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Armageddon, Part 5

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"Things were looking a little grim, but part of me was, admittedly, a little excited for a 'reunion' of old friends."

—Cisco Ramon[src]

This episode is part of a larger crossover series, Armageddon.

"You don't think I want to see him dead either? 'Cause I do. If I learned one thing being a cop, it's that you can't just protect the people you think are good. You have to protect everyone. That's what heroes do."
"I know that."
"Do you? A hero is not just in the name, Barry, or in a red suit. It's the choices we make that decide who and what we become. You know that."
—Joe West and Barry Allen

"Armageddon, Part 5" is the fifth and midseason finale episode of the eighth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-fifty-sixth episode overall. It aired on December 14, 2021. The episode is the fifth and final part of the five-part crossover, Armageddon.

Synopsis[]

The conclusion to Armageddon presents an opportunity for The Flash to end his lifelong battle with Reverse Flash for good, but the payoff could be too much for Barry and team to handle. Meanwhile, Mia Queen drops in from the future looking to save a lost loved one, and she won't let anything stand in her way.[src]

Plot[]

Joe is bewildered when Barry first rings him to check he's okay and then super-speeds into his living room. Barry briefly explains to him about Thawne and the Reverse-Flashpoint. They are interrupted by another visitor: Damien Darhk. He explains he's not there to cause trouble: He was pulled there by the portal from the time stone and expects to be erased and Nora restored. He asks for the time stone and Barry obliges.

At the CCPD, Daisy Korber and other officers are confronted by the Reverse-Flash. Back at STAR Labs, Barry and Joe fill in Iris, Caitlin, Cecile, Allegra and Chester. Caitlin is shocked that Frost and Chillblaine were married in the future Barry saw. Barry doesn't know much about Chester and Allegra's private lives but gives Chester the P.E.D. his future self built. Iris gets an alert about the Reverse-Flash being at the CCPD.

The Reverse-Flash is hitting the officers with speed lightning to draw out the Flash. Instead, he gets Green Arrow, who demands to know where William is. The Reverse-Flash doesn't know and she sees him starting to fade in and out. He comes close to killing her but is stopped by the Flash. The Reverse-Flash reveals the real reason for this: To ask the Flash to save him in front of witnesses.

Thawne is imprisoned behind a forcefield at STAR Labs while Mia is filled in. Mia followed Thawne's time trail there and is frustrated to hit another dead end. Caitlin decides to call Frost in for the decision. Mia is bewildered they are even considering saving Thawne. Barry tells Caitlin to check how long Thawne has: Since the time stone erased all other possibilities, Thawne won't come back like he did when Eddie changed history.

Iris finds Mia working out her frustrations on a punchbag. Mia tells her about William being kidnapped the night she became Green Arrow, leaving the Hōzen stone as her only clue, and how she's spent two years searching for him. Iris suggests going to Felicity for help but Mia thinks Felicity won't understand what she has to do. Iris says Oliver thought he had to kill to protect people and it ruined his life. Mia thinks Iris is too afraid to kill Thawne, even after all he's done to her.

Caitlin examines Thawne and learns he has two hours. Thawne thinks she, Barry and the others will save him. He mocks her for never moving on from Ronnie and instead staying there for eight years helping Barry and his team. Caitlin says Barry and the others are her family and she's spent eight years hating Thawne. She tells Barry they should let Thawne die. Barry visits Thawne himself, wondering why he spends so much time trying to ruin his life. Thawne says that in two hundred years time, he will master speed and prepare to present himself as a hero, only for the Flash to save the people he was going to. This made him determined to become faster than him. Barry considers him a sociopath. Thawne admits that if Barry saves him, he'll go on thinking of ways to kill him. Despero appears to Barry and says the future has changed but Thawne still returned: The only way to prevent Armageddon is to let him be erased, since Despero killing him won't stop him coming back.

Barry, Iris and Caitlin are all prepared to let Thawne die, pointing out he has caused this himself. Chester and Allegra are shocked that they would refuse to save anyone, and Cecile is uncertain. Joe asks to speak to Barry and Iris in private and angrily tells them heroes don't get to choose who to protect. Barry admits he knows a way to save Thawne: Taking his speed away, like Jefferson Pierce did with him. Joe says if they let Thawne die it'll destroy their family.

Barry and Iris outline the plan to Caitlin, Cecile, Allegra, Chester and Frost. Cisco has ARGUS waiting to take Thawne into custody when they're done. Despero possesses Mia, then confronts the team in person and transports himself and the Flash to the city. He is unimpressed with the Flash's plan, pointing out Thawne has regained his powers before. The Flash realises Despero lied about his past: He wasn't the rebel leader but the despot. The two of them battle.

Frost thinks she and Allegra should go to help Barry but Iris sends them to protect Thawne instead. They are taken out by the possessed Green Arrow in the corridor. All the power in STAR Labs goes down except Thawne's forcefield. Green Arrow attacks the Cortex, wounding Caitlin and preparing to kill Iris. Iris and Cecile appeal to Mia, with Cecile using her empathic powers to boost her, and Mia breaks the possession. Despero senses this and sends the Flash back to STAR Labs. Chester detects a power build-up: Despero is preparing to destroy the entire city.

While Frost looks after Mia, the rest of the team converse. Allegra proposes stopping Despero and saving Thawne. Cecile looks at Caitlin, who confirms she's on board with the plan. Barry notes that Despero's using the Flame of Py'tar, which can be put out by a vacuum like any other flame, but he needs something to disperse the energy. Chester says the material from the P.E.D. could do it, so he's used it to build a set of boots for the Flash. The Flash speeds around Despero, then up the side of a building before landing on him, causing the flames to be dispelled into the atmosphere. Despero is horrified that his connection to the Flame has gone and disappears, swearing revenge.

Barry returns to STAR Labs, where Caitlin, Iris, Cecile, Allegra and Chester are waiting by Thawne's cell. He hits Thawne with a charge of speed lightning, and Caitlin reports there's no Negative Speed Force left in him. Thawne is far from grateful, accusing Barry of taking his life.

With everything settled, Barry, Iris, Caitlin, Cecile, Chester and Mia retire to an expensive bar, where they are met by Darkh. Mia holds a knife to his throat, saying she knows what he did to Laurel Lance, then declares she needs a drink. Darkh laments to Barry how he's still there even though the timeline's reset. Iris tells Mia she's looked into the Hōzen and found the symbol on some heavily redacted files from Berlin. Mia decides to contact Felicity after all, and Iris tells her to pop by while she's in their time.

Joe, Frost and Allegra join the group. Frost notices Chester looking longingly at Allegra and advises him to talk to her, but their awkward flirting is cut short by Barry, thanking them for calling him out. Joe and Damien talk about how fatherhood improves you. With a flash of insight, Damien gives the time stone to Joe. He finds himself in a limbo with Nora, and notes at least he got to see her again. Nora appears in the bar, taking Damien's place, and Joe comforts her. Barry proposes a toast to the rest of the team, to protecting their destiny together.

At CCPD, Daisy notes to another officer that things are back to normal now. They pass a wall covered in photographs. One of them shows a team shot from New Year's Eve 2014...and Nora and Bart appear in the back of the shot.

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  • In continuity of the Arrowverse, Mia time travels to 2021 from 2042, two years after William Clayton's abduction in "Green Arrow & The Canaries", set in 2040.
  • This is the first episode to feature a one-on-one scene between Caitlin Snow and Eobard Thawne, not counting the deleted scene from "The Trap".
  • The boots were added to the Flash's suit in this episode, having previously been referenced in the Season 2 episode "Running to Stand Still" with drawings at James Jesse/Trickster's prison cell.
  • Eobard's backstory seems to draw from his DC Rebirth origins, in which Eobard would endanger people and then save them to make himself appear as a hero.
  • Eobard's origin story here conflicts with what his original version said in Reverse-Flash Returns. His original backstory was that Eobard became Reverse-Flash after the first time he time traveled and he realized he was never going to be the Flash. However, here he claims that the reason he became the Reverse-Flash was because The Flash time traveled to the future and humiliated Eobard by saving the crowd that Eobard was supposed to save.
    • This was most likely a Post-Crisis change after Oliver Queen and Paragons reset the multiverse.
  • Eobard implies that his time lacks the abundance of threats and criminals that Barry's does; which would explain his petty rage at the Flash stealing his moment of glory. Because he would only be seen as a pretender and copycat after the Flash.
  • Iris West-Allen discovered clues to William's whereabouts from redacted documents in Berlin, related to markings seen on the altered Hōzen Mia brought with her from the future. Mia also mentioned she would ask her mother, Felicity Smoak, to assist her in declassifying the files.
    • The implication of markings found on the future Hōzen, tied to Trevor's Deathstroke gang and their unknown female benefactor in 2040, originating from a location in 2021 strongly infers that the antagonists of Green Arrow & The Canaries are associated with an unspecified faction in Berlin from twenty years prior. As this relates to William's future kidnapping, Mia presumably would be attempting to undo the events leading to William's kidnapping and John Diggle, Jr.'s brainwashing in 2040.
  • Nora Darhk expresses sorrow at having to lose her father again, referencing the events of "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac".

Goofs[]

  • Despero attempting to destroy the city in order to kill Thawne contradicts him telling Barry that Thawne had to be erased, not killed, in order to ensure his death earlier in the episode.
    • However, he might have changed his mind out of rage for Barry.
  • The ending shot shows Bart and Nora appearing in a photo from New Year's Eve in 2014. However, as seen in "Impulsive Excessive Disorder", the picture was actually taken on New Year's Eve in 2013.

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