The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2

"Our love story never ends, Barry. Not even with Crisis."
"Iris, it's inevitable."
"Maybe. But whether you vanish or or worse, I am gonna be there with you. I'm gonna be right there with you to the very end, okay? Because the only thing more inevitable than Crisis is us."

—Barry Allen to Iris West-Allen

"The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-twenty-second episode overall. It aired on December 3, 2019.

It acts as the second half of a two-part episode.

Synopsis

With the Flash freshly infected by the monstrous Bloodwork, Iris and Cisco battle to help Barry take control of himself before he’s lost forever to Ramsey's influence. Meanwhile, the rest of Team Flash fight to reclaim control of Central City from Bloodwork's growing army.[src]

Cast

Starring

• Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash/Dark Flash
• Candice Patton as Iris West-Allen
• Danielle Panabaker as Dr. Caitlin Snow/Frost
• Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon
• Hartley Sawyer (credit only)
• Danielle Nicolet as Defense Attorney Cecile Horton
• Tom Cavanagh as Dr. Harrison Nash Wells
• Jesse L. Martin as Captain Joe West

Guest starring

• Sendhil Ramamurthy as Dr. Ramsey Rosso/Bloodwork
• Victoria Park as Kamilla Hwang
• Kayla Compton as Allegra Garcia
• Meera Simhan as Rachel Rosso

Co-starring

• Kailey Spear as Terrified Civilian 1
• Samantha Spear as Terrified Civilian 2

Uncredited

• LaMonica Garrett as Mobius/Anti-Monitor (voice)

Trivia

• The final scene with Harrison Nash Wells is also used in Supergirl, Batwoman and Arrow in their final episodes before Crisis. Only in this episode is that scene’s context given.
• Cisco Ramon had Babel Protocols built just in case just in case the Flash ever went "dark" at S.T.A.R. Labs. This is a reference to JLA: Tower of Babel, where Batman similarly made contingency plans for if the Justice League ever went rogue.
• Barry’s infected form is based on his Negative Flash form from the comics, although Cisco refers to him as "Dark Flash". Previously, this nickname was given to Eobard Thawne in his Reichsmen outfit in concept art for Crisis on Earth-X. In the comics, this name refers to Walter West, a doppelgänger of Wally’s that used his speed to become a brutal vigilante.
• This is the last episode of The Flash to use the title card since Season 4.
• The H.R. Wells quote Cecile mentions was something he said to Joe West in "Killer Frost".

Gallery

References

The Flash season 6

"Into the Void" • "A Flash of the Lightning" • "Dead Man Running" • "There Will Be Blood" • "Kiss Kiss Breach Breach" • "License to Elongate" • "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 1" • "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2" • "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" • "Marathon" • "Love Is A Battlefield" • "A Girl Named Sue" • "Grodd Friended Me" • "Death of the Speed Force" • "The Exorcism of Nash Wells" • "So Long and Goodnight" • "Liberation" • "Pay the Piper" • "Success Is Assured"