Recap: THE FLASH S6E10 – “Marathon”

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Previously on The Flash: it was the end of everything! Nash Wells( Tom Cavanagh) unwittingly liberated The Anti-Monitor( LaMonica Garrett )! The CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths learnt the end of the multiverse and the birth of a brand-new one, inspired by the dying sacrifice of Oliver Queen( Stephen Amell) and infused with the qualities of the seven Paragons, including Barry Allen, aka The Flash( Grant Gustin )! The Monitor( Garrett) prophecy that The Flash must die during the Crisis came to pass–but it was The Flash of Earth-9 0( John Wesley Shipp) who laid down his life to save billions! With the Crisis over, and Barry still alive, what awaits him and the rest of Team Flash? In The Flash S6E 10, “Marathon, ” Barry and his friends have trouble adjusting to their literal brand-new reality, and the reaching of a new adversary threatens bad things for our protagonists through the second half of the year of the season.

Run, Cougar, Run

The episode opens at C.C. Jitters, a placard beckoning that they’ve exactly reopened after the crisis. As a barista suffices sucks, a being carrying a beings handgun yells that he’s defrauding the place. Across town, at S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco Ramon( Carlos Valdes) and Killer Frost( Danielle Panabaker) get an alarm that Jitters is being attacked, and over comms Barry says he’ll take care of it. At Jitter, the barista clarifies to the forearmed mortal that there’s very little money in the registry, considering they just reopened, so he starts firing wildly. Unexpectedly The Flash arrives, rescuing the civilians and wrapping up the gunman in the aforementioned banner. The made people applaud for him, and The Flash smiles.

After a spiffy brand-new opening credit string, we’re back at S.T.A.R. Labs. Cisco is working on mapping the post-Crisis Earth, both physically and in terms of its timeline. Frost( no longer Killer) learns him toiling, and wants to know why he still does appear to be accentuated with the Crisis over. Cisco responds that there are so many things they still don’t know, and he presents a binder of trading placards peculiarity devils he recognizes and others he doesn’t, but who’ve arrived as a result of the melded silts. Nash, who Cisco had locked in a wardrobe as a bozo, registers, and Cisco holds him another cryptocircuit( Nash ardours those things ). Nash says he’s going to run measures at his excavation locate to make sure no one ever inadvertently opens the anti-matter universe again, but Cisco says he’s previously moved evaluations, and that they don’t need Nash. As Nash departs, Frost flip-flops through the trading cards.

From THE FLASH S6E 10; Photo: The CW.

Barry arrives residence to find Iris( Candace Patton) basking in the Central City Citizen’s success, solely on a fib about The Flash stopping the crisis. Barry tells her he ran into a friend on the way home, and John Diggle( David Ramsey) enrols( this bout makes region before Diggle gets his Green Lantern ring ). He had pointed out that Oliver’s will was just read, and he presents Barry with a chest left for him by Oliver. Inside is Oliver’s firstly mask, the Barry spawned for Oliver years ago. Barry notices a trade mark on the mask and immediately thinks it might be a clue Oliver left for him to a new threat, but Diggle doesn’t buy it, and Iris sort of exhales. Her phone fusses, and she says she has to leave to meet a source. Barry says not to worry, and that he and Diggle will work on this clue.

Shortly, in a parking garage, Iris fulfills her root, a onetime work of McCulloch Technology. She pictures him a photograph of a vortex mark on her phone, and he recognizes it. He tells her about the crime of a paradigm infrared photon rifle from McCulloch Tech, and that he was fired for asking questions about it and the man he supposes stole it. Iris pictures him a photo of the charred body of the thief, and predicts that she’ll keep the source anonymous if he’ll help fetch the people who did this to light. He tells her about the person or persons he believes is behind the stealing, saying that it’s an organization called Black Hole. As he talks, the observer examines the status of women in a silver coat, with purple gleam noses, carrying the photon rifle and chasing a gentleman through a lab. She corners the man and flames the rifle, collapsing him. Her phone hoops, and a male expression speaking Japanese says he has her next target. She looking back on her telephone and reads a photograph of Iris.

Never A Dull Moment

Back at the Central City Citizen, Iris and her unit — Kamilla Hwang( Victoria Park) and Allegra Garcia( Kayla Compton) are filling in Cecile Horton( Danielle Nicolet) about what they know about Black Hole. The making has been operating in Central City for seven years, kidnapping and training courses metahumans like Allegra’s cousin. Cecile urges them from a law view not to run the fib, saying they could be sued by McCulloch Tech for defamation. Iris says she’s willing to take the health risks, and she and the others make a lot of statements about reporters not walking away from floors. Iris has a has met with McCulloch Tech CEO Joseph Carver( Eric Nenninger) later, but she tells Allegra and Kamilla they’re going to run the floor with or without his comment.

Back at Barry& Iris’s apartment, Diggle is sitting quietly while Barry draws his laboratory equipment to the apartment( Diggle didn’t want to run there ). Diggle tells him to slow down, but Barry neglects him. Analysis of the concealment exposes mirakuru, the super-soldier serum that composed Deathstroke, on the mask. Barry says they need to go to Lian Yu to find and destroy the last stash of mirakuru before it can fall into the bad hands. Diggle takes a dramamine or five, and the two moved off.

At McCulloch Tech, Iris interviews Carver, who describes starting McCulloch Tech with his wife, Eva McCulloch , now deceased. Iris tells Carver what she knows about the fraud, and the slip weapon’s link to countless crimes. Carver makes Iris into a fasten province, and tells her he knows who her generator is. He presents her with the man’s HR file, and says the rifle was stolen by Obsidian Tech , not some terrorist organization. He tells her there’s no floor here, and she contradicts. Carver then asks her not to run the tale, and Iris refuses and leaves.

Back at the Citizen office, the tale is up, and the team is celebrating. Cecile arrives and tells everyone they’re being indicted by McCulloch for defamation. Outside and across the street, the silver-coated assassin aims the rifle at the Citizen. Cecile impressions that something’s not right, while Iris goes on and on about the truth. Cecile tells everyone to get down just as a rifle detonation thumps the wall behind them, disintegrating part of the wall. Iris tells the others to get to S.T.A.R. Labs, and that she’ll escape through Nash’s passages and check on the safety of her source.

From THE FLASH S6E 10; Photo: The CW.

At S.T.A.R. Labs, Kamilla and Allegra arrive. Cisco says he can’t collect Barry, since festivity on Lian Yu is nonexistent. Allegra asks if they can use a breach extrapolator, but Cisco says they don’t work in the brand-new macrocosm. Kamilla, who snarled a picture of the wall shattering, says whoever tried to kill them was using high-intensity light. Nash enters, concerned for Allegra, and is immediately angry that Cisco didn’t tell him anyone was in danger. The two argue, with Cisco criticizing him for only coming around when he needs something, and for starting the Crisis by freeing The Anti-Monitor. Nash says he’s paid for his guilts, and Cisco bars that that doesn’t help everyone who died. Nash leaves, and Kamilla questions Cisco what’s going on. He says he’s manufacturing sure they learn lessons from their mistakes, and that they need to find Iris.

Back at the parking garage, Iris converges with her generator again. He reaps a flash drive from his pocket, but before he can hand it to her he’s shot by the photon rifle and disintegrates. As he’s dying, he propagandizes Iris out of the room and says “mirror.” Iris gives the twinkle drive off the anchor and mounts into his auto. After Iris tries to run her down, the executioner photographs out the back window of the car. Glass affected by the gun reaches Iris’s arm, wounding her, and she drives away.

Now You See Him, Now You Don’t From THE FLASH S6E 10; Photo: The CW.

Having returned to S.T.A.R. Labs, Iris appears through Cisco’s villain trading card binder and ascertains the bravo: Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi( whom they dub Doctor Light ), a metahuman with the power to funnel star light. Cisco says Hoshi has went missing for four years, and Kamilla indicates she’s applying the rifle to focus her powers. Cisco is forestalled at this new Earth presenting even more catches, and Iris drags out the twinkle drive to find it violated. Taking off her coat and disclosing her wraps, Iris insists she’s fine, then collapses.

On Lian Yu, Barry and Diggle find a chest for mirakuru in the old A.R.G.U.S. equipment on small island developing. Barry opens the box, but there’s nothing in it. Frustrated, he insists there’s more to it and says he has to finish what Oliver started, his hand sparking with lightning temporarily. Diggle asks if he’s alright, and Barry says that’s never happened before. Diggle tells Barry about Oliver having faced Deathstroke on Lian Yu, and says that’s probably how the mirakuru resolved up on his concealment. He says Barry’s looking for something that doesn’t exist, and Barry says he has to protect this Earth so that Oliver won’t have died in vain. Diggle tells him Oliver made their own lives so the people he desired live their lives theirs. He announces life a marathon , not a publication, and recommends Barry needs to slow down and appreciate it.

At S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin( now de-Frosted) checks on Cisco, who’s watching a letter from the Harrison Wells of Earth-2( though in this timeline Harry never existed, so how does Cisco still have this? Wibbly wobbly ). Cisco tells her he denounces himself for his friends being travel, and wonders if he hadn’t stopped being Vibe if he might’ve been able to stop the crisis or at least save more people. Caitlin asks if he regrets taking the cure, and he says no, but that it’s not that simple. Caitlin tells Cisco his idea to compile data and racetrack the changes on the new clay is a good project. Cisco responds that he can’t do that from here, and Caitlin concurs, suggesting that some time apart might help him figure out who he wants to be now that the crisis is over.

From THE FLASH S6E 10; Photo: The CW.

Elsewhere, in the infirmary, Iris is watching TV when her father, Joe( Jesse L. Martin ), penetrates to check on her. He’s upsect with her for running the McCulloch Tech story and putting herself in danger. Iris says she has to expose the people who affected her friends and killed her root, and Joe says he agrees, but that she won’t be able to solve this in one day. He says they don’t have to live in crisis mode anymore, and that they have time to do things and she should slow down. Joe asks if her source told anyone else about Black hole, and she says no before realised that Carver knew about them.

The Black hole

At McCulloch Tech, Carver is revealed as the expres on the other end of the phone calls to Doctor Light, who at that moment is standing outside of Joe West’s house. Inside, Joe and Iris are settling in. Hoshi recruits quietly, and attacks the rifle on Iris. The blast transfers through her, and the hologram of Iris disappears. Joe pulls out a shotgun, and Frost performs as well wielding ice daggers. Back at McCulloch Tech, the real Iris confronts Carver, who is preparing for a news conference. She says she has evidence linking McCulloch Tech to Black Hole, that he orchestrated the’ theft’ that put the rifle into the sides of Doctor Light, and that he is Black Hole himself. Carver says she doesn’t have the whole story or she wouldn’t be there trying to scare him while her family gambles their lives. Iris says he’s right, but that if any distres comes to her or their own families or friends, a dead man’s switch will release everything she has on him and Black Hole.

Meanwhile, back at Joe’s house, Doctor Light hurls a big bowl at Joe, beating him down, and fervours her rifle on Frost, who flounder back. She campaigns back against the missile eating away at her, and is able to extract it from her chest. As Light prepares to shoot Frost in the president, she gets a call from Carver to stand down. She immediately exits, while back at McCulloch Tech Carver announces he’s drooping his lawsuit against the Central City Citizen.

Later, at S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco is bundling stuff from his laboratory for his trip. Nash registers, and Cisco requests him if he’d be up for complete in for him while he’s apart. Nash at first thinks it’s a manoeuvre, but Cisco apologizes for what he said before, and for making his shame out on Nash. He and Nash joke a bit, beginning to form a alliance, and as Cisco departures he says he hopes Nash finds what he’s looking for. Alone in the lab, Nash drags out a photograph of himself and someone who looks like Allegra.

From THE FLASH S6E 10; Photo: The CW.

At Barry& Iris’s apartment, the two fill each other in on their days, and their shared apprehensions that they both need to slow down. The crisis is over and Barry survived, and they concur they need to savor that. They is in favour of make the night off.

Later that night, Iris is awake in the darkened apartment. She experiences a nearby reflect, and remembers what her generator said as he was dead. She likewise remembers a apartment “shes seen” at McCulloch Tech labeled’ AV3. ’ Writing down the apartment label, she props it to the mirror and discovers it spells’ EVA’( as in Eva McCulloch ). She hastily writes a document for Barry and leaves.

At McCulloch Tech, Iris break-dance into the facility employing her source’s old-fashioned ID card. The door to room AV3 has no lock on it, but Iris gathers out the Black Hole button Allegra acquired a few weeks ago. Holding the pin to where the lock ought to be, the door opens. Inside she finds what looks like an office, with membranes submerge all the furniture. Removing expanses, Iris starts photographing everything, including substantiates on the desk and personas on the computer screen. She draws down another sheet to divulge a floor-to-ceiling mirror behind the desk. A notification on personal computers justifications Iris to turn from the mirror, and as she does a duet of mirrored forearms stretch out from the surface of the mirror and pull Iris in.

Fans of the Central City Citizen will certainly experience this incident, as it principally focuses on that team and their journalistic endeavors. Followers of The Flash…maybe not so much. Coming out of the barrier post-Crisis, this was a pretty slow start to the next half of the season. It becomes sense that it would be that way–there’s a lot to unpack following the creation of a brand-new Earth, and Team Flash is definitely the team to unpack that. I only wish there’d been more unpacking, more journey, and more Flash action, instead of Barry scurry off with Diggle on a wildernes mirakuru pursue. Hopefully next week the pace will pick up as Barry sought for his missing wife.

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