The Flash Series Finale Recap: An Evil Legion Assembles, a Near-Death, a Birth, a Big Return and New [Spoilers]

SINISTER SPEEDSTERS. ASSEMBLE!

Picking up where “A New World, Part 3” left off — with Eddie succumbing to the power of the blue crystal, “inside” of which he saw Godspeed, Zoom, Savitar and Reverse-Flash — “Part 4” opened with the quartet of past sinister speedsters convening at the Negative Speed Force version of the West home. Friendly, verbal fire was exchanged — lotsa clumsy, exposition-y smack-talking, plus Eobard winningly mocking Hunter Zolomon/Zoom for stealing his shtick as the “friend of Team Flash turned foe.” Eddie then appeared, eliciting taunts from his descendant Eobard for being “the dumbest branch on the family tree.” Until….

COBALT BLUE SUITS UP

Eddie presented the blue crystal the sinister speedsters before him, and transformed into a suited-up Cobalt Blue. The five-pack of foes were then united in a mission to use their combined might to kill The Flash once and for all, and in doing so change history.

TEAM FLASH VS. A LEGION

Just as Barry reappeared in the present to check in on an in-labor Iris at the hospital — as well as loop her in on Eddie being the NSF’s new avatar — Eddie Cobalt Blue materialized to taunt the man who stole his wife/life. When Bluey vowed to kill Barry and end his bloodline, and in doing so shut down the Speed Force and create a new timeline in which Eddie is the hero, Iris said those three little words: “Run, Barry. Run!”

And Barry ran, taking the fight to an esplanade facing STAR Labs, where Chillblaine and Khione, The Flash, Nora/XS, Allegra/Wavelength and Cecile/Virtue squared off against, respectively, Zoom, Cobalt Blue, Savitar, Eobard and Godspeed….

'DELTA MANEUVERS, NOW!'

As Barry bellowed the words above, everyone split off for their individual, pretty randomly assigned fight cards. I mean, who wasn’t thrilled to see Godspeed throw down with his mortal enemy… Virtue? And Eobard, bless him, tried to give his clash with Allegra some gravitas by gloating that he will kill her while “wearing the face” of her mentor, Nash. [Groan]

Anywho…

Savitar shish kabob’d XS just as he did her Mom some years ago, but she managed to “vibe” through the wound, grab his talon and then use it to stab him in the back…. Virtue and her vaguely defined “blasts” made quick work of Godspeed and his clones…. Wavelength, upon arriving at STAR Labs to find Chester dead-ish at Eobard’s hand, let loose with a pulse that KO’d the man in the yellow suit…. And I’m not quite sure how Zoom was bested, in that tunnel.

CHESTER ALMOST DIES, BECOMES A C.H.U.N.K.

After taking out Eobard, Allegra raced to lifeless Chester’s side, bawling. Begging him to come to. And sure enough, lest you think the series finale would have any good-guy casualty, Chester popped back to life. He and Allegra then shared a kiss that, if my math is correct, lasted longer than all nine seasons of #WestAllen kisses combined.

Afterward, Mark reported that Chester survived Eobard’s attack because, after his years-ago brush with black hole energy, he now is blessed with a “consciousness-honed, universally neutralized Kerr-anomaly.” Meaning, he now is a C.H.U.N.K. (which is a comic book nod).

JAY (BRIEFLY) SAVES THE DAY!

As for The Flash vs. Cobalt Blue — a brawl which wrecked poor Jitters one final, umpteenth time — Jay Garrick (played by John Wesley Shipp) showed up out of nowhere to suck the blue crystal power out of Cobalt, using a “trick I learned from my Earth-90 doppelgänger.”

So Cobalt was down, but not out….

COBALT BLUE SUPERSPEEDS UP!

Cobalt had one last trick up his sleeve, remotely absorbing the superspeed of Savitar, Zoom, Reverse-Flash and Godspeed, all of which left each baddie’s body and floated through the sky into the new villain.

After Cobalt left, Barry, Jay and Mark debated what to do next, since Eddie — a good guy, at heart — is now doomed to die, due to the OD of superspeed. Khione, a goddess, noted that she has the power to get Barry into the Negative Speed Force. But once there, what he will need to do is change Eddie’s point of view, if he is to avoid catastrophe and a full-on fracture of the timeline.

BARRY NEGOTIATES SPEED FORCE PEACE

Barry arrived at an NSF version of the loft, where Cobalt Blue kicked his ass six ways to Sunday, wrecking a lot of nice furniture along the way. Barry took the beating and didn’t fight back with might. Instead he used his words to convince Eddie that the two of them, as avatars of the two speed forces, can align with each other, end the cycle of killing and create a better world. Eddie agreed to the truce and shook Bar’s hand, while promising they won’t always “see eye to eye.” But even in such times, Barry suggested, they will work together to find a way.

AT LONG LAST, NORA IS BORN!

With the Speed Force truce negotiated and the threat neutralized, Barry was free to be at the hospital in time for Nora’s joyous birth — so many years in the making. (Get scoop on the filming of that scene in the exclusive video above.)

JOE SINGS US A TUNE....

Later, we even got a “live” performance from original cast member and Tony Award winner Jesse L. Martin, who sang an original lullaby that he wrote a few years ago for an Arrowverse friend’s daughter. (Get details on Martin’s original song, “Little Gregory Girl” — and Candice Patton’s thoughts on the scene)

KHIONE ASCENDS... AND CAITLIN RETURNS!

With the Negative Speed Force neutralized, Khione’s current purpose on Earth (as “the natural order’s protector of all things”) was fulfilled, and as some cosmic version of Wells had reminded her earlier at the hospital, she must now ascend.

But as Khione’s essence/soul/whatever ascended, she left behind the corporeal form that she (sorta kinda but not exactly?) had inhabited all these months. (Chester had a schmiencey explanation for it.) Whatever the case, welcome back, Dr. Caitlin Snow!

A PARTY... AND A PROPOSAL

At a loft celebration for baby Nora, Barry apologized to Caitlin for the harsh words they had exchanged shortly before she died… grown-up Nora played with her newborn self (which seems like playing with time-travel anomalies, but whatevs!)… and Joe clinked his glass before launching into a celebration of Cecile, after which he asked her to marry him. And while you may have cringed that she’d at some point in her reaction remark, “Finally!,” she did say it, and it was justified. (Who here forgot they were never actually married…?)

BARRY CREATES NEW SPEEDSTERS!

In the course of soothing a fussy newborn Nora with a version of his “impossible” story (that echoed the Flash pilot’s opening seconds), Barry spoke of how their family has been blessed with these “amazing gifts.” Bar recalled how his friend Oliver once said that that lightning “chose” Barry — but now, he is going to do the choosing!

And after taking a big wind-up that culminated on the Ferris Air Testing Facility airstrip (#PilotCallback!), Barry let loose with a flurry of lightning that found its way to Avery Ho (played again by Season 8’s Piper Curda)… Max Mercury (Resident Alien’s Trevor Carroll)… and Jess Chambers (Hana Destiny Huggins).

Together, he told li’l Nora, this expanded speedster family will create a world where “nothing has to be impossible.”

BABY NORA POWERS UP!

And lastly, lest anyone fret that baby Nora somehow won’t wield powers herself, the series leaves us with a little crackle of blue lightning in the wee one’s eyes.

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