"Snow Pack" is the nineteenth episode of the fifth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-eleventh episode overall. It aired on April 23, 2019.
Synopsis
When Icicle returns to enact the next phase of his devious plan, Caitlin and her mother, Dr. Carla Tannhauser, must resolve their long-combative relationship to defeat the icy monster. After Barry makes a big decision about their family without consulting her, Iris decides to take matters into her own hands.[1]
Trivia
- This episode title refers to the Snow family, whom Icicle planned to convert into ice personas permanently.
- When Iris and Ralph are preparing to use the time sphere to travel to the future, Iris asks Ralph if he's ready; Ralph then responds "All set to hit eighty-eight miles an hour". This is a reference to the Back to the Future franchise, and the fact that the DeLorean time machine used in the series needs to reach a speed of eighty-eight miles an hour to travel through time.
- This is the fourth episode of this season (and the series) not to feature Carlos Valdes (Cisco Ramon).
- The way Nora arrives in 2019 after exiting the Negative Speed Force is very similar to how the time remnant of Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash arrived in 2016 for the first time in "Potential Energy".
- The manner in which Thomas dies by sacrificing himself to save his daughter from Cicada is similar to how Quentin Lance died protecting Laurel, from Ricardo Diaz on Arrow's "Life Sentence".
- Near the end the way Future Grace is watching over her unconscious younger self, is similar to the ending of "Failure is an Orphan", when she watches over her unconscious uncle Orlin.
- The way Cicada killed Thomas was similar to how she killed her uncle Orlin in "Time Bomb".
- Thawne talking about his Negative Speed Force to Nora echoes how he spoke of the Speed Force during "Fast Enough" but negatively.
References
| The Flash season 5 | ||||
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| "Nora" • "Blocked" • "The Death of Vibe" • "News Flash" • "All Doll'd Up" • "The Icicle Cometh" • "O Come, All Ye Thankful" • "What's Past is Prologue" • "Elseworlds, Part 1" • "The Flash & The Furious" • "Seeing Red" • "Memorabilia" • "Goldfaced" • "Cause and XS" • "King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd" • "Failure is an Orphan" • "Time Bomb" • "Godspeed" • "Snow Pack" • "Gone Rogue" • "The Girl With The Red Lightning" • "Legacy" | ||||