Into the Speed Force

"I'm gonna save Wally."
"How exactly are you going to do that?
"I'm going back into the Speed Force."

—Barry Allen and Julian Albert

"Into the Speed Force"
Information
Season 3 » Episode 16
Episode number	62 of 184
Original airdate	March 14, 2017
Written by	Brooke Roberts Judalina Neira
Directed by	Gregory Smith
Guest stars
Tom Felton as Julian Albert (special appearance by) Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond (special guest star) Rick Cosnett as Eddie Thawne (special guest star) Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (special guest star) Violett Beane as Jesse Wells/Jesse Quick John Wesley Shipp as The Flash Andre Tricoteux as Savitar
Chronology
Preceded by	"The Wrath of Savitar"
Followed by	"Duet"
Blog post	Post 53 "#MetaBromance"

"Into the Speed Force" is the sixteenth episode of the third season of The Flash, and the sixty-second episode overall. It aired on March 14, 2017.

Synopsis

Desperate to stop Savitar and save his friends, Barry turns to the speed force for answers to rescue Wally. H.R. gives Jesse some advice.

Gallery

Videos

The Flash Inside Into The Speed Force The CW

The Flash Into The Speed Force Scene The CW

Sneak Peek #1

The Flash 3x16 Sneak Peek "Into the Speed Force" (HD) Season 3 Episode 16 Sneak Peek

Sneak Peek #2

Trivia

• H.R. refers to the Speed Force as a "Negative World", to which Cisco is surprised that Earth-19 has Super Mario. They are presumably referring to the Minus World, a level in the very first Mario video game that is often regarded as one of the most well known glitches in video game history.
• Cisco exclaims "By George, I think he's got it!", closely quoting a line popularized in the 1964 film My Fair Lady.
• This episode features 5 speedsters, more than any other episode of the series: Barry Allen/The Flash/Savitar, Wally West/Kid Flash, Jesse Wells/Jesse Quick, Jay Garrick/The Flash, and Hunter Zolomon/Black Flash.
• Julian classifies Savitar's blade as an unknown material, akin to a Luttinger liquid. A Luttinger liquid is a material of strongly interacting electrons, confined to one spatial dimension. Such materials have indeed unusual properties and clearly deviate from ordinary metallic behavior.
• As he is "vibing" Barry into the Speed Force, Cisco says "to infinity and beyond", the famous catchphrase of the toy space ranger Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story franchise.
• H.R. mistakes the Peanuts character Schroeder with the famous thought experiment Schrödinger's cat. He then remarks how on his Earth it is Charlie Brown that plays the piano.
• When Jesse suggested that Savitar's blade would find its way back to him, Cisco likened it to the 1999 film The Iron Giant, which ends with the title character's parts pulling themselves together to rebuild him.
• The scene where Barry is entering the S.T.A.R. Labs portion of the speed force and Caitlin is singing the lullaby "Hush, Little Baby" resembles the beginning of a flashback sequence Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker in which Batman walks through a building as Harley Quinn sings the same lullaby.
• The Speed Force comments that Jay was getting slow in his "golden age", referencing the period of comics in which Jay originally appeared.
• This is the second time Barry goes into the Speed Force, the first being in the Season 2 episode "The Runaway Dinosaur".
• H.R. saying "He's not a god, he's just a man, baby!" closely follows the line "That ain't no woman, it's a man, baby!" from Mike Myers's character in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.