The Flash: Season 8

In 2031 Central City, psychic alien Despero witnesses the end of the world. Six months after the Godspeed war, Barry Allen's skills have gradually improved. After stopping a train collision in record time, he apprehends the Royal Flush Gang during a cryptocurrency heist. Iris West-Allen heads the larger and stronger Central City Citizen Media and interviews Kristen Kramer, who has disbanded the meta task force. She promotes Allegra Garcia, who struggles to control her new staff, but is able to s

Despero informs Barry that he will lose himself to madness. The following day, Barry investigates an insane security guard, but Kramer forces him to turn in his badge over a federal investigation suggesting that he was a mole for Joseph Carver. Later, S.T.A.R. Labs is raided and shut down after a radiation spike, so Barry has Gideon erase everything. Alex Danvers assists Team Flash in researching Despero and learns about his home planet of Kalanor, that was destroyed by an evil despot, and his p

In compliance with the Injustice Protocols, Barry asks Jefferson to remove his powers. He begins to, but stops when Barry mentions Despero. Barry lashes out at Jefferson, but is eventually convinced to stand down. Meanwhile, Iris suspects that Barry was framed and that Joe's death was set up. She investigates with Allegra, discovering a unique set of coincidences that suggest foul play. She begins to see temporal particles and meets with Deon Owens, who discovers that someone tapped into the Neg

Barry finds that he is the Reverse-Flash in this new timeline. Thawne reveals that he killed Joe and framed Barry for the attacks in Central City, then traveled back in time to kill Barry as a child and became The Flash. At midnight, the Reverse-Flashpoint timeline will solidify and Barry will disappear. Barry partners with this timeline's Damien Darhk and plots revenge against Thawne, but Darhk learns Barry's true nature and helps Barry restore the original timeline upon learning that his daugh

Barry reunites with Joe, but the two are interrupted by Darhk, whose erasure is being delayed due to his Time Stone. Thawne attacks CCPD, but is stopped by Barry and Mia Queen, who is searching for her brother William Clayton. Thawne asks Barry to save him from his own erasure. Despero returns and urges Barry to let Thawne die, but Joe convinces Barry and Iris to let him live. Despero takes control of Mia and has her hold off Team Flash while he threatens to destroy Central City to take out Thaw

After their parents' vow renewals, Bart and Nora return to 2049 to find Jay Garrick alive and Joan Williams erased. Their and Godspeed's overuse of the Cosmic Treadmill caused temporal shifts, so they travel back to the earliest one on December 31, 2013, when Joe was shot during a jewelry heist. While posing as intern CSIs on a coffee run for Eddie, they meet a girl named Avery who is studying quantum mechanics. Bart rescues Joe from being shot, but this only changes the timeline more, as metahu

Kramer is frustrated by how the Flash drops off criminals without context. Joe suggests that Kramer have a line to the Flash, but Barry is hesitant. That night, Goldface leads a gas attack on CCPD in search of bullets that can remove metahuman abilities, knocking out Barry and Kramer. They awaken with explosive meta-dampening cuffs, though Kramer's mimic abilities are able to short-circuit them. Despite her inability to control her powers, Barry inspires her to mimic Goldface's abilities to stal

The recently-paroled Jaco Birch is arrested for the incineration of O'Shaughnessy's manager Stan Mullen, whom he was arguing with a night prior. He professes his innocence and his desire to be there for his son Harold. With there being no hard evidence against Jaco and with it being Henry Allen's birthday, Barry tries to convince his team of Jaco's innocence. Flash and Frost find bartender Donna Winters incinerated, but Chester discovers that the methods of burning do not match Jaco's abilities.

Deon visits Iris to treat her for her "time sickness," though he is unsure of what it is or how she contracted it. Barry and Chester discover another incineration and contain a mysterious "Black Flame" from it. Chester has a nightmare of it breaking out. The Black Flame does so and he fears that it is the ghost of his father Quincy. It manifests as him and strikes again; Cecile realizes that it is feeding off of Chester's grief. Chester rejects the entity and it disappears. Joe returns and state

Deon tells Barry and Iris that she is causing time to fracture around her. After Frost is attacked by the Black Flame, she and Carla Tannhauser enact a plan to amplify Frost's cryokinetic abilities to draw it out and trap it in a fusion sphere, but fail, injuring Frost. Caitlin is upset that Carla would use Frost as bait, but Carla reveals that she will soon develop cryokinetic abilities, so the plan will work if she and Frost draw out the Black Flame together. However, the sphere's structural i

Ronnie begs Caitlin to save him. At S.T.A.R. Labs, she recognizes each of the Black Flame victims and realizes that it has been searching for her. Despite Barry's suspicions that the Black Flame is manipulating her, she and Chester devise a plan to rescue him. She also tells Marcus, who then breaks up with her. Ronnie contacts Cecile and begs her to set him free. She feels his agony and proposes to Team Flash that they put him out of his misery. The Black Flame then goes to where Ronnie and Cait

The Flash rescues Caitlin from Deathstorm, who escapes and continues incinerating people. Cecile connects to S.T.A.R. Labs' search systems to track him, but he possesses her and demands Caitlin. He then attacks with a manifestation of Esperanza Garcia and kidnaps Caitlin, planning to make her his bride, but then releases her since she "isn't ready." Team Flash finds that Ronnie's grief was transported away by the singularity and that it has been traveling through space for seven years. Chester b

Eddie, a manifestation conjured by Deathstorm, attempts to goad Iris into grieving his death, but she resists. Sue wakes up and they contact Joe for help. At S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin's condition worsens. Deathstorm attacks S.T.A.R. Labs and sends ghosts from Team Flash's past to haunt them and feed off their grief, fueling Caitlin's transformation. Deathstorm tells Frost that she has no grief or real emotions, since she is a copy of Caitlin made only for protecting her. Mark arrives at S.T.A.R. La

Team Flash struggles to adjust to Frost's absence. Allegra and Cecile join the Flash in the field to stop Blockbuster, a bank robber who stole a powerful exosuit from Ivo Labs, but fail to detain him as he flees with untraceable cloaking technology. Iris collects stories about Frost's positive impact to use in her obituary. Chester and Allegra argue over the right way to honor Frost and Mark gets drunk at O'Shaughnessy's. Barry completes every item on Frost's bucket list. He convinces Caitlin to

Barry realizes that Iris is missing and goes to Tinya for help, but to no avail. Deon returns and states that Iris is lost in the Still Force. Against Joe's advice, Barry follows him in with an isotopic sensor that can help locate her. They find Renee, but she vanishes again. Deon finds a temporal particle in place of Iris, but steals it, destroys the sensor, and escapes. Barry gets trapped in a facsimile of Joe's house with Nora, who Deon dragged in from 2049. Eventually, Barry connects to the

Captain Singh asks Barry to locate a gamma absorption array stolen from Mercury Labs. He finds the thief, Pytor Orloff, but is blasted by the array, causing him to age 30 years. The more Barry uses his speed, the faster he ages. He struggles to catch Orloff while suffering from body pain and memory loss. He and Cecile find a laptop with his work and Chester deduces that Orloff's plan is to become immortal by stealing energy from everyone in Central City, aging them hundreds of years. He activate

A new speedster stops a fire at Ivo Labs, but also steals a Newton Battery. Fearing it could be Thawne, Barry checks on him on Lian Yu. Thawne is aware of Frost's death and deduces that the speedster started the fire by accident. Meanwhile, Lydia informs Allegra about hostility from their former gang, the Arañas, now led by Kimiyo Hoshi and Millie Rawlins. They attack CCC Media during an interview, so Chester activates a forcefield. Taylor exposes Allegra as a former member of the Arañas to her

Barry is shown the Biometric Lightning Oscillation Chamber (BLOC), which grants her speed, and is introduced to its co-inventor: the time remnant of Thawne from Flashpoint, though he does not remember his past or Barry. Barry tries to stop Meena from using the BLOC, but it connects her to the Negative Speed Force and she begins draining power junctions. The alternate Thawne states that he fell in love with Meena and had visions of the BLOC, but was unaware of the Negative Speed Force. He reminds

The Flash reveals his identity to Meena and gives her the nickname Fast Track. Deon kills the imprisoned Thawne and attacks Meena and Flashpoint Thawne alongside Negative Force counterparts of Alexa Rivera and Bashir Malik. Iris reappears in 2049 and Joan Williams informs Bart and Nora that Iris' body is flooded with negative tachyons, preventing her from returning to 2022. Nora travels there to inform Team Flash and they realize that the Negative Forces infected Iris knowing that she would infe

The Negative Forces transform Thawne into their new avatar. In the Negative Speed Force, they explain to Barry that this is their revenge for when he weakened them by removing Thawne's speed. Meanwhile, Cecile rescues Bashir and transfers her powers to him, which he uses to rescue the other Forces so they can aid Barry. Iris is saved by the Time Stone and Damien Darhk helps her resurrect herself. Jay Garrick reunites her with Barry. With help from the Forces, he reverses a powerful attack from T