The best episodes of The Flash
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- 01
Barry and Cisco take Kendra to Oliver and his team, looking for protection when a mysterious immortal comes seeking Kendra. However, a figure from her past arrives to tell her the truth. Meanwhile, Jay refuses to help Harrison test his new speed-enhancement serum, Velocity-6.
- 02
Oliver and Barry discover that they've swapped bodies. To find someone who can recognize them for who they are, they travel to Earth-38 to get Kara's help. Before they can solve the mystery of the mind-swap, the heroes have to take down a new menace: AMAZO, a robot with all of their powers.
- 03
After Dr. Light escapes from her pipeline cell, Barry asks Linda to help them lure Zoom to their world. Meanwhile, the team questions Harrison's motives and Cisco tries to use his powers on the Earth-2 visitor.
- 04
Harrison presents Barry with an impossible choice: save Nora and create an alternate timeline, while letting Harrison escape. or let his mother die as she did in the original timeline.
- 05
The alien Dominators land on Earth, and Barry realizes that he can't fight them alone. He summons Green Arrow and his teammates, and then the Legends, and then Supergirl from her Earth. However, the discovery of future-Barry's message forces Barry to reveal that he may have altered all of their lives when he changed the timeline, sowing the seeds of mistrust.
- 06
The team's visitor, Jay Garrick, explains that he comes from a parallel world and was a speedster there, but lost his powers transitioning over. Now he insists that Barry needs his help fighting a new metahuman, Sand Demon, who came from Jay's world. Meanwhile, Officer Patty Spivot tries to join Joe's Metahuman Taskforce.
- 07
Barry and Cisco travel to Earth-2 with Harry to rescue his daughter, and discover a strange world where friends are enemies and enemies are even worse. Meanwhile, Caitlin help Jay regain his speed so that he can deal with a new metahuman menace, Geomancer.
- 08
The Earth Two metahumans attack Central City en masse, and Barry is oddly confident that the team can handle them. Meanwhile, Cisco has vibes of an ominous future, and meets the Earth Two counterpart of a woman he loved.
- 09
The team discovers what Zoom is up to, and why he wants Barry to race him. When they realize that Barry is out of control after the death of someone close to him, they lock Barry up for his own safety rather than let him participate in a race he can't win.
- 10
As Christmas arrives, the team discovers Alchemy's identity. Jay travels from Earth 3 to lend the team a hand against Savitar, while Joe forbids Wally from helping.
- 11
To defeat Cicada, Nora comes up with a plan to assemble the necessary components from discarded villain items in the past and hide them in the present. Barry travels back in time to recover the three components, and reluctantly takes Nora with him.
- 12
To learn why Nora joined forces with Eobard, Team Flash reads her journal. They discover that in 2049, Eobard was the only person who was honest with Nora, and taught her how to use her powers.
- 13
Barry must choose between stopping Cicada or releasing Eobard. Nora and Cisco make choices of their own as they face the crisis upon them.
- 14
Taking the name of Jesse Quick and donning a mask, Jesse offers to help Barry against two metas, Mirror Master and Top. However, her inexperience puts her in danger and gets Flash trapped in a mirror. Meanwhile, Harry, Cisco, and Caitlin search the other Earths for a replacement for a Harry.
- 15
The team finds Tracy Brand, the woman that Future-Barry said would be able to imprison Savitar four years in the future. However, Savitar intends to kill Tracy and is using Killer Frost to do so. Meanwhile, Cecile tells Joe that she loves him and he freezes up.
- 16
Cisco comes up with a plan to stop Savitar involving preventing Barry from forming short-term memories. However, the plan doesn't go as intended. Meanwhile, Killer Frost returns to S.T.A.R. Labs to help the team.
- 17
With Marlize's help, Barry tries to make a last-ditch attempt to reach the good DeVoe inside of the Thinker... and meets an old friend.
- 18
After Nora meets her parents and reveals that she's stuck in 2018, Flash goes off after a new meta--Gridlock--and subsequently discovers what happens to himself in the future.
- 19
Team Flash discovers the nature of the new Cicada when they find a time sphere that is a future duplicate of Eobard's. They also find out that Cicada II is going after the meta that she believes killed her parents, while Sherloque reaches the conclusion of his investigation.
- 20
Barry finds himself face-to-face with his nemesis, the man in the yellow suit, a.k.a. Reverse Flash, who killed his mother. Barry is frustrated when the Reverse Flash escapes, but Dr. Wells and Cisco come up with a plan to trap him. All they need is bait, so they turn to Dr. Tina McGee from Mercury Labs to help. Meanwhile, it's Christmas at The West household and Iris is in full holiday cheer. Eddie gives her a surprising gift but also leaves her with a question that could change her life. Joe joins the search for the man in yellow and ends up in the crossfire.
- 21
Joe and Cisco head to Starling City to continue their investigation of Dr. Wells. While in town, the duo enlists the help of Captain Lance, and Cisco meets the Black Canary, who asks him for a favor. Meanwhile, back in Central City, Barry races to catch a meta-human named Hannibal Bates who can transform himself into every person he touches - which includes Eddie, Iris, Caitlin and even The Flash.
- 22
Lisa Snart, aka Golden Glider, comes to the team for help when her brother Captain Cold is kidnapped. However, the Flash soon discovers that the villain is working for his father Lewis, who has some mysterious hold over him. Meanwhile, Caitlin and Jay work together to build a speed cannon so that Jay can return to Earth-2, and Joe tells Iris the truth about her mother.
- 23
While Harrison tells the team that he's heading back to Earth 2 now that they've failed to stop Zoom, Grodd launches a new series of attacks in an attempt to gain the chemicals that he needs to augment his intelligence. Meanwhile, Barry deals with his loss of self-confidence after Zoom cripples him, and Iris calls in a familiar face to help.
- 24
Eobard Thawne--Reverse-Flash--kidnaps Dr. McGee and forces her to find a way to send him back to his own time. Flash and his friends discover that Reverse-Flash is from a timeline before he killed Barry's mother, and realize that they may have no choice but to send him back. Meanwhile, Harry and Cisco work to stabilize Cisco's vibe power, and Caitlin desperately tries to find a cure for Jay's illness.
- 25
The team is forced to use Julian as a conduit to Savitar to question the God of Speed. Meanwhile, Wally is haunted by visions of Savitar that slowly become more real.
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