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{{Short description|Fourth season of the 2027 superhero television series}}
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| showrunner           = [[Freddie Goodwin]]
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* [[Dacre Montgomery]]
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* [[Kiersey Clemons]]
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* [[Delroy Lindo]]
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* [[Rahul Kohli]]
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* [[Lakeith Stanfield]]
* [[Jessica Henwick]]
* [[Giancarlo Esposito]]
* [[Riz Ahmed]]
* [[Ming-Na Wen]]
* [[Jodie Comer]]
* [[Courtney B. Vance]]
* [[Paddy Considine]]
* [[Ben Mendelsohn]]
* [[William Fichtner]]
* [[Tati Gabrielle]]
* [[David Thewlis]]
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The fourth season of the American [[superhero drama]] television series ''[[The Flash (Goodwinverse TV series)|The Flash]]'' is based on the [[DC Comics]] character [[Barry Allen]], a crime-scene investigator who becomes the superhero known as the Flash. The season was developed for television by [[Freddie Goodwin]], who returned as showrunner alongside executive producers Hannah Greer, Marcus Vale, Lauren Certo, and David Mercer. It was produced by [[Vesper Studios]], Goodwin Television, Red Runner Productions, and Dominion Street Entertainment for [[Vesper+]].
The fourth season of the American [[superhero fiction|superhero]] television series ''[[The Flash (2027 TV series)|The Flash]]'', based on the [[Barry Allen]] incarnation of the [[Flash (DC Comics character)|Flash]] from [[DC Comics]], consists of 13 episodes.


The season stars [[Dacre Montgomery]] as Barry Allen / The Flash, with [[Kiersey Clemons]], [[Delroy Lindo]], [[Rahul Kohli]], [[Lakeith Stanfield]], [[Jessica Henwick]], [[Giancarlo Esposito]], [[Riz Ahmed]], [[Ming-Na Wen]], [[Jodie Comer]], [[Courtney B. Vance]], [[Paddy Considine]], [[Ben Mendelsohn]], [[William Fichtner]], [[Tati Gabrielle]], and [[David Thewlis]] also starring. [[Maya Hawke]] appears in a guest role as Caitlin Snow through archived recordings and a Speed Force manifestation. Following the events of the third season, Central City lives with partial memories of erased timelines, while Barry Allen faces a new public era in which the city's citizens know that the Flash's battles have changed reality.
The season is divided into two parts. The first part consists of five episodes, while the second consists of eight episodes.


The season adapts several villains from the Flash comics, including Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, Lisa Snart / Golden Glider, Sam Scudder / Mirror Master, Roscoe Dillon / the Top, Mark Mardon / Weather Wizard, Axel Walker / Trickster, and Clifford DeVoe / the Thinker. Rather than using them as isolated threats, the season presents them as part of a growing organized criminal network called the Rogues, formed in response to the public and political destabilization caused by the Flash's time-altering battles. The season's main antagonist is DeVoe, who manipulates the Rogues, the city's testimony archive, and Barry's public accountability crisis to prove that Central City no longer needs a hero who acts faster than democratic consent.
==Episodes==
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The fourth season premiered on Vesper+ on October 5, 2029, and consisted of eight weekly episodes released until November 23, 2029. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised its use of the Rogues, its public accountability storyline, the development of Cisco Ramon's powers, and David Thewlis's performance as DeVoe. Some criticism was directed at the number of villains introduced, though many reviewers felt the season succeeded by treating the Rogues as a social response to the Flash rather than a simple collection of criminals.
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== Episodes ==
{{See also|List of The Flash episodes|l1=List of ''The Flash'' episodes}}
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| EpisodeNumber  = 25
| EpisodeNumber  = 34
| EpisodeNumber2  = 1
| EpisodeNumber2  = 1
| Title          = Rogues
| Title          = Crisis in Central City, Part 1
| DirectedBy      = David Nutter
| DirectedBy      = Marisol Vega
| WrittenBy      = Freddie Goodwin
| WrittenBy      = Alex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Jordan Pike & Lena Ortiz & Devyn Cole
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|10|5}}
| OriginalAirDate = November 1, 2030
| ShortSummary    = A year after Central City begins remembering fragments of erased timelines, Barry works under public oversight while Iris manages the testimony archive. A museum gala honoring the Flash is attacked by Leonard Snart, who uses cold-gun technology stolen from a sealed S.T.A.R. Labs evidence vault. Snart refuses to kill civilians and instead exposes the city's hypocrisy: it celebrates the Flash while imprisoning metahumans, sealing dangerous technology, and hiding timeline damage behind legal committees. Cisco, now more confident in his vibration powers, tracks Snart through dimensional residue left by a mirror-based escape route. Barry captures several thieves but lets Snart escape after saving hostages from a collapsing ice structure. Meanwhile, Clifford DeVoe, a former legal theorist turned metahuman strategist, studies Iris's archive and concludes that Central City's problem is not crime, but the speed at which heroes make irreversible decisions.
| ShortSummary    = An alternate-universe Barry Allen and Iris West are pulled into Central City as temporal distortions cause different periods of the city's history to overlap. Barry, Wally and Cisco encounter Edward Clariss, a speedster known as the Rival who originated from the timeline Barry erased after reversing Merrick Wren's exposure of his identity. Clariss reveals that the altered timeline erased his wife and son, while Cisco discovers that the Time Trapper restored Clariss and his powers. During Founders Night, Clariss fractures the plaza across several time periods and attempts to kill both versions of Iris. Barry intervenes and redirects Clariss's momentum, unintentionally killing him. Barry voluntarily surrenders while Cisco determines that the other actions Barry could have taken would also have resulted in a death. Barry is subsequently charged with second-degree murder and ordered to surrender his Flash equipment except during emergencies. The Time Trapper then declares Clariss's death the beginning of an "accounting" for Barry's alterations to time.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 26
| EpisodeNumber  = 35
| EpisodeNumber2  = 2
| EpisodeNumber2  = 2
| Title          = Through the Looking Glass
| Title          = Crisis in Central City, Part 2
| DirectedBy      = David Nutter
| DirectedBy      = Darnell Hayes
| WrittenBy      = Lauren Certo
| WrittenBy      = Alex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Lena Ortiz & Naomi Pierce & Marcus Vale
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|10|12}}
| OriginalAirDate = November 8, 2030
| ShortSummary    = Sam Scudder, a criminal trapped in a mirror dimension during the accelerator disaster, returns with the ability to move through reflective surfaces and imprison people inside fractured reflections. Scudder frees Lisa Snart from police custody and offers Leonard a chance to build a crew that can survive a city ruled by speed, surveillance, and public memory. Iris investigates complaints that the testimony archive is being used by prosecutors to punish people for events from erased timelines. Barry enters the mirror dimension to rescue Linda Park and several witnesses, but Scudder forces him to confront reflections of people who remember being failed by the Flash in lives Barry never lived. Cisco and Hartley stabilize a vibration bridge, allowing Barry to escape. DeVoe secretly offers Scudder legal protection in exchange for access to mirror-space, calling it the first courtroom where time itself can be cross-examined.
| ShortSummary    = Barry pleads not guilty to second-degree murder as his trial begins, while Wally, Cisco and the alternate Barry respond to temporal distortions spreading across Central City. Testimony from both versions of Iris and the alternate Barry establishes that Clariss posed an immediate threat, although none can determine whether Barry had another safe option. Cisco later identifies one possible sequence in which everyone survives, but cannot establish whether Barry could have known to make that choice. The Time Trapper subsequently causes the courthouse to overlap with several periods of its history, forcing Judge Cole to temporarily authorize Barry's return as the Flash. Barry, Wally, Cisco and the alternate Barry evacuate the building before Barry confronts the Time Trapper, who continues blaming him for the consequences of his alterations to time. The Time Trapper later freezes Central City and gives Barry twenty-four hours for the trial to reach a verdict, warning that he will impose his own judgment if it does not.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 27
| EpisodeNumber  = 36
| EpisodeNumber2  = 3
| EpisodeNumber2  = 3
| Title          = Weather Patterns
| Title          = Crisis in Central City, Part 3
| DirectedBy      = Jennifer Phang
| DirectedBy      = Rafael Serrano
| WrittenBy      = Thomas Pound
| WrittenBy      = Alex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Naomi Pierce & Marcus Vale & Jordan Pike
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|10|19}}
| OriginalAirDate = November 15, 2030
| ShortSummary    = Mark Mardon attacks federal reconstruction sites using weaponized storm systems, claiming the city is being rebuilt for the rich while disaster survivors remain displaced. Joe investigates Mardon's past and discovers that his brother died during the first accelerator explosion after emergency crews diverted resources to protect S.T.A.R. Labs executives. Barry tries to reason with Mardon but is accused of saving institutions before neighborhoods. Iris publishes an uncomfortable report showing that several areas hardest hit by Flash-related disasters received the least aid. Leonard Snart recruits Mardon into the Rogues but warns him that killing civilians will make them no better than the systems they hate. DeVoe manipulates the relief hearings by presenting Barry's unsanctioned interventions as evidence that Central City has surrendered civic authority to a man who can rewrite outcomes before anyone else can object.
| ShortSummary    = As Barry's trial continues, Cisco testifies that although later simulations reveal several ways Clariss could have survived, a temporal compression limited the options Barry could perceive during the attack. Iris and the alternate Iris uncover evidence confirming that Clariss's erased wife and son existed, while Cisco discovers that the Time Trapper deliberately preserved Clariss after Barry altered history. Barry takes the stand, admitting that he killed Clariss but maintains that he intended only to prevent him from killing the two Irises. As temporal incursions spread across Central City, Barry, Wally, Cisco and the alternate Barry temporarily displace the Time Trapper, who reveals that he prevented the breach between their universes from closing and shortens his deadline in retaliation. The jury subsequently reaches a verdict, but before it can be announced, the Time Trapper transports the courthouse and everyone inside to Central City in 2166, demanding that the verdict be delivered there.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 28
| EpisodeNumber  = 37
| EpisodeNumber2  = 4
| EpisodeNumber2  = 4
| Title          = Trick Questions
| Title          = Crisis in Central City, Part 4
| DirectedBy      = Jennifer Phang
| DirectedBy      = Devin Rhodes
| WrittenBy      = Sarah Tarkoff
| WrittenBy      = Alex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Jordan Pike & Ren Ito & Lena Ortiz & Devyn Cole
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|10|26}}
| OriginalAirDate = November 22, 2030
| ShortSummary    = Axel Walker, a livestreaming anarchist calling himself the Trickster, hijacks the testimony archive and turns erased-timeline memories into public entertainment. His broadcasts force victims to relive impossible deaths while viewers vote on which memories should be released next. Barry wants to shut down the archive entirely, but Iris argues that destroying the record would punish victims for someone else's exploitation. Cisco and Hartley trace Trickster's signal through old S.T.A.R. Labs communication towers, while Eddie confronts his fear that his own unstable timeline makes him another public curiosity. Caitlin appears briefly to Barry through an archived medical message, reminding him that systems built to heal can still be abused without becoming worthless. Barry captures Trickster without destroying the archive, but DeVoe uses the attack to propose a legal injunction against all unsupervised Flash activity.
| ShortSummary    = The jury acquits Barry of both second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter before the Time Trapper reveals that the courthouse has been transported to Central City in 2166. There, Dr. Lyra Mercer explains that five periods in the city's history are connected to an event known as the Split, in which two universes attempt to occupy the same temporal coordinates. Meanwhile, Wally, the alternate Barry and the alternate Iris investigate devices linking the five periods and initially disable several of them, only to discover that the devices are anchors preventing the timelines from separating. The Time Trapper reveals that Clariss's death is the fifth point and intends to use it to separate the two universes. After the anchors fail, the group is scattered across different periods of Central City's history. Barry is returned to Founders Plaza moments before Clariss's death, where the Time Trapper offers him the opportunity to change the event while warning that one universe must surrender its claim to history.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 29
| EpisodeNumber  = 38
| EpisodeNumber2  = 5
| EpisodeNumber2  = 5
| Title          = The Top Spins
| Title          = Crisis in Central City, Part 5
| DirectedBy      = Deborah Chow
| DirectedBy      = Kellan Price
| WrittenBy      = Eric Wallace
| WrittenBy      = Alex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Jordan Pike & Lena Ortiz & Ren Ito & Naomi Pierce & Devyn Cole
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|11|2}}
| OriginalAirDate = November 29, 2030
| ShortSummary    = Roscoe Dillon, a physicist whose vestibular system was altered by the Speed Force fracture, begins inducing mass vertigo across Central City financial districts. Dillon believes the city must be physically disoriented before it can understand how ordinary people feel living under impossible events decided by speedsters, scientists, and politicians. DeVoe helps him target the courthouse where Barry's public oversight hearing is scheduled. At the hearing, prosecutors argue that the Flash's refusal to kill Zoom and Malcolm Thawne endangered the city, while Iris counters that accountability cannot become state ownership of a person's body. Leonard Snart interrupts Dillon's attack, revealing that even the Rogues believe DeVoe is pushing them toward chaos for his own agenda. Barry saves the courthouse by trusting Cisco to anchor the crowd through vibration instead of trying to move everyone himself. DeVoe privately declares that the Flash's team is the true obstacle.
| ShortSummary    = Barry refuses the Time Trapper's offer to prevent Clariss's death, accepting that changing the event would erase the consequences and choices that followed it. Cisco devises a plan to stabilize Central City's five temporal points using the natural rhythms of each era, with Wally restoring 1894, Eddie synchronizing the Mercury power grid in 1936, Cisco stabilizing 2026 and the alternate Barry securing 2166. A temporal echo of Clariss subsequently stabilizes the fifth point after asking Barry to remember his erased family. When the two universes begin collapsing together, Cisco uses Eddie's chronal pattern as a template while both Barrys run through the five points in opposite universal phases, successfully separating their realities without erasing either. The team then forces the Time Trapper into the space between moments, and the alternate Barry and Iris return home. Eddie's history becomes temporally stable, while Barry publicly reveals his identity to Central City, announcing that he is the Flash.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 30
| EpisodeNumber  = 39
| EpisodeNumber2  = 6
| EpisodeNumber2  = 6
| Title          = Cold War
| Title          = Public Record
| DirectedBy      = Deborah Chow
| DirectedBy      = Avery Knox
| WrittenBy      = Lauren Certo and Thomas Pound
| WrittenBy      = Alex Brow
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|11|9}}
| OriginalAirDate = March 4, 2031
| ShortSummary    = DeVoe engineers a conflict between the Rogues and Team Flash by leaking evidence that Lisa Snart's powers are slowly killing her. Leonard steals a cryogenic stabilizer from S.T.A.R. Labs, forcing Barry to pursue him through a citywide blackout caused by Mardon. Lisa admits that she joined the Rogues because the law only saw her as stolen technology wearing a human body. Joe and Linda expose DeVoe's role in arranging the blackout, but DeVoe uses mirror-space to appear in several courtrooms at once and announces that he is filing a civic injunction to suspend the Flash from operating inside Central City. Barry and Leonard briefly cooperate to save Lisa, creating an uneasy respect between them. However, DeVoe captures Hartley and uses his harmonic research to build a device capable of predicting Cisco's dimensional anchors before he creates them.
| ShortSummary    = Following Barry's public identity reveal, increased media attention disrupts his personal life and prompts CCPD to require independent review of cases involving the Flash. Iris is removed from the Flash beat because of their relationship. Barry and Eddie investigate Russell Glosson, a former Kord Dynamics scientist who can absorb and store kinetic energy, and Glosson later uses stolen capacitors to create a field that progressively removes motion across Central City. Because using his speed strengthens the field, Barry approaches Glosson without super-speed and discovers that the capacitors become unstable when their stored energy is depleted. With Wally and Cisco disabling external relays, Barry releases the central capacitor and convinces Glosson to help redirect its energy through a breach, preventing the destruction of downtown. Glosson is arrested, while Barry publicly establishes boundaries regarding his family and private life but confirms that he will continue operating as the Flash.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 31
| EpisodeNumber  = 40
| EpisodeNumber2  = 7
| EpisodeNumber2  = 7
| Title          = The Trial of the Flash
| Title          =
| DirectedBy      = Uta Briesewitz
| DirectedBy      =
| WrittenBy      = Sarah Tarkoff and Eric Wallace
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|11|16}}
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| ShortSummary    = DeVoe brings Barry before a special civic tribunal, arguing that the Flash's speed makes meaningful consent impossible because he can act before law, evidence, or public debate can respond. Barry refuses to reveal every secret identity and timeline event connected to Team Flash, knowing the testimony would expose innocent people. Iris defends Barry by admitting the archive's failures while arguing that the answer to dangerous power is transparent community, not DeVoe's intellectual dictatorship. DeVoe triggers his prediction device, trapping Cisco in a loop of failed anchors and allowing the Rogues to attack key sites across the city. Snart realizes DeVoe intends to sacrifice the Rogues as proof that Central City needs his rule. Caitlin appears one last time in a Speed Force echo, helping Barry understand that accountability means accepting limits, not surrendering judgment. Barry submits to oversight but refuses to stop saving lives.
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| EpisodeNumber  = 32
| EpisodeNumber  = 41
| EpisodeNumber2  = 8
| EpisodeNumber2  = 8
| Title          = The Thinker's City
| Title          =
| DirectedBy      = David Nutter
| DirectedBy      =
| WrittenBy      = Freddie Goodwin and Lauren Certo
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2029|11|23}}
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| ShortSummary    = DeVoe uses mirror-space, harmonic prediction, and testimony archive data to transform Central City into a controlled simulation where every emergency is anticipated and every citizen's choices are assigned risk values. The city initially appears safer, but Iris discovers that DeVoe's system prevents people from taking actions that might lead to unpredictable futures, effectively freezing civic life. Barry cannot outrun the simulation because DeVoe predicts every rescue path before he moves. Cisco breaks the prediction engine by anchoring dozens of uncertain outcomes at once, while Snart and the Rogues sabotage mirror relays to reclaim their own agency. Barry confronts DeVoe and admits that the Flash should be accountable, but no mind has the right to replace a city with a calculation. DeVoe is defeated when Iris broadcasts the archive live, flooding his system with contradictory human testimony. The season ends with Barry accepting a public charter for Team Flash as a new threat watches from the future.
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== Cast and characters ==
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=== Main ===
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* [[Dacre Montgomery]] as Barry Allen / The Flash
| EpisodeNumber  = 43
* [[Kiersey Clemons]] as Iris West
| EpisodeNumber2  = 10
* [[Delroy Lindo]] as Detective Joe West
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* [[Rahul Kohli]] as Cisco Ramon / Vibe
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* [[Lakeith Stanfield]] as Eddie Thawne
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* [[Jessica Henwick]] as Linda Park
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* [[Giancarlo Esposito]] as Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash
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* [[Riz Ahmed]] as Hartley Rathaway
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* [[Ming-Na Wen]] as Dr. Christina Vale
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* [[Jodie Comer]] as Dr. Eliza Harmon
* [[Courtney B. Vance]] as Henry Allen
* [[Paddy Considine]] as Malcolm Thawne / Cobalt Blue
* [[Ben Mendelsohn]] as Hunter Zolomon / Zoom
* [[William Fichtner]] as Leonard Snart / Captain Cold
* [[Tati Gabrielle]] as Lisa Snart / Golden Glider
* [[David Thewlis]] as Clifford DeVoe / the Thinker


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=== Recurring ===
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* [[Ken Leung]] as Captain Elias Singh
| EpisodeNumber  = 45
* [[Ralph Ineson]] as General Wade Eiling
| EpisodeNumber2  = 12
* [[Ana de Armas]] as Dr. Emilia Serrano
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* [[Keith David]] as the voice of Gideon
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* [[Dev Patel]] as Alex Singh / Superboy
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* [[Ben Whishaw]] as Owen Mercer
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* [[Sophie Thatcher]] as Avery Ho
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* [[Rhea Seehorn]] as Senator Mara Ellis
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* [[Winston Duke]] as Commander Adam Crey
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* [[Ariela Barer]] as Brie Larvan


=== Guest ===
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* [[Maya Hawke]] as Caitlin Snow
| EpisodeNumber  = 46
* [[Toby Kebbell]] as Marcus Dent
| EpisodeNumber2  = 13
* [[Sam Claflin]] as Sam Scudder / Mirror Master
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* [[Jack Quaid]] as Axel Walker / Trickster
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* [[Taron Egerton]] as Roscoe Dillon / the Top
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* [[Dan Stevens]] as Mark Mardon / Weather Wizard
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* [[John Boyega]] as Ronnie Raymond
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* [[Thandiwe Newton]] as Nora Allen
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* [[Jurnee Smollett]] as Francine West
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* [[Yahya Abdul-Mateen II]] as David Singh


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== Production ==
==Cast and characters==
=== Development ===
{{see also|List of The Flash characters}}
Vesper+ renewed ''The Flash'' for a fourth season in December 2028 after the release of the third season finale, "Run Still". Freddie Goodwin returned as showrunner, with Hannah Greer, Marcus Vale, Lauren Certo, and David Mercer continuing as executive producers. The renewal confirmed another eight-episode season and described the fourth season as a more public-facing chapter about accountability, civic memory, and the rise of Central City's organized metahuman criminal class.
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Goodwin said the fourth season was designed to move the series out of Barry Allen's purely internal Speed Force reckoning and into a citywide debate about what the Flash should be allowed to do. After the third season ended with Central City remembering fragments of erased timelines, the writers wanted to explore how a population would respond to proof that one hero's battles had altered reality itself. Rather than treat the public as ungrateful, the season was written to make some of the criticism of Barry legitimate while still rejecting the idea that fear should hand power to authoritarian figures.
===Main===


The writers chose to adapt the Rogues because the show had reached a point where Barry's enemies needed to feel shaped by Central City's history. Goodwin said the Rogues were not introduced as random villains but as people responding to the same disasters, technologies, and institutional failures that created the Flash. Leonard Snart became the ideological center of the group because his criminal code allowed the writers to contrast him with both Barry and Clifford DeVoe. Snart breaks the law, but he rejects the total control DeVoe represents.
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Clifford DeVoe / the Thinker was selected as the season's primary antagonist because the writers wanted an enemy Barry could not defeat by becoming faster or more emotionally honest. DeVoe's argument is intellectual and civic: the Flash acts before anyone can consent, and therefore Central City should be governed by prediction rather than improvisation. Goodwin described DeVoe as "a villain with a point and a monstrous solution." His presence allowed the season to adapt more comic villains while keeping one strong thematic spine.
===Recurring===


The season also shifted Maya Hawke's role from main cast to guest. Goodwin said Caitlin Snow's death remained permanent and that using Hawke too heavily would weaken the impact of the second season's major loss. Caitlin appears only through archived recordings and a Speed Force echo because the writers wanted her influence to remain important without turning her into a regular ghost character. Hawke was credited as a guest star for the season.
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=== Writing ===
Writing for the fourth season began in January 2029. The writers' room included Freddie Goodwin, Lauren Certo, Thomas Pound, Sarah Tarkoff, Eric Wallace, and consulting producer Hannah Greer. The season was structured around the question of whether accountability can exist when one person can act faster than every institution around him. The writers wanted to avoid simplistic answers. Barry saves lives because he can move before disaster completes itself, but the season asks who gets to review the consequences afterward.
 
The Rogues were written as a social response to Central City's instability. Leonard Snart and Lisa Snart represent people shaped by stolen technology and criminal survival. Mirror Master represents the hidden spaces created by scientific disasters. Weather Wizard represents neighborhoods abandoned after large-scale metahuman incidents. Trickster represents exploitation of trauma as spectacle. The Top represents disorientation and public distrust. DeVoe sees all of them as symptoms to be studied, manipulated, and eventually sacrificed in his argument for controlled order.


Iris West's testimony archive became one of the season's central narrative devices. In the third season, the archive helped Central City process impossible memories. In the fourth, it becomes politically contested. Prosecutors, victims, criminals, journalists, and DeVoe all attempt to use the archive to define what the city remembers and what it should do with those memories. Goodwin said Iris's storyline was essential because it prevented the season's public accountability theme from becoming only a courtroom problem for Barry.
===Guest===


Cisco Ramon's development into Vibe was expanded across the season. The writers wanted Cisco's powers to become practical and heroic without losing the horror introduced in the third season. His ability to anchor uncertain outcomes becomes the direct counter to DeVoe's predictive control. Where DeVoe wants to reduce the city to probabilities, Cisco's powers confirm that possibility remains alive precisely because the future cannot be fully calculated.
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The seventh episode, "The Trial of the Flash", was written as the season's philosophical centerpiece. Goodwin said the episode is not a traditional trial about whether Barry is guilty of one crime. Instead, it is a trial over the idea of the Flash. DeVoe argues that speed destroys consent, Iris argues that records and community can create accountability, and Barry accepts that saving lives does not exempt him from limits. The episode was written to make Barry mature without humiliating him or making him abandon heroism.
==Production==


The finale, "The Thinker's City", was built around the idea that perfect safety can become another kind of imprisonment. DeVoe's controlled simulation prevents crime and disaster by eliminating uncertainty, but it also eliminates meaningful choice. Goodwin said the ending was designed to reject both extremes: Barry cannot operate without accountability, but Central City cannot surrender its future to one mind that mistakes prediction for justice. The Rogues' decision to help destroy DeVoe's mirror relays was intended to show that even criminals can resist a world without agency.
===Development===


=== Casting ===
===Writing===
Dacre Montgomery, Kiersey Clemons, Delroy Lindo, Rahul Kohli, Lakeith Stanfield, Jessica Henwick, Giancarlo Esposito, Riz Ahmed, Ming-Na Wen, Jodie Comer, Courtney B. Vance, Paddy Considine, and Ben Mendelsohn returned from previous seasons. William Fichtner and Tati Gabrielle were promoted to main cast as Leonard Snart / Captain Cold and Lisa Snart / Golden Glider after recurring in earlier seasons. David Thewlis joined the main cast as Clifford DeVoe / the Thinker.


Goodwin said Thewlis was cast because DeVoe needed to be persuasive before he became frightening. The character was written as a scholar and legal theorist whose intellect allows him to diagnose real civic problems but whose arrogance makes him believe only he should be allowed to solve them. Thewlis described DeVoe as someone who views empathy as unreliable data and heroism as a primitive response to systemic failure.
===Casting===


Sam Claflin, Jack Quaid, Taron Egerton, and Dan Stevens joined the guest cast as Sam Scudder / Mirror Master, Axel Walker / Trickster, Roscoe Dillon / the Top, and Mark Mardon / Weather Wizard, respectively. The writers used these characters to expand the Rogues without overloading the main cast list. Goodwin said each guest villain was chosen because their powers could dramatize part of the season's civic argument: reflection, spectacle, disorientation, and environmental consequence.
===Filming===


Maya Hawke returned as Caitlin Snow in a guest capacity. The production confirmed before the season premiere that Hawke would not be part of the main cast, emphasizing that Caitlin remained dead. Her appearances were limited to "Trick Questions" and "The Trial of the Flash", where archived messages and Speed Force echoes help Barry understand accountability without undoing the character's sacrifice.
===Design and costumes===


John Boyega appeared as Ronnie Raymond in a guest role, continuing the ambiguity of his post-rupture state from the previous seasons. Goodwin said Ronnie's brief appearance was included to show that Caitlin's death still affects the living characters, not to reopen the same grief arc. Thandiwe Newton also returned as Nora Allen in a guest role through a Speed Force memory.
===Visual effects===


=== Filming ===
===Music===
Principal photography for the fourth season began in March 2029 and concluded in July 2029. Filming took place primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, with additional exterior work used to represent Central City's restored civic spaces, tribunal buildings, and reconstruction districts. Production designer Lila Chen returned and redesigned parts of the city to reflect partial recovery after years of disasters. The result was brighter than the second and third seasons but intentionally uneasy, with public memorials, surveillance systems, and Flash oversight posters visible throughout the city.


The season introduced several major new sets, including the civic tribunal chamber, the testimony archive office, DeVoe's study, and the Rogues' hideout. The Rogues' hideout was designed as a repurposed transit station beneath Central City, filled with stolen technology, improvised medical equipment, and evidence of people living between legality and survival. Chen said the set needed to feel criminal but not cartoonish, because the season treats the Rogues as products of the city rather than outsiders.
==Marketing==


Mirror-space sequences required a combination of practical reflective sets and visual effects. Director David Nutter said the crew avoided simple mirror mazes and instead built spaces that looked like distorted civic interiors, including courtrooms, archives, and police corridors. This allowed Mirror Master's powers to tie directly into the season's themes of evidence, testimony, and distorted public memory.
===Part One===


The tribunal scenes in "The Trial of the Flash" were filmed over several days with limited action sequences. Goodwin said the episode was deliberately staged like a pressure chamber, forcing the characters to argue instead of run. The production used long takes and restrained camera movement to contrast with the speed-heavy episodes around it. Montgomery and Clemons described the episode as one of the most dialogue-intensive shoots of the series.
===Part Two===


The finale combined practical city sets with extensive digital simulation effects. DeVoe's controlled version of Central City was created by cleaning up familiar locations until they felt unnaturally orderly, removing graffiti, traffic variation, and unpredictable human movement. As the simulation collapses, those details return in chaotic layers. The production team wanted the audience to feel that imperfection itself was being restored.
==Release==


=== Visual effects ===
===Part One===
Mara Ellison returned as visual effects supervisor. The fourth season required a wider variety of powers than previous seasons due to the expanded Rogues gallery. The visual effects team created distinct looks for cold technology, mirror travel, weather manipulation, vertigo fields, and DeVoe's predictive simulation. Ellison said the challenge was making the season feel visually varied without losing the show's established speed language.


Captain Cold's cold-gun effects were designed as tactical and precise, forming angular ice structures rather than uncontrolled frost. Golden Glider's movement used gold energy trails and gravity-defying skating effects, distinguishing Lisa from the speedsters while still giving her action scenes fluid motion. Mirror Master's effects used fractured reflections and delayed images, often showing multiple versions of a character making different choices.
===Part Two===


Weather Wizard's storm effects were tied to the red-weather imagery from the second season but made more localized and emotionally volatile. The Top's vertigo powers used rotating camera rigs, warped backgrounds, and subtle digital displacement. Trickster's broadcasts relied less on powers and more on distorted media overlays, hacked archive footage, and practical explosive devices.
===Home media===


DeVoe's simulation effects were intentionally clean and controlled. When his prediction system activates, the city appears overlaid with risk diagrams, probability paths, and mirrored decision trees. By the finale, the effect becomes oppressive, with citizens surrounded by invisible calculations that prevent spontaneous movement. Cisco's vibration anchors were designed as the visual opposite: unstable, colorful, and alive with branching possibility.
==Reception==


=== Music ===
===Critical response===
Blake Neely and Hildur Guðnadóttir returned to compose the fourth season's score. Neely expanded the heroic Flash theme into a more public and ceremonial variation used during the oversight hearings and civic scenes, while Guðnadóttir developed colder and more mathematical textures for DeVoe. The season also introduced motifs for the Rogues, using recurring percussion and bass patterns that could be altered depending on which member was leading a scene.


Captain Cold's motif uses low strings and metallic pulses, while Golden Glider's theme adds brighter, sliding tones. Mirror Master is associated with reversed piano and glass-like percussion. Weather Wizard's music incorporates rumbling percussion and unstable brass. Trickster's scenes use distorted carnival rhythms and chopped media noise. The Top's motif relies on circling strings and gradually shifting tempo.
====Part One====


DeVoe's theme is deliberately restrained. Guðnadóttir described it as music that refuses to breathe. It uses controlled pulses, muted piano, and repeating patterns that become more complex as the season progresses. In the finale, the theme collapses when Iris floods his system with contradictory testimony, allowing the Flash theme and Cisco's vibration motif to re-enter the score.
====Part Two====


== Marketing ==
===Audience response===
Vesper+ announced the fourth season in December 2028 after the third season finale. The announcement confirmed that the season would adapt the Rogues and introduce Clifford DeVoe / the Thinker. The first teaser showed Barry standing before a civic tribunal while voices from Iris's testimony archive accused, defended, thanked, and condemned the Flash. The tagline was "A city saved is not a city settled."


The official trailer was released in August 2029. It introduced Captain Cold, Golden Glider, Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, Trickster, the Top, and DeVoe. The trailer emphasized the season's shift toward public accountability and organized villainy, ending with DeVoe saying, "The Flash is not justice. He is velocity without consent." The trailer was widely discussed for positioning several comic villains within one connected seasonal arc.
===Accolades===
 
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Character posters were released for Barry, Iris, Cisco, Joe, Eddie, Leonard Snart, Lisa Snart, DeVoe, and Mirror Master. A separate set of Rogues posters used police-file styling but paired each villain with a civic theme: "Property", "Memory", "Weather", "Spectacle", "Balance", and "Control". Maya Hawke was not included in the main poster campaign, reflecting Caitlin Snow's guest status.
 
In September 2029, Vesper+ released an in-universe legal brief titled ''Central City v. The Flash'', summarizing fictional arguments for and against metahuman oversight. The campaign also included weekly archive entries from Iris West and short Rogue files narrated by Linda Park. Goodwin said the campaign was meant to make viewers ask whether the Flash should be trusted before the season itself answered the question.
 
== Release ==
The fourth season premiered on Vesper+ on October 5, 2029. The season consisted of eight weekly episodes, with the finale released on November 23, 2029.
 
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Release schedule
|-
! scope="col" | No. overall
! scope="col" | No. in season
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Original release date
|-
! scope="row" | 25
| 1
| "Rogues"
| October 5, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 26
| 2
| "Through the Looking Glass"
| October 12, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 27
| 3
| "Weather Patterns"
| October 19, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 28
| 4
| "Trick Questions"
| October 26, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 29
| 5
| "The Top Spins"
| November 2, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 30
| 6
| "Cold War"
| November 9, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 31
| 7
| "The Trial of the Flash"
| November 16, 2029
|-
! scope="row" | 32
| 8
| "The Thinker's City"
| November 23, 2029
|}
 
== Reception ==
=== Critical response ===
The fourth season received positive reviews from critics. Praise was directed toward the adaptation of the Rogues, the season's public accountability storyline, Rahul Kohli's expanded role as Cisco Ramon / Vibe, and David Thewlis's performance as Clifford DeVoe. Critics noted that the season successfully shifted the series away from Barry's internal grief arc and into a more civic, ensemble-driven story.
 
Reviewers responded positively to the way the season adapted comic villains without turning each episode into disposable villain-of-the-week storytelling. Leonard Snart / Captain Cold and Lisa Snart / Golden Glider were frequently highlighted as the strongest additions, with critics praising the decision to give the Rogues a code and a political function within Central City. Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, Trickster, and the Top were also noted for expanding the season's visual and thematic range.
 
David Thewlis's DeVoe received strong reviews. Critics described the Thinker as a quieter but more ideologically dangerous antagonist than Zoom or Cobalt Blue. His argument that the Flash acts faster than democratic consent was considered one of the season's strongest ideas, though some reviewers felt the show occasionally made DeVoe too persuasive before revealing the authoritarian logic of his plan. The finale was praised for rejecting both unaccountable heroism and total predictive control.
 
Maya Hawke's guest appearances as Caitlin Snow were generally praised for restraint. Critics noted that the season avoided overusing Caitlin after her death and allowed her brief appearances to serve Barry's moral development rather than reopen the loss for melodrama. Some fans wanted Hawke to appear more often, but reviewers largely agreed that limiting Caitlin to guest status preserved the impact of the second season.
 
Some criticism was directed at the number of villains introduced. A few reviewers argued that Sam Scudder, Mark Mardon, Axel Walker, and Roscoe Dillon could each have carried larger arcs in a longer season. Others felt the crowded villain roster worked because DeVoe's manipulation gave the Rogues a shared narrative purpose. The episode "The Trial of the Flash" was widely regarded as the season's standout installment, with praise for its dialogue, moral tension, and courtroom structure.
 
On review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the season holds an approval rating of 89% based on 50 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A sharper civic reckoning for Central City's hero, ''The Flash'' season four makes smart use of the Rogues and lets the Thinker challenge Barry Allen in ways speed cannot solve." On [[Metacritic]], the season has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
 
=== Audience viewership ===
Vesper+ reported that the fourth season premiere performed strongly, particularly among viewers who had followed the testimony archive campaign after the third season. The introduction of the Rogues was cited as a major driver of audience interest. Viewership reportedly increased for "The Trial of the Flash" and "The Thinker's City", with the finale becoming the season's most-watched episode during its first week of availability.
 
The service also reported strong engagement with the in-universe legal brief and Rogue files. Vesper+ did not release exact streaming figures.
 
=== Accolades ===
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| rowspan="8" align="center" | 2030
| [[Saturn Awards]]
| Best Superhero Television Series
| ''The Flash''
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Awards]]
| Best Actor in a Television Series
| [[Dacre Montgomery]]
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Awards]]
| Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series
| [[Rahul Kohli]]
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Awards]]
| Best Guest Performance in a Television Series
| [[Maya Hawke]]
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards]]
| Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie
| ''The Flash''
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards]]
| Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series
| "The Thinker's City"
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Hollywood Music in Media Awards]]
| Best Original Score in a TV Show/Limited Series
| [[Blake Neely]] and [[Hildur Guðnadóttir]]
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Critics' Choice Super Awards]]
| Best Superhero Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie
| ''The Flash''
| {{pending}}
|}
|}


== Future ==
==References==
Vesper+ renewed ''The Flash'' for a fifth season in December 2029. Goodwin said the fifth season would deal with the consequences of Team Flash's public charter and the future threat teased at the end of "The Thinker's City". He stated that the fourth season had moved Barry from private hero to publicly accountable protector, while the fifth would test whether that structure could survive threats from outside Central City's present.
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Goodwin also said the Rogues would remain part of the show's world rather than disappear after DeVoe's defeat. He described Leonard Snart as a character who had not become a hero but had become impossible to treat as a simple villain. The renewal announcement confirmed that Dacre Montgomery, Kiersey Clemons, Delroy Lindo, Rahul Kohli, Lakeith Stanfield, Jessica Henwick, William Fichtner, Tati Gabrielle, and David Thewlis were expected to return in some capacity.
 
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
==External links==
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The Flash
Season 4
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The fourth season of the American superhero television series The Flash, based on the Barry Allen incarnation of the Flash from DC Comics, consists of 13 episodes.

The season is divided into two parts. The first part consists of five episodes, while the second consists of eight episodes.

Episodes[edit | edit source]

Part One episodes
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Crisis in Central City
341"Crisis in Central City, Part 1"Marisol VegaAlex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Jordan Pike & Lena Ortiz & Devyn ColeNovember 1, 2030
An alternate-universe Barry Allen and Iris West are pulled into Central City as temporal distortions cause different periods of the city's history to overlap. Barry, Wally and Cisco encounter Edward Clariss, a speedster known as the Rival who originated from the timeline Barry erased after reversing Merrick Wren's exposure of his identity. Clariss reveals that the altered timeline erased his wife and son, while Cisco discovers that the Time Trapper restored Clariss and his powers. During Founders Night, Clariss fractures the plaza across several time periods and attempts to kill both versions of Iris. Barry intervenes and redirects Clariss's momentum, unintentionally killing him. Barry voluntarily surrenders while Cisco determines that the other actions Barry could have taken would also have resulted in a death. Barry is subsequently charged with second-degree murder and ordered to surrender his Flash equipment except during emergencies. The Time Trapper then declares Clariss's death the beginning of an "accounting" for Barry's alterations to time.
352"Crisis in Central City, Part 2"Darnell HayesAlex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Lena Ortiz & Naomi Pierce & Marcus ValeNovember 8, 2030
Barry pleads not guilty to second-degree murder as his trial begins, while Wally, Cisco and the alternate Barry respond to temporal distortions spreading across Central City. Testimony from both versions of Iris and the alternate Barry establishes that Clariss posed an immediate threat, although none can determine whether Barry had another safe option. Cisco later identifies one possible sequence in which everyone survives, but cannot establish whether Barry could have known to make that choice. The Time Trapper subsequently causes the courthouse to overlap with several periods of its history, forcing Judge Cole to temporarily authorize Barry's return as the Flash. Barry, Wally, Cisco and the alternate Barry evacuate the building before Barry confronts the Time Trapper, who continues blaming him for the consequences of his alterations to time. The Time Trapper later freezes Central City and gives Barry twenty-four hours for the trial to reach a verdict, warning that he will impose his own judgment if it does not.
363"Crisis in Central City, Part 3"Rafael SerranoAlex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Naomi Pierce & Marcus Vale & Jordan PikeNovember 15, 2030
As Barry's trial continues, Cisco testifies that although later simulations reveal several ways Clariss could have survived, a temporal compression limited the options Barry could perceive during the attack. Iris and the alternate Iris uncover evidence confirming that Clariss's erased wife and son existed, while Cisco discovers that the Time Trapper deliberately preserved Clariss after Barry altered history. Barry takes the stand, admitting that he killed Clariss but maintains that he intended only to prevent him from killing the two Irises. As temporal incursions spread across Central City, Barry, Wally, Cisco and the alternate Barry temporarily displace the Time Trapper, who reveals that he prevented the breach between their universes from closing and shortens his deadline in retaliation. The jury subsequently reaches a verdict, but before it can be announced, the Time Trapper transports the courthouse and everyone inside to Central City in 2166, demanding that the verdict be delivered there.
374"Crisis in Central City, Part 4"Devin RhodesAlex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Jordan Pike & Ren Ito & Lena Ortiz & Devyn ColeNovember 22, 2030
The jury acquits Barry of both second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter before the Time Trapper reveals that the courthouse has been transported to Central City in 2166. There, Dr. Lyra Mercer explains that five periods in the city's history are connected to an event known as the Split, in which two universes attempt to occupy the same temporal coordinates. Meanwhile, Wally, the alternate Barry and the alternate Iris investigate devices linking the five periods and initially disable several of them, only to discover that the devices are anchors preventing the timelines from separating. The Time Trapper reveals that Clariss's death is the fifth point and intends to use it to separate the two universes. After the anchors fail, the group is scattered across different periods of Central City's history. Barry is returned to Founders Plaza moments before Clariss's death, where the Time Trapper offers him the opportunity to change the event while warning that one universe must surrender its claim to history.
385"Crisis in Central City, Part 5"Kellan PriceAlex Brow & Tessa Morgan & Priya Shah & Jordan Pike & Lena Ortiz & Ren Ito & Naomi Pierce & Devyn ColeNovember 29, 2030
Barry refuses the Time Trapper's offer to prevent Clariss's death, accepting that changing the event would erase the consequences and choices that followed it. Cisco devises a plan to stabilize Central City's five temporal points using the natural rhythms of each era, with Wally restoring 1894, Eddie synchronizing the Mercury power grid in 1936, Cisco stabilizing 2026 and the alternate Barry securing 2166. A temporal echo of Clariss subsequently stabilizes the fifth point after asking Barry to remember his erased family. When the two universes begin collapsing together, Cisco uses Eddie's chronal pattern as a template while both Barrys run through the five points in opposite universal phases, successfully separating their realities without erasing either. The team then forces the Time Trapper into the space between moments, and the alternate Barry and Iris return home. Eddie's history becomes temporally stable, while Barry publicly reveals his identity to Central City, announcing that he is the Flash.
Normal season
396"Public Record"Avery KnoxAlex BrowMarch 4, 2031
Following Barry's public identity reveal, increased media attention disrupts his personal life and prompts CCPD to require independent review of cases involving the Flash. Iris is removed from the Flash beat because of their relationship. Barry and Eddie investigate Russell Glosson, a former Kord Dynamics scientist who can absorb and store kinetic energy, and Glosson later uses stolen capacitors to create a field that progressively removes motion across Central City. Because using his speed strengthens the field, Barry approaches Glosson without super-speed and discovers that the capacitors become unstable when their stored energy is depleted. With Wally and Cisco disabling external relays, Barry releases the central capacitor and convinces Glosson to help redirect its energy through a breach, preventing the destruction of downtown. Glosson is arrested, while Barry publicly establishes boundaries regarding his family and private life but confirms that he will continue operating as the Flash.
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