The Flash

Air traffic control's reporting

a helicopter in distress.

Why is it every time I come to visit,

all hell is breaking loose?

Oh no, it's gonna hit the new Seaver Building.

It's okay. Barry's on it.

What am I on?

Always have to make an entrance,

don't you, Kid Flash?

What can I say?

It's great to be back.

A lotus flower.

Okay, that is seriously beautiful.

Yeah, I'm definitely gonna need you

to teach me how to do that.

The lotus is one of the eight auspicious symbols

meaning purity and renunciation,

practice which I'm currently being guided through

by Bhikkhuni Amala, the Buddhist nun

assigned to my Peace Corps camp.

Wow, purity and renunciation.

Guess that means more wine for me.

Just being here celebrating with family, new friends

is all the joy I need.

Look at you getting your Zen on.

It's working.

Who is that?

That's my brother, Wally.

He looks so happy.

I wish I was there.

I'm sorry.

I couldn't hold the window any longer.

It's okay.

It was so good to see them,

even if it was just for a second.

You miss your family.

Yeah, well, I've been trapped in here for weeks and...

Losing my sense of time like I'm in some sort of dream.

All the while, my family is out there

with that... that thing

that isn't me.

I hope they don't forget about you

as quickly as my Joseph forgot about me.

He used to come to my mirror every day and try

to figure out a way to get me out.

Does he know that you're still in here?

I don't know.

Barry calls me his lightning rod.

He used to say that he could find me

anywhere in the universe.

Seems like there's nothing he wouldn't do for you.

I haven't seen my husband in years.

I haven't touched him in 72 months...

312 weeks...

2,190 days.

2,190. 2,190.

2,190.

2,190. 2,190.

2,190. 2,190.

Eva, listen to me. Breathe.

2,190.

2,190. 2,190.

Hey, Iris, everything okay?

Um, yeah.

Greetings, Earth Prime-lings!

Babe, you're home early!

- Wow, you look... - I know, right?

- Wow, hey, bud. - Hey.

- You're finally back. - I am.

Well, after a while,

all the post-Crisis anomaly hunting

starts to catch up with you...

that, and I wanted to wash all the Atlantean fish smell

- off of these clothes. - Mm-mm.

Hugs from here.

"Welcome home"? You guys shouldn't have.

Shame.

Well, it's good to see you, friend.

Wally West?

What? Where have you been?

Welcome home...

"Welcome home"... I see.

I am crashing your party.

You know we're always happy

to have you back, Crocodile Dundee.

Come on, let me make you a drink.

Ah, you know me too well.

Okay, babe, I think we should probably get you home.

Mm, yeah. Yeah, you're right.

It's, like, 4:00 in the morning in Atlantis,

so, yeah, should probably go to bed.

Yeah, we should get home and relieve the babysitter.

Hon, I gotta go back to the office.

What?

I can't get any work done since Nash

moved in across the hall.

I can give you a ride.

I'm working a late shift at the "Citizen."

Perfect.

- Good night, guys. - Good night.

Bye-bye.

Uh-uh-uh-uh, we got this.

Okay, won't argue with that.

Boy, they... you ready? Let's do it.

Whoa, what was that?

Uh, nothing.

It was, uh, just a hiccup.

Just a little hiccup.

A hiccup? Is that the first one?

Uh...

Hey, Barry.

Are you all right, man?

No, I mean, I've had a few little things.

It's still sore.

My speed healing was weird for a little bit,

but, I mean, it's fine now.

It was just my body still recovering from Crisis.

Barry.

I didn't just come back to see family.

Lately, I've been sensing that there's something wrong

with the Speed Force.

Hmm, a disturbance

in the Speed Force, you feel.

That's terrible Yoda.

Bhikkhuni Amala helped me discover a way

to communicate with the Speed Force...

to seek guidance by projecting my consciousness into it

while leaving my body behind.

Damn, I've never been able to do that.

It just usually comes to me.

As your mother, right?

Yeah, I remember from the lightning storm.

For me, it's different.

It's more of a voice inside my head guiding me,

but a few months ago, that voice just went quiet.

Now every time I try to reach out... silence.

When was the last time the Speed Force came to you?

Uh, I mean, it's been a while,

but, listen, I don't think

there's anything wrong with the Speed Force.

You know, I mean, if there was, it would let me know, you know?

Or I don't... besides,

I'm sure there's a simple explanation

for all this.

Trust me.

One oat milk vibe-accino, extra hot with two sugars

and three short sprinkles of cinnamon to go.

I said three sugars and two sprinkles of cinnamon.

Idiot Americans.

What the...?

Alexi?

I thought you'd go down easy

in that fancy helicopter of yours.

I guess now...

We do it the hard way.

Frida.

Hello, Maria.

And goodbye.

Maria!

Maria Volkova, Russian socialite.

One minute, she's here sipping java,

and the next minute, she's a mummy?

This is the same woman I saved from the helicopter,

but she was young. She was full of life.

Well, based on her signal joint T-cell receptors,

she was 110 years old when she died.

Damn.

So the helicopter accident... that wasn't random.

Someone targeted her.

Not just any someone.

You see the kinetic energy levels on the body?

Yeah, they're almost zero,

like someone removed it all.

Therefore slowing down the victim,

which is how Maria was aged so many years.

I mean, real time, it would have been like a second passed,

but, for her, it was almost a century.

Why does this feel so familiar?

Wasn't there someone who could, like, slow...

If you're thinking it's Turtle...

- Yeah. - It's not.

- CISCO'S WHO'S WHO? BINDER - This meta doesn't just slow down time.

She can create potential energy force fields

around individual victims,

aging them centuries in the blink of an eye.

This wasn't Turtle. This was Turtle 2.

Sorry, I was just waiting

for you to come up with a better name.

No, it's Turtle 2. Less is more.

Well, what matters is her real name,

Mrs. Frida Novikov.

We busted her for running an international drug ring

out of her apartment. We deported her back to Russia.

Well, apparently, she didn't stay put.

Everywhere I went on my trip, I heard stories about Novikov.

I came home early to check out her old haunts,

and maybe find a clue about what she's up to.

I just didn't expect she'd come back home too.

Well, we better figure out why she's back

before she ages anybody else.