The Flash

Last season on "The Flash"...

Iris West,

- will you marry me? - Yes.

I'm not Caitlin anymore.

- You're not Killer Frost. - I'm not.

I'm something else,

and I need to figure out what that is on my own.

Cecile Horton,

I love you.

That is definitely not a breach.

The Speed Force is unbalanced.

- This is Speed Force Prison. - Without a prisoner...

- It goes unstable. - How do we stop this?

My name is Iris West,

and I was supposed to marry the fastest man alive,

but six months ago, he left.

Barry, it's time.

Barry.

This isn't fair. We were supposed to have our happy ending.

I'm ready to be Iris West-Allen.

And you always will be.

But you have to keep living your life, okay?

Keep running, for me.

Promise me you'll run, Iris.

I promise.

I promised him I'd run, so that's what I've been doing these last six months,

running as fast as I can.

I can't find her, Cisco.

Well, I gotta work out more.

She's really stepped up her game.

Then let's turn up ours. I don't have eyes on her.

- Iris? - Copy, I'm on it.

Looking...

Got her. - And?

- Duck! - I don't see no duck.

Peekaboo.

Your only warning, boys.

Stay back.

- She meant the other duck. - Yeah, I cannot believe

you actually thought she meant a duck duck.

Where is she, Iris?

She's headed for the Keystone Bridge.

If she gets out of the city, we're gonna lose her for good.

You guys have to stop her now.

Oh, I'ma catch her this time.

I hate teleporters.

Three...

Three...

She jumps every third rooftop.

Cisco, she's gonna jump to the Broome Tower.

When she lands, stop her. - On it.

Dad, meet them at the bottom. - Copy.

- Wally... - I know what to do.

Whoa.

Come on.

Peekaboo-yah!

Dead bang, fellas.

Look at that.

We got her.

I'm so proud of us.

That was a good hustle out there, Team Vibe.

It's Team Kid Flash, but thank you.

Okay, not your finest hour, gentlemen.

What are you looking at me for? I was the one to put her down.

And Wally and I helped him out with the assist. Classic maneuver.

Yeah, it actually went exactly as we planned.

Exactly as we planned.

You don't believe us, ask Joe.

Joe, go ahead and tell her how this went exactly as we planned.

Peek-a-Boo fell right into our trap.

- I'm not doing that. - And we aren't exactly

catching bad guys at our old rate.

One out of every three metas that we've fought

in the last six months has escaped.

Temporarily, yes,

but Team Kid Flash is on the case.

Son, I love you,

but ain't nobody feeling Team Kid Flash.

It's, like, too many syllables.

Okay, guys, maybe a little less fooling around

and a little more taking things seriously.

It's up to us to protect this city, right?

Because there is no one else.

Wally, why don't you, um, go to the Speed Lab?

I've programmed a new training simulation for you.

- It should only take four hours. - Four... what?

No, what about family dinner tonight?

You know what, training sounds amazing.

Okay. See ya at home, boss.

Cisco, you wanna...

share what you're thinking?

I'm thinking it would be a lot better off

if we weren't one man down.

I only have a couple more boxes to bring over.

We have no more room

in the garage or the basement.

Right... or, we could just get rid of some more of your stuff.

- Like what? - Like, babe, do you really need

all the smelly old records in there?

- Oh, Cecile... - Records?

You mean my vintage jazz LP collection...

- Mm-hmm. - That I painstakingly

and carefully collected over the last 30 years?

- Really? - Those are my loves, babe.

They're going in the coffin with me when I die.

Okay, maybe we could bury them now,

and you can just join them at a later date.

- Oh, you got jokes? - Yeah.

You lucky I already gave you the key,

because I'm starting to rethink this whole move-in thing.

- No, you're not. - No, I'm not.

No, you're not...

'Cause you love me.

Um...

Why don't I go make some coffee?

Obvious.

Okay, so,

ever since Julian moved back to London,

they have been short-staffed in the crime lab at CCPD,

and I've been stalling Singh with this whole story of

Barry being on sabbatical in the Czech Republic...

And they wanna hire someone to replace him.

Yeah, they should. They need the help.

- Barry's not coming back, so... - You don't know that.

Yes, I do.

Sweetheart...

I'm very proud of you for taking the lead

with Wally and Cisco at S.T.A.R. Labs,

and I let you have your space,

so that you'd have time to deal with what happened.

Dad, I'm fine, okay?

I'm not. We lost him, Iris.

My son, your everything.

Dad, what do you want me to do?

Curl up in a ball and cry all day?

I can't do that.

Barry told me to be strong. I'm being strong.

When H.R. died, we had a funeral.

We spoke about his life.

Maybe we should do the same thing for Barry,

give us all permission to grieve.

And what are we gonna bury, Dad?

An empty suit in the lab?

You know what, thank Cecile for dinner.

I'm gonna get going, okay?

Wally? Cisco?

We're up.

Guys? What are we looking at?

Holy Ronin.

It's a Samurai.

Anybody speak Japanese?

_

Tell me he did not just speak Japanese.

I can do things.

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The Flash.

Yeah, you're looking at him, pal.

You're not The Flash. You're not the best.

Bring me The Flash...

I'm sensing an "or else."

Or else your city falls.

The Flash ain't coming.

Furthermore, Mifune,

we're gonna need you to sheath that sword

before somebody gets hurt,

somebody like you, for instance,

'cause you're up against some bad hombres,

and what do you think you're gonna do against us

with a sword?

You guys okay?

What the hell kinda sword is that?

You have one day.

If The Flash does not face me,

Central City dies.

The Flash hasn't been seen in almost 6 months,

leaving us to speculate

what can save us from this newest threat.

There are other superheroes in this town.

Yeah, and your boy, Kurosawa, over there

blew us away like ragdolls

performing his reverse Excalibur.

We haven't faced anything like this before.

Why do you think he only wanted The Flash?

He said he wants to fight the best.

He's threatening to destroy the city.

- Do we think he can do it? - I say yes.

Then he has to fight The Flash.

Who isn't here?

What if he was?

Iris, you said it yourself.

Just us trying to keep the city safe,

we're barely getting it done.

And this guy, he's no joke.

If we don't offer up The Flash, there's gonna be serious damage.

People are gonne die, and that's gonna be on us.

We need to bring Barry back.

Cisco, we can't.

If Barry comes out, the Speed Force Prison goes...

It becomes unstable.

It could destroy the city, the whole world.