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's definitely not a breach.

The Speed Force is unbalanced.

- It's a 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're 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.

Boy, 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 this city, we're gonna lose her for good.

You guys have to stop her now.

I'm gonna catch her this time.

I hate teleporters.

Three... Three.

She jumps to 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.

Come on.

Peekabooyah!

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 that put her down.

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

Yeah. It actually went exactly as we planned it.

Exactly as we planned it.

You don't believe us? Ask Joe.

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

- Peekaboo 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 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 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? I'm...

You know what? Training sounds amazing.

Okay.

See you at home, boss.

Cisco, you want to share what you're thinking?

I'm thinking it'd 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

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 gotjokes.

- Oh, wow. - You're lucky I gave you a key,

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

No, you're not.

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

Because you love me.

Why don't I go make us 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 a sabbatical in the Czech Republic.

And they want to 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.

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 going to bury, Dad?

That empty suit in the lab?

You know what? Thank Cecile for dinner.

I'm going to 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.

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.

Now, what do you think you're gonna do against us

with a sword?

You guys okay?

The hell kind of 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 six 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 rag dolls, 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 he 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 gonna 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...

Becomes unstable.

Could destroy the city, the whole world.

Which is exactly what we're trying to prevent.

What if I can solve that?

- In the next 24 hours? - Yes!

Guys, I've been working on this.

For how long?

Since the night he left.

- Cisco... - I've had help.

I've consulted with Harry and Tina and Tracy and Felicity and Curtis,

and I'm pretty sure I've figured out a way

to stabilize the Speed Force prison and free Barry

without unleashing another lightning storm on the city.

I just need a couple more things.

- Maybe we should. - No.

You've been working on this for how long and you never told us?