The Flash Season 2 Recap

Season two starts with Barry remembering what happened after the wormhole emerged over Central City. After Ronnie and Stein aka F.I.R.E.S.TO.R.M separated inside the wormhole hole, we see a figure falling from the sky. Barry races to catch them before they hit the ground. Only one survived. It was Stein. Ronnie unfortunately didn't make it. This series is filled with emotional climaxes and moments that are amazing and iconic. The main square in Central City has bee redecorated and what looks like a remembrance day and celebration that Central City is now safe. What a naïve city! Barry felt terrible about receiving a commendation and a Key to the City when it wasn't him that saved the city. Soon after this scene a man came to visit Barry at his desk in the Police Station and would hand him a memory stick. It was revealed that this man was the attorney of Dr. Harrison Wells who died in Season 1. After a conversation with Caitlin, the two of them sat in STAR Labs and watched the video clip on the memory stick. It was a confession. Dr Harrison Wells confessed to the murder of Nora Allen 15 years prior. In this emotional scene, by the confession it meant that Barry's father could be released and his record would be erased. Barry cried and later in that episode, Henry was a free man after 15 years in prison for a murder he rightfully did not commit.

The biggest mystery of Season 2 was Who was Zoom. Zoom started sending metahumans from another earth through breaches/ portals in space to fight Barry. Team Flash couldn't understand why he was doing this. His first metahuman that Zoom sent was a meta called Atom Smasher ( guest starring former WWE wrestler Edge). Of course with the help of Team Flash, he was defeated. A jaw-dropping moment was the appearance of Harrison Wells... Who you saw die in the series finale of Season 1.

He begins to explain that because of the wormhole over Central City, this opened smaller wormholes that could send a passage to different Earths. This Wells is from Earth-2. Zoom calls himself a Speed Demon, which is fitting because of is very deep voice and some sort of demonic claws in his suit

Team Flash head to Earth 2 to give a better understanding of Zoom and gather all research Wells has conducted towards his true identity. No one knows who Zoom really is... But this becomes the biggest question of all during the series. Zoom is the enemy of Jay Garrick from Earth-2. The singularity opening opened on all Earths and theories suggest that it brought Jay Garrick to Earth-1 through the gravitational pull of the wormhole. Jay Garrick would become and ally. He would teach Barry on how to get faster and unlock skills he could use against Zoom but would also become a love interest for Caitlin.

Throughout the series Zoom would send Black Siren (Black Canary's evil doppelganger, King Shark , Doctor Light , Solovar , Killer Frost , Deathstorm , Reverb , Rupture and Sand Demon. Half way through the season, Grodd returns. When Wells died in Season 1, Grodd was captured and send to Gorilla City, a safe place where Gorillas like him can roam free and well away from civilisation.

Zoom reveals that he is after Barry's speed. Of course Barry would give that up but he wouldn't have a choice later on in the season.

The big reveal was that Jay Garrick, who had become a mentor of sorts to Barry and love interest for Caitlin, was not actually Jay Garrick; his name was Hunter Zolomon and he was a serial killer on Earth-2. He was affected by his Earth’s particle accelerator explosion and also became an evil speedster named Zoom. Zoom wasn't originally super fast. he was as fast as Barry but he started taking a serum called Velocity-9 that would make his super fast but terminally ill. That's why he needed Barry's Speed. He needed non-tainted speed particles to counteract his dying cells.

In season 2, we visited Earth-2 and met the doppelgangers of our main characters. Earth-2’s Harrison Wells spent most of the season working with Team Flash at S.T.A.R. Labs. It was made aware that Zoom kidnapped Wells' daughter, Jesse. Wells even made a deal with the devil... If you will... and stole some of Barry's speed and gave it to Zoom. This is when he felt obliged to reveal that his daughter was being held in Zoom's lair in Earth-2. Barry turned out to be a very nerdy but powerless crime scene investigator who was married to Iris. Earth-2 Iris was a highly decorated cop while Joe, surprisingly, was a lounge singer in CCJitters. He turned out to hate Barry.

Then there was Cisco, who was a metahuman named Reverb, and Caitlin, a metahuman named Killer Frost. Both, alongside Ronnie’s doppelganger, Deathstorm, and Laurel’s doppelganger, Black Siren, worked for Zoom. Reverb, Killer Frost, and Deathstorm were killed while Black Siren was locked in the pipeline on Earth-1.

But perhaps the biggest twist of all was the identity of the real Jay Garrick: he was the Earth-3 doppelganger of Henry Allen and that world’s Flash. That was a slap in the face for Barry, who’d just lost his father.

The West family saw a big shakeup in season 2, as Francine West returned to reveal that she was dying and wanted to make amends with Iris before her death. It took Iris a while to get there, but she did, shortly before Francine’s death. But Francine wasn’t the only family member to appear; it turns out Francine was pregnant when she left town. She had a boy, Wally, and raised him on her own.

After Francine’s death, Joe invited Wally into the family. There were some bumps along the way — particularly in the form of Wally’s obsession with drag racing — but he eventually came around after having his life saved by The Flash. And when he realized Barry was The Flash, that struck him even more.

The first part of The Flash season 2 saw Barry dating a detective, Patty Spivot, while Iris grieved for the loss of Eddie. Barry and Patty had excellent chemistry, so her sudden departure at mid-season was a disappointment. Meanwhile, Iris began to come to terms with the fact that she had romantic feelings for Barry.

Prior to Henry’s death, Barry and Iris decided to give a relationship a try. But with Henry’s death and Barry’s grief, even Iris’ love wasn’t enough to keep Barry from changing history.

At the end of the season, Wally and Jesse was struck by a particle accelerator blast. Though no powers manifested by the end of the season, it’s hard to imagine they won’t in the future.

Though the mentor-turning-villain was a rehash from season 1, the focus on Barry and Zolomon being mirror images of one another set the series apart. Zoom always seemed to come out ahead of Barry, whether it was forcing him to give up his speed for Wally’s life or killing his recently freed father, Henry, in front of him. Until the very end, that is, when Barry used Zolomon’s own trick of summoning a time remnant to defeat him. A time remnant is when a speedster goes back in time by a second and meets himself.

In the end, Zolomon, in a horrifying scene, was dragged away by Time Wraiths for the damage he did to the timeline.

In the final moments of season 2, Barry made a decision that will have major ramifications going into season 3. With his grief over the lost of his father clouding his thoughts, Barry travelled back in time to the night of his mother’s murder, just like in the season 1 finale.

But while in that finale Barry realized he couldn’t change history, he did stop the Reverse Flash from killing his mother.

The world is about to change, and that world will be known as Flashpoint

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This season is an emotional rollercoaster filled with excitement, gasps, jaw drops and utter sadness