worlds in the multiverse, leaving only one Earth with Zoom as its master. In the season's final confrontation everyone arrives outside the magnetar and refuses to leave until Barry wins, or Zoom kills them all.Įither Barry wins the race, or Zoom kills them all. Still on a revenge-fuel rampage, Barry convinces his friends that the only way to end this is to submit to Zoom's demands to run the race. When Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) learns of his father's fate he freaks out and releases Barry, who's obviously even more upset than when the episode started. But then couldn't Zoom go back in time to steal another one?įurther complicating things, it seems that everyone at STAR Labs signed a blood oath that they wouldn't open any more breaches after the plan, even if something went wrong. If Zoom can open them at will, what's to be gained by knocking him through one in the first place? Maybe it's just to give the team enough time to destroy the magnetar, which ends up being booby trapped anyway and impossible to destroy. The one weakness of the episode comes in trying to make sense of the breaches once again. Now he has another hostage to bargain with. Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) shoots Zoom square in the chest with a laser rifle.īut as he falls backwards into the breach, Zoom reaches out to take Joe with him.

Cisco opens a breach with his Vibe powers, and Dr. But the gun jams! Joe rushes forward, tranquilizer darts held akimbo, and slams them down on Zoom's shoulders bringing the powerful speedster to his knees. Martin) leaps out of the shadows with his trusty anti-metahuman collar launcher. Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) acting as bait, the team at STAR Labs goes off to bring down Zoom on their own. They tranquilize Barry and lock him up in the basement, and then triangulate Zoom's position by homing in on the unique power signature of the magnetar he recently stole from Mercury Labs. With Barry blinded by rage, they reason he'll never be able to beat Zoom. So, everyone at STAR Labs agrees to perform a sort of superhero intervention. Of course, everyone but Barry thinks it's a trap.

He shows up at his father's funeral luncheon to warn Barry that other loved ones will die unless he agrees to race him. You just have to be willing to kill yourself."īut Zoom isn't done terrorizing Barry. "See Barry," he says, before running off, "there could be two of you.

To drive home his point about focusing rage through the Speed Force, Zoom sneaks up and murders himself. At one point Zoom spawns a second time remnant, and that's when things start to get a little weird. The ensuing battle between the two speedsters lasted a good few minutes, with both of them running up and down city streets and the side of buildings. "I told you family was a weakness," Zoom growls. The episode opened on Barry Allen's (Grant Gustin's) grief-stricken face, screaming and weeping as he watched Zoom (Teddy Sears) murder his father in cold blood. His actions will have far-reaching consequences for Central City, and potentially the entire televised DC multiverse. This recap is intended for folks who've already seen the episode, and will include a description of its events!
