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Nora has an idea to make Young Grace wake up and make the right choice to take the cure, and stop Cicada II’s birth that way. Cisco then tracks the Swiss ash shard to the parkland where Cicada almost killed him. And yep, it works, except for some “language skill” issues. Puzzling with Caitlin and Cisco over Ralph’s wonky state, Sherloque suggests blasting him to wake him up, and thus activate his muscle memory. So, stop Cicada or stop Thawne? Barry votes for the former. Grace, meanwhile, is back at the cabin, where her uncle counsels her to repair the time sphere and use it to disseminate the bad cure the night of the particle accelerator explosion, this “destroying the metas before they destroy the world.”Īs we see the 2049 prison guard “gift” Thawne with something from the Flash Museum - a chain with a Flash ring on it, oops! - back in the present, Sherloque explains that if they destroy the dagger now, Thawne will pull off a “reverse time hack” and get free. Back at STAR Labs, Sherloque solves the mystery of Ralph’s intervention - that the dagger is the only thing keeping Reverse-Flash in his future prison. A shard of wood left behind by Cicada II offers Team Flash a chance to track her. Ralph succeeded in preventing the dagger’s destruction (though Cicada II grabbed it and flew away), but he himself was worse for the wear, his cells “inverted” and leaving him in a, well, weird shape. to save from disappearing in the future… I never imagined it would turn out like this” - we picked up with Ralph leaping in front of the mirror gun blast that Barry was firing at the dagger.
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Following a cold open narrated by Nora - “I always wanted to be a hero….