Episodes 01

“Wednesday Ever After”

One week after Eobard Thawne’s defeat, Barry Allen creates a “map book” noting future events, including his promotion to director of the Central City Police Department (CCPD) CSI Division from Kristen Kramer, Cat Grant offering to buy Central City Citizen Media from Iris West-Allen and his fight against Owen Mercer / Captain Boomerang. The battery for the Roemer Accelerator that Mercer was stealing explodes, trapping Barry and Iris in a time loop, and they argue about their future. Joe West and Cecile Horton tell Barry that the future is something you create, not follow, prompting him to burn the book. On the final loop, Barry phases with the accelerator, nullifying a nuclear blast while Chester P. Runk and Allegra Garcia share a kiss. Barry and Iris accept their offers, with the latter acquiring the Coast City Gazette. Joe and Cecile talk about leaving Central City. Barry finds that “Caitlin Snow” is now neither Caitlin nor Frost. Mercer delivers the power source to a speedster with a bat-like emblem.

Episodes 02

“Hear No Evil”

“Caitlin” introduces herself as Snow, a blank slate resulting from the Consciousness Resurrection Chamber (CRC)’s malfunction. Mark Blaine has Team Flash try to reverse the process but secretly tries to restore Frost as well, resulting in another malfunction. They learn restoring both Caitlin and Frost is impossible and vote on who to restore, but ultimately decide to let Snow choose. Meanwhile, Hartley Rathaway is attacked by a new Fiddler and goes to S.T.A.R. Labs for help. After talking with Snow, he tries to kill the Fiddler, but Flash convinces him not to, and they rescue his boyfriend Roderick and their crew from a vibrational phase. Mercer steals Hartley’s sonic gauntlets and retreats with the Fiddler, who Team Flash identifies as Andrea Wozzeck. Snow chooses to live her own life as Khione. Hartley wrecks the CRC, enraging Mark, who vows to get revenge. The speedster uses the sonic gauntlets to stabilize into a physical form before planning to make Central City pay for Barry’s actions.

Episodes 03

“Rogues of War”

The Rogues (Mercer, Wozzeck, and Michelle Amar / Murmur) steal a temporal scanner from Corbin Taft Industries. Barry realizes that they’re building a Cosmic Treadmill and are missing a vibration engine. He assembles Hartley, Mark, Jaco Birch, and Goldface to steal it before the Rogues can, but they decide to do the mission without him until Barry can prove his trust in them. He does so, but Mark betrays the group and reveals his allegiance to the Rogues in exchange for Frost’s resurrection. The Rogues intercept Barry’s group while the speedster temporarily disables his speed and escapes with the engine. Meanwhile, Khione tries to convince Allegra to stop avoiding Chester. Iris worries that the speedster is the new avatar for the Negative Speed Force. Hartley, Jaco, and Goldface agree to continue assisting Team Flash. Chester informs Team Flash that the Rogues’ equipment are Wayne Enterprises designs and that Ryan Wilder / Batwoman has gone missing. The speedster unmasks herself to the Rogues as Ryan.

Episodes 04

“The Mask of the Red Death, Part 1”

Roy Bivolo and the speedster (now calling herself the Red Death) capture Barry and cause a citywide blackout. While imprisoned, Barry learns that Red Death’s speed is artificial and tells Mark that it isn’t too late to come back from his mistakes. Ryan goes to Iris, but Iris realizes that she is Red Death. Ryan reveals that she is from an alternate timeline where she and Flash became enemies.^[a] After being rejected from the Speed Force, she landed in Iris’s timeline and wants to use the Cosmic Treadmill to return home and use Iris as bait for her timeline’s Flash. Red Death brings Iris to her hideout and threatens her life in order to coerce Barry into powering the treadmill, causing a lightning storm. Mark sabotages the treadmill and is overwhelmed by the Rogues while Team Flash evacuates Barry and Iris. Meanwhile, after seeing Cecile use her powers to rescue Jenna from the storm, Joe agrees to remain in Central City. Chester and Allegra agree to talk as soon as Red Death is defeated. Red Death vows to bring war to Flash.

Episodes 05

“The Mask of the Red Death, Part 2”

The Rogues attack CCPD and capture Kramer. While rescuing Mark, Barry is attacked by Red Death, who drains his speed and creates psychic extensions of herself around the world with help from Gorilla Grodd. Khione learns that she can still help Team Flash without powers and wakes Mark with a kiss. After talking with Joe, Barry goes to Grodd, who joined Red Death because he felt abandoned after finding that the gorillas of Gorilla City had lost their sentience and were scattered following the Crisis. After Barry agrees to help Grodd restore his community, Grodd restores Barry’s speed and dispels Red Death’s doubles. With help from Hartley’s group and the main timeline’s Batwoman, Barry defeats Red Death and has her remanded to A.R.G.U.S. custody. Two weeks later, Joe moves to the countryside with Jenna. At his farewell party, Chester and Allegra begin dating and Khione announces Iris’s pregnancy, which wasn’t supposed to begin for another three months.

Episodes 06

“The Good, the Bad and the Lucky”

Rebecca Sharpe, who is alive on Earth-Prime, is framed for attacking her fiancé Dominic Stewart. Cecile and Allegra work to prove her innocence, but Rebecca is kidnapped by people with dark matter refractors that deflect Allegra’s and Cecile’s abilities. Cecile also misses her train to Joe’s and worries about being far from Jenna, but Allegra consoles her. They realize that Dominic’s brother Tony embedded a refractor in Rebecca’s engagement ring in order to reverse her luck ability and extort her job as a dealer in order to pay off his gambling debts. Cecile telekinetically removes Rebecca’s ring, destroying the refractor while leaving Tony for Kramer. Meanwhile, Mark is convinced that Khione has powers, believing that they’re what woke him and that they’re all that’s left of Frost. Khione tells him that Frost lives on in his memories and conjures a snowfall. The next morning, Dominic wakes, Cecile invites Allegra to move into Joe’s house, and Team Flash has a baby shower. Chester reveals that Khione is not a human or a metahuman.

Episodes 07

“Wildest Dreams”

Nia Nal has been searching for an ancient source of Naltorian dream energy. She loses her powers to a hooded robed figure while in a nightmare involving Iris and goes to Central City for help. Iris realizes that her article on the Red Death is the Pulitzer-winning article from the map book, and questions if she’s following destiny instead of making her own choices. After Nia and Iris get pulled into a dream, Nia helps Iris realize that destiny is not one choice, but the result of a lifetime of several choices. Iris helps Nia realize that to increase her potential, she needs to, paradoxically, give up control. After doing so, Nia meets the spirit of the first Naltorian with dream abilities, who promises to teach her. They wake, and Iris publishes her article. Meanwhile, Mark takes Khione out to do activities that he did with Frost, ignoring all of Khione’s ideas. She realizes that Mark still only sees her as Frost and leaves. Later, Mark apologizes to Khione and decides to leave Central City, causing Khione to inadvertently freeze Cecile’s banquet out of sadness.

Episodes 08

“Partners in Time”

Barry, Iris, and a group of D.O.E. agents inspecting S.T.A.R. Labs get trapped in the speed lab. When Barry notes that a “time magnet” will be stored in the Flash Museum in 2123, the group deduces that one of them must have stolen the magnet from the future without its stabilizer, trapping them in the same moment. As one of the agents is replaced by a statue, the group realizes that exposure to the time magnet will eventually kill them. Barry and Iris realize that Inspector Tao knows nothing about her job and expose her as the thief. She reveals herself as Lady Chronos. Barry charges her belt so she can reunite the magnet with its stabilizer in 2123 and convinces her to let herself be arrested instead of dying. The timeline resets, freeing Barry and Iris and restoring the agents with no memories of the events. Meanwhile, Khione meets with Carla Tannhauser off-screen. After Chester tells Allegra that he loves her, she worries about her future with him. Cecile convinces her that their relationship is not doomed and she later admits her love to Chester.

Episodes 09

“It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To”

Team Flash has a surprise birthday party for Barry with John Diggle and Wally West in attendance. While there, Wally talks about projecting his consciousness into other timelines. Ramsey Rosso arrives and knocks out the guests. He makes Barry feel guilty for getting extra years to live while his friends die and explains to Wally that the timelines are alternate Earths of a reborn multiverse. He takes over Wally’s mind and has him kill Barry. Barry awakens in purgatory with Oliver Queen, whom after the Crisis has lived on as the Spectre, watching over and protecting the new multiverse. Oliver helps him accept the guilt he feels and resurrects Barry by punching in the face while temporarily returning with him as Green Arrow. Wally opens a gateway into the multiverse, allowing Rosso to spread his infection. Barry helps Wally break Rosso’s influence and Khione restores Diggle, who joins the others in holding off Rosso. This allows Oliver to get a clear shot into the gateway and purge the multiverse of Rosso’s infection, which restores everyone. Oliver depowers Rosso and cures his HLH. Afterwards, Oliver explains that Khione is connected to the natural world and says goodbye to Diggle and Barry.

Episodes 10

“A New World, Part One”

Chester gives Allegra her first suit and Iris receives a Pulitzer nomination. Barry gets transported to the day Nora Allen dies. He goes to Joe for help and later sees his parents, but is knocked unconscious by Eobard Thawne. While investigating, Joe finds a blue crystal and becomes possessed. After being hospitalized and having lunch with his parents, Barry is approached by Thawne, who gloats about him being unable to stop his plan to kill Barry’s younger self. Barry returns to the hospital and says goodbye to his parents. The possessed Joe then attacks him, stating that he is not the new Negative Speed Force avatar but still wants to correct the imbalance Barry’s legacy leaves on the timeline. Barry frees Joe and returns him to his car, but the crystal disappears. Barry then participates in the fight in which Thawne kills Nora, warning his earlier self not to interfere. Afterwards, Barry tells Thawne that he has made peace with Nora’s death before he is transported away again and Thawne loses his powers. Elsewhere, a man resembling Eddie Thawne is struck by lightning at Mercury Labs, finds a file about Eddie’s death, and wonders who he is.

Episodes 11

“A New World, Part Two”

Chester finds traces of cobalt where Barry was taken. Mark returns, but he attacks members of Team Flash and is later shown to be possessed by the crystal. After he gasses CCC Media, Khione rescues Taylor and Aariz by growing plant cells in their bodies, but their skin turns green. They flee in horror, and Mark calls Khione an abomination. The Speed Force defends Iris from Mark and explains that he became a vessel for the Negative Speed Force. After the Speed Force convinces her to embrace her power, Khione frees Mark by disintegrating and reassembling his body, but the crystal disappears. Barry returns as Iris goes into labor and Khione makes plans to leave Central City, but is pulled away again. Elsewhere, Malcolm Gilmore— Eddie’s facsimile— goes to Captain Daisy Korber at the CCPD to learn about Eddie. After hearing a voice telling him to find Iris and seeing Eddie’s memories, he breaks into CCC Media and digs up Eddie’s grave, only to find it empty. He realizes that he is Eddie and pulls out the bullet he shot himself with.

Episodes 12

“A New World, Part Three”

The Speed Force warns Team Flash that Barry and the crystal are in 2049 before vanishing. Eddie watches Korber get pulled into a singularity that opens over his grave. At the Flash Museum, he sees a girl resembling Nora West-Allen claiming to be his daughter, but the real Nora stops him. Team Flash 2049 finds that Eddie is subconsciously opening the singularities. Nora becomes possessed by the crystal and tries to tempt Eddie into accepting its power, but Barry appears and escapes with him. Eddie is angered by how his sacrifice didn’t erase the Reverse-Flash and how he was forgotten while Barry lived and married Iris. In 2023, Cecile projects her consciousness into her 2049 self, but returns when she learns that she rarely visits Joe due to work. After Chester (at Khione’s urging) consoles her, she returns and frees Nora from the crystal’s influence. Eddie asks 2049 Iris to be with him again, but she rejects him. As the Negative Speed Force begins to fracture the timeline, 2049 Iris talks with Barry before he is pulled away again. Now in possession of the crystal, Eddie accepts its power and opens a portal.

Episodes 13

“A New World, Part Four”

Now a speedster known as Cobalt Blue, Eddie resurrects Eobard Thawne, Hunter Zolomon / Zoom, Savitar, and August Heart / Godspeed and gathers them in the Negative Speed Force. In 2023, they fight Team Flash and Nora. Cecile adopts her future costume and codename Virtue, Allegra saves Chester from Eobard, and Jay Garrick steals Eddie’s speed. Eddie retreats into the Negative Speed Force to gain more speed. Not wanting Eddie to die, Barry follows him in and convinces him not to become like Eobard and that they can create a better world by coexisting. Eddie destroys the crystal and says he is happy for Iris and Barry returns to her at the hospital. Mark reveals that Chester is a metahuman with black hole powers. The next morning, Nora is born and Harrison Wells tells Khione to ascend as the natural order’s protector. She bids farewell to Team Flash and returns her body to Caitlin. At a celebration one week later, Barry apologizes to Caitlin for how they left things and Joe and Cecile get engaged. Barry unleashes a lightning bolt and chooses Avery Ho, Max Mercury, and Jess Chambers to become new speedsters, while continuing to be The Flash.