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Negative, Part One

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"No, the sacrifice isn't Thawne. It never was. The real sacrifice is..."
—Iris West-Allen[src]

"Negative, Part One" is the nineteenth episode of the eighth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-seventieth episode overall. It aired on June 22, 2022. It acts as the first half of a two-part episode.

Synopsis[]

The Flash and team are in for the fight of their lives, meanwhile, Iris discovers the cause of her time sickness.[src]

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The Flash reveals his identity to Meena and gives her the nickname Fast Track. Deon kills the imprisoned Thawne and attacks Meena and Flashpoint Thawne alongside Negative Force counterparts of Alexa Rivera and Bashir Malik. Iris reappears in 2049 and Joan Williams informs Bart and Nora that Iris' body is flooded with negative tachyons, preventing her from returning to 2022. Nora travels there to inform Team Flash and they realize that the Negative Forces infected Iris knowing that she would infect the Positive Forces. Meanwhile, Mark has Caitlin enter the Consciousness Resurrection Chamber (CRC). Cecile realizes that she stole Rosalind Dillon's powers. Joe brings them both to Iron Heights so Cecile can test her powers against Mona Taylor, but she ends up stealing her powers as well. Later, Barry helps Meena share her speed with Flashpoint Thawne and they fight the Negative Forces. Negative Deon summons Iris and uses her to shield himself from the Flash's attacks, killing her. The dead Thawne is resurrected in the other's body.

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  • There's apparently no Negative Nora or similar loved one for the Negative Speed Force as its avatar.
  • Meena Dhawan gets her sleek, dark and silver speedster outfit in this episode, along with her super-heroine name, Fast Track, as christened to her by Barry.
  • It's revealed that the Negative Still Force took a convoluted plan to restore the Reverse-Flash as the avatar of the Negative Speed Force.
    • The original Thawne was cut off from his own Force, while the time remnant meant to replace him altered his destiny out of love by using the BLOC on Meena instead.
  • 2049-Jay Garrick mentions his Barry is off-world dealing with the Chronarch; who was a threat Abra Kadabra mentioned.
  • 2049-Iris still has her natural hair color, despite her previous self from Nora's childhood memory having gray hair in her 40s. Suggesting Iris either went premature grey from grief over Barry dying in Crisis and worrying about Nora being a speedster, or this future-Iris just dyes her hair or ages slower thanks to exposure to the Speed Force.
  • The way the good Eobard time remnant turns into his evil counterpart is similar to the Doctor Who episode Planet of the Ood. The victims of such transformation hold their heads in pain and tear the skin off their heads in the process.
    • Moreover, this is a direct reference from the cover of "Running Scared", where Eobard rips Barry's body apart. Alternatively, Eobard's murder by his other self disguised as Harrison Wells mirrors the latter's death at the hands of Eobard in "Tricksters".

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