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Though there were no civilian deaths, “the hero who has saved our city countless times has turned against us,” the anchor reports. The tense moment is cut short by a breaking news report on Iris’ phone and then the TV, in which the anchor tees up video of The Flash hurling bolts willy-nilly at bystanders after besting Zotar. “Dammit, Barry! Joe is gone, why can’t you just accept that?” she wails, recounting her already-difficult effort to “move on.” Iris reminds her husband, “You gave the eulogy at his funeral,” while Cecile enters to find Barry denying the tragic truth. “Where is he? WHERE IS HE?!” he demands to know, before spotting a memorial plaque on the mantel, alongside a ceremonial folded flag. Completely puzzled and a bit horrified, Barry speeds over to the West home, frightening Iris with his superspeed search for Joe. “Joe died six months ago,” Caitlin reminds him. And he is met by looks, and “That was not funny” observations. Determined to throw some lightning athis foe but unable to run, Barry vibrates his cells on a molecular level, generating a surge in electricity that ultimately releases itself as a pulse that KO’s Zotar and shatters some car windows.Ĭoming off of that win, Barry suggests to the famished team that they go hang at Joe and Cecile’s and see if Joe might bust out the family jambalaya recipe. Using old-school tech, Team Flash gets a lead on Zotar in the midst of an art heist, and this time she surprises The Flash with her telekinesis, raising him into the air and bending his body like a spoon. Barry notes that he has endured crises before, so whatever is coming, “I can handle it.” And though he led a successful rebellion, when it came time to “cut the head off the snake” of their oppressors, he misguidedly showed mercy - and was spared but banished to Earth as his punishment. Despero explains that his home planet, Kalanor, was overrun by an evil despot. While Caitlin helps Frost set up an ersatz med bay at their place and Chester and Allegra set up shop in Chester’s garage, Barry confronts Despero, asking why the alien cares so much about Earth’s alleged Armageddon. Caitlin runs some diagnostics, though, and Barry seems fine…. Led to the site of a jewelry heist, The Flash confronts the psychic metahuman and charges at her… only to wind up tumbling into Caitlin’s place, where a BFG-toting Caitlin, Chester and Allegra are all horrified, and insist that Barry just attacked them/barely missed Chester with a lightning blast. With everyone regrouping at Caitlin’s, Barry tasks Iris and the Citizen with getting a lead on “Zotar,” the name a bank guard kept repeating after losing his mind earlier. Realizing that assorted failsafes fritzed out, Chester confirms same, and the feds order an evacuation so that they can seal off and eventually destroy the building - but not before Barry has Gideon block off Team Flash areas with holograms, and Chester and Allegra grab as much tech as they can. Having already lost his job, Barry next learns that the feds are on site shutting down STAR Labs, due to an undetected imminent radiation overload (or something). “It’s just been hard lately…,” she starts to say, until Despero interrupts. When Barry drops in on Cecile for legal advice, he detects that she is a bit on edge. “If Joe were here right now…,” she says ahead of a pep talk, drawing more attention to his Season 8 absence thus far. The next such clue comes when at a crime scene, Kristin Kramer orders Barry to stand down because he is being investigated for possible federal crimes (i.e. And that stray comment, paired with Cecile’s peculiar reaction to Chester last week quipping that Ray was “dead to him,” marks the second clue that perhaps we (and Barry) have been missing something.