Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20170517002342/@comment-29619010-20170517110357

Rewile wrote: First of all, I just wanna say that this episode deserves an A++ imo. I love how they brought back Captain Cold and just the role he plays in the episode in all and how they redeemed his relationship with Barry throughout the series. Savitar pretending to be Barry was done in such a clever way. The fight between Wally and Savitar. All of the universal cameos. Probably my favorite episode this season.

Now to move on to what I think is actually going on.

My opinion:

It is definetely not Iris. It's HR using the facial recognition tech. I am 100% sure of this and here are my reasons to why:

1) They brought back the facial recognition tech; and not only did it play a pivotal role in the episode, but they showed us the extent of it's capacity. It doesn't just replicate the person's face, but their whole body structure.

2) HR's redemption; HR screwed up, got Iris caught and now feels like he needs to make up for it. Given his creativity, he would probably be the one to elaborate such a plan and take Iris' place. Barry wouldn't know so Savitar wouldn't know, Savitar is going to think that he won.

3) HR's relationship with the rest of the team; we see that HR and Tracy Brand have officially become a couple, killing HR would crush Tracy, but it would also make room for another character to take his place, I'm talking about E2 Harry who is widowed.

Before Cisco leaves, HR tells him "Till next time.", which seems like a farewell to me.

4) The camera focuses on the metal finger, which HR is looking down upon. Is this where HR comes up with the plan, does the metal finger symbolize that he is about to be stabbed by it?

5) HR is nowhere to be found in the last scene. When Cisco vibed the future in episode 10, we saw HR on the roof (or it could've been E2 Harry), either way, HR isn't there, and that means that he could've switched places with Iris.

There are more reasons to point HR as the victim to Savitar's "one shall fall prophecy", primarily that it being Iris would've been way to obvious at this point. Also I'd like to note that HR is a good actor, he knows Iris and could've easily posed as her to trick Savitar.

I personally do not think that Iris is dead. I think it's HR and to only hole to my theory is how. How did he manage to switch places with Iris? But, we'll have a whole episode to answer that question.

Anyway I'd like to say that I respect everyone's opinion on this matter and I'm open for friendly debates. Great episode deserves A++ You've put my thoughts into words!! Thank you! After I finished the episode (and after many, many tears) I thought about everything. The way they brought back the Earth-19 tech which was used briefly and didn't have a big of a role, HR proposing to Tracy to work with them at S.T.A.R. labs, which really reminded me of Iris saying her wedding vows in a video for Barry (only that HR and Tracy only just started dating, and he wanted her to start working with them even after he dies), his speech with Cisco that was very self-loathing, talking about how useless he is to the team and that his "big fat mouth" is what caused Savitar to get Iris, looking at Savitar's arm. All of it leads that HR is in fact the one who died, not Iris.